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 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 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 ! 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 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. Also, I loved creating and performing the poems. I learnt lots of new things including the ‘Kenning Poem’ which I had never heard MUSIC DEPARTMENT of before. The Music Department is By Rosa Lomas. delighted to welcome Agust Mind Intruder Sweinssohn, drum tutor to Mind Intruder Ernulf. Tobey Dore, Mickey Macey, Declan Walton and Mind Reader Archie Palmer enjoyed their Thought Creeper first drum lesson this week and Feeling Creeper learned technique, a basic Dream Believer three part rhythm and a fill. Well done lads! Villain Destroyer

City Saver Well done to Year 7 students Crime Fighter who completed their Make A Justice Creator Set of Panpipes Home Cape wearer Learning Task. Some Roof Jumper excellent fully working panpipes were produced Water Walker showing the use of recycling, Baddie Defeater and how to produce different Trouble Vanquisher pitch. The task ties in to the Crook Annihilator Unit of work that focuses on Latin American Music. Identity Keeper. POETRY LIVE On Thursday 08 February 35 Year 11 students attended this poems, but they performed them dramatically as well, we year’s Poetry Live event at Cambridge Corn Exchange. I had were all totally enthralled! the greatest pleasure to attend the event with the Year 11s. John Agard was the last poet, but certainly not the least to The Poets responded to student questions and discussed how perform for us. He had us all repeating the words of his poems connect to and influence other poems. The day was poems, we enjoyed every moment, he was an incredibly split into sessions. The first session looked at how students funny and entertaining individual! might deal with unseen poems in the exam, both how to think about them and how to write for the best possible results. The Ms D. O'Hara second session looked at comparing poems, whether they are studied poems or unseen, and how to write most effectively in either situation. The sessions have proved invaluable to students’ thinking in the past and are an outstandingly successful aspect of GCSE Poetry Live!. The students were an asset to the school! It was an absolutely wonderful experience. We sat at the front row within yards of poets such as Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage and John Agard. Not only did each poet read their FOCUS ON… LIBRARY A lot has been happening in the library this academic year. We have built up new collections of graphic and manga novels, which are proving very popular with many students. These can range from the well-known Marvel and DC series, to the BBC’s Doctor Who, animated Shakespeare, classics such as Dickens and Bronte to the harrowing ‘Complete Maus’, which tells the story of the Holocaust. When added to the more conventional fiction, which has also seen a boost of much-needed new stock, this means there have been over 400 new books added so far this school year, with another 250 ‘waiting in the wings’ to be added in the coming weeks and months.

If we don’t have a particular book that you would like to read, if you do exactly the same on the Longsands website, and the book you want is in stock at Longsands, I can lend the book between libraries for you to read. The second way to search the library stock is via an app, which is available for android and ios devices for free, called IMLS. This works in exactly the same way as the website catalogue, but is obviously more The graphic and manga novels can be borrowed one at a portable. Note that the first time you use it time for a period of one week. ‘Regular’ fiction and non- you will have to select the Ernulf library to fiction have loan periods of three weeks. make it relevant. You can search for Of course none of this is any use if you can’t find the books, particular authors or subjects, or simply see and this has also changed over the past few months, hopefully what has recently been returned to the to make life a little easier. library by others. If you ask me in the library, I can also set up your account so you There are two ways that you can find what we have in the can check what you have on loan and see library from anywhere. The first is by the academy website at ernulf.cambs.sch.uk Clicking on the information button at the when your books are due for return. top left of the page will open up a further page where you Do come in and see how the library has can see a link titled ‘library book search’. This will take you to changed, and browse through the stock – new the page on the right, which shows a constantly refreshing and old. Most importantly, if you borrow a page of top ten resources, recent returns, newly added stock, book and are not enjoying it, bring it back book of the week (computer generated), trending subjects and find another. Reading should be for and authors, and suggested reading with a short synopsis of pleasure. each book. Mr A Hynes Librarian YEAR 9 OPTIONS Over 160 students and parents joined This year we are offering our widest range of subjects. Ernulf staff for the Year 9 Options ever choice of qualifications including Good luck to Year 9 with their choices - Evening on Thursday 01 February. This several subjects that are new to Ernulf. remember the deadline is 07 March was an ideal chance for staff and So whether you are looking to study students to discuss the structure of the 2018. Music, Business, Sport, ICT or Catering courses on offer and so aid the decision there is a BTEC available for you. making process. Alternatively for those wanting to follow a more academic route Geography, French and History represent excellent possibilities. The Options Evening was just the first in a series of events designed to support students with their choices. After the half term all of Year 9 students will have an Options Guidance Talk with a senior member of staff, as well as the chance to try out some GCSE style lessons in a

SPORT RELIEF Ernulf Academy is again proud to support the Sport Relief year we are hoping to smash all previous records. Please 2018 fundraising campaign. The Sport Relief week is back by keep an eye on the PE department Twitter feed as more popular demand! details of this event, and the Staff v Student challenges, are released. To raise funds the PE department are organising Staff v Students sporting challenges from Monday 19th March through to Thursday 22nd March 2018 during lunchtimes in the lead up to the main event. Early whispers from the PE team suggest that the volleyball and netball matches are back on the agenda! More details of the challenges will be released in due course. On Friday 23 March 2018 is Sport Relief day. The good news is that the Ernulf Sport-a-thon is back!! In previous years this has been a highly successful fundraising event, and this

SPORTS LEADERS @ ERNULF

Ernulf Academy has set up a new sports leadership For more information on the sports leaders program, please programme for selected students in Year 9 and Year 10. contact Mr Bond. Through this programme the Sports leaders will be involved in As you can see from the picture, Tilly-May, Zoe, and Angel a number of PE based projects to develop their leadership started us off with a fantastic netball session! skills, including helping to run sports events and delivering PE sessions. The students will be awarded a Level 2 Sports Leadership qualification, upon successful completion of the programme. Our leaders have recently been designing and delivering high quality sport and Physical Education sessions to Year 5 students. This has been done working in partnership with Winhills Primary Academy, where our leaders are providing an hour of PE lessons per week over a 4-week cycle. The leaders have worked in small teams to design their lesson plans, and have delivered the sessions with great success. The feedback from Year 5 students has been extremely positive. It is going to be a busy time for these fantastic leaders! PE FIXTURES AND EVENTS UNDER-13 LEVEL 2 SCHOOL GAMES HANDBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018

On Thursday 25 January 2018 Ernulf line technology when you need it? beaten in the group stages. However, Academy entered an under-13 (Year 8) However, the ball did appear to cross this team had improved significantly as team into the 2018 School Games Level the line. With one minute to go the a result of their group games, so this 2 Handball championships. The scores were tied at 2-2. However, would be a tough encounter. tournament was hosted by disaster struck, Hinchingbrooke scored to The final never really went Ernulf’s way, Hinchingbrooke School, and the take the lead at 3-2. with some tough calls being made. The competition winners would qualify to The Ernulf players were disappointed, competition was fierce, and the boys represent Huntingdonshire schools in the but not down. A quick call to the battled well especially when reduced to next round of competition. timekeeper established 20 seconds 6 men. Following a ’crash’ course in the rules of remained. A chance for one final attack, The final score was a 4-1 loss, but the Handball, our intrepid squad of 9 took and BOOM! An equalising goal for boys should be extremely proud of their to the road full of confidence. How Ernulf meaning the final score was 3-3. performances. Handball is now the new would they get on? The goals were scored by Musgrove (1), favourite sport, and I look forward to and Arlow (2). A cracking game to start Upon arrival at the venue our squad seeing this team in action again at our the tournament. quickly undertook their warm-up, district tournament. including some time to practice the The next game was against the defensive and attacking formations we Hinchingbrooke B team. A slightly would play. lacklustre start from the Ernulf team, and within minutes a penalty was conceded. Barney Humphreys was given Fortunately, the penalty was missed but stewardship of the defence, with Ben this was a clear wake up call for our Musgrove and Frankie Arlow boys. spearheading the attack. We were ready to go! The Ernulf team began to pass the ball more clinically, and eventually the First up was the Hinchingbrooke A team. pressure told. Musgrove getting on the A slightly frantic opening minute as both Squad score sheet again, this time from a teams settled into their rhythm. The Ernulf penalty award. Arlow then scored to Freddie Jupp, Frankie Arlow, Ben team took a bit of getting used to their give the team some breathing space at Musgrove, Barney Humphreys, Danny defensive tactics, but soon settled. 2-0, and there were signs of Ben-nett, Dom Benevento, Finlay Sayer, Within two minutes Freddie Jupp showed improvement all around. Charlie Osborne, George Day. some real attacking promise, and his shot cannoned off the crossbar. The defensive troops led by Humphreys Promising! were now clear in the strategy, and Players-of-the-Tournament were putting in some great blocks to After four minutes, Jupp again drove at deny the Hinchingbrooke players. A final Tough call, but the awards go to: the defence and demonstrated a superb goal from Musgrove, from a lovely run and turn. The resulting shot just going Ben Musgrove (jump shot textbook jump shot, meant that the Ernulf narrowly wide of the target. extraordinaire!) team had won 3-0. More importantly, Barney Humphreys (the general at the The game continued to ebb and flow, they were in to the FINAL!! with goals being scored at both ends. back!) The final was to be against the Some controversy with one of the Hinchingbrooke team that they had Hinchingbrooke goals — where is goal

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HUNTS DISTRICT SCHOOLS GYMNASTICS CHAMPOINSHIP 2018 On Tuesday 30 January 2018 Ernulf first experience of competitive medal! Well done Lewis — a great Academy sent a squad to the Hunts gymnastics. To perform so well, under achievement. District Gymnastics Championships. fairly intense scrutiny and pressure from A huge congratulations to all of our The event was again hosted by the judges and spectators, is a real credit to competitors who did a truly fantastic job. Huntingdon Gymnastics Club, and was all that took part. I am delighted to I look forward to these students seamlessly organised by Miss Broughton report that we did bring back some continuing their gymnastics in the future. medals!! from Longsands. Thankyou to Miss Moniz and Miss The 2018 competition saw a record Jessica Childerley (Year 7) performed Webber for putting in the extra hours of level of entries from the schools in amazingly in the very competitive KS3 floor practice in the lead up to the attendance, a great sign of gymnastics Advanced category. There was some competition!! seriously tough competition, but Jessica flourishing in the district. The Ernulf team Squad had worked hard in preparation for the finished in a fantastic 2nd place to take event, and the squad were excited as silver. What's more, she only missed out Lilly Bailey, Henna Begum, Lewis Webb, we arrived at the venue. on first place by a score of 0.1— A Finley Sayer, Jessica Childerley, Skye brilliant performance. Pim, Lucy Freeman, Olivia Potter, Hollie The competition was split into KS3 and Evans. KS4. All gymnasts were entered into In the KS3 boys Novice category, Finley novice, intermediate, or advanced Sayer also took silver medal for Ernulf! categories depending on their level of This was a great performance, and experience. again Finley missed out on top spot by just 0.1. They all had to complete a floor routine, and a set vault. The exact routine and Finley was only beaten by his Ernulf vault depended on the age group and colleague, Lewis Webb! Therefore, experience level of the performer. Lewis is district champion for this category, proudly taking the gold For many in the Ernulf team, this was a

YEAR 8 BASKETBALL On Wednesday 31 January 2018 Ernulf The A team took to the court full of Squad Academy sent two teams to the Year 8 confidence. The ‘coaches player of the B Team Girls District Basketball tournament. The tournament’ award went to Lilly Bailey. Henna Begum, Emily Matzk, Meadow girls have been working hard in their PE She could not stop scoring! In fact, she Doherty, Rosa Lomas, Lauren Clark, lessons, and have really enjoyed even scored for the opposition in the 3rd Olivia Peckham basketball. game!!

With their skills improved, Miss Webber Other performances of note included A Team and Miss Moniz were hopeful of some Sophie Caunt, who caught the eye with good performances in this tournament. some excellent dribbling skills and Lilly Baily, Sophie Caunt, Libby Nash, crucial passing to create scoring Ellie Hicks, Ella Rowland, Lottie Fuller They put in some fantastic performances opportunities for her team mates. Ellie throughout the tournament. Hicks also played brilliantly in defence, The B team put in some strong regularly managing to wrestle the ball performances, although they suffered from the opposition to gain possession some unlucky defeats. Emily Matzk was and set up more attacking opportunities. awarded the ’coaches player of the As a result of all of this excellent play, tournament’ award for this team, as a the Year 8 A team were crowned result of her excellent defending and WINNERS of the tournament!! They are, quick breaks up the court when the team therefore, district champions 2018!! This managed to regain possession. The B is a fantastic achievement, and huge team finished a very creditable 6th congratulations to all the players and position out of the 8 teams taking part— both Miss Webber and Miss Moniz. a good result, well done! PE FIXTURES AND EVENTS

LORD TAVERNER’S TABLE CRICKET

SEN students have been enjoying an The students have grown in confidence only represent Ernulf Academy but also exciting new PE activity thanks to the and shown that they have understood Huntingdon District. dedication of our Disabilities PE the concept and demonstrated skills and With Dave’s help Ms Hall is hoping to Specialist TA Mandy Hall. When Dave qualities they don’t often get to share. roll out this activity to Year 10 SEN Lawson, an experienced SEN worker Without exception, students are students incorporating a Sports Leaders from Cricket East in Huntingdonshire demonstrating team work, camaraderie, Qualification; a fantastic idea and a contacted Ernulf Miss Hall knew that this support and tolerance for each other wonderful opportunity for those students was something her students would enjoy and most importantly having fun! to gain essential skills in KS4 and build in KS3. their CV. The enthusiasm for Table Cricket is such The activity is an adapted game of that the team are aiming high; they are cricket, in many ways similar to the way working towards the county finals and Subbuteo is a table top game of success would mean that a team from football. The principles and ethos of Ernulf could be representing the cricket remain intact, alongside the Academy at Lords in the summer of competitiveness, the team work, 2018! sportsmanship, respect and the skills required. Our students have done extremely well and Ernulf is hoping to enter two teams The game is accessible to all abilities into the Lord Traverner’s Competition on and has proved to be very appealing. 07 February at Luton. Here they will not

ERNULF VS LONGSANDS FOOTBALL 2018 The Year 8 squad had a fantastic turn lead. The player was composed, and The Squad out for their first fixture of 2018. Some finished well to put Longsands 1—0 up. Danny Bennett, George Day, Freddie new additions to the squad included Despite this set back the Ernulf team Jupp (c), Sam Walker, Dom Benevento, Baxter and Nixon, alongside the more continued to work hard. Their Charlie Osborne, Frankie Arlow, Ben usual faces, meant that we travelled with determination paid off on 20 minutes, as Musgrove, Matthew Albone, Finley a full squad of 15 players. Adam Chapman levelled the scores at Sayer, Adam Chapman, Adam Elsby, With their fantastic National Cup run 1—1 with the half time break Jacob Nixon, Tommi-Leigh Baxter, Sean only recently finished, Mr Walker took approaching. Smith. the opportunity to rest some of his The team talk focused on remaining Coach Dunnett’s Man-of-the-Match squad, providing the opportunity for closer to the opposing players when in others to be selected . Difficult choice, but joint winners were defence, and also maintaining possession the 2 Adams: Under the guidance of the new look for longer phases when in attack. coaching team of Bond and Dunnett, the Adam Elsby & Adam Chapman Just 4 minutes into the second half, squad took to the field in a new 4-3-3 Frankie Arlow was through on goal. Scorers formation. The 11 players looked eager With a good finish to put Ernulf ahead to get started, and were clear as to their Chapman (1), Arlow (1), Muscgrove (1) 1—2. roles in the side. The game continued to ebb and flow, The early passages were very even with our new additions getting some between the 2 sides, and this clearly valuable game time. With the score looked like an even contest. On 4 close at 1-2 the Ernulf team could never minutes, the first clear-cut chance fell to relax. However, with just 5 minutes to go Ernulf. The Longsands goal-keeper made Ben Musgrove scored to give some a good save to keep the scores level. breathing space at 1-3. On 10 minutes, some indecision in the The score finished 1-3 to Ernulf—a great Ernulf defence meant that Longsands result and performance for this squad. had a fantastic opportunity to take the Well played!!