12 June 2009 - Issue 34
Message from Mr Pulman
9th July - African Celebration 3.00 - 4.30 p.m. All Students - Parents - Carers - Community - Welcome African Drumming African Dancing African BBQ “A Taste of Africa” Football Shirts for Kenya Young Kenyans love football but they don’t have any replica shirts and would love to have some. If you have any old ones (or not so old!) we can send them off to Kenya and make an African child happy. Bring it / them along and get to play in “The Cage” - an exciting 2 on 2 game of football.
Best wishes
Mr Pulman
Maths Students’ Success I am delighted to announce the results of the Junior Maths Challenge. This is a national competition where the Year 8 students competed against students from across the country solving problems using a variety of mathematical skills. We were extremely pleased that the ability of our students was recognised and that we have students who are achieving as highly as some of the best students in the country. A Gold Award was achieved by Josh Wilson and Bronze Awards were achieved by Tatum Anderson, Victoria Newell, Aimee Mason, Marcus Pilkington, Amii Matthews, Ben Cherrill, Robert Bennett, Bradley Quilter, Atlanta Cooper and Joe Carlyle. Isabel Saunders and Harry Wilson were just marks off achieving a Bronze Award. Congratulations to all these students - Fantastic Achievement. Mrs Clark
On Tuesday 9 June, the Pathway A Group from Year 11 presented a tv / dvd player to the Moonbeam Ward at Broomfield Hospital purchased with money they raised from a charity sponsored walk they did in March from Witham to Maldon. Well done everyone.
Uniform A reminder that trainers (even black ones) are not permitted unless for PE / Sport. Students in trainers may be given a one hour NRA detention or referred to the Zone. Thank you. Mr Pulman
A reminder that Thursday 25 June is Academic Mentoring Day and Friday 26 June is a non-pupil day.
Unfortunately it has been necessary to cancel the cheese and wine event planned for next Monday 15 June to welcome our German visitors. Many apologies for any inconvenience.
All Pupil Non-Uniform Day Year 8 have organised a non-uniform day for next Friday (19 June) for the whole Academy in support of their Charity Week. Pupils will need to pay £1 in order to take part and this will be collected during registration next week. Miss Peters
Lunchtime Clubs and Activities There are currently several lunchtime clubs which run on a regular basis. From next Monday a schedule of clubs and activities will be displayed near the Pastoral area for students’ information. Current clubs include a Dr Who Club, Craft Club and Basketball Club.
Year 7 Primeval Club runs every Tuesday and Wednesday. We are currently making plans to film our very own version of the popular television series and looking forward to a visit from the show’s Story Editor on 8th July. Any Year 7 students wishing to get involved need to come along to L15 next Tuesday – there are limited spaces left! From Monday 15th June we will be trialling a Football Loan Scheme. The Nike Shop in Freeport has very kindly donated a small number of footballs for students to use during lunchtime. Year 10 Prefects will be on hand outside the Science Block to run this scheme. We are also hoping to offer students the chance to participate in two lunchtime workshops during this half term based around the themes of hair and skincare and these will be in collaboration with the Lush store in Chelmsford and Stapleton Hair Design in Witham. More information on these exciting opportunities will follow shortly! Students are welcome to speak to me directly if they have any other ideas for lunchtime clubs or activities. Alternatively, ideas can be passed on via tutors or Student Services. Ms Bridge Lunchtime Activities Coordinator
Accelerated Reader Last week 7N was awarded a trophy for reading the greatest number of books during the previous week. Between them they had taken 18 quizzes. This amounted to over 320,000 words! The winners this week are 7R who took 8 quizzes. This means that they read 156,000 words between them. Mrs Ashdown
Monday 8 June was the first day of “National Tackling Drugs Week” which is a home office initiative aimed at reducing the use and availability of drugs in our communities. As part of the week long event, which is supported by Essex Police and Braintree District Council, students were exposed to a wealth of information about the effects and consequences of drug-taking. PC Crysell was on site answering questions and handing out literature. A competition to design a poster encouraging young people to say no to drugs has been running all week in the Academy and the Town. Winners will be announced in due course and the winning poster will be used to promote anti-drug initiatives across the entire Braintree District and the winner will receive a prize of Freeport shopping vouchers.
In order to improve communication between parents/carers and the Academy, callers are to be given the opportunity to dial extension numbers of first line contact members of staff or to leave a voice mail message. These are the extension numbers we feel would be most useful to you Head of Year 7 Head of Year 8 Head of Year 9 Head of Year 10 Head of Year 11 SEN administrator Student Reception Finance Department Music Community Receptionist 237 233 237 234 235 243 266/267 225 255 221