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New Year, new art

Our students continue to celebrate their creativity with some really special artwork.

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Awards and Fundraising

We ended the autumn term with a fantastic fundraising effort from our students and two assemblies celebrating a range of student achievements.

Students were asked to bring donations of money, toys and household items to help local charity Community Links to support families over the festive period. The students showed impressive levels of generosity and we were overwhelmed with donations for which Community Links were extremely grateful.

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The assemblies featured dance, drama and music performances and recognised a range of achievements – special congratulations go to all the winners of the House awards for Aiming for Excellence, Being Kind, Polite and Considerate and Taking Responsibility. It was an incredibly positive end to a great term.

The Witches

The Drama department put on a brilliant production of Roald Dahl’s The Witches at the end of the Autumn term. It was terrifying, hilarious and moving – a great success. The audience was absolutely buzzing at the end of it. It was incredibly impressive to see how fully committed to their performances the students were – they really gave it their all and performed to an exceptionally high standard. Roald Dahl would have been proud to see his work presented with such dark humour and creativity. Well done to all those involved – the performers, backstage crew and staff.

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Dance Episodes 

The invited audience were delighted by the lunchtime sharing of work produced in dance clubs this term. Dances included the Thursday after school Street Dance Crew choreographed by guest tutor Malachi and Bollywood choreographed by Veena the tutor and a guest appearance by Josh and Rhys our two Dance students from UEL who are starting a hip hop and break dance club next year. Even Ms Coke made a short appearance with some tap improvisation with Ella in Year 10.

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Come to Dance clubs to see if there’s a dance style for you, then we may see you in the next Dance Episodes

English National Ballet partnership

Year 9 GCSE Dance and some year 7 and 8s had a great workshop with members from the English National Ballet on Akram Khan’s Giselle.  The workshop leader was called Georgia and the dance technique was ballet and contemporary.  Some features of this dance are turn-out, tendu (pointed toes), straight backs and hand covering your face.  The new thing I learned was how to use ‘contact’ in dance.  We had to touch our partners and changed levels to show authority like the rich people in Giselle.  The movement I found difficult was the bourees because I hadn’t done these before.  I overcame this by stepping shorter distances.  The workshop made me understand Giselle better and appreciate the technique more.

The music for the workshop was awesome and was played live by a musician.  The instruments he used were a guitar, trumpet, panpipes, drums and vocals.

I enjoyed working with Georgia from ENB and the students from St Angela’s.

I loved the whole experience and look forward to watching Giselle at the Cinema in January.

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By Felicia Owusu (Year 9)

Mandarin Speaking Competition

Rayan Kara from Year 9 took part in the British Council’s annual Mandarin Speaking
Competition on December 3rd. Now in its sixteenth year, the national competition aims to build interest in Chinese language and culture. This year, pupils from 88 secondary schools across the UK have competed in regional heats held in Belfast, Glasgow and London.

Rayan was really confident and fluent when he was doing his speech. He did his best and didn’t get nervous at all even though the other participants are older and have learnt Mandarin for longer. His pronunciation was great and clear, all the audiences were engaged, they all laughed when he was telling his interesting story in Chinese.  After the speech, the judge asked him some random questions and he got the right answer for every single question.

He has been learning Mandarin since November last year under Mandarin Excellence
Program and has made such big progress from last years. His parents are very supportive
and value his Mandarin achievement. They tried their best to help him to practice his speech
at home even though they don’t know any Mandarin.

This competition was a good chance for the students to increase confidence when using Mandarin and also it’s a good opportunity to put their language skills to use outside of a classroom setting.

December 2019:  Seasonal/Christmas card competition

Lister Community School ran a Seasonal/Christmas card competition for students. The specifications that were given were that the card must be A5, include colour, a season winter scene and lots of detail. All entries get a Merit, with the two runner ups receiving +5 plus a mystery prize and the winner receives +10 and a mystery prize. The winners were picked by a panel of teachers. All entries were beautiful and it was a close call!

Winner

Runner up 1

Runner up 2

May 2019

Enjoy photos of new work by Lister Community School students

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Lister Students Brighten our Public Spaces

Newham Council invited Lister to liven up Plaistow Park and create a new space for Wall Ball. Art Club students took on the challenge and painted two abstract panels featuring the house colours. They did a fantastic job and have certainly made the environment more attractive and appealing.

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January 2019

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December 2018

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Congratulations to Student Prize Winners

Well done to our September and October Jack Petchey prize winners! This award recognises outstanding achievements and students making a positive contribution to school life. Nathan Graham-Oshinowo (see photograph below) was nominated by Ms Wiltshire for resilience and always aiming for excellence, even in the face of challenge.

Nusrah Prosper was nominated by Ms Voisey for exceptional commitment to extracurricular activities, including drama, football and Access Project tuition.

Congratulations also to Maria Islam and Het Vora who won the Black History Month Essay Writing competition.

Triumphant Performance at the Royal Albert Hall

We are very proud to report that the performance of ‘Full Circle’, our Community Opera in collaboration with Newham Music, was a great success. On the 12th November, 700 young actors, musicians and singers from Newham came together to perform moving and inspiring drama and music pieces exploring themes of community, resilience, and aspiration. The performance was profiled on the Victoria Derbyshire show on BBC 2, for which Lister students Josephine and Andrea were interviewed along with Ali from Rokeby; it was also covered and reviewed by newspapers including the Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph.

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The performance was part of the Music for Youth Proms, a celebration of the entire Music for Youth annual season, showcasing high quality performances from some of the UK’s most creative, innovative and energetic young musicians held at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall.

The night featured 1000 different young musicians performing in a symphony orchestra, jazz bands, chamber groups, rock bands and choirs from across the UK. This year’s Prom was presented by two-time MOBO award winner YolanDa Brown, the UK’s premier female saxophonist.

The students involved showed great dedication and really rose to the occasion. As well as learning their parts for the Opera, they had to memorise lyrics and movements for the grand finale of the night, an ensemble performance of “The Future is Us” complete with fireworks and balloons falling from above, which ended a truly memorable experience for all those involved.