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The Update the Axe Valley Community College Newsletter: Friday 16Th December 2016 - Issue 4 The Update The Axe Valley Community College Newsletter: Friday 16th December 2016 - Issue 4 Headteacher’s message There’s always so much going on at the end of the Autumn term and the celebration assemblies have been the perfect way to take a moment to recognise the achievements of our students over the course of the term. Amongst the highlights for me over the last few months have been the regular Headteacher’s commendation ‘teas’. Staff from across the college are invited to nominate students for such a commendation and it has been fantastic to meet with mixed groups of students from Year 7 through to Year 13 to chat about the brilliant things that they are doing and, at the same time, to share some cake. I am also very proud of the way in which our students are engaged in their community. There are many examples but I would particularly like to mention the sixth form students who have been working as part of their ‘Giving Back and Standing Out’ programme to prepare a special Christmas lunch for some of the older residents of Axminster and the Year 8 students who, between them, have raised a substantial sum of money over the course of the term that will be used to buy provisions for the local foodbank this Christmas. I am very much looking forward to the Carol Concerts that take place on the penultimate day of term and I would like to say thank you to all those who have worked so hard to put the event together. I would also like to recognise all of those students who submitted an entry to the annual Christmas card competition. The judging decision was a very difficult one but I am delighted with the choice and the official Axe Valley card this year is simple, bold and beautiful. My congratulations go to Jessie Holmes in Year 9 for her winning design. Finally, I would like to pay tribute to a member of our staff team who is leaving us this Christmas. Marianne Gregson has worked at Axe Valley as a teacher of Textiles for just over 10 years and Diary Dates - January 2017 has given so much to the young people here. She is moving on Fri 16th Dec - Last day of term to open The Welcome Café in Haven Banks, Exeter and Tue 3rd Jan - Inset Day - Staff everyone at Axe Valley would like to wish her every success in Wed 4th Jan - Start of Spring Term her new exciting venture. Students return Fri 6th Jan - PP Exam Results Day I hope that you all have a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas and Mon 9th Jan - Start of Year 13 PP Exams look forward to seeing the students back on the first day of the Thu 19th Jan - REACH Year 11 Revision th new term on Wednesday 4 January. Workshop with parents Steven Green - Headteacher Wed 18th Jan - ASPIRE Observatory visit Wed 25th Jan - Year 9 Options Evening 1 Student News Postcard Competition for Science The winner of the Science praise postcard design competition was Emily Grabham in Year 8. Her bright and eye-catching design will be used to award students for exceptional work from next term. Mrs Bishop Subject Leader for Science Christmas Card Competition This year we have received a wondrous reply to our Christmas card competition. The judging was intense and time consuming, with over 200 entries and a very high quality of submissions ranging from winter themed photography to collaged textured paintings. We would like to thank you all for your excellent and creative submissions, but sadly there can only be one winner. Congratulations to Jessie Holmes whose design has been chosen, a very well done to Poppy Tooze in second place and to Evie Rogers in third. All Your designs are also available for collection if you so wish from the ART department. Thankyou and a Merry Christmas, Mr Bowskill - Subject Leader for Art 2 Carol Concert Students from Years 7 to 13 joined staff for a singing celebration in the Minster Church in Axminster, putting on four music concerts with carols and readings ending with an evening service on Thursday 15th December. This year the concert was a combination of some beautiful classical pieces with some modern Christmas songs. The Choir’s version of Jubilate was really moving whilst the Steel Band version of Rudolph and the Jazz Band’s interpretation of Jingle Bell Rock had everyone in the mood to dance. There were several fabulous solo pieces also with Issy Somers singing Winter Wonderland and Olive Fitzgerald singing Christmas Promises. 3 Sixth Form Guest Speakers Sixth Form has been lucky to welcome a variety of guest speakers who have delivered presentations on a range of topics varying from student finances at university to ‘Life in Damascus’ and more recently Cosmic who persuaded an ex-pupil Charles Sweetland to give a well-received talk on setting up his new business venture that involves the cutting edge of mathematics and his pathway through university to where he is now travelling the world. We hope in the coming months that more ex-students will come back to school and take time with our present students to discuss the pathways into the careers they now work in. Exeter Progression Exeter Progression is a programme set up by Exeter University that offers students with good GCSE results to a free programme giving them the opportunity to develop their knowledge and passion for a chosen subject as well as finding out more about student life at the University. The aim is to give students access to subject experts and current University of Exeter students that will help them to better understand the benefits of university and the possible pathways opened up to them by studying different subjects. I am very pleased to announce that several students applied for the programme and four were successful; those students are Jack Rosling (Bio-science) Megan Williams (History) Rosie Bolton (Law) Abigail Pidgeon (Modern Languages). Well done to them all and we look forward to hearing about their experiences during the next couple of years. Community Christmas Lunch Earlier in the term the Sixth Form students were given the challenge to organise a Christmas dinner plus entertainment for our local community without teacher input. Charlie, Lydia et al. set about this monumental event with passion and a desire to make it a day that all would remember. Wednesday 14th December saw our students ‘giving back to our community’ with a Christmas lunch fit for Royalty. Students had been busy asking for support from some very generous local businesses who provided the majority of food for the banquet. All beautifully laid out and professionally presented our guests were very happy to heap praise and thanks to those students who attended them. Toby Willis yet again providing the excellent musical accompaniment in the background and Charlie Hall orchestrating his band of merry helpers in the conference suite with Lydia preparing food with her helpers in the prep area. All the staff that were fortunate to visit this event are very proud of their efforts and what they achieved on the day – you were great role models for the younger years of the college and have set the bar amazingly high for next years cohort to follow – but a challenge they are already planning. Prom Fundraising Quiz On Friday 15th Lydia Hartnell arranged a Prom fundraising quiz which was very well attended by many very competitive teachers. The event raised over £90 and was thoroughly enjoyed by all and we certainly look forward to the next one but maybe in a bigger venue. 4 Trip review in the style of Stalinist Russia... Greetings Comrades, we can report that productivity of Year 13 has increased 100 fold. Comrades from the 13th party Congress recently visited the Exeter Museum (RAMM) to work with their conservation unit, to examine bourgeois capitalist artifacts (Roman coins). Elite Russian History students Harvey 'Marx' Everard and Polly 'Petrograd' Huscroft examined the decadent Seaton Down Hoard, coins made during the time of 'Emperor Constantine' (Western Imperialist). The Hoard consisted of 22,888 silvered copper coins weighing 68kg. These coins were known as Nummis. 2 Nummi=flagon of cheap wine, 20,000 Nummi = 2 years pay of a middle ranking Civil Servant (Capitalist Bourgeois Oppressor). Lunch was provided by the workers canteen (Nandos). Year 12 were unable to attend (Trotskyite deviationists), whilst one of our illustrious workers, Toby Willis Pia- novich was absent due to over exertion following this terms devotion to concert recitals, get well soon Com- rade. Signed, The Workers Collective ASA Swimming Qualifications Two of our 6th Form recently completed their ASA Swimming Teaching qualifications. Callum Wood attended a 4 day ASA Level 1 course and achieved Teaching Assistant award and will be teaching children aged 4-7 years old at the Flamingo Pool, Axminster. Callum’s ambition for the future is to be a Strength and Conditioning Coach and to be involved with the RNLI. The course involved learning about swimming techniques and also Safeguarding. Megan completed her ASA Level 2 Swimming Teacher qualification in July of this year. She attended at course at St Luke’s Campus in Exeter. Megan currently works with 4-9 year olds at Flamingo Pool. Megan particularly enjoys helping non-swimmers gain confidence in the water and progress to be competent swimmers. Her future career aim is to be a Primary School teacher. Megan will also be taking the ASA Teacher for Synchronised Swimming Qualification and it is hoped this will be a new offering at the pool where she works in 2017.
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