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TERM 4 2019 BexhillThe magazine keeping students, staff, parents and carers, and the wider Beaconcommunity updated on events at Bexhill Academy English GCSE Boot Camp Academy Sports COMPACT PLUS PROGRAMME Glyndebourne Opera Access Shakespeare House News Time To DANCE Bexhill Beacon Bexhill Beacon April already! popular ‘Revision Extra’ has n Wednesday 27th March been released to all students 2019, nine very excitable and can be viewed at www. s we head towards Year 7 pupils attended the the Easter holidays bexhillacademy.org/ O Aat Bexhill Academy students/2019-exams- 1066 Book Awards at St Richards we can reflect on another revision-diary to support Catholic College in Bexhill. incredibly busy term filled Easter and half term holiday with engaging and creative revision as well as pre- and During the evening they had a learning experiences. post-school revision. Year 11 study events have included the recorded message from Ross Trips and visits have been re-enacting of the Cold War at Welford, author of the ‘1000 Year plentiful with students visiting Bannatynes Hotel, Hastings Old Boy’, who was very pleased such venues as Glyndebourne to support GCSE History, and thankful to be nominated for and the English Department and Psychology, their next to see an opera, The White the 1066 Book Awards (he came Rock Theatre to perform The spending a weekend at PGL decision will be to decide Towner and The De La Warr doing an English GCSE Boot what ‘Enrichment’ curriculum second). Pavillion to enhance GCSE Camp – see page 3. Physical they wish to follow in Year 9 Art and Photography. Year Education has been running to broaden their knowledge, Our pupils were gifted with a Accompanying the pupils were 9 students visited Brighton evening revision sessions with enhance their leadership skills bookmark from Lucy Adlington, English Teacher Miss Skidmore and University to identify subjects food to support enhanced and ensure that the curriculum author of , who won Bexhill Academy’s Librarian, Mrs to study which ranged from brain capacity and Miss Bigby experience is truly rich. ‘The Red Ribbon’ Biomedical Sciences to implemented ‘Instalive’, a live the 1066 Book Awards that evening. Josephine Stanley, who were very Criminology. Students from feed on Sunday evenings to Alongside Charity events and proud of all the pupils’ performances Year 7 to 11 took part in the support students with Health Youth Speaks, Shakespeare All pupils from seven local schools on the night, especially from our ‘Time to Dance’ event at the and Social Care revision. workshops, Book Awards and were recognised for their reading very own Sophie Burton and Oli White Rock Theatre and the Fairtrade Fortnight we can PE Department has been busy Students in Year 8 have hardly believe where the time talents and participated by reading Matthews. winning at Basketball, Rugby, selected their options has gone. excerpts of the finalists’ novels and Cricket and Table Tennis. following a series of in-school their reviews. Very well done to all! events and Options Evening. I look forward to an equally Year 11 completed a second Over 300 students have engaging and busy Summer e took 3 Year 8 pupils – Hope Law, Holly Atkinson and Hattie Brown - to Claverham set of mock examinations made choices from the more term and would like to wish in February and now find traditional subjects such as you a Happy Easter and Community College to compete in the Regional Youth Speaks on the 27th March. themselves in the final weeks History, Geography, Spanish fabulous holiday. of preparation before the and French and as varied as W Along with the representatives of Bexhill Academy were students from St Richards, Battle Abbey Latin and Child Development Vicky Norris-Wright summer exams start. The ever- and Claverham. Competition was fierce and all the young people who took part were exceptional and, despite a victory for Claverham Community College, our students from Bexhill Academy Student Voice Term 3 performed admirably and were a credit to the school. his term our Year 11 language students kicked off the chain of GCSE exams with their French and Spanish oral exams - we hoped they all went well and we are wishing all Year T11s the best of success in their GCSE summer exams next term. Within this term there have been several sporting successes - a huge well done to the girls’ netball teams who have competed in several tournaments throughout the term. In addition, the Year 11 boys’ rugby team remains undefeated - a huge congratulations to all of those who took part! Most recently, in the run up to Easter, our current Student Leader and Ambassador Team have been finishing their final duties and are preparing to hand over their legacy to the future students aspiring to take on the new roles available. On the last day of term, students and staff all took the opportunity to take part in a fundraising day for the Teenage Mental Health Charity - Mind. Thank you to all of those who baked cakes for the House cake sales - they looked delicious! We wish everyone a brilliant Easter holiday and we hope you all enjoy a well-deserved break! Nyree Lindley, Ali Kent, Isobel Mitchell, Isabelle Rogers, Hartley Moore Bexhill Beacon Bexhill Beacon exhill Academy has links with the Compact Plus Programme and each Students then had the opportunity to year the Academy is invited to one of think about and discuss courses on offer at BBrighton University campuses for students to Brighton and other universities. The Student find out about university life and courses that Ambassadors from the University were very are on offer at higher education. Compact Plus helpful and spoke about their life at university aims to provide young people and their families and what they enjoy most about the courses with as much information about courses and they were taking. careers so that students know what they need to be doing at college and beyond to achieve their ambitions and reach their full potential. I thought it was really great to Compact Plus invited a group of 30 Year 9 students to Brighton have an insight into seeing students at University ‘City Campus’ for the day. Later on in the year “ the same students will be visiting Portsmouth University. university do their work and how different The aim of the project is for students to understand the it was from school. It helped me decide advantages and difficulties of studying locally versus away, differences between traditional and new universities, and whether I wanted to go to university in aiming to raise attainment and aspirations of the students by the future. I liked the workshop with exposing them to a higher education environment. Anna talking about whether we wanted Pictured above: Zach getting involved in a ‘Virtual The group arrived at City Campus, Edward Street, to go a university close to home or away. Reality’ sculpture with university students. Brighton and were met by Anna an Outreach I wanted to go to university anyway but Coordinator. She spoke to the group about ‘thinking about university’ and what Brighton visiting the University has made me want Because activities helped us learn that It was a really good day because it University had to offer. to go to Brighton University more. about“ university life and understand about gave“ me knowledge of university life. The group was split and the pupils then followed Faye the course that we take. This gave us more ” It also widened my view on what you the activities below: understanding. I enjoyed the tour around can study and how you can study. The Looking at education options and exploring the Bexhill Academy students were asked to the University looking at the different Student Ambassadors were very friendly benefits of home verses away. Anna, was able to investigate the subject that they wished to talk about her experiences and how she wanted rooms and type of work that the students take at university. As you can imagine there and helpful towards me and my friends. to stay at home, but gradually came around to the was a wide range of subjects that were looked were doing. I also enjoyed the interactive The best part of the day was going idea of leaving home. She also said that she had at. They ranged from 3D Design, Biomedical the security of her family not living too far away session with the Student Ambassadors Sciences, Art, Early Childhood, Psychology and around the different campuses and seeing and that she could travel back for the weekends. Criminology to Geography. This led onto what when we got to ask them questions and how the students worked and what the grades at college were needed and careers and Bexhill Academy students had a tour of the City got better understanding of university life opportunities that would be available from environment was like. It has definitely Campus, home to Brighton University Arts and taking a Degree. and the different courses. inspired me to go to Brighton University as Humanities students. Students saw first-hand the specialist facilities on offer to them, studio space Charis ” The trip inspired many of the students to think it seems like a good place to study. and world-class design archives. about careers choices and whether university Zach was the path they wanted to take. ” Bexhill Beacon Bexhill Beacon Inaugural English GCSE Boot Camp at PGL he weekend of 1st – 3rd March was a fun-filled affair for 27 Year T11 students and 4 of their very favourite English teachers. Using the metaphor of the trapeze, motivational talks n Wednesday 27th February, Year focussed on letting go of low expectations 7 had the fabulous opportunity and stretching for level 5 and above.