TERM 2 2017 Bexhill The magazine keeping students, staff, parents and carers, and the widerBeacon community updated on events at Bexhill Academy.

Christmas is all about giving. Over the course of 2017, Bexhill Academy as a school community has raised in excess of £10,000 for charity.

Bexhill Academy wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Bexhill Beacon 2 3 Bexhill Beacon n Friday, 10 November, we held our Students Explore O annual Remembrance Service at St Stephen’s Church. Shipwreck in Approximately 100 students in Year 7 attended, along with parents and members of our local community. The Shakespeare’s The choir performed some very uplifting songs, including True Colours, which the audience found very moving. Tempest The KS3 and KS4 Drama groups performed some pieces which portrayed the horrors of war from different perspectives. There was a sermon from The Reverend which made the Year 7 students really consider the implications of war.

It was an extremely successful event which will now become part of our annual calendar of events and we look forward to doing it again next year.

small group of Year 7 and 8 Astudents were lucky enough to work with professional actor Milton Lopes in a two hour workshop which took part in Bexhill Academy’s theatre. The students enjoyed the opportunity to explore space and physicality in a professional situation and produced a fabulous interpretation of the opening scene from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Many students gained an insight into working as a professional Theatre group and learnt how to approach a Shakespearian text from a practical perspective, with many delivering their lines of dialogue with subtlety and enthusiasm.

Many thanks to Milton Lopes and Christopher Thompson for facilitating such a fantastic opportunity! Year 10 Spanish Principal letters r Knock’s Spanish group have been studying the topic of school and in particular their extended Mopinions on school rules. The class thought it would be a good idea to write letters to the Principal to put a ‘real’ slant on their work and in the hope that Mrs Brown would reply. Writing a formal letter is now part of the 9-1 Spanish requirement .

The students were delighted to receive a reply from the Principal in Spanish. Bexhill Beacon 6 7 Bexhill Beacon

hen Annette Fearn asked the staff Wand students of the Academy if they would like to contribute to the “Warming Up the Homeless” Christmas collection, the school was only too happy to oblige. ATTENDANCE NEWSLETTER

Terms 1 and 2 2017/18 Three weeks and many boxes later Annette, Bexhill Academy have launched a new Safeguarding who is the Catering Manager at the System where we may drive to houses in the school HOUSE Academy, was delighted by the response by minibus when students are not in school with no reason ATTENDANCE students, staff and parents alike. On Friday for absence. 15th December Lynda Hunter, representing CAMBRIDGE 94.4 the charity, came to collect the Academy’s HARVARD 95.7 contributions and found that her vehicle was not large enough to accommodate IMPERIAL 96.0 them! On Monday 9 October 2017 we launched our Get Smart Week, raising awareness of attendance and punctuality. We are pleased that our OXFORD 95.6 attendance rates have improved on last year. We would like all students to Students had not only contributed achieve 100% attendance so they have an YALE 94.2 mountains of food essentials but many uninterrupted run of learning. Whilst we appreciate that some absences cannot be avoided, please remember to ask the question, “What did I We aim for all students to had made up “essential” packs from the miss while I was absent and how can I catch up?” achieve 97% attendance and list provided, wrapped them up, and spent above! hours sorting the items. During the Get Smart Week we rewarded students by holding a 100% attendance raffle where two students per house won an Amazon Voucher.

Heidi Brown, Principal, was delighted Source Skate Park in Hastings also donated 70 free entry and free hire of to be able to note that once again, the equipment vouchers which we awarded to students that had 100% attendance for each week leading up to the Get Smart Week. Academy Community had demonstrated an awareness of the needs of those less Winning Tutor Groups also received prizes to share. fortunate than themselves at this special time of year.

Year 11 Attendance Incentive Scheme n Thursday, 8 December a representative from the charity O Year 11 is a very important time for Please note you can use the MacMillan Cancer came to Bexhill our students at Bexhill Academy, School Absence Mobile Number Academy to pick up a cheque for and in order to ensure students 07537436325 to report your £426.20. Students had raised this reach their fullest potential, good child’s absence money through baking and selling attendance is a priority. cakes and popcorn, as well as making THIS IS A FREE TEXT SYSTEM donations to this worthy cause. To reward students who achieve FOR PARENTS 100% attendance between Terms 2 Lynda Kivity-Ray representing the and 5, Bexhill Academy are offering Written by Bexhill Academy charity attended Harvard House an Attendance Incentive Scheme. Students will be offered assembly and thanked all the students 50% off the cost of their Year 11 Prom Ticket. Attendance Ambassadors: for their contributions both on the day, Sam Mitchell Yr 11, Coren Peck Year and in the recent past; stating that as In addition a small number of Year 11 students will receive 11, Jake Ashby Year 10, Esme Gear- a result of the Academy’s efforts the mentoring from our Attendance Officer, Nikki Ashdown, to ing Year 11, Haydn Long Year 10, fundraising from the local area would support them with working towards their Year 11 attendance Rosy Grimley Year 10, Ben Ray-Gain be nearly twenty thousand pounds, target. Year 11, Charlotte Marker Year 10. almost a thousand pounds more than last year. Bexhill Beacon 4

Miss Baker’s year 9 art

students have completed a 4

hour tonal study of Natural

Form exploring the full range

of tone and shade, focussing on

the fragility of nature.

Excellent work, well done! Bexhill Beacon 10 11 Bexhill Beacon Miss Baker’s Year 7 students have been studying the famous Starry Night by Van Gogh by using different techniques to create the textures. Here are some examples of some fantastic Academy Sports homework.

Well done. Bexhill Academy officially the strongest table tennis school in East Sussex

It’s official! Bexhill Academy is now the strongest With two runners up and a title win, Bexhill Academy overall school for table tennis in the whole of East confirmed their place at the top of the East Sussex Sussex and Brighton. Table Tennis tree. SQUADS

After competing in the District competitions, three Under 13 boys out of our four teams qualified for the county finals, Ryan Hedges, Lucas Heynes, Ryan McMahon, played at Willingdon over the last week. Our under River-Jay Gray 16 boys, under 13 boys and under 13 girls were all named Rother District champions and progressed to the next round of the competition. At the county finals the under 16 boys took on King’s School from Portslade and the hosts Willingdon Community School. In an enthralling first match the team drew with Willingdon 4 – 4 but were victorious due to the fact they had won more individual games than their opponents. In their second match the team Under 13 Girls were beaten by an extremely strong King’s side who Ebony Crouch, Courtney Goodfellow, boasted an England International player in their Hattie O’Hara, Sydnie Pallett ranks. Having beaten Willingdon in the first round the boys were named runners up.

The under 13 boys took a similar path to the under 16s beating Willingdon 8-0 but losing to an excellent Varndean team 7-1 to also be named county runners up.

The under 13 girls took on Patcham School of Under 16 Boys Brighton in a winner-takes-all county final. The first Charlie Casselden, Tom Swatton, Bruce Praill, round of matches was extremely close, with two of Cam Durrant our girls coming out on top and two losing in some YEAR 7 very closely fought matches. Each of the final four matches was taken to a deciding game and it was Sydnie who clinched the County Championship for Bexhill Academy, winning her final match 12-10. ART She did an amazing job to come back from 1-0 down, win the title and qualify for the regional zone finals, which take place in London in January. Bexhill Beacon 12 13 Bexhill Beacon Advanced Individual Novice A Pairs Ellie-Mae Freeman (Yr8) & Sussex Schools Sports Acrobatics Shannon Belcher (Yr8) Charlotte Canham (Yr8) & Daisy Carr (Yr8) Millie Rose Leverington (Yr8) n Saturday, 25 November 2017 twenty seven students from Intermediate Individual Isabelle Oliver (Yr7) & Honey Novice B Mixed Pairs OBexhill Academy competed all day at the Sussex Schools Sports Breanne Croft (Yr7) Copley (Yr7) Piper Horton (Yr10) & Danny Acrobatics Competition held at Brighton University. McMahon (Yr7)

Ark Regional Pairs Helenswood Academy, Shoreham Academy, Davison High School for Girls, Elena Barry (Yr8) & Mya St. Leonards Academy,The Beacon other Academy, secondary Rye College, schools that competed this year were; Kwong (Yr8) Ratton School Uplands Community College. Chloe Beeching (Yr8) & Hope Sankey (Yr8) , and Breanne Croft (Yr7) & Anya Singh (Yr7) We had a very successful day and whilst3rd place competing against the 8 other secondary schools, our accumulation of Novice Trios scores resulted in achieving overall . Saskia Whyman (Yr11), Ami Wallis (Yr11) & Danny All students performed their routines with precision and McMahon (Yr7) confidence, and the support they showed each other was Novice Individual Amie Hobson (Yr7) & Anja incredible. Mya Saulll-Hunt (Yr7) Fisher-Thomas (Yr7) Regional Trios Evie Remnant (Yr7) Novice B Pairs Mya Kwong (Yr8), GOLDThe most = successfulNovice B performancesMixed Pairs: werePiper from: Horton (Yr10) & Georgia Okines (Yr7) Saskia Whyman (Yr11) & Ami Elena Barry(Yr8), Hope Danny McMahon (Yr7) Anja Fisher-Thomas (Yr7) Wallis (Yr11) Sankey(Yr8) SILVER = Novice B Mixed Trios: Saskia Whyman (Yr11), Brooke Harvey (Yr7) Mia Horner (Yr10) & Emma Ami Wallis (Yr11) & Danny McMahon (Yr7) Ciera Sage (Yr7) Beach (Yr8) Well done to you all. SILVER = Novice 8 Piece Group: Saskia Whyman (Yr11), Ami Wallis (Yr11), Piper Horton (Yr10), Daisy Carr (Yr8), Cross Country Ellie-Mae Freeman (Yr8), Mya Saulll-Hunt (Yr7), Evie he Academy took part in the District Cross Country Championships at Battle Abbey. We Remnant (Yr7) & Danny McMahon (Yr7) Ttook 24 of our best athletes from each year group to compete against the strong 9 BRONZE = Novice A Pairs: Evie Remnant (Yr7)& schools in our district. Mya Saulll-Hunt (Yr7) Special mention to the following who achieved some fabulous results:- whilst competing in an Hope Sankey - Year 8 : 1st Luke Brundle - Year 11 : 2nd Jamie Ferreira - Year 9 : 8th Isobel Mitchell - Year 10 : 13th exceptionally large category. Ewan Teague - Year 8 : 13th Congratulations to you all!

RegionalHighly Complimented: Pair: Chloe Beeching (Yr8) & Hope Sankey (Yr8) Advanced 8 Piece Group: Ellie McDonald (Yr10) Shannon Belcher (Yr8) Mya Kwong (Yr8), Elena Barry(Yr8), Hope Sankey(Yr8), Chloe Beeching (Yr8), Breanne Croft (Yr7), Anya Singh (Yr7) Bexhill Beacon 14 ‘Pride, Strength and Courage’ ‘Perseverance for Success’ 15 Bexhill Beacon Cambridge House News HONOURS LIST TERM 2 HONOURS LIST TERM 2 Harvard House News News Update STUDENT OF THE TERM STUDENT OF THE TERM News Update t has been an exceptionally busy Term 2 Year 7 Adam Fletcher Year 7 Tadi Tekenende s a house we had the pleasure Iwith many activities and special events, Aof presenting a cheque to a including: Inter-House Sports, Year 8 and Year 8 Jameilia Amir Year 8 Lily O’Brien representative of Macmillan charity Year 9 Parents’ Evenings. Year 9 Dan Mitchell Year 9 Alfie Baker at our assembly. Thanks to Dylan and Olivia (our Head Boy and Girl) for helping with the Some students in Year 9 are visiting Brighton University to Year 10 Miya Deeprose Year 10 Harriet Haffenden presentation. help plan their future studies. Many Year 9s also continue Year 11 Pamela Rutland Year 11 Hermon Tesfu to attend the “Be the Change” programme run by Hastings We have welcomed in several new students to the house Direct and all students attending were a credit to themselves STUDENT/S OF THE WEEK STUDENT/S OF THE WEEK this term and are really pleased with the way they have and the Academy: learning new skills and gaining confidence settled. in their abilities. Week 1 Ava Cousins Week 1 Abi Link Smith Week 2 Luke Brundle Week 2 Erik Deszpod One of our students this term, Harriet Haffenden has Week 3 Ben Ray Gain, Megan Mitchell Week 3 Adrian Badan approached Ms Brown with an innovative idea to help House Achievements & Matthew Bartlett Week 4 Gabriella Croft tackle bullying- watch this space! Students in the House have started to collect items for the Week 4 Lizzie Newnham Week 5 Harriet Haffenden Academy Christmas Appeal for the Homeless and we continue Week 5 Jasmin Kemp Week 6 Josephine Chambers House Achievements to be proud of their efforts. Week 6 Emma Beach Our attendance this term has been our best yet and was & Amy Shackleton also enough to gain us 5 points in the House Cup as we We are also planning many events after the festive holiday Top Ten Students – Carrots Points Top Ten Students – Carrots Points have been the best attended house this term. to raise money for our Charity this year: Sussex and Kent Air Name Form Total Name Form Total Ambulance Service. Students will be encouraged to organise Emily East C5 230 Adrian Badan H9 640 We have also had a lot of sporting success this term. We their own charity events and we will be holding many events Aleena Saxelby C8 195 Abigail Link-Smith H2 425 finished in first place, gaining 12 House Cup points, for our in the next couple of terms to try to reach our challenging Mia Morley C8 195 Danny Mcmahon H4 310 efforts in the Inter House Cross Country event. A special target which will be easily achieved if all students aim to George Jupp C8 195 Luana Pizarro H4 270 mention to our star performers: Ewan Teague, Ben Hart, raise £14. Karolina Mostek C3 180 Tino Tekenende H3 255 Ryan Mcmahon and Jaime Ferreira. We have also had Jamelia Amir C5 155 Phoenix Nicholls H4 250 representatives from the house involved in gymnastic Cambridge House has had an excellent start to the year with Alfie Daniels C8 145 Ellie Edwards H4 230 competitions- Danny Mcmahon, Chloe Beeching and students achieving brilliant numbers of carrots awards for Amy Friend C5 140 Harriette Watts H5 200 Elena Barry. These same students have also performed their attitude towards their studies and efforts both inside Azim Ahmed C9 135 Milly Fuller H7 180 their routine in assemblies. We also need to recognise and outside the classroom. Finally, once again, Cambridge Jack Elliott H8 160 those who have represented both the House and the House has the greatest number of students with no minus Form Attendance Form Attendance school in the table tennis district finals- Ryan Mcmahon, behaviour points at all! Courtney Goodfellow and C1 94.9% C6 96.6 % H1 94.4% H6 97.6 % Ebony Crouch. Well done to C2 93.6 % C7 91.9 % H2 97.1 % H7 96.5 % Congratulations to all the everyone mentioned and all C3 93.2 % C8 95.1 % H3 94.7 % H8 95.3 % students for their hard work Harvard students that took C4 92.0 % C9 96.6% H4 95.3 % H9 95.3 % and positive attitude. part in the cross country C5 90.8 % H5 97.2 % event. We wish you all a very happy and restful festive holiday. House Charities

Barby Keel Animal Sanctuary Ikosi Kids Bexhill Beacon 16 ‘Every Student Matters, Every Moment Counts, Your Future Begins Here’ ‘Dream, Believe, Succeed’ 17 Bexhill Beacon Imperial House News HONOURS LIST TERM 2 HONOURS LIST TERM 2 Oxford House News News Update STUDENT OF THE TERM STUDENT OF THE TERM News Update mperial have had a slow start to the nce again a very busy term for Iterm but are now up to speed and flying. Year 7 Year 7 OOxford house and all of the fabulous Although we are currently in the bottom Polly Smith Anvita Kopparthi students in the house. This term has two of the English and Maths challenges, seen the students compete in various we have made up a lot of ground and are Year 8 Lucy Speed Year 8 Joshua Murphy the only house to have every form group challenges in addition to the English and complete the challenges every week. Well done to all those Year 9 Elliot Furlong Year 9 Jake Jacobs Maths challenge. This term points were awarded for houses pupils completing the challenges, keep up the good work. based on overall house performance for the students in cross Year 10 Alysha Cook Year 10 Jake Ashby country. The cross country events were during the year 11 Imperial had a massive success in the Carrot rewards this mock examination period. In addition, Oxford finished in 1st term and are way out in the lead. Chloe Askem is leading Year 11 Henry Lankston Year 11 Eleanor Isbitt position collecting the full 5 points for our school antibullying the House with the Carrots, with Kitty Morphett and Cruz campaign. Students in each form had to create their own Porthouse chasing her down. Keep logging those stickers STUDENT/S OF THE WEEK STUDENT/S OF THE WEEK poster to encourage victims of bullying to come forward. O8 Imperial. were the overall winners in the school so congratulations to them. This term will see our Inter House Netball and Football Week 1 Kaiya Star Palmer Week 1 Macy Evans competitions taking place. Imperial needs some good results Oxford house has also voted a change in this years charity. in both competitions in order to chase Harvard down. So Week 2 Francesca Lavender Week 2 Liam Clark please come along on Monday 18th after school to represent Week 3 Katie Ware Week 3 Anvita Kopparthi Oxford will now support the Stoke Mandeville hospital for this academic year. your house. Week 4 Max Hayler Week 4 Afrah Chaffa Week 5 Rebecca Wojcik Week 5 Caitlyn Ellis In addition, Hattie O’Hara of O8 represented the KS3 table House Achievements Week 6 ------Week 6 Tayah-May Christie tennis squad who have now been crowned East Sussex and This term was a successful sporting term for Imperial house. Brighton champions, and will now compete in the regional The annual Inter House Cross Country was the first sporting tournament in the new year in London. event which saw Imperial house finish second overall but Top Ten Students – Carrots Points with some amazing individual performances. Name Form Total Top Ten Students – Carrots Points Shannon Belcher in O8 has also returned from the USA after representing her gymnastic club at the very highest In Year 7, Milo Chapman and Rachelle Gravill won their Chloe Askem I6 490 Name Form Total level. In addition, to representing the school in the district events by some distance with Layla Wilson finishing in 2nd Cruz Porthouse I8 430 Dino London O5 305 competition. and Evie Remnant finishing in 3rd for an all Imperial top 3 girls finish. In the boys event Ronnie Gray finished in 4th Kitty Morphett I6 400 Nathan Amess O8 300 position. Daniel Muhilathithan I8 390 Josh Atkins-Beeching O2 290 House Achievements In the Year 8 event we had a number of students finishing in Layla Wilson I8 390 Eiona Fulladosa-Hurtos O1 280 Maths Challenge the top 10 positions. In the boys competition Conner Lister Taylor Batchelor I8 370 Rhianna Bowley O8 210 finished in 3rd and Theo Turner, George Fox and Tyler Hunt Megan Chapman-Lock I6 360 Amy Rimmer O6 195 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th all finishing in the top 6 positions. In the girls competition Yale OXFORD Harvard Imperial Cambridge Daisy Carr finished runner up with Angelina Boardman and Lily Denman I6 315 Afrah Chaffa O2 195 196 pts 192 pts 180 pts 178 pts 175 pts Jade Oliver both finishing in the top 10. Christopher Payne I7 300 Elda Fulladosa-Hurtos O1 195 English Challenge Rebecca Wojcik finished overall champion for the girl’s event Maxwell Hayler I8 230 Alethea Palmer O2 185 with Hayley Peck finishing in 2nd. In the boys event Jack Joshua Murphy O1 180 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Thunder and Finlay Oakes both finished 2nd in their heats. OXFORD Yale Imperial Cambridge Harvard Elliot Furlong also was placed and finished in 6th. Form Attendance Form Attendance 152 pts 138 pts 135 pts 122 pts 121 pts Well done to every one taking part and a special well done to I1 94.4% I6 93.7% O1 96.5% O6 87.1% the pupils mentioned.Please see below for our cross country I2 92.2% I7 96.1% O2 97.2% O7 97.1% House Cup Points Term 2 Total superstars. I3 94.9% I8 98.5% O3 96.3% O8 97.9% I4 95.9% I9 95.0% O4 95.4% O9 94.9% I5 93.8% O5 98.7% Bexhill Beacon 18 ‘Yale, The Golden Key To Success’ Yale House News HONOURS LIST TERM 2 Careers IAG News Update STUDENT OF THE TERM ale students have had a very busy term, Yshowing off a wide range of remarkable Year 7 Raige Bollington Bexhill Academy skills both in and out of school. On Saturday 25th November 2017, 27 students from Bexhill Year 8 Hope Sankey Academy competed all day at the Sussex Careers Information, Advice & Guidance Schools Sports Acrobatics Competition held at Brighton University. Year 9 Ferdi Ibrahim We had a very successful day and whilst competing against the 8 other secondary schools, our accumulation of scores resulted in Year 10 Paige Willard achieving overall 3rd place. Many Yale students were involved in Where to get Careers Information this fantastic event. Saskia Whyman (Year 11) picked up two silver Year 11 Danielle Hicks medals for her part in a novice mixed trio performance and a novice STUDENT/S OF THE WEEK mixed 8 piece group performance. Hope Sankey (Year 8) was highly  The career noticeboards – outside the student welfare office complimented for her role in both a regional pair and advanced 8 piece group performance. Mya Kwong (Year 8) and Anya Singh Week 1 Anya Singh  The school website (Year 7,) were also highly complimented for their performances in Week 2 Josh Okines  Career leaflets & prospectuses available outside the welfare office the advanced 8 piece group. Millie-Rose Leverington (Year 8 ) was Week 3 George Brown complimented for her performance in a novice pairs piece. Week 4 Bradley Yates The Academy took part in the district cross country championships Week 5 Saskia Whyman at Battle Abbey on Friday 24th November. We took 24 of our best Week 6 Harry Masters Careers Advice – Wednesday Lunch Time Drop-In athletes from each year group to compete against the strong 9 schools in our district. A special mention must go to Hope Sankey who won the year 8 girls race by over two minutes. Top Ten Students – Carrots Points  If you have any questions or queries about careers, college options, apprenticeships etc… you can drop in to see the careers adviser at the Two Yale students; Tom Swattonand Bruce Praill were part of the Name Form Total successful under 16 table tennis team who came second in the Bradley Yates Y4 290 student help desk on a Wednesday lunchtime. county championship. Leandri Oosthuizen Y7 260  If you have a specific question you can email [email protected] Cody Gilbert Y9 250 House Achievements Mrs Kempson’s form group, Y2 received a certificate of food Steven Pake Y1 195 donation from the Bexhill food bank, for donating 12.1kg of Joseph Gough Y8 145 food that will be used to help people in crisis in the Bexhill Mikey Fisher Y7 140 Useful Websites area. Saskia Whyman Y7 130 Ajay Willard-Smith Y9 130 Massive congratulations to Connor Willard (Year 10) who  www.sacu-student.com The Spartan Test has been working tirelessly in the local community for Tommy-Lee Lands Y9 125  www.icould.com Buzz Quiz & Career Research the development of the Bexhill and Rother Town Council. Ellie Coster Y6 125  www.nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk Job Profiles Connor has also been successful in being appointed as a member of the Bexhill and Hastings Youth Cabinet. In order Form Attendance  www.ucasprogress.com Search local providers & college applications to achieve this, Connor had to undergo an application Y1 93.9% Y6 94.0% process which included a written application and attending Y2 94.7% Y7 91.3% a training day. We are delighted to support Connor through Y3 88.1% Y8 92.6% this; he will start his term in January 2018. Y4 97.9% Y9 93.0% Career Guidance - Appointments to see our Careers Adviser It has been a difficult start to the school year for Yale, in Y5 93.0% terms of the house cup and we are below the high level we have set in previous years. However, this term we have deserved points in the House Cup competition,  During Year 11 (and the summer term in Year 10) you can have a 1:1 had much improved performances in both the Maths and onwards and upwards. career discussion with our careers adviser. Appointments last for 30 English challenge, which will help us rise up the overall minutes and can be used to discuss anything relating to your future standings. The much anticipated inter house football and Merry Christmas and happy New Year netball competitions that take place on Monday 18th of from everyone in the Yale team. education and career choices email: [email protected] December will give us an opportunity to score some well Bexhill Beacon 20 21 Bexhill Beacon Our child did not find the weekly drop-in sessions for We offer comprehensive work experience very useful. any student wanting advice information about post-16 Because of their age what or guidance. Our careers education and training options they can actually do is very adviser is happy to meet with which includes taster days in limited and often the feedback students and parents. Year 10, Parents’ Information Information about what we had was that it was pretty Evenings in Year 10 and The questionnaire was GCSE’s needed for courses at boring. Does the school offer formal Year 11, support with UCAS ollowing a visit from our anonymous so responses to college, what apprenticeship guidance to students in the Progress (used for college Fassessor on 1st December questions raised follow: are available etc should be Overall feedback from wide variety of career options applications), assemblies, we are delighted to announce discussed more with yr9. If work experience was really available? If so, how does the publicising open evenings and that we have retained the I had assumed that as my a child knows what job they positive. We have at least four school offer formal guidance open events, apprenticeship Quality in Careers Standard Children are in year 7 and 8, want to do they need actual students who secured part to students in the wide variety talks and information and our award (formally Investor in looking at Careers advice is information on how to get time jobs with the employers of career options available? Year 11 Careers Fair. In Year 11 Careers). to early. I had presumed this there. they completed their work students receive the ‘What’s didn’t come into play until placement with. Year 10 work We run a number of sessions next?’ booklet which contains “The Quality in Careers year 10. Before choosing their experience is optional, in the through timetabled provision information about post-16 Standard is the national options, there is an Options first year we had 49 students where the learning outcome options. quality award for careers Bexhill Academy has careers Evening for both Year 8 and taking part, this year we have focuses on making students education, information, provision in place for all year Year 9 which provides the 105 registered to take part. aware, and encouraging them We run a number of trips to advice and guidance (CEIAG) groups. It is really important opportunity for parents and to explore, the wide range universities (from Year 8) and in schools, colleges and that young people have the students to find out about of career options available. offer a ‘Why go to university?’ work-based learning. opportunity to find out about the subjects on offer. Careers I would like to see more actual These include sessions about talk in Year 11. We work with the wide range of careers Advice is available at these careers advice, exploring ‘Jobs of the Future’ and the outreach team (formerly To gain the national Quality that are open to them, but evenings where you can the student’s interests and ‘Using the internet to explore widening participation) from in Careers Standard, schools, equally they need to develop discuss how subject choice abilities and discussing what your career ideas’. We look the University of Brighton and colleges and work-based an awareness of the skills and might affect future career actual careers they would at labour market information they have a presence at some learning organisations must qualities they are developing ideas. Last year, colleges like to follow rather than just (LMI) which helps students to parent information evenings provide sufficient current and how they might transfer were invited to attend the the next step in education. understand the competitive and our careers fair. As part of evidence to demonstrate to the work place. Whilst Year 9 options evening, and With parents involved in an nature of some industries our new NCOP project we will that they meet all the careers advice is targeted at following feedback we will appointment. and also recognise that be carrying out research into national quality assessment Year 10 and Year 11, careers be inviting local colleges there are skills gaps where the barriers that prevent able and accreditation criteria education and information is to attend both evenings Students are provided with some industries struggle to students from progressing in their overall CEIAG an important part of provision (subject to them having staff opportunities to explore recruit. We offer a number into higher education. We provision.” for all year groups. available to attend). In Year their own interests, skills and of trips and visits and offer have run trips to both Oxford 8 and Year 9 students have a career ideas during career opportunities for students to and Cambridge universities. As part of the reassessment We have done our own drop down day of activities education lessons in Year 7 engage with visitors from a process we conducted a research but it would have that are designed to help and Year 8 as well as drop range of careers through our What advice is given on going parent & carer questionnaire been nice to have had some students make informed down day sessions from Year speed networking event in for access to Oxbridge and about careers education, information from the college subject choices. This 8 – Year 11. Self-awareness Year 10 and our careers fair foreign Universities (USA, information, advice and on how important GCSE includes taster sessions for is a key learning outcome in Year 11. France, Germany....)? guidance (CEIAG) at Bexhill choices are for future study subjects on offer as well as for careers provision which Academy. We received 54 and careers; this would be sessions looking at qualities, includes supporting students What advice is given on We will support any student responses so thank you very useful to know before skills and exploring different to understand their strengths, access to further education with high aspirations and to everyone who took the they make their GCSE choices. employment ideas. Student interests and career ideas. (6th form and subsequently relevant information is made time to complete the online We were not given any of this feedback for these days is We have careers information University)? available to anyone asking questionnaire. information from the school. very positive. available in school and for support and guidance. Bexhill Beacon 22 23 Bexhill Beacon We support applications for school we aim to give students increasing rates of progression scholarships to independent the confidence and skills to into higher education. Year 9 schools and invite those know how to research career schools to attend Year 11 ideas and make appropriate All of our provision is mapped Experiences of Workplaces parent information evenings. and aspirational choices about against the Career Development This is the second year that East Sussex County Council have organised their Open Doors Project, which encourages local We are affiliated to the their future career path. Institute (CDI) Framework and businesses to open their doors to small groups of students. It offers students a fascinating insight into the world or work and this year we took three groups of Year 9 students to visit three very different types of business. Arkwright Scholarship Trust and the Gatsby Benchmarks which encourage students interested If a child has anxiety and on the are seen as the world standard All of the visits were really interesting and student feedback was very positive. Thank you to all of the businesses who opened their doors as part of this project. in studying medicine to apply to spectrum what guidance do for careers provision. BrightMed which is run by the they get provided with please Brighton and Sussex Medical as they may not use the group BarkWeb is a creative website design, web development and digital However much provision we marketing agency based in Eastbourne. Established in 1999, they School. There is information adventures. have in place, statistically have over 100 clients across a wide range of industries in the UK. about the Sutton Trust on our parents & carers remain aspirations noticeboard (and All students are included in the biggest influence on Students got to see the different job roles that are in our how to research your careers provision and are able the career decisions that needed to design, create and career ideas booklet). With to access 1:1 support. When young people make. In the promote a website. the Fulbright Commission they appropriate, career discussions AllAboutSchoolLeavers.co.uk Julian talked to the students about the very varied offer a fully funded trip to high take place with the career survey, 55.7% of students said pathway that led him to set achieving state school students adviser and a member of staff that their parents/carers were up a web design company and interested in looking at higher in the Aspie unit. Small group the biggest influence with explained what he, as an employer, was looking for from students looking for work experience education in the US. visits to local colleges are teachers at 16.3% and careers or job applicants. organised by the Aspie staff advisers only 8.5%.

How does the school try to and there is transition support Drallim are an Engineering Equipment Manufacturer serving a wide variety educate students on the vast available to support a smooth Supporting students to of high integrity markets across the Aerospace, Industrial and Utilities career choice available and transition to college. become work ready and career markets. They produce a very wide variety of mechanical, electrical and electronic tying in a child’s abilities (and savvy has to be a partnership equipment often designed for individual applications. This can range from possible aspirations) with We are very proud of the between school and home. It purely mechanical products such as cargo hooks for helicopters, through to selecting an educational path careers provision that we have is really important that we all sophisticated electronic monitoring systems for utilities. and consequently a potential in place at Bexhill Academy share high expectations and career path? which was recognised by the high aspirations, and encourage The Keep is a world-class centre for archives where you can explore 900 Ofsted Inspectors and Assessor all young people to actively years of history through the collections of the East Sussex Record Office The planned outcome of all for the Quality in Careers (ESRO), the Royal Pavilion & Museums and the University of Sussex Special engage in thinking about their Collections. Records include original diaries, maps, personal letters, school of our CEAIG provision is that Standard as being of a very future and the potential that archives, oral history, postcards, newspapers, photographs and more. students are engaged with high standard. We evaluate, they have. thinking about their future, develop and extend our actively exploring the options provision continually and have There is a careers section available to them, are self- some exciting new projects on the school website that Looking at old maps showing aware and are able to make that we will be working on contains further information the area surrounding informed and positive choices this year including developing about our careers provision Bexhill Academy. about their post-16 pathway. It our alumni with Future First and links to resources. If you is unrealistic to expect all young (please sign up if you are an have any questions relating people to have a specific career ex-student www.futurefirst. to careers provision please This is the oldest exhibit held at the archive which in mind and natural that as they co.uk), and our project with email came from Battle Abbey. explore different ideas they the National Collaborative Cheryl.Smith@ may change direction, but as a Outreach Programme on bexhillacademy.org