Wayland Academy NewsLink: Spring 2019 by New Media

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SPRING 2019

Pets As Therapy

Pancake Challenge

Colour Run

Operation Live

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I’m sure that committing this to writing will ensure that it now happens but, so far this winter we’ve had no snow days!! What a difference a year makes to the bleak snowy days of 2018! The spring term always seems to be the most frenetic with lots happening as the days get longer; there is a definite increase in sports fixtures and activities. A major event this term was Year 9 Options Evening. Our Year 9 students are currently in the process of selecting the GCSEs that they will study for their final two years at Wayland. We have also launched some new educational visits that we hope to run in the next academic year. Mr Read is organising an amazing adventure sports trip to France and Italy. If you are a current Year 7 or Year 8 and are interested in joining the trip, speak to Mr Read. Parents are welcome to contact Mr Read by email tread@waylandacademy.org.uk. We also have a trip going to New York City for our older students. Both are amazing opportunities but, these trips will only run every other year, so with regards to the adventure sports trip, this is the only opportunity, during their time at Wayland, that our current Year 7s and 8s will get to be involved in such an exciting trip. In amongst the action, another Year 11 cohort have successfully completed their Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award which has been brilliant to celebrate.

Year 10 will be embarking on their practice expedition in the summer term as Duke of Edinburgh looks to be growing from strength to strength. We had a 50% increase in the number of students completing their Silver Award in 2019 and the new Year 10 cohort is full. Science students took part in an amazing day with ‘Operation Theatre Live’ in January. As you can see from the pictures later in this issue of Newslink, it lived up to our gory expectations. The students felt it was a wonderful opportunity and I would like to thank NEACO for funding this event. It continues to be a very exciting year regarding our site development; as shown previously we have a fabulous new Hospitality and Catering Room that will be up and running next term and the Dance Studio has also been completed since Christmas and is now being used by Performing Arts students. In the summer term we will start work on the new Drama Studio, this will be located adjacent to the Dance Studio, in what will become the Performing Arts block. We have also acquired funding to replace the sports hall flat roof, which is slightly less interesting but essential. I would like to thank all parents and carers who have continued to support the academy in improving attendance and reducing persistent absence. Should you ever have any attendance queries please don’t hesitate to give the academy a call.

Dates for your diary APRIL Fri 5 - WAN closes for Easter 3:15 Tue 23 - Students return Thu 25 - Student Exchange trip to London Fri 26 - Bag 2 Sch collection Mon 29 - London Exchange trip to WAN

MAY Thu 2 - Y7 Parents Evening Mon 6 - Bank holiday Mon 13 - GCSE Exams start Mon 13 - Fri 17 - Mental Health

This Easter we are saying goodbye to Miss Pitt who is leaving for pastures new. Miss Pitt started at Wayland Academy in September 2011 as Design & Technology Teacher and progressed to Subject Leader in 2015. We wish Miss Pitt good luck in her new position. Looking forward to next term, we have Geography Fieldtrips, Duke of Edinburgh, Sports Day, Work Experience and Year 6 Transition to name just a few things. The summer term is obviously very important for Year 11. They have been working incredibly hard this year and we are really impressed with their dedication and hard work. Revision Sessions, Half Term Sessions and even Saturday Maths Workshops have been popular. They are set to achieve very well this summer and subsequently make great progress. May I take this opportunity to wish all students and their families a great Easter Break. Glen Allott Principal

IMPROVING LIFE CHANCES THROUGH EDUCATION.

awareness week Fri 24 - WAN closes for Half term 3:15

JUNE Mon 3 - Students return Mon 10 - DofE Training day (in school) Thu 20 - Sports day Fri 21 - DofE Training day (out of school) Wed 26 - Royal Norfolk Show Trip Thu 27 - 2019 Leavers Prom

JULY Mon 1 - School Diversity week Mon 8 - Thurs 11 - Geography field trip Mon 8 - Fri 19 - Y10 Work Experience Thu 11 - Y10 Parents evening Wed 10 - Fri 19 - Y6 Transition Mon 15 - Y6 Transition Evening Wed 17 - Thu 18 - Netball Championships World Cup Trip Mon 22 - Y10 students return Mon 22 - Wed 24 - DofE Expedition Game of Houses Wed 24 - WAN closes for Summer 3:15August Thu 22 - Results day

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Hot Chocolate Friday Every week Mr Allott hosts Hot Chocolate Friday. Students can be nominated for going above and beyond in lessons, achievements outside of the academy and for being good citizens. Every teacher is invited to nominate one student from all of their lessons each week. From this the list, the Senior Leadership Team select around 10 students that will attend Hot Chocolate Friday. At 10am on a Friday those that are successful have a warm hot chocolate, with added cream and marshmallow if they wish in Mr Allott’s office. Students’ nominations are read to the group and students discuss their nomination with each other.

It is also an opportunity for Mr Allott to collect feedback from students and gain the opinion of these outstanding students.

Pets As Therapy – the power of the paw! Pets As Therapy continue their awesome work at Wayland Academy. We are extremely lucky to have 3 PAT dogs that visit us weekly. Mrs Kay and dedicated Dora have been visiting us for 4 years with the Read2Dogs programme. This has been highly successful, not only increasing the confidence of reluctant readers but also raising their self-esteem. Mrs Allen and Mr Envy have recently joined the team and come in with their wonderful dogs Boson (a Golden Retriever) and Bacchus (a black Labrador) for wellbeing sessions with our students. This is proving helpful for students who are suffering with anxiety, mental health issues or for those who just need a ‘pick me up’.

Pets As Therapy are also joining us in in May to give students a much welcome break from revision. We will be welcoming a few PAT dogs just before GCSE’s start. Research has shown that events such as this reduces stress and by putting something practical in place it shows the students that we understand how stressful this time can be.

what it takes? For more information check out their website petsastherapy.org

Pets As Therapy are always looking for volunteers – does your dog have

D Blundell Assistant to SENDCo

Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment Trip The Household Cavalry is one of the oldest regiments in the British Army, with roots dating back to 1660. Up until the beginning of World War II, it acted as a heavy cavalry unit. Today, it functions as an armoured reconnaissance regiment, as well as carrying out its ceremonial duties. We are super excited and honoured to be the first school ever to visit the HCMR at Bodney Camp outside of their public open day. Our Foundation Learning pupils are incorporating the visit with an AQA award in horse care. We look forward to sharing pictures from our trip in the next News Link… watch this space! D Blundell Assistant to SENDCo

We will be having a Bag2School collection on Friday 26th April at 9am follow us on Facebook

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During the Easter holiday while some of us are having a spring clean we will be having a good clear out of our unwanted clothing, why not join us to raise some money for the Academy. Monies raised will be used for ECO Bugs / Academy garden & rewards for students. We will be having another collection on Wednesday 30th October 2019.

Our next Bag 2School collection hasThey been arranged for accept the following ‘good quality’ items for RE-USE: • Men’s, Ladies and Children’s clothing 2nd November 2016 • Paired shoes (tied together or elastic band around) • Handbags • Hatsask your Any questions - please school collection organiser Mrs Ashby • Bags • Scarves and ties • Jewellery • Lingerie • Belts • Soft toys

What they do not accept: • Duvets, bedding, blankets and household linen • Pillows and cushions • Carpets, rugs and mats (including bath, shower and toilet mats) • Curtains • Towels • Soiled, painted, ripped or wet clothing • School uniforms • Corporate clothing and workwear • Textile off cuts, yarns or threaded material

Please continue to support the Academy by bringing in your bags of unwanted items throughout the year, as we can store them until the collection. Just drop your unwated items to reception or contact mashby@waylandacademy.org.uk

Access Creative College

On 15th March 37 Year 10 students visited ACC in Norwich. Wayland Academy has excellent links to this college and acts a feeder for their level 3 courses. Wayland offers the RSL Level 2 Music Practitioners Qualification and has close links with ACC staff, who have also taught students on our level 2 as well through the Music Arts Project. Students had a fantastic day and ‘red carpet’ experience by ACC staff who took them for a tour of their amazing facilities. Wayland students had the opportunity to watch some live acts on their ‘Busking stage’ and even got involved by playing live as well. Charlie Thomas took to electric guitar, Quillan Stansbury on bass with George Phillips on Acoustic guitar. Our students were supported by our own music staff from MAP with Reuben Cocksedge on the drums. True to form we had many confident vocalists including Toni Leeder and Abbey Mace. It was also an opportunity to catch up with some of our ex-students,

such as Henry George, Scott Gibson and Tristan StandleyGould, who showed just how far they have come and how important their music training at Wayland was. Access Creative College has been delivering creative education for over twenty-five years. Operating as England’s largest private training provider, the college delivers creative education at campuses in seven cities, from Bristol in the south-west to York in the north-east.

Now offering courses in Games, Media, Music and Events, the college started life as Access to Music. The decision to rebrand was taken in 2017, enabling the college to provide training for more sectors of the creative industries. The college is dedicated to broadening its provision and scope of operations to become the number one choice for creative training in the UK.

Year 9 Pathway Choices - Level 2 RSL Music Practitioners Workshops On Friday 8th March Year 9 students took part in a series of workshops with the Music Arts Project (MAP), who currently deliver the KS4 Music qualification. Students had the opportunity to ‘try before you buy’ by having an opportunity to see what the course offers before they make their important Pathway choices. Students had an opportunity to try live performance and orchestration on stage with either guitars, keyboards, drums or vocals. Students worked on imacs using high quality Digital Audio Workstations (DAW’s) on software such as Logic, Garage band and Reaper to try digital sequencing and Composition. For students who favour more technical approaches to music, there was the opportunity to learn about live sound recording and mixing desks. Finally, there was the opportunity to practice some instrumentation on Ukulele’s. The music qualification at Wayland is a fantastic resource and pathway to a career in the music industry. KS4 students have the opportunity, over two years, to work on areas that interest them them the most such as: • Performance (Vocal/Instrumentation) • Live Sound Recording • Digital Composition.

Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a busy start to the year for DofE. We have now seen almost all the pupils who could gain their silver award through, with the last couple due to finish in the next two weeks. This means that seventeen pupils have been successful and can now claim to be DofE Silver Award holders. Year 10 have also managed to make a great start on their awards with 30 (yes we are full!) pupils starting their physical, skill and volunteering sections. A couple of them have indeed finished the three month sections already. Training and the practice expeditions are coming up quickly so keep your eyes on our Wayland DofE Twitter feed for info on what your sons and daughters are doing.

Year 11 Maths Revision

It has been really encouraging to see so many Year 11 students giving up time outside of school hours to attend revision sessions. A number of them have been coming into school on Saturday mornings and in the holidays to do extra revision and I can honestly say it has been a pleasure to spend this time with them helping them to progress.

I am sure their positive attitudes and determination will pay off in the summer. Fingers crossed!

Geography Department High achievers in geography recently spent a couple of hours listening to a lecture at Dereham Sixth Form College about living with active volcanoes. The lecture was given by one of the staff from the earth sciences faculty at UEA and showed pupils what a university lecture was like and also gave them information they could use in their GCSEs. Planning for the Year 10 geography field trips is well in hand and all pupils should have returned their permission slips and payments by now. If this is a problem, please contact me in the first instance. Mr Read Lead professional in Geography DofE Manager.

Library Update Spring term book recommendation: Wolf Children by Paul Dodswell Accelerated reader level: 5.7 Points:11 It is July 1945, the end of WW2. Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Third Reich has fallen, Berlin is in ruins. Living on the edge of survival in the cellar of an abandoned hospital, Otto and Helen, both aged 16, are the surrogate parents for a group of lost and orphaned children. They all face a battle to survive as the British and American soldiers arrive and clash with the Russians who are already throwing their weight around in the war-torn city.

The war may be over, but danger lurks in the shadows of the wreckage as Otto and his friends find themselves caught between invading armies, ruthless rival gangs and a strange Nazi war criminal who stalks them ... A suspenseful story of truth, friendship and survival against the odds, Wolf Children will thrill readers of Michael Morpurgo and John Boyne.

Accelerated Reader Update

Book Donations

The Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prolific Accelerated Reader to date is Nicola Bell in Year 7 who has read over an amazing 2 million words!

If you have any unwanted books in good condition, the library may well be able to recycle them for use within the Academy. Please pop into the library and have a chat with Mrs Barnett if you think you can help.

Hot on her heels are the following students who have all read in excess of 1 million words: Courtney Pegg Y7 Jasmine Luckett Y7 Thomas Easter Y8

It is always a pleasure to see our PET dog Dora in the library

Jasmine Ramsay-Chapman Y9 Congratulations to all!

History Department Visit from Holocaust survivor, Ernest Simon are, and how they should treat people’. Students really engaged with Ernest’s story and were able to contextualise what they have been learning in lessons. The ability to hear first-hand survivor testimony is an absolute privilege, one which I’m sure many students will remember for years to come. Below is Ernest’s story, we hope you find it as interesting as we did. Many thanks to the Holocaust Education Trust for making the visit possible. On Thursday 14th February 2019, we were honoured to welcome Holocaust Survivor Ernest Simon to our school to deliver his testimony to our Year 9 students as part of their Holocaust unit of study. Students were enthralled by Ernest’s story, and listened respectfully to what he had to say. At the end there were a number of insightful questions from students who were keen to know more about Ernest’s experience. Students spent time in lessons debriefing on Ernest’s visit and considering what it taught them about how we treat others and why they think Holocaust survivors want to share their testimony, which can be particularly traumatic. Declan reflected ‘it taught me that we should treat people how we want to be treated’. Izzy writes ‘it taught me to be grateful for what I have got and that you should always respect people as you don’t know what they have been through’. Thinking about why survivors share their story, Maxwell writes ‘I think survivors are keen to talk to the younger generation so it can make them think about how lucky they

‘Ernest was born in May 1930 in Eisenstadt, Austria. He lived with his parents and younger brother in the Judengasse, a self-imposed ghetto with a chain at each end to prevent vehicles passing through during the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. Following the German Anschluss of Austria in March 1938, Ernest and his family moved from Eisenstadt to Vienna, where they settled in a small flat in the Jewish Quarter. As soon as they left Eisenstadt, his father began making desperate

efforts for the family to leave the country, applying for visas to England, the USA and Palestine. On 9th November 1938, Ernest witnessed Kristallnacht and from his bedroom window could see the prayer books and Torah scrolls being burnt at the Synagogue on the road that the family lived on. Following Kristallnacht, Ernest’s parents were finally able to secure a place for him on the Kindertransport. He left Vienna on 11th January 1939 and travelled through Germany and the Netherlands to the Hoek of Holland where he was put on a ship to Harwich. Ernest’s younger brother remained in Austria with his parents, and a month later they were able to travel to the UK on domestic permits. At this time, Ernest was living with a Jewish family in Leeds. His parents worked and lived just outside of Leeds and his brother lived with foster parents nearby, so the family was able to spend time together. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Ernest was sent to

Lincolnshire, where he lived with a foster family in a small village. No German was spoken in the village, and Ernest very quickly learnt English and his German deteriorated. After four months living in Lincolnshire his parents visited and his mother, who had not learnt much English, was so upset that Ernest no longer spoke German that she insisted he return to Leeds to be close to his family. Soon after arriving back in Leeds, Ernest’s father was arrested and interned for 12 months on the Isle of Man as an ‘Enemy Alien’. On his release in 1942, the family moved into a small house and for the first time since leaving Austria were able to live together as a family. Both Ernest and his brother went on to complete their education in the UK and both attended Leeds University, with Ernest studying Economics and his brother studying Medicine. Ernest now lives in London and continues to speak in schools and colleges about his family’s experiences during the Second World War.’ ‘We invited a holocaust survivor into our school for an assembly for Year 9. During assembly Mr. Simon told us about his personal experience during the Holocaust; with Kindertransport and coming to England. He gave a very detailed talk about his feelings and where he ended up, he answered our questions and was very patient. The feelings portrayed by our students varied from stress to interest. One of the girls that spoke to Mr. Simon said “His story was fascinating… it was an unforgettable experience.” This experience has really helped with our learning. News of the visit has spread all over the school as even year 7 were talking about it.’ Samanta 9M Photos: Paris 9N

Ski Trip 2019 We had an excellent 5 days of skiing or snowboarding in Tonale in Northern Italy over half-term. All the pupils made significant progress over the week gaining in both confidence and competence on the slopes and tackling increasingly challenging runs. The weather was amazing with unusually warm temperatures and clear skies for this time of the year.

Operation Live The students of Wayland Academy got the chance to become a doctor for the day! The award winning Operating Theatre Live event offers a curriculum linked learning experience based around the dissection of real anatomical specimens in a real operating theatre. The programme is built by a consortium of Doctors and Teachers lead by nationally acclaimed human anatomist QTS Samuel Piri. The programme offered our students the rare opportunity to gown up and step into a fully functioning operating theatre. Students followed the journey from patient care through anaesthetics to incisions and required. On into the dissection of all main organ systems including attempting real surgical procedures. The event was built to directly match the GCSE exam specifications meaning all content has direct impact on student attainment.

Food Technology & Catering We have had a few events this term with competitions and awards.

Future Chef

Young Chef

Isla Gillespie won the Norfolk heat of the Future Chef competition in November at City College Norwich. She then attended mentor sessions with Robert a chef lecturer at the college and went on to compete in the regional finals at Peterborough Regional College in February. Isla had an hour and a half to cook a main course of Pan Fried Fillet of Salmon on a bed of crushed peas with a red onion and potato rosti, served with a white wine and cream sauce and then a Chilled Lemon Cheesecake with a Ginger biscuit base served with fresh raspberries, raspberries coulis and a sesame snap dessert. Isla was the youngest in the competition and was very calm and professional throughout.

The final of the Young Chef was another exciting competition. We had Emily Askew, Lily May Goddard Kemp, Jessica Mace and Amelie Green making a variety of very tasty dishes. Each had to prepare, cook and serve a main course and a dessert in an hour and a half.

Well done Isla!

This year’s winner Amelie cooked a Chicken Curry served with Rice and Baileys Tiramisu for dessert, and Jessica our runner up served a Sweet and Sour Chicken with Fried Rice and a dessert of Chocolate Brownie Stars. Amelie, Jessica and families attended the Rotary Club Dinner at Broom Hall, Saham Toney on Thursday 7th March to receive their certificates. Well done to all of you!

And then the most competitive – the ‘Staff Pancake Challenge’ Well done to Miss Pitt, Mrs Mihalop, Mrs McCullagh and Mr Grant! And Isla our judge! The challenge was to build the highest stack of pancakes with consideration to presentation. Some different tactics were used and there were some very evenly cooked creative pancakes!

Well done and a huge thank you to everyone who has taken part in the competitions! Next competition in the summer is the Bake Off ……..in our new food room??

Norfolk School Games First Ever Colour Run

The Norfolk School Games Colour Run was hosted at Colney Park, UEA with over 700 secondary school pupils from 20 schools across the county taking part. Schools from across the eight School Sports Partnerships arrived steadily throughout the early morning, with each pupil being given a t-shirt to wear. Once signed in, everyone took part in a warm up led by â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Mr Doddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, a well known Zumba Instructor from Norwich. The event was started by Paul Evans, ex GB Olympic marathon runner. The runners heading off around a 1km circuit. The challenge was to complete 5 laps. Strategically placed marshalls were loaded with a variety of paint colours to cover the passing by runners. All 700 runners completed, what was for many, their first 5k run. Before leaving there was one last chance for all to add to the colour, by throwing the remaining paint into the air.

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