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JUNE 2016 THE NEW COUNTESTHORPE HERALD 27
BIRKETT HOUSE SENIORS @ COUNTESTHORPE COLLEGE
PERFORMING ARTS
We are currently rehearsing Mary Poppins, which will be our last performance of our school year.
We have made the props including chimney sweep brushes and kites.
We will be singing some of the songs from the original movie.
From Callum Hearne
THE LEICESTER CITY STORY
BY MR. LEICESTER CITY
We have written about Leicester City for 2 seasons. The highs and lows. I told you that Leicester City would win something. It is time for us to say thank you. Thank you Claudio Ranieri, Jamie Vardy and King Richard and the whole team.
We had a Leicester City Day at school. All blue. We did a parade for them we were all emotional. Jamie we certainly had a party. An amazing experience. Michael Morpurgo said it was a fairytale. It was. The pubs have been full the streets have been packed.
On Monday 16th May I went to the parade. 240,000 people. I saw the bus and heard Kasabian. We were too far away to see too much. Lots of flags. Lots of people, lots of happiness.
Let’s take the joy to Europe.
Jamie, James and Alisha.
P.S. Congratulations to the Riders – champions of England, The Leicester Tigers another amazing season and Mark Selby champion of the world. What a great count!
ALL ABOUT ME
by Maddison Humphreys
Hi! My name is Maddison. I am 18 years old and I have Autism. I also have a Chromosome 7 Deletion and Auts2 Syndrome.
When I was three we noticed that there was something different about me. When I was going to Speech and Language therapy and the therapist asked me to put the big horse in the big bag and the little horse in the little bag, I said no – they need to be in the same bag because the one horse will be lonely.
I was diagnosed with Autism when I was nine years old, and my family and I were finding it difficult to understand. I’ve
never liked loud noises – I would always cry when something loud made me jump. By the time I was 14, when I started to understand more about my Autism and my learning difficulties, I got very stressed out with my stammering.
As I got older, I started to get panicked about all sorts of things. My cat Lincoln went missing a few days before my 14th birthday, and I started to have anxiety issues with coping with death. I started to have really weird dreams about other people in my family. The weird dreams started in Year 11. I started to go to CAMHS to help me deal with death a bit better.
I was diagnosed with mild scoliosis, but we found out it was because I had one leg longer than the other. I was falling over a lot at school, and then in Year 13 I started to have this really bad back pain. When the pain was bad I would cry because it was so painful. But now I’m starting to have physiotherapy on my back. I now have exercises to do, and we will be doing some hands-on work with my back over the next few weeks.
Even though I have been through all those things I am very happy at school. I want to go to college and then train to become a veterinary nurse. I am enjoying performing arts – this is the pathway that I’m doing, and I am a really good singer. Singing is a really big part of my life because it helps me with hard times and it means a lot to me. I have also been on Work Experience at the Vet in Market Harborough and I really enjoyed it. When I am older I want to also learn how to drive, and also have my own pets as well – either a dog or two cats.
LEICESTER FOX
At first, we had much to fear Almost relegated, oh dear
Then Vardy came up
And won us our cup
And everyone got silly on beer The Bell Man of Italy
The bell man, the bell man of Italy the bell man of Italy saved you and me, He saved us from the cruel hands of defeat.
Dilly Ding, Dilly Dong Without him
It would have all gone wrong (again). Thomas Bannister
THE DUKE OF
EDINBURGH’S AWARD
This year we have 2 groups a Silver group of 5 and a Bronze group of 7 we have to do 2 expeditions by walking. The practice is between Aston Flamville and Countesthorpe. Silvers camp for 2 and Bronze for l night. We have to carry everything. The assessed expedition is at Rutland Water in July.
Casey said, “walking is fun, I hang out with my mates in the fresh air” .
Matt said, “I think it will be stressful because my legs go to sleep and I ‘m doing the silver award this year. It might be too far!”
Aimee said, “I like to walk on the expedition but it is harder to walk up a hill. I am worried but excited, I hope there is no rain.”
Callum said, “I find it hard to keep up.”
Wish us luck.
By Aimee Murch