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The committee is made up of a group of Year 9 pupils, who enjoy the subject of English and are interested in the prospect of a pupil-run journalism committee, commonly reporting news, both local and separated to the site’s visitors. As part of this BBC-run scheme, we meet weekly to discuss recent wares and issues that matter to you.  Using research and interviews, the committee aims to provide up to stage and detailed insights of as many variegated types of stories, well-expressed areas and people both local and world-wide. If you have any stories that you’d like us to report on, then tweet us at @LMS_English and we’ll do our weightier to share your story on our web page.      School Report Team 2018      Hi, my name is Wesley and I'm the Editor in Chief for the BBC School Report Team. My job is to proof read all wares surpassing the are finalised and published. Also, I make sure the team is working nonflexible and maintain a upper level of effort throughout.           Hello, I’m Joe and I am moreover the Editor in Chief for the BBC School Report Team. My job is to read all the wares surpassing they are published and help maintain a upper efficiency work environment                Hi, my name is Tia and I'm the photographer for the BBC School Report Team. My job is to take the photos in all written wares and ensure they are to the weightier quality.        Hiya, my name is William and I am the researcher for School Report. My job is to discover new stories for the presenters to report on.         Hi, my name is Taran and I'm the script writer for the BBC School Report Team. My job is to write the scripts for the presenters to say on air.     Hi, my name is Hope and I'm the Field Reporter for the BBC Report Team. My job is to find out what is happening in the local community.            Hi, my name is Bethany and I'm the script writer for the BBC School Report Team. My job is to write scripts for the presenters and reporters to say when they are on air.         Audio Report - Academic Achievements a A-level as sixth-formers study four A-levels, including Welsh Baccalaureate       Audio Report on Sanitary Towel Campaign       CHRISTMAS SPIRITS SPREAD AS LLANTWIT MAJOR HOSTS ANNUAL TEA PARTY   Over the last eight years, Llantwit Major Comprehensive School has made it a yearly tradition to welcome over 50 senior citizens of Llantwit to the school to host a festive tea party. On Wednesday 6th December 2017, the school opened its doors once then to the senior citizens of the local community. Throughout the day, pupils and staff provided entertainment and refreshments for the special visitors.  The Year 13 catering students provided a mythological repast for all. The service started with a speech from Assistant Head, Mr Francis, and was soon followed by performances from the school choirs, and orchestra. Year Nine pupil, Shanti Bowen Damhus, performed Silent Night on the piano. Caitlin Doleman, a Year 13 pupil, sang ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’. This was followed by Tom Colgan, who took centre stage when he sang ‘The Christmas Song’. Then the senior voices - pupils from years 9-13 - sang ‘Mary Did You Know?’ After the musical medleys there was a drama performance by some Year Nine pupils, Bethan Scholes, Mia Griffiths-Price, Lily Starkey, Iona Wilkinson and Josh Kirkham. They performed the drama performance previously at St Illtyd’s Church on Tuesday 5th December. The citizens loved to see such young faces perform such trappy pieces of music; their thunderclap filled the hall and some tears were shed! During the performances we asked one of the organisers, Mrs Davis, how she felt this event had impacted the senior citizens. She replied with, “It gives the senior citizens the opportunity to talk to people they might not get anywhere else.” To tropical the day, the senior voices sang ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ whilst the senior citizens were presented with their handmade hampers.  Throughout December, students of Llantwit Major School had been busily crafting festive displays for the senior citizens, with each form contributing a donation to help make their Christmas special.  This was the 8th yearly triumph tea party the school had held and the school says it will not be the last.  By Wesley B and Joe M     16 year old Millie Competes forUnconfinedBritain    In September 2017 a Year 12 pupil of Llantwit Major School, Millie, who is only sixteen years old competed forUnconfinedBritain in the under 18’s youth life saving team. Millie competed successfully in 3 events over 3 days. In the surf ski she came 3rd in the world, sprint 4th and 3rd in the team.   Millie’s interest in lifeguarding started when she was only six years old, when she went to watch a race but was asked to fill in at the last minute - and won!  Her main inspiration is her mum who was moreover a lifeguard ,competing for Wales in California. Millie said her hardest competition was in the European championships considering there were a lot of heats and as she did uncommonly well the competition was a lot tougher.   In Order to alimony fit and maintain her ability, Millie trains 11 times a week with no rest days.  Millie is currently training to compete in sprint kayaking and would love to take this further, possibly lifeguarding as a career. Sadly there are not currently many opportunities to be employed using lifeguarding skills in the UK but Millie would love to move to Australia and work full time on their beaches.          Let’s hope we see Millie as world champion the near future   Millie told us “it's a sacrifice seeing my friends going out together but I really enjoy lifeguard.”   “I love lifeguarding and I really like to do it” Millie told us.   By William H-W     NEGLECTED NUMERACY AS ADULTS FORGET BASIC MATHS By Bethany S and Hope S   SCHOOL STRIVES TO TACKLE OBESITY   By William W-H and Taran E REPORT ON NEW MUGA PITCH By Joe MAYOR MERITS MUSICAL TALENT OF LOCAL COMMUNITY   On Saturday February 3rd, our school’s senior voices took part in the yearly Mayor’s Concert. The senior voices performed in the concert, and several pupils from the voices moreover had their own opportunity to perform solo/duets/groups. Throughout January the voices prepared for the concert, including learning a completely new song and peekaboo voices practise twice a week as opposed to only once. Originally, the voices was meant to be performing a couple of songs, however due to a mix up with the dates they were only worldly-wise to learn one song in time for the concert. The mix up of dates wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, in fact it was salubrious for the students involved with the voices as it opened up the opportunity for them to perform in the concert by themselves. Arranging this was slightly difficult for the solo performers, as the deadline to get valuables tracks sent had once passed. However, Miss Toms, Head of the Performing Arts department, took the time to learn and perform a piano winger for these singers in the short time (I know I could never to that in time!).   On the day of the concert, the students met at St Illtyd’s Church (where the concert was stuff held) for a sound check. During this time Miss Toms went through the choir’s song to make sure everyone knew the lyrics and that they knew all of the notes they had to sing. After that, she went through the songs with the solo/group singers so that they then knew what they were doing.   The concert started at 7 o’clock, and was split into two parts; our school’s performance was in the first part. The song our voices had chosen to sing was ‘As Long As I Have Music’, and I think it’s pearly to say our voices was excellent. Following our choir’s performance were: Shanti Bowen-Damhus - Einaudi Piano Solo Tia-Jade Allen - I Dreamed A Dream Megan Johnson - Take A Bow (Rihanna) Llewellyn Brown and Caitlin Dolman - Friendship from ‘Anything Goes’ Llewellyn Brown, Caitlin Dolman and Jess Summers - Can’t Help Falling In Love Tom Colgan and Ellie-May Williams - De Lovely from ‘Anything Goes’ Tom Colgan - Waving Through A Window from ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Evermore from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ He Used To Be Mine from ‘Waitress’   Miss Toms from the Performing Arts department said, “I thought the school voices were wondrous and presented a programme that was of quality and variety.” The range of talent from our school just keeps on going! As well as our school’s performances, there were a variety of wonderful performances throughout the elapsing of the concert. This included performances from other schools, Major Music and solo performances; vocal and instrumental. The range of talent was seemingly endless! The Mayor of Llantwit Major, Jane Norman (who’s concert it was) said, “ The wealth of talent in our local young people is phenomenal.” I think our school would definitely agree. Overall, it was a fantastic evening, not only for the performers from our school but for everyone involved. By Tia-Jade A LLANTWIT STUDENTS REACH FOR THE SKY On Tuesday February 13th, Aspire students from Year 9 to 11 visited the Sky Studios in London to make up their own news report. Beforehand, the students involved with the trip had to do some research well-nigh their topic; Mission to Mars. They split up into four groups, which on the very day would be the studio each group would be working in, and prescribed each other roles, for example; scriptwriter, reporter, and cameraman. On the day of the trip, students arrived at school at 8:30 ready to take the four-hour journey to the studios in London. During the journey, they stopped at the service station so anyone who had no lunch with them had the endangerment to buy something, which they could then eat upon inrush at the studios at virtually 1 o’clock. After inrush the students had to sort out their roles, making sure everyone in each group knew what their roles were and were given the endangerment to switch roles surpassing filming the report if they wanted. When everyone had finished their lunch, they were taken on a small tour of the studios, including a view of one of their recording studios for unrepealable sports (in this specimen golf). The students were shown variegated types of equipment used in the recording, with detailed explanations of how they work and why they are needed for the recording. One example was the camera used for the recording. Afterwards, the students were shown to the Sky Academy Studios. Here they watched an introduction video for the Academy, finding out what they had to do and what skills they needed to well-constructed their news report. In total there were five important skills that were needed. For the recording of the news report, the students had to review their scripts and had the endangerment to transpiration anything they wanted to, surpassing unquestionably filming the report. After that, the students could go to a dressing room and put on variegated items of clothing, for example blazers, hats, headbands and so on. As soon as they had finished choosing their gown (and having a bit of fun with it) the students returned to their studios ready for filming. The filming of the report was split between the four studios; Studio 1 did the introduction, Studio 2 filmed ‘on location, Studio 3 did the viewer interviews and Studio 4 filmed the expert interviews. To unquestionably record the new report, the cameramen used iPads unfluctuating to a larger camera, as opposed to using the full camera. The footage was then edited by the editors to ensure any takes that went wrong were cut out and the footage was of a upper standard. Next came the overview. This was only recorded in unrepealable studios, and a few students (no matter what their roles were) could segregate facts relating to their part of the topic and voice record them. These recordings were then played on top of pictures relating to each fact. Although it didn’t quite seem like that long, the time it took to do all of the recording was unquestionably virtually two / two and a half hours. All of the recordings from each studio were then sent off to be put together. Mrs Birt, one of the teachers on the trip, said, “It was an interesting, challenging experience. It gave the students an opportunity to use their communication, presentation and teamwork skills, and I think it should be run then but with variegated students involved.” After the recording, the students were taken to the Sky Sport studio, where they were worldly-wise to see the very set where they do interviews. For confidentiality purposes the students weren’t worldly-wise to take pictures and weren’t worldly-wise to watch for long, but it’s pearly to say it was an unforgettable wits for most. The students returned to the Academy Studios shortly succeeding and were worldly-wise to see their completed news report. They were moreover given USB wristbands with a reprinting of the final report saved on it.   After receiving these gifts, the students placid their belongings and got themselves ready to take flipside four hour journey when to the school. Full of excitement from the day’s events, the students returned to school at well-nigh 8 o’clock that evening. For everyone, it’s unscratched to say it was a fantastic wits and the trip should most certainly be run then for future students. By Tia-Jade A Llantwit Leads Their Own Entrepreneurial Dragon’s Den On the 28th of November, the pupils in Year 10 at Llantwit Major School took part in an all-day worriedness for the 'Enterprise and Employability' part of their Welsh Baccalaureate course. The pupils had to work together in groups to create a product of a specific theme, this year stuff 'wearable technology'. Throughout the day pupils had to write and prepare for their company’s pitch as well as create a exhibit workbench to use as part of their persuasive pitch.  Pupils were given two hours in the morning to make a exhibit workbench promoting their product, containing variegated pieces of information well-nigh their product (including cost, the logo and/or a picture of their product, their target regulars etc.)   The deliverance of the pitches started at 11:10 in the morning, so some pupils decided to dedicate their form and unravel time to work on their exhibit boards to make sure they were finished in time. With such little time to prepare, time management and organizational skills were paramount. However, despite the time limit, the pupils managed to pull it off excellently - designing some mythological boards and delivering strong pitches. Betsy Downes (who had to make the exhibit workbench and unhook her pitch by herself) said, "It was pretty nonflexible doing everything by myself considering I had to basically take on everyone else's jobs, make the exhibit workbench and talk well-nigh all the variegated parts of it plane if I didn't understand it. It was really stressful. I think it went okay though, but it would've been a lot easier if I did it with my group." I think most would stipulate that the morning was quite a challenge, but it certainly didn't stop anyone or slow them down. Everyone's nonflexible work and effort was definitely evident in the final result, which was highly commended in the turnout at the end of the day. Rhodri Richards, part of the group Hot Headed, commented, "The exhibit boards looked really good. Everyone worked really nonflexible and put in loads of effort. It was great. Some groups were given awards and named the winners, but I think everyone was a winner on that day." As said by Rhodri, unrepealable groups were chosen to receive awards based on their exhibit boards, pitches, innovative ideas, and as overall winners based on all three components. The awards given were as follows:WeightierPitch - Massaging SlippersWeightierDisplayWorkbench- Technology Ring Most Innovative Idea - Customcase Overall Winners: 1st - Customcase 2nd - Hot Headed 3rd - Betsy Downes Ellie Morgan, a member of the group Customcase, said, "I enjoyed the day, it was the weightier Welsh Bac day we've had so far. Everyone was working well together in their groups and there wasn't a lot of arguing. I'd like to do it then in future, but with a variegated theme." With an excited whoosh from the pupils, it could be that the next step: Dragon’s Den! By Tia-Jade A   © Llantwit Major School 2018 Llantwit Major School is a Vale of Glamorgan Authority mixed comprehensive school. Ham Lane East, Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan CF61 1TQ | Telephone: 01446 793301 | Email: llantwitmajorhs@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk