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Young Geographer of the Year Competition

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We are Lucy Stephenson (8TPT), Sofia Louca (8TPT) and Megan Lawson (8GSS) and we have been involved in
the Royal Geographical Society Competition where we had to design posters of a place that was
important to us. The places we chose were BedZed, Cucso, and Samburu National Reserve. We started out by
searching up a place and creating a folder of everything that they needed for the criteria of the competition.
For example, we needed to include at least four geographical features in detail on our posters. We also
needed to include labelled images on them also.
Sofia said
“It was really fun designing the poster because I got to use photoshop for it!”
Megan said
“I enjoyed picking where I was going to base my poster on and learning about all the native tribes!”
Lucy said
“I loved researching BedZed and finding facts, and it was just like a club! We met every Thursday and
commented on each other’s work. It was very satisfying seeing it come to life. I loved creating it”.
We all agreed it was a both fun and educational experience and the posters have now been submitted for
the competition. We have our fingers crossed and hope for the best!

Alice is not taking any Tumbles

Ivybridge Community College would like to congratulate budding
Gymnast Alice Shekhdar following her recent achievement.
Alice finished an impressive fifth place at a recent Tumbling Competition which
took place at Milton Keynes. This was a closely contested competition, involving
participants from across the Southern Gymnastics Region.
Alice showed off her skills in the contest for those aged between 11 and 12, which
saw the top five finishers separated by less than one point.
The activity of tumbling is a Gymnastics discipline, involving acrobatic skills such as
jumping, flipping and twisting within the confines of a long, sprung track.
In light of her achievement, Alice has now received an invitation to the Andover
Gymnastics Club, to receive coaching from Paddy Lavelle (director of Coaching
for the School and Head Coach of England Tumbling).
Well done Alice!

Email: icc@ivybridge.devon.sch.uk website: ivybridge.devon.sch.uk