ASA TODAY Issue 43, Term 4

BBC School Report

Year 5 Journalists

Students produced videos and written reports for the BBC in March.

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Year 5 pupils from Springbank Primary Academy became reporters!

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The All Saints’ Academy Newspaper

Loserville pulls in a crowd

By Mrs Edgar

PR & Communications Manager

“A real treat from start to finish – what a brilliant team the All Saints’ Loserville cast made. You made the Academy rock.”

Mr Fredrickson

With a cast and crew of 35, spanning from Year 7 to Year 13, the production really was a whole-school musical.

The students rehearsed since December and we are incredibly proud of what they have achieved in such a short amount of time.

This year we added an extra show due to popular demand. The shows took place on the evenings of Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd with a matinee on Saturday 4th March.

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Students performed to a packed audience on each performance!

The cast performed amazingly and particular commendations to the lead roles, Jakub Sprenger and Jose Lumactod who put on their best performances to date. Bethany Halford made her debut on the musical theatre stage and amazed us with her beautiful voice and graceful dancing.

Three dancers in Year 13, Josh Domm, Poppy Slack and Bethany Halford, choreographed all of the fantastic dance routines seen in the show.

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Fantastic start to the new year

By Mrs Edgar

PR & Communications Manager Chief Editor The Performing Arts department kicked off the term with an outstanding production of Loserville. Please see pages 8 & 9 for a full Loserville photo gallery.

Lots of fantastic projects have been happening this term and it is brilliant to see the students so engaged in extra curricular work as well as within the Academy day.

On 24th March students invited their mums, carers and grandparents in for a special Daffodil Tea. This was ahead of Mothering Sunday. It was fantastic to see so many families enjoying each others company for this special occasion.

Next term’s newspaper will have photos from our Dance and Gymnastics Show taking place on 5th April.

If you are interested in writing for the Academy newspaper please email asatoday@asachelt.org

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Welcome to our latest termly edition of ASA Today. This edition celebrates the academic work and successes of our students as well as the many successes they have achieved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities.

I must congratulate our students and staff for the dedication they demonstrate each day in preparing for the summer examinations. Many additional tutorials and classes are occurring every day after the usual Academy hours. The commitment to succeed through extra study by our students has been excellent and it continues into the Easter holiday with our Easter school. All subjects will be providing additional support and study sessions for Year 11, 12 and 13. The year 11 timetable is detailed on Page 15.

This term showcased our Academy musical production of Loserville, which opened to the public with three packed shows. The performances of all the cast and musicians was fantastic, receiving rapturous applause. The performing arts continue to go from strength to strength and Loserville was the best yet. The Cast and Academy Choir received critical acclaim too for their performances at the Cheltenham Youth Music Festival in Cheltenham Town Hall.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) was another area of Academy success this term with our Year 9 students competing in FameLab. Their three minute presentations on Scientific theory and phenomena was judged by a panel of Scientists. The winner Peter Etheredge will compete in the regional final on

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Chelts & N.Tewks SSN @CheltenhamSSN Excellent debating competition Outstanding ability shown by all involved @ Cleeve_School @balcarras @asachelt Thanks @ MattPhysEd for judging

23rd March and did a fantastic job.

The Lego Robotics Challenge at RAF Cosford also resulted in All Saints’ winning the best robotic design. Well done team and many thanks to Mr Chapman, Mr Whitmore and Miss Manning for supporting this STEM project.

Another fantastic result was our Sixth Form entrepreneurs who won the best Dragon’s Den sales pitch at the Young Enterprise competition at the Pittville Pump Room.

In Literature our next First Story publication will be published in the summer term. Our team of students are currently choosing their

book cover before going to print. We look forward to reading their selection of stories and poems next term.

BBC School Report provided the opportunity for our team of eleven young journalists to film, report on topics such as Animal Testing, FameLab, Robo Hands and the Africa Trip to Tanzania. All reports can be seen on the Academy Website. Well done team and thanks to Mrs Edgar for supporting this brilliant BBC activity.

From all of us at All Saints’ Academy, we wish you a wonderful Easter celebration and many thanks for your support over this term.

Sixth Form Easter Revision Easter is an essential time for revision for the exams that are scheduled to start just three weeks into next term. BTEC assignments also need be completed as the final deadline will be five weeks into next term. Students have been given a blank calendar to schedule a revision timetable and should be working an average of 8 hours per day. To help those students, teachers have arranged revision lessons on the days shown below. More sessions are being planned and will be confirmed with students.

Wednesday 13th April IT AS Coursework (9.30 - 3.30) GCSE Maths (1 - 3pm) Thursday 14th April Business Y12 & Y13 (9 - 12) Psychology Y12 - (9.30 - 12.30) / Y13 - (1 - 3pm)

Wednesday 20th April Geography Y13 (9.30 - 12.30) / Y12 (1 - 3pm)

Emily @ejglos Lovely to be invited to talk to students this morning!

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Cheltenham Festivals FameLab

By Mr Chapman Science Teacher

In the previous issue of ASA Today we told you about the school finals for the FameLab competition with Year 9. Since then a lot of exciting things have happened! Our school winner, Peter Etheredge, went on a visit to Versarien who are a local awardwinning engineering company. Peter said that he “will consider engineering as a future career, after the visit” which shows how much of an impact that the placement had on him. To the big event, the FameLab Academy 2017 final! The event was held at EDF Energy in Gloucester and the event was a huge success with 13 different schools competing for the first prize!

Peter gave a confident and entertaining talk, that utilised his natural character and sense of humour to convey an insightful set of facts about the source

of fear. The talk will soon be available on the Gloucestershire FameLab YouTube channel, so please do watch

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Visit to Gloucester Folk Museum

his amazing contribution. Peter made the Academy incredibly proud and we cannot wait for next year!

Cheltenham Festivals First Story A Flock of Words Takes Flight

By Mr Fredrickson English Teacher

Students who have been taking part in the Cheltenham Festival’s First Story writing project had the opportunity to visit the treasure trove of Gloucester Folk Museum to sample aspects of local life in past years. They were also able to meet students from Gloucester Academy and Severn Vale School who are also taking part in the project.

“Best trip ever!” was a verdict from a number of students as the chance to dress up and re-enact nineteenth century weddings, life in a

1980s kitchen and World War Two soldiering proved rich stimuli for the writing session which our talented wordsmiths then embarked on. The pictures tell their own story. Step forward, Paris Duffy and Oliwia Jaszcura!

A special word of commendation to Seamus Bonner, Emma Pepa, Peter Etheredge, Ronan Austin and Lottie Farmer for representing the Academy and reading their work to 100 assembled adults and students in the last session of the afternoon. Lottie’s and Ronan’s personifications of the fabled Gloucester Black Dog and Old Spot Pig are candidates for some of the best imaginative writing you could wish to read, with almost every word hitting home.

Black Dog On looking at the 8 foot black dog that used to be on the roof of The Black Dog pub in Gloucester.

Arthur Leveson raised me from nothing into a great black dog. But then out of the blue he sent me to these strangers.

By Mr Fredrickson English Teacher

Students who have been taking part in the Cheltenham Festival’s First Story writing project visited Gloucestershire University on Thursday 2nd February. Their mission was to interview 30 adult artists who were pitching covers for their 2016-17 anthology of writing which is going to be called ‘A Flock of Words Takes Flight’.

Two hours flew by as students debated the merits of many amazing works of art. By the end of the session students had whittled the submissions down to four. The final cover has yet to be decided.

Take a look at some of the covers our students had to choose between. Which one would you decide?!

Many thanks to Mr McNiffe and Mr Nicklin for supporting the trip and to Ali Mawle, Jane Bailey and the Gloucestershire University students for contributing so much to making the visit a success.

They took care of me as they took me safely up the dangerous ladder. Once again I was neglected after I had been used. I was left peering up high over the edge, watching drunken brawls and makeshift romance.

Every day I would see streams of people with a clumsy happiness and a scary optimism.

Nobody didn’t know me. They’d say ‘meet me under the shabby black dog.’ That always cut deep as in my past life I had saved a boy from a brutal robbery.

I was forgotten for years gradually taking damage. When they found me I was scared for more rejection and hurt. But this time I was embraced and placed in a museum.

Now I tell my own story of twisted loneliness.

By Ronan Austin

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Daffodil Tea

By Mrs Spence Roman Catholic Lay Chaplain

To celebrate Mothering Sunday, The Chaplains hosted the fourth annual Daffodil Tea on Friday 24th March at 11.30am. Parents, carers and grandpar-

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ents were invited to come along, some had attended before while for many it was their first attendance. Students met with their guests in reception and escorted them to the Dance Studio, where they were invited to sit back and relax while being served tea, coffee, cake and biscuits by the students. Once the guests were served the students then came forward and received their own refreshments. I must say the students were very attentive and looked after their guests most diligently. The tea lasted for an hour and provided a great opportunity for all present to chat and enjoy their time together, there was a real buzz in the room. At the end of the tea all the guests were presented with a bunch of daffodils.

There were many positive comments by both students and guests and again the event was a great success.

I would like to thank Mrs Coleman and the Academy catering students who provided the delicious cakes, they were a real treat. Also I would like to thank Mr Pinless and Miss Wellington for their help with the tea.

CYMFed Flame Congress

By Julia Nowak Student Reporter

On Saturday 11th March the Chaplains Mrs Spence, Roman Catholic Lay Chaplain and Mr Pinless, Anglican Chaplain, accompanied a group of ASA students to the Flame Congress at the SSE Arena, Wembley.

Flame is an event which was originally inspired by the Papal visit in 2010 and is the largest gathering of Catholic Youth in the UK, 10,000 in fact.

The day began for us at 7.45 when we met at the Academy, everyone was given a very fetching orange scarf which was provided by Clifton Diocese, we then travelled by school minibus driven by Mr Pinless. After a short stop at services enroute we arrived at 10.45, as we walked towards the Arena we joined large groups of young people from other dioceses and it wasn’t difficult to spot the groups from Clifton Diocese. We met with Bishop Declan and had photos taken outside. There was great excitement and anticipation when we entered the Arena and the event began at 12.00pm.

The morning session opened with a welcome message from Cardinal Vincent Nichols. Throughout the day the music was provided by Christian singer, songwriter and double Grammy award-winning Matt Redman and his

band. The morning session included music, speakers Cardinal Bo from Myanmar and Mike Pilavachi founder of the Christian Festival ‘Soul Survivor’ and dance from the Converse Dance Academy. The afternoon session included music and a very moving and powerful performance by Rise Theatre which portrayed a modern take on the poem ‘Footsteps’ which depicted how God is with us at every stage of our lives. There were also interviews with Fr Augusto, Theological Adviser to CAFOD and two CAFOD volunteers .

They related their experiences in Lebanon - working with refugees (who had fled because of the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Palestine) with a presentation

by Sarah Teather - Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service who advocated on behalf of refugees around the world. At the end of the afternoon session Cardinal Nichols led the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction.

Matt Redman concluded the afternoon with a selection of his songs which had everyone on their feet.

The day was a wonderful experience and a privilege to be with such enthusiastic young people in an atmosphere of joy with faith filled inspiration from the speakers and performers, one which I thoroughly enjoyed and will remember for a long time.

Some comments from students, ‘it was fun’, ‘it was a lively day’, ‘I really enjoyed the day’.

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Lush Workshop

By Mrs Snape

Head of Hair and Beauty This term we were visited by LUSH who were working with our Year 9 Hair and Beauty students. As part of the Level 2 Hair and Beauty course the students need to be aware of the

different ingredients that go into products and to ultimately create their own product as course work.

The girls got to make two products with LUSH, a bubble bar and a face mask.

LUSH don’t test any of their products or ingredients on animals and make sure they get their ingredients ethically ensuring a fair pay for workers and good working conditions.

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Robotics Challenge

By Mr Chapman Science Teacher

“It was sad to find out that lots of cosmetic companies test their products on animal which I think is unkind” - Lacey Johnson

In 2016, Tomorrows Engineers set up a competition where students were given over £2000 worth of equipment to make a robot. This robot could then complete challenges involving the theme of space exploration on Mars.

The students had to program, design

and build the robot in front of a group of judges at RAF Cosford. All who took part were exceptional and they won an award for their design efforts, confidence and creativity in a brand new event at All Saints’. The students involved were Nathaniel Casuco, Satwinder Liddar, Elliott Finch, Jamie Mace, Joseph Curtis, Emma Pepa, Ashley Newman, Blazej Skowron and Scott Cookes.

We will see them again next year where we hope to build on this outstanding first time success!

“I have used my face mask and it made my face feel clean and really soft!”

- Maja Watalska “We had so much fun creating the comforter bubble bar as we learnt the special technique to mix the two colours together” – Aimee Gould

Sixth Form Sport

By Mrs Minto Head of PE

The Sixth Form sport group are currently working hard for their 2 exams that they will be sitting in May and June. Although there is a lot of theory work to get through, Unit 2 – Fitness Training and Programming for Health, Sport and well-being has enabled the learners to participate in a variety of practical lessons. Ultimately this unit will allow the learners to develop and create specific training plans for a variety of individuals. They will be able to test their clients’ current levels of fitness, give nutritional advice and create a fitness plan to include different training methods, such as; continuous training, speed training, agility training, SAQ training. Alongside this they will

also be able to give lifestyle advice to help their client make changes to their way of living. This is a particular unit

that will be very helpful for those that would like to go into personal training.

mixed teams to develop their entrepreneurial, problem solving, creativity, team work and leadership skills to manufacture and design bracelets and selling them to demanding buyers, whilst ensuring strict quality control requirements are abided by. Students were later asked to design and create new products from limited products and then business plan how they can develop potential ideas and strategies to drive their business idea forward as part of the Tenner Challenge (ASA Interhouse competition) starting soon.

show the best entrepreneurial skills by the end of the Tenner Challenge (ASA Interhouse Competition) by the end of March will be rewarded with a return trip to Spirax on a specialised work placement visit.

Success: Students were a great asset to the school with most staying afterwards to speak / meet the Spirax Sarco staff about their journeys, apprenticeships / internships, degrees and careers on offer at Spirax. A big thank you to Spirax and Young Enterprise for giving up their time to be with our next generation of brilliant business students!

Tenner Challenge

By Mr Kelly

Head of Technology Faculty 40 students from Year 9 Business Studies were selected on merit to represent the Academy at the annual Tenner Challenge launch, which was hosted at All Saints’. Local engineering firm, Spirax Sarco and Young Enterprise launched the event sending ten staff who offered thought provoking and challenging sessions for our students.

The first challenge involved pushing students out of their comfort zones in

Winning prizes: Those students who are most successful and make the most amount of money /

Choir performs at Music for Youth Regional Festival

On 5th March the Academy Choir and Loserville cast took to the stage at Cheltenham Town Hall to perform in the Music for Youth Regional Festival.

The choir sang Footprints in the Sand whilst Loserville cast performed Ticket outta Loserville and

Slacker, two show-stoppers from the production. After four days of back to back performances students went above and beyond with their efforts at the town hall. We are incredibly proud of them all.

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Docking Stations

By Miss Holland Assistant Head of Design Technology

Josh Villarba

Josh has a love for music and displayed a passion for this project from the start.

As you can see from the final product, it has been manufactured accurately at each stage and he completed frequent quality control checks to make sure he met a commercial standard. He used

Nicola Crawford

Nicola has been inspired by the steampunk movement chosen by her client.

This is an outstanding product because it has unique design features, attractive use of colour to make it aesthetically pleasing and every part has been manufactured to a commercial standard.

Nicola even researched and purchased a radio kit to add to this docking station which is the only one out of the group.

Nicola should be proud of the fantastic quality of work she has produced.

By Mr Shergold

Head of Engineering & Construction

Sandro takes pride in every task he completes in Product Design and ensure he meets the success criteria of the mark scheme. His final product has an outstanding finish and a wide variety of different textures and colours which include acrylic, plywood and oak effect vinyl. He worked hard on making sure any 2D Design (CAD parts) were perfect and would regularly get it cut out in card first to check the accuracy of his measuring and you can see here that Sandro has produced a truly fantastic product!

Enrichment

Balsa Wood Racers

By Mrs Derwent Head of Design Technology

Jacob Street getting to grips with the milling machine

Alex Barnard using the Pillar Drill

Ethan Cliffords’ Final Lamp

Alex Barnard’s Final Lamp The Year 11 engineering students are now coming to the end of a course that has seen them design and prototype a task lamp. Using all of the skills they have been taught in their time here at ASA using wood, metal, plastic, numerous drills, milling machines and the metal lathe, they manufactured and assembled everything you see in the pictures (except the LED’s, wires and switches), all the soldering was done

Sandro Noguiera

flexi ply (a manufactured board that bends) for the first time this year and successfully created the precise curves for each speaker to be supported in. We are very proud of the outstanding product Josh has manufactured!

Engineering

Finley Kerr’s Final Lamp

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Alex Barnard marking out his aluminium though!

The end of this project is now in sight and now is really time for the last push to get everything completed!

Jenifer Meisyah’s Final Lamp

Since January Year 10 students have been given the exciting opportunity of designing and making their own elastic powered racers in Enrichment Sessions. After five, one hourly sessions, students have produced some pretty fantastic outcomes and are ready to race them next week. We thought we’d photograph some of them before the battles commence!

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Netball

By Dimitry

SPA Student Reporter

SPA played against Warden Hill in Netball and got a draw, 4-4. They started winning but SPA soon took the lead.

The people who played were Dimitry (Year 5), Scarlett (Year 6) Maddi (Year 3), Danniele (Year 6), Alisha (Year 6) and Ruby (Year 3). There was a bit of a

crowd there. On the team, Dimitry and Scarlett both scored two, meaning the team had four. Not all of us were happy with our positions but we still tried our best. Despite some people being short, we still had a perfect effort. Miss Stevens was the coach and taught several more people including us. All the team did well as at the end we got a snack – Jaffa cakes!

Epic Roman Day

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Let’s Read!

By Hannah

SPA Student Reporter

Rugby Victory

Year 5 Trip to Dean Close

By Charlie

By Ruby

SPA Student Reporter

On 20th February, Year 5/6 had an epic Roman Day! We started the day by writing what we already knew about the Romans and what we would like to know. After that we did a roman quiz.

Then, we began to design our Roman pots. We watched a clip before we designed it. Mr Human (my morning teacher) made an example of a normal Roman pot. It looked pretty easy. After break we started making our pots.You can see are some of the pots above.

Me and fellow students (Abid, Adam, Isabella, Libby, Maddison, Wiktoria, Courtney and Dimitry) have been part of an exciting club: A book at breakfast time! We have all been reading a book called The Last Wild. We highly recommend it and you should also ready its sequel The Dark Wild! Fellow student, Dimitry says “I love the competition, it was a writing competition and it was such a challenge but so fun aswell!” There was a first place, second place and third place. I won 3rd place for my story about an insane white pigeon and got my own copy of the book, The Last Wild! Hopefully this club, with a great teacher, Mr Cratchly, will start again soon!

SPA Student Reporter

By Eric

SPA Student Reporter

On Monday 13th March 2017, the whole of Year 5 were offered a trip to Dean Close Private School. When we got off the coach, I thought the school was a church. When I saw the school signs, I realised it was a school! Our first activity for group 4 (my group, which was: me, Sophia, Emily, Karl,

Charlie and Hannah) was to make the tallest tower out of marshmallows and spaghetti. I think we made the smallest tower (ha!). We then got to eat the marshmallows!!! Our team won the loger challenge! We did rugby and tennis (we didn’t get to finish the rugby). I found out that I am great at tennis! For dinner we got to pick out of chicken tikka curry, or broccoli mash and potato. The curry was AMAZING! For pudding we got chocolate cake! Then we had to go home! I want to go again!

Editor: Abid Designer: Riley Photographers: Isobella & Shaun

Recently SPA played in a rugby tournament and we won a trophy for coming first. We asked members of the team how they felt. We asked Riley first, “It was amazing, the team played well and I felt brilliant about winning, I felt brilliant because it was such a tough battle”.

EPIC SPA House News

Football

By Adam

SPA Student Reporter

Top three SPA players Charlie, Adam and Ricky cheer with joy that football is back. “I love football and I can’t wait for the new season to kick off”. Charlie said “The first game was a 2-1 win for their team. I love football and can’t wait for the new season to begin”.

Last season SPA F.C lost 7-2 in the cup to Greatfield F.C. We were all upset, some of us were even crying.

By Jake

SPA Student Reporter

In SPA there are four especially chosen people to be house captains for our schools four house teams. These house teams are different colour.

Blue is Cleeve, Red is Bredon, Green is Malvern and Yellow is Cotswold.

“Bredon started quiet rusty and wasn’t going well but recently got first, a lot of Bredon team put in top effort” said Charlie.

House Positions 1 – Bredon 2 – Cotswold 3 – Cleeve 4- Malvern

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A trip of a lifetime

By Millie Fraser BBC School Reporter

By Ziggy Elver BBC School Reporter

By Seweryn Skowron BBC School Reporter The ‘robo-hands’ that can be worn by surgeons to remotely control surgical tools INSIDE patients’ bodies.

Scientists have developed ‘robohands’, which can be worn by surgeons to remotely control tools inside patients’ bodies during surgeries.

The exo-skeleton device – created by researchers at Bristol’s University of the West of England – will fit over the surgeons’ hands to enable them to perform keyhole operations.

Wearers will control a ‘gripper’ with the thumb and fingers, and will even be able to feel the tissues and organs through the ‘hands’.

The £3.5 million project will also develop ‘smart glasses’ to be worn by surgeons, allowing them to see inside the body, and position themselves anywhere in the operating theatre.

A current prototype has been created by researchers at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, and is being developed further with the help of the university. Professor Sanja Dogramadzi, from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, said “we want to give existing processes a more natural interface operating surgeons will not have to do any unusual or unnatural movement”.

She added: “The other part of our system will be smart multi-functional glasses, which will relay live images from inside the body.

“This is an advancement compared to current systems, which use a flat TV-like screen to relay images back to the surgeon.”

“The research will use the expertise and feedback of senior surgeons to develop the tools.”

We interviewed two people with a large age gap, so that we could see contrasting beliefs and experiences concerning technology in the modern world. First, we interviewed Peter Etheredge, a Year 9 student.

Have you heard about the ‘Robotic Hands’ that have been developed for use in surgery?

“No, I hadn’t, but I have now.”

What is your opinion on this development?

“These hands sound useful and I think

it is a good development.”

Do you think that if technology continues to advance like it is, the world will become a better place, and that there will be more opportunities for the new and younger generations?

“I think that it’ll be amazing, and as a part of the younger generation, it will be good for my future as well.”

Do you think that these hands could help you in your life if you ever needed them?

“I think that if I ever needed any type of surgery these would help a lot and would reassure me that I could recover.”

Secondly, we interviewed Mr. Mirams, a science teacher at All Saints’ Academy.

Have you heard about the ‘Robotic Hands’ that have been developed for use in surgery?

“I hadn’t. I’ve read something similar, but not about this. It is awesome.”

What is your opinion on this development?

“To be able to do skilled, refined surgery with these sorts of tools, it’s incredible and even better that it’s in Bristol.”

Do you think that if technology continues to advance like it is, the world will become a better place, and that there will be more opportunities for the new and younger generations?

“With opportunities like this, the younger generations are going to have the opportunity to gain mobility.

Think, these exoskeleton-like hands could be used for people who have disabilities, or conditions that prevent them from having the physical strength to do these things. It’s a massive, massive advancement that will benefit everyone: young and old.”

When you were a child did you ever think that technology would advance as much as it has?

“I grew up before the year 2000, and when I was a child, everyone had the dream that in the year 2000 we would all be flying around in hover cars and have robot butlers. That didn’t come true, but actually we’re starting to see this. It is what you used to read in Science Fiction. There is that part of me that says yes we did hope for advanced technology, but we never thought it would be real, and yet, now, we’re starting to see that it’s a reality, so that’s cool.”

In July 2017, students and staff from All Saints’ Academy will be travelling to go on a mission trip to Kasulu, in Tanzania, Africa, so they can experience the culture, religion and see what it is like for people to live in poverty on a daily basis. The Africa Trip is a partnership between the Dioceses of Gloucester and Kasulu, designed to change the students’ lives and the locals’ lives for the better. It is an opportunity for students to experience faith in a different culture, encourage leadership qualities and strengthen relationships with God, across geographical boundaries.

In Tanzania, the climate is very tropical and the coastal areas are hot and humid, causing the central plateau to be dry and arid throughout the year. The temperature in Tanzania can create quite an issue for the people who live there. Many live in poverty because they are unable to support their families as they cannot plant crops to sell or eat. Tanzania suffers from a high level of poverty, meaning that many lack the basic necessities of food, water, shelter, healthcare and education.

In order to attempt to do their part to alleviate the level of poverty that is prevalent throughout the country, the Africa Team will help educate and support the younger generation of a town in Kasulu, Tanzania. The team will be teaching them academic subjects like Maths and English, and also teaching them leadership skills.

I interviewed two teachers and one student participating in the Af-

rica Trip: Miss Morley, Mr Pinless, and Shana Kelly. When asked what they were most, and least, looking forward to about the trip, Miss Morley said that she was “most looking forward to meeting the fantastic people that live there” and that it would be a “very inspirational experience and kind of a ‘wakeup call’”.

Mr Pinless shares Miss Morley’s excitement for the trip as he has “never been to Tanzania before”. He is looking forward to seeing the “change in the students once they get back and the challenges that we will face and overcome whilst out there”. Shana Kelly is also excited to experience the “new way of living” and making “a difference”.

However, Mr Pinless is least looking forward to the food, claiming that “I’ve had something called Ugali.

It is made from maize flour and water and it is not very nice. I am also least looking forward to the tiredness, but eventually adrenaline will kick in.”

Miss Morley is least looking forward to having to go to the toilet. Furthermore, Shana Kelly is concerned about

the diseases and illnesses, as the team will face the risk of developing illnesses such as Yellow Fever, Typhoid and Tuberculosis, and contracting waterborne diseases, such as Cholera; but she is hoping to make a real difference to a local community.

The team have held a series of fundraising events, some of which involved selling cakes and Valentine’s Day roses. Most recently, the team, along with a number of volunteers, took part in an overnight sponsored fast. So far, ASA have raised an incredible, £13,065.06! However, the team have set their sights on organising another (far more demanding) event to aid their plight to raise enough money to reach their target of £27,000: the ‘Coast to Coast Challenge’. The staff from ASA will be partaking in a gruelling ‘Coast to Coast’ cycle from Holyhead to Cardiff, through the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia – near to 200 miles, over different altitudes, each day! This will take place over the Easter holidays, with all sponsorship money going to Africa 2017.

Animal Testing

Performing Arts

FameLab

By Nicole Garus, Harvey White and Ellie McCullough

By Lottie Farmer, Tamzyn Regan and Seamus Bonner

You can watch a video report about Make-up Testing on Animals here: http://www.asachelt. org/1901/animal-testing-formake-up

You can watch a video report about Performing Arts and Loserville here: http://www.asachelt. org/1903/performing-artsloserville

By Bruno Motta and Borys Bilak

You can watch a video report about FameLab here: http://www.asachelt. org/1905/famelab

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Coast to Coast

By Mr Pierce

By Mrs Francis Head of PACE

As part of our alternative curriculum (PACE) students take part in the Princes Trust Achieve programme. This year we are focusing on the community. We continue to maintain the ASA garden - which we started last year; planting produce that is organically grown which will be used in the ASA kitchen.

This year the students chose to create a calm, relaxing environment for all the staff and students to enjoy. Over the next term we will be erecting a wooden gazebo in the garden which can be used as an outdoor classroom; benefiting the whole school community.

We have been very fortunate to have the support from the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. With the latest State of Nature 2016 study showing that 15% of the UK’s species are facing extinction, we have been learning about conservation and how we can encourage insect habitats. The Wildlife Trust have helped our students in making bird boxes, feeders and insect boxes as well as home-made irrigation for crops. We have put them around the academy grounds to encourage the local wildlife and those helpful insects – hopefully they will deter any unwanted pests eating the crops! This work also links closely with the learning we have completed in our Science, where we have studied habitats, ecosystems and the negative impact humans are having on the environment - through the use of such things as pesticides.

We have just began working with Janice Payne, The Park Ranger for Cheltenham Borough Council supporting a local community project, along-side: Pates, Glos Col and the Cheltenham Science group. The PACE students have adopted a planter in Coronation Square with the aim to clear, plant and maintain throughout the year.

A very busy year so far!

Assistant Head of PE Second in House A number of All Saints’ Academy staff are taking part in a gruelling Coast to Coast bike ride from Holyhead to Cardiff. The small team will be completing their 200 mile challenge over just two days.

The team will be well lead by cycle enthusiast Mr Shergold with a support crew to help encourage and motivate the cyclists. The Coast to Coast team have been out training Wednesdays after school with the occasional weekend in preparation for this endurance event.

This Coast to Coast cycle is in support for the Africa team in fundraising for the Tanzania trip happening in July 2017.

Even though the Coast to Coast is just for staff, the students of All Saints’ Academy have been asked to help show their support by helping to raise as much money as possible to motivate the staff to achieve this incredible 200 mile challenge.

An Interview with Emily Hicks

By Miss Wellington Teacher of ICT Second in House What have you done?

What has been most fun so far?

For me, the most fun thing we’ve done has been getting to know the team better. As well as talking to people from the last trip and finding out more about how they found it.

For my fund raising I have done a sponsored zip wire, down one of the UK’s longest zip wires. This helped me raise the majority of my funds. I have also had a crowd funding page on Facebook for people to donate to the trip.

However, I am yet to complete my final event. This is a parent vs child football match for a team that I am closely involved with.

I personally feel that my fund raising is going well. For my own fund raising I have reached a total of around £1,050 and I am keen to raise more. As a team I believe we have raised roughly £13,000.

Corporal Lloyd from Dean Close CCF. They started off with an air rifle, x 200, at 10 metres away from the target. Students attempted to shoot all five rounds in the middle of the centre ring. The results were surprisingly good, given that the CCF had not shot for quite a while.

The second task was to shoot two rounds into each circle on the target. They were given a magazine in the prone position to keep their aim stable.

Lastly students were split into three groups for the final competition. They did not have sandbags to keep themselves stable, instead they used the strap of the rifle – a much more difficult process. The groups were split in relation to how well they did on the first tasks. Again, the results were surpising. Lance Corporal Sandro Nogueira had the highest score out of everyone in the group (42/50) but all cadets showed great accuracy.

How is the fund raising going?

CCF

By Miss Wellington CCF Lead Officer On Monday 6th March, students from Year 9 and above who are part of the schools Combined Cadet Force went to Dean Close School to practice their aim in a shooting range supervised by

Are you getting excited or nervous yet?

Personally I feel that as the trip gets closer, I am getting more excited about this life changing opportunity. However, now that we have started to have our injections it is also becoming more and more nerve wracking, as we are all unaware of exactly what we will face while we are out there.

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Young Enterprise impress at the Trade Fair

By Matt Jones

Student Reporter

On Wednesday 8th of March, myself and 13 other Year 12 students attended the Young Enterprise local trade fair at Pittville Pump Rooms, where we competed against 18 other teams from different schools around Cheltenham.

The team worked tirelessly since September 2016 developing our business and it had all come down to the day of the Trade Show!

Background to Young Enterprise Young Enterprise is a national competition which encourages young people to explore their entrepreneurial skills by creating and setting up our own registered company. We have developed an educational business called Eminence, which stands for ‘high quality’.

This reflects our vision of making a difference to young people’s lives.

We arrived at Pittville Pump Rooms and spent an hour setting up and refining our stand in an effort to win the overall competition. We had strong and consistent branding with all teams members dressed with professional company branded t-shirts and a trade stand which reflected business growth over the previous six months.

The business raised capital at the start by creating and selling candles (with support from Mr Day), which led us to producing and printing our first educational guide called – The Next Step.

The book made a real impact at the trade fair and the judges (from Young Enterprise, HSBC and Spirax Sarco) were impressed by the amount of pri-

mary and secondary Head Teachers who have made orders for the book.

We have taken multiple orders totalling over 100 books so far.

There was strong competition on the day, particularly from Balcarras who created an educational literacy card game and Cotswold School who created a reclaimed timber designs business. There were three dif-

ferent awards up for grabs on the day; 1. Best Product Development. 2. Best Customer Focus. 3. Best Sales Pitch ‘Dragons Den style’. We went in nervous, but came out confident, knowing we had done a good job! This was confirmed later on in the day when we were presented with the award for Best Sales Pitch in a Dragon’s Den style. We are over the moon with this achieve-

ment!

If you would like to purchase a book at a discounted rate of £2, which would make a fantastic gift for a family member, then please Contact me on jonema11@asachelt.org or 01242 711299. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @YE_Eminence

LGBTQ History Month Assembly

By Josh Domm Student Reporter

Last month I had the opportunity to lead the thought of the day in the Sixth Form assembly and as February is ‘LGBT History’ month I felt it essential to bring this topic into discussion. As this is the first time LGBT issues have been spoken about in the Academy’s history I felt a great honour and pride in starting what I hope is a permanent and growing priority in the Academy.

When starting my presentation I was reminded of the quote “Those who fail to remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. As a community we LGBT have had a long and difficult fight to gain the equality that we deserve and is our human right.

Despite the leaps and bounds that have been made in the last couple of decades the fight for equality is not over; hence why education is fundamental. I chose to centre my little snippet of activism on the epidemic that we at All Saints’ face: Homophobic language. I recited some phrases that 99% of young LGBT people hear during school and when heard in a derogatory way are offended by. The phrase “that’s so gay” is the problem I want to tackle before I finish this year.

People often say when their phones are not working “urgh stop being so gay”. Even if it is not meant in any homophobic way it’s still offensive. Fact! By associating the word “gay” with something that’s negative or broken, in extension, is saying that someone like myself is negative, broken or someone to be ashamed off.

For those who struggle with this issue, hearing this can cause them to feel negative or ashamed and then they will fail to be happy with the person they were born to be. I rounded off my assembly with a quote from my idol Rupaul

Charles. “If you can’t love yourself, how you gonna love somebody else.”

For those struggling with any issues I have discussed and don’t know who to talk to, I am always available to offer an open ear and advice. Feel free to approach me, drop me an email or contact me on social media; it is my wish to set up a safe network within the Academy. If you feel like you can’t talk to a person please research the charity Stonewall, who are the leading LGBT charity in the country. I want you to know you are perfect and beautiful and in the words of Lady Gaga “Don’t hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you’re set, I’m on the right track, baby, I was born this way.” http://www.stonewall.org.uk/ Joshhdomm@icloud.com

Issue 42, Term 3, 2017

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Careers Day

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85 visitors support National Careers and Apprenticeship Week 2017

By Mrs Parr

Pastoral Manager

By Mrs Taylor

Assistant Pastoral Manager On 10th March we welcomed 85 visitors from a range of local and national employers to take part in our Careers Q & A event. Professionals and Apprentices ranging from engineers, public services, financial services industry, recruitment specialists and charities visited the academy and engaged with students.

Our guests were assigned to tutor groups where they were questioned by students on how they got into their field of choice.

Our young people need to have the right experiences, information and guidance to help them be able to find out what careers are best for them.

Employers put exposure to work and employability skills like team working, determination, and the ability to communicate effectively, at the top of their wish list when looking to recruit.

National Careers and Apprenticeship Week is an excellent opportunity to highlight the range of careers available to young people entering the workforce, the variety of qualification pathways and the skills that are at the top of the wish list for employers.

At All Saints’ Academy we embrace National Careers Week with a full program of events aimed at raising aspirations and broadening horizons.

We will bring together students, local employers and advisers through careers events and activities throughout the week.

National Careers Week is a celebration of careers guidance and employment opportunities across the UK. The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activities at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people when leaving education. At a time of high youth unemployment there has never been a bigger need for careers guidance to be promoted and celebrated in education.

National Careers Week is our platform to advise and inspire our next generation as they enter the world of work.

“Students further down the school can give themselves a fighting chance of being successful applicants in later years by securing Grade 4s in English, maths and science GCSEs when they sit their exams.”

“Once I got over my nerves I hope I was able to deliver some useful information to the students I spoke to today. I surprised myself by really enjoying it and it was great to be able to promote Social Work in a positive light to young people as what is portrayed in the media is often so negative. I would be happy to take part in future events as my new career progresses. Thanks for the opportunity to spend time with such attentive students. I really appreciate them listening to what I had to say and hope that they were able to take something from it.”

- Liz Smith Student Social Worker Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust

“Jack and I were delighted to talk to Sixth Form students at All Saints’ Academy about our career journeys in the construction industry, and hope that we’ve left the students with some top tips about how they can prepare themselves for the world of work and make their applications stand out from the crowd.

The event gave us a great opportunity to showcase our award-winning electrical apprenticeship scheme. With a booming order book, we’ll be taking on large numbers of new apprentices during 2017 and hope that students from All Saints Academy, who are leaving Sixth Form this year, will apply,” - Elaine Hodgin Head of Sales & Marketing at Clarkson Evans

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Issue 42, Term 3, 2017

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Student of Westminster the Term York Term 3 Bradley Goff

Canterbury Molly Lordan

Tutor Comment Molly has an excellent work ethic as well as a great attitude and personality.

She is always polite and kind and she will always be a great role model for the other students in the tutor group.

She has contributed excellently to the sports department, especially when playing football. Molly always has a green stop the clock sheet, which shows that she balances her work and time to take part in activities that she loves. She always has outstanding attendance and she is never late to school or any of her lessons.

Student Comment I am pleased to gain recognition for my achievements and I am proud to take part in the sports teams. I hope to continue this into Year 10 at All Saints’.

HAL Comment I am delighted that Molly is Canterbury’s Star Student for term 3. She is an outstanding student who works to achieve excellence in all lessons, has a care for others students round her and who also participates in the sporting life of the Academy and of the house.

She is an excellent role model to all around her. I am proud to have her in Canterbury House.

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House Points Average per Student in House Order

231.5 248.1 275.3 252.6

George Godwin Locke

Durham

Attendance

Kyle Driscoll

Tutor Comment Kyle is a kind and thoughtful student that strives to succeed at school. He is polite, presents himself well, always punctual to lessons and comes to school every day ready to learn. Kyle is accepting of all students and respects himself enough to make the right decisions and avoid the wrong ones.

Student Comment I feel honoured to receive this award.

I will continue to be polite and kind to those around me. I am happy to hear that people find me approachable as I plan to be a prefect in year 11. I also feel honoured to play for the school football team and represent the school with pride and I will continue to do this in the future.

HAL Comment It is great to see Kyle winning this award. Kyle always has a smile on his face and is a very approachable pupil.

Kyle has worked hard on his attendance and received 100% for last term.

He represents the school football team and does this with pride and respect.

Well done Kyle!

Tutor Comment Bradley is an incredibly helpful and friendly student within 4WH. He helps out in Friday sessions to co-lead our Friday kahoot quiz sessions and is the first person to support students with any questions they have. Bradley works quietly within the group but always contributes to group sessions. I regularly get messages from his class teachers, expressing how successful he is in lessons, due to his conscientious work ethic. Keep up the hard work Bradley.

Student Comment I am very surprised to receive student of the term and I am grateful for being chosen. I work hard in my lessons and am pleased my efforts have been recognised. I also organise Kahoot! on Fridays for my tutor group which I enjoy doing. I am especially interested in Computing and Engineering and hope to pursue them in the future.

HAL Comment Bradley is an all-round outstanding pupil. He works consistently hard in all his subjects, with outstanding attitude to learning in lots of areas. He also is an active part of his tutor group – helping run the Friday Kahoot! sessions.

He has a mature attitude with his peers and teachers alike. We are exceptionally proud of Bradley, he is credit to Westminster house.

Congratulations!

Tutor Comment George is an amazing all rounder!!

He does library duty every week, is always early to form time, with perfect uniform and is polite and well-mannered. George is happy to help anyone, is kind to others and offers advice. His attendance and behaviour are also outstanding.

I believe George truly deserves the praise and recognition of student of the term!

George can at times be a very quiet student and because of this, he can sometimes get forgotten about in lessons and around the academy! So I hope this boosts his self confidence!

Student Comment I am really happy to receive this award and very proud of myself for being selected. I think it’s important to try your best at school and to believe in yourself. I have a really good attendance and this is important to me because I don’t want to miss any learning. I hate getting behind in class. I enjoy doing my library duty every week and take this role seriously and like the responsibility.

HAL Comment George is a credit to York House and the Academy. He consistently achieves our ready to learn expectations and has an outstanding attitude to learning. He is polite and courteous towards staff.

He supports the Academy and demonstrates our value of service by supporting Mrs Jones in the GLH each week.

Well done George, it is a pleasure to have you in our House.

93.6% 93.2% 94.8% 91.8%

Overall Interhouse Results 2nd 3rd 1st 4th

Congratulations Westminster

For coming 1st in all 3 this term!

Year 11 Easter School

Monday 10th

Tuesday 11th

Morning 9-12

Religious Education

Science

Afternoon 12 - 3

Health and Social Studies Religious Education

Film Studies Computing

Wednesday 12th

Thursday 13th

Friday 14th

Monday 10th

English

Maths

Bank Holiday

Morning 9-12

Bank Holiday

Business Studies

Bank Holiday

Afternoon 12 - 3

Bank Holiday

Tuesday 11th

Wednesday 12th

Thursday 13th

French Spanish

Art

Maths

Child Development

Art

History

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A hat-trick of thirds

By Mrs Mitchell PE Teacher Head of House

The U12, U14 and U16 girls took part in county football finals this term. Despite facing tough opposition, each group displayed great teamwork, dedication and determination and were all placed third in their respective age categories. Even though we witnessed some great football and positive attitudes none of the age groups progressed forward to the district finals this year. Nevertheless we are extremely proud of the efforts they put in and we can hold our heads high and say; here’s to next year!

“An enjoyable tournament...

We were incredibly unlucky in some games”

- Shana Kelly

“I found it really good to work alongside my teammates. A really good experience and I feel my confidence is growing” - Lottie Farmer

Special mentions go to:

Jade Pearce for her positive attitude and scoring her first goal for the academy team! Lottie Farmer for her determination and commitment for playing in the tournament and then rushing off to perform in the school production.

Kaitlyn Booth for her sharp defending and perseverance against some tough opposition.

“I liked the way we worked well as a team despite playing some difficult teams” - Danielle Lusmore

Year 8 District Cup Football

Water Polo

By Mr Ferguson Assistant Vice Principal

Vs Cheltenham Boy’s College Lost 14-8 Continuing in their healthy seven year willingness to try all sports and have a great deal of enjoyment, the Sixth Formers asked to play water polo again after a two year layoff. Relying very much on the coaching they had received as Year 9 and Year 10 students and Nick Bond’s international experience, they approached this game with an open mind.

Team captain Nick Bond and his understudy Joe O’Shea ensured the squad arrived at 3.15 on the inset day, a real sense of their desire to take part!

The warm up demonstrated fitness and skill levels and allowed the starting line up to be determined. The game itself, played in quarters, was a real end to end affair with the first quarter ending 3-3, the second quarter proved to be a bit more testing for the ASA boys as tiredness began to set in with scores ending 5-2. The third quarter drifted away from All Saints’ at 3-0 although the play was much closer. A rallying call from Bond gave the inspiration with Berisha netting three times and tying the final quarter 3-3 in an impassioned final flurry of activity.

A great game with Bond (3), O’Shea (1), Danby (1) and Berisha (3) scoring the goals and great work from Austin, Murphy, Regan and Njagu

creating the opportunities. Both teams benefited a great deal from the fixture with Cheltenham using the fixture to practise the ‘Arc’ and All Saints’ get-

ting the time in the water. Both Schools are keen for a return fixture and I will do my best to get this in place.

Following on from the success of the team reaching the National Cup Quarter Finals. The team set out with the intention of winning the District Cup!

As we all know, it is difficult for teams to adjust to different management styles and expectations.

Mr Pierce stepped in for this game due to my presence being required at Year 11 revision evening. The team fell very short of the mark and by half time were 4-0 down. Mr Pierce got them going second half, but it was not enough, with the team eventually falling to a 6-5 defeat. A great performance by both Walsh and Hope was not enough to transform the game.

The second fixture saw the team fair no better against Balcarras who had beaten Pittville 11-1! The team fell behind quickly due to an inability to cope with the pace of the visitors up front. At 2-0 down, the team were awarded a penalty, this was well saved by the visiting keeper. Despite this the team pushed forward and equalised after a great finish by Jabbar and a further effort by Marzsaerk.

Both teams had chances but the clinical finishing of Balcarras allowed them to pull away and win the game comfortably in the end. Great goalkeeping by Gannon and dogged work by Hargrave were key highlights of the ASA performance.

The third game again under the stewardship of Mr Pierce saw a depleted side travel to Tewkesbury and a lack of cohesion result in a third loss.

The fourth and final game saw a rebooted team missing only

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Year 8 Boys ESFA

National Cup Quarter Final Following the success in the last 16 against Ivybridge the boys travelled to London to face Kingsdale School.

The task was always going to be a difficult one. Kingsdale is steeped in tradition of feeding the large London clubs with players for their youth and development squads and this year was no exception. The star studded hosts had players on the books of Arsenal, Chelsea, QPR, Fulham and Tottenham, a tough proposition for our boys, some of whom are currently not even playing outside of school, let alone at that level.

ASA were set out to make life difficult for the hosts and had a strict plan to stick to. They did this well and really went at it to pressurise Kingsdale early and limit their time on the ball, however they seemed to panic in possession and gave the ball back too easily. Kingsdale looked the more dangerous but only took the lead after the ASA defence failed to clear a corner despite four attempts at doing so.

With the score at 1-0 at half time, Mr Ferguson gave instructions of changes to come if things did not go our way in the first 10 minutes of the second half. The stalemate continued so the changes were made, the introduction of Tom Baker at right back and CJ Peelo as a holding midfielder brought a bit more stability to the back four and released Jurek Marzsalek into an attacking role. Within minutes of the change Peelo threaded a ball through which the keeper failed to clear and Marzsalek capitalised on the slip up and he calmly rounded the keeper and made sure of his finish to pull the sides level. At 1-1 the teams once again cancelled each other out and the game looked set for extra time and possible penalties but a defensive lapse in concentration left an untidy backline and subsequently the centre forward ran through and slotted home from an onside position to score the winning goal with only a minute of normal time remaining.

A sad end to a very impressive national cup campaign, in which the team have represented the Academy in an outstanding manner whilst putting the Academy once again on the national sporting map.Well done to the whole set of lads! You did us all proud. three starters this time as they put on a much better show against Cleeve. The game swung both ways from start to finish with Jabar slotting home in the first ten seconds to take a lead which lasted almost the whole of the first half.

A penalty early in the second half gave the visitors the lead, which was then extended through a well taken goal after Gannon had come off injured. Two great crosses from Walsh gave Calandrino two clear chances, he converted one with a well-placed header, with the second one, he produced a wonderful Ronaldo like step over instead of slotting home. The game ended 3-2 to Cleeve, but we saw the boys almost back to their normal level of performance.