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Newsletter For Students, Staff & Parents
Friday 16th Dec 16
Fowey River Academy Students Play
At Lantern Parade
FRA: Principal’s Report
Dear All,
Many thanks to everyone for making this such a successful term and a sign of all
the hard work that is being put into transforming Fowey River Academy back to its
outstanding best is that people are ready for a well-earned break!
Both staff and students have been pulling out all the stops to
change the culture and climate so that what we do, and how it
feels, has real impact on raising standards.
Last week we were able to host the Year 11 GCSE Celebration
Evening and it was a real pleasure to welcome back so many familiar faces and to
present awards and certificates to so many students who achieved exceptional
results. It is always a key moment of the school year as it is a poignant reminder of
how hard schools across the country work for young people to give them the best
possible life chances. Since the evening a number of parents have contacted me to
pass on their thanks to our dedicated staff and so I would like to pass that on here.
A reminder that Tuesday 3rd January 2017 is an INSET day and students return to
school for the new year on Wednesday 4th January 2017.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas,
Mr Dale
This week, half of Science is Geek decided to try their hand (thanks to the Crunch) at genetic engineering. It is a scientific fact that the world has prob-lems providing enough food for its growing population, and it will only get worse unless the scientists of the future (like us!) can find solutions to this problem. Genetic engineering could be a possible solution. Tomatoes are al-ready engineered to make them stay fresher for longer, corn to be resistant to pests and potatoes to be resistant to tobacco mosaic virus.
We are attempting to modify E. coli, with a gene from a jellyfish (The E. coli has already been modified to make it non-pathogenic, meaning it cannot cause an illness). The first step is to grow the bacteria, which we did by sterilis-ing our inoculating loops and after dipping in the bacteria and nutrient broth solution streaking the plates. This is making a square around the edge of the plate, and then a squiggle down the middle!
Once the bacteria have grown next week we will add the glow in the dark jelly-fish gene
Science is Geek - Part 1 Report by Miss Davies
Hi Miss,
I am absolutely over the moon to tell you that I have been offered a place at
university. I will be studying at BIMM (British & Irish Institute Of Modern Music)
Brighton to study Songwriting! I just wanted to thank you for the support you
gave me throughout secondary. I strongly believe if you didn't motivate me and
believe in me I would not be where I am today. A close friend of mine has
offered to record my album and I have already spent time in the studio working
on my songs. I will always be grateful for your influence and never giving up on
me. I love music and always will. Thank you endlessly.
Best Wishes,
Amelia-Loveday Bamsey :)
FRA: Inspired
Former FRA student offered place at British &
Irish Institute Of Modern Music
It is always great to hear from
ex pupils of FRA. Below is an
email sent to former Head of
Music, Miss Nicky Giles.
Amelia Bamsey (Centre)
FRA
FRA: community
Festive Weekend in Fowey Report by Miss Attwood
Students from Fowey River Academy participat-ed in a range of Christmas performances over the weekend. To kick off the festivities we had the Samba band performing in the lan-terns parade through Fowey town on Friday night, which culminated in the lights being switched on by Santa outside the church.
On Saturday the new Fowey River Choir had their debut performance sing-ing Silent Night and Christmas Mash Up at the Christmas Market totally un-accompanied. The pouring rain didn't put them off and their performance was outstanding, with a beautiful solo from Katie Jordan in Silent Night.
On Sunday the Year 11 Band had their final performance together which was an ar-rangement of Merry Christmas Every-one with Lydia Virr on vocals, Hannah Ab-biss on bass guitar, Lillie Bamsey on trum-pet 1, Maddie Macdonald on trumpet 2, Emma de Grey Warter on keys 1 and Lau-ren James on keys 2. It was a really enjoya-ble performance to finish the Christmas Market festivities.
On Sunday evening the weekend drew to a close with the Fowey Town Carol service. Our students performed an accapella version of Away in a Manger, with a stunning solo from Caitlyn Matthews. We also joined the Fowey River Singers to perform The First Nowell.
I would like to say a massive well done to all of the students involved this weekend. Your commitment and hard work has really paid off and I look forward to doing it all again next year!
FRA: creative
Christmas Cake Competition Over the last few weeks, the Year 9 Catering students have been busy making, baking,
applying marzipan and finally icing their Christmas Cakes.
They were given the task to come up with four possible design ideas and to select one for their final idea.
The students worked really well and come up with a variety of interesting and creative ideas.
Report by Ms Madge
Group 9/1
1st place—Edward Talling
2nd place—Megan Langmaid
3rd place—Harrison Greenwood
Group 9W
1st place—Ella Harker
2nd place—Maisie Billing
3rd place—Will Rundle
Overall
1st place—Ella Harker
2nd place—Edward Talling
3rd place—Maisie Billing
FRA: competitive
FRA: competitive
Trampolining - Kimberly Boddy Report by Mrs Smith
November 27th Cornwall Schools Trampolining competi-tion came 25th out of 70 pupils. Sunday 4th December competed in a Cornwall clubs trampolining competition for her club Launceston and came 2nd winning a silver medal.
Cornwall School Indoor Rowing competition
8 pupils took part with the school placing 4th over all in the medals table...
... just 1 place behind 3rd!
Individual results:
Caitlyn Matthews – 17th
Archie Rolls – 4th
Nancy Mansell – 3rd
Maddie Rose Hunter – 2nd
Sami Pallett – 6th
Hannah De Greywater – 8th
Nikita Williams – 3rd
Ross Jezard – 15th
FRA: competitive
Yr. 10 Exeter University trip - Raising aspirations
through sport. Report by Mrs Smith
A group of 15 Year 10 students took part in a trip to Exeter University. The aim of the trip was to give pupils an experience of life at University with a tour of the campus as well as the type of Sports Courses on offer. This was followed by a 2-hour sport science lab ses-sion where they got to take part in practical experiments on state of the art Physiological sports testing equipment to measure metabolic rate , oxygen consumption and lactate threshold during light to moderate exercise.
Pupils have now been given a task to complete with students at Fowey River Academy to look at the impact of 15 minutes of moderate to vigorous physi-cal activity on brain function and concentration lev-els.
FRA: creative
Year 7 Creative homework task Report by Mrs Smith
Mrs Smith challenged her Year 7 PE class to come up with a creative and innovative way of showing what they had learnt in their gymnastics lessons. They had 1 week to pro-duce the work which they presented to Mrs Smith and Mrs Davey during their PE lesson, explain what they had created, their inspiration behind the work and how it reflected their learning.
The pupils truly rose to the challenge and produced some truly inspirational, outstand-ing and mastery level work which, including cakes in the shape of gymnastic balances, magazine articles, books, and art work.
FRA: inspired
Compass centre Report by Mrs Smith
A group of Year 9 pupils have been doing some pro-ject work on raising aspirations and improving their self-confidence.
Part of the project involved pupils creating a mountain painting to reflect the battles they face to achieving their goals and ways they can overcome these to help them and other reach their true potential.
FRA: Community
OAP’s Christmas Lunch held at Fowey River Academy
On Saturday 3rd December, OAP’s enjoyed a Christmas lunch that took place at Fowey River Academy. People who attended the lunch came from Par, Ty-wardreath, Fowey, St. Blazey, Lostwithiel and Polruan. The event was organ-ised by the ‘Fowey River Lions’ and the catering was provided by FRA staff:
FRA: Achievement
Celebration Evening On Wednesday 7th December, Fowey River Academy held the year 11 leavers Celebra-
tion Evening. Parents and friends were invited to come along and proudly watch as the
ex pupils received awards for their outstanding efforts while studying at Fowey River
Academy. The evening was hosted by Mr Hayward and the certificates were handed out
by subject leaders. As people arrived, they were treated to live music, provided by guitar
maestro, Jasper Fergus.
FRA: Achievement
Celebration Evening Results SUBJECT AWARD 1st Nominee
ENGLISH LANG Award for Achievement Aaron Coon
Award for Progress Henry Langmaid
ENGLISH LIT Award for Achievement Jasper Carmichael
Award for Progress Issy Songer
MATHS Award for Achievement Chloe Dobbs
Award for Progress Jordan Gardiner
SCIENCE Award for Achievement Amy Jeffries
Award for Progress Daisy Hannan
BIOLOGY Award for Achievement Loeke Toher
Award for Progress Daniel Edgington
CHEMISTRY Award for Achievement Clementine Whalley
Award for Progress Chloe Dobbs
PHYSICS Award for Achievement Aaron Coon
Award for Progress Omar Lamarti
BTEC SCIENCE Award for Achievement Hayley Bennet
Award for Progress Sydnee Teversham
ASTRONOMY Award for Achievement Jasmine Saunders
Award for Progress Jasper Carmichael
ART Award for Achievement Emily Arthur
Award for Progress Stella Mitchell
DRAMA Award for Achievement Beth Ellery
Award for Progress Daniel Bunt
MUSIC Award for Achievement Imogen Vale
Award for Progress Benji Brockett
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY Award for Achievement Josh Nottle
Award for Progress Dan Edgington
RADIO PRODUCTION Award for Achievement Caitlin Berry
Award for Progress Daisy Lambert
HISTORY Award for Achievement Chloe Dobbs
Award for Progress Erin Morgan
FRA: Achievement
Celebration Evening Results GEOGRAPHY Award for Achievement Sophie Newns
Award for Progress Harry Jones
MEDIA STUDIES Award for Achievement Daisy Lambert
Award for Progress Luke Hardwick
iMEDIA Award for Achievement Olivia Tomlin
Award for Progress Kelsie Harman
CATERING Award for Achievement George Abigail
Award for Progress Elise Moore
FOOD TECHNOLOGY Award for Achievement Georgie Martin
Award for Progress Bradley Hickmott
ELECTRONICS Award for Achievement Adam Cocks
Award for Progress Jack Hawken
RESISTANT MATERIALS Award for Achievement Loeke Toher
Award for Progress Jack Hawken
CHILD DEVELOPMENT Award for Achievement Chloe Linley
Award for Progress Freya Rundle
GRAPHIC DESIGN Award for Achievement Susanna Charles
Award for Progress Tristan Collin
ECDL Award for Achievement Helen Allen
Award for Progress Bradley Hickmott
BUSINESS STUD-IES
Award for Achievement Tristan Collin
Award for Progress Joe Ellis
YOUNG ENTER-PRISE
Award for Achievement Arlo Bridgeland
Award for Progress Nelsey Dungey
FRENCH Award for Achievement Imogen Vale
Award for Progress Abbie Shakespear
SPANISH Award for Achievement Christine Petit
Award for Progress Eliot Salt
GERMAN Award for Achievement George Hillman
Award for Progress Veryan Cole
AQA PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Award for Achievement Eliot Salt
Award for Progress Karl Williams
OCR SPORTS STUDIES
Award for Achievement Freya Waters
Award for Progress Kerrianne Mawson
Graded Music Exam – Level 6
Award for Achievement Benji Brockett
Outstanding Achievement
Chloe Dobbs
Jasmine Saunders
Jasper Carmichael
Alan Shakerley
Benji Brockett/Imogen Vale
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FRA: Informed
Headlice
We have had a few recent reports of head lice in the school. Here is a NHS link regarding head lice that may aid parents in detecting, treating and helping prevent them.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Head-lice/Pages/Introduction.aspx
School Term Dates 2016 - 2017
Spring Term 2017
Summer Term 2017
The academy will be closed on the following days for staff training:
Tuesday 3rd
January 2017
Wednesday 4th January
Monday 13th February – Friday 17
th February
Friday 31st March
Start of term for students Half term End of term (13:15)
Tuesday 18th April
Monday 1st May
Monday 29th May – Friday 2
nd June
Wednesday 19th July
Start of term for students Academy closed – Bank Holiday Half term End of term (13:15)