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Y7 French Resilience Camp

We are building up to the Year 7 Rodillian MAT Resilience Camp in the Ardeche in France. Students will experience seven days of camping and activities including Europe’s longest zip wire and largest high ropes course, bike riding, a 32km kayak and water parks. There will be fun and games in the pool and around camp. Students will be expected to speak French when ordering a meal and dining out in Vallon. As part of their preparation we re-freshed their bike riding skills with an after school masterclass.

Head Of School’s Message

The second bulletin gives me an opportunity to update you on a number of aspects of Academy life.

We have recently been informed that we are to receive £1.75m to spend on the school building here at Brayton. This is in the form of two grants set up by the Department for Education to make schools more energy efficient and fully compliant with health and safety regulations. Most of the money will go on replacing windows and updating all the doors. Some refurbishment of classrooms will happen at the same time. Over the last ten years, the building has had very little money spent on it by the Local Authority and it’s great to be able to start to improve the learning environment for our children. As we go into the next academic year, we are trying to secure funds for improvements to the toilets across the academy and I will keep you informed of any developments.

Last week we had a number of children and staff from our local primary schools taking part in learning French and tak-ing part in athletics. Mrs Teasdale and Miss Newton with the help of some of our Year 8 students led an introduction to speaking French to over 200 pupils from the Selby district. Whereas Mr Whitford and our Sports Leaders in Year 9 and 10 were involved in developing participation in athletics. This was a national event organised by England Athletics.

Having met some of the Head Teachers of our local primary schools recently, it is great to get Brayton Academy and its students working with other schools within the community. There are plans to work much more closely with our Primary colleagues on transition to secondary school as well as learning from them about the changes to what and how things are taught at primary school.

Our new academic year will start as the GCSE exams finish and there is a reminder that we have our next holiday starting on Friday 16th June and returning to school on Tuesday 27th June.

Al Moon—Head of School

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W4 May 2017

Dates For The Diary 31st May - Year 7 Parents’ Evening 15th June – Year 6 Induction Day And Info Evening 19th – 23rd June – Half Term 20th June – Exams Finish 26th June – Teacher Training Day 27th June – New Year 7 Start Date 6th July – Year 11 Prom 13th July – Rock Club Trip Wembley 21st July – End of Term 24th July – Teacher Training Day 25th July – Teacher Training Day

Primary Languages

On Wednesday 17th May, Year 8 students hosted a languages workshop at Brayton Academy for local Y5 primary children. The Year 8 students delivered mini lessons of 15 minutes, in French, enabling each primary pupil to sample 6 language lessons throughout their ses-sion. They learned language skills based around topics such as numbers, colours, sports and hobbies, parts of the body and classroom equipment.

Pupils from Longmans Hill, Barwic Parade and Selby Abbey attended the morning workshops, while Thorpe Willoughby and Barlby CP were present in the after-noon. All pupils thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful va-riety of activities on offer and their teachers were full of praise for the hard work and maturity of the Brayton stu-dents involved.

Brayton students also found the experience extremely valuable, not just in terms of practising languages, but also organisational and presentation skills. They found the event challenging but extremely enjoyable, gaining valuable insight into the learning process. Feedback from our year 8 students included comments such as ‘Teaching is fun!’ and ‘It’s helped me decide that I would like to teach.’

Mrs Teasdale and Miss Newton would like to thank all those involved with the event, especially the Brayton students who worked so hard planning their lessons, preparing resources and delivering such fun lessons; they represented both the languages department and the school brilliantly well.

Brayton Sports Report

Sports LeadersOur year 9 and 10 Sports Leaders took part in some training in preparation for leading the Selby Primary Schools Quadkids event which we hosted on Thursday 18th May. There were nearly 200 pupils from the local primary schools. Not only was this a fantastic sporting event for the primary students, it was also a fantastic opportunity for our leaders to showcase the skills they have developed.

Y7 FootballOur Y7 Footballers brought their season to a close with a friendly fixture against The Snaith School. They boys fought hard throughout, but unfortunately came unstuck, losing the game 5-0. Despite the defeat, there were many positives which we can develop next year. Calum Leppington was Man of the Match.

Summer Sports Extracurricular TimetableOur extracurricular timetable has changed, moving into the summer term.Tuesday - Athletics (All years)Thursday - Cricket and Rounders (All years)

Each club will start at 2:30pm and end at 3:30pm. Everyone is welcome to come and join the fun!

Chateau Beaumont April 2017

The 2017 Brayton Academy expedition to Northern France set off successfully in the early hours of Friday morning. A mere 16 hours later, we arrived at Chateau Beaumont in Normandy.

After a tour and a safety talk at the chateau, we enjoyed an evening meal and then on to a treasure hunt around the chateau grounds. It was then time for hot chocolate - but it had to be ordered in French - and off to bed at 10.30. Everyone eventually settled down and we all had a good night’s sleep.

Our first excursion took us to the small market in the nearby town of Laval, where there was a chance to try out our French on the locals. The local apiculteur was happy to talk to us about his honey and candles (in French, of course) and some students paid a visit to the crepe van for a mid-morning snack. The sunshine made it a lovely morning, rounded off by a stop at the Carrefour hypermarket for a contrasting retail experien-ce. Although despite the more familiar surroundings, many students expressed a preference for le marché….

The afternoon and the following afternoon were spent tackling various challenging and fun activities at the chateau – la tyrolienne (zip wire), le tir à l’arc (archery), l’escrime (fencing) to name a few, as well as muddy fun on the nightline. A trip to Mont St Michel allowed us to take in some sea air accompanied by Sian, our guide from Chateau Beaumont. On returning, we dressed up French-style for frogs’ legs and snails followed by a fas-hion show and mini-disco.

…And suddenly it was Monday morning and time to lea-ve (at 6am). Most managed an hour or so snoozing on the coach before arriving at Disneyland at about 10am which gave us a full and very sunny day of rides (and plenty of time in queues). We finally set off to our Paris hotel around 7pm.

The following morning by 11am we were coasting along the right bank of the Seine on a Bateau Parisien, spot-ting Metro stations and Parisian cafés, as well as stun-ning views of the Tour Eiffel, the Louvre museum and Notre Dame cathedral.

A long trek home on the coach followed, but everyone was in good spirits having spent a fascinating, sunny, friendly few days en France. The students were a credit to themselves and to the school, and will look back on the experience with happy memories for years to come.

Rewards Roundup

The Friday Cookie Monsters For Best Form AttendanceKS3: 7MCO, 8VWR, 8VTEKS4: 10SJO, 10HRO, 11LSI

100% Attendance For The WeekBrandon Blount 7LBL, Chelsea Sanders 10SJO, Mitchell Collyer 10SJO

Zero Heroes With No Negative CommentsShannyn Miller 7WWH, Sam Dudley 8VGA, Tamaryn Smith 9CST, Joe Raynor 10SJO, Kieran Leppington 11LSI, Leon Hill 7LBL, Ben Evison 8VWR, James Birch 9FKI, Cara Grimwade 11HCL, Oliver Grieveson 7MCO, Otis Hasselman 8IDI, Jessie Bourke 9CST, Emily Spen-ce 11LSI Zero Hero Forms8VTE, 9FKI, 7WWH

Attendance Impact

90% attendance may sound good but look at little closer ... 90% attendance over a full school year of 38 weeks = 4 whole weeks of lessons missed!

Our TargetRemember, students’ attendance target is 96%.

Save Lucy – HYMS York University (10th May)

Y8 students attended a medical day at York University. They were presented with a scenario where they had to devise a treatment and aftercare plan for a patient who had been in a car accident.

Students were required to complete an activity on the position and roles of major organs in the body. They then worked alongside medical students to form their diagnosis. This involved working at different stations and learning how to use medical equipment for example stethoscopes and blood pressure monitors.

Our students were outstanding when discussing pos-sible brain injuries, applying their understanding from resilience lessons on the function of the brain.

Student Quotes‘The trip to the university was good because I learnt new things. I also liked using the medical equipment. I think the trip inspired me to be a doctor when I am older.’

‘It was really engaging and fun, as well as it being scientific and informative. It made me think about what I could do in the future.’

‘I enjoyed the trip because we learnt a lot about different parts of our body, what they do and the consequences when things go wrong.’