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Burnage Academy for Boys

Spring Term Newsletter

2018

Inside this issue Foreword from the Head ...... ..2

Debate Mate Activities ……….3

Milner News ........................... ..4

Shakespeare at Burnage ....... ..6

Maths fun & games ............... ..6

Design Tech Challenge………..8

Christmas Cheer………………8

MFL Travels…………………...9

Jurassic fright…………………10

Clean sweep…………………..10

House News…………………...11

Slip and slide…………………..12

Gardening success…………… 13

Science making parachutes…..14

Monstrum Production………..15

PE Activities…………………...16

Escape from the city…………..18

Inspirational Quotes; Art……...19

History trip; The danger Tree…20

Top Tweets……………………..21

Helpful advice…………………..22

School Term Dates

Easter holiday

Friday 30th March 2018 - Friday 13th April 2018

Summer Half Term

Monday 29th May 2018-Friday 1st June 2018

7th May Bank Holiday Monday

Summer Holiday

Monday 23rd July 2018

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BURNAGE ACADEMY— THE FACTS

Burnage Academy for Boys is one of the very best schools

for progress not just in Manchester but in the country.

Who says so? The Department for Education!

Our school is known for many things but the one thing which it should be known for — Our

teaching and learning — seems to be forgotten.

Here are some facts:

For Progress overall, Boys nationally score = - 0.24

Burnage Boys score = + 0.25

For Progress in English, Boys nationally = - 0.44

Burnage Boys score = + 0.3

For Progress in maths, Boys nationally score = + 0.03

Burnage Boys score = + 0.59

The national average for boys achieving 5+ including English and maths is 40%; for

Manchester Boys it is 35%; for Burnage Academy for Boys it is 41%.

Go online to www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables and compare us with the rest.

Surprise yourself!

Foreword from Ian Fenn Headteacher

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Debate Mate Activities (The School Debating After School Club)

Debate Mate has been running in Burnage for nearly 10 years with university student volunteers coming in on a weekly

basis to mentor students in the art of debating. This year has seen students representing school in the Urban Debate

League (UDL), held between partici‐

pating Academies and High Schools

across Manchester. The competition

has seen some excellent team work

from the students as well as a willing‐

ness to accept feedback from the

judges to improve further. The team

have really responded to the oppor‐

tunity to develop confidence in their

own voice and learn from their mis‐

takes.

One of the features of Debate Mate is

they work in partnership with other

organisations with an interest in pro‐

moting speaking and listening skills in

education. This year the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveys (RICS) provided the material for the prepared motion in

the second round of the UDL. Students where asked to prepare arguments for and against the motion, ‘This House

regrets the demise of the high street’. Despite the snow doing it’s best to disrupt the club the members insisted on

meeting daily at lunchtime and prepared

speeches at home. They began prepar‐

ing without a real understanding of what

the High Street means to older genera‐

tions and went into the debate with up

to date statistics on closures of estab‐

lished shops as well as visions of virtual

shopping malls. As their teacher, it was

great to listen to young people engage in

these issues with passion and conviction.

In other news the club is proud to an‐

nounce the election of Mohammed as

the Club President with the job of leading

the club once the Mentor leaves after

Easter. Until then the club is preparing

for the Debate Mate Cup in which the school has had a good history, with a team of finalists in 2015 and cup winners in

2016. With new members joining and welcome to the club, we hope to make the school proud again this year.

Yes it is fun preparing for the big debate

Now for the serious business

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John Milner the legacy lives on: John Milner was our former Chair of the School Governing Body who sadly

passed away in 2016. John was a great supporter of the school. To honour his memory we set up the Milner

Initiative, the aim of which is to develop the reading skills of our Year 7 pupils and foster a love of books and

reading.

This term in Milner we have been learning all about Britain in the 19th century, exploring the three separate fields of science by learning some new scientific vocabulary, reading about and designing our own useful inno‐vative inventions.

The 5 most improved readers in year 7 so far this year are:

Nader

Umar

Mohammed

Zain

Taha

(All of these pupils’ reading ages have jumped more than 2 years since September 2017)

The year 7 pupils with the top 3 word counts are:

Ali 2,075,564 words

Jamal 819,348 words

Umar 776,285 words

A huge well done to those boys and many others who have demonstrated excellent reading habits, in every

year group, throughout the year so far!

Wish Ribbons

Well done to all year 7 pupils who designed a wish ribbon for display at the Manchester Children’s Book Festi‐val. The trees looked beautiful adorned with your ‘touching and hilarious’ wishes.

Milner Trip

The first Milner trip will be for 7n2 to the Thackray Medical Museum on the 28th March 2018. On this trip we will be looking at different medicines and exploring what it was like to live in 19th Century Britain by taking a virtual tour of a street in 1842.

Milner Initiative Milner Initiative Milner Initiative Milner Initiative ———— developidevelopidevelopideveloping the love of readingng the love of readingng the love of readingng the love of reading

‘A reader lives a thousand lives

before he dies… The man who

never reads lives only one.’

George R.R.Martin

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Inter-School Competition Win!

Well done to all of those pupils who entered the ‘My Passion’ Vlog competition, and spe‐cial congratulations to Idrees in year 8, who won the final of the citywide inter‐school stage of the competition. This term’s competition is creative writing and you will have a chance to enter this in your literacy lessons this half term. The closing date is 12th March 2018.

Our Spelling Bee will be in the Summer Term.

Author Visit

Alan Gibbons, a hugely successful author of teenage fiction, is visiting us on the 22nd March 2018. Some of his books include: The Edge, Shadow of the Minotaur and Raining Fire. All Year 7s will get a chance to meet Alan as he talks to us about his life as an author and what inspired him to write. He will be doing a writing workshop for a smaller group of selected pupils in the afternoon of his visit. If you would like to read any of his books before his visit, please come and see Miss Mayer for a copy.

New Burnage Book Club

There is going to be a new reading club starting for Year 7 pupils after the February half term holiday called Chatterbooks. There will be space for 59 pupils. This will be an opportunity to read, talk about your favourite books and create imaginative displays in the library. It will take place after school in the LRC and refreshments will be provided. If you are interested in joining, please let Miss Mayer know.

World Book Day

World Book Day is Thursday 1st March 2018. We will be celebrating the event with a book review competition. If you would like to enter, please submit an illustrated 200‐500 word book review all about your favorite book. There will be a winner in each year group who will receive a fantastic prize and the winners will be published in the next Burnage newsletter.

Library Suggestion Box

Sheila has now ordered all of the book requests posted in the suggestion box in our LRC. Watch out for new and exciting titles coming soon!

Happy reading everyone

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At Burnage Academy for Boys, we have been learn‐ing about numerous topics in English. One of the tasks we have done this half‐term was an independ‐ent project about William Shakespeare. As part of this, we have been learning about different aspects of his life, for example: his life, his family, the period he lived in and his plays. Talking about plays, we ‐ in year 7‐ have been reading The Tempest, one of many plays Shakespeare wrote. Our homework was to do more independent research about him and make a poster. We all brought it to school and read it aloud which helped our reading and also our confidence. One of the students made an impressive model of the Globe Theatre which represented the theatre where William Shakespeare performed all of his plays. We all knew a lot about the Globe Theatre be‐cause of all the research we had done. Due to our independent homework, we now have a more solid understanding of William Shakespeare’s life which will help us to better understand his plays.

Shakespeare at Burnage

News from the Maths department

The maths faculty say ‘Maths can be fun’ . Really? Well just check out what they have been up to this term.

Puzzle Club

The puzzle club boys have been working on a range of problems since September.

They have been using all their creative maths to produce some won‐

derful triangular structures, and challenging themselves to build the

tallest tower from just spaghetti and six marshmallows. In addition

they have looked at word puzzles, Sudoku and over the next few

weeks will be recreating ‘Escape Room’ style puzzles. From October to Christmas the boys in puz‐

zle club undertook The Bloodhound Challenge, which was one of their favourites, attempting to

create balloon powered card based buggies!

Article written by Hammad

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Maths Ambassadors

Every KS3 form now has an appointed maths ambassador to support a

range of maths in form time activities. The boys were very pleased with

their badges...

‘Hello I am a maths ambassador. Being an ambassador is really good. We are

doing Timetable Rock stars and students have been doing it in their forms. We

have a meeting every 2 weeks and the Ambassadors have to keep track of pu‐

pil scores. The best students will get prizes like: certificates, vouchers and we

are looking for ideas as to what other prizes students might wish for. In the

future Maths Ambassadors are going to start new competitions, take respon‐

sibility for displays and puzzle of week, and maybe after school clubs related

to maths. At lunch time, students could come to a math teacher or an ambas‐

sador to ask for help. It is really exciting to be a maths ambassador and to help

other people by being a role model around school.’

Naqeeb 8N and Jamal 7F

Year 9 Mastery

Three of our best mathematicians in year 9 have been attending 12 mastery

sessions at Manchester University (on a Saturday morning no less). They have

been look‐

ing at knot

theory,

game theory

and many

other topics

of University

Level. Lead‐

ers of the

session have

commented

on how

fantastic

these boys

have been,

so mathe‐

matically

capable al‐

ready but

also keen to

learn

more!

(When Miss Stark went to see how they were doing … some very

complicated maths for a Saturday morning!)

Inter-house

The first maths inter‐house

Sudoku competition took place

in October. The boys pitted

their wits against a range of

Sudoku puzzles, along with a

few of the maths teachers! The

winners were:

Novice

Nader 7G OAK

Ruben 8B ASH

Speed

Mohammad 8A OAK

Expert

Jamal 7F ROWAN

Baser 8A OAK

Wajahat 9U ASH

The maths inter house was a

maths crossword puzzle cover‐

ing the definition of maths

words from the beginning of

the year. The puzzle was de‐

signed to promote literacy in

mathematics. Hussain achieved

23/24, an almost perfect score.

Coming Up

UKMC – a team of four of our

Year 8 and 9 pupils is heading

to Poynton High to compete in

the national maths challenge.

Puzzle club will be keeping an

eye out for exciting mathemat‐

ical curiosities, over the next

few weeks they will be trailing

‘Escape Room!’, meeting on

Tues lunch in 138, its not too

late to join…..

The junior maths challenge is

taking place in April for Years 7

and 8.

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Land Rover 4x4 in Schools Challenge A group of year 9 students went to Jaguar Land Rover Halewood to participate in the Land Rover 4x4 in Schools Challenge. The boys have designed and made a model Land Rover which they had to pre-

sent to a panel of engineers from JLR. They also had to use their Land Rov-er to complete an off-road track. The boys impressed the judges with their engineering skills and received the award for the most successful completion of the off-road track.

The winning team; Najam, Rakeem, Emjadul, Saqlain, Mohammed, Talha .

The team with their creation on a winning run.

Christmas at Burnage Wednesday 13th December students prepared and

served a Christmas buffet to some of our senior members of the community. The boys did an

amazing job in both preparing the buffet in the morning and socialising with the guests in the

afternoon. The guests were so impressed and grateful and thought our boys were wonderful

young men. It was lovely to hear them all talking and the positive comments they made about

our school and pupils. I would like to say a big thank you to

Parvez and Audrey for making contact with the various communi‐

ty groups and also Lisa and Maple students for the wonderful

hampers given out.

Adam presenting a hamper

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A busy Year in MFL

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It has been a busy year so far in the Languages Faculty with many more

events still to come!

At KS3, students learning French, Urdu and Italian have been working hard.

Year 8 Italian students enjoyed a visit to the Blue Planet aquarium, and are

preparing presentations to talk about what they saw on the day.

In French, Year 9 students spent a day at the University of Manchester’s

Viva Languages event, where they spoke with lecturers and current univer‐

sity students about the job opportunities which languages may bring. They

also took part in a Chinese lesson and were given the chance to produce

some role plays in French. Miss Hassall was very impressed with the French skills on display! We’ve also been able to

host French‐speaking staff to help practice our speaking. Ms Kahel spent two weeks with us earlier in the year and

Erasmus student Grégory is helping with Years 7, 9 and 10 as part of the

University of Manchester’s ‘Sharing Words’ scheme.

Year 11 French students are excited about their trip to France to visit our

partner school! We will spend four days in the Ardennes working with the

Lycée Jean Moulin, and will visit Paris too. Using eTwinning, both sets of

students are able to practise their language skills and share their culture.

We are sure it will be an unforgettable experience and one we are all look‐

ing forward to – the first trip abroad at Burnage since 2008.

The second half of the year promises to be just as busy, with GCSE exams

in French, Urdu, Italian, Spanish and Arabic. We will also continue our af-

ter-school activities, including beginner Spanish, Italian and Spanish cul-

ture clubs, and the new Young Interpreters Scheme which will train stu-

dents in how to interpret successfully.

Zain and Zvetan proclaiming their love of

rap and Eminem

Our boys study the languages in the countries where these famous buildings are located. Do you know the

country and the building?

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A Jurassic fright

Miss McGlacken took a group of boys on a trip

to the prehistoric past.

‘Dinosaurs in the Wild’ was an event where the

children had the opportunity to travel back in

to time. We hopped into the time machine and

began our journey. It was a bumpy ride as we

witnessed the dinosaurs attacking one anoth‐

er. One even jumped onto the machine and

scared some students. We travelled back to the

land of Chronotex and explored the scientists’

labs. Ahmed was very keen on asking lots of

questions about the Dinosaurs while watching

the scientist dissect the carnivore. The stu‐

dents enjoyed watching the baby dinosaur’s

move, as some thought they were real! We

explored other parts of the building and read

the different facts about the dinosaurs. Howev‐

er, the trip ended with a fright as we were all

evacuated as the dinosaurs were causing dis‐

ruption. We rushed out before the dinosaurs

got a chance to attack!

BURNAGE

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RECYCLING

RECYCLING

RECYCLING

RECYCLING

Ready for Action

On the job Already cleared this stretch

Job well done

The boys are helping to keep the community tidy

and are also recycling waste plastics and paper.

In the Community

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House Activities All of the houses have been very active this last term, they have been involved in many activities, far too many to men‐

tion them all. The following are just some of the highlights.

Albert’s Year 11 Reward Trip

On Tuesday 30th January, the House Leaders took 46 Year 11 students to Albert’s Restaurant in Didsbury. This is an

annual trip to reward Year 11 students with the best behaviour and attendance. It is also timed to coincide with them re‐

ceiving their Mock exam re‐

sults in an assembly in the

morning. Students were treat‐

ed to a choice of Steak, gour‐

met Fish and Chips or Pizza,

followed by enormous Ice

Cream Sundaes or Chocolate

Volcanoes. Members of the

public in the restaurant at the

time were very complimentary

about the behaviour of such a

large group and one person

even contacted school to let

the Headteacher know.

Jump Heaven.

This was a very popular activity with Key Stage 3 pupils. A few

minutes bouncing around in this heaven left many of our boys feeling

a little exhausted.—still, no broken bones and lots of laughs had by

all!

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Slippery Business We were fortunate to have good weather at the end

of last term, which we took advantage of to go ice‐

skating. This bright atmosphere not only brought on a

great team spirit but also the resolve for all of us to

have ‘a go’. Indeed for most of us, being novices, it

was a very daring feat.

But help was at hand, Miss Shanice lit the torch of con‐

fidence in the hearts of many of the Lads and even the

faint hearted ones were on the ice, one and all ignor‐

ing the light and heavy falls (penguins may be a re‐

quirement next time) ‐ mercifully no ambulances were

required on the day. What we had more of was gig‐

gles, laughter and thrills whilst learning something

new.

If you want to measure the level of fun we had , do

not take my word for it, please hear it from the

Burnage Academy boys themselves!

“It was a difficult

thing to do but we all

tried. It was really

good Miss’’

“It is good, really

good !”

“It’s so fun ! It’s

my first time and

I would come

here again.’’ Bernice Seworde.

(Social work Student)

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Shoots of success from the Garden The school garden club has been successful in completing the Level 3 Certificate of Achievement awarded by the RHS

for School Gardening. They did this by successfully recycling and composting in the garden. We have been awarded

an autumn seed box containing autumn and winter seeds and plants, to teach the students about seasons and organic

food that can be cooked and eaten throughout the autumn and winter months.

We have also applied for the Level 4 award after growing vegetables and making soup, which we shared with parents

and staff.

All are welcome to come over and see what we are up to in the garden.

They really know their onions in

the garden

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Making Parachutes As part of our current unit on contact and non‐

contact forces in year 8, we learnt about differ‐

ent kinds of forces that can act on an object in

free fall. After a few demonstrations, we learnt

that it is not the mass that determines the rate

at which an object falls, but rather its shape. In

free fall, air resistance can temporarily slow

down objects, as long as it provides enough area

for air resistance to act on. In a vacuum where

there are no particles (and ergo no air), objects

would fall at the same rate regardless of their

shape, because they are equally pulled down by

gravity. As part of this learning process, it was

the task of the class to build parachutes after

their own planning and design, that would allow

their little playdoh adventurer to stay in the air

for as long as possible. There were a lot of differ‐

ent designs and ideas as to how to best build the

parachute. Everyone was given the same choice

of materials to allow for a fair test. Winner of

this 8m competition were Asif, Hassan, Ibrahim,

Hamzah and Tayyab with their green and yellow

parachute that stayed in the air longest.

A willing victim?

Success is all in the planning

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Monstrum

In a cold village on the edge of nowhere, a disease has broken out, infecting the young and transforming

them into monstrous creatures. The villagers fearfully watch their children for symptoms of the disease,

whilst the mayor has adopted tough measures for dealing with those who are infected. When Bolek, the

local scholar, makes a breakthrough in finding a cure, few are prepared for the gruesome nature of the

treatment. With his own daughter showing signs of infection, there is no choice than to stop this terrible disease dead in

its tracks. This was a fantastic production performed in December and featuring pupils from Year M—10.

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Indoor Rowing

On Tuesday the 12th of December 2017 pupils from Years

7—10 took part in the City Wide Indoor Rowing compe‐

tition at Levenshulme High School. Pupils were in teams

of four and they had each to row for two minutes, eight

in total. The year ten team consisting of Kamal, Muham‐

mad, Hassan and Muhammad finished second overall

with a total of 2052 metres being rowed. A total of 254

teams (1016 individuals), from Manchester, Trafford and

Stockport took part in the indoor rowing competition.

Pictures below are of Year 7 pupils taking part in the

competition.

Year 7 rowing teams

Badminton

On Monday the 18th December 2017 pupils took part in

the KS3 and KS4 City Wide Team Badminton Champion‐

ships at Whalley Range High School. Both teams fin‐

ished second overall in both key stages.

The KS3 team consisted of Keshap, Ateeque, Moeed

and Sabeeh.

The KS4 team consisted of Umar, Alan, Ali and Ibrahim.

Both teams qualified for the county finals, pictures be‐

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KS3 Team

Key Stage 4 Team

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KS3 & KS4 Badminton Singles Championships.

Keshap in year nine won the KS3 badminton singles title, and Ali in year ten finished third overall in

KS4. Muhammad and Ateeque finished fourth overall in their respective key stag- es. Pictures be-

low of pupils involved.

Year 7/8 Pole-vault Taster Session.

Twelve Year 7 and 8 students took the opportunity to have a go at a free pole‐vaulting taster session at Sports City

Manchester Regional Indoor Arena. Following a short warm up pupils were given their poles, which they all found to

be surprisingly light. After a brief introduction the pupils all had a go at simple drills like ‘jump the river’ using their

poles as a fulcrum to help them across. They all responded well and soon moved on to jumps into a sandpit to get

them used to the idea of getting their bodies into the air and using the pole to provide lift. For the last half hour pupils

spent their time jumping on to a real pole‐vault landing mat; this was a challenge in its own right as the actual landing

mat is over a metre high and for beginners, quite intimidating. The final practice was trying to vault over a low bar and

as before proved very challenging with only one or two pupils actually managing to do it. The pupils that did manage it

demonstrated good technique and I’m sure could become very accomplished should they choose to continue to partic‐

ipate in the future. The attitude of all the boys was excellent and they were a credit to the school. Photographs below

of pupils taking part.

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Escape from the city.

An urban life amongst the concrete edifices of commerce cut across by endless ribbons of tarmac and the arteries of

ring roads and motorways clogged with traffic is not for everyone. There are alternatives. There are ways to escape the

city. Britain is still 93% rural as anyone who looks out the plane when flying in or out of Manchester can attest to. With

Estate and Agri‐Business Managers on £50,000 a year, similar salaries to Solicitors and Engineers, and numerous entry

level jobs involving everything from animal care, developing mountain bike tracks to driving round in 4 x 4s wielding

chainsaws at stubborn ash trees, a career

in land management is increasingly popular

with those more at home in the country‐

side.

Burnage’s BTEC Land Studies boys have

been experiencing a taste of vocational

routes into land management through their

sustainable land use management course‐

work at Buxworth and surrounding areas

of the Peak District. With seven units of

work to complete, last term saw them cop‐

picing trees with axe and machete. The

boys also acquired horticultural skills and

developed their knowledge of the ways in

which land in Britain is used for profit. This

term will see them visit forestry commission

and national park land to see how private

companies work in partnership with public

and charity agencies to generate revenue

from diverse activities such as off‐roading,

mountain biking, agricultural and aquatic

farming, game shoots and the country estates

of stately homes.

Using a machete to coppice Ash trees

A two man job

What am I supposed to do with this?

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Inspirational Quote Canvas Competition

Well done to all the boys who entered this year’s Canvas Competition. The brief was to create a canvas based on an inspirational quote. We have been very impressed with quality of the entries from boys in Years 7—10. There was also a wide range of both moving and inspiring quotes. Staff and students voted for Key stage 3 and Key Stage 4 winners and runners up. The feedback from staff and pupils was very positive. It was great to see a wide variety of pupils attend the lunch time vote. All voters commented on the creativity of our students and find it challenging sticking to voting for just one stu‐dent from each category. We have yet to present the trophies to our winners; this will be arranged for a future assem‐bly. A selection of the entries will be displayed in the Art corridor. A big thank you to the many KS3 pupils that always support our department.

Clubs

In recent weeks we have started a new project which involves canvases. Pupils have been asked to create pieces of art

to be displayed in the stairwell near DT and Humanities. The theme of the project is, ‘Pop Art’. The DT department will

also present a number of their GCSE students’ Product Design coursework outcomes.

The after school Design Technology club has also proved popular with all spaces being filled by Year 7—9 pupils. The

club was set up through the school council’s Action Team. It is a great space for them to develop their own projects.

The current challenge is to create an interlocking box which is personalised using 2D Design.

Finally pupils have also enjoyed working with students from a range of year groups during the Tuesday lunch time

sketchbook club.

Winners:

Year 10 Winner : Jesse 10G Year 10 Runner up : Inaayat 10E

KS3 Winner : Alham 7F KS3 Runner up: Hamza 9F

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The ‘Dangertree’ Group at Cen-

tral Library 9n2 visited the Central Library in Manchester in March to experience the ‘Dangertree’

exhibition by Scarlett Raven and Marc Marot, commemorating 100 years since the end of

World War One. The pupils really enjoyed the creative flair shown by the artists and were

awed by the fact that the paintings contained soil from the battlefields of World War

One, making the experience totally immersive for them. In addition to this, the boys were

taken on a wonderful tour of the history of the library and each got to handle lots of arte‐

facts from World War One. To top things off, all boys received a Manchester archive badge and history book about

World War One. The boys were excellent ambassadors for our school at the library and we look forward to many more

groups visiting the excellent Central Library in future.

Mathew Rogers, Maya Kolodziejska and 9n2 History.

The pupils taking in the excellent work of Scarlett

Raven & Marc Marot

On our tour of the Central Library learning about the

history of the Manchester Bee

A Drawing Down of Blinds by Scarlett Raven

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Remembering Helen Roberts a beloved Burnage Teacher

It was the first annual Helen Roberts Memorial trophy tournament today. I can't thank staff and students enough for

making it a great occasion, we even had a guest appearance from Mr Griffiths. The final was eventually won by Ninja FC

who won 5‐4 on penalties. Thanks to Mr Stainton, Mr Blindell, Mr Aspinwall and Mr Brooks for refereeing the games, as

well as all staff who attended and supported the boys. I am sure Helen would be very proud. We have raised over £200

so far for Christie's.

Miss Roberts close friend and fellow teacher, Mr Griffiths giving a pre match talk.

The winners of the inaugural Helen Roberts Memorial Trophy.

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Spring Term Top Tweets

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The Burnage Academy Newsletter is written

and published by staff and pupils of the school..

Contributors: David Lingenfelter (editor)

Ian Fenn Emma Mayer

Hammad Georgina Stark

Steve Bentley Greg Morrison

Bernice Seworde Celine Doyle

Paul Johnson Sally Cottrill

Rebeccah Wadeson Carolynn McNair Lis Senior

Shanice McGlacken Mathew Rogers

Paul Slater Audrey Lewis

Iain Ross Richard Lawther

Steve Shropshire

The School Help Advice Reporting Page (SHARP) system provides a CONFIDENTIAL way to stop YOU or a FRIEND or SOMEONE you have seen SUFFERING. Please take the time to look through the pages for help and guidance on a number of different subjects but if you or someone you know have any problems with your family or friends, either at School, at Home or in the local community please don’t suffer in silence ‐ drop us a line or see us in person and we will do whatever we can to help. To contact us anonymously, visit the site http://burnage.thesharpsystem.com then click ‘Make Report’ and fill out the form.

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