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WAYLAND ACADEMY NORFOLK’S

SUMMER 2017

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It was been another absolutely jam packed year at Wayland Academy, each year it amazes me how much staff and students squeeze in to the academic year. The summer term always seems to be the most hectic, with Year 11 leaving and Year 6 arriving for almost two weeks of transition.

At the end of April we were inspected by Ofsted and their report is available on our website http://waylandacademy.org.uk/ofsted-report.

We have made excellent progress over the summer term on our comprehensive action plan and we look forward to sharing this progress when we next meet with inspectors in the new academic year.

We said farewell to Year 11 and it is always nice to reflect on their journey and how far they have come.

It’s great to see them leaving with a plan and I wish them the best of luck in the future. We had a brilliant night at Prom, despite dubious dancing and unique music requests. The vehicles and outfits were amazing as ever. I would like to congratulate Joel and Lauren as Prom King and Queen, voted for by those in attendance.

Students were required to jointly deliver their own assembly on Confidence. Students then had to deliver a 7 minute presentation on “feeling safe” and “improving links to the community”. This was followed by a panel interview. It was a very closely scored process and we are incredibly proud of Henry and Jess who came out as Head Boy and Girl. We would also like to congratulate the other successful members of the Junior Leadership Team.

Henry George Head Boy

Jessica Russon Head Girl

A tradition of the summer term is Sports Day, despite a cancellation for poor weather and the threat of rain, the PE Team delivered another successful event with Star House emerging as champions for 2017. It was also great to see so many staff and students taking part in the mass participation event “The Wayland K”, I look forward to running the Cross Country with students in the winter. Based on the success of the 2016 race, I’m sure we can organise a parent, student and staff cross country race again!

In September you will see the return of some familiar faces, if you haven’t seen them around over the past few weeks we have already welcomed back Mrs Thuell, Mrs Ewens and Mrs Tucker from maternity leave, Mrs Chapman and Mrs Cardus will be back in September.

Charlotte Ross Junior Leadership

Emily Rumer Junior Leadership

Emma Bambridge Junior Leadership

Year 11 will be welcomed back for a results day assembly on 24th August at 10am.

Amelia Lawes Junior Leadership

The Year 11 leavers made way for a new Junior Leadership Team, this year’s applicants were amazing.

We were privileged to welcome Year 6 students for 8 days of transition at the end of the term. I trust that this

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has given them a good feeling for the welcoming and supportive community we have at Wayland Academy.

The Duke of Edinburgh scheme was recently launched and Year 10 students are completing the Silver Award, they will have returned from the expedition by the time you read this. Students will be able to sign up for the next cohort with Mr Read soon.

• Ensuring your son/daughter has excellent attendance; • Making sure students bring the right equipment to school for all lessons; • Reinforcing the importance of making all of their work well-presented and to the best of their ability; • Encouraging your child to improve their literacy skills by reading for pleasure at home; • Letting us know if you have any concerns at all regarding any aspect of your child’s welfare at school.

We are looking forward to September and welcoming students back for another exciting year. We have lots planned to make it another exciting and engaging year. Have a lovely summer and see you on Wednesday 6th September.

Glen Allott Principal

IMPROVING LIFE CHANCES THROUGH EDUCATION.

We will continue to ask for your ongoing support into the new academic year. Parents/carers play a huge part in supporting the success of students. In particular, when they start with us in September, parents/carers can help support learning by:

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DT News

D&T Club

Wayland Chamber of Commerce

Thank you to the students who have attended the Design Technology lunchtime club. It was great to see you all so inspired to complete additional work in your own time. We will continue to run this club next year, you will be informed of dates in September.

Isabella Bayley and Jasmine Vincent were presented with their prizes for the Wayland Chamber of Commerce Information Trade and Services Directory Cover Competition 2017/2018 Young Designer Award.

GCSE Photography It was a pleasure to see the GCSE photography exhibition work displayed in the skills centre; the exhibition was well attended and it was wonderful to show students work to parents, careers and invited guests.

The last 5 years at Wayland Academy have taught me a lot about myself and what is expected of me later on in life.

In my final year I took on the role of Head Girl, this is one of my greatest achievements at the school. The process was a difficult one but gave me the opportunity to build confidence and show what I wanted for the school.

The Rotary Club of Watton and District Young Designer Competition This year’s winners for the Rotary Club Young Designer Award were Nieve Merchant and Charlotte Clubb; it was a pleasure to attend the evening and showcase their work to members of the local Rotary Club.

Moment of reflection from our 2017 Head Girl Lauren Dade

Niece won first place for her original denim shirt design (stich craft jacket made from old jeans) and Charlotte won first place for Effort for the work she put in to her wooden Train.

Becoming a prefect was the first step.

This involved writing a letter on my strengths and weaknesses. Having never written a formal letter it took me a long time to figure out exactly what I wanted to put, especially the strengths.

Putting your strengths and weakness down is really difficult and makes you look at what you want to develop about yourself during the process. I decided that one of my biggest weaknesses was confidence with speaking to large groups.

After I handed the letter in it took a week for the prefects to be chosen and to my surprise I was picked to take on duties in the long corridor. The duties were done on a rota and involved making sure that pupils were safe and that school rules were being followed.

After a couple of months we were asked to apply for a position on the Junior Leadership Team (JLT). This was it, the moment that many of us had been waiting for. There were ten applicants for the six positions. The letter was only the first step though, this was the bit I had been dreading, the speech in assembly.

All my peers were in the assembly hall waiting for each of us to give a speech.

The idea of standing up in front of my whole year group scared me, I had no idea what I wanted to say and what made me any better at the role than

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End of Term News

anyone else. All I remember is being told to look up and not read from a script, I tried my best but every time I looked up Mr Allott was there watching. When I had finished they clapped and I walked off not sure how well I had done.

The final part of the process was a 20 minute interview and presentation in front of Mr Allott, Mr Harder and Dylan Evans (ex Head Boy). This xwas the last time I could show off what made me a good candidate. I had glandular fever and so had been off the previous couple of days. I came in for the interview unable to talk without coughing but I wanted a position on the JLT so tried my best.

The presentation went well and I only had two coughing fits. I had to relax and think through each question before answering, this was the best advice I had been given. Waiting was the hardest part especially as each candidate went in individually, making it even scarier as I was left till last. I was given the news and it was amazing to be told that I had been given the opportunity to become Head Girl. I had many mixed emotions but I couldn’t quite believe that I had accomplished something like this. I was so excited to be working with a team of such talented people.

For me, Head Girl didn’t mean that I was in charge or I ruled over everyone.

It meant that I was given a chance to voice the students’ opinions and to make the Academy a better place for everyone. It meant that the whole of the JLT could put our strengths together to make sure Wayland Academy was a safe, friendly and fun environment to be in.

Since becoming Head Girl I have made many speeches at events such as the rotary club and the celebration evening for ex pupils. I have also helped organise, with the rest of the JLT, a summer fete to raise money for our school prom and represented the school at many open evenings and parents evenings.

Throughout my experience of being Head Girl I have learnt to believe in my own strengths and to work on my weaknesses. Never let other people tell you that you can’t do something, as long as you put hard work in and give it your best, you have nothing to feel bad about. I never thought I would end my time at Wayland Academy writing my experience down as Head Girl but I succeeded where others had told me I would fail. So if you get the opportunity to go for something outside your comfort zone, give it some thought because you may surprise yourself.

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RE News

Library News

Carnegie Book Group 2017

Visit to St Mary’ Church

Keen readers from the Academy were invited to join other students and staff across the TEN Group at the University Technical College (UTC) where a morning of lively literary discussions took place. The main focus was the eight shortlisted books in contention for this year’s Carnegie Medal award which is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.

The Smell of Other people’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchock was the preferred choice of the students but the actual Carnegie winner was Ruta Septys with her gripping, heart-breaking novel set in World War 2, Salt to the Sea, inspired by the worst disaster in maritime history. Told from four intertwining perspectives, the characters are forced to forget their own personal struggles in a horrific struggle for survival.

On 24th March the Religious Studies GCSE students visited St. Mary’s Church in Watton. The Reverend Deborah Hamilton-Grey hosted various discussion groups with other members of the church to help further develop their understanding of Christian attitudes to a variety of modern day issues. The discussions were very open and often quite frank, with the WAN students asking pertinent and interesting questions.

inside a detention centre in Australia, won this category.

Most of the shortlisted books are available for borrowing so pop in to the library and grab a book!

Wayland Academy were also delighted to win, by a whisker, the Literary Quiz organised by Mrs Moore, Librarian at the UTC. Well done to our well-read students!

During one of her visits the Reverend Deborah HamiltonGrey met members of the school council where they asked her a selection of questions for our Community Chat.

The visit was very interesting and opened a few eyes to the workings of a church and the work carried out in the wider community by the Reverend and the lay-preachers in the congregation. Our utmost thanks to the Reverend and her colleagues for the engaging and thought-provoking dialogue.

Following the visit to St. Mary’s Church in March the Reverend Deborah Hamilton-Grey attended many of the Religious Studies GCSE lessons running up to the examinations at the end of May. She was able to give valuable one-to-one and small group sessions with many students who benefited from the close analysis of the exam questions, theological knowledge and the Reverend’s interpretation of current events and issues.

Amnesty International also gives an Honour award and this year, Zana Fraillon’s powerful novel The Bone Sparrow, which highlights the plight of Burma’s Rohingya people and life

Bag2School Collection

On behalf of all the students in the class I would like to extend my thanks and gratitude to the Reverend for her time and help.

Thank you for your donations of unwanted items for the Bag2School collection held on 15th May 2017.

We raised £50 for Wayland Academy Student rewards and ECO Bugs.

The next collection for Bag2School is on Tuesday 14th November. Please put the dates in your calendar or use the Dates for your diary page to see when our next collections are.

We have 2 collections a year for you to bring in your unwanted items, bags are supplied or any bags that you have spare at home will do. They collect – Good quality adults’ and children’s clothing, paired shoes, hats, belts, handbags, ties and soft toys. (No bedding, curtains, towels, household linen or bric-a-brac).

Money raise from the collection goes towards student rewards and ECO Bugs. follow us on Facebook

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Thank you for your continues support.

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RE News

RE News

Community Chat with Rev. Deborah Hamilton-Grey

Are you originally from around here?

“No, I think my accent would have given it away (speaking in a Scottish tone) I’m from East Ayrshire” Did you Enjoy school?

“Yes well I enjoyed primary school, secondary was ok but I grew up in a time when it was quite sectarian with Protestants and Catholics. I was quite questioning at school so spent most of my time in the corridors” What was your favourite subject?

“I enjoyed English and of course RE (Religious Education) it gave me a platform for my questioning” Did you always want to do what you are doing now?

“Yes I knew from an early age that I wanted to help people and serve God. In 1989 I became a missionary after experiencing a healing. I have done lots

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of things; counselling, drug rehabilitation, set up counselling sessions in Birmingham to name a few.

The latest was 5 years ago when I was ordained as a Minister” How does your role fit into the community?

“All sorts of ways really, I have just been helping a grieving person, so helping with a listening ear, planning a service for funerals, weddings and baptisms. I also go into Westfield Infant and Nursery school assemblies, just lately I have been coming into Wayland Academy to help the Year 11 students for their up-and-coming exams. Twice a day 6.30am and in the evening we pray for the community, I guess my role is to help provide a community church for the community. My job title is a ‘Curer of Souls’ for 10.000 people” Who is your role model, and why?

“Mother Teresa because she was such

a saint on earth, she loved people, filled with love and when I die I would like people to say ‘Deborah was a blessing’, I try my best” What things do you like to do?

“I want to let people know that God loves them, encourage and support people, helping in the schools and in Wayland Academy’s RE lessons” What things do you not like to do?

“Oh that’s a hard one to answer, I don’t like spending too much time doing admin or sorting through piles of paperwork, even though I have a degree in administration. It means I have less time to spend with people” Tell us about a project or accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your life or career?

“I set up a counselling service at St Martins Church in Birmingham, hiring

50 councillors providing a free service to the community that is still going today. I also ran 10k to raise money for a children’s hospice Grace House, Newcastle in the North East. I am not a runner and it took me 1year to train for the race, yes that was an achievement” When have you been most satisfied in your life?

“When I am at peace with God – no small thing when there are so many terrible things happening in the world” If you were an animal or have a superpower what would it be?

With a little laugh “a dragon I think, I’m looking around the library now at the wonderful art work of dragons and I think that if I could be a dragon breathing out fire that could create peace”

If you were sitting here a year from now what will you have hoped to achieve?

“I will probably have moved on and be in a different place. Hopefully in a new parish helping them in their community” Wiktoria Jankowska asked – How do you find multicultural services e.g Polish, Romanian etc “Fantastic, always acceptable to other cultures, more the merrier. We have some Romanian people who come to church. Livia and George hold social evenings with food to share. I use the Bible gateway to translate my scriptures and when you sing it’s easier to communicate through song.”

Tristan Stanley Gould asked What is your favourite bible story?

“David and Goliath, I like it when justice triumphs”

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Geography & Humanities News

Climbing Club The climbing club has been busy this term and we now have a few people climbing at quite an advanced level and four Year 7 girls who are even now belaying each other for safety.

Whilst the wall in the sports hall is quite small it provides a number of routes that can challenge all abilities (Some even the staff can’t get up!) so anyone interested should come along 3:30-5:00 on a Thursday open to all years and free! See me for details.

Mr T Read Lead Professional in Geography

Year 8 Humanities Trip On Tuesday 2nd May the whole of Year 8 climbed onto buses and travelled the hour north to the County Museum at Gressenhall for a combined Geography and History trip.

For the History part of the day the pupils looked at whether the work house was really that bad. Both topics were followed up in lessons back at school.

During the day, the pupils met a number of characters played by actors who brought the topics they where looking at to life.

The day was very busy but the students enjoyed the two sections and said they would really recommend the trip to anyone.

For geography the pupils looked at an issue facing many of our towns and villages whether new homes, or countryside and habitat’s are more important.

Thanks to Gressenhall Museum of Rural Life, and the staff who helped to make the day a success.

Geography Field Trip

Geography & Humanities News

Mr T Read Lead Professional in Geography

Duke of Edinburgh This year’s silver award group, have now all selected the activities they will do for their skill, physical and volunteering sections with everything from helping with animal charities to dance and shooting (hopefully not all at the same time!) being done. The Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme helps develop a young person into a good, self-reliant and motivated individual and so is looked upon with favour by a lot of employers. This motivation will be tested in the final activity which is a four day expedition which the pupils are shortly going to begin training for.

Future inmates are given a dressing down by the Master of the workhouse

Year 9 will soon have the opportunity to sign up for next year’s group and information about that will come out to parents towards the end of term.

Mr T Read Lead Professional in Geography, D of E Manager.

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Gressenhall Museum of Rural Life

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Messages

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Call for Wayland Community High School alumni to help inspire the next generation to succeed Wayland Academy Norfolk (formerly Wayland Community High School) is calling on former pupils to join a new alumni group and help today’s students achieve their career aspirations.

The new alumni group is linked to a wider campaign from the academy – ‘Inspire Wayland’ – which aims to inspire the success of current and future generations of students at Wayland Academy Norfolk.

The academy plans to highlight and celebrate the success of its former students, showing today’s young people what can be achieved and the routes taken to enter the wide range of careers that their predecessors have progressed on to.

Wayland Academy Norfolk will be inviting alumni to speak to current pupils face-to-face, as well as sharing their stories on its website and NewsLink magazine for students and parents. There will also be opportunities for a lumni to play a role in mentoring and supporting students.

Glen Allott, principal, Wayland Academy Norfolk, said: “Creating high aspirations for students has always been central to our ethos at Wayland Academy Norfolk. To realise these ambitions students need to be supported to achieve and offered clear pathways that can take them to their chosen futures.

“Increasing the involvement of our alumni in this process will be very inspiring for students, whilst giving them access to practical advice, support and links with different careers they may wish to get in to. I hope that lots of former students will come forward and help support and encourage the success of the current generation.”

Young Chef Competition Kimberley Townsend winner of the Rotary Young Chef Competition along with Lara Linge and Joshua Peters who were runners up pictured at the presentation evening which took place at the Hare & Barrel Hotel with Mike Haythorpe and David Branson from the Watton and District Rotary Club.

Former students of Wayland Academy Norfolk / Wayland Community High School can join the academy’s alumni group online at: www.waylandacademy.org.uk/ inspire.

Limousine to Prom Congratulations to Nieve Merchant and Chelsea Alderton-Spells who will be arriving at Wayland Academy’s Prom in style. Nieve and Chelsea were the winners of a competition hosted

by Breckland Funeral Services, to each be chauffer driven in a stretch limousine from their homes to the prom at Park Farm, Hethersett. Students were asked to persuade Breckland Funeral Services, in no more than 30 words, as to why they should be the lucky person to win this experience. Nieve’s and Chelsea’s entries stood out from the rest and they will now travel in luxury, with 5 friends, starting their evening off in style.

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Welcomes and Goodbyes!

2017-18 Junior Leadership Team

Wayland Academy would like to welcome two new members of staff Mrs Ashford, who has joined the Science department and Mr Linney, who has joined the English department.

The 2017-18 Junior Leadership Team are Henry George - Head Boy, Jessica Russon - Head Girl, Amelia Lawes, Charlotte Ross, Emily Rumer and Emma Bambridge.

This time of year often sees us saying goodbye to staff and we have a few to say goodbye to V Hartley, A Ezzeldin, S Phillips, M Powley, G Hayden, N Barrow, R Leak, S Faulkner, C Thiel, M Tynan, C Mihalop, K Downes.

H ASHFORD Science Teacher

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A LINNEY English Teacher

We wish them all the very best for their future

Celebrating in style with the 2017 Leavers Prom at Park Farm Heathersett

A EZZELDIN Maths Teacher

V HARTLEY French Teacher

M Powley PE Teacher

N BARROW Target Group Mentor

K DOWNES Pastoral Support

S Faulkner Teaching Assistant

G HAYDEN DT Technician

C MIHALOP Intervention Coordinator

S PHILLIPS Maths Intervention

C THIEL Teaching Assistant

M Tynan Attendance Officer

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SEN News

Ten Out of TEN Over the past 4 months, 152 students from the Transforming Education Norfolk group have been working together on a project titled Ten Out of TEN, a project unique in its design in that it was not only created for students, but also created by students.

This novel approach was the bright idea of Camouflaged Learning, an education engagement company based in Dereham, and it’s one that has proven to be very successful with both schools and students, with schools reporting significant increases in student behaviour, attitude and attainment.

Sessions delivered over the last 4 months have included techniques to c reate courage and confidence, rigour and resilience, and co-operation and communication, with every aspect being delivered in an atmosphere of ‘doing it differently.’

After 17 heats, 52 students from Wayland Academy, Fakenham Academy and UTC Norfolk headed off to Eaton Vale to put to the test all that they had learned, in the most extreme way possible. In fact, it was literally sink or swim!

The Grand Final event at Eaton Vale was deliberately designed to position the students as far outside of their comfort zone as possible, and tasked them to solve an emergency survival scenario, namely being stranded on a desert island, with no food, no water, no shelter and no means of escape! To survive this challenge, students first had to use orienteering

SEN Academy Garden skills to forage for food, drink and supplies, before preparing their own food on self-engineered cookers (made from fizzy drink cans, scavenged from the bins!), then build their own wilderness survival shelter, in readiness for a coming storm.

And, if the students survived the ‘storm’- actually a soaking from Camouflaged Learning staff armed with high-powered water pistols- the students had to make their escape along Eaton Vales river in make shift boats made only from the cardboard boxes, bamboo and bin-bags they had found hidden around the site.

Over the last few years, funding for educational extracurricular activities has been cut quite severely. As a consequence, our academy garden has lost the care and attention it so desperately needs. Our outdoor space is a facility which we wish to use to enhance the variety of learning environments we already provide at Wayland Academy.

Ten Out of TEN has been a transformational experience for the students at Wayland. This project was a superb opportunity to build relationships between students and work as part of a diverse team rather than friendship groups, thereby overcoming barriers of age difference, and forge inter-year friendships.

100% of the students involved have communicated significant improvements in their confidence, some by more than 50%.

It has also resulted in a globally improved desire to want to come to school. Student surveys have also shown significant improvements in students’ perception of their own ability to problem solve and more importantly their ability to cope when things go wrong, which greatly supports curriculum changes and the new generation of GCSEs, which have significantly increased the emphasis on problem solving and independent thinking. This has been our second year involved with what has been a life changing opportunity for the students.

For this, we may need your help.

We need some wooden garden furniture to help us create a sheltered garden space to be used for teaching and the planned lunchtime club. If you have any unwanted items that fit the description we would be very grateful if you would donate them to us.

A garden design competition will take place among all our students to identify how they would like the space to look.

There are already a few features which have to remain but there is a lot of flexibility for a remodel.

Your help and suggestions for this will be much appreciated.

Chicken update!

Eggciting news!!! 2 newcomers have joined our resident chickens Hilda and Doris. Our new friends are called Hope and Lucky. We had heard that a local farm needed to reduce their number of stock and were looking for good homes for them. As we had lost our poor Betty at Christmas time, we had some room to home 2 more chickens and we were lucky enough to be chosen to rehome both new lovelies.

Hilda and Doris were, at first, a little bit put out by these ‘invaders’ but the pecking order was soon established and, providing Hope and Lucky don’t take liberties with the food, all is well.

The good news is that eggs are still laid on a daily basis and they are used for all sorts of fun recipes when we have reward lessons on Fridays.

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SEN News

Pets as Therapy GCSE Session As last year’s PAT (Pets as Therapy) well-being session for our GCSE students was such a success we decided to offer the same to our students again this year.

On 12th of May 2017 6 lovely four legged fur balls joined us for a chilled and social event.

With it being exam season, students can often get overwhelmed and stressed which, considering their work load, is not surprising.

Spending time with calm and gentle animals has been proven to reduce stress and anxiety. This was yet again evident with our students and our staff who were also keen to repeat last year’s well-being experience. Each one relished the chance to pet one of the lovely PAT dogs and enjoyed chats with their humans.

The feedback we received after our session was encouraging and suggests that this should become an annual event. We look forward to continuing our special relationship with PAT and seeing the positive impact, not only on our GCSE pupils but also on some of our younger students who enjoy the PAT ‘Read2dogs’ programme with Dora.

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Sport News

Rounders Results 2017

Athletics Team Sheet Congratulations on qualifying to represent Breckland at the Norfolk School Games Joshua Rix 7N - 100m, 4x100m

Beau Bonner 7M – 200m, 4x100m

Jakub Sobcyzynski 7S – Javelin

Paris Jones 7N – Shot Putt

Max King 7M - Discus

Ibbi Ivory 7M - Javelin

Harry Pullen 8S - 100m, Long Jump, 4x100m

Shannon Guerrero 7H - Discus

Gabriel Braz 8M- 800m

Jodie Courtman 8H – 1500m

Rian Wells 8M – Shot Putt

Bronwyn Nicol - 4x100m

Charlie Phillips 8H- High Jump

Alex Park 8M - Discus

Wiktor Gryn 9M – 100m, 200m, 4x100m

Amelia Golden 8S – Long Jump

Jayden Whitehair 9N - 100m, Long Jump, 4x100m

Erin Taylor 8N – High Jump

Will Baird-Parker 10S - Shot

Grace Schofield 9N – 100m, 200m, 4x100m

Kerris Walpole 10N - 100m, 200m, 4x100m

Alysha Barnes 9M – Shot Putt

Eve Martin 10M – 100m, 300m, Long, Triple High Jump

Kiera Smith 9H – Long Jump

Reeanna Cook 10S – 800m

Beth Childerhouse 9N – High Jump

Elle Kelner 10 H - Javelin

Sport News

Year 7

Year 8

Opponent

Result

Opponent

Result

Wayland v Northgate

Won 19.5 -7

Wayland v Northgate

Won 9.5 -9

Wayland v Neatherd

Lost 12.5-13.5

Wayland v Neatherd

Lost 16-18.5

Wayland v Attleborough

Won 8-6

Wayland v Attleborough

Won 6.5-3

Wayland v Thetford

Conceded Wayland win 5-0

Wayland v Thetford

Conceded Wayland win 5-0

Wayland qualify for the South Norfolk Semi-finals

Wayland miss out on semi finals by 0.5 rounders

Year 9

Year 10

Opponent

Result

Opponent

Result

Wayland v Northgate

Won 21.5 -10.5

Wayland v Northgate

Won 18 -7

Wayland v Neatherd

Won 12-8

Wayland v Neatherd

Lost 16-18.5

Wayland v Attleborough

Won 12.5-5.5

Wayland v Attleborough

Lost 9.5-20

Wayland v Thetford

Conceded Wayland win 5-0

Wayland v Thetford

Conceded Wayland win 5-0

Wayland v Iceni

Won 13-9.5

Wayland v Iceni

Lost 8.5-13

Wayland qualify for the South Norfolk Semi-finals

Under 13’s Cricket Team

Under 14’s Cricket Team

Congratulations on qualifying for

Congratulations on qualifying for

Wayland’s Under 13’s 8-a-side Hardball

Wayland’s Under 14’s Cricket Team

Harry Pullen 8S (Captain)

Josh Bayley 8N

Luke Paterson (Captain) S9

Josh Peters N8

Charlie Phillips 8H (Vice-Captain)

George Phillips 8H

Ralph Garrod (Vice-Captain) H9

Josh Bayley N8 (Wicket-keeper)

Josh Peters 8N

James Gavin 8H

Josh Pinkney S9

Charlie Parrott M9

Max King 7M

Joe Browning 7M

Rhys Atkinson S9

Max King M7

Milo Searle H9

Riley Smith S9

Toby Baker 7M

Finlay Martin N9

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Sport News

Ski Trip in Italy 2017

Sport News

Sports Day results

Another successful and fun ski trip to Italy with TM Ski this Easter. Nearly 40 Year 8-11 students took to the slopes for ski-ing and snowboarding.

A fun packed week with pizza, disco and roller blading just some of the apres-ski.

Big thank you to all the students and staff who made this trip ace.

PE Ski trip Heading home after a week in Italy

PE Ski trip Intermediates

PE Ski Group Begineers

Kiril wins Bronze shooting medal at the National Championships After arriving from Lithuania two years ago Kiril Voitiukevicius in Yr 9 joined the Norwich City Target Club. He has worked hard constantly trying to get high scores even if he has a bad shot! In February 2017 he came third in the National Championships in the 177/4.4m calibre air pistol cater gory. The practice certainly paid off!

Under 13’s Cricket

Under 14’s Cricket

On Wed 12th July our U13 cricket team (see attached team sheet for names) will compete in the regional final of the ECB’s ‘Chance to Shine’ competition. We successfully won the county competition back in March (picture attached) so now go forwards to represent Norfolk in the final held down in Essex.

Our U14 cricket team (see attached team sheet for names & photo) beat Iceni Academy by 3 wickets in a friendly match. Our top run scorers were Ralph Garrod (22) and Luke Paterson (26*) with wickets taken by Luke Paterson (4), Finley Martin (1) & Max King (2). Both teams fielded a mix of experienced players alongside those pupils playing their first game of 11-a-side hardball cricket - a great balance of competition with the chance for players to develop.

Norfolk Schools Athletics Following strong performances at the Mid-Norfolk Athletics Competition Will Baird-Parker, Eve Martin, Kerris Walpole, Alysha Barnes & Jayden Whitehair qualified for the Norfolk Schools Athletics Championships held at the UEA. This gave them the opportunity to compete against the best athletes in the county.

Well done, Kiril.

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Dates for your diary

Breckland Athletics Wayland Academy were the overall winners of the Breckland Athletics Competition which we hosted again this year. A large number of our pupils then qualified to represent Breckland in the Norfolk School

Games Athletics finals (see attached list and photos). Our two medal winners for Breckland were Eve Martin (3rd in triple jump & high jump) and Alex Park (third in discus).

JULY 2017 Fri 21 - Reports

issued Wayland Academy closes 3.15pm for Summer

AUGUST 2017 Thur 24 - Exam

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SEPTEMBER 2017 Mon 5 - Staff training Tue 6 - Staff training Wed 7 - Students return to Wayland Academy Thu 14 - Trip to Norwich City FC Community Sports Foundation Yr 7 Parent/Tutor conversation 4:30 - 7pm Yr 7 & 9 Photos Fri 15 - Mon 18 - DofE Expedition Wed 27 - Fri 29 - Yr 7 Residential Thu 28 - Open Evening

OCTOBER 2017 Tue 3 - Open Morning Wed 4 - Open Morning Thur 5 - Yr 6 Transition Taster day Thur 12 - Yr 11 Parent/Teacher conversation 4:30 - 7pm 6th Forms and College Evening Thur 19 - Wayland Academy closes 3.15pm for Half Term Mon 30 - Students return to Wayland Academy

NOVEMBER 2017 Tue 14 - Bag2School Collection Thur 16 - Y r 10 Parent/Teacher conversation 4:30 - 7pm Fri 17 - Skill Show Trip Thur 23 - Yr 11 Photos Thur 30 - A chievement evening 6:30 – 8:30pm

DECEMBER 2017 Mon 11 – Fri 15 - C elebration Assemblies Tues 19 - W ayland Academy closes 3.15pm for Christmas

JANUARY 2018 Wed 3 - Students return to Wayland Academy

Thur 18 - Yr 11 Parent/Teacher conversation 4:30 - 7pm

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