MESSAGE from the HEADTEACHER This Half Term We Have Welcomed Several About What They Want to Do Next Year Process

Newsletter 09 February 2018 MESSAGE FROM THE HEADTEACHER This half term we have welcomed several about what they want to do next year process. Students will be given support, new members of teaching staff to Ernulf and what they need to do. It has also guidance, information and time to ensure Academy; Ms Karpathiou, Mrs Alford, been very encouraging to hear how that they make appropriate choices. Mr Howell, Mrs Haigh-Smith and Mr hard many of the students have been Year 10 students have now started the Schleising. Additionally, four new working both in school and at home in process leading up to work experience Teaching Assistants joined the team; Mrs preparation for the examinations in the in the summer term. All Year 10 students Ali, Mrs Buckham, Mrs Wells-Haggis and summer. Next half term there will be will have a two week placement and it Miss Patterson. Finally, two new interviews for those who have applied was very encouraging to see so many Administration Assistants joined the to the sixth form. students attend the Information Evening School Office; Mrs Jackson and Mrs We received the excellent news that the with their parents and carers. Reyaz. Edexcel Awarding Body has recognised Finally, our best wishes go to the students We wish Mrs Howell well who has left us the school as a “centre of high integrity” in Year 10 and Year 11 and staff who after 19 years and wish her well for the in Business Studies BTEC. This is something will be visiting Kracow in the half term future. She has supported many students which only happens very rarely across holiday. I know that they will have an during her time with the learning support the UK and is a comment on the high incredible department and will be missed. level of consistency and accuracy of assignment marking over a substantial experience. Year 11 Destination Interviews have period of time. Our congratulations go now been completed. All students had an to Mr Cook, who leads Business Studies. interview to ensure that they have plans Ms Tracy Brogan in place for post-16 and to determine Year 9 students have started the process Headteacher their next steps. Staff involved have of choosing their Options. Students and been very impressed with the thoughtful their parents attended an Options approach students have taken towards Evening on 01 February to find out more this. The majority have had clear ideas about the courses on offer and the GETTING TO KNOW YOU Deputy Head Boy : Deputy Head Girl: Hello, my name is Ethan Sydes, and I I am Roya and I am a very keen am proud to have been picked for student and enjoy my subjects, one of the role of Deputy Head boy. Under the main subjects I am passionate this role, I have helped out back about is Music. Currently we are stage at parental consultation focussing on making our own concert evenings and I have helped make as part of our scheme of work, I very improvements around the school with much enjoy the performance part to the Ernulf Academy Student Council. Music. I was lucky enough to perform Next year I plan to go to St. Neots at the end of year Awards Assembly. Sixth Form College to do A-levels. I am also very engaged in drama and Whilst at Ernulf I have enjoyed partook in the schools production of completing my Duke of Edinburgh Hairspray. It was a great experience Bronze award, and I have almost completed my Silver award. and I gained new friendships. As a prefect, I get many When outside of school I like to play tennis. privileges to participate in school yearbook teams. I am in charge of design which I enjoy. I am also involved with school charity work and Student Voice at Ernulf which makes you feel great as you feel part of the school. Barford Road St Neots Cambridgeshire PE19 2SH Email: [email protected] Web: www.ernulf.cambs.sch.uk Tel: 01480 374748 TOILET TWINNING FUNDRAISING In the lead up to Christmas Mrs Thatcher launched a Charity huge sum of money. Barney raised money at his rugby club. event to Twin our Toilets! Mason, Ben, Ben and Sekinat ran a bake sale and raised a significant amount for 10BC and there were other individuals 1 in 3 people across the world don’t have somewhere safe to who also donated significant amounts of money to support this go to the toilet and bad sanitation is one of the world’s event. biggest killers! The worst affected are women, children, old and sick people and sadly, every minute, a child under the The total raised was £1080, which was a fantastic result and age of five dies because of dirty water and poor sanitation. means that we have been able to twin 14 toilets and a school Around half the people in the world have an illness caused by block. This will help lots of people make positive changes in bad sanitation! Toilet Twinning (through Tearfund) works with their lives. Well done to all involved. communities in some of the poorest and most affected areas to provide education and support, with the end result being the community building a toilet together. For more information go to: https://www.toilettwinning.org/ Tutor groups were in competition to raise as much as they could. There were some wonderful events organised, for example bake sales, sponsored silences and pie the teacher (well done to Mr Day for having a face everyone wanted to splat!), but the winning tutor group were 8PU, whose fantastic fundraising saw them raise enough to twin two toilets by themselves! There were some wonderful individual fundraisers, for example Callum and Kenzie who everyone was happy to pay to keep quiet, as well as Peggy who also silently raised a CAMPS INTERNATIONAL Ernulf Academy has partnered with Camps International, once again, to offer students in Years 10 and 11 the opportunity to SEVERE WEATHER WARNING go on a life-changing 4-week expedition to Costa Rica and Nicaragua during the summer of 2019. This expedition will With the cold weather upon us there may be the possibility allow students to live alongside rural communities and work on of school closure. The School will only close in exceptional projects helping build communities, or combating circumstances and the decision will be made before the start deforestation. Students will also undertake an adventure element, and this year we have chosen a PADI Open Water of the school day. Scuba Diving course. We will post notifications on the school website, on our Students have started organising events to raise funds for this Facebook page. The Local Authority will also publish upcoming expedition. Here is a plea from one of our students: academies closures information on its website [email protected] and Hello my name is Tom Wilkinson. I am writing this as I am finally, the following local radio stations will be notified: planning to do a sponsored 165 mile bike ride with two BBC Radio Cambridgeshire friends over the course of a weekend on 03 and 04 March 2018. We are doing this to raise money towards an Heart Radio 103 and 102.7 expedition to Costa Rica and Nicaragua. This is a once in a Star 107 FM Radio. lifetime opportunity for me and while I am out there I shall be helping out with building foundations for schools and helping out with local wildlife preservation. However, this trip comes at a cost of £4080 and the only way I can source this is through fundraising and sponsors etc this is all part of the project and the experience. If anyone would be willing to sponsor me please contact the school office at [email protected], it would be greatly appreciated and would help a lot with my ambitions. SPOTLIGHT ON... ENGLISH On Friday 02 February SAFARI STU some Year 7 & 8 students and I went to Potton Middle On Wednesday 07 February SEN and Cabin students were School to meet a poet visited by 'Safari Stu' a local Animal Ranger. This called Neal Zetter. While educational visit was designed to provide a 'hands on' close we were there, Neal asked encounter experience with variety of animals including reptiles, invertebrates and mammals. us to create a superhero of our own so we could write a poem about it later. Meanwhile, we were put into pairs and between our pairs we had to think of 100 adjectives to describe a book. They could be about the story, the appearance of the book or the feel of the book. The majority of the class managed to achieve 100 words in the time. After break, we had to write a ‘Kenning Poem’ about our superheroes that we had created earlier. Mine was about a mind reader called ‘Mind Intruder’. Later on, we were put into groups of 4. In our groups we were all given a different subject, some of the subjects were animals or food. Our group’s subject was on the colour blue. We were given half an hour to write the poem and ten minutes to practice and create some actions for the poem. After everyone had finished their poems, we had to perform them. One of my favourites was a poem by a different group and was called ‘Mud or Poo’. I liked it because the actions were interesting and related to the poem, it was funny and made the class laugh. I enjoyed meeting Neal Zetter and meeting the other pupils from the different schools.

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