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Hello Everyone We are coming to the end of a very exciting and busy term. A lot has happened so far this academic year and even more excitement is on its way… We have run many educational visits and workshops this term in an attempt to enrich and further our broad curriculum. We want students’ time at Wayland Academy to be exciting, liberating and fulfilling. In September students visited Langley School to attend a lecture by author Charlie Higson. GCSE students attended the Norwich Theatre Royal for a performance of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Key Stage 4 students also attended the “Careers in the NHS” event in Norwich. In October we launched the RESPECT campaign at the Academy. This initiative is being driven by the students with the knowledge that the students are intrinsic to academy improvement. Also in October we had our Open Evening, where we welcomed many Year 5 and 6 students to visit the academy. Year 11 students attended the Easton College Open Day. Performing Arts students attended the Performer’s College in Essex, a prestigious and highly respected institution for Performing Arts and Year 11 students, along with staff, went Paint Balling during the October half term. In November Key Stage 3 students attended the Theatre Royal to see
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“The Modern Alchemist” as part of the Science curriculum. Students also attended the Norwich Film Festival at Vue cinema. 100 Year 11 students were taken to City College Norwich for the Open Day. Students from across the year groups attended the Skills Show at the NEC in Birmingham. 114 Year 9 students attended a “Choose Your Future” event at the CITB College at Bircham Newton as part of the preparation for Key Stage 4 and life beyond the Academy. Year 10 Art and Design students also completed a workshop at the Sainsbury Centre. In December we had Mock exams for Year 11, a chance for them to have a trial run and experience examinations ready for the summer. 50 students visited Dusseldorf Christmas markets and a theme park in Germany on a four day educational visit and a small group attended the Victorian Christmas event at Gressenhall. Along with all of this there were innumerable events and activities at the academy, all a testament to the hard work of staff and students. January starts with Year 11 mock results day and an opportunity for students to see how they have achieved in preparation for the summer. This is followed by the Year 11 Parent Consultation Evening on 22nd January.
We are very proud that Parent / Academy communication is about to take a leap forward through online communications. Through our update to SIMS you will be able to receive emails and texts, update and edit your own information along with access to reports and other data. This evolution will continue to evolve over the academic year. We are also planning to launch the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award with Year 9 students in January. In February we plan to run the Battlefields trip to Belgium. In March we have Year 9 students planning for their future, culminating in their Pathways Evening on 5th March. Year 10 Work Experience will take place in the last two weeks of March concluding in a presentation event at the academy on the 27th March. Wayland Academy Norfolk is becoming a very exciting place and we are at the start of an amazing journey. I feel very honoured to be the Principal and would love to hear from anyone that wishes to get involved in our journey. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Glen Allott Principal
Welcome Contents Welcome Pages 2 and 3 Computer Programming For Girls! Page 4 Think Computer Science 2014 Page 5 Art Department news Pages 6 and 7 Dear Parent/Carer We face, as always, a very busy time of year in our local academies. This term as Executive Principal of Wayland Academy Norfolk and Wayland Junior Academy Watton I have been able to observe a lot of hard work and challenge in both institutions. The atmosphere in both is, of course, very different but the underlying drive is the same and that is academy improvement through raising standards of educational excellence and achievement in pupils. Knowing many of the younger pupils as I do now and seeing them adapt to brand new learning opportunities reminds me of the importance of ‘transition’ between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. In Watton we are in the privileged position of being able to work closely together across a much wider age range. Certainly knowing
Mr Allott and Mrs Kaye as I do, having worked with them for many years, they hold the same values and are keen to develop more joint working opportunities through projects and creative use of resources including teachers. This growing partnership will secure the future of quality education for young people in Watton and whilst both academies are on a very different learning journey the destination is the same for both – outstanding education for all our young people. Yours faithfully, Michael Rose Executive Principal WAN & WJAW
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The Norfolk Way – Successful Students meet George Foreman MP Page 8 Achievement Evening 2014 Pages 9 to 12 Library News Page 13 aDORAble! Page 14 Year 10 & 11 Health & Social Care group Page 15 UEA Science Day / Sports Page 16 STEM Saturdays/ Towards Next Year/ Choose Your Future Page 17 ECO BUGS Page 18 Dates for your diary / Bags2School / Year 10 Prefects Page 20
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CP4G – Computer Programming For Girls A Computer Science For Girls competition was hosted by City Academy on Friday 7th December where four of the TEN Group schools competed against each other in a coding challenge. Fakenham Academy, Attleborough Academy, Wayland Academy and City Academy all met up to encourage more girls to become involved in the competitive world of coding. The challenge was to learn how to use the virtual world of Alice in two hours then complete a coding challenge by creating a short animation in pairs within two hours. Each school had six teams of two girls and they were given a specific task of creating a short 90 second animation using the virtual world
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software. The animations were judged and each was scored to reveal the winners from each school. From the Wayland Academy team Lauren Dade and Alice Stewart received Bronze medals. Millie Towell, Ana Cruz, Megan Williamson and Charlotte Cook received Silver Medals. Jade Campbell, Isabella Bayley, Megan Wilce and Nieve Merchant won Gold medals. An additional award was handed out which also saw Megan Wilce and Nieve Merchant win a cup for Dynamic Debuggers. Well done to all the students who took part in the PC4G coding challenge. It was a wonderful experience and hopefully the
beginning of more girls and students taking up coding. If you are interested in finding out more about Alice and what you can do, follow this link: http://www.alice.org
Think Computer Science 2014 On Tuesday 2nd December 2014 Microsoft held an annual Think Computer Science conference at Duxford Air Museum. There were schools from all over London, Surrey, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk but it was the first time students from Wayland Academy attended the event.
The event showcased up and coming technologies, gave various lectures about modern, state of the art developments in Computer Science and students had some opportunities to take part in workshops and coding challenges.
The event was not just a good day out but also a wonderful chance for students to discover some of the many opportunities that are available to them in the world of Computer Science in the future with a bit of hard work and dedication. Well done to all those who came along – a credit to the Academy!!!
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Art Department news
3. Year 10 students have made a brilliant start with their ‘Identity’ 1. Year 7 students are
enjoying their bird drawing project and having fun with different experimental techniques.
2. O ur new sign has been
put up! Thank you to Graham Hayden for sourcing the materials and cutting out the shapes and also to Karl Green for putting them up.
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project and are looking forward to a trip to the Sainsbury Centre where we will have a tour followed by drawing exercises.
4. YEAR 8
Conceptual Art / map homework project. Joe Ferguson created a brilliant African elephant over a map of the continent. He has been asked to extend this by making animal pictures for all of the continents! Well done Joe.
5. DINOVEMBER!!!! A month-long imagination invasion where dinosaurs come back to life and create
mischief. The students were given 15 minutes to take 10 photographs – indoors or out. They were asked to think about how the dinosaurs interacted with each other and the environment, how close they were when they took the photos and at what angle.
6. N EW ART CLUB!
Year 7 student Eleanor Burnage has started a new art club just for Year 7s. Eleanor has designed her own scheme of work has been running the club on Tuesdays in the Art Room.
And finally‌ a big, big GOOD LUCK to all of the Year 11 students who are about to start their mock exams! 7
The Norfolk Way – Successful Students meet George Freeman MP George Freeman, MP for our area has initiated a scheme called the Norfolk Way Exemplar Scheme, with NWES (Norfolk and Waveney Enterprise Services) to give five students in his constituency the opportunity for extended Work
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Experience in an area that each student would like to follow in the future. Students were required to submit a letter of application and then attend an interview. It is very pleasing that
Wayland Academy, in the form of Catherine Lee and Marcie Francis, claimed two of the five places. Wayland hosted a presentation at which George Freeman, Dick Palmer from the TEN group and Kevin Horne from NWES were present.
Achievement Evening 2014
On Thursday 4th December we welcomed back to Wayland Academy Norfolk our Class of 2014 (Year 11 leavers). The evening was to celebrate their achievements and to receive their GCSE certificates, Year books and special awards. Our guest speaker Matt Bagley (pictured above) is the Creative Director of Camouflaged Learning, a company that aims to be noisy and exciting every single day. He is also an engineer who has worked in Formula 1, he has raced motorbikes (badly) and is very tall.
Most importantly, he also owes Mr Allott almost £5. Unlike previous end-of- year speakers, Matt didn’t go on and on about how well he’s done, how much he’s earned or even showing them that nice new skinny tie he’s just bought. Instead, Matt spoke about the only thing that secretly really matters: you. Matt also showed the Class of 2014 how to create a bang – it was one of those moments that you had to be there to see it. I am sure Matt will be with us again soon and will show us
again, how to make a big bang…. We also had speeches from ex Head Boy Joe Russell, Head Girl Nicola Everitt, Marcie Francis and Catherine Lee (current Year 11 students). Our compere for the evening was Harry Greiner our Chair of Governors. The night also gave our staff, governors, invited guests and some current Year 11 students, a chance to say a fond farewell. Good luck for the future Class of 2014.
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Subjects Awards Mathematics
Science
Food Technology
Bethany worked hard throughout her time at Wayland. She showed that she was a high quality mathematician who was determined to make the most of her ability. Whenever she was confronted with an unusual or difficult problem she was able to use mathematics from a number of areas to allow her to solve it. Bethany would never accept second best from herself. Any areas that required improvements were soon addressed and worked on until she was satisfied. All this resulted in her comfortably achieving a very well deserved A* grade having scored 96% on each of her two examination papers. This was one of the best marks in mathematics that a Wayland student has ever achieved. Well done Bethany, a superb performance.
Sergey’s commitment to his science studies was exemplary. He always thought about processes logically and asked questions when things seemed to conflict his scientific ideas. He works like a scientist and his hard work paid off with outstanding grades.
For achievement in Food throughout her time at Wayland including twice qualifying for the regional Young Chef competition.
Bethany James
English
Lucy Heavens
Well done to Lucy for working consistently hard in every lesson. You were determined to succeed and put 100% effort into all that you did.
English Literature Nicola Everett
Nicky was one of those members of the class whom, as a teacher, you rarely heard. She was there, yet quiet. Nicky was a student who reinvigorated me in my own approach to teaching Literature. She listened, read and then quietly analysed the text from every single angle. As for her learning - Nicky gave me a fresh set of eyes on poetry and texts. Her results were a credit to her approach to this area of learning. Well done!
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Sergey Bell
Graphic Products Todd Pitcher
Todd has been chosen for the award due to the tireless work ethic and the motivation to do his very best in Graphic Products. Todd gave 110% in every lesson and in the many after school sessions he attended. As a result he gained an A*grade. Todd had a fantastic attitude to his work which was consistently outstanding. Todd takes criticism and advice in his stride, always improving his work based on this feedback. Well done Todd.
Francesca Kirkpatrick
Product Design Nick Moth
I am pleased to award Nick the Product Design prize this year in recognition of the effort, focus and determination to finish. I admire how once focused Nick spent many hours of his own time to ensure that he produced a product that he was proud of, that he asked for help when he needed and did not give up when times were tough. Nick worked with such determination to finish his product and this is reflected in his GCSE and the awarding of the Product Design Prize this year.
Physical Education Sergey Bell
Textiles
Skye Hughes
Skye received an A in Textiles as a result of excellent theory work and outstanding practical work. She exploited decorative textiles techniques to produce a highly original and highly creative garment to an exceptional standard. She always worked with patience, perseverance and enthusiasm.
Sergey was always hardworking giving 100% in every lesson both practically and in theory, An outstanding sportsman.
Geography
Florence Steerment
Florence has been nominated for the Geography subject award as she was completely dedicated to enhancing her fieldwork skills and the write up of her coursework which was an excellent submission. The level of maturity Florence showed to researching geographical concepts outside of the classroom to better her GCSE grade was truly impressive.
History
Performing Arts
BTEC Engineering
Violet has always worked well in History. I have admired the way she will adapt to any situation she can work well in groups or on her own, she will participate in discussions and answer questions; yet she has always been quiet and unassuming. She never makes a fuss and always takes on board any feedback given. Her hard work and determination have resulted in her exceeding her target grade in History. Above all else, Violet has simply been an absolute pleasure to teach and I wish her well in her future beyond Wayland.
Sian has achieved this award in Performing Arts for her attitude, effort and implementation of skills throughout the two year course. Sian demonstrated the importance of preparation and confident application. Over the three units, Sian continually challenged herself, which is the essence of the course, and produced some solid character work. She made considered decisions about her work and planned it meticulously leaving nothing to chance. Sian embodied the ideal work ethic for this subject and understood that she was being gauged not only on her performance work but attitude and effort throughout the entire process balancing practical work with all important and essential written evidence. It is a pleasure to award this to Sian, well done!
This prize goes to Coral as she worked at a consistently excellent standard throughout the two years of the course, achieving a Distinction* grade as reward for her hard work.
Violet Carson
French
Bethany James
Bethany attended after school french lessons every week, without fail, and she demonstrated a natural flair for the language in all areas of study. Her confidence grew and she quickly became a very lively member of a small but select group. She would regularly take on the rest of the class in competitions and showed great enthusiasm when it came to the weekly sampling of French food! Bethany’s work was always of a high standard, she has an excellent command of grammar and vocabulary and she thoroughly deserves this award.
Sian Tucker
Religious Education Gerda Padoraite
Gerda is the epitome of someone who has battled against the odds and succeeded. She went from being unsure about what to write, to being unable to complete the questions due to lack of pace, to getting an A in the final exam she is an example to us all.
BTEC Construction German
Lia Simpson
Lia has been awarded this prize for her enthusiasm, hard work and excellent attitude towards language learning.
ICT Advantage Technologies Trophy
Ashly Binks
Choosing the correct student to be awarded this prize was a difficult task, but in the end we decided to reward a student who always put in 100% effort, regardless of whether the lesson was practical or theory. This effort paid off with a welldeserved Distinction grade.
Coral Noble
BTEC Travel & Tourism Elloise Cordy
Having decided quite early on that she wanted to pursue a career in the Travel Industry, Elloise worked really hard throughout the course to produce work of a very high standard. Her hard work paid off and she achieved a Distinction grade.
BTEC Media
Adam Westwood
This prize goes to Adam because he worked consistently well throughout the course. His effort produced excellent results, well in excess of the grade he was predicted.
Resistant Materials Joey Wood
Despite many over-dramatic moments throughout the ‘making’ part of this course, Joey’s consistent hard work resulted in an excellent product.
Platinum Kyle Hall
Right from the very start of the course Kyle put 100% in to every task. He always ensured he had spare clothes in if we were gardening or working on the outdoor WW1 trench. He was always polite and willing to learn. He was a great team worker and I wish him well for his future.
Hudson McKie
Hudson has been awarded this prize for continuous effort and progress throughout the course.
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Academy Awards Award for Progress Sian Tucker
Sian made outstanding progress whilst at Wayland Academy culminating in 10 A*-C grades, 3 of which were A* GCSE grades and one Distinction *. This was the result of fantastic effort and showed what she really could do.
Principal’s Award for Academic Excellence
Award for Contribution to School Life
Bethany achieved an amazing set of results at the end of Year 11. To achieve an A*-A is outstanding enough but, Bethany achieved 9 out of a total of 11 A*-C GCSE results.
Joe was like a colleague at Wayland Academy. He worked tirelessly with staff to support other students and help at events. Joe showed maturity beyond his years, no task was too small or too big. Joe’s efforts to organise and raise funds for the Year 11 prom were inspirational. Thank you for all of your hard work.
In memory of Ian Palgrave-Brown Bethany James
This is a truly brilliant set of results and I am sure that you will have an amazing career ahead of you.
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In memory of Pamela Whiteley Joe Russell
Library News On Friday 26th September 2014, the library hosted a European Day of Languages event; this was a great opportunity for our EAL (English as an Additional Language) students to share their languages through games and activities. Staff and students had the opportunity to play games in Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian and Latvian; fun was had by all!
Miss Paterson recently took a group of students to Langley School to hear famous author Charlie Higson speak. He is a very popular author, especially with boys who enjoy his novels about the schoolboy James Bond. Miss Paterson commented, “I thought he had a brilliant spin on the living dead. His books are very balanced between sophistication and gruesome detail.”
Wayland Academy has again participated in the Bookbuzz initiative. Students in Year 7 were able to choose a free book from a list of 17 high quality publications chosen by a panel of experts. The most popular choices this year were Geek Girl by Holly Smale and Wild Boy by Lloyd Jones. Many thanks to Mr Allott for funding this event.
Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) was extended this term to include students from both Year 7 and Year 8;
it has continued to help embed the concept of our ‘reading community’. New, fantastic pieces of artwork by Mrs Wenham’s students are also being showcased here in the library; they include HUGE dragon collages, detailed insect pencil drawings and incredibly intricate watercolour patterns; drop in to the library and take a look! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!
The library is currently hosting a quiz based around a fantastic display, The Reason why English Spelling is so Weird and Wonderful, created by Mrs Faulkner. The display is full of interesting facts about the influence of other languages upon English. The winners of the competition will be announced in the next edition of Newslink.
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aDORAble! WAN’s latest recruit helps to boost reading confidence Tails wagging adoringly as they enjoy a cuddle, the Pets As Therapy (PAT) dogs bring joy, comfort and love to thousands of people, young and old, every year. The charity was established in 1983 to provide therapeutic visits to hospitals, hospices, nursing and care homes and schools, and the impact on the physical and mental well-being of those they visit is incredible. It also runs the Read2Dogs scheme. Carole Adams, assessor and volunteer coordinator commented, “The PAT team goes into schools
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and children who are lacking in confidence with their reading can read to the dog. Children feel able to practise their reading without any pressure because the dog is obviously not judging them and it adds a fun element to learning; it is so simple but so successful.” (Source – October edition of the EDP magazine). What an exciting term it has been for the pupils who have been reading to Dora once a week! It has been a great success. We have also seen a huge increase in their confidence and self-esteem, making reading an enjoyable experience.
Student quote: Reading to Dora has been the most fun I have had at Wayland Academy. It is very different from reading to people. They say that a dog is a man’s best friend and they are right. It is a lot more interesting and you don’t feel scared to read to her like I have done in the past. I think it will be beneficial to me and Chloe. (Emily). To obtain further information please contact Miss Blundell SEN Dept or www.petsastherapy.org
Year 10 & 11 Health & Social Care group On 14th November the main hall was full of dogs as Year 10 and 11 Health & Social Care students enjoyed a visit from Pets as Therapy. This is a national charity which provides dogs and other animals for therapeutic visits to hospitals, hospices, nursing and care homes, special needs schools and a variety of other venues.
Students at Wayland are presently benefiting from regular sessions of the Read2Dogs Scheme. Research has shown that children can be nervous and stressed when reading to others in a group. However, when a PAT dog comes, everyone relaxes. Some students are discovering how nice it is to read with a dog.
A big thank you to Carole Adam and all the other volunteers who were kind enough to give up their time, to show us what they do and for bringing in their wonderful dogs. And special thanks to Subridge & Myhills for their kind donation of dog bowls for the event so our (doggy) visitors could have a drink.
We learned all about the history of the charity, how pets are chosen for the scheme and we even got to meet the dogs!
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Sports at Wayland Academy Norfolk
UEA Science Day Along with four other schools, fourteen students from Year 9 attended a day of various science activities led by lecturers and PhD students from the University, hosted by Thetford Academy. A range of areas were covered in the five sessions; a pharmacist showed how to make hand cream and each student went away with the sample they had made; depletion of fish stocks in the North Sea was modelled using M and Ms as fish, white straws and various sized spoons were means of fishing and wheeled robots were programmed to move around objects; and the science of polymers in the making of slime was discussed and then investigated. The students took a full part in both the practical and theoretical parts of the day and must have gone away with their horizons broadened and a greater understanding of what their science courses at Wayland Academy Norfolk can lead to.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE U14 & 16 HOCKEY TEAMS WHO HAVE BOTH MADE IT THROUGH TO THE SEMI FINALS OF THE SOUTH NORFOLK LEAGUE
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HOLLY SALIH CHARLOTTE CLUBB EMMA BAMBRIDGE KERRIS WALPOLE WIKTORIA BUJANOWSKA LIA JONES MIA POOLE EMMA LOWERY KATY OMER GRACE SALIH BETH SHAW HARRIET SMITH MEGAN GREEN
POLLY BATTY MEGAN HASSEY BILLIE-JO BAILEY HAIDEE ANSCOMBE LILY DEVLIN GEORGINA SMITH TAMIKA BUSTIN ELISHIA POOLE LILYELLA HART TAYLOR THOMPSETT KAYLEIGH EAGLING ENOLA CUFFE CHARLOTTE CLUBB
BRECKLAND SKI TEAM The following pupils have qualified to represent Breckland in the Winter Games Ski Finals: CONGRATULATIONS to: Steven Gale Oliver Mowles Amy Studer Eve Martin
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Towards Next Year Autumn terms are always busy for Year 11s as they have decisions to make as to what they want to do once they have left Wayland Academy Norfolk. To show them what the big, wide world out there has to offer we have put on visits to Easton College, Poultec, a training provider at Mattishall and two events which were aimed at specific careers areas; one put on by ‘Inspired Youth’ and the second on careers in the National Health Service involving Queen Elizabeth hospital in Kings Lynn. There was also a mass exodus of Year 11 to the City College Norwich Open Day. We held a successful and informative evening where three speakers from City College Norwich gave a general introduction to the three main choices available for next year – namely sixth form, apprenticeships and further education college. We have also had presentations in assemblies and nine sixth forms and colleges were present at Year 11 Parents Evening to talk with parents and students so that suitable choices could be made to see our students into careers in the years to come.
STEM Saturdays for Years 5 and 6 Over the last term we have held two STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) days for children in Years 5 and 6. Both days, which were on Saturdays and were free of charge, have been very well attended. On the first day the children designed and made small catapults and then used them to fire marshmallows in a competition in the long corridor. They then went on to fire water balloons from a 2 metre high trebuchet; although these
Choose Your Future didn’t travel very far, a lot of fun was had. On our most recent day we looked at ways to prove the theory that hot air rises. The children made convection spiral snakes, head copters and made tea bags rise, before helping us inflate a 2 metre hot air balloon in the main hall. In the afternoon we all had a hair raising experience when investigating static electricity.
On 27th November, all of Year 9 went to ‘Choose Your Future’, an event funded by Norfolk County Council to show a range of careers available in Norfolk. This was held at The Construction Industry Training Board’s campus at Bircham Newton. During the Easter term, Year 9 will be deciding on the GCSE courses that they want to take and this visit was the first step along that path.
Look out for details of further STEM days in the New Year.
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E BU C GS O
SEASONS GREETINGS FROM THE ECO BUGS This term we’ve been busy revamping many areas of the garden. We started with moving the chicken run and re-homing them into a larger grassier run at the top of the orchard, this would not have been possible without the help of Bradley Sharp, Year 10 – huge thanks yet again Bradley! As our fruit cage was badly damaged by the snow a couple of winters ago and then the bindweed moved in, or rather over it, the decision was taken to remove the cage all together. We’ve kept the good poles, many were buckled and the posts supporting them had rotten away. All tyres not housing fruit have been
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removed. Watch this space on where we go from here, come the Spring months. Our veg beds have been harvested and re-sown with green manures. These will grow on over the winter months; it saves the soil being left bare and keeps the weeds at bay. We can then dig these in, come Spring and they’ll offer some nitrate to the soil for the following summer. We think this has been our most successful year so far with plant sales, both to staff and at local fetes and shows. The staff here have been most generous in purchasing from us and the Eco Bugs have loved making plant deliveries to them. Many thanks for your continued support.
We had a tombola stall at the Saham Toney Fete in the summer holidays and took £168. We had free childrens games and another tombola at this years Wayland Show and took £60. The monies raised have been spent on weed suppressant materials, new gardening gloves, some much needed screws and nails for odd gardening jobs and many, many bags of compost and plants for the tubs here at Wayland. We close by wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a good growing season next year!
LITTLE DIGGERS AT WAYLAND ACADEMY NORFOLK Our weekly sessions have changed days. We now meet at the Wayland Academy gates at 10am every Tuesday morning. All pre-school children welcomed, with accompanying adults.
SAHAM TONEY FETE In the colder spells we made good use of the great outdoor classroom where we’ve made potato animals and filled these with micro greens, our very own hungry caterpillars from tights filled with compost and grass seeds, calendars and CD spiders to name but a few.
So far this term we’ve planted sprouts, spring cabbage, garlic eachtoweek and meetplans at and autumn potatoes. We’veCome been along It’s lovely hear of the families’ really busy harvesting our summer to start growing at home now too. 1.15pm at the Watton Children’s produce, we’ve taken home Centre. apples, We can all walk together up pears, chillis, runner beans and For more information on these to Wayland Academy to do some courgettes weekly since starting sessions contact Diane Sartin andSurestart much more. back in September, with many moredigging at Watton Centre, being eaten raw! 01953 880 175.
A time to try new things and experiment with new materials. We will be planting, weeding and helping to maintain the community garden.
WAYLAND AGRICULTURAL No need to book but for more details SHOW 2014 please call the Children’s Centre and ask for Diane on 01953 880175
We must say a huge thank you to Easton College allowing us to once Tryfor something new… again share their marquee with them. This year the Eco Bugs had a tombola become a stall, displayed recycling household items and had our usual free childrens Little Digger! games. We had a great show and ended up taking £60.
Once again we had a tombola stall at this event. It was the first Saturday of the summer holidays and the sun was shining. Many thanks to Bradley Sharp for helping to set up and to Laura Freeman and Cydney Pickett for helping on the stall. We took a grand total of £168 which was fantastic. During the year we provide the Wells Cole Community Centre with flowers for their display borders and tubs, in exchange for a donation from the committee after the fete. This year we were given £140. A huge thank you for this – we look forward to providing more plants for you next year.
POND AREA There have been some changes made to the pond area; the jetty sides have had extra balustrades added and the jetty floor has been netted, a new hand rail will finish off these upgrades. Huge thanks to the Wayland Academy Norfolk site team for all their hard work here.
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CONGRATULATIONS! TO OUR NEW YEAR 10 PREFECTS. WELL DONE!
Dates for your diary DECEMBER 2014 Fri 19 – Wayland Academy Norfolk closes at 3.15pm for Christmas JANUARY 2015 Mon 05 – Staff Training Day (Academy closed to students) Tue 06 – Students return to Wayland Academy Norfolk Tue 20 – Year 10 Meningitis C injections Tue 20 – Lost Property Display Thur 22 – Year 11 Parents/ Teachers Evening FEBRUARY 2015 Wed 11 to Fri 13 – Battlefields Trip Fri 13 – Wayland Academy Norfolk closes at 3.15pm for Half Term Mon 23 – Students return to Wayland Academy Norfolk MARCH 2015 Mon 16 to Thur 26 – Year 10 Work Experience Tue 24 – Lost Property Display Fri 27 – Year 10 students return to Wayland Academy Norfolk for Work Experience Graduation Fri 27 – Wayland Academy closes at 3.15pm for Easter Sat 28 – Ski Trip leaves for Italy APRIL 2015 Sun 5 – Ski Trip returns from Italy Mon 13 – Students return to Wayland Academy Norfolk Tue 21 – Lost Property Display Thur 23 – Year 7 Parents/ Teachers Evening MAY 2015 Mon 4 – Bank Holiday (Wayland Academy Norfolk Closed) Thur 7 – Year 8 Parents/ Teachers Evening Fri 8 – Year 8 HPV injections Mon 11 – GCSE Exams begin Thur 14 – Bag2School Collection Tue 19 – Lost Property Display Fri 22 – Wayland Academy Norfolk closes at 3.15pm for Half Term JUNE 2015 Mon 1 – Students return to Wayland Academy Norfolk
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BAG2SCHOOL COLLECTION 180 kilos were collected by Bag2School on Thursday 20th November. Thank you to all who brought in their bags of unwanted Adult and Children’s clothes, Shoes, Hats, Belts, Handbags, Ties and Soft Toys. The total amount raised this time was £72.00. This money will be used to support activities and events for Wayland Academy Norfolk.
AND FINALLY FROM ALL OF THE STAFF AT WAYLAND ACADEMY NORFOLK, WE WISH YOU...
Ben Walker Jake Clachan Josephine Rumer Raquel Martins Denver McKie Natalya Copeman Tia-Sian Peachment Tia Gort Victoria Cann Elishia Poole Millie King Taylor Thompsett Taylor Cassidy Joss Francis Ben Andrews George Gordon Joe Burnage Lilyella Hart Savannah Sadler Alex Franke Beth Precious Sean Grix Asher Duncan Liam Burley Holly Sayer