On November 15 students from Charters School in Sunningdale took park in BIMA Digital Day.
The British Interactive Media Association sent challenge sheets to schools in early November, ready for the students to work on their briefs during the actual day.
Rawnet, a digital media company with offices in London, New York and Ascot, joined students to explain what it is like to work in the “Digital World” and how different elements of their organisation work together to deliver a successful digital campaign.
The students selected briefs from Cancer Research and Tata Communication and using skills including coding, video editing and designing, they wrote advertising slogans and designed logos to create their digital campaigns.
Mrs Jess Duncan, a Media and Film Studies teacher at Charters who led the event said, "All the students worked fantastically throughout the day to come up with projects and campaigns that would use digital technology such as websites, apps and social media pages. I am so excited about the potential our students have in the Media industry both at A-level and in the lower school".
Boys from Papplewick School in Ascot, with their parents and friends, joined the school’s annual sponsored walk in Windsor Great Park on Sunday, 23rd April, in aid of charity Make a Wish.
Make a Wish grants magical wishes to enrich the lives of children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions. Children the charity has helped have starred in their own films, walked with dinosaurs or met a celebrity hero. All the wishes granted are varied, personal and magical and bring respite from the difficulties of living with a life-threatening condition.
The walkers enjoyed beautiful spring weather. A number of the boys ran part of the course, while many of the walkers took between two and three hours to complete the eight-mile circuit.
Headmaster Tom Bunbury said: “It was a wonderful turn-out of boys, parents, other relations and dogs. The purpose of the walk was to raise funds for Make a Wish, and I am hugely grateful for the generous donations received. We have already raised a remarkable £4.330 including Gift Aid from just 67 donations, and I’m hopeful that we can raise at least £9,000, so that three wishes can be carried out.”
All the participants enjoyed a well-earned picnic at the end.
Donations can be made at: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Papplewick-School2
Salmon Harvester Properties (SHP) Salmon Harvester Properties (SHP) has sold the office building known as 2 Queen’s Square on Ascot Business Park to investor, Queen’s Square Holdings Limited (QSHL).
The price of £3.120M for the 9,476 sq. ft. building shows an initial yield of 6.9% on the topped-up rental income from the four occupational leases in the building.
Salmon Director Pat Mahoney said: “The price achieved reflects the high quality of the investment and its excellent location. This follows our team’s focused activity in achieving full letting of 2 Queen’s Square to secure the strong income stream.”
The remaining modern grade A office buildings at Ascot Business Park are available to investors or owner occupiers to purchase with sizes ranging from 1,667 sq ft up to 14,200 sq ft.
HSM advised SHP and Strutt & Parker acted for QSHL.
Read more: Salmon Harvester Sells Office Investment on Ascot Business Park
A team of nurses, volunteers and some very generous patients have helped raise a staggering £25,000 towards the refurbishment of the Hematology Day Unit at St Peter’s Hospital.
Over a four-week period the nurses held weekly bake sales and sold raffle tickets in a bid to raise a ‘few pounds’ to help redecorate the unit, but following kind and unexpected donations from a number of patients (including a staggering £20,000 from one patient alone), the total raised in a few short weeks has far exceeded all expectations.
900 raffle tickets were sold with many of the prizes donated coming courtesy of the patients treated on the unit, many of whom are currently undergoing intensive chemotherapy.
St Peter’s hematology unit treats issues with blood in health and disease. It includes problems with the red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, blood vessels, bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and the proteins involved in bleeding and clotting.
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FROM "THE ROSE" TO "PAPPLEWICK" | The Spotlights Musical Theatre Group (SMTG) are changing their performance venue this year after many years at the Rose Theatre, part of St.Marys School in Ascot. "We first performed a summer show at the Rose in 2010", says John Woodward-Roberts, the groups Chairman. "It was Salad Days and we followed this up with HMS Pinafore (2011), Annie Get Your Gun (2012), Orpheus in the Underworld (2013), Kiss Me Kate (2014) and Pajama Game in 2015". "Our last show at The Rose in 2016 was Pirates of Penzance, a fitting production to complete our tenancy with" says John.
Read more: Spotlights Musical Theatre Group Moves to Papplewick for My Fair Lady 
On Friday 11th November at 11am Charters School in Sunningdale fell silent to mark Remembrance Day.
Staff and students congregated in their Tutor groups on the astro-turf and as the clock struck the hour, Dexter Brown from Year 12 poignantly played the Last Post. The entire school remained silent for two minutes before Dexter broke the silence by playing the Rouse. A wreath of poppies was then laid by two Sixth Form students. As the students returned to lessons, they passed an art installation of poppies clinging to the trees in the school’s central quad
Mr Chris Cook, Subject Leader for History said, “The idea of remembering those that gave their lives for our today still resonates with students despite the passing of 100 years. Having just learnt about the impact of the Somme it was fitting that the whole school community came together to mark Remembrance Day as a community.”
