3rd March 2017 STANDING OUT

THE MAGAZINE FOR MOUNTS BAY ACADEMY

Photo: Mr Raggett

Cover: Orienteering

25th May 2018 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

It’s in our DNA... I’m often asked by visitors when they come to the Academy, why do you think that your students seem to be such well balanced, confident and gregarious individuals compared to their counterparts in some areas of the country? The answer of course is due to many factors, firstly we live and work in one of the most beautiful places in the UK with its own unique history and culture. At Mounts Bay we then give all of our students the learning, personal mentoring and skills to enable them to use their time with us to the best of their advantage with the aim of making them “the best that they can be”. When you examine this more closely it is through a combination of the attributes we were born with and our learning experiences that result in our success. As we are in the throws of the GCSE examination timetable, I have been observing some of the work we are doing in our revision sessions and in Science they have been looking at what makes things the way they are. A fundamental element of this is DNA, or a set of instructions in each cell that tells it what it needs to do to grow and fulfil its function successfully. So the key to our success is that it’s already “in our DNA”, we just need to use the talents we were born with and follow the “instructions” in our Mounts Bay DNA.

To coincide with half term next week, we have also been working with the RNLI to raise awareness of the role they play and how we can enjoy the amazing place that we live in safely. Here in the Academy we raised funds through one of our ever popular non-uniform days and I was really pleased to be able to meet with Carly Byrne and Louisa Nowell, mum of Jack and Frankie Nowell. They successfully ran the London Marathon recently and are raising funds via a JustGiving page. If you would like to help them reach their £4,600 target then please visit their page here: Marathon Success https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/louisa-nowell1

Of course sometimes it is useful to see what happens if you interpret the “instructions” in our DNA a different way and yesterday was a great example of this. Our canteen staff broke with tradition and organised a fantastic “street food” event, which consisted of an amazing array of tasty fresh food, simply cooked and served. Everyone that tucked in agreed that this was a great way to not just have great tasting food but to eat healthily too.

Finally I would also like to remind our Year 11 students that, as you can see from the timetable later on in the newsletter, the Academy will be open almost every day offering a vast array of support sessions to help them prepare for their exams in the most effective way. Not Just For The Street

Have a great half-term.

Best wishes

Les Hall Academy Principal DABE VINCI YOUR PROGRAMME BEST

REAL Project

Students were asked to research a painting linked to their project. Isla made a booklet with a decoupage cover. She took the project much deeper than was expected. She chose a painting by John Nash and reflected on what it was showing, including the way it made her feel and also the palette the artist chose.

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EXCELLENCE REWARD Collaborative Learning This week we have been concentrating on collaborative learning across the Academy. Collaboration helps the students to develop higher-level thinking, oral communication, self-management, and leadership skills. It also promotes student interaction and self- esteem. Here you can see some of the examples from across the Academy this week.

Students in 7 Cool have been using collaborate learning to help improve their Travel Guides. In pairs they have been sharing facts and information about different countries across the world to help build their guides. Students also read their recommendations to their groups to see who was most persuasive!

During REAL Projects this week, Year 7 students worked collaboratively to investigate diverse Art movements. They compared the stylistic qualities of the genres through reflecting on the handing of the formal elements. They then applied their reflections to a series of outcomes. Year 7 produced fantastic work as a result of their research and group analysis of the work of artists significant to specific movements.

Year 9 were treated to some 'hands-on' history by SCITT student Miss Weeks. Using a range of artefacts the students worked in collaborative groups to investigate them, research their significance and consider how they could empathise with the experience of evacuees and those on the wider Home Front. Thanks to the Royal Museum for their loan of the artefact box.

Mr Yeates' Year 10 English class have been collaborating to consider the differences between what the French Semiotician Roland Barthes called "readerly" texts (can only be “read” one way) and "writerly" texts (open to interpretation). BE INSPIRED

World Challenge India Trip Fundraiser

On Sunday 20th May, six students participated in the St Michael's Way Challenge in order to raise money for both the Mounts Bay Rotary Club and for their World Challenge expedition to India next year. The students were challenged with hiking twelve miles from St Uny Church, Lelant on the north coast of Cornwall down to on the south coast. Before the event, students pursued their friends, family members and teachers for sponsorship and collected a combined total of over £600 which will be put towards their funds required to go on their World Challenge Expedition in July 2019. Needless to say, the team completed the event in good time thanks to the fantastic weather over the weekend. Well done everyone! A special thanks goes out to Mr Helliwell who offered his time and support alongside Mr Lane, who walked with the team throughout the challenge. BE ADVENTUROUS

Adventure Challenge

We have had a great week with all things adventurous at the Academy. 9 Green are taking their turn on the Adventure Challenge and were orienteering and abseiling at Sennen Cove. As the summer season arrives there are more and more visitors watching in awe as the students launch themselves down the cliffs.

Adventure Society

The Adventure Society had a fun afternoon on Thursday at Carn Kenidjack near Carnyorth. They will be assisting with the Trythall School camp after half term. We planned some activities that we will be doing with the students and we got a chance to do some bouldering (low level climbing) on the rocks. There will be a zip wire, climbing, orienteering and campcraft activities. More to follow in the next issue.

Report by: Mr Raggett BE ENTERTAINED

Book Review

Stewart loves maths and doing Lego without instructions. He loves his family: himself, mum, dad. They're an equilateral triangle - although, ideally, a sister would square the triangle.

Then his Mum dies. Their triangle collapses.

Ashley loves clothes, reality TV. She dreams about conquering school's social ladder and dating gorgeous Jared. No-one can know her parents divorced because her dad's gay.

Nor can they know that a freakazoid like Stewart is now her brother after their parents get together. They become uneasy, mismatched siblings. Stewart later discovers Jared intends Ashley harm - what should he do?

Intellectually high-functioning, socially floundering Stewart; socially superior, painfully insecure Ashley. Their utterly distinctive and compelling voices alternate as they negotiate painful, difficult relationships in this intelligent, moving novel about two imploded families forging themselves a new shape.

If you like the sound of ‘We are All Made of Molecules’, then come and borrow a copy from our library. I have six new copies on the shelves.

Word Millionaires Our most recent Word Millionaires are Gwendoline Skelly of 7 Blue and Emily Payne of 7 Yellow. Between them, the girls have read forty-seven books to date. Emily has enjoyed many of the Jacqueline Wilson Hetty Feather series and has a fantastic success rate of 96% on all the accelerated reader quizzes she has taken. Gwendoline has just finished Twighlight by Stephenie Meyer, the first book in a series of four vampire themed novels. Gwendoline has a fantastic success rate of 95% overall. Report by: Mrs Marsden BE CREATIVEBE CURIOUS

These Cupcakes Mean Business

It is that time of year again and the Business and Finance Team are supporting another local entrepreneur.

Come and visit the Business and Enterprise stand in ROOM 16 on Options Evening (Thursday 7th June) and be in with the chance of winning this wonderful box of cupcakes from Lucy Bakes.

Report by: Miss Walters

BE CREATIVE

Taiko Trip Last week on Thursday evening the Mounts Bay Academy Taiko drumming group headed to the Hall for Cornwall to watch the Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers. Mugenkyo are the UK’s oldest established Taiko group, and Europes only professional touring company. They are based in Scotland, regularly go to train with Taiko masters in Japan, tour all over the World and run regular workshops at their Dojo.

The performance started with some amazing more traditional Taiko drumming, featuring a range of drums, virtuoso performances from the individual drummers and some amazing group work. What made the night stand however was the development of a real theatrical set. There were performances with UV lighting and special masks and stage clothes to stand out in the dark, comedy pieces including a piece where the drummers were dressed as council workers in high visibility jackets, poetry, and some amazing Japanese flute playing.

It was a great night, very inspiring for the MBA Taiko group, and is also one of the last performances before the Hall for Cornwall closes for almost two years to be refurbished. Report by: Mr New BE CREATIVEBE CREATIVE

Choir Win Trophy

Congratulations to our HPI Choir who took first place at the Wall Music Festival. They sang incredibly well and were awarded 87 marks (a distinction) as well as first place.

Next stop for this talented group of singers is Symphony Hall in Birmingham where they will be taking part in the Music for Youth Festival. Report by: Mr Hoadley Well done to:

Ruby Dylan Ellyn Calverley Milo Taylor Kate Matthew Patrick Searle Adam Smith Allanah Mayho Senara Rendell Rose Hammond Jenny McKniff Ebony Maddock Sophia Dixon Vickie Tulley BE CREATIVEBE CREATIVE GCSE Graphics The GCSE Graphics course in Years 9 and 11 is almost complete now and students are very close to finishing and presenting their final creative outcomes. The GCSE Graphic Design course is a fantastic opportunity to combine a range of creative disciplines you enjoy including those such as illustration, digital design on Mac/IPAD, advertising, product branding, logo design and development, book/magazine design and animation! The images here begin to show you just a small range of final outcomes created so far by our very talented designers at MBA.

Kurt Goodwin Year 9

Felix Bellamy Year 11

Fletcher Stevenson Year 11 Francesca Burke Year 11 BE CREATIVEBE CREATIVE

Lily Hardy Year 9

Lucy Egan Year 9

Xavier Jenkins Year 11

Kitty Lees Year 9

Rey Darwin-King Year 9 BE CREATIVEBE CREATIVE

Xavier Jenkins Year 11

Daisy Leighworthy Year 9

Francesca Burke Year 11 Kitty Lees Year 9 Alannah Wallis Year 9 BE CREATIVEBE CREATIVE

Lois Willett-Green Year 9

Felix Bellamy Year 11

Liberty Terry Year 9 Liberty Terry Year 9

Fletcher Stevenson Year 11 BE COMPETITIVE

Tennis Competition

Well done the team who played in very hot conditions at the Heron Tennis Centre this week. It was a very competitive event and some outstanding tennis was played.

Report by: Mr Veal

Regional Swimming Action

Over the last two weekends I went to Millfield and Hengrove in Bristol where I had qualified for 14 events for the Swim England South West Regional Swim Gala. The competition was really tough.

The long distance events were my favourite and I was so happy to come second in the South West Region in the 1500m front crawl for my age group.

Report by: Evie Belt

Year 8 Cricket

On Monday the Year 8 boys cricket team headed to School for the first round of the County Cup. Having won the toss we decided to bat and with good performances from Charlie H, Leon M and especially Sam Edwards with a great 77, we managed to post a score of 137. They went into bat and with everyone getting a shift in the bowling line-up many people including Oscar Halls and Matt Randall stepped up and bowled brilliantly. In the end we restricted them to around 70 runs. It was a really great team performance and we look forward to the next round. Report by: Charlie Harvey BE COMPETITIVE

Year 7 Rounders

SQUAD:

Saffron Hills Rosa Hoadley India Angove Olivia Cockle Morvah Piper Ellie Friggens Rose-Marie Murley Maria Whitelock Tallula Millard

On Monday the 21st of May the Year 7 Girls rounders team went to Cape Cornwall to play in a tournament with other local schools.

Our first match was against Cape Cornwall, we won but it was a close game. The score was 12 1/2 to 8 1/2. We scored some good full and half rounders in this match. In the second game we played St Ives. This was a great game for Mounts Bay with the score of 12 1/2 to 3 1/2. We really worked as a team in this match - we fielded really well and either caught or stumped all their players out.

Rugby Selection Report by: Saffron Hills

Congratulations to Frankie Nowell and Harvey Beckerleg, who were both selected to play at Harrow School for Exeter Chiefs Academy. This is the pinnacle of the season and follows a season of Exeter Chiefs Academy training and match commitments in Exeter and beyond. BE COMPETITIVE

Year 7 Cricket

On Monday 21st May a Year 7 Cricket Team consisting of Kaea, Oli, Anto, Ted, Kingsley and Joby took part in a Penwith Schools Softball Cricket Competition. We played two matches, one against Cape Cornwall and the other against . In the first match we were up against Cape Cornwall, we batted first; Joby and I opened and we scored quite a few runs early in the innings before retiring. In total we scored 42 runs off 5 overs (30 balls). Then we bowled 5 overs with Joby opening; Kingsley going second, Ted third, Anto bowling fourth and me going last. We won this game as Cape finished on 22 runs.

The next game we batted first again and this time Ted and Joby opened. Sadly, Joby got bowled out on the third over. The team did a good job and scored a number of runs before; Ted retired, Kingsley replaced him for the rest of the innings. Our final score was 26 - 1. And then it was our turn and we all bowled in the same order it was very tight we were on the same average run through the majority of the overs, and on the last over we were all level and all I had to do was get a maiden (not let them get any runs) and it all came down to the last ball and they hit it and only just got a run so they got 27-1. Report by: Oli Inch BE COMPETITIVE

International Football

On 13th May Callum Cullan and Ryan Townson left for the 18 hour coach trip to Bad Bentheim in Germany to take part in an international football tournament. They were part of a three team contingent from the Cornwall Youth Football Select U13s Tour 2018 consisting of the Wolves, the Hawks and the Bears. After arriving in Germany the players acclimatised by exploring the local town, going swimming and shopping as well as visits to the Warner Bros Theme Park, FC Twente and PSV Eindhoven. They also took part in training and played friendlies against local sides.

Saturday was the first day of the tournament. Callum was part of the Hawks and they played three games. Game 1 they won 6-0, game 2 they drew 0-0, and game 3 they won 6-0. The Hawks were top of their group on goal difference.

The second day begun with the Hawks playing another of the Cornish teams, the Wolves. The Wolves came out on top in this one, winning 1-0. The Hawks ended the day runners up to the Wolves and were into the quarter finals. All three Cornish teams were in the top eight.

On the final day of the tournament the three Cornish teams progressed into the semi finals. The Bears ended up 1-0 winners of an all Cornish semi final match between them and the Hawks. The final ended up as an all Cornish match too, with the Hawks v the Wolves. This was a close game and ended up with the Hawks winning 1-0 and becoming champions. In fact the tournament ended with a Cornwish one, two, three. BE COMPETITIVE

Surf Lifesaving Medals

Congratulations to Charlotte Bell who achieved a National Surf Life Youth Stillwater Competition Bronze team medal in an event held in a Cardiff in April. This follows on from her winning six medals at the Cornish Surf Life Stillwater Competition held at Carn Brea in February, including a Gold medal for the 75m Manikin Carry and three Silver and three Bronze medals for individual and team events. She was awarded with all of these on Saturday at a beach medal presentation.

Well done Charlotte!

Karate Gold

Congratulations to Joab Brighton-Boyns who won a Gold medal at the Open National Judo Championships in Kettering. Joab, who competed in the U12 U46kg category, won a total of five fights, with only one going to a decision and the other four being clear victories. It is the second time Joab has taken a Gold medal in this category at this event. His next competition is in Paignton in two weeks when he will be representing Mounts Bay Academy in an inter-schools event. Good Luck! Year 11 GCSE Half Term Support Sessions The Academy has invested in GCSEPod, the award winning digital content and revision provider! Many of our Year 11 students are using this great tool, as part of their revision and preparation, for their upcoming GCSE exams.

GCSEPod provides over 6,000 3-5 minute bursts of visual learning ‘Pods’. It also maps out content that can help students with their revision and make it much more manageable, as it is presented in a logical way.

The top 5 GCSEPod users in each Year 11 tutor group, so far this Year are as follows. Keep up the fantastic work!

Top 5 GCSEPod Users This Week 11 1. Louisa Johnson 11 PURPLE 1. Amber Berwick BLUE 2. Dylan Tilley 2. Erin Kemp 3. Thomas Hands 3. Rhiannah Gilbert 4. Oliver Rider 4. Reilly Jackson 5. Alisha Ellis 5. Kiah Richards 11 1. Esme Adams 11 1. Keagan Banks GREEN 2. Nathan Osborne Williams RED 2. Niamiah Jack 3. Harry Read 3. Rowan Torrie 4. Millie Olds 4. Jodi Swanepoel 5. Eli Williams 5. Hudson Hewett 11 1. Ben Murton 11 1. Tammy Britton ORANGE 2. Jason George YELLOW 2. Harris Eddy 3. Rebecca Oakes 3. Tyler Kearey 4. Azura McSally 4. Ben Wragg 5. Lee Ford 5. Jack Styles

Watch this space for newsletter updates, celebrating the TOP 5 GCSEPod users in Year 11 every week! “I really like how the videos are easy to understand and are really visual, this helps me to remember important content” Jodi Swanepoel

“I find the recordings on the videos really help me remember topics and the visual aspect of them” Jack Baylis

“The videos are useful when you want to go over a topicKim and Shail complete short, sharp bursts of revision.” Report by: Miss Westren BE A WINNER

Maths Quiz

This Week’s Puzzle:

House Competition

Blue: 52 Points Yellow: 29 Points Green: 22 Points Purple: 22 Points Red: 15 Points Orange: 12 Points

Click here to submit your answer Closing date for Entries: Thursday 12:00 Win an Amazon voucher Last week’s solution: Each entry (maximum 1 per week) 12 (need to use BIDMAS) will get your name into the prize draw at the end of the semester - the more times you enter the greater your chance of winning! Could you write next week’s puzzle? If you would like to set the numeracy puzzle for POINTS MEAN PRIZES! a future week click here. You will win House

This Week’s House Totals BE A WINNER

This week’s word is: surfing

Definition:

1. The sport or pastime of riding a wave towards the shore while standing or lying on a surfboard.

2. The activity of moving from site to site on the Internet.

Etymology: Late 17th century: apparently from obsolete suff, of unknown origin, perhaps influenced by the spelling of surge.

Competition

Congratulations to Poppy Geyman who wins 10 VIVO points.

To enter, simply write an original sentence correctly using the word surfing. Send in your sentence using the link below.

Click here to enter the competition GIVE YOURSELF A FLOATING CHANCE

If you’re in trouble in cold water: 1 Fight your instinct to thrash around 2 Lean back, extend your arms and legs 3 If you need to, gently move your arms and legs to help you float 4 Float until you can control your breathing 5 Only then call for help or swim to safety

Help save lives. Share our Float to Live advice. RNLI.org/RespectTheWater

The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a charity registered in England and Wales (209603) and Scotland (SC037736). Registered charity number 20003326 in the Republic of Ireland FREE outdoor swimming and water safety sessions for 7-14 year olds • Vital water safety skills for the great outdoors • In-water tuition by qualified teachers • Practical, interactive, educational and fun • Range of waterside locations

Book your session in advance at swimsafe.org.uk or on the day at the venue

Children must be able to swim at least 25 metres to take part. Parents or carers must be present during the session.

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NOFIO CYMRU SWIM WALES MONDAY 4TH JUNE Back to School Year 7 Cricket Match v Cape Cornwall 13:30 - 17:00 @ Paul Cricket Club

TUESDAY 5TH JUNE Year 7 & 8 County Athletics Competition 07:45 - 17:00 @ Par Athletics Track Year 10 GCSE Drama Workshops with St Mary’s C of E 13:00 - 15:00 @ St Mary’s C of E World Environment Day http://worldenvironmentday.global/en/about/beat-plastic-pollution

WEDNESDAY 6TH JUNE

THURSDAY 7TH JUNE Year 8 & 9 Options Evening Year 8 - 6pm, Year 9 - 7pm @MBA Wisconsin, USA Trip Meeting 16:00 - 16:30 in the Drama Studio

FRIDAY 8TH JUNE Royal Cornwall Show for Years 7, 8 & 9 07:15 - 16:30 World Oceans Day http://www.worldoceansday.org/

SATURDAY 9TH JUNE Saturday Sessions for Year 5 & 6 students 9:00 - 13:00 @MBA @mountsbay.org

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