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Castle Views The Castle View Enterprise Academy Newsletter Issue 12 March 2013 It’s an honour for Mrs Bridges receives her the Principal OBE from Princess Anne Mrs Janet Bridges, our Principal here at Castle View, is celebrating an OBE in the 2013 Honours List. Mrs Bridges has been recognised for her services to education. Mrs Bridges, who has been Principal at the Academy since it opened in September 2009, has overseen a meteoric rise in academic achieve- ment and attainment. "I am very humbled and honoured to accept it on behalf of all the staff”, she said. "The staff work relentlessly, with determination and compassion for the children in their care, and it is an honour to accept this on behalf of everybody. I genuinely don't have any idea who nominated me; it had all been kept very quiet from me until the letter arrived just before Christmas." Mrs Bridges was officially presented with her OBE by Princess Anne at Buckingham Palace on Thursday 7th March 2013. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mrs Bridges on her fantastic achievement. Alex ‘Bags’ CENTRE STAGE FOR FIRST PRIZE! SUNDERLANDSunderland’s Stadium of Light is set to host the North East’s biggest ever pop show, as concert promoter AEG Live brings a phenomenal summer music event to the region. Some of the UK’s biggest pop acts are set to join forces in a celebration of UK music, headlined by one of the country’s favourite boy bands, JLS. Stars The Wanted, Rita Ora, Little Mix, Conor Maynard, Stooshe, Union J and Amelia Lily, with more to be announced to complete the line up, in what is set to be the hottest music ticket of the summer. Alex Naisbet and her winning design The five-hour music extravaganza, designed to suit music fans of all ages, will take place on Saturday 22nd June, 2013. Students from Castle View Enterprise Academy have recently partici- pated in a competition run by Sainsbury’s, to come up with a design for In order to celebrate this fantastic event, and welcome thousands of their new ‘Bag for Life.’ Sainsbury‘s is due to open its new store, near concert goers, we are offering secondary school and college students Castletown, in Spring 2013. the chance to enter a competition to submit a spoof review of what Over 200 entries were submitted and four students, Christina Coates they imagine the concert will be like. The winner will not only receive (Year 8), Alex Naisbet (Year 8), Bethany Hutchinson (Year 8) and Shola four VIP concert tickets but they will also be invited to attend, and write MacDonald (Year 7), have won prizes for their designs. a genuine review of, the concert, which will appear on safc.com. We are delighted to announce that Alex Naisbet’s design has been declared the winner! She will have her design printed on two thousand All entries should be in no later than Thursday 2nd May 2013. They limited edition Hessian bags that will be handed out at the stores can be emailed directly to Sunderland AFC’s Commercial Director, Gary ocial opening. Hutchinson, at [email protected], or they can handed into We would like to say thank you to everyone who entered the competi- your child’s English teacher who will send them off on their behalf. tion and well done to Alex. GOOD LUCK! Introducing the Press Pack’s newest members... AARON MAVIN EMMA CLENNELL Hi, my name is Aaron and I’m in Year 7. Hi, my name is Emma; I am almost 14. I am in Year 9 at Castle I have just joined Castle View Enterprise View Enterprise Academy and I’m currently studying for my Academy’s Press Pack. One of my GCSEs. For my GCSEs I have chosen to study history, child hobbies is football. I play football with development and catering. I am also in the Academy musical, my dad, mainly in the summer. My Dad We Will Rock You, which is based on the rock band Queen. and I go to the large field in Downhill and play. It’s fun because I get to spend time with my Dad. Last year I won the Northumbrian Water Chairman’s Award. I have completed the Race for Life six times and I have also helped to start the race one year with my Mam. The quickest time I I always like to help my Mam and Dad around the house with have done it in is one hour, which I am really proud of. It’s really inspirational to be surrounded things like washing up, vacuuming and tidying. I think it’s by people who all want to help to raise money and awareness for Cancer Research. important to do things like this as they are very busy and I think they appreciates all the help that they can get. I have been to Derwent Hill four times since Primary and I am going again this year; I just love being outdoors and doing activities, and it’s also a week out of school! Also, I am going on a I enjoy creative writing and this is why I decided to join the skiing trip to Italy with the Academy. It is the first time I have been to Italy but I think it will be Press Pack. It’s fun to be asked to write about things happen- good because of what I heard about last year’s trip. I love to read books by Jacqueline Wilson, ing in the Academy and it helps me to become a better Michael Morpurgo and Jeff Kinney. Also I love reading biographies and autobiographies. At the writer. momemt I am reading the Tom Daley ‘My Story’ book. I have the One Direction, James Arthur I hope you enjoyed reading about me and I also hope you and Ed Sheeran books all lined up to read afterwards. enjoy reading the articles I have written for the newsletter. I love going to the cinema to watch films with my friends and then going shopping. I love watching horror films with my brother. I also love watching musicals; I find them very entertain- ing and love the story lines in them. City Sings STUDENT COUNCIL After an amazing experience last year at the Sunderland Empire, Castle Views ‘Glee Club Choir’ made it through the auditions to enjoy the experience once again. How- ever, we are hoping to win it this year. City Sings is a yearly contest held at the Sunder- land Empire. The very best choirs from schools and academies from all over e Student Council meets once every half term here at the Academy. Sunderland go up against each other to e Council consists of students from all year groups and they discuss all see who will come out on top. manner of topics, such as reward trips, school dinners and merits. e aim of the Student Council is to get student voices heard. Some This year’s theme was to sing traditional students may be too shy to come forward with suggestions and ideas so Disney songs, which a lot of students were this has proved to be a great way to ensure everyone gets the chance to especially excited about. Auditions were put their thoughts forward. held back in December and after practising since September, we performed very well. If your child has anything they would like their fellow students to know Miss Lacey and Miss Callaghan chose the about, or even have an opinion on something they would like to voice, songs ‘Supacalafradjalistic’ from the Disney please ask them to see Mr Marshall, who will be more than happy to chat classic, Mary Poppins, and ‘Start of Some- to them and raise their point of view at the next Council meeting. thing New’ from the High School Musical by Aaron Mavin (Year 7) lm. Everyone in the choir loved both of the songs, making them enjoyable and meaning that practice never got boring. OVEMBER 2012 The students are to go to the Empire in March for the nals. Wish us luck! Staff at Castle View Enterprise Academy grew their moustaches in support of testicular and prostate cancer charities last November. They joined men from all over the world in the annual moustache growing competition, some with better results than others it has to be said! Some of the staff pictured have been told they actually suit having a by Beth Copeland (Year 9) moustache; what do you think? Vantec Competition OUR FANTASTIC “NAME THE NEW WAREHOUSE” This year, the art department is in full swing to open the windows of LIBRARY opportunity to its students and, in the spirit of Castle Viewʼs enter- Our Library, is it one of the best school libraries in the city? Well, if I tell you that it has over 20 prise specialism, it is encouraging students to participate in as many computers and almost one thousand books, I external competitions as possible. think it could well be. On Wednesday 30th January, Jack Stanness, from Year 7, attended a The library is run by ten student librarians, who prize-giving ceremony hosted by Vantec to receive a runner-up prize have all undertaken a course, which includes in their 'Name the New Warehouse' competition held at the end of creating displays, book reviews and just assist- 2012. ing with everyday library duties. The library is Vantec is a new logistics com- open every morning break and after school pany opening just off the A19.