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1 A note from the Head of Academy
Hello and welcome to this edition of Academy especially those whose work and studies have Life, my first as Head of Academy. It has been been interrupted by the need to self-isolate a very unusual time to take up the headship for periods of time. In this pages you will also of a school, but I am extremely proud of how find our latest updates on home learning. well our students have risen to the challenge I hope you enjoy reading about all the of learning in COVID bubbles, and I am very amazing things our students have been doing grateful for the hard work and support of staff recently, and I look forward to hearing from and students. parents - you can always get in touch via the details below. This magazine is the first since we went into lockdown in the spring, and we have so Yours sincerely, much to celebrate: our new Year 7 students have made an excellent start to their school careers, whilst our summer leavers achieved Chris Beard great things as they collected their results and Head of Academy moved on to college and apprenticeships. Our virtual Minecraft edition of the academy was a big hit over the summer and has even [email protected] been featured on a Japanese news website! Facebook.com/CoopManchester We won our Green Flag award, started a new project with Football Beyond Borders and had Twitter: @CoopManchester a great Anti-Bullying Week. manchester.coopacademies.co.uk Of course it has been difficult for many of us,
"We exist to value each other and bring out the best in everyone"
Fair and seen to be fair to everyone
Our values are: Ambition; to raise aspirations and inspire all of us to achieve Respect shown to ourselves, each other and our community
We are RHS Campaign for School Gardening • Over the last couple of years, students proud to We are lucky to have been heavily involved in years 7 to 10 have taken part in with the RHS Campaign for School weekly litter picks around the local Gardening. In 2018 our student Eco- area. Some of our students were be awarded Warriors designed a garden as part of the even interviewed live on BBC Radio Green Plan-It project. The students worked Manchester as part of their Don’t Mess with a horticultural mentor to discover With Manchester campaign. our first the wonderful world of plants, and rethink the role of our academy’s green spaces, • Students and members of the 105th winning an award for the Most Innovative Manchester Scouts gave up their half Eco-Schools design. term to clear an area of land; sowing wildflower seeds, making stick piles and We are pleased to have been recognised hanging bird boxes. We now have a Green Flag for our contribution to school gardening, wildlife garden and were excited to see as a nominee for the RHS School nesting great tits! Gardeners of the Year 2020. The Eco-Schools Green Flag is an • We were donated 420 saplings by The internationally recognised award for continued Looking back it’s hard to decide where Woodland Trust, which students and excellence in improving environmental we’ve made the biggest change, so here staff have planted around the academy performance and learning. are just a few of our Green Flag highlights: grounds.
Over the last few years, dedicated students and staff have worked tirelessly towards making the academy more sustainable. Since We can’t wait to see achieving our Eco-Schools Bronze Award in what more our students July 2017, our academy “Green Team” has can achieve! gone from strength to strength; creating an eco-code, holding regular eco-committee Miss Morley meetings, encouraging multiple recycling and energy-saving initiatives.
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Mr Musa’ad said, “We focused on the idea Mrs Brice and Mrs Tindall created a great BLACK that Black History is British History and we display in the Library. Mrs Brice said she used David Olusoga’s book to gain a lot of was, “Loving that this Black History Month HISTORY our information, in terms of a black presence display is already causing students to stop being evident in Britain’s history even from the and browse our diverse voices collection Roman period.” of books.” MONTH We’ll leave the final word with Year 7 2020 student Ema who designed a virtual museum celebrating Black History. She said, “I think that no matter what culture Originating in the USA, Black History you have, or race, everyone is important Month (BHM) is observed in the UK and equal.” throughout the month of October. It aims to highlight and recognise the achievements of people of African and Caribbean descent.
The Co-op celebrated the occasion by having a free virtual poetry session on 18 October. We also raised awareness with a series of tutor activities which focussed We know that Black history is important all on Black British history. Students learnt year round and our new science mural reflects that BHM was first launched in London that with NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson in the 1980s, where the aim was for the (1918 – 2020) recognised for her inspiring local community to challenge racism and work. educate themselves and others about the British history that was not taught in schools. Students also discovered that Queen Victoria had a black goddaughter who was a Princess called Omoba Ain who came from present day Nigeria.
Remembrance Day
This year Remembrance Day was marked very differently around the world.
In the academy, staff and students observed a two-minute silence as a mark of respect to those who have given their lives in conflicts. Miss McFadyen filmed an assembly which was played to all students during tutor time.
Students and staff recorded readings of two well-known war poems - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae and Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. Lest We Forget
Our EAL students wrote poems in their intervention lessons. Here is Osazee’s:
3 Bookbuzz
This year we are taking part in the Bookbuzz reading programme from BookTrust which aims to help schools inspire a love of reading in 11 to 13-year-olds.
All Year 7 students have had the opportunity to choose their own book to take home and keep from a list of 17 titles. All the books are carefully selected by a panel of experts to ensure quality, suitability and to encourage reading for pleasure. Students were introduced to the books during their English classes - where they got to listen virtually to the authors reading a passage from the book. Students then selected their favourite book from the list.
Students are encouraged to read their book, take the Accelerated Read quiz and write a book review (for which they will receive classcharts points).
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Rating:
The Plot
Harry Potter is about to start his second year in Hogwarts, a school full of witches and wizards. But this year is no ordinary one. The chamber of secrets have been opened once again and a strange creature is attacking muggle-born students. Harry puts his life in danger once again to help his friends and classmates. He learned the secrets about Hogwarts and about Lord Voldemort.
My Opinion
I enjoyed this book because it is full of action and fantasy. It is extremely imaginative. My favourite part is when Harry is writing in the Tom Riddle’s diary and he is transported in his memory because it shows a lot of the back story. My favourite character is Hermione in this book because she is intelligent and help Ron and Harry discover what the monster was. I recommend this book for 10+ children and adults who like fantasy and action.
Written by Yilei, Year 8
4 ACCELERATED READER UPDATE 2020/21 Half Term 1
100% AR 370 BOOKS Quiz Draw winner since September 2020 (Picked at random from students who have achieved 100% in an Accelerated Reader Quiz) This equals Denisa (Year 8) 12,980,027 words Wins 1000 Classcharts Points If you want to be in with a chance to win 1000 points this half term, Family AR Read, Quiz, Repeat. The more times you get 100%, the more chances you League Table have to win! Accelerated Reader Points Family earned Half Term 1
Brierley 830 Acland 735 Double Points Usiri 605
We DOUBLE the number of AR points when we reward students on Classcharts – larger books are worth more points. Cooper 545 (You can find out how many points a library book is worth by looking inside the front cover. You can check non-library Edhi 470 books by visiting AR Bookfinder at https://www.arbookfind.co.uk/) Ashworth 380
To help your family win points, simply READ, QUIZ, REPEAT. REMEMBER:
100% = 5 extra Classcharts points and an entry into the 1000 points prize draw every half term.
5 CAREERS
Sixth Form colleges include: Connell Manchester, and we hope to see them Co-op College, Xaverian College, play for the first team very soon. Loreto College, Rochdale Sixth Form College and Oldham Sixth Form We wish all our students the best of luck College. in their new adventures and ask them to keep in touch and let us know their We saw our highest number of future achievements. Class of 2020 students gain a scholarship with the local football club FC United of Mrs Godfrey Even though the Class of 2020 didn’t get the opportunity to sit their exams, they have still succeeded in securing further education and training opportunities.
Further Education colleges include:
Bury College, Salford City College, The Manchester College and HopwoodHall College.
6 STUDENT WELLBEING TEAM
An introduction Anti-Bullying to the Student Week 2020 Wellbeing Team To mark Anti-Bullying Week, our Student Wellbeing Team launched a Our mission is to ensure that all students poster competition asking students to here feel safe when they come into the design posters raising awareness of school environment. We are here to talk the impacts of bullying. to you if you have any issues regarding your personal wellbeing or bullying. We had some thought-provoking entries. The overall winner, as chosen So, what is bullying? by the students, was Anusha in Year 8. Anusha’s poster shows how, just “Bullying is repeated negative like the biggest part of an iceberg behaviour that is intended to make is beneath the sea, the effects of others feel upset, uncomfortable or bullying are often hidden from view. unsafe”. Well done and thank you to It’s easy to feel alone when being all students that entered the bullied, but there are always people to competition. talk to: the Student Wellbeing Team, your LPSO, form tutor, or any other trusted adult. You could use the Speak Wellbeing blog Up button which can be found on the student vle to report an issue.
Be sure to visit the new Wellbeing page on the VLE - vle.cam.coop/wellbeing
The Student Wellbeing Team will be updating the page regularly with useful Anti-bullying information, and writing a topical blog We have introduced an anti-bullying post every two weeks. charter charter we call the ‘We wills’ which outlines what we, as students, will do in order to combat bullying in our academy. As a team we have achieved Bullying is repeated negative so much in the past year, including behaviour that is intended to creating lots of tutor time activities make others feel upset, raising awareness on topics affecting uncomfortable or unsafe. teens. We also recently launched our Wellbeing Blog. Showing respect to someone means you act in a way that In the future, we want to help students’ shows you care about their wellbeing even further - we’re already feelings and well-being. planning an activity for primary schools and possibly looking to introduce Feel Good Fridays!
We don’t want any student to feel alone whilst dealing with any issue and we e will: will continue, with the support of all be kind and treat everyone fairly academy students, to make a change respect other people’s belongings for the better. respect other people’s views include others in our conversations use the term bullying correctly By Tamar, Year 9 tell someone if we are being bullied tell someone if someone else is being bullied listen if someone says they are being bullied always treat everyone as a friend
7 PUPIL POWER
After lockdown, we will be launching our very own Power racing team! 8 Green Year Power allows students to experience building Green whilst managing their and racing their own Kit Car, own student-led team. Students will gain hands-on practical applications of STEM subjects (Science, Engineering & Maths), developing their Technology, knowledge and understanding of Physics, Technology and Engineering. Students will also use their developed teamwork and evaluation skills to make theirpossible when racing Kit Car as successful as against other schools. wait to get started! can’t We Mr Montgomery We have been lucky enough to be able to provide to provide enough to be able have been lucky We to KS4 students, equipment art and photography enabling them to practice their skills at home. This as well as extra some excellent in ILTs, has resulted talented artists by our and work being produced photographers. Green Power Green Art and Art Photography
Music Lessons Some of our students have been experiencing smallSome of our students have been experiencing music lessons with specialised teaching. group with instruments, Students have been provided alongside tutorials, to enhance the music curriculum their creativity. and allow them to express some students have been provided Additionally, drum sets and with equipment such as electronic to to take home! It has been a pleasure trombones see and hear their talents.
Ms Robey, Ms Jackson and Ms Waters have begun Ms Jackson and Ms Waters Ms Robey, delivery of our new Drive programme. will 8 students ‘drive’ to success both inside Year with support through and outside of the classroom, and mentoring, as well as working tutorials, resources received They have and carers. closely with parents in their tutorials, Mr Edwards excellent feedback from of the steps they have already all proud and we are taken to be the best they can be. will 8, and soon be for Year This is an exciting project experienced by other groups. year Drive Ms Peavoy At Co-op Academy Manchester, we Manchester, Academy At Co-op students all to helping committed are have We their full potential. achieve a range begun implementing already and activities that of programmes and students’ wellbeing support curriculum. and enrich their learning 8 R E W O P L I P U P Football Beyond Borders
“Co-op Academy Manchester are proud to announce that we are working with Football Beyond Borders for the second year running. 16 Year 8 students will develop their leadership, teamwork and thinking skills through a Football based curriculum. This not only helps develop their literacy and problem solving skills, but also helps them to make good choices in their learning both inside and outside of the classroom.
I have been proud of all the Year 8s involved, who have worked hard in all aspects of the programme so far and see how much they have developed as young people already.
Myself, Ms Mitchell and Mr Talabi are excited to watch their progress over the next few months and learn who has achieved Player of the Week, and who will receive the exciting football based rewards. Keep up the good work Year 8!”
Miss Peavoy
Declan:
“I love taking part in Football Beyond Borders because I have people I know I can trust; not only the staff but students as well. The staff help us a lot, especially in the classroom and then in the last hour we have a game of football. Thanks to the school for specially picking me for this!”
Dezzie:
“Football Beyond Borders is a great chance to express myself to the key leaders because it takes my mind off of work and to focus on football. It is a great environment to be around because it helps me strengthen leadership and teamwork skills. In the 3 sessions we have had so far, it has made my behaviour a bit better, so I am hoping that by the end of it I will be a better person than I was when we started. James, Sam and Nuh are great people because they will have a laugh with you and make you crack a smile. I hope I get to stay in Football Beyond Borders because it is an amazing experience and for me to change up my behaviour and attitude. Another good thing is that they give you treats when you do things right and behave so they are always praising you. As well, if I ever feel like I need a chat, I feel safe to talk to one of them about it because I trust them.”
Leon:
“The staff at Football Beyond Borders help with teamwork, leadership and many more skills. In the first part of the session, we stay in a classroom and learn about Football Beyond Borders and developing skills through fun activities. In the second session we go outside onto the 3G Pitch and play a game of football and everybody joins in. All together Football Beyond Borders is great and the staff are too!”
Kane:
“Football Beyond Borders is an amazing place to be. It helps me with my anger as my team skills grew and I grew less and less mad at things. It helps me to burn my energy and calms me down for the rest of the day.”
Sam - FBB Leader:
“Working with the academy this year is an absolute pleasure.. The Year 8 boys always bring enthusiasm and charisma to each FBB session; with a real desire to learn and better themselves both in and out of School. So far this year, the boys have focussed on team building and positive relationships whilst taking part on FBB’s ‘Squad Goals’ project. This module allows the group to explore relationships within a team as well as developing their empathetic skills when uplifting each other in times of adversity. As the year progresses, we look forward to exploring more challenges and more importantly how the boys react to them.” 9 Home Learning
Google Classroom is becoming a big part of the way How to find your we learn at Co-op Academy Manchester.
Whether it’s for ILTs or for studying at home due to way around Google self-isolation, we have launched a new and improved section of our website for parents at Classroom https://manchester.coopacademies.co.uk/parents/ home-learning/ Once the student is logged in to Google Classroom Here are some key tips: they will be able to see all the subjects they study. They may see some upcoming assignment deadlines on the home page – but there will be more to see if they click in each subject. When your child joins the academy, they are given As well as looking at the ‘stream’ we also advise an academy Google account. This gives them students to look at the ‘classwork’ tab for each access to: subject. Here the teachers will organise the assignments and materials under useful topics. This video tour of Google Classroom is a good way • Gmail – to email their teachers to see it in action - • Google Classroom – where we set ‘assignments’ for students to ‘turn in’ – this is https://youtu.be/awmgsegm710 where students can find their homework (we prefer to call these Independent Learning Tasks), and also any classwork set (e.g. if students are self-isolating and need to complete at home).
• Google Drive – to store their files in the cloud
• Google Docs, Google Slides and other apps to write essays, create presentations and more.
These tools work on different devices like desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones. They work on Windows, Android and Apple devices. You can download the app versions. But they also work well in web browsers like Chrome.
How to log in
Click the ‘sign in’ button at https://www.google.com/
To log on to their academy Google account from home, students will need to use their academy email address – it will look like 20jbloggs99@ coopmanchester.co.uk – they then use their Google password.
Please note that if the student or a family member are already signed into Google using a personal account, it can cause issues. You may need to switch between accounts or sign out of other accounts.
It can also be a good idea to set up different profiles in Chrome to switch easily between the academy account and personal accounts.
10 Supplying our NHS with face masks and safety equipment
One of the key messages during the Covid-19 crisis has been to “stay home, protect the NHS, save lives”. At Co-op Academy Manchester, we have been proud to go one step further.
Firstly, we offered school places for children of key workers during the national lockdown. This allowed those in vital jobs to continue going to work without Our PPE hero is Technology Technician Mr having to leave children at home alone. Montgomery, along with Ms Stannard and Mr Simpson. Our Science department donated all our unopened safety goggles to local hospitals. We have been delighted to receive some photos and Using our 3D printers and laser cutter, we have kind words from NHS staff. manufactured over 2,000 visors and expanders for face masks to make it more comfortable for the _ workers. These items have been donated to North Manchester General Hospital, care homes, nursing We are also extremely proud of our students. They homes, community care workers and doctors have shown maturity and resilience during these surgeries, helping to keep them safe and able to carry difficult circumstances. We have been especially out their important jobs. touched by this poem from Ruby in year 8.
If you are a care worker in need of PPE please get in touch via [email protected]
“We just wanted to say a massive thank you for the visors that you delivered, they have been such a massive help in keeping all our staff healthy and in turn able to continue to treat the community and make sure they in turn stay healthy. “In the last 3 weeks since your delivery we have had no staff with COVID symptoms and one of the factors has to be the excellent PPE that we have been given so thank you
.” Thornbrook Surgery 11 PSHE, RSE CITIZENSHIP PSHE, RSE CITIZENSHIP
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2 2 Changing Rural landscapes: UK EO RAPHY CASE STUDIES Renewable energies: Malmo, Sweden • Cambridge Science park is home to more than 100 businesses, companies such as Toshiba research group and Microsoft, which are involved in lots of Key Food waste is used to create a biogas. 10kg of food waste areas of expertise such as medical , IT and environmental. creates biogas the equivalent of 1 litre of petrol. 1 2 +The science park employs around 5,000 people. 1 Paper 1 Tourism: reducing the Solar tubes on the outside of buildings produce hot water -80% car ownership is leading to increased traffic on narrow country roads Deserts which are stored 90m below ground and heat and reducing demand for public transport. development gap buildings in winter. Paper 2 Challenges - Extreme 2 There is a 2MW wind turbine to provide energy to temperatures (50 degrees in +2014 tourism contributed to 24% of Jamaica’s GDP. • The Outer Hebrides, Small isolated islands in the North of Scotland. Main homes and workplaces. Sahara). Very little water +$2billion each year from tourism. employment is breeding sheep on small farms called crofts and fishing more (Only 12-24 cm of rain a +200,000 tourists visit. than 900 fishing boats. year in Sahara). -1.1 million Cruise passengers only spend $70 per day. +2007-2014 there was a 27% increase in visitors (infrastructure can’t really -Tourism mainly develops the coast leaving large support it). Solutions - Tourism - Egypt has scale poverty inland. -Aging population and a 50% decrease in population. 10 million visitors a year. Energy generation - Morocco gets 40% of energy from 1 solar power. Nepal LIC earthquake 2015 Hurricane Irma
Effect - 9000 died Effect - 130 died 1 1 Effect – 23,000 injured Effect - $64 billion damage Desertification Deforestation in Amazon Response - UK charities 1 Response - 7 million people evacuated. raised £126 million Response - Power restored within 4 days. Cause - population growth Cause - Deforestation for cattle farming Response - Red Cross - sent in Africa, overgrazing (80%), logging and mining. tents for 225,000 people unable to help themselves. 2 Hydro-electric power: Nepal Solutions - plant more trees Effect – Jobs $7 billion a year from cattle (Green wall in Africa). farming, soil erosion and climate change. • Nepal has no fossil fuels of its own for its Water management 28 million people. ‘Magic Stones’in Africa. Response - selective logging (only cut 1 • It is a landlocked LIC which reduces its down certain trees), ecotourism. Beast from the East UK weather 2018 ability to import energy. • Only 9% of the rural population in Nepal 2 Effect - 17 died have electricity. Effect - Two pupils injured • Micro hydropower has minimal impact on RIO: Urban Issues and Challenges by falling tree in Blackley. the environment. Response - Stranded • Building a small-scale hydro-power Challenges: drivers provided with system can cost from $1,000 – $20,000, as • Health: Life expectancy is 80 in some areas of Rio and 45 in Cidada favela. blankets. opposed to millions for a large scale dam. • Energy: 73% of individuals in slums do not have access to mains electricity. Solutions: • Health care: E-Health Project- The equipment in the backpack enabled them to detect Manchester: Urban Issues and Challenges 2 an average of 20 different diseases such as hypertension and 2 Diabetes within minutes. Shell: TNC in Nigeria Regeneration scheme- Salford Quays: • Energy: Development of the new Simplicio hydro-electric complex which will increase 1 In 1982, when the docks closed there was a loss of 3,000 jobs. Rio’s supply of electricity by 30%. It took 6 years to build and cost over $2 billion (US). +employs 250,000 people New Zealand HIC In 1994 £64 million in funding was given towards the Lowry employed earthquake 2011 Theatre which attracts 820,000 visitors per year. Improving Rio’s environment +91% of Shell contracts to Nigerian In 1987, after years of industrial pollution, water quality in the Problems: companies developing the energy Effect - 185 died canals improves; 12,000 coarse fish are introduced to the area. • Traffic congestion: The number of cars on the roads have grown by 40% in the last sector. Effect - 2000 injured Today there are 7,000 people employed in media city alone as decade. -Bodo oil spill left 200 people a result of the project. • Water pollution: Over 200 tonnes of raw sewage pours into the bay each day. without employment due to water Response - NZ army and police drafted Solutions: pollution. in from all over country to help. Environmental opportunities: • Traffic congestion: Extension of Metro system under Guanabara bay, to South Zone and -Frequent oil spills threaten 1000’s Response - 80% of r Congestion cost the UK £300 billion over the last 16 years. one way roads. oads fixed within 6 of people through air pollution. months NZ helped themselves. £210 million spent on updating the M60 to a smart motorway. • Water pollution: 12 new sewage works have been built since 2004 at a cost $68 million. Updating and adding to the metro link which carries 35 million passengers a year and includes 93 stops/stations.
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2 Changing Rural landscapes: UK Instant cold water starch 2 Water is absorbed by Renewable energies: Malmo, Sweden Use to show gelatinisation and EO RAPHY CASE STUDIES • Cambridge Science park is home to more than 100 businesses, companies FOOD SCIENCE the rice grains as they f e plain how food industry such as Toshiba research group and Microsoft, which are involved in lots o Key cook. The starch in the Food waste is used to create a biogas. 10kg of food waste areas of expertise such as medical , IT and environmental. uses the ingredient in recipes creates biogas the equivalent of 1 litre of petrol. rice grains softens, 1 2 +The science park employs around 5,000 people. 1 Paper 1 to save time and money. Tourism: reducing the Solar tubes on the outside of buildings produce hot water -80% car ownership is leading to increased traffic on narrow country roads swells and gelatinises Deserts which are stored 90m below ground and heat When fat is added to with heat. and reducing demand for public transport. development gap buildings in winter. Paper 2 Added to make flour to make pastry Challenges - Extreme 2 There is a 2MW wind turbine to provide energy to . Main mi tures rise. For crumbly. For e ample, temperatures (50 degrees in +2014 tourism contributed to 24% of Jamaica’s GDP. • The Outer Hebrides, Small isolated islands in the North of Scotland homes and workplaces. re e ample, carbon different fats make Yogurt is made by Sahara). Very little water +$2billion each year from tourism. employment is breeding sheep on small farms called crofts and fishing mo dio ide gas in bread fermenting milk and (Only 12-24 cm of rain a +200,000 tourists visit. than 900 fishing boats. Acid is mi ed with different types of Empty drinks bottles e can’t really changing the milk year in Sahara). -1.1 million Cruise passengers only spend $70 per day. +2007-2014 there was a 27% increase in visitors (infrastructur milk, fish or meat and cake making, air pastry. balloons -Tourism mainly develops the coast leaving large support it). to change it. in whisked sponges. sugar, lactose, into Use for raising agent Solutions - Tourism - Egypt has scale poverty inland. -Aging population and a 50% decrease in population. For e ample, milk lactic acid. e periments. 10 million visitors a year. curdles, fish is made Energy generation - Morocco En ymes in fruit and into ceviche, and meat gets 40% of energy from 1 is marinated. When the dry starch solar power. vegetables change Starch breaks Nepal LIC earthquake 2015 Hurricane Irma Made by found in bread taste and colour. 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When the cells that which is the raising 2 Hydro-electric power: Nepal Solutions - plant more trees Effect – Jobs $7 billion a year from cattle make up the apple are agent. (Green wall in Africa). farming, soil erosion and climate change. cut, they are e posed • Nepal has no fossil fuels of its own for its The gas e pands with Water management For to o ygen. En ymic 28 million people. Proteins change with heat and pushes up ‘Magic Stones’in Africa. Response - selective logging (only cut 1 e ample, browning takes place Beast from the East • It is a landlocked LIC which reduces its heat and become the muffin mi ture down certain trees), ecotourism. bread and and the fruit changes Digital scales UK weather 2018 ability to import energy. more solid. during cooking. • Only 9% of the rural population in Nepal beer colour to brown. Essential to measure For e ample, egg - 17 died have electricity. making. small amounts of ingredients 2 Effect sets a quiche. Effect - Two pupils injured • Micro hydropower has minimal impact on hy does a boiled and record changes such RIO: Urban Issues and Challenges by falling tree in Blackley. the environment. Sugar turns brown egg become hard as making gluten balls. Response - Stranded • Building a small-scale hydro-power when heated. For A type of fungus which system can cost from $1,000 – $20,000, as and solid Challenges: drivers provided with e ample, to make ferments in bread and • Health: Life expectancy is 80 in some areas of Rio and 45 in Cidada favela. blankets. opposed to millions for a large scale dam. caramel. Yeast and beer making. • Energy: 73% of individuals in slums do not have access to mains electricity. Solutions: bacteria • Health care: E-Health Project- The equipment in the backpack enabled them to detect break down The stretchy protein formed Digital timer Manchester: Urban Issues and Challenges 2 an average of 20 different diseases such as hypertension and 2 carbohydrates when wheat flour is mi ed with To measure timing of Diabetes within minutes. Shell: TNC in Nigeria Regeneration scheme- Salford Quays: and sugars. liquid. For e ample, in bread e periments such • Energy: Development of the new Simplicio hydro-electric complex which will increase 1 In 1982, when the docks closed there was a loss of 3,000 jobs. and pasta making. as raising agents and Rio’s supply of electricity by 30%. It took 6 years to build and cost over $2 billion (US). +employs 250,000 people New Zealand HIC In 1994 £64 million in funding was given towards the Lowry yeast fermentation. employed earthquake 2011 Theatre which attracts 820,000 visitors per year. When a starch Improving Rio’s environment +91% of Shell contracts to Nigerian When the proteins In 1987, after years of industrial pollution, water quality in the ingredient, such as Problems: companies developing the energy canals improves; 12,000 coarse fish are introduced to the area. in eggs are heated, • Traffic congestion: The number of cars on the roads have grown by 40% in the last Effect - 185 died cornflour, is heated sector. - 2000 injured Today there are 7,000 people employed in media city alone as Foams are formed they change, decade. Effect -Bodo oil spill left 200 people a result of the project. when gas is beaten with a liquid, such as denature, • Water pollution: Over 200 tonnes of raw sewage pours into the bay each day. Starch changes with without employment due to water Response - NZ army and police drafted milk, the liquid coagulate and set Kitchen blow torch Solutions: Two liquids mi into a liquid mi ture. pollution. in from all over country to help. Environmental opportunities: dry heat. For e ample, enters the starch to make a hard A fun way to • Traffic congestion: Extension of Metro system under Guanabara bay, to South Zone and together smoothly. For For e ample, air is -Frequent oil spills threaten 1000’s Response - 80% of r Congestion cost the UK £300 billion over the last 16 years. bread changes to granules. They swell, demonstrate one way roads. oads fixed within 6 e ample, mayonnaise. beaten into egg whites boiled egg. of people through air pollution. months NZ helped themselves. £210 million spent on updating the M60 to a smart motorway. toast, and cakes turn • Water pollution: 12 new sewage works have been built since 2004 at a cost $68 million. e pand and gelatinise, caramelisation Terms to make meringue. uestions E uipment Updating and adding to the metro link which carries 35 million brown. thickening the liquid. and de trinisation passengers a year and includes 93 stops/stations.
13 In their RE lessons, Year 7 have been exploring We welcomed 16 local community teams In November, Drama students looked at what happened to the body of Jesus. Miss onto our 3G pitch during Term 1. Our costume designs. This is Year 7 Mona’s Foster has been impressed with how students pitch is available to hire by emailing manc- idea for Titania Queen of the Fairies from have investigated lots of theories and [email protected] Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. communicated their own opinions.
Sharmeena in Year 8 wowed Mrs Clegg when she told her that she designs and makes doll dresses, sewing them all by hand! Mrs Clegg is super impressed with Sharmeena’s skills and so proud that she couldn’t wait to share!
Our academy Green Team (made up of staff and students) received recognition for their contributions towards improving the local environment.
30 members of academy staff have successfully completed Youth Mental Health First Aid training, meaning we have even more Mrs support available for students that need it. Godfrey launched our first careers newsletter. It can be downloaded from the Careers & work experience page on our website.
14 Our Catering Manager, Ms Stannard, On Friday 9 October 2020, students and staff Our Student Council met this term for the first thought of an ingenious way to promote the from our Student Support Centre took part in time since lockdown. They discussed online Government’s message of ‘Hands, Face, #HelloYellow to raise awareness of loneliness learning, careers education, student wellbeing Space’ - a serious message about social and the impact it can have on young people’s and much more. They came up with some distancing, which is very easy to swallow! mental health. great suggestions and gave Mr Beard, Mrs McMorrow and Mrs Marshall lots of actions to take away! Here they are proudly showing off their new gold badges.
Mrs Palkimas, our Senior Science Technician, has recently celebrated 25 years working at the academy and its predecessor school, Plant Hill Arts College. Not only is Mrs Palkimas a key member of the Science team; she also runs gardening club, looks after our resident bees, is a first aider and is also a mental health first aider! Is there anything this superstar can’t do!
Miss Foster’s tutor group have been joined this December by their very own Elf on the Shelf!
This year we aren’t able to host our usual Christmas party for senior citizens. But we haven’t let that stop us from spreading festive cheer! Students have been writing messages Congratulations to the Year 11 BTEC Sport in Christmas cards for residents at some of our students, who have recently completed their local care homes. Unit 1 exam: Fitness for Sport and Exercise.
Students smashed the attainment of every previous sport cohort at the academy with a total of 33 students achieving a Level 2 Distinction - the highest grade possible.
A special shout out to Adnan who received the highest mark - achieving 56 out of a possible 60 marks!
Mr Mills
15 New Murals
Over the summer we finally installed these amazing new murals around the academy. They had been a long time in the planning (and slightly delayed by COVID) but they make our spaces much more inspiring for our students.
We have a brand new mural celebrating ‘Being Co-op’ in Student Services, which explains the behaviours that unite all staff and students across the whole of the Co-op Academies Trust:
Do what matters most Be yourself, always Succeed together Show you care
We also have a lovely new mural celebrating the languages of the world in our Modern Foreign Languages zone, and best of all, a gigantic timeline of scientific developments which stretches all the way down the Science corridor.
Whilst students might not yet have seen all the new murals (because of the way their bubbles work) these pieces of art are here to stay, and are sure to make a big impression for years to come.
16 Virtual Sports Day 2019/2020
Unfortunately we were not able to celebrate our annual Sports Day at Sports City. However, we were keen to keep the competitive spirit alive Family and Virtual Sports Day 2020 didn’t disappoint!
Students were competing at home during lockdown to earn points for their Champions Families. The competition was fierce and the videos rolled in! In last year’s Family championship Students competed in events such as: a sock relay, speed bounce, a 1k challenge, stork stand challenge, alternate hand wall toss, keepy uppys Usiri were the overall winners and a teabag throw. Staff demonstrated each event and we posted the “Making it Count!” to the top spot! competitions on a Google Classroom, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The students did themselves proud; their videos showed how brilliant #TeamCAM is and how important the Family Points Competition is This was a great achievement with at the academy. Usiri Family consistently achieving In the end Cooper Family took the trophy, Dare to Be… excellent points for behaviour and attendance throughout the year. Fantastic effort from all of the Usiri staff team and students. Let’s Make it Count again for this year!
Here are the Usiri Family Captains; Tamar, Gift and Holly lifting the trophy.
We are ready for Sports Day 2021!
In 2019, along with other schools in the Co-op Academies Trust, we focussed our fundraising efforts on Just a Drop - a charity that brings safe, sustainable water to communities across the globe. We received this email from them:
Through the combined efforts of the Co-op Academies last year, we were able to fully fund the project at Ndaluni Secondary School in Kenya, and I am pleased to announce it is now complete:
• The children have received Hygiene and Sanitation training: the importance of handwashing, how to use the water to stay healthy, how to prevent illnesses and maintain school cleanliness
• A Health Club has been formed: 16 students and one teacher to be leaders within their school to teach other children about hygiene and sanitation, ensure the school compound is kept clean, encourage hand washing before lunch and after visiting the toilets
• Children were taught how to make liquid soap: the Health The project has already began to transform the lives of the students Club were taught how to make high quality soap and provided with at the school: enough materials to make 60 litres initially. Most soap will be used within the school, but excess can be sold to the local community for • Children no longer have to leave the school compound, during a profit, enabling the school to continue buying materials to continue lessons, to walk to the Tyaa river to fetch water, which is unsafe production into the future and dirty • Children can spend more time in class learning and concentrating And, of course: • The school environment is cleaner
• The rainwater harvesting tank has been built! The school are now This project has only been made possible because of the fantastic waiting for the rainy season to begin for the tank to fill up completely, combined efforts of the students and staff across the Co-op Academies affording the school with safe water for all their drinking, cooking and last year! I hope the students will be especially proud of themselves cleaning needs knowing they have made such a huge difference to the lives of 160 children.
17 Mr Brice, Executive Headteacher, has found a novel way to show new students around the academy - on Minecraft!
With the help of his family, Mr Brice spent more than three weeks recreating every room. This allows you to take a full tour of the academy - visiting classrooms, the library, theatre and even the climbing wall - without leaving your own home!
We were recently surprised to find that the academy has been visited from people as far away as Japan!
Visit transition.cam.coop for instructions on how to visit our virtual Minecraft academy!
18 Hitting the Right Note!
Music and the Arts have a significant impact on many of our students’ lives. Head of school Mr Beard says, “Our academy is not an exams factory. Whilst we push students to achieve the best results they can, their time here also includes many opportunities to flourish.” Not only that, but enhancing our curricular offer is the opportunity to produce excellent work in Everyday is a music day at the Even through all of the recent their bespoke peripatetic lessons academy: Monday has Mrs Wren challenges our peripatetic with our wonderful peripatetic and her string classes as well as teachers are ensuring students music team. Mr Martin holding brass lessons. are hitting the right notes! On Tuesday Mr Rudden instructs But how do you continue to run students on the drums and Mr Pip an extra provision music service guitar. Wednesday and Thursday during a global pandemic? The are singing and piano lessons answer is a regimented timetable with Miss Luxton, plus an extra of lessons with social distancing, guitar session with Mr Thom on adhering to bubbles and mask Wednesdays after school and wearing when appropriate. Mr the week concludes with Mrs Stannard (our Head of Music) Compson and her woodwind has ensured that there are students. breaks between lessons to wipe down seats and music stands and students bring their own instruments ensuring no cross- contamination. CAM Christmas Cracker!
Usually at this time of year our also to Mr Thom for his work Music staff and students would on the backing tracks and be busy carol singing at local to Mrs Compson for all her care homes, touring our feeder support. primary schools, performing at Christmas events and holding The full concert can be viewed seasonal concerts for parents on our YouTube channel: and carers. The pandemic has meant we aren’t able to https://youtu.be/i2_ZyJ5NL80 entertain our local community in the way we and they are accustomed to. But this just made us more determined than ever to spread some festive joy!
More than 20 students from Years 7 to 11 have taken part in a socially distanced mini Christmas concert, featuring Miss Stott’s choir, Mrs Wren’s string group, and Mr Rudden’s percussionists and guitar players. Thank you
19 September marked 10 years since the academy first opened its doors. Here we look back at our most memorable moments.
20 September marked 10 years since the academy first opened its doors. Here we look back at our most memorable moments.
21 Year 7 How did you feel Max “I felt nervous because I had no one from my about coming to primary school around when I came in.” Co-op Academy Rosie “Nervous but excited at the same time. settling in Manchester? I loved the fact that the teachers are very welcoming.”
Year 7 have made a really positive start to the year, showing real resilience and determination to do well in the academy. It is a pleasure to see What has been Ema “Making new friends and trying new things.” them succeeding in their various your favourite Rosie “Going to the Library to get a book, playing lessons: whether it is creating experience so far? ukulele, hanging out with my mates.” their own stories in drama or Lucas “I really enjoy Science, Technology and Art.” developing their language skills in French or Spanish. Keep it up Year 7!
Ms O’Connor
We asked Year 7 to tell us in What is the most Ema “Talking in front of the class” their own words how they’re challenging thing Olivia “Trying to learn Spanish because it is a new getting on: you have done in a language for me.” lesson? Eva “Probably sewing in textiles.”
Have you made any Mohid “Yes, I have made loads of new friends that new friends? I have a good and enjoyable time with everyday.” Rosie “I have lots of new friends but I can’t remember most of their names though!”
What do you like Nigel “My favourite teacher has really good energy to teach us - we have fun! But we can concentrate at the about your same time.” teachers? Maryam “My teacher is funny and kind and always makes me happy!” Carly “She helps everyone and I learn a lot when she teaches.”
What is the biggest Sophie-Louise “My primary school didn’t have a difference between theatre.” primary and Max “We have better lessons which are more in-depth.” Carly “In primary the lessons were easier and in secondary school? secondary the lessons are challenging”
Sophie-Louise “After the first week, you will settle in.” What advice Leonor “You don’t have to worry because this school would you give to gives great opportunities.” It is very reassuring to know that Rosie “Everyone feels the same way you do, even if they our newest students are settling someone worried don’t show it at first.” in and we look forward to seeing about coming to Eva, “Don’t worry! It is a very kind environment and them grow and develop during Co-op Academy everyone is so welcoming.” their time here at the academy. Manchester? Hamdane “Be calm, co-operative and considerate.”
22 Writing the Write to Pandemic describe
Creative Manchester, part of The We challenged Year 5 and 6 children University of Manchester, invited in our local primary schools to Write students at Manchester high schools to Describe a Perfect Place. and colleges to send in their written responses to life in lockdown. Mrs Howarth was blown away by the quality of each and every 200 young people from 26 schools entry, particularly as some of the and colleges submitted work. The entries were composed totally writing was judged by a panel of independently at home, due to professional writers, who had the isolation measures. Each entry had unenviable task of whittling down the so much to offer, including a wide 200 entries to just 15 winners range of language devices; a superb range of ambitious vocabulary We were super impressed (but not and an excellent array of powerful surprised!) to hear that Jacob, then punctuation. in Year 7, was one of these winners! Here is an excerpt from Jacob’s Writing to describe is all about poem: painting pictures with words - that a good writer enables the reader to feel that they are part of the writing, that they are actually there. Well, this was certainly achieved by our Some of us must stay at home competition entrants! And not go out the door Some of us are working The top 3 entries were selected as Like we’ve never worked before follows:
Some of us are falling out Gloria (Year 5, Crab Lane) With siblings, Dads, and Mothers successfully embedded a wide Some of us are reaching out range of descriptive language, And looking after others including personification and alliteration, when describing her Some of us are keeping busy Winter Wonderland. I loved Gloria’s Doing lots of jobs reference to ‘snowflakes dancing Some of us have given up…… gently’. Beautiful! We’re turning into slobs Zlata (Year 5, Crab Lane) presented her description of Home Sweet Home brilliantly! My favourite phrase was the metaphor used to describe Zlata’s bed, ‘my four You can read Jacob’s full poem at http://www. themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=11650 legged friend’. I totally agree with you!
Zainab (Year 6, Irk Valley) clearly knows how to structure a piece of writing to engage the reader! A good selection of ambitious punctuation has been used and Zainab’s use of emotive language adds such warmth and a really personal touch to her writing. And Zainab you are right - in school, you ARE ‘unstoppable’!
Thank you to all our entrants. Keep your eyes peeled for our next competition!
Mrs Howarth
23 School Sixty Second
Snippet
It’s amazing how much can be done in sixty seconds so we thought we would challenge staff and students to a competition, where colleagues and young people (with possible assistance from their friends in their bubble group) could record themselves doing something: creative or sporty, academic or practical which had to be sixty seconds in length. Entries could be in real-time, or a time lapse, the only criterion was that it had to be one minute in length. These short videos could be recorded on mobile, iPad or camera and uploaded to the school Google Shared Drive.
Staff were very competitive; with Mr King running a mile in a minute and Miss Foster climbing a mountain! Both entries benefited from time-lapse filming, but the results were great to see.
Students were very creative with their entries, including Emilia’s music mash-up film, James’ live recording of him battling all sorts of adversaries on his gaming platform and some lovely original spoken word work from students, including a poignant poem by Omolara entitled ‘Floyd’ and a personal reflection from Lauren. At the time of writing this article, the competition winner has yet to be announced, but we are proud of the way that students and staff have engaged with this challenge by using their varied abilities to gain valuable points for their families in this competition.
Mr Pip
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