BROADWAY ACADEMY Issue 96 27/01/2017 Ron Skelton M.Ed. B Phil. B.Ed (Hons). NPQH. LLE. FRSA NewsletterHeadteacher of Broadway Academy, The Broadway, Birmingham B20 3DP Our Children, Our Community, Believe it can be done! Headteacher’s ‘Thought For The Week’ Reward Trips Hello all At Broadway, we have introduced a The exams are only 16 weeks away – we are all working new reward system that provides extremely hard to ensure that our Year 11 and Sixth points for making the most effort, Form students achieve their full potential! We hope our completing homework to a high students will spend time revising; at home each day – a standard, making the most progress in little often – will yield some good results in the summer. lessons and gaining positive comments Parents can help, by monitoring the quantity and quality from teachers. The reward system of the students work and ensuring they do all they can to provides four categories Platinum, help them to attend school regularly – every day and Gold, Silver and Bronze. every lesson counts! If you have concerns or need help For our Platinum and Bronze students, we organised a with your son or daughter, please do not hesitate to ask trip to Star City, to have a nice meal and see a film. The for assistance from their subject teachers, Mrs Palmer- Film that we chose was ‘Lion’ which is a true story all Mills, Mr Robbins, Miss Wojcieszyn, Mr Taylor, Mr about a young boy who is split up from his family and gets Chauhan, Mr Stewart or myself. If your child is More adopted by a couple in Australia. The film follows the Able, then please contact Ms Smith or Mrs Conlon and if intense story of how this young boy survives his ordeal they have a special need, Mrs Baily-Nicholls. In line with and grows up wanting to find his real mother and brother. our inclusive and aspirational values at Broadway Fourteen students came to see the film and really Academy, every child is important to us; whoever they enjoyed it; they were incredibly well behaved and showed are. a great amount of maturity as the film uncovered some For all students, reading at Broadway is a vital and sensitive issues. After the film, the students were very critical part of our children’s education: it is one of the excited to talk about it and wanted the opportunity to go most important skills to fulfilling your potential. Reading to the cinema again. Some of us discussed the next Plati- can not only help you become a better student, but a num and Gold trip that we could go on! better person. You can learn from the brightest people whenever and wherever you choose. Year 11 Reward Trips I have said it before; however, it’s worth repeating, did Lots of our year 11 students have spent the last two you know that: weeks on rewards trips. Due to their excellent behaviour, Over 800 million people around the world cannot progress and attendance, they have enjoyed activities read or write such as watching Manchester Utd play, visiting the Huge numbers of families (and even some schools) cinema, pizza hut and even a trampoline park. Lots of fun have no books for children to read was had and all the students in the year group are now I know there are many children in Birmingham and working hard to try and get on the next group of trips Aston; many that fall into this group. coming up at the end of the term. At Broadway Academy, we encourage all students to read a wide range of literature. "A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest” C.S. Lewis "A child who reads will be an adult who thinks." Anon If we embed daily reading into the culture of the Academy then we will be on course to achieve our aim to be the best school in the country for student progress by 2020. A huge challenge – I know we are all up to it! Our Children, Our Community, Believe it can be done! www.broadway- academy.co.uk E-Safety Broadway Raiders What is a digital footprint or tattoo? Broadway Raiders FC Top The Warwickshire League It’s a digital record of everything you’ve ever put online. Broadway Raiders came away with another huge victory This could include: as they sunk mid-table West Pheonix 9-2 away from Comments, likes or tweets on home. The team are now three points clear at the top of social media the table and host Solihul Moors at home this Sunday - Facebook status updates or come along and watch, as they bid to move one step posts closer to clinching the league table. Photos you share Blog posts Videos and vlogs Public profiles on websites Even if you delete any one of these, they may still be out there - either saved or shared by others, or kept by the website or app itself. Why is it important? Your digital footprint is your online reputation. As we now spend so much of our time in online spaces, your online reputation is just as important as it is in the real world. Often, it’s somebody’s first impression of you - it’s not uncommon for someone to google you before they meet you – perhaps before a job interview. Badminton league First impressions count, so you want your digital On Monday night Broadway played Nishkam in their first footprint to be positive, and to represent the best side Badminton league game this season. The U14's won their of you; free of any potentially embarrassing or negative game but unfortunately the U16's lost theirs. content. The U14's victory was an outstanding effort as the For more information please visit: www.parentzone.org.uk majority of the opposition team consisted of Y8 and Y9 players where as our U14 team was made up of 4 players from Y7. (Mohammed I., Aadil C., Usman M. and Afzal U. www.broadway- academy.co.uk Girls Football at Broadway Academy SSE Women’s FA cup draw Perry Beeches goalkeeper kept the score 0-0. Perry Year 10 pupils from Broadway took part in the SSE Beeches managed to score to make the game 1-0. Women’s third round FA cup draw. The year 10 pupils Broadway kept working hard and a good ball from Nimra watched the draw take place with Sana and Leya led to Saifa scoring an equaliser and another draw. completing the draw alongside Beth (Aston Villa and Broadway’s final game was against Hamstead Hall, England Under-19 player). The pupils then took part in a Broadway started the game well attempting to pass the question and answer session with Beth. Finding out her ball around, however Hamstead Hall settled into the game favourite food before a game, match day superstitions, and managed to score to make it 1-0. Broadway had best goal she has scored and also how she combines numerous chances to level the game but somehow could studying, training and playing in the Women’s Super score the game finished 1-0. League and for England. Player of the match – Nimra T. Pupils from the year 9 and 10 football teams then took Under 13 Girls Football Team represented Birmingham part in a football session with Beth. Beth took part in City Football Club. queen of the ring with the pupils and the Broadway girls Several pupils from year 7/8 had the opportunity to went for the challenge of beating Beth. The final three represent Birmingham City Football Club at the players left in were Jannat, Sana and Beth, the Broadway Premier League for Sport Regional Football Tournament. girls teamed up with Jannat managing to kick Beth’s ball Throughout the event they played against representative out of the grid to leave a Broadway final between Jannat teams from Aston Villa, Shrewsbury, Burton Albion, and Sana, which Jannat won and was named queen of the Walsall, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Port Vale and Crewe. ring. Pupils enjoyed individual conversations with Beth The pupils played their first game against an experienced asking her about her experiences in football. Burton Albion team. Broadway started well passing the Leya, Shahanaz and Sana, then went off to talk to the ball confidently and defended superbly; however, in the press, discussing why the FA cup draw was so special to last 10 seconds of the game one last chance from a them. Key school values such as appreciation and optimism Burton Albion corner deflected in off the Broadway were discussed by the pupils. keeper leading to Broadway losing their first game. Well done to all of the pupils involved throughout the day. The second game saw Broadway play a strong Year 8 Aston Schools Football Tournament Shrewsbury team, who were the eventual winners of the After dominating the group stages drawing their first tournament. Shrewsbury started the brighter of the two game and winning two games, and losing to Perry Beeches, teams passing the ball confidently around the Broadway Broadway went through to the final against Perry players, some excellent blocks and tackles from Nazma, Beeches VI. Isha and Alexa however kept Broadway in the game. A In a game of football played in the middle of the pitch long range effort from Shrewsbury saw Broadway go 1-0 between the two teams it looked like neither team would down. The pupils continued to compete in the game take the lead.