BELIEVE Business Name ACHIEVE Issue 5 Headteacher’s Message Dear Parents and Carers, SUCCEED ENJOY Term 5 is proving to be an extremely busy term! Our year 11 students are getting themselves ready for their final exams. Revision support and help is on hand for all these students – please don’t panic Year 11, you have all worked hard and I wish you every success. Should any parent want to talk to me regarding any aspect of the exam process ENJOY please don’t hesitate to contact me. SUCCEED You may be aware that William Lovell Church of England Academy is part of a multi academy trust; LAAT (Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust). This means that we have close working relationships and links with other Church of England schools throughout Lincolnshire. In our next newsletter we will be announcing a date of an informal meeting ACHIEVE during which parents may drop in for light refreshments providing an opportunity to meet key personnel within the LAAT. I am delighted to be able to announce that the Student Leadership Team, the Governors BELIEVE and LAAT have chosen our new blazer! They have all worked hard on this process, Mr Franklin, the manager of our main uniform provider ‘Nationwide School Uniform’ gave students an enlightening tour of the workshop in Spilsby. Mr Franklin has worked closely BELIEVE with the academy and has been a major ambassador; I very much look forward to working closely with him in the future and building more links within the local community with industries that can offer a valuable insight for our young entrepreneurs . I am planning a number of Headteacher drop-in sessions; the first of these will provide me with an ACHIEVE opportunity to fully explain the new blazer and also our uniform expectations for next year and how it will be introduced. This session will be held on Wednesday 15th June at 7pm, I hope you and your child are able to attend as it will provide me with a fantastic opportunity to meet you all. SUCCEED Enclosed with this newsletter is our newly introduced behaviour policy, please read this ENJOY carefully with your child. I have introduced processes that allow restorative measures to take place immediately; this means that if your child reacted impulsively to a situation they have the chance to rectify this, after they have spoken to a Pastoral Leader, moments after the event, reintroducing them back into the lesson and minimising the ENJOY disruption to their education. I fully appreciate that this is a newly introduced policy. SUCCEED Should you have any concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I am always happy to talk with parents! I would like to leave you with this thought… Thank God for what you have, TRUST GOD for what you need. The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow. ACHIEVE Take care, Mrs S Craig Headteacher BELIEVE BELIEVE, ACHIEVE, SUCCEED, ENJOY American Food Day Here at William Lovell food from different countries is served one day each term, the latest being American Food. This day attracted many students and staff. Although there was a variety of foods, the foot long hot dog seemed to be the most popular on the day! Summer Concert On Thursday 7th July (time TBC), we will be holding our final production of the year. To commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, students will be performing a collection of songs, letters, stories and poems from World War I. Lunchtime rehearsals started a few weeks ago and afterschool rehearsals have already started. More information about the event and rehearsal schedules will be uploaded to the blog shortly. Miss Evans Head of Music D.E.A.R. The enjoyment in dropping everything to read continues to grow! Students and staff across the whole academy are embracing the opportunity in reading something of their own choice, completely for pleasure, that the event allows. The Book Swap events are also becoming more popular as students prepare for D.E.A.R. with something new to read! Dates for your diary: Book Swap June 14th Drop Everything and Read June 27th when the whole academy will read in assembly! Mrs Bateson District Athletic Trials On Wednesday 4th May 7 students attended the South Lincolnshire District athletic trials at the Princess Royal Sports Arena, Boston with the hope of qualifying for the county athletic championships in early June. In order to progress the students needed to finish in the top two places in their events. Junior Boys Results: (Years 8/9) Travis Davison ran strongly in the heats of the 200m, but could only finish fourth and failed to make the final. Kian Baxter threw 22m90 in the Javelin to finish 5th and finally Dan Cox just missed out on place in the top two, finishing 3rd in the High Jump with a height of 1m50. Inter Boys Results: (Years 10/11) Joe Flynn and Jamie Robinson competed in two events each and despite some good performances both missed out on top two finish- es. Joe came 4th in the High Jump with a height of 1m55 and 4th again in the Javelin with a best throw of 34m30. Jamie finished 3rd in the 400m with a time of 65.6 and fourth in the 800m (2mins 25.4). Another year 10 student, Logan Graves, competed in the 1500m and came home a respectable fifth in a time of 5min 08.3 Inter Girls Results: (Year 10/11) The sole female competitor from the academy, Angelica Finch, finished a creditable 4th in the final of the 200m in a time 33.2secs A big well done to all of our students. We now turn our attention to sports day, followed by the opportunity to represent the academy at the district athletics champion- ships at the end of June. Mr Hopwood House Points The current points standings are as follows: Dakota Hurricane Lancaster Spitfire 13200 12300 17000 13700 Year 11 students If you intend to travel to school on a moped can you bring in your license and insurance documents to be checked. Thank you. Girl’s Netball National Young Show Stars My name is Harry Baldry and I got introduced into showing by some of my friends from Young Farmers. I attended a Lincoln Red taster day then was asked after this if I would like to take part in the Young Farmer’s class as a young handler for the Lincolnshire Show. I started off by doing the young handler at Newark Show which was the first show I went to. After I had competed in the young handler at Newark I then progressed to showing in the other classes with a lot of other people which was a bigger challenge and was a test of my abilities, doing that helped to boost my confidence and helped me improve my showing skills. After that I then started showing in more of the bigger classes including the young handler ones as well. This helped me improve on where I had been going wrong. I took notice of other people and how they acted in the ring and how they performed, I also took notice of how people acted towards the judge as well. I have built myself up from starting only 11 months ago to helping out other people at shows, trimming and to training calves. At my 5th show I qualified for the National Young Stock Person of the Year which is a big competition for all the young handlers around the country held in November at Peterborough. This is a huge achievement for me, having not taken part for very long. I was asked by the Lincoln Red Cattle Society to represent them as part of a team of 3 in the National Young Show Stars competition at The Great Malvern Showground in March for which I was really proud to be able to do. At this competition we had to prepare a display promoting the breed and prepare 2 heifers (female cows!) ready for showing. We arrived on the Wednesday afternoon and put up our display, settled the heifers in and took part in the stockjudging competition for which we had to judge 6 beast and I had to give my reasons for placing them to the master judge which was a bit nerve racking! On the Thursday we started early washing, clipping and generally preparing the heifers ready for the show ring. Whilst we were doing this we were being watched and judged all the time. We then had to demonstrate our show skills in the show ring again while being judged and another member of our team had to partake in an interview. We were up against 17 other teams who appeared to be more experienced than ourselves. Unfortunately we didn’t do quite as well as we could have but it was the taking part and experience which I will take with me to other shows. I know what we have to do for next year and hope to improve our position. While at this event there was also a sheep, pig and dairy event which took the same lines as ours. There was also an auctioneer and butchery competition which was very interesting to watch. Harry Baldry Year 11 Duke of Edinburgh We have sent a letter of thanks to Morrisons at Skegness for once again allowing us to fundraise by bag packing. We are planning to purchase Rucksacks and first aid kits with the £446.39 raised. We have put the money towards Vango Contour 60 +10 Rucksacks.