NEWSLINK WAYLAND ACADEMY NORFOLK’S
SUMMER 2014
Sports Day at Wayland – Page 20 part of the
Contents Welcome Pages 3 and 4 GoGoDragons! Page 4
Welcome
Camouflaged Learning/ Careers Trail at the Royal Norfolk Show Page 5 Art Department news Pages 6 and 7 Platinum Year 10 Page 8 Product Design Page 9 Rotary Young Designer Award 2014 / WAN is awarded The Design Mark Page 10 STEM Days Page 11 Legotastic or Legotastrophe? Page 12 Year 11 Leavers Week Pages 13 to 16 Languages Festival 2014 Page 17 English Page 18 Library News Page 19 Sports Pages 20 and 21 Performing Arts Pages 22 and 23 Rome Trip Page 24 Sequoia Mallett / UEA Mentoring Celebration Day / Pets As Therapy Page 25
I have been Principal at Wayland Academy for the last 12 years and this will be my last ‘Newslink’ letter to you as the Principal. I will still be based on this site as well as at the Wayland Junior Academy Watton site and I can assure you I will still be very much around. Wayland Academy Norfolk has undergone some significant Leadership changes (as you will see) and many have been due to the promotion of colleagues who have worked around me for some years. My role is now Executive Principal across Wayland Academy Norfolk and Wayland Junior Academy Watton supporting Leadership and Academy improvement.
Mr Glen Allott has been promoted to Principal of WAN and officially starts his post at the start of next term. He has been with us for 5 years and has led Design Technology, ICT and Art alongside his extensive work on the curriculum and promoting the image of the Academy. Mrs Nicola Kaye has been promoted to Principal of Wayland Junior Academy Watton after working with us for 13 years. She is currently the Acting Head of Teaching and Learning at Wayland Junior Academy Watton and has worked there throughout this year. Previously she was Head of Geography, a lead in Humanities and Assistant Principal at Wayland Academy Norfolk.
Ecobugs Pages 26 and 27 Dates for your diary / Student Information / Summer Soccer School Page 28
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Mr Paul McCann has been promoted to Director of the Norfolk Teacher Training Centre within the TEN Group, responsible for the training and development of all new teachers across the TEN Group. In years to come this will provide us with a steady stream of quality candidates for teaching posts across a whole range of subjects. Mrs Jo Thuell has been promoted to Assistant Principal responsible for all matters regarding students, their welfare and safety and development within the Academy. She will work closely with her pastoral team to ensure our students remain happy and positive about their lives at Wayland Academy Norfolk. Ms Maggie Learoyd has been promoted to Assistant Principal of Teaching and Learning within the Academy. Working with colleagues she will ensure your child gets the best possible learning experience throughout their time with us, exploring more efficient learning techniques and leading key intervention work to enable every student to achieve to the best of their ability. Staff leaving us: Mr Trefor Parry is retiring after 23 years and we shall miss him greatly. He has worked tirelessly alongside me during my years at Wayland and has contributed significantly to the life and opportunities of students and improvements in our learning community, as well as being a wealth of knowledge, guidance and support to our staff.
Mr David Youngs is retiring after 27 years of service to the Maths department and students at the academy/school, dedicating his time in particular to those students who found the subject challenging. His long-term service is a very rare quality that you do not find in many schools nowadays. Mr Jonathan Fudge will be taking up a new post as PE Teacher and Head of Community Activity Programme at the British International School in Shanghai after 5 years of service to our very strong PE department. His dedication and humour will be missed, particularly by the students, and many previous students will have fond memories of having been in his lessons. Mr Sam Phillips has served in Maths for several years, often leading support and intervention work and more recently working as an additional resource in the Wayland Cluster supporting Gifted and Talented students aiming for Level 5 or above. Mr Paul Weight has worked for us in Maths over the last 12 months and has brought a wealth of experience and knowledge to his work in class. He has been promoted to a new post in a Norwich school. Ms Natalie Matthews-Graves has worked in English as a newly qualified teacher for the past year and has brought a fresh and cheerful contribution to the department. Having recently gained sponsorship she has decided to have a career change and follow her passion for Event Riding. We wish her every success in her new venture.
Mr Ben Hyde, Mr Philip Maplesden and Mrs Kirstie Shaw Often an important role that is overlooked includes our teaching assistants. I am thankful to all of you for the service you have given the Academy/School, often vital work supporting students in class, or special support groups or helping clubs and extra curricular activities to run smoothly – without this support many of these areas would not be as effective. Mrs Kimberley Fudge has worked as a technician in various departments for the last couple of years and is leaving us to travel to China with her husband, Mr Fudge. We wish them both good luck at this exciting time in their lives. I am pleased to inform you we have made the following appointments for September 2014: Mr Deane Anderton PE Teacher Miss Tania Gooding Maths Teacher with added responsibility of Head of House and Deputy Intervention Co-ordinator Miss Sarah Newton Geography Teacher I would to take this opportunity to say thank you to all parents and carers for your continued support of the Academy. I wish you and your families an enjoyable and restful summer. Kind regards Michael Rose Principal
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Cavell The Dragon (pictured) was on show in reception – she paid us a flying visit after she had been on display at the Royal Norfolk Show.
GoGoDragons! Following on from the amazing success of GoGoGorillas! in the summer of 2013, Break and Wild in Art are delighted to announce GoGoDragons! for summer 2015, bringing more love and laughter, families, communities, artists and local business together for another summer of fun! The success of GoGoGorillas! was unbelievable. The way the public took them to their hearts – the partnerships, sponsors and artists who made the trail come to life will be remembered for a long time to come and the legacy lives on.
Wayland Academy Norfolk is very proud to be a sponsor of a GoGoDragon 2015. Over the next year Wayland Academy Norfolk will run competitions and events to raise money towards the Dragon total. These competitions will be sent out to schools across Wayland and will also be available on waylandacademy.org.uk or via twitter @waylandacademy We want the Wayland Dragon to be inspired by Wayland and backed by the wider community. Any support is greatly appreciated.
To start fund raising you can sponsor our dragon at www.justgiving.com/ waylandgogodragon The first competition is to give our Dragon a name. To take part you will need to complete the entry form below and hand it in at the Wayland Academy Norfolk Reception by Friday 19th September with a 20p donation. A short list will be selected and then published for people to vote on. The winning name will then be given to the Dragon and remain with it while on display in Norwich.
Name our GoGoDragon competition (please hand this in at the Academy reception with a 20p donation by 19/09/2014) Name: Age: Academy/School: Contact Number: Dragon Name: Reason for the name or meaning:
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Camouflaged Learning Camouflaged Learning have been working with Year 9 students at WAN this term. 40 students have taken part in a series of activity workshops. The overall aim of the pilot was to endeavour to personalise the current educational curriculum within Wayland Academy Norfolk and engage students that may at times struggle to focus quickly on activities or tasks.
The workshops delivered by Camouflaged Learning have been outstanding and the Year 9 students have been thoroughly engaged. Students have completed 6 personalised sessions in total with the final full day’s session on 7th July. These programmes of personalisation included: • The creation of ‘real-world’ learning connections for students, to enhance relevance, realism and retention.
• The creation of indelible educational moments (Stuff that Sticks Sessions) via the Camouflaged Learning ethos and methodology of kinaesthetic experiential learning experiences. Hopefully, this is the first of many sessions with Camouflaged Learning – their engaging activities have significantly impacted on the Year 9 students that took part especially Dylan Evans who won £151 to be spent on an object of his choice.
Careers Trail at the Royal Norfolk Show On Wednesday 25th June, fourteen students from Years 9 and 10 took part in a ‘Careers Trail’ at the Norfolk Show. Organised by Easton College, the students visited six stands and were given a talk at each about the careers opportunities and entry pathways into them. The stands included poultry rearing, agricultural machinery, forestry and equine care.
Common themes emerged regarding the need to have suitable GCSEs and that undertaking voluntary work will set your application above those that haven’t. There was some free time to enjoy the varied attractions of the show. A good and informative time was had by all. Thanks go to Easton College for organising the day and the various employers on the stands we visited for giving up their time.
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Art Department news
YEAR 10 Year 10 Art students were happy and proud to be part of this year’s Norfolk and Norwich Open Studios Event. On Friday 6th June, we took over the engineering room in the Skills Centre to create a pop-up art exhibition which was well-attended by students’ families, friends and members of the public. The students were delighted with the glowing comments left in the visitors’ book. Thank you to all who attended and showed their support and many thanks to the designers at City College Norwich for creating our invitations. Another special mention to Mrs Beckwith and two of her Food Technology students: Brandon Whitehair and Shauna Hoggart who organised refreshments for the day.
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A selection of the Year 10 ‘Identity’ project work got a second airing at the TEN Group End of Year Art Show held at the Forum, Norwich from 17th to 21st June. The standard of work from all the academies and colleges within the TEN Group was astonishing. Year 10 are also working on their Still Life project and have made some excellent studies using pencil, acrylic paint and oil pastel. They have also looked at a variety of artists; Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Cezanne and others.
YEAR 9 Year 9 students are currently working on a ‘Portraits’ project, looking at what can be conveyed in a portrait and creating clay busts centered around an emotion of their choice.
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With many Year 9 art students already working at such a high level, I look forward to seeing them develop into excellent GCSE candidates.
Well done to Year 11 students who performed amazingly well during their Art exam on 8th/9th May. Their work and behaviour was raised to a new level of maturity and I wish them all the very best for their futures.
E BU C GS O Thank you Thank you to Bev Page and her Eco bugs for continuous support and kind donations of plants to the Art Room. Another thank you to Graham Hayden, who has been helping organise materials to make the Art room its own sign to go outside on the brick wall.
Finally... ...on a sad note (for us!), the Art Department will be bidding Kim Fudge. ‘Bon Voyage’ and a huge thank you as she embarks on her adventures to the Orient. Kim has transformed the Art Department with her enthusiasm and dedication and has helped myself and the students out immeasurably. Apart from helping me and the students, organise the art room and a million other things, Kim has also shown herself to be a great artist. Thank you Kim and have the time of your life!
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Platinum Year 10 A group of 5 pupils have been working towards their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award: • Jennifer Collins • Daniel Purser • Matthew Cooper • Ryszard Zdyb • Thomas Cockman All of these pupils managed to complete and pass their expedition section of the award. They had a practise run in early May and the assessment just two weeks later in Suffolk! They all used great navigation skills, teamwork, cooking skills, and learnt how to sleep in the great outdoors.
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They were selected to go to the Royal Norfolk Show on 26th June to receive their certificates for the expedition section of their award and meet Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex. They have just a few more sessions to complete their Skill (cooking),
Service (helping at Brownies and restoring the memorial garden) and Physical (wall climbing and football) sections of the Bronze DofE award. Congratulations to all of them. Mrs Webb
Product Design Once again it has been a very busy year with Product Design; as always the quality of work that has been produced has been amazing. It has been wonderful to see you all so pleased with your final outcomes at the end of each rotation and watch you all gain a range of different skills. This year we have made Toy cars, Soma cubes, Pinball machines and Gumball machines.
Projects will be changed slightly next year based on student feedback and also to mix things up for you all.
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Keep an eye on my twitter feed over the summer holidays for sneak peaks of the projects!
Firstly, I must say it has been a pleasure to teach you all over the last three years and I cannot wait to see some of you again next year as you have chosen to continue to study one of the subjects in the Design and Technology department. For those of you that have not chosen a Design Technology option I know that you will all use the skills that I have taught you in life at some point. This year we have made Gumball machines; there have been some fantastic pieces produced and I have loved watching you all become so independent throughout the making of these.
If you would like to read more about what’s going on in my product design lessons please take a look at pittwayland.blogspot.com
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From Elephant cars to Alien cars, I have certainly been impressed with the wide range of car designs that I have seen produced this year. I really can’t wait to see the amazing work you produce next year. Year 7 have also nearly single handedly used up my stock of PittPasses. For those who haven’t been taught by me this year these are homework passes for exceptional work in class. I know of a few students who have managed to collect all six colours!
I’ve had so much fun making the pinball machines with you all and I know how much fun you have had playing on them at the end of each rotation. It is not an easy project with a range of different joints, lots of measurements and a focus on quality of finish. However you have all surpassed yourself in terms of effort and finished products. This may be the last year that we have this project so it’s been great to finish these on such a high!
Year 10 Controlled Assessment is well and truly upon us and I am so proud of how hard you are all working. It is an exciting time with initial ideas being developed and products being designed. Before you know it, you will have made your product and be revising for your exams. Time will fly away from you next year so please keep to all the deadlines and review the Blog regularly.
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Rotary Young Designer Award 2014 Congratulations to the winners of the Rotary Young Designer Award for 2014. Caitlyn Shaw, Coral Noble, Charlie Read and Mr Allott had a meal with some of the members of the Rotary Club of Watton and District followed by a presentation of certificates and prizes for their outstanding work. Well done to Charlie Read for winning with his Graphic Products and to the runners up Caitlyn Shaw and Coral Noble for their textiles work.
WAN is awarded The Design Mark Wayland Academy is proud to announce that as a result of the hard work of the Design and Technology department the Academy has been awarded The Design Mark. The Design Mark is a quality standards framework developed jointly by the Design and Technology Association and the Design Council. It is intended as an aspirational badge awarded to primary and secondary schools that demonstrate excellence in their teaching of design.
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The Design Mark is based on a Quality Standards Framework which provides the quality ‘standard’ against which schools can evaluate their practice. The Framework has been designed to reflect the ways in which subject leaders responsible for design education are likely to be required to account for its overall effectiveness within a whole school context. Well done to Miss Pitt and the rest of the DT team.
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Students from our feeder schools in Years 5 and 6 got a chance to create their own vinyl speaker at a STEM day on 17th May. They were given the opportunity to heat up some old vinyl records before they were stretched into a cone shape. The cones were great for increasing the sound from mobile phones. Students also had a chance to make their cones more colourful by applying stickers.
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
turns to construct the rocket using the instructions. Once the rockets were completed they were taken outside to have a go firing them. Each one was loaded with an unsuspecting egg. The unfortunate eggs were supposed to return back to earth on a parachute but out of the seven rockets launched on the day only one egg made the successful trip back.
Should you have any questions about the STEM days or would like to book a place on future STEM days (dates to be announced), please do not hesitate to contact me: aharder@waylandacademy.org.uk
Our second STEM day took place on 14th June and involved rockets. Each rocket was constructed by groups of 4 to 5 students taking
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Legotastic or Legotastrophe? On Friday 27th June, students from Wayland Junior Academy Watton joined us in the Skills Centre to take part in the 2014 Lego Challenge. The activity is designed to highlight the importance of teamwork within the construction industry; each student in a team is allocated a specific job role which has its own rules and limitations. The Project Managers were shown (for the grand total of five minutes) a Lego structure and informed that their task was to reproduce it with the help of their team. They had the responsibility of communicating to the rest of their team what the structure looked like and how they should build it. The only other members of each team that were allowed to see the original structure were the Construction Engineers, who were also permitted to take notes and talk to the Architect. The team had to work out what bricks they needed and purchase these from the Builders’ Merchant; although only the Site Agents and Bricklayers were allowed to visit the merchant. Only the Bricklayers were permitted to actually build the structure, with as much verbal help and encouragement 12
as their team wished to give them. Finally, the Quantity Surveyors kept track of all purchases made for the project and were responsible for producing the final accounts for their building. (And, to reassure you that we took the rules seriously: £100 fixed penalty notices were issued to any team found to be in violation of these rules!) Throughout the whole activity, all the students were focused, engaged and totally engrossed in their task. The buildings took shape at different speeds, with some teams spending a long time looking at what seemed to be a mismatched pile of bricks before suddenly making huge strides whereas other teams took the slow and steady approach throughout. Following completion of their building, the teams were asked to present their building to the rest of the group and explain why they thought their building was the best. This resulted in some great quotes, including “A building is held together with teamwork” (Bling Builders), “I believed in my team so we finished” (A Team) and “We have a building that stands” (The Builder Zay). Congratulations go to “Bling Builders”
who won the competition by showing amazing teamwork and producing a credible structure, which they named the Bling King Tower, by the end of the day!
Bling Builders: Construction Engineer: Eleanor Burnage Quantity Surveyor: Ella Gibbons Bricklayer: Ryan Hewett Project Manager: Declan Royal Site Agent: Kian Webb
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Year 11 spent their last week at Wayland Academy Norfolk showing off their different styles and outfits firstly on the ‘muck up day’ where they came in all kinds of fancy dress. They certainly made an effort.
On their last day they all came suited and booted. The boys looked very dapper in their suits and the girls looking elegant in their dresses. They had a barbeque cooked by the site team and a final assembly where they received a gift of a pen engraved with Wayland Academy Class of 2014.
Year 11s’ final celebration at Wayland Academy Norfolk was the Class of 2014 Prom. A record number of students attended an evening at Dunston Hall on 30th June to relax and enjoy each other’s company after their exams. Good luck for your future and we look forward to seeing you on results day, Thursday 21st August.
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Muck up day 2014
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Languages Festival 2014 The annual Wayland Academy Languages Festival took place on Friday 20th June.
excellent resources and creative ideas as well as their excellent organisation. Well done Year 9!
A mixture of Year 4, 5 and 6 students from all of our feeder schools came to the event which was run by our Year 9 students. There were a wide variety of fair-ground activities to practise different languages including Swedish and Dutch. The primary students were put into groups and had the opportunity to try different games and win prizes and certificates. The Year 9 students used their language skills as well as team work and leadership skills in running the event. They were highly organized and were praised by staff for their
Year 9 were very impressed with our primary students in terms of
their behaviour, engagement and enthusiasm. I look forward to seeing as many of them as possible in the next few years. Mrs Learoyd
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Off they go Two by two Our eyes bleeding with water Our wing slowly uncovers and let them go Our hearts frozen of sadness The pain of not having them is killing us He’s gone he’s gone The room filled with tears All you can hear is his last words “Bye mum love you” Why did I let him go? By Jade Agent We’re going no where Can you tell from the look in our eyes? We’re going no where We live our lives like we’re ready to die We’re going no where You can run by you’ll never escape Over and over again Will we ever see the end; We’re going no where
English The English department at Wayland has had another full year of activities. New teachers, new roles, new students… and lots of new ideas! I can’t put down all that we’ve achieved, so a select few items have made it to this July review. Rolling through the year has been the regular meetings of the Carnegie Group; a group of students who are challenged with reading books then feedback into a group led by Miss Greenacre, Miss Watts and Miss Paterson. Some books were quickly assigned to the bookshelves of our library, whilst others were not, as it was decided that our pupils wouldn’t like them. Many thanks to all involved. Two theatre trips have run this year; the first was to Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal to see a two person production of ‘Pride and Prejudice’. A hilarious rendition of a man and woman taking on all 14 characters and the entire book in just over two hours. A brilliant night out, with the minibus entertainment provided by Sam Holland and Olli Mowles (though it went very quiet on the way home, boys? Zzzzzz).
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The second trip, to the same venue, was to broaden Year 10s’ knowledge of Shakespeare with a visit to see ‘Twelfth Night’. To say we were enlightened in seeing Shakespeare’s work in a different light would be an understatement. Without giving away all the secrets of the evening, it would be fair to say that we were suitably entertained by throwing pom-poms at Velcro hats, invited to do the conga on stage, given pizza to eat (free of charge) and seeing gold, sequinned shorts in a way never imagined by Shakespeare! The work undertaken in English has been going from strength to strength, with many examples of superb work from all year groups over the year. Some particularly good poems produced by Years 8 and 9 are worthy of notable credit and are included in this Newslink (see right column). Well done to all for an excellent year and as we look forward to a well-earned rest, we have to wait patiently to see the results of the Year 11s’ hard work when the exam results come out in August. Ms Street Head of English (KS4 lead)
It’s like we’re sleep walking Can you hear the hopeless? Can you see the dark? Can you fix the broken? We’re going no where We’re not afraid to die Who will remember your last goodbye? We’re going now where By Ella Smy I am war I am evil I cause depression I am the devil Full of aggression I am war I cause death I make people cry I am immortal I’ll never leave your side I am war So if you dare, take my hand And see if you can reach the demons land Therefore… I am war By Agne Daugintyte War of words I’m here; it’s like a woman in mourning wearing black, sobbing to a sad song. I’m waiting, waiting for this to end. Everyone is suffering, I can’t see us end like this. I was stolen from my dreams, stolen from love. Why? Why?… feet sore like they’re being run over by a truck, back aching like an old weary woman. This is a waste land; that is all it is. Why? Why? By Calum Davey
When we heard that Marcus Sedgwick was coming in, we got very excited, being long-standing fans of his. We had both read many of his books and thoroughly enjoyed them. When he first arrived, he showed the students in Years 7 and 8 the variety of stories that he’d written and gave us a brief overview of each. After he had finished, he showed us a photograph of his shed, the place where he writes all of his books. Scattered around the shed were objects which all had their own significance and stories of how they came to be there. For example, he had the word ‘PLAY’ on his wall to constantly remind him of how he should rest as well as work.
Library News
He ended the hour with a ‘question and answer’ slot. We asked him about his inspiration for one of his books, ‘The Book of the Dead Days’. The answers that he gave us were very in-depth and included so much detail that not many more questions needed to be asked.
The highlight of this term was when Students in Years 7 and 8 attended a presentation by award-winning author, Marcus Sedgwick; a report written by two students follows.
Overall, meeting Marcus Sedgwick was an amazing opportunity! By Joe and Jackson
announced the winning novel; this is a dark and disturbing book.
More Library News A new panel, BLAG, (Boys’ Library Advisory Group) has been set up with the purpose of encouraging greater reading. The boys helped choose new books from an extensive range provided by the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre (during our annual Book Fayre) and are currently preparing reviews of their favourite books which will be displayed here in the library.
The Carnegie Shadowing Group 2014 has been meeting every week to discuss the short-listed books for this prestigious literary award. This year’s list caused some controversy and heated discussions took place as to the suitability and relevance of a few of the titles especially when ‘The Bunker Diaries’ by Kevin Brooks was
Colleagues at City College Norwich have been instrumental in the setting up of ‘small print’ our new library blog. This can be accessed via the Wayland Academy Norfolk Homepage and contains articles and reviews written by students; why not take a look! If you have a book review you would like to add to the blog, please pop in to the library see Mrs Barnett. Asher Duncan and Jack Darge attended the Festival of Literature for Young People held at the University of East Anglia. Their role was that of Festival Reporters and we look forward to reading their reports in the next issue of Newslink.
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Sports Day 2014 Sports day this year was held on Tuesday 24th June.
attraction the ice-cream van, whose queue was the longest.
All the students were either taking part in the traditional events; Javelin, Discus, Shot, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 4x100m, 8x200m, Long, Triple and High jump or having a go at the activities around the field; Trim Trail, Speed Stacking, Team Skipping, Pentanque, Target Javelin, Rowing, Netball Shoot-Out, Target Golf, Dodge Ball, Table Football, Giant Jenga, Goalball, Tyres & Planks, Pogo Stick and Penalty Shoot-out. We also had our favourite
After all the races were finished everyone took part in ‘The Wayland K’ where the students and staff could either run or walk two and a half times around the athletics track, once finished they all had to pass through a checkpoint to register their result with their House, (Hero House did seem to have more participants than any of the other houses)!
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Two records were broken on the day, the Shot Putt and 4x100m.
Joel Ferreira broke the Shot Putt record with a distance of 11.22m for Nelson House and Hero House won the 4x100m in 51.78 seconds. The overall winners for sports day were Hero House. Well done to you all and to Mr Fudge whose House has been in second place every year during his time here at Wayland, so it’s nice to see his House win on his last sports day at Wayland Academy Norfolk.
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Year 7 378 Year 8 399 Year 9 392 Year 10 418 Extra 610 Wayland ‘K’ 456
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Year 7 360 Year 8 314 Year 9 299 Year 10 359 Extra 600 Wayland ‘K’ 369
Leicester Tigers Trip On Sunday 23rd March, a group of 25 students visited Welford Road Stadium to watch Leicester Tigers play Exeter Chiefs. This was offered to all students who represented Wayland Academy Norfolk at rugby this year. It was a fantastic opportunity for these enthusiastic school rugby players to see a Guinness Premiership match live. We left Watton at 9.15am arriving in good time to walk around the stadium, visit the shop and watch both teams go through their warm ups before the 2.15pm kick off.
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Year 7 377 Year 8 292 Year 9 432 Year 10 355 Extra 470 Wayland ‘K’ 324
This trip finished off a fantastic season for rugby at Wayland, with teams progressing to the latter stages of the County Cup competitions, including semi final appearances for our U15 and U16 teams. Well done and good luck for next year. Mr Fudge
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Year 7 370 Year 8 445 Year 9 382 Year 10 358 Extra 460 Wayland ‘K’ 303
Students commented on the physicality and pace of the game with Leicester beating Exeter 45-15 in a thrilling game with lots of current international players and British Lions players representing their clubs.
Congratulations to the Year 7 rounders team who were undefeated in their league and have qualified for the semi finals.
Boxing Congratulations to Lily Devlin who competed in the 28th International Pirrka Tournament in Tampere, Finland and won Gold in her category.
Players Reanna Cook, Kasey Irwin, Emily Rumer, Emma Lowery, Kerris Walpole, Lexie Fields, Emma Bambridge, Eve Martin, Charlotte Ross, Wiktoria Bujanowska and Ellena Sanger. The Year 8, 9 and 10 teams all came 3rd in their league.
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Band Night On Friday 2nd May Wayland Academy Norfolk hosted another successful ‘Band Night’. The Band Nights are an excellent opportunity for students to perform songs or acts to a live audience. As always, we utilise outside professional bands to work alongside our students. This evening we had ‘The Improvement’ a Norwich based band whose drummer is our one and only teacher of RE, Mr Clark. This was 22
a fantastic opportunity for students to see staff in a different light and also some of the alternative skills that teachers possess. The Thinking Men performed an outstanding ‘set’, ending will the audience on their feet. The Thinking Men, a Norwich based band including Mr Rowe who was our teacher of Theology and Ethics, recently won ‘Radio’s next big thing’. A previous winner of this was Ed Sheeran. Michael Fleet AKA ‘Toxic’, a recent Year 11
student ‘wowed’ the crowd with his unbelievable talent for writing and rapping lyrics. Michael showed a real talent for a student of his age, one of which we hope will continue to grow! Other acts included Ashleigh Roeder, Daisy Kiddell, Hannah Ford and Georgia Clark who are becoming ‘old hats’ at performing. They have all taken part in previous Band Nights and productions and continue to go from strength to strength, both in confidence and vocal ability.
Singing in the Rain Workshop On Thursday 12th June, the Year 10 Performing Arts Company and a select cohort of Year 9 students were treated to a workshop by two cast members from the current production of Singing in the Rain, who were performing at the Theatre Royal Norwich. Lucy James (Dance Captain/Swing) and Matt Crandon (Associate Dance Captain/Swing) took the students for a two hour workshop accumulating in a short dance piece from the show itself. The students took part in a full warm
up, corner work and then repertoire from the show. The students then had the opportunity to ask the two professionals questions about their experiences or life as a ‘Performer’. It may have been 25 degrees outside but the umbrellas were up inside! This was yet another opportunity for the Performing Arts Company to work closely with professional links, institutions and performers, which is all part of their BTEC qualification in Performing Arts (Musical Theatre).
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Rome Trip On Monday 28th April 17 Year 10 students and 4 staff boarded a bus bound for Gatwick Airport to catch a flight to Fiumicino Airport Rome. They then had to catch a train into Rome central station where they walked a short distance to their hotel, Nord Nuova Roma. After checking into their rooms and familiarising themselves with the hotel they walked across the road to a very traditional trattoria where they served meals like ‘mama makes’ salad for starters, pasta (of course) followed by Tiramisu (the best Tiramisu I have ever had). It was then time to call it a night and settle down to get some sleep ready for a long day walking around Rome, although we did catch the tube to the Vatican first. A 90 minute wait to enter St Peter’s Basilica was worth it as after we climbed the 551 steps to the top of the Copola the views were brilliant. After climbing down from the dome we had a look around St Peter’s Basilica where cameras were clicking everywhere. The sights of the history, art work and the architecture amazed us all. We then had a pit stop for some lunch, toasted sandwich or pizza and drink from one of the stalls just outside the walls of Vatican City. This was a time when the students could ask for what they wanted and try a little Italian.
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We spent the next 3 days travelling around on foot taking in the wonderful sights of Rome, visiting various Basilicas (churches) the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Victor Emmanuel Monument, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps and the Piazza del Popolo. In the evenings we visited various restaurants; a traditional pasta restaurant, pizzeria and on the last night we went to The White Chicken where the students and staff enjoyed an evening where they could order what they wanted off the menu themselves. They were a credit to Wayland Academy Norfolk.
Quotes from students: “Best school trip I have been on. Lots of inspirational things to see and some amazing sights!! Definitely worth it.” Megan Hassey “Rome is a beautiful city, I wish we could have stayed longer!” Ollie Mowles “Rome is an amazing city and was a great experience to go and visit some fantastic attractions. Would love to go back and relive these memories.” Billie-Jo Bailey
Congratulations to Sequoia Mallett Sequoia was Head Girl of Wayland. She is to be congratulated on being appointed Head Girl of Wymondham College for the next school year.
The picture shows her on the Wymondham stand at the Norfolk Show where she was introduced to the Earl of Wessex.
UEA Mentoring Celebration Day Seven of the students who had taken part in the scheme where UEA undergraduates come into school and mentor a number of our Year 9, attended a day at the university. There were two workshops that showed aspects of teaching at university. A splendid lunch was followed by a campus tour. Finally, a
presentation showing the routes into Higher Education culminated in each student receiving a certificate to acknowledge completing the mentoring. The following students took part – Tim Allen, Taylor Cassidy, Joss Francis, Alex Franke, Alex Gathercole, Adam Peters, Elisha Poole and Kiri Wells.
SEN Department Pets As Therapy The SEN Department are excited to announce that we have registered for the Pets As Therapy ‘READ 2 DOGS’ programme for September 2014 – we are looking forward to working with Mrs Kay and her Cocker Spaniel, Dora in September for a trial period. Pets As Therapy is a national charity founded in 1983. The READ 2 DOGS programme is designed to give students opportunities to enjoy and increase their confidence in reading. The programme gives students a private opportunity to practise and enjoy reading away from their peers. The aim is to raise self-esteem, boost confidence and give purpose to vulnerable students. Research continues to validate the very real value of this daily work undertaken in the community by voluntary Pets As Therapy visitors and their dogs that work amongst those of us in need of a little extra boost. If you would like more information please contact Miss Blundell, SEN Admin Officer.
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LITTLE DIGGERS 2014 Wayland Academy Norfolk Every Monday 1.15pm—2.30pm Come along each week and meet at 1.15pm at the Watton Children’s Centre. We can all walk together up to Wayland Academy to do some digging and much more. A time to try new things and experiment with new materials. We will be planting, weeding and helping toCome maintainalong the community garden.
This month The Little Diggers have been busy planting, weeding and growing lots of lovely veg. We have watched our tadpoles develop into little frogs and leave our little pond, it’s been fascinating and Owen even coloured in a picture for Diane at the SureStart of the life cycle of a frog.
each week and meet at 1.15pm at the Watton Children’s Centre. We can all walk together up No need to book but for more details please call Watton Surestart Centre to Wayland Academy to do some and ask for Diane Sartin on digging and much more. 01953 880 175. Try something new… become a Little Digger!
A time to try new things and experiment with new materials.
We will be planting, weeding and helping to maintain the community garden.
OUR NEW No need to book but for more details POT STOREplease call the Children’s Centre and ask for Diane on 01953 880175
Our plant pots started to take over the poly tunnel so during half term Bradley Sharp and Ms Page made us a new outdoor pot store with recycled materials left over from work in the trench, we made this on a very rainy day. Massive thanks to Bradley for his continued hard work and support for the Eco Bugs.
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Try something new… become a
Little Digger!
WAYLAND AGRICULTURAL SHOW 2014 The Eco Bugs will be attending the Wayland Show again this year. We will share the Schools tent with Easton College and Sue Lee the Clusters PSA. Come and say hello and have a go on our tombola and free games for children.
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Dates for your diary AUGUST 2014 Thur 21st – Results Day SEPTEMBER 2014 Tue 2nd – Staff Training Day (Academy closed to students) Wed 3rd – Staff Training Day (Academy closed to students) Thur 18th – Year 7 & Year 9 photographs Tue 23rd – Lost Property Display Year 7 Tutors/Parents/Carers getting to know you evening OCTOBER 2014 Tues 21st – Lost Property Display Year 11 Parents/Teachers Evening Wed 22nd – Wayland Academy closes for students at 3.15pm for Half Term Thur 23rd – Staff Training Day (Academy closed to students) Fri 24th – Staff Training Day (Academy closed to students) NOVEMBER 2014 Mon 3rd – Students return to Wayland Academy Year 7 Science Trip Thur 6th – Year 10 Parents/ Teachers Evening Fri 14th – Year 10 & Year 11 Skills Show NEC Thur 20th – Bag 2 School Collection Tue 25th – Lost Property Display DECEMBER 2014 Mon 1st to Fri 5th – Year 11 Mock Exams week 1 Mon 8th to Fri 12th – Year 11 Mock Exams week 2 Fri 19th – Wayland Academy closes at 3.15pm for Christmas JANUARY 2015 Mon 5th – Staff Training Day (Academy closed to students) Tue 6th – Students return to Wayland Academy
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STUDENT INFORMATION Head Boy – Ty Bond Head Girl – Lilly Pollitt Deputy Head Boy – Oliver Mowles Deputy Head Girl – Enola Cuffe
SUMMER SOCCER SCHOOL
Senior Prefects Catherine Lee Steven Gale Megan Taylor Joe Watts Elliott Beaumont Jordan Pilling Brooke Cadwell Tyler Cadwell Emily Stewart Benjamin Thomas-Lewin Natasha Rudd Megan Hassey Billie-Jo Bailey Jordan Perkins Jennifer Collins You will be able to identify the students above by their gold ties. All of the prefect body are found all around Wayland Academy Norfolk, especially in the corridors and by the dining hall at break and lunch times. If you have any concerns about anything and you do not feel that you can speak to a member of staff then just approach a member of the prefect body.
Three day Soccer School at Wayland Academy Norfolk with ex-professional Robert Taylor
PEER MENTORS
4th, 5th and 6th August 2014 10am to 3pm
Every Tuesday and Thursday you can come along and have a chat with a member of the peer mentors, a group of students who volunteer to support their peers in room 14 (Mrs Ewens science room). We also offer drinks, biscuits and games, come in and have a chat.
£28 for all 3 days To book your place speak to Robert in Student Support or telephone 07946 682 071