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Newsflash Edition 21: Friday 15th February 2019

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Character Awards Evening

This week we held our Character Awards Evening where students in

Years 7 and 8 were acknowledged for achieving against one or more of

our four ‘Character Pillars’, Learn, Lead, Serve and Participate. These

four Character Pillars are fundamental to our school and students have

been encouraged to record evidence of how they have demonstrated

these strong character traits through our Character Development

Programme.

Students have gathered evidence in a number of different ways. For instance, a student may have

shown service by helping others in an organised community event or they may have participated in a

school production or sporting fixture. Likewise, a student may have demonstrated great learning by

making strong academic progress in a range of subjects, or they may have shown leadership by

organising and leading other students in an activity.

Successful completion of activities related to any of the four Character Pillars earns points towards a

prestigious enamel badge which students may wear on their blazer in recognition of their

achievements. There are three levels of award for each of the Character Pillars, Apprentice,

Graduate and Master, with each one having gradually more challenging success criteria to meet.

IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK

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Well done to the following students who all achieved at Apprentice Level against one or more of the

four Character Pillars.

Daniel Ihejirika Rory Hand Sophie Conlon Amelia Best-Hogan Amy Oates Calex Yeung

Favour Otabor Joyce Kiwa Lexie Whittaker Melissa Gavan Riley Joyce Samuel Yeboah

Thomas Wilson Chloe Rowland Toyin Peter Hannah Sykes Matthew Walker Agape Esayas

Ikram Gudeta Katie Siddall Milly Madden Philip Anyan Zariah Hodgson Alfie Haggerty

Emma Thomas Hannah Revell Kenzi-Rell Rowden-Coley Marcel Zdunski Ben Shepherd

Diya Jairath-Fernandez Oluwafunbi Oseni Ruby Johnson Sophie Davenport Aleena Iqbal

Charlotte Whitham-Smith Evan Hughes Isabelle Whitehead Jessica Fulton Katy Taylor

Meerab Nasir Deonne O’Connor Han Yun Yu Amaara Naveed Areeka Sheikh Frank Kariuki

Hafsa Waziri Ruby Woods Abi Voss Devanshi Shah Abraham Joel Katelyn Worrall Morsal Amiri

Neve Connolly Oluwatoyosi Junaid Ellie Mae McCarney Pippa Teeling Rukshar Ahmed

Erin-Leigh Clarke Nabiha Jannat Talukdar Emily Houghton Maci-Leigh Todd Cameron Thompson

Louis Clarke Shannon Corbett Dzhan Sali Diya Mistry Rosie Mccormick Ella Darbyshire

Izzy Phillips Jenan Alkhatib Joel Egyiri Marshall Brotherdale Ryan Wilson Eryn Rowan

Melissa Daniels Festus Chale Michael Boateng-Junior Rhiann Dyke Molly Legg Malakai Garner

Isaac Lewis Joshua Wilson Max Ward Adam Ali-Brown Jackie Tran Iqra Zaman Lewis Mercer

Sarah Bockova Dzhan Sali Leah Ashton Hamza Cheema Lucy Alderson

Congratulations to the following students who all achieved at ‘Graduate

Level’ or ‘Master Level’ against one or more of the four pillars:

Han Yun Yu, Hafsa Waziri, Olivia Loftus, Erin Leigh Clarke, Abi Voss, Adeena

Rehman, Demi-Leigh Street, Matthew Neglia, Mohammed Badje Sane,

Muskhan Khan, Lauren Nield, Margaret Adekoya, Zaynab Khan, Adam Ali-

Brown, Dzhan Sali, Ellie Brophy, Lily McKenna, Lucy Alderson and Nancy

Armoh were all awarded badges for Learning at Graduate Level.

Diya Mistry, Daniel Galateanu and Molly Legg were awarded badges for

Service at Graduate Level.

Jenna Anderson and Malakai Garner were both awarded badges for

Leadership at Graduate Level.

Ellie Smith and Mia Walker were both awarded badges for Participation at

Graduate Level.

Deonne O’Connor was awarded badges for Learning and Service at

Graduate Level.

Iqra Zaman was awarded badges for Participation and Service at Graduate

Level.

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Hamza Cheema was awarded badges for Leadership and Service at Graduate Level.

Rosie McCormick and Abigail Dalton were awarded badges for Leadership and

Participation at Graduate Level.

Nabiha Jannat Talukdar was awarded badges for Learning, Participation and Service

at Graduate Level.

Lemuel Asamoah Tanner was awarded a badge for Leadership at Master Level.

Taylor Megram was awarded badges for Participation at Graduate Level and Service

at Master Level.

Sporting Success

Congratulations to the following teams on their recent successes in cup competitions and events

against other Tameside schools.

Congratulations to the Year 9 Boys Team on winning

the Silver Medal at the Tameside Sports Hall Athletics

Competition.

Josh Wilson

Lemuel Asamoah Tannor

Zak Albajouri

Josh Barton

Jack Beckett

Dalil Alhassan

Shemaiah Achempong

Luca Silvestri

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Congratulations to the Year 9 Girls Team who also

won Silver at the Tameside Sports Hall Athletics

Competition.

Emma Newsam

Chloe Lucas

Tinu Lawal

Zainab Ibraheem

Britney Akukwe

Mia Walker

Nancy Armoh

Taylor Megram

Congratulations to the KS4 Boys A Team who won

the Gold Medal at the Tameside Table Tennis

Championships.

Even Beccham

Daniel Galteanu

James Hunston

Alex Leonard-Walker

Congratulations to the KS4 Boys B Team who won

the Silver Medal at the Tameside Table Tennis

Championships.

Rio Harrison

Emmanuel Akubuo

Aaron Bile

Divine Egharevba Omoigiawi

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Congratulations to the KS4 Girls Team who came

fourth at the Tameside Table Tennis Championships.

Zaineb Ibraheem

Mia Phelan

Mia Walker

Taylor Megram

Congratulations to the Key Stage 4 Boys Basketball Team who won Bronze Medals after finishing in

third position at the Tameside School Games. The boys were unlucky to miss out on a place in the

final with only one narrow defeat, 4-2, throughout the competition. There was some excellent skill

on show and all of the boys were a credit to the Academy.

Emmanuel Akubuo

Aulon Behrami

Jefferey Lokolutu

Aaron Bile

Dean Charlton

Jessy Lukusu

Brandon Phirri

Michael Bawuah

Thomas Belfield

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GCSE Food and Nutition Year 10 GCSE Food and Nutrition students learn the skill of filleting and portioning fish.

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Year 11, there are only 12 school weeks left, just 60 days in school, until your first GCSE exam.

We hope that your Pre-Public Examinations have gone well and that you are now better prepared

for the summer.

Remember that there will be a programme of study sessions over the half term holiday as detailed

here. These sessions will be an important part of your preparation for your GCSE examinations.

Date Morning session

Afternoon session

Mon 18th Feb Geography (Mr Jackson)

French (Mrs Preston)

French (Mrs Preston)

Tue 19th Feb Further Maths (Mrs Lloyd)

Wed 20th Feb History (Mrs Bugler)

Clearly, it is absolutely crucial that Year 11 students attend every day between now and their

examinations so that they do not miss any of their exam preparation.

The book of the month, as chosen by the Year 7 Reading Group, is ‘The House With Chicken Legs’

written by Sophie Anderson. The group are currently in the process of making a trailer for the book

with the help of Mrs Godrich. They are creating a backdrop, writing some dialogue and building a

fence out of bones all in readiness to film their creation after half term. Once the trailer has been

edited it will be shared with other Year 7 students during Form Time and will be shared with Sophie

herself via her Facebook feed.

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GCSE COUNTDOWN

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The Book of the Week, ‘Hollow Pike’’ by Juno Dawson, is again taken from the

LGBT History Month reading list.

"She thought she'd be safe in the country, but you can't escape your own

nightmares and Lis London dreams repeatedly that someone is trying to kill

her. Lis thinks she is being paranoid - after all who would want to murder

her? She doesn't believe in the local legends of witchcraft. She doesn't

believe that anything bad will really happen to her. Ye never do, do you? Not

until you're alone in the woods, after dark - and a twig snaps..."

‘Kids Com’ Car Boot Sale in aid of Willow Wood Hospice

The Academy will open after the half term break on Monday 25th August. Students studying GCSE Drama will be visiting the Royal Exchange Theatre on Monday 25th August to watch a performance of ‘Mother Courage’. Year 10 Parent Teacher Consultation Evening will take place on Thursday 28th February. Parents/Carers of Year 10 students should already have received information about the evening. GCSE Geography residentials to the East Yorkshire Coast will take place over the weekends of 29th to 31st Match and 26th to 28th April. Year 11 Parent Teacher Consultation Evening will take place on Thursday 4th April. The Academy will break up for the Easter Holiday on Friday 5th April.

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