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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 A students 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 .