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Year 8 Basketball Success

On Tuesday evening our newly formed Year 8 Basketball team hosted Manor School in their first ever competitive fixture! Despite only having played together in one rotation of PE lessons and the After-school extra-curricular sessions, we were unsure on how we would fare against a school that had played numerous games beforehand.

However, the team consisting of Svetlan, Lorenzo, Joseph, Callum R, Oliver S, Alex W, Kieran M and Jake were exceptional and lead 6-0 within the first 20 seconds. the boys ran riot, continuing to score at will, playing some excellent basketball with fast flowing, passing moves and working at an incredible intensity. The team ended up winning by over 50 points!!! Despite the score line the boys maintained their high levels of sportsmanship and gamesmanship, often assisting the opposition and overruling the referee for the benefit of the opposition.

Half Term Round Up - Personal Development

It’s been another busy term for our students across the Academy, here’s a round up of the opportunities they’ve had since February:

 A full extra-curricular provision during lunch times and after school. This has included a wealth of sports clubs, school show rehearsals, dance club, music club, art club, enrichment sessions in MFL, lunchtime library activities, interventions sessions for year 11. Many of these are showcased weekly in our newsletter.

 Hub and Ethos groups.

 Lunchtime library activities.

 Unifrog sessions and careers talks during Thursday morning tutor times.

 TFTF (Think for the Future) sessions for selected students.

 Dance trip to Move It.

 Medical Mavericks workshop for year 10.

 Prison Me No Way for year 9.

 Women into Leadership for year 10 girls with talks from inspirational women from local businesses.

 The inspirational David Hyner returned for more talks with Year 12 & 13, year 11 and year 8.

 Student forum meetings.

Keep your eye on the weekly newsletters for more updates on the Personal Development opportunities available throughout next term.

Mrs G Brainwood

Assistant Principal

New Multi-Faith Prayer Space

We are delighted to be able to open our new Multi Faith Prayer Space in school this week.

This is a space for students to come and reflect, pray and meditate during break and lunch - everyone is welcome, whether you have a faith or not. In these times of Covid and war, where many of us are struggling with our wellbeing and looking to find a way of processing what is going on in our lives, finding time and space to reflect and pray can be really helpful.

We have some different activities set up to help you pray if you want to use them, a comfy beanbag for those who want to sit and be quiet, and washing facilities for students who need them.

If you want to use the Prayer Space, just come and ask the Ethos Team in the Creative Arts block.