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City Academy Norwich
MAGAZINE SUMMER 2013
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Contents
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From the Principal
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We CAN do enterprise!
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Apple training
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World Book Night
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Arthur Conan Doyle Day
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Tarzan author at CAN
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Andy Mulligan at CAN
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Student Buddy
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Shakespeare Day
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Creative Writing Workshop
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CAN welcomes newly appointed Children’s Laureate
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GCSE and A Level art and photography exhibitions
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Dame Judi Dench talk at Norwich Cathedral
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Changing Landscapes
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Theatre and film company
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Art Exhibition
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Drummer of Status Quo visits CAN
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Music is the fizz in our lunchtime
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Year 8 Design Technology CAD/CAM
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DT Are Just Crazy About Golf
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Science – The Faraday Space
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STEM
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Full House in DT
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Taste of Academy Life
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Skills for life
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The Plumbery prize
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Year 6 Transition Summer School
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Graduation Ceremony
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Where to find us
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From the Principal Dear Parents and Carers The Academy has continued to move forward strongly. Students are continuing to make good progress. We are very pleased with this. Our move into the new building has gone very smoothly and we are completely settled in. We are using the flexibility of the design to good effect to give our students new experiences. Many visitors to the Academy describe the environment as inspirational. The behaviour of our students remains good with most being outstanding. We have developed our provision for those few students who find the normal routines difficult, away from the main building, in the Spinney. The standards we set in wearing uniform remain very high and almost all students meet our expectations. There have been no permanent exclusions of pupils this academic year.
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We have continued to innovate with the launch of our 2013/14 curriculum in June. This will allow us to start GSCE courses six weeks earlier than other schools, giving City Academy Norwich students an advantage over their peers.
The teachers’ skills remain mostly good. We have developed an internal training programme to ensure they will all meet the higher standards now expected by Ofsted. Attendance has risen slightly this year but is an area we feel we could improve significantly. We ask for your support in ensuring that you maximise your child’s attendance. Our financial position remains sound in these times of ‘belt tightening.’ We are able to fully staff the Academy with well qualified colleagues. We continue to be on track to be judged as Outstanding by Ofsted in 2014. Homework will be a key focus this academic year. We hope you will assist us in supporting your child to complete this. The Learning Resource Centre will be open after school until 4.30pm (4.00pm on Fridays) for students to study in should they prefer to work in this environment. We look forward to your full support and that of your children on our journey towards our aims. Yours sincerely Mr D Brunton Principal
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We CAN do enterprise! Enterprise is in the air at City Academy Norwich this summer with students having the opportunity to learn and work with local businesses to improve their enterprise skills. Three local entrepreneurs who have set up their own online businesses talked to year 8 students about how and why they ended up working for themselves. The entrepreneurs were: Andy Parker Co-Founder at Incredibli Jason Wolfe Founder and CEO at legacyhub Rick Waghorn CEO and co-founder Addiply The event was facilitated by the new national programme, Founders4Schools which links schools with businesses in their area. Students had the opportunity to ask the entrepreneurs questions about running a business.
Young Entrepreneurs Club Our academy Young Entrepreneurs Club continues to grow, with more business ventures this year. Dylan Ellie, Chay Ager and Declan Mason have partnered with Norfolk Farmhouse Ice Cream to sell ice-creams every Thursday lunchtime. Their other business ventures this year have included a Mad Hatter’s tea party for staff, and selling Halloween goody bags. The Club decided to spend some of their profits on a trip to Pleasurewood Hills and keep the rest for their next business idea. Another CAN student has started selling cakes every Monday lunchtime. Chantelle Loveridge was given permission to run her business after successfully pitching her idea to Mr Brunton. Following on from learning about Thorpe Park’s marketing mix in the classroom, 40 Business students had the opportunity to visit the theme park recently. Inspired by their day out, students then had to design their own new ride and describe how they would promote it.
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One of the new GCSE Business classes has been selected to work with Norwich City Football Club in the Premier League sponsored Enterprise Academy programme. The programme, delivered by the Community Sports Foundation, gives pupils the chance to learn more about and acquire business and enterprise skills through understanding the day-to-day running of a football club. The students have also been working in teams to develop a fundraising concept for the Sporting Light appeal. The twenty five students spent a week developing their event plans and campaign ideas, before pitching their ideas to a panel of judges: Stevie Bramble and Emma Fletcher from the Community Sports Foundation, and Richard Steer from Norfolk Educational Services.
The pitches to judges, which took place at City Academy Norwich on Thursday 20th June, saw a wide range of ideas presented, from a sponsored night walk, to celebrity football tournaments, and getting Premier League stars to “face their fears” with “I’m a Celebrity-type” creepy crawly challenges. City Academy Norwich’s representatives in the competition now have one month in which to further hone their business plans and pitches, before going head to head with students from Attleborough High School and Flegg High School in the Norwich final. Representing City Academy Norwich in the local final will be: Chay Ager, Paris Arthur, Hassain Asadi, Nelson Barbas, Dylan Ellis, Jack Freeman, Hamoud Hashim, Ross Simpson,
Jodie Taylor, Rhiannon Taylor, Tyler White and Tyriece Williams. Stevie Bramble, Sport and Education Manager, Norwich City Community Sports Foundation, commented: “The students all gave good, clear presentations to the judges, with a good mix of ideas. They all did really well in the challenge and the winners now have one month to further develop their plans and pitches before the final at Carrow Road.” The eventual winners of the national competition, which is being run in conjunction with the 20 Premier League football clubs, will have the exciting prospect of seeing their fundraising idea happen for real.
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Apple training
Students from City Academy Norwich have been in the unusual position of instructing teachers, when 65 teachers from Norwich schools found out how students at the Academy were using iPads in the classroom to boost their learning. The Apple Training event, which took place at the Academy on Wednesday 22nd May, focussed on how teachers at City Academy Norwich have introduced three Apple applications to add an interactive new dimension to teaching and learning.
making music after taking a piece of writing, such as a poem, as their starting point – an approach which sees the students perform better in the reading and writing elements of the lesson because they are so enthused by the project as a whole. The training event is not the first time students at the Academy have shared their digital skills with teachers – but it is the first time this has been done with teaching staff from outside the Academy.
The three iPad applications – music-making app Garageband, film editing app iMovie and presentation software Keynote – have been successfully used by Academy staff to develop a range of key skills, with a particular emphasis on literacy and numeracy.
The participating schools – West Earlham Junior School, Eaton Primary School, Avenue Junior School, The Clare School and Recreation Road Infant School – all took up the invitation to attend this free event, which showcases just one aspect of the work that is contributing to City Academy Norwich’s growing reputation as a centre of excellence.
For example, teachers have used Garageband to engage students in
David Brunton, Principal, City Academy Norwich, commented:
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First and foremost this is about sharing really engaging ways to develop our students’ skills across the entire curriculum.
“First and foremost this is about sharing really engaging ways to develop our students’ skills across the entire curriculum, particularly to support the development of their literacy and numeracy. “As members of the Transforming Education in Norfolk (TEN) Group we are committed to driving up standards in Norfolk, and offering outstanding opportunities for staff development is one way in which we are contributing towards this objective. “In the digitally advancing environments of today’s schools, training of this nature can have a significant impact on raising standards. We hope that this will be the first of many such staff development events sharing the best of our teaching and learning practice.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Day
World Book Night On the afternoon of Tuesday 23rd April the LRC celebrated World Book Night. World Book Night is about giving books and encouraging reading in those who don’t regularly do so.
We were chosen by World Book Night to be one of the lucky libraries to be able to do this and were sent 40 copies of The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness to give to staff and students at the Academy.
Although the marvellous weather and the bustling school didn’t quite fit with what one thinks of when they think of a setting for a Sherlock Holmes novel (dimly lit, narrow cobbled streets with a steady downpour of rain come to mind for me) this didn’t dampen the spirits of staff and students as we set about to celebrate Conan-Doyles most famous creation; Sherlock Holmes. Students completed deviously tricky quizzes, fiendish wordsearches and partook in other cryptic activities all of which wouldn’t quite fox Moriarty but proved to be educational, informative and most importantly fun. The headline event though was the LRC being set up (once again) for the viewing of one of Sherlock Holmes’ more recent incarnations starring Robert Downey Jnr and the dreamy Jude Law which aptly demonstrated the synergy between the different media types and how one can enjoy both the original and reinterpretations. If you have any other suggestions of great authors lives we should celebrate please chat to one of your friendly LRC team! 7
Tarzan author swings into City Academy Norwich Abigail Hames, Isobel Betts and Chloe Boland were lucky enough to interview Andy Briggs when he visited City Academy on Friday 21st June. They had lots of questions for him and had a great time getting to know such an enigmatic and engaging author.
six months to write half a book, but the Greystoke Legacy was written in two weeks, despite it being one of his longest books, at 304 pages.
Andy found his love of reading through graphic novelist Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man, the X-Men and Iron Man, among others. His father would often take him on trips and visits to widen his view of the world. Andy has a veritable library of books at his home.
During the hour-long talk to around 180 year 6 and 7 students from City Academy Norwich and Wensum Junior School, Andy put emphasis on the importance of writing and writers, demonstrating how without anyone to write, there would be virtually no entertainment in existence. Books, magazines, tv shows, films and even computer games all need writers to come up with ideas and stories, and Andy urged the students to be creative and to consider writing as being more than just “school work”.
Andy didn’t always want to be an author; it took a while before he started to write books and it was far from easy. Andy says it took a lot of perseverance. He was okay at English in school, but he was really good at telling stories. The time it takes to write a book varies massively. It once took Andy
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He hopes that people enjoy his stories, whether in book form, on the television or at the cinema.
Andy is currently working on the film Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon, and showed students a trailer
which looked very exciting. The film is about a group of scientists who travel to China in search of a mythical creature, only to find that a bounty hunter is also looking for the beast. Legendary will be in cinemas in August 2013 and stars Scott Adkins and Dolph Lundgren. Andy also then talked about his experiences re-writing Tarzan and spending time in the jungle. He gave an introduction to the Tarzan books and asked students some questions on survival in the wild, including what to eat and how to survive quicksand! After the talk, books were for sale on behalf of Waterstones, which students (and staff!) could then get signed and personalised. For those students who weren’t buying books, there were plenty available to borrow from the LRC and they almost flew off the shelves!
Andy Mulligan at City Academy Norwich On Friday 7th June, author Andy Mulligan came to talk to City Academy Norwich and Henderson Green students about his books; Carnegie nominated Trash and his new book The Boy with Two Heads.
Lucky students Whitney Dunthorne, Isobel Betts and Abigail Hames asked Andy some questions.
Andy lived in several different countries teaching English before moving back to the UK to write full time. He said that rather than creating characters, he borrows them from people he has met in real life, and that’s also where he gets inspiration for his stories. He talked about meeting a young boy called Raphael who lived on a dumpsite, and how his deprived life gave Andy the idea for Trash. The students could relate to Raphael as he was the same age as them, and the story was really moving. He also talked about his next-door neighbour Richard, a very polite young boy, who Andy was sure would change as he approached his teenage years. Richard was the spark from which The Boy with Two Heads was born.
Andy replied, “It’s very hard to get a book published. My head was filled with different emotions. I was also nervous because I thought that people might not enjoy my book. When my book was published I was very proud of myself.”
Whitney asked, “What were you thinking when you wrote your first book?”
Whitney then asked, “How do you come up with the ideas for your books?” Andy said “I write my books using experiences I’ve had in my past. For example, in the book Trash, I once met this boy who was scrummaging in a dump site. I met him and got to know his personality and character.” To sum up, Andy Mulligan loves writing and exploring the types of character in his books and is hoping to turn his amazing books into really good films. After the talk, students flocked down to the LRC to take out copies of Andy’s books and they are being re-issued almost as soon as they’re returned!
Student Buddy Imagine you are in the position where you have moved to a new ‘alien’ country, where all sights and sounds are different and people speak in a language you are completely unfamiliar with. This is what it’s like for many of City Academy’s EAL (English as an Additional Language) students, when they move to this new school and city for the first time. This is where The Student Buddy system becomes extremely useful. Student buddying is a fantastic scheme that is run at CAN when a new EAL student joins us. One of our existing EAL students act as a support, helping the new pupil settle in, by showing them to their lessons and answering any questions they may have about school. Past ‘buddies’ have done a brilliant job and their efforts have always been well received. If you would like to be considered as a future Student Buddy, please do not hesitate to speak to a member of the Academy’s Learning Team (based in the LRC), or to an EAL student rep.
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Shakespeare Day On Tuesday 23rd April, we celebrated Shakespeare Day in the LRC, with a display of his books, a quiz, a crossword and a showing of “Romeo & Juliet” at lunch time (complete with copious amounts of popcorn!). Well done to Katy Harabajiu, Dylan Ellis, Stevie Bartlett, Danielle Feavyer and Emilia Hanszke who came joint first in the quiz. Well done also to our runners up; Whitney Dunthorne, Emma Holmes, Ellie Burnett, Chelsea Hobbs, Chantelle Loveridge, Kyle Rust and Alfie Cole.
LRC, Year 7 G&T trip to Norwich School Creative Writing Workshop A team of twentyish of our year 7s embarked upon a small literary adventure to Norwich School for a day of talks and workshops hosted in the Cathedral’s idyllic sunshine setting with Keith Gray (moderately famous childrens author) as the Headline speaker and with a whole teem of other schools invited. After a brief welcome from Mr Murray, the Head of English at Norwich School, Keith started what proved to be a highly entertaining and thought provoking talk, perfectly setting the tone for the day. Students then broke into groups led by experts from UEA, Norwich Creative Writing Centre, an English specialist from Norwich School and one by Keith. Each of the groups, which contained a mix of schools, followed broadly similar patterns with pupils given a very limited amount of time to get to know each other, share the stories about the items they had brought in and to complete a piece
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of original written work featuring the props that they had brought in; a tall order indeed! However all students rose to the challenge; out of the five different groups, three of them produced a CAN winner! Prizes for their excellent writing were given to Dylan, Joshua, Alice and Britney. A special mention must also go to Haitham and Andrew who earned themselves and the LRC a book through their hardwork by tidying up at break and lunchtimes, when everyone else was lounging in the sun. To name only a few of the students though seems unjust as all students deserve credit for their exceptional behaviour, effort and conduct. All of the students were a credit to the Academy. Our thanks to the organisers and participators in particular Mrs Wood of Norwich School library who was the chief instigator of the event.
CAN welcomes newly appointed Children’s Laureate City Academy Norwich students were thrilled to meet the newly appointed Children’s Laureate when she visited Norfolk in her first engagement since her appointment last week. Students from City Academy Norwich were lucky enough to attend a talk by Malorie Blackman at Norwich High School. The visit was arranged before her two-year appointment to the Children’s Laureate role was announced on June 5. She also talked to children about her new book Noble Conflict, a dystopian story of Kaspar and Rhea and their struggle for survival in a world of the future.
Author Malorie Blackman has written more than 50 books for children and young adults, including the Noughts and Crosses series. She is an engaging and eloquent speaker and covered serious issues such as race and conflict in a way which students could really relate to.
the question and answer session afterwards she was asked whether nightmares were a good or a bad thing. She answered that at the time she was plagued by them, but that because she had later been able to make use of them everything had come out alright in the end.
She is a passionate advocate of children’s fiction, having always wanted to be a writer and telling students the key to success was to never give up and to read, read, read!
She was also quizzed on how she wrote, and whether she used a computer or pen and paper, and whether she had ever had writer’s block, which she said she had suffered at times.
During her talk she mentioned that some of her books were based on nightmares she’d had, and in
Students had a chance to meet Malorie at the end of the session and have their books signed.
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On Monday 17th June, performance poet Mark Grist came to CAN supported by two UEA Ambassadors, in order to prepare a specially selected group of our year 8 and 9 students for a SLAM competition at UEA on Friday 12th July.
had never heard of a SLAM competition before Mark came in, threw themselves into the quirky world of performance poetry with an abundance of enthusiasm, originality and zest, achieving in a few short hours what it takes many people days of concerted effort and rehearsing to succeed in.
This means the students will be performing and competing in front of not only their friends and peers, but also strangers and judge Luke Wright. Good luck guys! More news on how they get on coming up!
From this group of 20 something students, 9 were selected to go forward and perform in UEA’s interschool Poetry SLAM competition, with the remainder making up part of a live audience!
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Dame Judi Dench talk at Norwich Cathedral
GCSE and A level art and photography exhibitions
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On Thursday 20th June, 30 drama students went to see Dame Judi Dench speak at Norwich Cathedral, as part of Norwich School’s Youth Arts Festival. The famous actor spoke about her career and inspirations, as well as the difference between acting on stage and screen, before answering questions from the students in the audience. She mentioned her love of Shakespeare, quoting lines from Macbeth. She was then asked if she would prefer to be the ďŹ rst female James Bond or Dr Who, sidestepping by saying she did not want to play either part. As we left the Cathedral she was waiting outside and greeted our students, generously speaking to them, signing autographs and posing for photos. It was a great chance to see a really talented actor talk about her craft.
Changing Landscapes Our photography students have been involved in an exciting three part project, which will result in their photographs being exhibited in the Hostry within Norwich Cathedral. The project started with a visit from well-known Norwich photographer, Richard Denyer. He presented and spoke about his work and passion for photography. The students were absorbed in his lecture and asked many questions about his work and experiences.
The second part of the project was a trip to the Sainsbury Centre to see the Photography exhibition “Changing Landscapes”. The students were shown around the exhibition and were able to show their technical vocabulary and understanding whilst discussing the pieces of work.
The students are producing a stage version of ‘King Lear’ which is part of the Shakespeare Schools’ Festival at Norwich Playhouse on October 14. Some of the company are working
students were asked to experiment with their own styles of landscape photography. Students attended the private view at Norwich Cathedral on Wednesday 3rd July, to see their work, alongside work of students from CNS and Sprowston High School.
Thirdly, after being inspired by the lecture from Richard and the visit to the Sainsbury Centre, the
Art Exhibition
Theatre and ÀNO EQORCP[ The start of the new term has seen the start of a new venture in Creativity, with the year 9 Drama class setting up a Theatre and Film company called ‘Enverse Productions’.
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with professional film makers from local company C>Media, to make a documentary about rehearsing and staging the play. Next term the company will begin working on a feature film version of ‘King Lear’ which will be screened at a local cinema and released on DVD in 2014. Regular updates about the production will be released as internet blogs.
We have been invited by Norwich University of the Arts to host and curate an exhibition of art work selected from this year’s final degree show. Year 10 Art student Lena Porter went to the exhibition and chose ten pieces of work that interested and inspired her. These will be shown in the Creativity Breakout Space in the Autumn, alongside a piece of Lena’s own work, and an explanation of her selection.
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Drummer of Status Quo visits City Academy Norwich Having left the band Status Quo, drummer Jeff Rich now devotes his time to education and sharing his wealth of knowledge with young people. A large crowd of students started to form around the stage full of equipment which was brought into our Atrium by Jeff Rich’s roadie and to the 15+ students who have weekly percussion lessons in school it was like a dream come true! Jeff arrived and had lunch with the students – not what you would expect from a professional musician who has travelled the world with an award winning band like Status Quo! And as the Quo’s greatest hits started to play to the assembled students, they couldn’t help but dance along… as did the teachers who had come to watch (and get autographs!)
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Jeff treated us to an interactive history of the drum, from its origins in Africa with drums made from traditional materials, to the drums used in the military and now in rock music in stadiums around the world. Students and staff were invited to take part in a mass performance at the end and could say they had shared a stage with Jeff Rich! A huge glittering kit with cymbals of all shapes and sizes made a few fingers twitch with desperation to have a go… and during the two hour workshop, some of our best drummers got their chance! Well done to all the students who were involved and a big thanks to Jeff and his team for visiting us.
/WUKE KU VJG Ă€\\ in our lunchtime As part of the Level 2 Access to Music course, students have organised music events within the academy for our performers to take part in. The aim of these events was to raise the proďŹ le of live music within the school, give students a chance to show their performance skills and to encourage others to start taking music lessons. The events were informal and held in the break out space and band room during KS4 lunchtimes. Students were graded on their communication skills, organisation skills, interpersonal skills and
technical skills. Other skills used included working as part of a team and evaluating the successes of the event when it was ďŹ nished. Many were surprised with the amount of work that was needed to make it work smoothly, and students are keen to repeat the performances this summer for KS3 (led by Emily Maher-Ward, Micha Brown and Shazney Radley) to raise money for Breast Cancer. Over 100 students attended the events throughout the week, and over 20 students performed live. Some of the videos of the bands/ singers are available on Youtube.
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Year 8 Design Technology CAD/CAM A group of year 8 students worked with Lucy Nottingham from the UEA, on designing new counters for their outreach game ‘Student Life’. Students were asked to design counters based on the UEA faculty areas. A total of 10 designs were produced using the laser cutter and the 3D printer. Craig Walpole, Danielle Feavyer and Leah Caddy produced original ideas.
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DT Are Just Crazy About Golf Year 7 students completed their final DT project in style by testing out all the products they had made. Students from different specialist areas joined forces to make an 18 hole crazy golf course. Resistant Materials groups designed and created the holes which posed different challenges such as hitting the ball through a clown’s mouth,
under the Eiffel Tower and over a see-saw bridge. To accompany each hole the Textile groups designed and made flags to represent the 18 different designs. Students worked closely with each other to create some fantastic outcomes. Student Lauren Last was quoted as saying “this is the best DT lesson ever!”
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STEM STEM is continuing to get even stronger as we travel into our new academic year.
Science – The Faraday Space With the start of the new timetable, the Science department has changed its approach to the Faraday space. We are now working towards creating a challenging teaching style for use within the area, where students are free to independently
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tackle tasks and utilise the space in a way that suits them best. So far we are very pleased with how students are facing up to this challenge and are proud of how the collaborative approach to learning of our students was captured on Sky News.
Year 8s have started their new STEM course (which integrates Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and are following three exciting topics, which involve a lot of practical, hands on learning, whilst incorporating their subject knowledge. The three topics are: creating and making a cookbook; Formula 1 computer aided design and making, as well as building and programming Lego Mindstorm Robots as Mars Rovers. These are very exciting modules! Watch this space for more updates and photos! News on year 7 STEM in the next edition of the magazine. If you want to follow our progress, ďŹ nd us on Twitter @can_stem
Full House in DT KS4 Design Technology has got off to a flying start with all GCSE subjects proving a popular choice with full classes in each DT area. Good luck to all our students with their coursework projects. Fingers crossed for quality products and excellent results; we know you’ll do well.
Excellent Electronics
Over 20 students chose GCSE Electronic Products, which is a new course to the Academy. They have already covered the basic knowledge about electronic components which will set them up for tackling their coursework project where they have to design and make an electronic product.
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Two full classes of Textile students are making a great start to their learning by producing products inspired by image boards and the techniques they have experimented with. We are looking forward to seeing their finished cushions and bags just before the summer holidays.
Perfect Product Designers
Who knows, the inventors of the future could be in City Academy right now. Well there is a good chance that at least one of our 60 Product Design students will go on to design exciting new and innovative products for the future… watch this space!
Creative Caterers
An always popular course, Catering has 80 students cooking high level cuisine and students have the opportunity to work in the Academy restaurant, ‘Exceptionnel’. The hospitality students will be hosting an event later on in the year where they produce and sell their own food creations. Hopefully this will be well attended by Academy staff and visitors as last year’s event was a success.
Taste of Academy Life “CITY ACADEMY IS AWESOME!!! I really enjoyed CAN and can’t wait to be in year 7!!”
These are the words of Taylor Rush, one of 180 Year 6 pupils to be given a head start in year 7 during Transition Days and Open Evenings held in June. Nerves and excitement were obvious as children from twenty different schools gathered in the Atrium for welcome assemblies with Mr Wells and Mr Brunton. However, after an hour spent with their new form tutors, getting to know each other and playing some ice breaking games, there were plenty of smiles. During the rest of the day the children had the opportunity to tour the Academy, find their way around the LRC and get fitted for their new uniforms. Lots of new friendships were forged playing problem solving games in the year 7 zone and everyone got a head start on learning by setting up their academy email and Twitter accounts to stay in touch with year 7 over the summer holidays. Feedback from Twitter is already fantastic with Jamie Ling tweeting “Can’t wait to go to City Academy in September”, a thought echoed by Abbi Taylor who also said “I had a great time today”. Another pupil who was impressed with his digital technology experience at CAN was Joe Lincoln who tweeted “City Academy got my vote. A++”. Don’t forget you can keep up to date with life in the year 7 zone, including news from our Summer School, by following us on Twitter @CANYear7Zone.
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Skills for life In September, students in year 7 will be working on the new Skills for Life programme. These skills will form the basis of the exciting cross-curricular projects that have been designed for our new pupils in year 7. Staff have been working with industry leaders to find out the key skills that employees need to be successful in work. The competencies we want our students to develop are; verbal communication, teamwork and leadership, written communication, self management, problem solving and initiative. We intend to develop these skills through a rich and innovative curriculum that integrates learning in History, Geography, RE, Citizenship, PSHE and Literacy. Our first project in the Autumn Term is the Island Project. Students will create a giant island, which will generate learning in many different subject areas. The island will exist both in the real world and in the virtual world. The virtual island will be built by students using the EcoVirtual Environment Project (EVE), which is a multi-platform, multi-user 3D classroom application. Students will be able to inhabit the island as avatars and can explore, participate in lessons and debate key issues in the virtual world.
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In Geography, students will explore map skills, including scale, grid references and contours, as well as researching sustainable energy sources and discussing how to produce fuel on their island. In History, students will explore chronology and investigate the history of small islands. In Citizenship, students will debate key issues that affect the inhabitants of the island, such as the impacts of building a tourist complex.
Our aim is that every student leaving year 7 will be a confident, engaged and successful learner, able to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses in the Skills for Life. We believe that, through creating exciting and relevant learning opportunities, we will promote independent learning in our students, and the motivation to succeed.
The Plumbery prize at Wayland Academy Norfolk This year’s Plumbery prize competition took part at Wayland Academy and involved them, ourselves and Fakenham High School each of whom invited two teams of year 7 and 8 students to participate and compete on an even footing for the prize. The challenge – working in teams, invent a way to get water from a receptacle on a table top down to a container on the floor with extra merit being awarded for creative and innovative design, furthermore each system needed to use at least two milk bottles, an isolation valve and a submersible pump. After hours of hard work an impartial judge arrived and after much
deliberation decided on the only all girls team there, who represented CAN as the winners!! This was a tough competition that saw all participants try hard and come up with ingenious solutions. I would like to take this opportunity to say that not only were CAN the eventual (and deserving) winners but all of our students’ behaviour, conduct and work ethic was simply unsurpassable and I was proud to be with them and would happily take them out again! Thank you Karolina, Francesca, Shania, Isobel, Chloe, Jack, Cameron, Callum and Joshua. It was a pleasure.
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City Academy Norwich are the Norfolk County Champions City Academy Norwich year 10 football team are the Norfolk County Champions. The team won 4 - 2 over Framingham Earl High School. On 30th April 2013 at 7.30pm at the FDC, the City Academy Norwich year 10 football team took on the reigning County Champions Framingham Earl High School.
After the disappointment of losing in the City Cup final CAN had a point to prove to everyone. This was the last of the schools County Cup finals at the FDC and the crowd were looking forward to a good game, and were not disappointed. CAN dominated the early exchanges with George Couzens scoring early to take a well deserved lead. Framingham Earl then started to get back into the game and had a goal disallowed half way through the first half. Todd Cantwell then doubled the CAN lead, this is how the game stayed until half time. Framingham Earl started the second half very strongly and scored 2 excellent goals within 10 minutes of the restart. City Academy Norwich showed a great team spirit and some outstanding performances and further goals from Couzens and Cantwell ensured a 4-2 victory. An absolutely outstanding achievement and the first time City Academy Norwich are County Champions.
This was the finale of an outstanding season by the year 10 football team, finishing runners up in the league, runners up in the city cup and County cup winners. Well done!
Team Dirk Dugdale Tom Matthews Matt Welch Alieu Njie (man of match) Tariq Pell Lewis Moore Tom Walters Harley Black Aaron Simpson (Captain) Todd Cantwell George Couzens Kofi Boateng Lee Smith Ben Mitchell
Manager Mr Wells
Assistant Managers Michee Efete and Richard Reading
Fitness Coaches Josh Hazell and Will Sainsbury
Logan Physio Owen Wallis
Squad members Charlie Daniels Nico Baxter Aston Oxborough Louis Mcintosh
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Year 6 Transition Summer School This year’s summer school will be running between 12th August until 23rd August. The school will be delivered by a company called Pet-xi. The program concentrates primarily on literacy and numeracy skills, using exciting and innovative ways to engage students.
The summer school is open to all primary school students moving up to the Academy in September. Places are still available; please contact Mr Wells or Miss Mills for further details.
Students will be working in teams, developing creativity and have opportunities to develop leadership skills. The students will be completing a theme park project delivered through a Dragon Den’s approach. Pet-xi guarantees 70% of students will improve in their literacy and numeracy levels over the 10 days.
GRADUATION CEREMONY On Friday 24th May there was a Graduation Ceremony held in the Interactive Theatre for the year 7s who are moving up to year 8. The proceedings started with each tutor giving a short presentation about their form group and ended with all year 7 staff saying goodbye to their students. After a short speech from Mr Brunton, the Heads of each school read out a list of students who would be joining them. As each student came up they were handed a certificate and a group photograph of all year 7 students and staff by Mrs Wake and Mrs Dowe.
Each student was congratulated and then handed over to their respective School Heads. It was an emotional time for all of the year 7 team.
The ceremony closed with all students and staff dancing to various songs and saying their individual goodbyes to Mr Green who was leaving.
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