3rd March 2017 STANDING OUT

THE MAGAZINE FOR MOUNTS BAY ACADEMY

Cover: Penlee Gallery Curation Project

1st November 2019 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

…follow your dreams

We live in a world that moves at an astonishing pace, we are used to seeing the news in ‘sound bites’, We read communications on our devices in “textspeak”, the abbreviated language and slang commonly used with mobile phones, text messaging, or other internet-based communication such as email. We get used to using reading and writing short sentences that display well on a small device when instant messaging.

We are even encouraged to listen to our music using “cloud based” services and watch our television “on demand” so that we can watch what we like when we like.

This often results in us “binge viewing” a whole series of programmes all at once.

Have you ever wondered why we do what we do?

Could it be that we like stories that are longer than an instant message? Well there is another way of satisfying our urge to “binge” a story. We have a library full of them, they are called books. A book can take you to places in your mind that you would never have dreamt of, give you stories that will light up your imagination and expand your horizons. Books are great, we should read more of them. To help with that, I have themed the reception area to allow for an additional quiet space for you to use when reading, so relax, enjoy some of the great books we have to offer and see if they give you the inspiration to follow your dreams.

Speaking of following your dreams, 15 men will be going out in the heat of the evening to spend 80 minutes fighting over a small oval ball, to see how many times they can Good Luck Molly get it over the line in their opponent’s half.

We are lucky enough to have two students who are a part of this outstanding group of players, one may even get to join the field of play as the game progresses. The team Click here to see the BBC News report online have all followed their dreams to get to this point in their lives. So there is only one thing to say. Best wishes COME ON ENGLAND!

Les Hall - Academy Principal BE ACTIVE

Eco Stalls

Four eco stalls sold products in reception on Thursday promoting a sustainable lifestyle. They sold a range of products including bamboo toothbrushes, metal straws, sustainable soaps, flowers made of recycled plastic bottles, charms made of rocks and minerals and beeswax sandwich wraps. The stalls will hopefully be returning soon and were very successful selling their products over lunch to staff and students.

Report by: Lilia BE INSPIRED

Year 7 Real Project

Students have been using their lessons to discover how they can use GarageBand on their iPads to develop their own voice overs and podcasts. Once they had developed a script they practised to their peers before recording themselves. The opportunity to listen to their own work read aloud gave them a chance to successfully improve their scripts in preparation for their end point films.

Year 11 Business: Brand or Fail?

As part of their coursework Year 11 are researching and evaluating the impact of successful branding. Students were taste testing Sainsbury’s own version of Jaffa Cakes and Wotsits compared to McVitite’s and Walkers to explore whether branding really matters and if we pay more for the name over the product. Students were shocked when they ranked the Sainsbury’s cheaper alternatives as their favourite for taste!

Reports by: Miss Walters BE CREATIVEBE CREATIVE

Curation Project at Penlee House This week a group of Year 7 students have started work curating an exhibition with Penlee House. This project is an extension to their REAL Project lessons, answering the Essential Question: How do we capture the spirit of a place?

This week they had the opportunity to go and look into the amazing collection of artifacts and objects collected by the gallery, and were even allowed to touch and analyse the original family photo album belonging to the Bramwell family, who built Penlee House. Over the next few weeks they will continue to work with Emma Wilson and the team at Penlee to develop the concept for their section of the exhibition. Watch this space!

Artist of the Week

This week Artist of the week is awarded to Casey, who has been experimenting with chalks and charcoal for the first time. She has produced this incredible response to one of her primary photos. This is an exciting start to new half term. Well done Casey!

Reports by: Miss Green BE CREATIVEBE CREATIVE

24 Hour Gig

The 24 Hour Gig took place from Thursday morning to Friday morning at MBA the week before half term. Over 140 students were involved either performing or running tech, with 60 students staying overnight to make sure that music was happening for the full 24 hours. Students really rose to the challenge, providing amazing performances, keeping a great sound and light show going and also working brilliantly as a team to support each other through the event.

The gig started at 9.10am Thursday morning with the Jazz Band performing to the whole of Year 10, followed by continual performances on two stages from Years 10, 9, 8 and 7 throughout the school day. We also welcomed primary school pupils from Pensans, Alverton, St Hilary and Ludgvan Schools in to perform and watch during lunch. BE CREATIVEBE CREATIVE

24 Hour Gig

The highlight was the public concert in the Hall on Thursday evening. It featured some fantastic performers including Austen, Max and Milo, Rose, the Mounts Bay Jazz Band, Daisy, Marco, Kitto, Sid and Jade, Adam and many more. The doors closed on Thursday night at 11.30pm, and 60 students stayed the night, playing acoustic sets through from midnight until breakfast at 7.30am. During staff briefing we were treated to an amazing staff band performance, and the whole event finished with a Year 11 assembly on Friday morning.

Well done everyone. We are already looking forward to next year!

Report by: Mr L New MBA FUTURES

Year 11 Truro College Trip

78 of our Year 11s gave up their own time on Monday evening to visit Truro College and immerse themselves in an Introductory Open Evening specifically for MBA students. These visits are important in enabling our students to make an informed choice for when they finish at Mounts Bay Academy and we actively encourage all our students to get involved to ensure they are making choices that are right for them.

"I learnt more about the the courses I wanted to look into and about the layout of the college.” Elliot

“ "I really liked looking around (especially the music studio!) and talking to the teachers.” Marlena

Report by: Mrs Masters ” MBA FUTURES

Cornwall Tech Jam This is open to any young person interested in learning about computer software to develop their interest and skills and hopefully have fun. It will be held at the Student Central Building of College, Pool on Trevenson Road.

Cornwall Tech Jams are run by volunteers and employees of the technology industry in Cornwall. They give youngsters the opportunity to create some computer software on equipment they may not normally have access to at school or home for free. It is free to attend. Children under 16 would need to be be accompanied by a parent/carer or responsible adult.

These Tech Jams are run in the hope that by encouraging youngsters to have a go at writing some computer code they may develop it as an interest and possible career choice. There are massive skill shortages in the software industry in Cornwall and opportunities like this are hoping to create the employees of the future. By creating the interest now, providing the opportunities to try it out, regardless of background, will enable the skill openings they need.

The Jams are open to all. Doors open at 10am through to 1pm. More details are available from cornwalltechjam.uk.

If you would like to attend but are having difficulty for any reason please contact Lindsay Masters Careers Adviser at Mounts Bay Academy. [email protected]

Report by: Mrs Masters BE CURIOUS

Eye Dissection In science this week we dissected a cow’s eye ball, identifying all the parts, as we did it. We dissected them step by step, and could see the structure of the eye.

We used tools such as scissors, a knife and tweezers. As we cut in, black liquid oozed out. The outside skin was tough but once we had cut through and could see the inside structure it was fascinating. We had learnt about eyes in science but it was clearer to understand them and how they work, when you could see the structure in real life.

By the end we could separate the different parts to examine them more closely. We could see the Iris, Lens, Retina and the Cornea!

We took the lens out of the eye ball. When we put it over written words, it magnified them, just like your eyes can zoom in on words.

Overall, even though there was a horrible smell and some aspects were slightly disgusting, it was a fascinating experience.

Report by: Isla BE COMPETITIVE

Land Rover Cup Rugby

The Land Rover Premiership Rugby Cup is a series of national grassroots rugby festivals for U11 and U12 rugby teams. Run in conjunction with all twelve Premiership Rugby clubs, the regional rugby events are an essential part of the UK rugby calendar. To date, more than 85,000 youngsters have participated in the tournament since its inception – enough to fill world-famous Twickenham Stadium.

The and RFC U12 Team, consisting of 16 MBA students, won all of their six matches at the Exeter Chiefs Landrover Cup Festival, only conceding one try in the whole tournament. During each game it was noted that the boys displayed great team spirit and demonstrated the core values of the game: teamwork, respect, enjoyment, discipline and sportsmanship. They now head to Twickenham for the Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final in June.

TEAM: Ben Tama Jake Cadan Evan Oliver Cassius James Sawyer Lewis Callum Finley Isaac Harry Ashton Val BE COMPETITIVE

Primary Cross Country

This Monday saw the first round of the Primary Cross Country league take place at MBA. The event saw over 200 pupils from Years 4-6 take part in distances from 800m - 2000m. Twelve MBA students supported the event either running as Hares, marshalling or helping out on the finish line.

It was typical Cross Country weather and everyone did extremely well just to be on the start line! Congratulations to all runners and a big thank you to all the staff and students who made the event so successful. The next event is at the end of November at St Ives Rugby Club, let's hope for improved weather.

Report by: Mr N Eddy BE COMPETITIVE

County Cup Win

The Year 11 Football team played their first game of the year away to HDS on Thursday in the County Cup. It was a great effort from both teams, resulting in a 5-2 victory for MBA. We are now through to the next round. The goals were scored by James (3) and Thomas (2). Report by: James Winter PE Kit Expectations

As we enter the winter months the PE Department would just like to remind you about PE kit expectations: what you are allowed to wear for your PE lessons.

Expected/optional kit: MBA waterproof jacket MBA jogging bottoms MBA PE top Plain black sports leggings MBA PE shorts and/or skort Plain black jogging bottoms MBA long black socks Plain black skins MBA fleece Plain black/red/white t-shirt under the PE top – must not be visible

Please ensure that you have the expected PE kit each lesson (PE top/PE shorts/Skort/ long black socks) you may choose to purchase extra PE kit for the winter months.

The PE Dept expects students who are unable to participate within the practical element of the lesson, due to illness or injury (a note to be provided) to bring and change into their full PE kit.

Reasons for this are as follows: • You will still be included within the lesson, as appropriate, as an official/coach/peer mentor or similar. • You may be expected to be outside during the lesson and should it rain (very likely) you will be able to change back into dry school uniform.

Report by: Mrs Trevail INSIDE THE IMAGINARIUM

Popular Place

This week, we have had between 47 and 53 students in the library every lunchtime!

It’s great to see so many of you using this creative space for drawing, reading and homework. As I am regularly seeing new faces, I thought I’d take this opportunity to remind everyone of some library etiquette…

Library Etiquette

• The Imaginarium is not simply a social space. If you decide to use the library during your lunchtimes, you must be actively doing something productive. Whether that is reading, homework, writing or drawing is up to you - but you cannot just sit chatting with your friends or play games on your iPad.

• Noise levels need to be kept to a minimum. Whilst we don’t want the library to be a silent study area, students should also be able to concentrate on their work without getting a headache.

• Absolutely no food or drinks (unless water) is to be consumed in the library outside of breakfast club. This is non-negotiable.

• If you move chairs and join them to another table, please put them back before you leave – this avoids me having to move them all at the end of the lunch break!

• Adhering to the library etiquette will keep the space a nice working environment for everyone.

Report by: Miss Rule INSIDE THE IMAGINARIUM

Staff Are Reading

To help inspire you we will be having a look at what MBA staff members are reading.

reading… Currently Mr Helliwell is RED RISING By pierce brown

Red Rising is the first novel of a science fiction trilogy by Pierce Brown published in 2014. The story takes place on a future colony on Mars and follows a lowly miner, Darrow, as he moves up through the elite ranks of the ‘Golds’.

The novel is a dystopian look at class struggle set in a space opera genre. We are introduced to the bloody, violent struggles of class and the search for equality for all people.

Report by: Miss Rule BE A WINNER

This week’s word is: cherish

Definition: Protect and care for (someone) lovingly.

Etymology: Middle English (in the sense ‘treat with affection’): from Old French cheriss-, lengthened stem of cherir, from cher ‘dear’.

Competition

Last week’s winner was Rosie. Well done!

To enter, simply write an original sentence correctly using the word cherish. Send in your sentence using the link below.

Click here to enter the competition T H E R O S E S D E V E L O P M E N T F R A M E W O R K WORKSHOP

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BE RESPONSIBLE Things We Can Recycle at MBA Old Candles Candles you can no longer burn or have run out of wick will be recycled (all types accepted).

Bottle Tops These will be sent to Lush to be recycled into containers they use for their products. Only small lids up to milk bottle sized can be recycled.

Plastic Bottles These will be recycled in school. They will be used to build a greenhouse, in science lessons and some will be passed onto a primary school in the area who would like to build a greenhouse.

Crisp Packets Any crisp packets can be sent in. Then they will be sent to TerraCycle. This earns us points and raising money to spend on projects such as the polytunnel.

Oral Care Products These will also be sent to TerraCycle earning points for MBA.

Drinks Cans These will be recycled in school. They will be used in experiments to show pressure. Fizzy drinks cans are ok, but alcohol cans will not be accepted.

Batteries These will be sent to BatteryBack who recycle them.

Biscuits and Snack Wrappers These will be sent to TerraCycle.

Newspaper These will be used in school either in the Science or Art Department. Pet Food Packaging These will be sent to TerraCycle. For every kg we send we will earn points.

Writing Instruments Writing Instruments such as pens, highlighters, markers and correction fluid pots. Bring Yours In! MONDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER Mounts Bay Academy Interact Group Helping at the Rotary Club Pz Fireworks Display @Pz Football Club 6:30pm onwards

WEDNESDAY 6TH NOVEMBER U16 Girls Regional Hockey @Dorset

THURSDAY 7TH NOVEMBER U14 Girls County Hockey Tournament @Truro all day Yr11 Netball & Rugby @Humphry Davy School 3:15-5:30pm Yr7-9 Basketball @Humphry Davy School 3:15-5:30pm

FRIDAY 8TH NOVEMBER Yr7/U12 County Rugby Festival @Richard Lander School 8:30-4:30pm @mountsbay.org

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