APRIL 2020 Bexhill Beacon The magazine keeping students, staff, parents and carers, and the wider community updated on events at Bexhill Academy. Cover artwork by Hope, Year 10 MUSEUM TRIP JEKYLL&HYDE basketball report RUGBY FINALS TIME TO DANCE ART HOUSE AWARDS World Book Day Bexhill Beacon 3 Jekyll Dear All, & As the Spring term ends in the strangest of fashions, our enforced closure is two weeks old. The student community have begun their journey of “working from home” with parents and Hyde carers doing an amazing job of supporting ongoing learning. Meanwhile back in the building….. staff have been maintaining a timetable for the students of the fabulous key workers of the Bexhill Community as they keep the country going for us during this unprecedented time. Workshops As Easter has arrived and teaching has stopped for a two-week break, we can reflect on the way in which our students continue to amaze us with their skills and talents. English Drama We are justly proud of our Rugby teams at Bexhill Academy. This term they excelled themselves, & with all teams, in every year group winning the District Rugby 7s Tournament. We have celebrated n December, the English and Drama departments this incredible achievement by producing a full squad photograph, which we have reproduced collaborated using a creative and innovative approach to on page 8. Sport again is a theme that continues on page 11 with the growing success of our learning key skills for one of the key GCSE texts – Jekyll Basketball teams who are beginning to gain a reputation of being the school to beat. With the I . The specialises in annual ‘Time to Dance’ event at the White Rock Theatre highlighting the excellent dance at and Hyde Trestle Theatre Company Bexhill Academy, we are delighted with our sport and performance successes this term. using masks to evoke understanding and to generate interest in classic drama texts. Two GCE groups were selected along On a more academic note, our Latin students have posed the question Troy – “Myth or Reality” with some drama specialists and following a trip to the British Museum which was underpinned by studying Homer’s lliad. I suggest you read page 4 to find out more! With World Book Day (see page 13), Jekyll and scholars from across the school to Hyde Workshops (see page3) and beautiful Academy Art (pages 6 and 7) we have truly had an participate in the workshop. excellent term. The workshop sessions involved As we move into an unusual Summer term and students continue their warm up games, an explanation of studies at home, we know that you will help them to maintain why masks are so powerful in drama, focus on their studies, keep their aspirations in sight, take great pride in recognising their growing skills modelling from the company and in independence and help them to be resilient some highly entertaining interactive throughout until they return to us. group work with the students. All We are resolute in our goal to maintain groups had to create and construct students’ education, welfare and freeze frames depicting key aspirations through this time moments in the play. The Company of challenge, if you need our also uses repetition of quotations, linked to imagery, to support, let us know, we are here to help. great effect as they worked on learning quotations for the exam. Dr Hutchinson, Director of English, said: “This Be Remarkable, stay safe. was a really useful workshop, delivered to the highest of standards. The students have engaged with some complex Vicky Norris-Wright Head of Academy ideas today and enjoyed it in the process.” Bexhill Beacon 4 Bexhill Beacon 5 n 23rd January we arrived at Kings Centre Oin Eastbourne where the event was being held. We were ready for a fun afternoon of future preparation and learning. On arrival we were greeted and told about the various different activities being held at the venue. We started TROY: with a tour being shown around the different areas of the building. During the tour we went MYTH OR to a small area organised by AMAZE and learnt about various professions we could be interested REALITY in such as apprenticeships and college. We learnt there are various options after school depending on how you learn best, therefore if you are a person who prefers to learn on the job, an apprenticeship is your best option but if you On Tuesday 10 December 2019, a group of Year 9 Latin and Classical Civilisation students went on an prefer to do written and controlled work, college or university is the best choice for you. The next activity was in the main area participating exciting trip to the British Museum. We went specifically to see the exhibition about the Trojan War in a Microbit coding workshop held by Microsoft. During this task, we learnt how to make a Microbit, play rock, called Troy: Myth or Reality. In preparation for this trip; we studied the Iliad, a great epic written by the paper, scissors and display various other items. We then proceeded to look around the various stands and learn Greek writer Homer. about each one of them before watching a short film about apprenticeships in the construction industry and how there are many jobs you can explore. Throughout the event we obtained various booklets, pamphlets, free pens and advice about the vast amount of choices individuals have when they leave school. he exhibition included archaeological canvases depicted swanky scenes in Steven Pake (Year 10) finds from the suspected site of Troy flowing colours that captured the essence Tas well as the myths that go with them. of the characters. For example, one showed Odysseus being enchanted by the sirens n 18th December 2019 ASPie students from year 7 and 8 were invited on The tale starts at a wedding where Paris whilst tied to the mast of his great ship. Oour first trip to Eastbourne’s laser quest and bowling centre. chooses Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, as the most beautiful over Hera or Athena. After In pride of place, there was the golden shield Once we arrived at Tenpin choosing Aphrodite, she gifts him Helen of of Achilles near the end of the tour, the Eastbourne students went to the Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world. intricate designs gleaming against the white arcade area and played games whilst However, Helen is already married, and her backdrop. husband, Menelaus, his pride wounded, the adults organised the bowling lanes. Then it was time gathers an army to fight for his wife. This We ended the tour by looking at some of the to discover our bowling lanes and attempt to gain strikes. then sparks 10 years of war, battles and other displays and sections in the museum, Everybody was surprisingly skilled and we all acquired bloodshed. such as the clocks, the Egyptian sections high scores. After all of us had our photo taken we headed and the renowned Rosetta Stone. to laser quest. We were informed about basic rules and As you walk through the wonderfully laid out put on our coloured jackets and collected our laser guns tour of the Trojan War, you go past a beautiful Tina Liu, Harriet Wood & Anvita Kopparthi statue of the hero Achilles with the arrow ready. It was now time for our laser battle - green vs red. through his heel. The area around Inside the venue it had amazing effects, lighting, fog and it is dark and bright lights make the cool music. I was on the red team who were winning for marble glow. most of the game but green at the last minute took the trophy. Although the other team won we all still had fun When you start, you read and see and I received the most points for my team! the myths, but as you continue through, it flows through into the archaeology and the proof that the We then travelled from Eastbourne to McDonald’s in story of Troy is true. For example, Bexhill. All of us were looking forward to McDonald’s after there were numerous earthen pots our exciting activities. We all ate and played on the iPads and amphorae that were found at the chatting with staff and making new friends. supposed site of Troy as well as other trinkets that depicted daily Greek life and heroic battles. We all enjoyed this trip very much, as we were able to create friendships and bond with our fellow year 7’s and As we walked along the isles of TA’s from the ASPie. What a fantastic end to my first two beautiful artwork, we found ourselves terms at Bexhill Academy. in the painting area. There, numerous (Amy Charlesworth – year 7) Bexhill Beacon 6 Bexhill Beacon 7 cademy T Awesome work fromR Mrs Baker-Hughes’ Year 10 Aclass. The work is based on an Artist called Jesse Reno using mixed media. Amazing effort team…. Bexhill Beacon 8 Bexhill Beacon 9 Year 10 Rugby: , GRAND Charlie Southgate, Charlie Francis, Riley Willard, Aston Lenzi, Bailey Stanley, Ewan Teague, Daniel Butler, Billy Rumble, Jamie Brundle. The Year 10 7’s also played in term 3. After finishing second last year to SLAM Claverham, a draw against Claverham this time around ensured that the Bexhill 7 s Academy team won on tries scored in a very close competition. Man of the exhill Academy rugby teams celebrate another successful year as overall Tournament goes to Riley Willard whose powerful running lines created many BRugby District Champions! This year they have gone one step further.