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Newsletter December 2017 Newsletter December 2017 GOLDINGTON ACADEMY IS THE PLACE TO BE! New email address: [email protected] Engaging minds. Nurturing success. Inspiring futures. PRINCIPAL’S INTRODUCTION Once again it has been an incredible term, and this newsletter provides only the highlights! It gives me great pleasure to see how the young people of Goldington Academy embrace the opportunities that their teachers provide for them at school. As Christmas approaches, I have been particularly pleased to see us doing more work in the community. Last week, our choir sang at The Mallards and Kimbolton Lodge, and our community ambassadors led a Christmas craft activity with the residents, who loved the activity, as did our children who learned from Gwen (103 years old) what teaching was like ‘in the good old days’. Our community work is just one example of new initiatives here at school. We are constantly looking to provide a rich, exciting and stimulating extra-curricular provision that can bring out the individual talents of each child. Some examples of that curriculum include: Robotics and STEM; Parkour; Gardening Club and, of course, the myriad of sports clubs and competitions that take place. Our sporting success continues as the Year Five and Six girls’ football team became District Champions and both the girls’ and boys’ Year Seven and Eight teams were crowned District Sportshall Champions last week. In addition, our Arts Department have had a busy term. I particularly enjoyed our Act!17 performance of ‘Pandora’s Box’ at Bedford Modern School’s ‘Greek Myths’ collaboration. Call me biased, but I personally felt our performance was the best! Well done to Mr Stratton and all the young actors who were involved. I would particularly like to thank Miss Thompson who, along with two of our Year Nine students, represented Goldington Academy on a residential trip to Belgium at the WW1 Battlefields in November - a trip which both girls thoroughly enjoyed. If your child would like to start something new in January, they might consider cribbage, creative writing or even Mandarin! I am delighted to inform you that Mrs Jackson will be returning as Head of maths following her maternity leave. In addition, the maths department will be bolstered by the recruitment of two additional teachers: Miss Goulty, who is a specialist maths teacher, and Mr Hall, who is an experienced teacher of maths, PE and geography. Two members of teaching staff are leaving at the end of this term and I would like to put on record my thanks to them both. Firstly, Mr Fehrenbach leaves us as Head of Humanities to move to a school closer to his home in Peterborough. Secondly, Mrs Bestwick leaves us from the science department. Both have done excellent work at Goldington and will be greatly missed. Also leaving us is Mrs Wilson, who has provided much help and support for our young people as LSA and EAL Co-ordinator. She leaves a big hole for us to fill. I would like to finish by acknowledging the very sad news that Jacquie Moore, a much-loved teaching assistant (2011-2017) passed away in September. Jacquie provided an incredible level of support to some of our most vulnerable pupils and her brave fight against cancer was both humbling and inspiring. She is much missed at Goldington. All that remains is for me to draw your attention to the ROSPA top tips for Christmas safety on page 20 and to wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas period. We look forward to seeing your child return on Wednesday 3 January. 2 Newsletter December 2017 RAF On Monday 6 November, all of our Year Nines had the privilege of participating in the RAF 100 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) day. It was a fun- filled day of hands on, STEM based activities linked to situations engineers of the RAF may be required to complete. The day kick started with the ‘Chain Home’ activity where the teams had to construct a ‘radar tower’ with only paper straws and limited masking tape that was to hold as much mass as possible. Teams had to utilise their maths and science knowledge to consider the strength of a variety of shapes and had to cooperate to make the most of their limited time. The next activity required the application of the students’ physics knowledge as they had to design, build and test an ‘aircraft’ that was powered using elastic potential energy. After a presentation about the huge range of engineering roles in the RAF and the importance of studying STEM subjects at GCSE and beyond, students started their final task. This required programming a small robot which had to successfully navigate a ‘disaster zone’ course to reach survivors. This task required excellent team work, accuracy, planning and plenty of persistence for students to work out how to navigate the robot through the course. The students worked exceptionally well and did themselves proud in what they produced. The day was a huge success and the students walked away able to see the applications of STEM subjects in real world contexts and, we hope, inspired to become the engineers of the future. 3 Engaging minds. Nurturing success. Inspiring futures. ARTS MUSIC Throughout December, our Advanced Choir and Handbells group have been out and about in the community performing our Christmas repertoire. Both groups have worked hard to learn a variety of Christmas items to sing and play for performances at The Christmas Tree Festival at St Paul’s Church and two residential homes. The Christmas Tree Festival is an annual event held at St Paul’s and was opened this year by the children’s author Julia Jarman. Our performance slot was immediately after the grand opening which was very exciting. Our groups performed brilliantly; in fact, so well that we were asked to perform again for BBC Three Counties Radio to record. It was a wonderful way to start off our festive period. The residents at Kimbolton Lodge and The Mallards were delighted to hear our pupils sing and play and really appreciated the effort the children went to to help them celebrate Christmas. It was such a joy to see how much pleasure it gave them watching our brilliant young musicians perform. Upcoming events next half term: Wednesday 10 January is our Informal Concert and Battle of the Bands is on Thursday 1 February. Please also note the Summer Concert will now take place on Friday 6 July, not Thursday 5 July. DANCE This term, dance clubs have been led by Mrs Mahoney and Mrs Trewby. Mrs Mahoney has also been leading Goldington Academy’s Dance Company which aims to provide opportunities for our most talented dancers. They are currently working to produce some very technical and beautiful lyrical dance pieces for next term’s Gym and Dance Show. 4 Newsletter December 2017 ARTS DRAMA — ACT! On Monday 20 November 2017, 12 pupils performed in ACT!’17 ‘Greek Myths’, a free drama festival hosted by Bedford Modern School, where teachers and students from Bedfordshire’s schools are invited to collaborate on the creation of a piece of theatre. The pupils were joined by students from Bedford Academy, Stratton Upper School and Bedford Modern School (BMS). The night was a huge success for all involved and Goldington pupils received some glowing feedback from visiting practitioner Nigel Munson (6Foot Stories), parents and peers. ACT!’, which Goldington has been a part of for the past two years, is a fantastic example of schools working together to celebrate achievement through the Arts. Drama Club On Friday 8 December 2017 we held an informal performance. The event was a medley of Christmas themed drama pieces directed by Mrs Wildman. Pupils from across all year groups welcomed parents and friends to celebrate the end of term and the start of Christmas. Ambassadors The drama ambassadors have been busy running and planning some fundraising activities in order to raise funds toward the end of year show! Well done ambassadors! 5 Engaging minds. Nurturing success. Inspiring futures. ARTS ART Year Six Printmaking Year Six students have been getting messy in the art department in order to produce expressive prints! They have designed and produced their own stencils before applying them to their backgrounds. I have been really impressed by the quality of the work produced. Let’s take a look ... Photography and Printmaking – Personalised Learning Programme (PLP) Year Eight students have made a wonderful start to their photography and printmaking PLP course. They have been learning about how to use the camera in order to produce successful compositions based on the theme of natural forms. Students have produced excellent compositions which will now inspire their etching, lino-cuts and mono-prints. Here’s a sample of their work… Miss Morgan 6 Newsletter December 2017 ARTS ART Our wonderful team of art students and art ambassadors have been working hard for the past few weeks in order to produce Christmas tree decorations which are adorning our tree at St Paul’s Church. This year’s theme for the festival was children’s stories; our chosen theme being ‘The Wind in the Willows’. Students have been producing watercolour paintings, tree bark illustrations, glittery pine cones and many more woodland themed ornaments. The work produced is outstanding and all involved should be very proud. A huge thanks to the four pupils and our Art Technician Ms Stewart for all their hard work! ART Local artist Amanda Silk recently visited to share her expertise in ceramics. She worked with a small group of students and introduced them to ceramic and glazing techniques.
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