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Year 9 visited RAF Cosford on Monday 24th May. There were various scientific assignments to complete on the day.

The weather was perfect and the girls very much enjoyed the visit.

It was a fantastic experience for a well behaved group of girls who had the chance to see at first hand how an RAF base functions.

Pictured are Year 9 in front of a British World War 2 bomber.

Horses belonging to Adcote parents and other horses from the local community have been blessed in a special ceremony at the school.

Adcote Chaplain, the Rev Les Foster, conducted the traditional open-air ceremony. It is an old local tradition that wishes the horses well for the main summer season.

Honeybee numbers are falling at near catastrophic levels - 30% at the last count. Both the junior and senior girls at Adcote learnt firsthand about their plight and saw for themselves a hive in operation.  Mr and Mrs Green of Berwick Beekeepers came into school on Thursday 20^th May with an enclosed hive.

Bee keeping is becoming very popular and we are planning to have a bee-keeping club at Adcote next year. We already have some budding apiarists in the school. Celebrity bee-keepers include Scarlett Johansson, Bill Turnbull, Vince Cable, Ronnie Corbett and Nicholas Lyndhurst.

The girls of the Junior Department at Adcote School have recently taken their LAMDA examinations (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts) in spoken English, with excellent results. Over half of the girls received a distinction, which is the highest possible mark, with the rest producing very high merits.

All of the girls worked incredibly hard and gave great performances on the day and we are all very proud of them. What a talented group!

by Mrs Martine Jones, tutor of Spoken English at Adcote School

The Eco School Team have enrolled Adcote in the Bag2School programme. This programme recycles and reuses old clothes and is a "win / win" idea for the Eco School team.

We save old clothes from going to landfill – over 1.5 million tons of clothes and thrown away each year in the UK! We get paid 40p for each kilogram we collect!

The Bag 2 School programme takes our clothes and then reuses them in countries such as India, China and Eastern Europe. More information can be found on www.bag2school.com.

Your daughter has been given a bag and a letter explaining the scheme and it would be great if this can be filled and then returned to school before half term, or on the first day of next half term. Bag2School are making a collection on the 8th June!

You can put almost any old clothes in the bag - ladies', men's and children's clothing, sheets, curtains, soft toys, shoes (tied together please), belts and handbags

But not

Dirty clothing, single shoes, bits of material, mats, carpets, pillows, duvets

The Eco Team say "Please help us save the environment – and make some money for Adcote and the Eco Team!

Congratulations to actresses Georgie Edwards, Oshuwa Imoyo and Frankie Gough for an outstanding performance of the French play 'Art' performed as part of their AS level examination, in front of family, friends and fellow pupils.A special thanks to John Squire for providing the entertaining piano music.

On Thursday 6^th May, Junior 1 visited Little Ness Church as part of their Religious Education curriculum. They were met by Rev. Les Foster at the ‘Lynch Gate’ and were told about the history of St. Martin’s Church and why the Lynch Gate has a lock on it (to keep the sheep out of the church yard!).

Rev Foster answered the girls questions about the building and the services at the church. Rev Foster also showed the girls the elaborate vestments he wears on different occasions. On leaving the church, the girls were shown the grave of Rebecca Darby and the other members of the Darby family. Afterwards, Harriet Gough and Danielle Edwards thanked Rev Foster and gave him three cheers.

The wooden compost bins arrived a week so ago and have been assembled ready for use!  They can be seen here with some members of the Eco School team.  Soon the Team will start composting kitchen waste, and other compostable items.    By the end of the term the we hope that as much waste as possible will be reduced, reused, composted or recycled.

The first game of the season proved challenging for both teams. Prestfelde took the win in both the U12 and U13 match.

The girls face their own age group on Wednesday 12th May as we travel back to Prestfelde to play an U11 fixture.

The North Shropshire League failed to start last week for Adcote who were due to play Thomas Adams. Bad weather conditions caused Thomas Adams to call off the game.

On a lovely sunny Sunday morning on the 9th May, girls from Adcote School took part in this year’s parish Rogation service. The service was held on top of the Cliffe, a nearby hill and it was a lovely energising walk for girls and staff! The service was proceeded by the traditional ‘beating of the bounds’, a centuries old custom to mark the parish boundary. Traditionally undertaken a few weeks after Easter, beating the bounds took place annually to ensure that the location of the parish boundary was known by a large number of people – something essential in the days before maps were commonplace.

The setting, on the top of the Cliffe was truly stunning, with beautiful views of rural Shropshire in every direction. In the lovely sunshine, the service by Rev Foster (the School Chaplain) was asking (rogation comes from the Latin "rogare" - to ask) God's blessing on the growing crops and animals. Prayers were offered for the community, for farmers, and all involved in food production.

On Tuesday 4^th May, Bee Jenkins from ‘Africa & Asia Venture’ came to Adcote to talk to the Year 12 girls about the possibility of taking a Gap year before starting University.  Africa & Asia Venture place volunteers from around the globe into worthwhile gap year and volunteer projects all over the developing world.

The presentation was very informative and gave the audience plenty of ideas for a possible Gap year, that would not only be extremely rewarded but also would be vital work experience to add to the C.V.

On Wednesday 5th May, the Adcote Parent and Staff Association (APSA) organised a ladies tennis tournament. Many Adcote Old Girls took part. A wonderful day of competitive tennis was enjoyed by all participants, with a sumptuous lunch also provided. A large gazebo was on hand for the participants to shelter in from the early May weather and the ladies were able watch the matches taking place.

Well done to everyone who took part in the successful and enjoyable event and also to the winners of the tournament: Mary Chester and Helen Sedgeley! Also many thanks to the organiser Fenella Davies and to the many other kind parents who helped out with the event and with the lunch provided.

Tennis has grown from strength to strength over the last few years at Adcote, and with the support of a LTA qualified tennis coach the school is developing a strong squad of players. All tennis pupils have the opportunity to receive weekly coaching at the School through the services of Mike Markham. Please contact the School Office for further details.