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Bexhillbeacon TERM 4 2018 Bexhill The magazine keeping students, staff, parents and carers, and the widerBeacon community updated on events at Bexhill Academy. Jacob Betts: Former Student and Head Boy. Reflecting on his time at Bexhill Academy, and achieving his dream of going to..... Pages 4 and 5 Cricket and Rugby.... Philosophy for More Sporting Success Children Student Art 1066 Book Awards Careers Update A Day at the BBC HOUSE Reports Bexhill Beacon 2 3 Bexhill Beacon WAS IT REAL OR WAS IT FAKE? On Wednesday 14 March 2018, four very excitable Year 7 pupils attended the 1066 Book Awards at Ark Helenswood Academy in Hastings. Now to the main purpose of the visit: the workshop. Firstly they were welcomed by the Director General of the BBC, Tony Hall, who said how much they ‘enjoy opening their doors to the journalists of the future’ on School Report Day. There then followed a 45 minute t was real! Bexhill Academy’s News Team workshop which involved was invited by the BBC to attend a workshop I the students in thinking about a news story and on being able to identify fake news from the tracing back through sources to try to identify ‘real real thing: a very important skill in our media from fake’. It was quite an eye opener! uring the evening they saturated world today! Dhad the opportunity to Lastly, the team were able to try a brand new meet an established author interactive online game launched by the BBC that and 2009 Book Award winner, The group took the train to London and stopped off day, ‘BBC ireporter’. They were some of the first Kate O’Hearn, who hosted at the British Film Institute first for a stroll around people ever to play the game, the point of which the events. Our pupils were the library and gift shop there, before walking across is to make the players trace the sources of a news recognised for their reading Waterloo Bridge towards Covent Garden. story to identify its authenticity. This is actually a talents and participated game which teaches them something useful. by reading excerpts of the On the bridge, they encountered a protest by finalist novels in the award university lectures who were striking, not over to the awaiting audience and money but on a matter of principle, about their were rewarded with £5 prize students being viewed as ‘customers’ not students. book tokens! The ever ready team took the opportunity of interviewing them on camera and asked intelligent, Accompanying the pupils thoughtful questions without having the time to were, English Teacher prepare. Miss Skidmore and Bexhill Academy’s Librarian, Mrs From there, they moved on to BBC Centre in Great Josephine Stanley who were Portland Street. After airport style security checks, very proud of the pupils the news team moved into an area that is familiar Our aspiring future journalists enjoyed a great day performances on the night. to anyone who watches the news on the BBC: the out that provided them with real skills plus a great BBC News room. They were able to observe the experience. A very well done to all. Look out for the film footage on the website soon! enormous news gathering team at work and to see where the News Show is filmed. Bexhill Beacon 4 5 Bexhill Beacon Bexhill Academy Student Gains a Place at It has been so difficult not to mention every teacher in one capacity or another, but it would be remiss of me not St Hilda’s College, University Of Oxford to mention the PE department who as a whole at one time or another constantly encouraged and cajoled me to achieve the best. Jacob Betts, a former student and Head Boy, reflects on his time at Bexhill Academy and how the school helped him I currently attend Bexhill 6th Form College, where I am taking A-Levels in Biology, Chemistry and Maths. Recently I’ve achieve his dream of going to Oxford University. invited back to receive an award for my achievements whilst at Bexhill Academy. This award has added enormously to my motivation. In fact during my entire time at the school, the staff always made a big deal of recognising the Dear Ms Brown, attainments of students from all different levels of academic and vocational abilities and this really made every student feel valued. Furthermore after leaving, I have continued to receive support from staff members, specifically Thank you for the invitation for me to share with you my education experiences to date, particularly my time at Dr Hutchinson. Whilst applying for university, he played a fundamental part in helping me write my personal Bexhill Academy. statement and I have since gone on to receive an offer from Oxford University to read Biomedical Sciences. During the early years at Bexhill Academy it was like nothing I had come across before. I had jumped from small I shall never forget my time at Bexhill Academy and although we were in Special Measures at the start and it was intimate classes of thirty at my primary school to huge classes of ninety children and three members of staff. For me tough, with the school’s constant support, advice encouragement and solid teaching I have managed to so far this was quite bewildering as it was such an alien environment to be learning in, and all of my friends from primary achieve a place at St Hilda’s College, Oxford University, and I shall for ever be grateful to you and your staff team for school had been split into different classes. However, I found it easy to make friends and although this was a different helping me on my way! layout to the one I was used to, my teachers at the time were excellent in helping the transition from primary to secondary school. Jacob Betts At the school I had a wide range of opportunities within lessons where I was challenged and pushed and then pushed a bit more! Two of the most notable and demanding experiences both personally and educationally were being able Philosophy for Children are well on the way to being resilient individuals who to apply for the position of Head Boy and our trip to Malaysia. As you will recall, the application process for Head Boy will be able to make a significant contribution to required me to carry out a campaign and deliver presentations to the whole school, as well as prospective year seven society. They are able to form their own opinions and students. Whilst this process was well out of my comfort zone I was encouraged by teachers and others including my discuss them fairly with others who hold a different n January two English classes (10Y1 and 7Y4) took parents and my step into this arena resulted in a fantastic experience as I gained more confidence for public speaking perspective. What better skill to come out of school part in a Philosophy for Children lesson with an and a host of other skills at the same time. Again you will recall my interview with members of the leadership team, with. outside visitor; Sue Beaney. Sue, a psychotherapist this was also invaluable as I had never interviewed before and this experience has gone on to help me in subsequent and local politician, came to the school to see how interviews I have had, in particular and most recently the four board interviews I had with the professors at Oxford! The The younger group really surprised me with their the English department are using philosophical trip to Malaysia was my most special experience whilst at the school. A group of nine of us went with an organisation maturity and ability to engage with the openness questionsI and enquiries to develop pupils’ critical called World Challenge and part of our trip involved working at an orphanage. This developed my communication of the debate. The process enables this with its clear thinking skills. Both classes were exemplary and skills and really made us all appreciate what we have. The teachers that came with us were Mr Steward and Miss instructions and fair methods. No one is shamed for were discussing very deep, thoughtful topics such O’Callaghan, they were great and we all had a very enjoyable time together. not contributing or for saying something a little off as violence, war and freedom of choice. the wall.” Throughout my entire time at Bexhill Academy I received continual support from all members of staff in my GCSE Philosophy for Children is a lesson in which subject areas. This, along with encouragement from my parents, enabled me to have a wonderful time at the school students are invited to discuss topics and challenge and achieve great things. In particular, Dr Hutchinson my English teacher was vital to my success. English had always each other’s viewpoints and perspectives. It A big thank you goes out to the students of 10Y/ been a subject that I had struggled with and I found it hard to get to grips with different techniques used by authors/ involves group discussion, time for reflection, En1 and 7Y/En4 for their engagement, their poets and the effect they had on the reader. Dr Hutchinson made concepts such as these easy to understand and asking questions, and sharing a final viewpoint. It contribution and their maturity. They were so he was very engaging with all members of the class. My science teachers including Mr Guest and Mr Gordon were challenges the students to think critically, argue and impressive, that Sue Beaney left the school feeling also fantastic.
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