The Ebbsfleet NEWSLETTER Summer 2019

Principal’s Message It is impossible for me to convey This summer too, of course, we our endeavours over the last in a few words the sense of pride, celebrate the success of our first seven years. I would like to thank joy and emotion I feel, looking Year 13 cohort, several of whom my amazing team of staff, who it back over the last seven years. have already secured university has been a total joy and privilege They have been some of the places. to lead. I would like to pass on happiest, most challenging, my thanks and best wishes to all I am proud of the achievements most rewarding and some of of our wonderful children, and of everyone who works, or who the saddest of my career. The encourage everyone of them to has worked here, but it is time sadness is of course having continue to work their hardest for me to pass the baton on to suffered, this year, the loss of our and be the best version of Ms Shergill. I know that she will dear colleague Rick Purvis, who themselves; always remember to be a great leader and will build we will never forget. The pride is aspire and excel. further on the strong foundations in what we have achieved over that we have laid. I want to Alison Colwell the last seven years and the thank all the families that have outcomes we have secured for worked with us and supported so many of our young people. Ms Gurjit Kaur Shergill I am delighted and honoured to be appointed as the new Principal for The Ebbsfleet Academy, and I am very keen to get to know parents, as well as the students and staff.

I am determined that the academy builds on its legacy and continues to flourish and maintain its position at the heart of our community. By working together, we can ensure that all students enjoy their time here, make excellent progress and leave us with the necessary skills and attitudes to lead successful to finding out more about the Together, we can change lives. and fulfilling lives. academy so that the changes Many Thanks I am aware that The Ebbsfleet we make in this new chapter Academy has had a history of of our history are supported by Ms Gurjit Kaur Shergill change. I am looking forward the whole school community. The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 3 IB Success We are very excited to We are very 13 first ever Year have our for the examination results International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme be sending and are thrilled to to university. our first students are due in Congratulations Barnard particular to Marc grade 6s who achieved two and a grade for his IB subjects subject. A for his vocational We look forward to receiving the rest of the results in mid- August. Well done to all the Year 13 students who worked so hard towards their exams. and Paralympics - and who have and Paralympics - and who have overcome their own significant personal challenges. Hannah, Paige and Tilly have been working closely with Claire Bennett from the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust this year to develop their leadership skills and confidence on the AQA Unlocking Potential Programme. They have worked incredibly hard to put together a social action project to raise awareness and funds for Young Minds in school. Competition Southeastern “In Bloom” Southeastern “In Bloom” AQA Unlocking Potential Unlocking Potential AQA Every year Southeastern Train stations have a competition to see which station can look the prettiest in bloom. This year we were delighted to be invited to provide colourful artwork from our students. The winners were Summer Venkatachellum (Year 7), Miller Simpson (Year 7) and Tara Reidy O’Brien (Year 13). Their outstanding art work is currently on display at The Ebbsfleet International Train Station for all to see. Students from across the country Students from across the country came to the QEII Centre in Westminster to celebrate completing the 2018/19 AQA Unlocking Potential programme. AQA Unlocking Potential is a mentoring programme for young people aged 11 to 19 who have faced personal challenges or disadvantages. The programme is delivered in partnership with the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, whose specially trained mentors competed at world-class sporting events - including the Olympics and they did very well. Their signing was beautiful and their hard work really showed. Ms Horn was very proud of all of them. from other schools who have been together for much longer inspirational and Year 7 and 8 are already becoming keen recyclers! Sainsbury’s had already done, and the brand’s environmental commitments. His talk was

are doing an excellent job! events, and helping students who are new to the academy. Well done ambassadors, you roles are many, and include attending meetings with the Leadership Team, speaking at were selected following a letter of application and a successful interview. Their Our Ebbsfleet Ambassadors of plastics. He explained what latest statistics on recycling and explained his personal commitment to reducing the use Ebbsfleet Academy and talk to our Year 7 and 8s about plastics and recycling. He shared the Mike Coupe came to visit The The girls have been practising very hard and performed beautifully. They competed against choirs school to take part in a Signing Choir Competition. In June, Kiranjoht Shergill, Miller Simpson, Aleyna Ali, Jessie Nimmo and others travelled to Essex after Mike Coupe Sainsbury’s CEO Sainsbury’s Mike Coupe

Ebbsfleet Ambassadors Signing Choir

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July. th Dartford Dartford Library Writing Writing Library Competition Megan Congratulations to has been Innes, Year 8 who Up in chosen as Runner Writing the Dartford Library wrote Competition. Megan on the a fantastic short story has theme of space. Megan attend the also been invited to Grand Finalé at Dartford Library on 20 the students chatting excitedly and taking photographs whilst parents looked on beaming - and some sobbing - with pride! We then journeyed to Greenwich on the main bus before a red London event, a dance on board as we cruised up the River Thames into central London. The ball started in style with a drinks reception in the atrium and June saw the th celebrating the end of the GCSE examinations and wishing a fond farewell to those Year 11 students not returning to us for EA6. The students all looked wonderful in their suits and ball gowns, seemingly having left us after the exams as boys and girls and returning to us as young men and young women. Ten lucky Year 9 students went to Canterbury Christ Church University this term to gain some insight into careers in medicine. They had the opportunity to meet numerous surgeons from a range of disciplines including ophthalmology, cardiology and neurology and took part in CPR, A&E diagnostic and practised keyhole surgery in workshops Thursday 27 sixth annual Year 11 Ball, The Ball Canterbury Christ Church Christ Canterbury University now is how will next year’s event now is how will next year’s event upstage this one? the day. Students had to choose the day. Students had to choose the least well known answers to some science questions, in order to gain the fewest points possible, as in the BBC television quiz show, Pointless. Congratulations to Bell House who were the winners! Undoubtedly, everyone’s favourite parts of the event were Mr Schofield’s incredible scientific demonstrations! The question best contributors from each team best contributors from each team were chosen to represent their House in the final at the end of ?

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Teacher Are You Smarter Than a Are You Smarter Than custard and lung with baked beans. Following on from this, the students had to identify- by feel alone (and maybe a bit of smell)- such concoctions as kidney and course, we included the infamous course, we included the infamous gross-stuff-in-a-box round, where identification, and designing the identification, and designing the most efficient paper aeroplane (under some serious pressure). Of consisted of science based tasks consisted of science based tasks and questions, including acid- alkali neutralisation, micrograph inter-House competition this term each House went head to head in a series of heats. These In our Science Does Pointless as well as history and general knowledge, the teachers came out on top! questions ranging from English to maths and science to Spanish, Years 7-9 battled it out with their teachers to decide once and for all who was the smartest. With On Friday 19 Science Does ‘Pointless’ Science

The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 4 The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 7 the participants learned a lot and the participants learned a lot and improved an enormous amount. Hopefully everyone will be looking forward to moving up to the Silver level next year! With all the goodies sold and the money students paid to take part we managed to raise a huge £454!! This money can pay for a community playground in Zambia and have money left over to spend. In addition the money raised will be matched by the UK government. - Drake around 15km a day, and two around 15km a day, nights of camping. Given the weight of rucksacks that everyone was carrying, they did extremely well and should be very proud of themselves. Everyone showed impressive resilience, teamwork and independence and we hope that you will all go on to complete your Gold awards in the future. expedition, with two days of hiking and one night of camping on each. For many participants, this was their first experience of hiking, independent navigating, cooking on a camping stove, putting up tents and more. All of th - Sharman, 4 rd - Bell & Scott, 3 st Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Duke Soccer Aid Silver Duke of Edinburgh Duke of Edinburgh Silver Thank you to all staff, students and parents/carers who supported our UNICEF Soccer Aid Playground Challenge. The students thoroughly enjoyed an afternoon of football, ice creams, cakes and sweets! Ebbsfleet United kindly donated a family ticket to any home game next season for us to give to a player of our choice. Congratulations to Ellie George for winning this! Not only did Ellie play exceptionally well, demonstrating great sportsmanship and constantly encouraging the other girls in her House, she also raised £26 in sponsorship money! After an afternoon of competition the results were as follows: Joint 1 Congratulations to the eight Congratulations participants who successfully completed their Silver Duke of Edinburgh expeditions this year. This was the first ever year of Silver DofE at The Ebbsfleet Academy, making this a particularly impressive achievement. All participants completed a practice and a qualifier expedition, each involving three days of hiking Congratulations as well to the fifteen participants who completed their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh expeditions this year. Split into three groups, the participants completed a practice and a qualifier sport. Congratulations to The with 2,700 points the first winner of The Brook Learning Trust Games. The Ebbsfleet Academy were awarded second place. The individual ‘Sportsperson Cup’ was awarded to Lewis Kemp, Year 9, from The Ebbsfleet Academy. teamwork displayed from all students and great competition to win for their House. A very rewarding day for both students and teachers. take part in competitive school finishing with our traditional finishing with our athletics events. The day was a great success with participation at its highest. Outstanding

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Archery Silverware Brook Learning Trust Games Brook Learning weekend! A huge congratulations to Sipahi Selim, for winning silver in the under 18 boys barebow. the Academy Archery club won its first ever national medal this We are excited to announce that within the Trust’s schools to The BLT Games created a unique opportunity for students Games’ to award the ‘Winners Shield’ and the ‘Sportsperson Cups’. the Mayor of Tonbridge and Malling, Jill Anderson, to attend ‘The Brook Learning Trust (BLT) On Tuesday 16 Hayesbrook School welcomed activities; Handball, Dodge Ball, Rounders and Ultimate Frisbee, Sports Day 2019 saw all our of in a variety part taking students Overall with 187 points, closely followed by Bell with 183, third place Scott and lastly Sharman. This year has seen a very close This year has seen call between Houses, seeing Drake winning the Sports Day

The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 6 The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 9 that their applications to become that their applications to become ‘Ebbsfleet Ambassadors’ were successful - congratulations, we can’t wait to see you in your new roles! In May, over 20 students had been invited (by golden ticket invitation only!) to an important breakfast event with the Leadership Team and Heads of Houses. In this event, students were given the tremendous news years. Students also took part in a years. Students also took part in park design workshop where their great ideas for future parks and open spaces were shared with the development team. Guildhall in London Ebbsfleet Development Corporation Ebbsfleet Golden Ticket Event Golden At the end of June, 23 students from Years 9, 10 and 12 went to Guildhall in London for the Apprentice 19 event. The students were able to enquire about the range of apprenticeships available to them post-16 and post-18 and have come away with some big aspirations for their futures! Amongst the companies in attendance were the BBC, British Airways, KPMG and The Independent. Thank you to Ebbsfleet Development Corporation for hosting our Year 7 Geography field trip. The students were fascinated to learn more about the future developments that will unfold in the coming months and

th turn the tide with a Rounders score of 27.5 vs 25. This brings the overall scores to 1-1. The decider will take place next academic year. July, EA6 students managed to The next staff vs students event took place on Wednesday 17 year we will have an official trophy for the winning team to parade. Thank you to all those who helped run and support a wonderful Fete. of War, Houses and staff battled of War, Houses and it out on the field. Scott were victors in KS3, Bell won KS4 and the students beat the staff. Next

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Staff vs Student Games Summer Fete - Battle of the House of the Fete - Battle Summer score 11-5. work ethic, resilience and determination the staff won 11 games in total making the final Students battled well to win 5 games but with the staff us a moment to relax and have some fun before the final weeks of the year. all staff to strengthen the bond between EA6 and staff giving Student Badminton Competition. EA6 students Nitika and Ritika Kumar wanted to challenge On Thursday 4 invited to take part in the Staff vs This year we introduced TEA Tug Band! We took over £700! The winning house was Drake, their stalls raised £276. by our Houses. We also got to enjoy a display by the Piping friends and staff all enjoyed the wonderful afternoon. The sun shone on traditional Fete stalls ran With the return of the fun With the return of inflatables, Kangoo Jumps and Kick It Darts, students, family,

The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 8 The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 11 Ms Wright: English Teacher Ms Ross: English Teacher Ms Probyn: Geography Teacher Mr Puwar: RE Teacher Ms Lonergan: Maths Teacher Ms Soloman: Technology Technician I am truly sad to be leaving The Ebbsfleet Academy and all the wonderful students and staff I am truly sad to be leaving The - I joined Ebbsfleet a little over five years ago, and it has been an honour to have worked with I joined Ebbsfleet a little over five

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Ms Ironside as Director of Learning, Maths Ms Gallimore as Director of Learning, Design Technology Ms Douglas as Deputy Director of Learning, English Ms Garrott: Design Technology Teacher Ms Ateya: History Teacher Ms Hallows-Ashford: Art Teacher Dr Pearson: Science Teacher Welcome... Mr Daulby to a new challenge and I Unfortunately, I am moving on students and excellent teachers. some wonderful school. Academy an outstanding and students luck in making Ebbsfleet wish all the staff Ms Menhennet to make - I of years. The choice to leave was an extremely difficult one I’ve worked with over the last couple to do. I’ll be an international school, which is something I’ve always wanted am moving overseas to teach in keeping in touch! Ms Simmonds The love, truly dedicated to serving the needs of every student, every day. such a committed team of staff, I have ever staff make for the children is unlike no other workplace or school care and sacrifices I have seen Ebbsfleet students and Ebbsfleet community. I have no doubt that The visited and I will truly miss the staff, and develop, and wish everyone the very best. Academy will continue to thrive While I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching your children and leading the wonderful While I have thoroughly enjoyed It is with a heavy heart that I am moving on from the academy. I am getting married this It is with a heavy heart that I am moving on from the academy. After four wonderful years at The Ebbsfleet Academy, I will be moving to teach at an I will be moving to teach years at The Ebbsfleet Academy, After four wonderful - I have had a wonderful time teaching at the academy for the past four years! I’ve thoroughly I have had a wonderful time teaching - During my time at The Ebbsfleet Academy I have had an amazing experience developing my During my time at The Ebbsfleet Academy I have had an amazing

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- It is with a heavy heart that I am leaving The Ebbsfleet Academy. I have the good fortune to It is with a heavy heart that I am leaving The Ebbsfleet Academy.

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Farewell... becoming a paediatrician. Ms Yu for the next four years with the hopes of the year. I will be, instead, attending medical school in Liverpool sorely miss all the staff and students I have got to know over the last two years. Thank you all! sorely miss all the staff and students I have got to know over the summer and a long commute and a desire to work closer to where I live have prompted my move. I will summer and a long commute and a desire to work closer to where Mr Appleby Cavender and Ms Facer for taking me under their wing and helping me through my first year of teaching. Cavender and Ms Facer for taking me under their wing and helping be very sad to leave but have chosen to return to University to develop my teaching career further. I would be very sad to leave but have chosen to return to University to develop humanities department and specifically Ms like to thank the teaching staff for all their support, especially the teaching skills, meeting the incredible teaching staff and becoming part of this fantastic community. I will teaching skills, meeting the incredible teaching staff and becoming Ms Franklin Best of luck in the future! with a particular thanks to all of the wonderful students at TEA that have made my time here so enjoyable. with a particular thanks to all of the wonderful students at TEA that be able to teach in a different country after this school year and experience the new challenges and be able to teach in a different country after this school year and support and hard work since September, opportunities that this brings. I would like to thank everyone for their Mr Woods friends and family. Director of English. For the next stage of my career I have decided to relocate to Surrey to be closer to my Director of English. For the next stage of my career I have decided enjoyed teaching such fantastic students and working with so many inspirational colleagues - I will miss you students and working with so many inspirational colleagues - I will enjoyed teaching such fantastic superb Knuckles who will be taking over my role, I know he will make a all! I would like to congratulate Mr Ms Thomas academic year with Year 11 and look forward to seeing you again in August for the results day. academic year with Year 11 and learning and their personal development. I am very grateful for all of the parents’ support throughout this I am very grateful for all of the parents’ support throughout learning and their personal development. mathematics department, I am leaving to join as an Assistant Head Teacher in leaving to join The Malling School as an Assistant Head Teacher in mathematics department, I am their of each of your children and the progress they have made in September. I am incredibly proud Mr Dmytruk - remind you to keep working hard. I can’t wait to see what you do with your lives! remind you to keep working hard. 10s who have made every day I have taught them a happy one. I wish you all the success in the world, and have taught them a happy one. I wish you all the success in the 10s who have made every day I incredibly sad to be leaving The Ebbsfleet Academy and all the teachers and students I’ve loved working Ebbsfleet Academy and all the teachers and students I’ve loved incredibly sad to be leaving The Year the students – in particular, my incredible Year 12s and my marvellous with. I’m especially sad to leave Ms Facer progress over the coming years. be at such a fantastic school. I am so sad to be leaving everyone, and I look forward to following Ebbsfleet’s so sad to be leaving everyone, and I look forward to following be at such a fantastic school. I am Ms Samuels is so lucky to I have had an amazing time working here; every student here international school in Singapore.

The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 10 The Ebbsfleet Academy NEWSLETTER Page 12 September, 6:00PM th July, we held our Second th September - Macmillian Coffee September - Macmillian th September 2019 rd TEA Association Association TEA Quiz Night Upcoming Events Events Upcoming have fun at the support and Come along, events: following Friday 13 to 2:30pm Afternoon 1:15pm Questions by Mr Horton, TEA Quiz Night – 2019. Date to be Mastermind Semi-Finalist announced soon! September 2019, 5pm-6PM families that will be joining us in September. families that will be joining us in September. with We hope being placed on teams teachers has not given you concerns. & Sapori We would also like to thank Odori making by Romeo for coming along and their wonderful, fresh pizzas! On Thursday 11 and was Quiz night. Mr Field took charge team a funny, yet strict Quiz Master. The of 57, Exquizites won with 45points out It was closely followed by the other teams. new lovely to be joined by some of our th September 2019 th Year 8 - Year 13 arrive for 11:15AM | Key Dates www.theebbsfleetacademy.kent.sch.uk School Photos - Friday 20 All students to return to school on Tuesday 3 Year 7 Line up at 8:20AM Year 7 parents - ‘Meet the Tutor’ - Thursday 12 Year 12 parents - ‘EA6 Parents’ Information Session - Wednesday 11 Year 12 parents - ‘EA6 Parents’ Information Session - Wednesday

Year 11 Leavers are joining the working world, or attending different colleges. the very best of luck to those who join our sixth form, EA6, we wish exams. Although we will see many of them return in September to left after finishing their final GCSE left after finishing their final GCSE to our Year 11 students as they In June we said a sad farewell