Winter 2012

CITY ACADEMY NORWICH

MAGAZINE NEW LOOK – WINTER 2012

Shortlisted for Big Award Pages 4 and 5

Exceptionnel at CAN Page 6

Our LRC Pages 17 to 19

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Contents

From the Principal

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City Academy project is shortlisted for big award

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Year 7 Maths Activity

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Exceptionnel 6 Ice cream 7 Hospitality visit to Dunston Hall

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From the Principal

Independent Learning 8 at City Academy Norwich Information Technology 9 Avenues Junior school Sci-Fi Radio Plays

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Blood Brothers 10 Theatre trip and workshop The Child Who Lost Christmas

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UEA Mentoring programme

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CAN Holiday Club

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Family Fun Days 11 Football 12 Olympics Visit 13 Rowing 13 Dance 13 Adrian Ramsay: Citizenship at the heart of the curriculum

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The Environment Project

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Dear Parents and Carers

Depicting Africa 15 Hands on History

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LRC news pages

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St John Ambulance Cadets at City Academy Norwich

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Safer Schools Officer

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TITAN 21 Movember 21 Ormiston 22-23 Where to find us

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Welcome to the new-look magazine for City Academy Norwich. The staff and students have been very busy as you will see!

One of the key elements of learning at CAN is the development of our students’ understanding of the world of business. More and more of our young people are taking the step into running their own business. It is great to see the article on how this culture is growing in CAN.

Another wonderful event, which is linked to enterprise, was the launch of our student restaurant. A small group of senior staff were invited to try out what was a wonderful and delicious five course meal. This will become a regular event for a wide range of people as we move forward.

We were shortlisted in the last three academies and although we didn’t take the title, it was a tremendous accolade to have been shortlisted.

Mr Whiles (Vice Principal) and I recently travelled to London to attend an awards ceremony for the Outstanding Academy of the Year.

Mr D Brunton Principal

I wish you all the best for 2013.

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City Academy project is shortlisted for big award A maths mentoring project run by pupils at a Norwich school has been shortlisted for a national award.

The City Academy Norwich project is up for the outstanding numeracy initiative in the Times Educational Supplement (TES) Schools Award 2012.

The scheme sees year eight pupils from the secondary school spend the day with youngsters from nearby primary schools preparing for their year six SATs exams.

Working in pairs, they make their way through past exam papers, focus on areas they may struggle with, and play maths games to help their understanding.

Staff and pupils are set to travel to the London Hilton in Park Lane on July 6 for the awards ceremony.

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Academy principal David Brunton said he felt confident the mentoring scheme could win.

He said “The data we’ve collected on the impact has been quite impressive.

“I believe it’s a very strong application, simply because it’s so immersed in students helping students and because of the very positive feedback we have from the youngsters.

“The engagement levels are second-to-none.”

Maths teacher Dan Jackson, who organises the project, said it had already helped raise the aspirations and achievements of more than 100 children.

He said winning the award would be confirmation of that success.

“It’s great to see City Academy Norwich at the forefront of outstanding practice nationally”

Year 7 Maths Activity He added: “There’s a lot of kudos associated with these awards and it puts us firmly on the map in terms of raising standards of numeracy – an issue high on the government’s agenda in recent months. As we move into our new building, it’s great to see City Academy Norwich at the forefront of outstanding practice nationally.”

Year 7 students using “speed data-ing” techniques to collect information to analyse and present the average Year 7 student.

Each group created their own life size version of a Year 7 student and presented their findings to the rest of the year group.

Once the school moves in to its new £21m building in Bluebell Road, Mr Jackson hopes the new technology and big open spaces will allow the scheme to reach even more primary school children.

Norwich Evening News Wednesday May 9, 2012

All photos from Archant

Students from St Michaels junior school and their mentor Jai Taylor enjoying Maths in Motion.

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Ice cream Seven enterprising Year 8 students from City Academy Norwich have been selling ice creams as a franchise business for a local ice cream producer.

The students negotiated with Norfolk Farmhouse Ice Creams to sell six different flavours of ice creams to students and teachers in school in the last week of term.

This is the third business venture for the students whose business name is Addiction.

Exceptionnel at City Academy Norwich A select brigade of catering students were chosen to cook for the principalship team as part of an on-going Gifted and Talented trainee chef programme.

Eight members of the student chef / front of house team cooked and served a five course meal on the evening of Monday 19 November.

The ‘Exceptionnel’ restaurant was held in the Atrium of City Academy Norwich. Each student worked collaboratively to produce fresh, seasonal food cooked to the highest standard in the new professional kitchen.

The next ‘Exceptionnel’ restaurant service will be taking place on Monday 17 December. Please check out our Twitter page for photos and regular updates @CANcatering .

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Customer Feedback “The whole evening was outstanding with the menu choice and cooking exceptional, the service brilliant and the engraved menu a clever touch - very well done” Mike Stewart “My meal on Monday 19th November at exceptionnel was one of the best meals I have eaten since moving to Norfolk”.

Matt Wells “Many thanks for a delightful evening tonight. The food was excellent and the service superb. The students have made me so very proud to work at City Academy. Thank you both for the time, effort and energy you have put into tonight, I certainly appreciate it and I’m certain the students do. ” Aron

Menu

Since forming earlier this year, Addiction have raised seed money for future business ventures by washing staff cars, and selling fruit kebabs

at the school community open morning.

Mrs Mason, Head of Enterprise at City Academy Norwich said

“I am really pleased with the ice cream selling venture.

The students have cooperated well as an effective business team to make over £100 profit”.

PRE STARTER:

Parsnip soup

STARTER:

Anti pasti – cured meats, dipping oil, gherkins, olives, mozzarella, sun dried tomatoes, bread

Hospitality visit to Dunston Hall

MAIN:

On Wednesday 28 November the GCSE Hospitality students visited Dunston Hall.

Chicken breast stuffed with brie served with pomme puree, seasonal vegetables and a herb sauce Butternut squash risotto (V)

DESSERT:

Winter fruit crumble and custard Coffee and petit fours

They had a tour of the hotel including the wing where the Manchester United players stayed and the haunted bedroom!

They had the opportunity to discover the restaurants and bars on offer and even the golf!

It was an excellent trip and we learnt a lot to help us with our exam.

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Independent Learning at City Academy Norwich

Cisco Computer Club

At CAN we are supporting our students’ success by ensuring every student is provided with sufficient work outside of the normal teaching day.

We do this to ensure that our students have every opportunity to reach the highest grades and to form a habit for independent learning that will serve them well as they progress through the school and on to further courses and careers.

Independent learning button on the student page

Front page of the Independent Learning website

We have launched an ‘Independent Learning website’ to ensure that students, parents, carers and teachers all have access to the information that may be reached by clicking on the ‘Students’ button on the main page and then on the ‘Independent Learning’ button that is located at the top right hand corner of the student page.

Students can gain access to the internet and other resources out of lesson time by visiting the LRC which is open from 8.00 until 4.30 and every break and lunch time.

We guide our students to spend the following amounts of time engaged in independent learning each day:

Clicking on this button will take you to a menu on which you will need to select the date and the key stage of your student. From here several tasks will be provided for each day of the week.

Year 7: 30 to 50 minutes Year 8: 40 to 80 minutes Key stage 4 (Years 9, 10 and 11): 60 to 120 minutes Students may also be set other smaller ‘homework’ tasks at the discretion of their teachers as required.

We would welcome your support by talking to your children about their independent learning and where possible providing them with some quiet space to work for a time each evening.

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Students from Year 7 to Year 13 continue to build and network PC’s in this popular after academy club. The eager computer scientists build a PC from bare components, install software and then get a chauffeured drive home, albeit in a minibus, to ensure that the PC system is delivered in good working order.

Computing students, English and the LRC collaborate in Unique Literacy Partnership

This term has seen three students volunteer their time to help run the club and assist in the building and configuration of the PC’s . Well done to Oli Jordan, Kieran Burton and Kyle Sayer, their help is invaluable in running this project that brings ‘Computing’ to the community.

The games have been developed in close collaboration with the English department and LRC. The games will be rolled out initially on CAN e-wall.

Students from Computing GCSE have been developing games that utilise motion detection that will be used to push the Literacy campaign in the school.

The principal, Mr Brunton, has been seen jumping around trying to get the highest score!

The best homework is entered into a draw and the lucky winner gets an ‘iPod shuffle’. Well done to Olivia Ames, last half term’s winner.

Students from Year 9 ‘Computing GCSE and after school DiDA course’ travelled to London’s O2 to learn about the positive effects computing has had on the real world.

Our students worked with major players from Microsoft, O2, Mozilla Sky and Google. Many salutations to our own Chloe Everett, for leading the entire assembled group in a great ‘Gangnam Style’ finale dance.

Creative I-Media Level 3 Students Three CAN students are working at an A Level equivalent award that will prepare them well for the future. The work they are producing in photography, video editing and animation would make professionals blush. Well done to Ellie Ireland, Elvinas Sepetys and Jodie Harman.

Homework Lottery Our Key Stage 3 students are shuffling their way to success in the ICT homework lottery.

Computing and ICT students take to the ’02 Think Big Event’ in London

Crazy Student Lab for Learning

A-Level Students making ICT ‘Real’

CAN has embraced that students know ‘what’s hot and what is not’ in applications and has developed a lab build where students can install, justify and showcase why different software can be used in learning.

Students in ‘Computing’ recently installed’ Minecraft’ and then proceeded to demonstrate how logic gates and truth tables are used.

Students studying AS and A2 in ICT are developing diverse and real projects that will be used long after they have graduated from CAN. The products range from apps for the Apples iPhone and iPad and database applications that will organise inter-academy and Academy sports days.

Manchester Animation Awards Students from CAN are developing animations utilising CS6 Adobe Flash, Scratch and Alice to book their ticket to the Animation 13 Awards in Manchester.

This new lunchtime club, on Wednesday, teaches students the art of animation and programming.

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Avenues Junior school Sci-Fi Radio Plays Over three weeks in October, 100 Y6 pupils from Avenues visited the Academy to work with iPads to record an old ‘Flash Gordon’ radio script.

As well as recording their vocal performances, they experimented with the effects available on the GarageBand app and some more old fashioned ‘Foley’ sound effects such as pinging a ruler to sound like a teleport system and a reel of tape for a ray gun!

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Blood Brothers Theatre trip and workshop On Tuesday 13 November, 30 GCSE Drama students went to watch a fantastic production of Willy Russell’s hit West End musical ‘Blood Brothers’ at the Norwich Theatre Royal. The production was funny and moving and at times reduced some of the students to tears.

came into City Academy to run a drama workshop for all the GCSE students. Having warmed them up with some games and rehearsal techniques from professional theatre, he directed them in a couple of scenes and then entertained them with a short performance of his poem from the show.

On Friday 16 November the actor Sean Jones who has played ‘Mickey’ in the show for the last ten years,

The students really enjoyed both events and the chance to work with a professional actor.

Four of the students involved in the UEA Mentoring programme visited the UEA on Friday 7 September 2012.

The group had a tour around campus led by two UEA Student Ambassadors. The group had the opportunity to programme a computer game and learn some Japanese. The group had a great time thanks to all the staff from the UEA and CAN who made this possible.

“I am one of the 14 students who took part in the UEA mentoring scheme during January to May this year. Doing the student mentoring is a great opportunity to help you in the future because you know what’s going to happen when you go to university. This is helpful because it makes it easier to choose the pathway you’re going to follow and the courses you would take to reach your career goal. This is one of the many ways student mentoring can help.” Aakasha Weerasingha

Family Fun Days Family Fun Days are back and ready to go in the new building.

Spring Family Fun Day will take place on Saturday 16 March 2013, 10.30am to 2.00pm.

Updates will be coming soon.

CAN Holiday Club

The Child Who Lost Christmas This fun, Christmas fantasy, with something for all the family was performed in the Atrium of City Academy Norwich on 12th and 13th December, with cast members from both City Academy Norwich and Norwich School.

UEA Mentoring programme

Over the October half term holiday, children attending CAN Holiday Club enjoyed our new building and facilities. Holiday Club was attended by 37 children from 14 schools.

This joint production was directed by professional actors and directors in residence at the Norwich School, Louis Hilyer and Matilda Zeigler.

Children had a great time using the sports hall, especially for games of dodge ball. Children were playing football outside, even in the rain!

In the LRC children chose to do various activities including lego, art, hama beads and board games.

We made use of the technology available to us by using iPads and even used the Atrium for a movie afternoon with lots of popcorn!

Please note that CAN Holiday Club will be closed over the Christmas Holiday but we will be open again in February 2013.

Keep an eye out for updates on what is planned for February.

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Football

Rowing Tommy Blackwell (11V5b) has finally accomplished the impressive feat of holding all of CAN’s Rowing Records from Year 7 to Year 11 at one time.

On Thursday 8th November, 8 football studies students took responsibility for officiating the annual Norwich schools year 5 & 6 girls football competition.

The eight students were: Jack Allen, Germaine Fox, Charlie Daniels, Nico Baxter, Lewis Moore, Daniel Marshall-Nichols, Shana Macdonald and Shannon Goldie.

The competition was strongly contested with White Woman Lane Primary school narrowly winning the final 3-1.

Each CAN student took responsibility for at least 2 of the group matches with Charlie Daniels, Nico Baxter and Jack Allen officiating the final.

Olympics Visit The standard of officiating was very good and all the students took on the feedback given by Mr Hawkins and Mr Wells to improve and achieve some good grades. Many students showed they are already working at B grade for their officiating skills.

Due to the success of this competition, the CAN students have been asked back to officiate the annual year 5 and year 6 football competitions in March.

The students worked very hard in preparation for this event. Each of the students has successfully completed the JFL course and

The trip to the Olympic Women’s football match (New Zealand Vs Cameroon) went really well. the basic laws of refereeing, both of which are nationally recognised awards. Thanks go to Jackie Bushell and Barry Knight for their external input into these qualifications.

The hard work will continue for the football studies students as they continue to volunteer in coaching and officiating in the local feeder schools, as well as completing their own personal exercise programme and developing their own football skills.

Well done so far to all the football studies students.

Norfolk FA Norfolk FA have visited City Academy Norwich to promote the football futures programme.

Many of the football studies group will be joining the scheme, looking to improve their leadership skills.

Darren Moss (Norfolk FA) has been working closely with previous football studies groups and has always been impressed with the level of commitment and leadership skills from the

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students. Mr Wells is keen many of the group sign up for the football futures programme as they have lots of leadership potential.

Stacey (pictured) has recently completed the programme and gave the group an insight into what the programme is all about.

basic referees course and are keen to get out and volunteer in the local community.

Many of The group have also recently completed the Junior Football Leader award and the

If any young football coaches are required at local clubs please contact Mr Wells at the Academy.

All the students who went were extremely well behaved and represented the Academy excellently. They seemed to really enjoy themselves and learned quite a bit about international football. Many of them had not ever been to a professional match before let alone an international/Olympic match!

Tommy nonchalantly came to Fitness Club and said that he would ‘have a go’ at beating the existing Year 11 Boys record of 1,571m in 6 minutes set by Jody Metcalfe in 2010. Tommy achieved 1,612m in 6 minutes; an unprecedented achievement which I’m sure will not be repeated any time soon.

Arts Award Dance 2012

Just Dance

Since September we have been on the Arts Award Dance course.

New dance classes started at the Dance Studio at City Academy Sports Centre. Commercial/Street Dance – a fun, high energy dance class to the latest music!

As part of this, we are required to watch and evaluate arts performances. Our first trip was to the Odeon cinema where we watched Swan Lake. This performance was a live show, which was being projected from the Royal Opera House in London. It was good to see a ballet performance as most of us had never seen one before.

We really enjoyed the trip and look forward to carrying out some ballet in our lessons.

The second trip we went on was to the Norwich Theatre Royal to see a Matthew Bourne production of ‘Sleeping Beauty’. This contemporary piece was amazingly choreographed, had outstanding dancers and even made us laugh! It was a real eye-opener to realise that

7 to 11 year old – 5pm to 6pm 12 to 16 year old – 6pm to 7pm Every Thursday, all abilities welcome.

Cost: £3.50 per class or pay for the full term and receive a discount! other types of dance (not just street) are interesting and exciting.

In addition to these, we went to see another contemporary piece at the Theatre Royal, but this time the dance was choreographed by the Rambert Dance Company. We were told that this dance would be a different style of contemporary and it was great to learn more about different dance genres.

Please call Lisa on 07920066907 or email justdance@live.co.uk to confirm your place or for any further information.

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Adrian Ramsay: Citizenship at the heart of the curriculum Adrian Ramsay believes it’s time to take political education seriously, and put citizenship at the heart of schooling I experienced two fantastic examples of citizenship education during recent visits to secondary schools.

Both involved actively engaging younger secondary school pupils in topical issues and helping them see how they could influence both their local environment and a wider political issue.

research. They were encouraged to consider everything, from the global impact of the issues to what could be done in their city, school and home.

The teachers behind the initiative had a big challenge in co-ordinating the departments and different

elements of the curriculum that made up the event, but it was clearly worthwhile.

Adrian Ramsay is Deputy Leader of the Green Party This article is from the August issue of Total Politics

At City Academy in Norwich, the year seven pupils were taken off their timetable for a week and asked to develop an exhibition on environmental problems and solutions to present to the local community.

Speakers, including myself, gave an overview of key challenges and the students could then choose an issue on which to carry out their own

Depicting Africa Following the publication of our last magazine, Depicting Africa have now launched their website:

The Environment Project The Environment project ran in Year 7 in the summer term.

The deputy leader of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsay, has written an article about the project in Total Politics Magazine.

We started our project with a commission from Adrian Ramsay. He asked the students to design an exhibition that would teach the audience about an area of climate change. Students worked in groups to formulate

https://sites.google.com/site/ depictingafrica/home

a research question, then chose workshops to attend that they felt would most help with their enquiry.

Adrian Ramsay returned to the school at the end of the project to visit the exhibition and watch the presentations.

He was extremely complimentary about the way the students communicated their findings and showed passion for their research areas, and conveyed the hope that more schools might engage students in this way.

This website is the final outcome of the research project funded by the AHRC in collaboration with the Sainsbury Research Unit at the UEA. Students were asked to work in role as anthropologists to find out about life in Niger through getting to know students at a school there.

They emailed, wrote letters and had simultaneous Skype ‘lessons’.

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Hands on History GCSE History students visited the Castle Museum for a taster day on the History of Medicine.

On the 28th November 45 GCSE History students had the opportunity to visit Norwich Castle to get a taster for the History of Medicine unit they will be studying later in the year.

Among the highlights of the day was being able to see and handle objects from the archive of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Objects included false legs, a latex bottom that was used for teaching doctors how to administer epidurals, a selection of saws, pliers and scalpels used by surgeons over the years and urine colour charts used by medieval doctors to

diagnose health problems. Our most disgusting discovery was the hospital’s collection of bladder stones – some of them were the size of an egg, which is certainly something to make your eyes water!

We learned that during the 1800s Norfolk had an epidemic of bladder stones, that in severe cases they could be fatal and that the causes of the outbreak have never been discovered.

A member of the museum staff skillfully played the role of the famous Norfolk surgeon, Doctor Joseph Clover, throughout the day.

Clover was a pioneer in the use of anaesthetics and provided pain relief to Queen Victoria during the birth of one of her children. We were told gruesome and shocking stories of surgery before anaesthetic,

and the pupils were challenged to measure out an accurate dose of the anaesthetic chloroform – this proved to be a virtually impossible task, and in reality could cause patients to overdose and die.

We then took part in a debate with a group of History students from Stalham High School on the topic of antiseptics. Our CAN students held their own impressively against Stalham, and were confident, polite and responsible throughout the day.

We even had time to explore some of the other exhibitions within the Castle – for some of our group it was the first time they had visited the Castle and they keenly went off in search of Egyptian mummies and the dungeons!

China Day at The Fitzwilliam

Welcome to the LRC news pages We are settled into our new building and we are really enjoying the fantastic new space. We have been really busy this term with students making the most of all our new resources.

The kindles have been really popular as has the exciting new magazine range we now stock.

Students are reading more than ever and we can hardly keep up with the many suggestions they have for new books in the LRC. We have book groups running most days and students have been to Open to see Cherub author Robert Muchamore speak about his books. At the moment we are reading the Hobbit in preparation for a cinema trip to see the film.

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Our second mini Literary festival has been a great success with students working on their creative writing with authors, a poet and lecturers from the UEA. Year 7s have been busy completing reading challenges in their LRC lessons and we are hoping to reward them with a record number of bronze Reading Matters certificates at the end of this term.

The LRC is open every day from 8am to 4.30pm and the Learning Team are always on hand to help with research, homework or just choosing something to read.

We would love to hear any suggestions or requests you may have for the LRC and you can email us at lrc@cityacademynorwich.org

City Academy Norwich Language students were invited to a special event in Cambridge organised by Routes into Languages.

After a very early start we arrived at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and were greeted by a delegation of Chinese academics.

We were treated to a lecture on the Han Dynasty in China before being given a challenging quiz to complete while touring the Tomb Treasures of Han China. This was a fantastic exhibition full of exquisite sculptures and jewellery from the Han Dynasties of China.

We then spent an hour being introduced to the Chinese Language in a lively session where I am proud to say all our students won prizes for their skill in learning a new language.

This was followed by a Chinese lunch at Anglia Ruskin University and a Wing Chun Martial Arts Session.

Students finished the day learning the ancient art of Chinese calligraphy using both traditional brushes and ipad apps to practise drawing Chinese numbers and words.

All in all, a really interesting and challenging day!

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CAN’s Second Mini Literary Festival This was the first in a series of planned joint ventures with our colleagues from Wayland Academy* who arrived at CAN on a damp, cloudy morning with bright sunny spirits eager to participate in a day dedicated to Literacy, Learning and a bit of Socialising.

For the day, we drew on much local expertise; the poet Tom Warner, local authors Paul & Gail Gallagher and an expert from UEA Dr Jo Poppleton.

Each of our esteemed guests took it in turns to deliver a session

Students Favourite Reads focussing on different areas of Literacy in a lively way that differed and expanded on what students usually receive in the classroom.

As a Gifted & Talented event, this allowed students the opportunity to meet and socialise with like-minded

The first Robert Muchamore book I read was called The Recruit.

individuals from another school and this combined with their enthusiasm ensured the workshops moved on at a startling rate with all making fantastic progress, new friends and showing off what they were capable of.

On 7th November we went to Open Youth Venue for a talk with Robert Muchamore.

Study skills Year 7 have been working on their Study Skills in their LRC lessons to help them with their Environment research project

Story Telling Workshop

Reading Matters

On Wednesday 14th November, Miss Duncan ran a story telling workshop for a class of Year 6 students from Henderson Green.

Classes from Year 7 have been coming to the LRC once a week to complete their Reading Matters challenges.

They were looking at methods of story telling and focusing on the skills needed to write a good story (vocal, structure etc).

They then had to create their own story. One group even did theirs as a film about a superhero saving schools from bullying! Thank you to Miss Duncan for a fun and informative afternoon.

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Students are working towards their bronze, silver and gold awards by completing a series of tasks based around the books they are reading.

They have been designing their own covers, making word searches and writing reviews about their favourite books.

• Know what you’ve got to do – find and highlight keywords • Identify sources of information; books/magazines and computers • Search for relevant information • Select the bits you want to use by skimming and scanning • Ignore stuff you’re not sure about – check for bias, honesty and the author’s qualifications • Make notes!

• Bullet points, lists, mindmaps, spiders, • Re-present in chosen format – BUT Don’t just copy and paste • Give acknowledgement to your sources • Make a bibliography!

*Wayland Academy, City College Norwich and City Academy Norwich all form part of an expanding Federation of learning institutions who share expertise, resources and an enthusiasm for the best outcomes for the students.

He was talking about how he first became an author and what inspired him to become an author.

He talked about how he and his mates used to go to the football games and cause trouble. He also talked about how his friends then started asking him to carry weapons in for them so he stopped going to the football with them and found new friends.

He talked about how he tried to turn goth and was only allowed to get clothes from BHS. He also talked about how he got a girlfriend and her mum asked him what he wanted to be so he said an author to sound as if he had ambitions.

He went to Australia to see his nephew which inspired him to become an author and when he went back to Australia he saw a book shop and people were lined up around the block to see him.

Poppy Harvey

I was not familiar with the book until a teacher told me that we would be seeing the author. So in the holidays I decided to read it and I enjoyed it. Although the cover looks like the story is a boy story, it is suitable for girls too. I couldn’t put the book down and after a few hours I had finally finished all 42 chapters of the book. I noticed that on the front cover it said “You’ll completely think it’s true”. And I do! When we saw the author he spoke mainly about the Cherub series and his first book.

I knew what he was talking about.

I can’t wait to read his next book and I will definitely be reading the first and second series of Cherub.

Emma Holmes

A new addition to the LRC is the Maze Runner series.

It is set in the future and solar flares have destroyed the planet and killed most of the world’s population. Most of those who survived have caught a disease that festers in the brain called the flare.

WICKED, an organization of the remaining governments has set up an experiment where Thomas and his friends must survive the trials in the hope that there can be a cure. I rate this book 10 out of 10. It takes several chapters to get going but it’s well worth the wait. It’s great for fans of the Hunger Games and I recommend it if you’re looking for a gripping read.

Jade Fox

Darren Shan is the number 1 children’s horror writer and if you read some of his books you would be able to see why.

The Thin Executioner came out in April 2010. It was originally inspired

by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and was based on a brutal yet fantastical world. The book probably has one main character called Jebel, the thin son of an executioner. He has to petition a fire god for invisibility so that he can save his father.

“The Thin Executioner” is one of the many disgusting stories Darren Shan has written. In fact, there are 46 published Darren Shan books including “The Saga of Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak)”, “The Demonata” and “The Saga of Larten Crepsley”.

Shan is in possession of thousands of films and collects original artwork.

He enjoys reading books, taking long walks, watching football and listening to pop and rock music. The facts I’ve found probably show that Darren Shan is like us, except he has a really wrong, twisted imagination.

Chelsea Jeary My top books that I’ve read are Good Night Mr Tom because I think it is really interesting to know about Tom and Willie.

I also like Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. I really like this book because it’s really funny and I like number 1 and number 2 Rodrick Rules. I also like Twilight New Moon because it’s really good and telling you about vampires and werewolves!!!!

Cerys Palmer y7

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Safer Schools Officer St John Ambulance Cadets at City Academy Norwich Norfolk St John Ambulance Schools and Community Team started providing first aid training to students at City Academy in 2011 as part of their Academy curriculum.

This year at City Academy Norwich, St John Ambulance is teaching First Aid in a new exciting way, emphasising how to help make a difference between a life lost and a life saved and give students a recognised qualification within St John.

To enable this to happen, we have set up a pilot scheme to form a Cadet Division at the Academy and register the students as members of this Division.

This is the first scheme of its type nationally and will provide a template to expand the way forward in involving young people in St John and the number of people within the community able to provide first aid to those in need.

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The aim of this course has been to train the young cadets in basic and emergency first aid, to develop leadership, teamwork and give them skills for life. At the end of this term they will have completed the Young First Aiders course, which enables them to be registered as Cadet First Aider Operational. This level of skill would normally take twice as long to acquire.

The first half term was very busy learning the basic skills for first aid, to be able to deal with an emergency effectively, safely and promptly.

This has included elements such as incident management, primary survey, choking, bleeding, infection, prevention and control, bone injuries and resuscitation. They have also been able to practice basic casualty simulation, which allows them to see authentic looking injuries.

During the second part of the term the cadets have been able to extend their basic first aid skills further and have qualified in the use of an

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to P.C. Hayley Harwood, Safer Schools Officer (pictured).

automated external defibrillator (AED).

This equipment is used on patients suspected of having a heart attack and has been used many times to save lives. They are the first school students in the Country to qualify and be passed competent in the use of an AED, a truly outstanding achievement.

Hayley who is based at the school and will be working with students in assemblies, classes and on a one to one basis to improve the quality of life in the school. Hayley has replaced P.C. Trevor Eves who retired at the end of the summer term. We welcome Hayley to the Academy and wish her well in her new role with us.

TITAN We are pleased to announce that our Travel Independence Training Across the Nation, (TITAN), under the leadership of Danielle Wilkinson, is now an award winning provision.

The Certificate of Excellence was awarded on 1 October 2012, recognising our outstanding acheivements.

Well done to Mrs Wilkinson and all the students!

The cadets had a formal presentation for their certificates on Wednesday 19 December 2012.

Next term: The Cadets will work on skills to become apprentice trainers for first aid. This will not only develop their skills to assist them with peer training, but also prepare them for competitions held within the region next year.

Article by Kim Parnham-Bentley Lead Trainer Norfolk Schools and Community Team St John Ambulance

Movember A number of Academy staff gamely took part in Movember!

Movember is a growing charity event held during November each year that raises awareness of male cancers.

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For more information, please visit www.cityacademynorwich.org City Academy Norwich 299 Bluebell Road Norwich NR4 7LP

Tel: 01603 452 628

Prinicpal Mr D Brunton

Email: office@cityacademynorwich.org

Fax: 01603 507 215

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S D A Griffiths MA Head Master Telephone: 01603 728442

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