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Contents Somercotes Academy Standard • 2016 - 2017 Cleethorpes Academy Life • 2012 - 2013 12 33 39 48 SEPTEMBER JANUARY 4 • PE students get advice from the very best 26 • Sports hobbies win students a raft of medals 8 • World Champion hurdler sets the tone for achievement on a 27 • Students submit 92 entries for writing competition night of immense celebration 27 • Teachers’ pets raise money for Louth Hospice! 12 • Huge improvements have parents and children flocking to Open Evening FEBRUARY OCTOBER 28 • Pianist Alfie wins Music Competition 29 • STEM roadshow fosters inquiring minds 14 • Performance Tables confirm Academy as the top-performing 29 • Somercotes Science Club puts the world under the microscope non-selective school in the Louth area 30 • Footballers keep on keeping up! 30 • Eye on the future as students join forces for Skills Event ANOTHER EXCEPTIONAL YEAR NOVEMBER 31 • Flipping marvellous Pancake Day! 15 • Tribute to fallen soldiers on Armistice Day MARCH 15 • Out with the old records, and in with the new 16 • English revision is poet-tree to these students! 32 • A novel quiz for World Book Day! FOR OUR STUDENTS 17 • Students embrace Inter-House Science Project 33 • Language students receive letters from Paris 33 • Students become BBC reporters for a day Other notable achievements include; Biology and Chemistry DECEMBER Welcome to Somercotes Standard, our APRIL yearbook which we devote entirely to the both achieving 91% (A*-C) with Physics 100% (A*-C), 67% 18 • 300 students from five academies perform Tollbar MAT’s History (A*-C); 71% Art (A*-C) and 100% Textiles (A*-C) biggest ever Christmas Concert 34 • Veteran who lost his legs inspires Year 8 students outstanding achievements of Somercotes 22 • Things have changed a bit since we were at school MAY Academy students throughout the I am so extremely proud of the hard 24 • Keen runners put on great show 25 • Students design Christmas card to represent Multi Academy academic year 2016/17. work of all our students and staff and 35 • Winning artists show exactly who they are Trust 36 • Macbeth comes to life as theatre company boxes clever This has been another very successful year and these pages these results reflect the dedication of 37 • Year 10 students network with local businesses everyone at Somercotes Academy to show how our students have excelled in all areas of the JUNE curriculum, both practically and academically involving succeed. Achieving good results in English themselves fully in the life of the Academy. and Maths is vital for students to move 38 • Year 7 and 8 students excel in national Maths challenge 39 • Rain cannot dampen spirits at Year 11 Prom forward with the courses they have Students have taken up opportunities in Sport, Music, charity 42 • From super-heroes to Pink Ladies, everyone celebrates on Year 11 Leavers Day events, inter-House competitions and many other activities, chosen post-16. The popularity of the both within the Academy and externally. The success of our Academy has continued to rise, which has JULY students reflects their hard work and outstanding behaviour been reflected in the continuing increased 44 • Dorado House brings home trophy at Sports Day and they are a credit to themselves, the Academy and their roll for Year 7 in 2017. We are also very 45 • Louth Tennis Centre coaches students parents and carers. grateful to Tollbar Multi Academy Trust for 45 • Day of French culture for Bastille celebration 46 • Sports Teams 2016-17 GCSE examinations are getting more and more difficult their support throughout 2016/17, and we each year and this year has seen the introduction of the new look forward to another successful year AUGUST examinations, graded 9 to 1, in English and Maths. Despite ahead. 48 • Exceptional GCSE results the extra rigour in these new examinations, I am extremely 50 • Georgia’s hobby is right on target! proud that the Academy is celebrating yet another year of I hope you enjoy reading about some of the events and 50 • Assemblies celebrate House success successful results. achievements that have taken place this year at Somercotes Academy. 62% of students achieved a standard pass in both Maths and 44 English with 80% of students achieved at least a standard Caroline Yates, pass in English and 67% achieved at least a standard pass in Somercotes Academy Principal. Maths. Text by Tracey Law at Lawpr.co.uk. Photographs by Sean Spencer and Ray Corke, Hull News and Pictures. 1204 Somercotes Standard • September Somercotes Standard • September 1305 PE STUDENTS GET ADVICE FROM THE VERY BEST Colin Jackson has won just about every athletics accolade available to him. He was Double World Champion in the 110m hurdles, four times European Champion, twice Commonwealth Champion, Olympic Silver medallist, and World Record Holder for almost 13 years. So when he spoke to GCSE PE students at Somercotes Academy, they listened to him. Visiting the Academy’s £100,000, state-of-the-art Fitness Suite, he told them: “Facilities like this rarely exist even in London for students. Many areas are very poor and real estate is expensive. They do not have this kind of space. You are very, very lucky to have such incredible facilities and you must make the most of them.” Colin was visiting the Academy prior to handing out awards at its first ever Presentation Evening, which was held later at the Riverhead Theatre, Louth. Not only did he spend more than an hour chatting with students, and answering their questions, but he also got down on the gym floor to demonstrate the correct use of a Swiss ball for promoting core fitness, a testament Colin Jackson demonstrates the correct use of a Swiss ball with Somercotes Academy students. to his own continued athletic prowess at the age of 49. Colin was also shown the Academy’s three new Science Labs and the brand new PE changing rooms recently refurbished in the main school. “Facilities like this encourage everyone to have a go at sport and exercise and you In response to a variety of searching questions from don’t have to be at the top of your game to take advantage of that,” he said. “Doing eager GCSE PE students, Colin said he spent 19 years of his life on a strict diet, admitting that the the very best that you can do is all you can ever ask of yourself. What kept me first time he ever had a proper Christmas dinner as determined throughout my career was knowing that I did my best, no matter what an adult was at the age of 37. “Of course I wanted the challenges.” chocolate cake but I wanted my career more,” he told them. Colin cited Double Olympic and World Champion Decathlete, Daley Thompson, as his inspiration. He said Daley was the Jessica Ennis of his generation and more. “He was incredible and I aspired to be like him, not just because he was a superb athlete, but also because he drove a Porsche and when I met him at the age of 19, I wanted one.” Asked who was his biggest competition, Colin said simply, myself. “I was always up against myself to remain motivated and inspired, training for five and half hours in the rain even if I didn’t really want to. That’s what I mean about doing your best. Provided you know you have achieved to the best of your ability, in whatever you choose to do, nobody can ask more of you and you cannot ask more of yourself.” Colin Jackson in the new Fitness Suite at Somercotes Colin Jackson sneaks a look at the yearbook while visiting one Academy with GCSE PE students and members of staff. of the new Science Labs on his tour of Somercotes Academy. 1206 Somercotes Standard • September Somercotes Standard • September 1307 Having just returned from commentating for the BBC at the Rio Student Phoebe Perrow (14) said: Olympics when he visited, Colin has carved a successful career for himself post athletics competition. Many feel he was robbed “Getting advice of the title in the 2005 BBC Strictly Come Dancing Final, but got his own back when he won the Christmas special the from someone who following year.