Autumn 2016 IN THIS ISSUE Uniting Against Hate Crime HAPPY Summer Gala 2016 Music with a Message BIRTHDAY! Silver Duke of Edinburgh Year 7 Camp ARE YOU READY Landau Forte College Derby has provided training for new teachers for over 20 years and has an outstanding record of achievement for those graduating into the TO JOIN US IN profession and going on to achieve successful careers in education. We are proud of our history of employing many of our trainees within the partnership and of the career THE PURSUIT OF progression they demonstrate once qualified. Landau Forte College Derby SCITT is EDUCATIONAL now accredited by the NCTL to provide Initial Teacher Training working in partnership with a range of schools. EXCELLENCE? For further details about Initial Teacher Training at Landau Forte College Derby, please visit our website www.lfcpd.org.uk or contact Mrs Sandra Oswald on 01332 386765 Offering various training grammes including: Bespoke Professional Development Best Coaching & Leadership Development Inspiring Leaders NPQ Programmes School to School Support Specialist Leaders in Education For further details, please contact Mrs Kelly Jackson on 01332 386765 or visit www.lfcpd.org.uk newslink Autumn 2016 What’s Inside? Principal’s Message Page 3 Principal’s Message Welcome to the autumn 2016 edition of Newslink. As it gets darker and colder, I’m Page 4-5 SCITT Celebration pleased to be able to share with you some of Page 6-7 Uniting Against Hate Crime the highlights of the past few months. Page 8 Two Authors in one Day It’s great to see history, science, drama and the arts mentioned so frequently in these pages. Page 9 Celebrating the Queen’s Birthday Likewise, the range of enrichment trips and Page 10 Battle of the Somme Centenary Honoured visits our students take part in never fails to astonish me – it’s quite a difference from my Page 11 Lessons From Auschwitz own time at school! Page 12 Making a Difference I am particularly struck by the maturity Pathways to Success our students show. Whether honouring Page 13 Many Voices the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, considering the lessons from Auschwitz or Page 14-15 Summer Gala 2016 uniting against hate crime, they conduct themselves in a manner we can all be Page 16 Music with a Message proud of. Dance for the Camera Term 1 of the 2016-17 academic year has been no different. Students and staff Page 17 Dancers at Deda alike have thrown themselves into College life with renewed focus after our excellent summer examination performance. Drama in English This edition of Newslink highlights the importance of literacy across all year Page 18-19 Art Success groups and all subjects. We have introduced ‘Everyone Reads in College’ (ERIC Page 20 Illustr8 Returns – a half-hour reading sessions for all students every Friday – which has been very successful. Page 21 A Night at the Prom 2016 The news to fill these pages continues to arrive thick and fast and we recently Page 22 Transit of Mercury welcomed Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester to College. The Duchess The Journey to CERN was very impressed by the vibrant atmosphere and we aim to make the same Page 23 Silver Duke of Edinburgh impression with anyone who comes to visit us. Year 8 Experience York Alison Brannick Page 24 Maths Inspiration Principal Accelerated Reader Page 25 Year 7 Camp 2016 Credits Page 26 Staff Football Editors Staff Contributors Staff Contributors Student Contributors Sports Roundup S Wright A Brannick C Cresswell Jude Harrison A Kokab N Haigh J Grant Jake Smith Page 27 Sports Roundup L Rowe J Carey Tinashe Banza Sub Editors N Dobson G Davies Joe Kearns L Adelin J Davy K Stone Cody Bell A Brown W Newey R Holroyd Rodwell Ndegenga A Wrampling A Quinn L Watson Pankaj Kumar A Wrampling K Hacking Alex Carr J McGregor A Singh T Hayre K Martin www.landau-forte.org.uk 03 SCITT Celebration As the end of the academic year approaches, we see our first cohort of trainees completing their teacher training and ready to embark on their careers in teaching. We are very proud of the fact work, but is also due in no a Subject Knowledge Tutors that all of those graduating our small part to the dedication underpinned by the excellent teacher training programme and support from staff across Professional Studies Training have secured employment for the partnership. A special which was planned and the next academic year, either thank you should also be given delivered by our training expert, at Landau Forte College Derby to the members of staff who Liz O’Mara. or in other schools in the region. have provided specific training. L Watson The success of the trainees is In particular, each trainee had not only a result of their hard the support of a Mentor and 04 newslink Autumn 2016 As I was previously a Learning My training year has been both Training to become a qualified Having moved between Support Assistant at Landau a professional and personal teacher at LFCD has been an different disciplines, I had Forte College Derby, I was journey. Leaving the education incredible experience, and struggled to find a career that I in a unique position moving system as a student and going the support and expertise could invest myself in. I feel that into my training year with straight back into it as a trainee that has been so willingly I have found my calling teaching the SCITT team. I felt that I teacher meant that I had to shared has been as good, if not English at LFCD. The students was better able to adapt to quickly adjust my thinking. better, than the many training and staff have been welcoming, my new responsibility as a My mentor and the MFL team sessions which I received in and the expertise on offer has trainee Tutor of History but have helped me to progress and the corporate world. I would made training a pleasure. felt my biggest challenge was develop through their support recommend it to anyone! Wayne Newey, English – ensuring students accepted my and advice, giving me the best Erin Merlin, Physics – Destination: Landau Forte transition. I was able to quickly start that I could have asked for Destination: Chellaston College, Derby form professional relationships at the beginning of my training. Academy with more members of staff and I would also like to thank students as I had worked at the everyone who has taken the college for a year previously. time to be part of the beginning My team have been continually of my teaching journey. supportive throughout and the Lindsey Rowland, MFL (Spanish) SCITT team have enabled me to Destination: Selston High grow as a teacher. School Taran Hayre, History – Destination: Landau Forte College, Derby www.landau-forte.org.uk 05 Uniting Against Hate Crime On Wednesday 15 June we welcomed special guests from across the city, and further afield, to a special screening of Black Rose: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster which was organised by Derby Homes. The audience included some students from LFAT Sixth Form, in Tamworth, as well as students from LFCD. This 45-minute film was developed from a campaigning for UK Hate Crime legislation Philip Hutchinson, who is Derby’s Youth play and poetry sequence written by Simon to include alternative subcultures. Sylvia Mayor. ACC McWilliam explained how a Armitage, first performed at Manchester was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday crime that is considered to be a Hate Crime Royal Exchange in 2012. The play and film Honours in June 2014, being recognized for will be escalated by the Police, because it is features Julie Hesmondhalgh, of Coronation her work in Community Cohesion, especially so vital that we tackle these crimes robustly. Street fame, as Sylvia, who reflects in reduction of Hate Crime. Philip Hutchinson, now Year 13, said: “I poignantly on her daughter’s death and Current UK legislation includes these believe we have made good progress, the motives for it. Sophie Lancaster was strands: race, religion, disability, homophobia locally and nationally, with many issues, brutally murdered in a Lancashire park in and transgender. Therefore any crime which such as racism. However, there is much 2007 because of the way she looked and the is fuelled by discrimination against any of more to be done to tackle xenophobia and clothes she chose to wear. these aspects is considered a hate crime. transphobia. While transgender individuals The powerful film was introduced by the are comparatively low in numbers, there At the end of the film, Sylvia led a Question mother of Sophie, Sylvia Lancaster OBE, an is evidence that these individuals suffer a and Answer session with a panel that also experienced youth worker who established considerable amount of abuse, which included: Assistant Chief Constable Bill the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. The is unacceptable.” McWilliam CBE; Councillor Sarah Russell, charity’s aims are to create a lasting Cabinet Member for Educations and Skills, Sylvia Lancaster was very impressed with legacy to Sophie through education and by Derby City Council; and the College’s own the College’s input and the questions the 06 newslink Autumn 2016 students posed. The event culminated with On a larger scale, the College was ideal to For those interested in discovering more, the presentation of a commemorative host a special series of events in support four clips from the film Black Rose, are cheque, celebrating that we raised over one of awareness of issues around Hate Crime currently available on iPlayer, and Simon thousand pounds on a non-uniform day for because of its unique position in the city, Armitage’s poem of the same name, which the Sophie Lancaster Foundation.