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Team Haywood SPINATHON

On Friday 22nd March, Haywood Academy and City College took part in our Spinathon event. 24 bikes donated by Pure Gym were used during the event, and pupils were sponsored to take turns and cycle for 15 minutes each from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Local feeder primary schools Mill Hill and Smallthorne also took part in the day. Representatives from the Douglas Macmillan Hospice, Pure Gym and North Staffordshire Mind also took their turn on a spin bike.To raise extra money, we also held a staff silent auction, non-uniform day, chocolate raffle and had cake/sweet sales during break and lunch.An amazing £11,541.55 was raised from the event!All money raised was split between The Douglas McMillan Hospice (50%) in honour of a colleague who received care from them during the lastfew months of her life. The remaining 50% was split between North Staffordshire Fire and Rescue and North Staffordshire Mind, who supported our school community through the sad passing of Ryan Evans in the summer of 2018.

A big thank you to everyone who took part and donated!

Haywood Academy celebrated World Book Day in style as staff arrived in costume, taking inspiration from some of their favourite books.Characters from the ‘Harry Potter’ series; Roald Dahl’s books; traditional fairy tales and ‘Hitch-hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy’ were amongst those making an appearance. Students could win prizes by spending their breaks on a treasure hunt, looking for the various characters. A huge quiz was completed in tutorial, with students on the ski trip even participating via email from Europe!The quiz winners were 10H and all students thoroughly enjoyed seeing staff in their costumes throughout the day.

WORLD BOOK DAY

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Book BenchPROJECT LAUNCH

On Tuesday 9th April, Mrs Birks kindly took pupils Isabella Foster,Lily Steele and Emy Mulankaya to City Central Library, for the Stoke Reads BookBench Project launch.The students were selected to attend the launch to reward them for their efforts in designing and decorating their own book bench.Over the course of the day, students were treated to words

WE WILLREMEMBERIn February Miss Hulme had the opportunity to take two of our Year 11 students, Danny Cook and Caitlin Blood to visit the First World War Battlefields in Belgium and France.

The visit was part of a government funded project called the ‘Centenary Battlefield tour’ that is offered to schools throughout thecountry in the hope of keeping the memory of the First World War alive.The students thoroughly enjoyed their visit and learnt some invaluable knowledge of the experience of war and the importanceof remembrance.

Students from Years 9 & 10 took the opportunity to impress ceramic experts with their ideas at the first ever Stoke-on-Trent Ceramic Challenge. Teams were given three tasks byrepresentatives from WadeCeramics, Royal Crown Derby and the British CeramicsConfederation.

Our Year 10s were tasked to design a new ceramic perfume bottle, while Year 9s were asked for a marketing campaign to promote the ceramics industry. They got the chance to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges when they went head-to-head with 8 other schools in the Grand Final at the Victoria Hall.

The Stoke-on-Trent CeramicChallenge is part of the Essential Life Skills Fund and was run by

The Inspirational Learning Group in conjunction with the BCC and Business in the Community.The students involved were Armagan Ashir, Logan Askey, George Bentley, Ruxandra Birea, Nathan Edwards, Kristifer Hosey, Zoe Jackson, Ethan King, Lauren Rhodes, Maham Riaz, Jeroen Robinson and Esme Rogers.

They were supported in school by Ben Cooper of The Inspirational Learning Group and visitingvolunteers from local businesses.

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from the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, Councillor Lilian Dodd, and speakers from the National Literacy Trust, as well as hearing a live performance from poetNick Degg. Emy said: “The day was really enjoyable. It was nice to see all the other benches from schools across the city and I am looking forward to visiting and using the benches over the Easter holiday.”Lily said: “The trip was really fun and I particularly enjoyed the entertainment from various book characters including the Gruffalo, Cheshire cat and Harry Potter characters.”Isabella said: “It was nice to be able to celebrate out book bench with other students and visitors from across the city. I particularly enjoyed hearing from our local poet Nick Degg.”

The book bench trail will betaking place from the 12th of April to the 30th of June 2019. Trail and activity maps will be available from the Academy.

Looking to the future THROUGHTHE PASTOn Thursday 21st March, a number of GCSE History students from Years 9 and 10 attended a Higher Horizons History outreach event at Keele University. The day gave students the opportunity to experience a number of academic sessions around the subject of World War I: ‘Conscience and Conflict in WWI’, ‘WWI Battlefield medicine’, ‘Cinematic Depiction of War’ and ‘Forgotten Faces: Hidden Figures of WWI’. This was designed to encourage thestudents in their currentstudies and also to inspire them to consider continuing their studies of History beyond GCSE. The day was an opportunity for students to get a feel for what it is like to study at degree level and to talk to current undergraduate students.The best part of the day was a presentation from ‘Frontline Living History’ who took the students through a typical day in the trenches.

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WhitewaterWRITERSThanks to KeeleUniversity HigherHorizons+, a group of Year 9 boys were able to experience working asauthors this term, at a

Watching THE PASTMr Bailey had the pleasure of taking fifteen Year 9 History students to Keele University. Whilst there they watched a performancecreated by the Holocaust MemorialFoundation and the New Vic Theatre.It was a gripping story of the life of a brother and sister living in Poland during WWII. It told of their day-to-day life and how it was tragically and subversively altered through the persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime.

The students were attentive, respectful and behaved exceptionally throughout.

FIRST TECH ChallengeMiss Abbotts took 20 students toManchester on 15th March for the First Tech Challenge where Haywood was 1 of 100 Northern schools that are part of the first cohort of the challenge. The pupils had a great day battling their robots, working with other schools and improving their STEM skills.

One of our teams managed to get to the top 4 alliance out of 100 teams which is a really big achievement! The other team came 11th overall which is still really good. We also came 3rd in the engineering award, and are really pleased with the outcome - all of those hours were worth it! The pupils are really proud of their achievements and have enjoyed the whole experience.

Our Year 10 Health & Social Care students had a brilliant day at Aspire to Care on 22nd January, where they discovered the jobsavailable to them in the health and socialsector and the different pathways of study. They took part in a number of workshops and group tasks researching roles andresponsibilities, received guest talks from a variety of staff with diverse roles and skills, looked at adults and children who requiresupport, and children in looked-afterhousing.Students concluded the day trialling some sign language, using a technique called Makaton, and they became visually impaired and wore braces for restricted movements to explore how service users may feel when being cared for.

High FlyersThis summer, two lucky Year 10 students will have the opportunity to attend a week-long residential at the University of Oxford as part of a programme called Universify, aimed at encouraging students from parts of thecountry with traditionally low progression rates into Higher Education.They will attend taster sessions in a range of subjects to give a taste of the kinds of degrees on offer, as well as experiencing studentaccommodation and the best that Oxford has to offer – including the chance to go punting on the river! This is the fourth year Haywood students have attended this opportunity, and the fun doesn’t stop there! Last year’s cohort recently attended a follow-up session in Oxford to help them prepare for the up-coming GCSEs.

SOCIAL WORK

‘Whitewater Writers’ camp.Beginning by sharing themes important to them, the boys selected ‘health’ as their focus and worked on a story about an international virus which caused a major shift in society, as well as damaging health. With the support of Richard from Whitewater Writers, by the end of day one of the project, the students had created a fully formed plot. By the end of day five a complete book had been produced!

‘Patient Zero’ by T.M. Cooks will be available to buy from Amazon following a launch and author signing event at the end of May.

Aspiring towards

ENTERPRISINGStudentsStudents from Year 9 have taken part in an Enterprise Challenge event at Keele University. Following a challenge day in February, two teams - Money Manager and Healthy Minds - made it through to the final on 18th March, where they pitched their plans for a business idea that would help university students.The judges included Emma Jones from Signal 1, and was hosted by Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely, members of dance group Diversity.All students proved to be fine ambassadors for Haywood Academy.

Humanities atKEELESome of our Year 10 students attended aHumanities event run by Higher Horizons at Keele University on 12th February.Students were engrossed in code-breaking, map reading and strategy planning, and learned about topics such as the American West, the Cold War, the Arctic Circle and Super Volcanoes!

Two teams of Year 10 students from Haywood have built remote-controlled battle robots as part of the KMF Young Engineers project, and have had the opportunity to battle them against robots from other schools.Each team took part in three battles, just like on ‘Robot Wars’, and judges and crewmembers from the TV programme were on hand at the event. One of the Haywood robots has progressed to the final in July. Good luck!

KMF YOUNG ENGINEERS

Some of our able Year 10 Scientists andMathematicians took part in a ScienceOlympics at The City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College on Friday 25th January against teams from across the city.Amongst the events was a boat buildingcompetition, a Biology quiz, and anopportunity for students to test theirChemistry practical skills. They even hunted for gold!

Science OLYMPIANS

Two groups of Year 11 students visited Keele University this term for a Focus 4 and a Super 6 Maths event organised by the MathsExcellence Partnership to enhance their maths attainment in Year 11.Our Haywood students were excellent ambassadors for Haywood and contributed to both sessions, showing a confidence in their knowledge and building on their deeper understanding.

Another Super Six Day was held for some of our Year 11 Scientists as part of theStoke-on-Trent Secondary SciencePartnership, and provided them with some last-minute skills boosts.

Extra FOCUS

On the straight AND NARROWA brilliant time was had by our Year 11 History students at the National Justice Museum in Nottingham on 2nd April.They enjoyed taking part in an actual court trial, where they played the parts of themembers of the court, and also took a visit to the dungeons, the cells, had a go in the stocks, on the step and the crank handle- all elements of History Paper 1:Crime, Punishment and Law Enforcement.

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Dates for the diary

Academy/College opens for students: Tuesday 30th April

PHSE Day: Thursday 2nd May

May Day Bank Holiday: Monday 6th May

Y11/13 GCSE/A levelexams: Tuesday 7th –Friday 24th May

Half Term: Monday 27th –Friday 31st May (inclusive)

Academy/College opens for students: Monday 3rd June

Year 11/13 GCSE/A levelexams: Monday 3rd –Friday 21st June

Year 7 exams: Monday 17th – Tuesday 18th June

Year 11 Leavers’ assembly: Monday 24th June

Year 10 exams: Monday 24th June – Friday 5th July

Year 12 exams:Monday 1st – Wednesday 10th July

Year 11 Leavers’celebration at Keele Hall:Wednesday 3rd July

Year 6 Induction Day/Evening: Thursday 11th July

Year 12 finish for workexperience:Friday 12th July

Academy/College closes for the summer:Friday 19th July

A level results day : Thursday 15th August

GCSE results day:Thursday 22nd August

Leaving Staff

MyEd AppWe are changing the way that we communicate with parents, and relaunching the My Ed app.We would like all parents to download this so that they can keep up to date with what is going on in school. The app is free to download, notifications are free to receive, and parents can send messages to the school free of charge.

What sort of information can parents see?

The app needs to be downloaded on the phone that has the samenumber that we have on record. If we do not have the mobile number

stored you can download the app but it will not show your child’s details. It is very important that we are kept up-to-date with any change of mobile number so that you can continue to use the app. You can only see information about your own children, and so there is no risk of anyone being able to see information about other students.

The app includes information about:

• Attendance (absence can also be reported through the app) • Forms to complete can be downloaded (change of address etc.) • Key dates-important things going on in school • Contact numbers • News items • Links to social media

How to download the app:

1. Go to your app store 2. Search for My Ed 3. Download the app 4. Search for the school name

As long as the mobile number is the same as the one on SIMS then the app willautomatically bring up details for students linked to that number. If there is more than one child in the family then it will bring up details for all students. Students can download the app too but they will not be able to see information about them. They will be able to see general information about the school such as news, key dates etc.

Thanks to Mrs Andrews, who has sadly left us this term after two years at City College supporting the Year 12 Pre-Apprenticeship students in finding employment. One of her biggest successes is Luke Cassidy who Mrs Andrews visited throughout his work experience and supported into an apprenticeship at Synectics. Good Luck, you will be missed!

At the end of this term we say goodbye to Miss Lovatt who has worked at Haywood Academy as the head of Religious Studies for three years. Over these years she has encouraged a love of R.S throughout the school and has helped many students past and present to achieve above and beyond their potential. She will be missed by both students and staff.

After 15 years, we say goodbye to Mr Bebbington. A former student who at the age of 30 returned as a Learning Mentor, working with a range of students. Primarily an Art teacher, he also taught PE, Photog-raphy, DT and Product Design. He has been a dedicated, committed teacher, an excellent form tutor, and a Head of Year for 3 years. For many years he also coached Basketball which produced a number of National League players, earning Haywood a reputation for excellence within the sport. He is taking his expertise to the Co-operativeAcademy, and will be greatly missed by all.“I’ve had the pleasure of giving back to my community in an attempt to make a difference to people’s lives. As staff, our actions and intentions don’t always make sense to young people in preparing them for the future but we hope that they realise sooner rather than later. I wish the students, staff and the school every success for the future.”

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This term, students have used Form time to discuss and explore topics and issues that are ‘In the news’, such as a rise inhomelessness, FGM, onlinereputation, online hate speech, and child labour.The next PSHE day in May is packed full of sessions that will help students to explore future careers and skills needed for the workplace.

PHSE NewsYears 7 & 8 will explore health and safety topics such as fire safety and the impact smoking has on a person’s health.Young Minds will be holding a session for Year 9s to educate students on mental health issues and support with issues students face. PE will also be in-keeping with the theme by providing awellbeing session for Year 9s.

Lots to look forward to!

The Year 8 Pathways Evening was very well attended.Students and parents had the opportunity to meet with teaching staff to discuss the pathways available within each faculty, which will support them inmaking informed decisions about their future. Students will receive written confirmation of their KS4 subjects towards the end of theSummer Term.

NEXTSteps

Back in January, some of our Year 11 students went to Stanley Head overnight for just over 24 hours of team building andadventurous activities includingorienteering, abseiling, archery and rifle shooting.All the staff and students had a great time!

StanleyHead

As part of British Science Week, the Engineering Development Trust worked with all students in Years 7, 8 & 9 to deliver a range of hands on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) Activity Days.

The work-related learningactivities provided opportunities for our students to enhance their technical, personal andemployability skills through industry-led projects. Thesessions have given students an insight into courses and careers within STEM.

Hands-on LEARNING

STEPPING UPHaywood is the very proudrecipient of the NCS Bronze Award, which is in recognition of the number of students we had signing up to be a part of theNational Citizen ServiceChallenge last summer.

Can we beat this number this year?

Elevate Education have worked with all Year 11 students to help support them with improving their exam performance. They have delivered Study Sensai and Ace Your Exams workshops to further develop their study skills. Some students have also completed a week-long study programme with PETXi in either Maths, English or Science to help improveexamination performance. Year 11 students are currently working exceptionally well and have made a great start to their GCSEexaminations. We wish them all the very best with the final exams!

EXAM Ready

On 13th March staff were able to sample a range of baked and chilled desserts.They were then judged to decide the winner of the prestigious ‘2019 Haywood Academy Staff Bake Off’. All entrants were high quality and super tasting.The winner this year was Mr Ashton who was presented with a trophy and Haywood Apron, with Miss G Smith as the runner up.Congratulations to you both.

Special thanks as well to all the other staff that entered:- Mr Cross, Miss Abbotts, Mr Breese, Mrs Alabaster, Mrs Evans, Mrs Whiston and Miss Spronson.

The Great Staff Bake Off 2019

First prize:Mr Ashton

Runner-up:Miss G Smith

This is the team who won 3-0 against Cardinal Griffin. We are now in the semi-finals of the county cup!

On Wednesday 30th January it was the Under 15’s girls match, we won 3-0, now leading us to the semi-finals.Goals were scored by Ellie Reddell and Macey Williams. If you see the girls, please congratulate them on their achievements.

Girls U15 Football

38 excited adventurers spent a week in Risoul, France on the annual Haywood Ski Trip.

Students had a fantastic time and all became competent on the slopes, with 2 groups completing blue and red runs, and the other groups taking on black runs on the final day.

Students enjoyed the skiing culture and had a Town Trial, Pizza Night and Disco duringthe trip. Well done to all involved.

Super SKIERS!

On 27th March, our Dance students competed in a National Schools Qualifier at Fenton Manor, where they came 2nd in their category. Now, they will compete in the finals of the National Schools UDO Dance competition. Good luck!

Lets Dance An Evening IN VENICEOn Monday 11th March our Dance group performed in the Stoke Schools Partnership event, ‘A Passport to Dance’ at the Victoria Hall. The theme of the evening was dances from various different countries around the world.We chose Italy as our theme and blended a mixture style including the Waltz and contemporary dance.

Well done this season to Team Haywood’s badminton squad. All players have improved so much and are currently sitting in 3rd position in the Cities Badminton League. All players have attended badminton club on a Tuesday since Christmas. Mr Adlington has been impressed with their overall progress and ability to officiate/play games to anexcellent standard.

Special mentions go to Isreal Seli, JamieRutter, Ronan Purcell, Mohammed Rashko, Josh Miles, Sam Gould Hollinshead, Daniella Ball, Will Forrest, Luke Hague, Izzy Foster, and Lilly Steele, who have all represented the school team on a regular basis this year.

Badminton Team

SUCCESSWell done from Mr Adlington and Mr Rogalski to all Year 11 BTEC Sport students who are on their final hurdle in completing their course. It has been a pleasure to teach you during the last 3 years.They have just finished their leadership unit and have all done themselves proud by leading a range of sports activity to either their peers or younger students at the academy.

See you all on results day to pick upyour grades!

Year 11BTEC Sport Well done to all the Cambridge National Sport

students this term.Many of you have represented the school for our sports teams and we at the Academy would like to thank you for your efforts.Mr Adlington and Miss Carruthers have been very impressed with your first assignments and wish you the very best in your up and coming exam on sports injuries in May.

Make sure you try your best and revision is completed! Good Luck.

Cambridge National in Sports Science

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DOUBLE-DECKERWITH A DIFFERENCECity College was visited on Monday 4th February by the Staffordshire University tour bus, a double-decker with a difference!Here our Year 12 A level and BTEC students heard from currentuniversity students about finance, how to apply, what courses to pick, and some of the many benefits of Higher Education. However, thebiggest hit was the campus tour that students were able to go on using state-of-the-art virtual reality headsets!This is just one part of our programme of preparation events designed to advise students how to choose a university and successfully apply.The Bus also visited the Haywood Academy site, where some of our Year 10s got the opportunity to visit and learn more, helping ourstudents to start considering their options post-18.

Year 12 and Year 13 engineering students visited Lucideon in Stoke on 20th March.Luicideon is a company that test materials to identify properties and problems with them.For example, they recently had parts from inside Lewis Hamilton’s F1 car engine as there was a problem with the cylinder linings cracking, and they had to find out why it was happening.The students saw a tensile test on a pieceof steel, and they were shown an electronmicroscope to examine a ceramic sample,where they looked for faults in the glaze.

Engineering IN ACTION

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Exciting ENRICHMENT

Our Year 12 students are currently taking part in the brilliant Essential Life Skills project, funded by the Opportunity Area.This involves them working with local businesses Wavemaker and Reels in Motion in various capacities such a film production, creative writingand Drama. Various products will be realised, which will enhance and enrich thestudents’ experience and skill-set, and will culminate in a showcase of the work produced at the Mitchell Arts Centre during the summer holidays. Tell MAMA

Smeeth and the organisation Tell MAMA to discuss and to raise awareness of the spike of discrimination against Muslim women since the Brexitreferendum.

The conference informed staff and students of ways to report cases of bullying and ways to support friends who have or may suffer abuse due to the rise in discrimination.

City College BTEC Sport students have been completing their Fitness lessons at Pure Gym North Stoke.

For 12 weeks the gym have kindly allowed our students to use theirfantastic facilities to apply the principles of training in agym environment.

FIT & HEALTHY

On 5th February Mrs Alabaster took the A Level Drama and Theatre studies class to the Regent Theatre to see Kinky Boots.A great night was had by all!

Kinky BOOTS

Miss Lovatt and two of our Year 12 students attended an event on 15th March led by MP Ruth

NEWS

Well done to our Year 12 and 13 students, who raised an incredible £436.80 from their Spinathon sponsorships, cake sale and sponge throwing!

CITY COLLEGE Spinathon Total

Haywood was again lucky enough this term to be able to borrow a number of meteoritefragments and pieces of the Moon, which Excellence Academy students in Year 7 got toexperience up-close.

Our young people were excited to think that some of these objects are older than our planet, with many unable to believe what they were holding!A number of science classes also got to see the material before it was sent on toanother lucky school.

SPACE ROCKS!

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Haywood Excellence Academy

NEXTTERM

Next term, Year 7 will be studyingUnearthing the Past: Archaeology, and learning about how we find out about the past, Year 8 will turn detective as they enjoy True Crime Detectives: Forensics and Criminology, and Year 9 will study Medicine and Psychology.

As part of their module ‘Space: The FinalFrontier – Astronomy & Astrophysics’,our Year 7 Excellence Academy visitedKeele Observatory.On Tuesday 12th February, students got the opportunity to meet with astronomers from the university and learnt about the work that they do.They learnt about exoplanets and theimportant role that Keele plays in the search for these alien worlds.The weather was also in the Academy’s favour, allowing students to observe the fiery surface of the Sun!

Looking to THE SKIES

This term, the Year 8 Excellence Academy have been discovering all about The Digital Revolution: Technology and Society.They have explored the world of 3D printing, robots, AI and the origins of the internet andcomputers.

They have even had a go at using state-of-the-art programmable Sphero robots, just like BB-8 from Star Wars!

Cutting-edgeTECHNOLOGY

This term, Year 9 students have been learning about television, films and news in their ‘Journalism & Mass Media’ module, and have been focussing in particular on emerging industries such as blogging and vlogging, and the use of ‘fake news’.

MediaMAGIC