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Edition 21: Spring 2017 8th Prestigious Annual Scholarship Student Elections Cast your vote, make it count... Sutton Visit Scholars visit historical college Virtual Reality Take a trip right from your desk www.ormistonventureacademy.co.uk Venture Voice is printed on 100% woodfree recycled paper | Design by www.fusional.co.uk - @Fusionators Advertisement www.ormiston.org What’s going on at Venture Academy… Welcome back from Principal Gilbert – Barnham P3 In The Spotlight: Charlie Soanes P13 Author in Residence P4 College Clash, Rewards & Funtastic Friday P14 Debates & Meet Our Governors P5 World Book Day - Photo study P15 Ex-Addict talks to Venture Students P6 Words for Works P16 We are a Teaching School Alliance of VR Strikes Venture P7 Year 11 Residential P16 cross-phase schools based in Gorleston, Gresham's 8th Prestigious Annual Scholarship P8 – 9 Norfolk Music Hub Awards P17 Norfolk but with partners across the Day in the life of... Norwich Police HQ P10 From League Winners to Sporting Spotlights. We're celebrating Ventures Sports Results East of England and the country. Student Elections 2017 P11 Venture's Sutton Scholars P12 Round-Up - Well Done Team! P19 – 20 Let us Ignite Welcome back... your Teaching As we rapidly approach the Summer holidays I want to congratulate Future everyone on such a fantastic year. It has been a year of global change and yet the Newly Qualified Ignite is an NQT awarding body who support your NQTs in launching their careers in the best spirit of our community working together has never Teacher Induction possible way. The package we offer is fully inclusive of accreditation, first class training and wavered. The strength of our community and team [NQT] Programme support that enables your NQTs to rapidly develop into outstanding teachers. spirit is one that everyone involved should The Outstanding Our OTP programme is open to teachers with the potential and capacity to be proud of. Teacher deliver consistently outstanding lessons. Programme As an academy we are already looking forward to [OTP] the exciting future that next year brings. Our Union The Improving The ITP provides teachers rated as ‘requires improvement’ with a set of skills and strategies of Venture Students have some big plans that Teaching which enables them to become consistently good. It is open to teachers from all phases who they will drive forward and there are some truly [ ITP ] Programme demonstrate the potential to deliver consistently good lessons. ground breaking initiatives that will be unveiled in September... ensuring that we continue our commitment to a World Class education that National Professional The National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML) is Qualification for Middle a new qualification that provides national recognition of your leadership every child at Venture deserves. [NPQML] Leadership development and professional achievement as a senior leader. Thank you and enjoy National Professional The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL) is a Qualification for Senior new qualification that provides national recognition of your leadership [NPQSL] Leadership development and professional achievement as a senior leader. reading through our Venture Voice of all the successes @Ignite_TSA and celebrations If you would like to discuss the our students and programme more please get in touch via community have [email protected] achieved. For more information please contact: Simon Gilbert-Barnham - Principal Ormiston Venture Academy, Gorleston, Norfolk. NR31 7JJ Phone: 01493 662 966 | Fax: 01493 660 329 | Email: [email protected] www.ormistonventureacademy.co.uk | @OrmistonVenture 3 A fantastic group of year 9 and 10 students were involved in a day of speech and debate run Debates by Debatemate. Students were led through different techniques to This was done so well that the develop their debating skills including use of tone and debate resulted in a draw! This preparation will aid them volume; persuasion and rebuttal. Year 9 students were greatly for when they take part in the Debatemate, OAT experiencing this for the first time and demonstrated a Academies competition, at the Oxford Union, later in the brilliant aptitude for persuasion when taking part in a year. Good luck to all involved! ‘salesman’ game. “ Students were enthusiastic and They were given random objects, including a teacup and a chair, and had to encourage others to buy these persuasive, it was great to see items by focusing on their strengths and versatility; all them enjoy themselves and confidently stood in front of others to pitch their ideas. develop life-long skills.” They went on to take part in a formal debate arguing Bethany Perry, Leader of Excellence for Literacy for and against lowering the voting age to 16 years old. More experienced debaters from year 10 helped their peers and guided both the proposition and opposition to make strong arguments. My name is Melissa Lane and I am the support staff governor at Ormiston Venture Academy. I have been a member of staff at the academy for 8 years and a Governor for Ormiston Venture Academy in Ormiston Venture have been assigned 5 years in total. Before I worked in the academy I worked in retail and although Gorleston, Norfolk, is one of the six an author-in-residence, Alexander I really enjoyed this line of work I am really pleased I decided to work with schools taking part in the National Gordon Smith, who is holding workshops children. I have been in the role of Head of Senior year for 6 years. My job is rewarding Literacy Trust’s Literacy for Life for students throughout the school every single day and the students I work with make my job both enjoyable programme. As part of the programme, year to help them develop their writing. and thought provoking. My favourite day of the year is always results day as this is when the Senior year realise their efforts over the years have been Alexander Gordon Smith is an author of children’s and For the first hour of the workshop, Gordon discussed worthwhile and that the world is their oyster, I love seeing their smiling faces "I know that Ormiston young adult fiction, whose books include the horror character and plot development with the students, and hearing the excitement amongst them all. Venture Academy will series Furnace. He has now visited Ormiston Venture getting them to build a basic structure for their story. My son was a student at the Academy so I have seen the Academy as both a Academy twice, delivering horror writing workshops “ In the second hour, they started writing their stories, parent and member of staff and fully appreciate the hard work that goes into continue to grow and I with students from Year 7 and Year 9. with me on hand to help,” he explains. “Every pupil daily ensuring the students receive a personalised, thoughtful education. Jodie Gilbert-Barnham, Dean of Programmes at Ormiston wrote a story, even the reluctant writers. One boy who I really believe the students are given the best start in life once they are am proud and privileged Venture, arranged for Gordon to give an assembly to the found writing difficult started off quite reluctant, but a Venture student and I feel proud to work in a place that cares greatly to be a part of this." entire Year 7 year group on his first visit to the school, by the end of the workshop he actually volunteered to for every student. Meet Our Governors Our Meet before holding two two-hour workshops for selected stand up and read his story out which was an amazing groups of 20 students. “Gordon talked about his journey transformation. The quality of their writing all-round into writing, his background and his struggle to get was so impressive!” ormistonacademiestrust.co.uk published in the assembly, which really resonated On Gordon’s second visit to the school, he delivered the with the students,” Jodie explains. horror writing workshops for Year 9 students, and met Venture Into “ The whole message behind it was to again with the Year 7s from his first visit to help them continue developing their stories. The popularity of be resilient and never give up on your Gordon’s workshops has led Ormiston Venture to launch dreams which the students loved. Staff a creative writing club, with Gordon agreeing to attend Our Success and students came out of his assembly some of the club’s sessions to help pupils develop their absolutely buzzing, talking about how writing even further. OPEN EVENING By the end of the school year, the pupils working with inspirational he was.” Gordon will put together an anthology of their writing. After the assembly, Gordon held workshops for students. “ Gordon’s work with the students has got them so BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW “I label it a horror writing workshop because it helps get enthused,” adds Jodie. “So many students have been kids excited about the workshops and it’s a great genre coming into the school library asking for his books Thursday 21st September 2017 5pm - 7pm for reluctant writers,” Gordon says. “I asked the students that our librarian has had to order more copies!” to come up with a story idea based on their own worst Telephone 01493 662 966 | www.ormistonventureacademy.co.uk fears and they were so enthusiastic.” 4 @OrmistonVenture | www.ormistonventureacademy.co.uk www.ormistonventureacademy.co.uk | @OrmistonVenture 5 Paul Hannaford Speaks Out to Students Paul Hannaford, visits Ormiston as "not enough schools cared." Paul resorted to drug use at just fifteen, but since becoming clean he has Venture Academy students in spoken to over 350 thousand students in 300 schools Gorleston to warn them of the real and various juvenile detention centres in order to stop dangers of drug addiction - he doesn't young people making the same mistakes.