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The Summer Photography Competition that ran earlier this term has been great fun. We have had almost 100 entries from students and teachers from all over the world, in three categories: Inside, Outside, and Company Colour.

The English Department would love as many pupils as possible to enter this year's prestigious Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020. 

Last week, we enjoyed our first, and hopefully last, Virtual Sports Day. The girls were awarded a point for every entry, encouraging them to enter a daily event for six days, culminating in what was to be our first full Saturday Sports Day. From the Split Step and Cross-Fit Agility challenge to the plank, wall sit and standing long jump, girls submitted their results to compete in either the junior, intermediate or senior age group.

We are delighted to announce that Year 7 girls, Zara F., Sophia and Elo were selected as Runners-up in this year’s Oxford German Olympiad competition, 'Discover German: 10 inventions from German-speaking countries'.

We are delighted that St Mary's Calne has been shortlisted for an award in the Performing Arts category of the Independent Schools of the Year 2020 awards .

On Thursday 25th June, the UIV (Year 9) girls took part in four virtual sessions covering a variety of typical activities in Girlguiding. They also heard from Miss Bloomer about her time volunteering at a Girl Scout Camp in America - perhaps something to consider in the future after Sixth Form?

Last week, the Year 12 girls participated in our first inter-school general knowledge quiz against Marlborough College. It took place via Zoom and was a brilliant way to spend the evening! 

On Tuesday 16th June, the entire Fourth Form took part in the Company Classics Competition. This was a wonderful opportunity for girls to experience aspects of Classical Civilisation and Latin outside of the classroom and have the freedom to produce a really creative piece of work at the end.

There has been a strange, coincidental theme for debating over the last two weeks... 

On the evening of 17th June, we held our first virtual English Society, with about 15 girls from Years 11 and 12. We were delighted to welcome guest speaker, Mairin O'Hagan, who spoke to us about being a playwright, running two theatre companies and studying English at Cambridge.

Year 8 were working hard in their remote Drama lessons earlier this term, writing and performing monologues to audition for our Junior Play, Emil and Detectives. This will now be presented in the form of radio play episodes at the end of term. 

The Sixth Form participated in the Biology Olympiad last term. The Olympiad is a national competition and very challenging, looking for breadth and depth of biological knowledge beyond the specifications.