Skipwith Black Tie Dinner

The annual Skipwith Black Tie Dinner for parents of students in Skipwith House is taking place on September 27th 2014 in the Great Hall. Invitations have been sent via email. We look forward to seeing you there!

House Photo

Copies of the house photo are now available from www.gillmanandsoame.co.uk. 
Login number 295313, password 770552.

They all look very good!

Whole School Charity Walk

Details of the biennial charity walk are coming out this week. There is lots of information on the school website and the sponsorship form for the event can be downloaded here. The walk is scheduled to take place on Monday 15th September. The link to the Walk page on the website is http://www.shiplake.org.uk/sponsoredwalk2014.

Happy fundraising!!

Well Versed

Year 11 Skipwith student, James Hargreaves, recently entered a competition called "Well Versed" sponsored by Google and the charity Parentzone to contribute 15 seconds of video to a longer film compiled by the Youtube blogger PJ Ligouri. The film is targeted at teenagers, advising them how to be safe on the internet.  James was one of the winners, and  his video has been used in the longer film - it is designed to be shown in schools and to PJ's You tube followers.

James went to the premier of the film at the Google head offices in London last week.  The event was attended by about 20 of the winning contributors to the film, plus representatives from Google, Parentzone and various other charities (Childnet, The Diana Award Anti-Bullying programme, etc).  The 20 teenagers were also given a guided tour of the Google offices - James compared it to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!

The finished film is really pretty good - link here to the project web site and film - http://www.wellversed.co.uk/.