Arete by Colchester Academy - Issue 5

Issue 5

““If If you deliver are going excellence to achieve right excellence now, that gives in bigyou things, the best you shot develop at the best thefuture habit in you’ve littlegot matters. Excellence coming.”

- Robert Forster is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

- Colin Powell

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Excellence of any kind

Areté Excellence of any kind Introduction Welcome to our latest issue of Areté.

Here at Colchester Academy we strive to ensure that our young people receive the very best education, realise their full potential and are prepared to become responsible and successful citizens. We make a real difference to the lives and outcomes of our students.

Based on our values of Culture, Character, Currency and Commitment, we ensure that we make the most of every learning experience, every day.

We are very proud of the work our students create every day. In light of this, we have created Areté; a collection of excellent work from a range of subject areas.

Areté in its basic sense, means “excellence of any kind”. In its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion of excellence was ultimately bound up with the notion of fulfillment of purpose or function: the act of living up to one’s potential. This is what we expect from our students every day.

We hope you enjoy this selection of excellent work.

J B et t s

Principal

A rtw o rk Artwork

byDarius Rumana Ferdushi by Margineanu Year Year 10 11 student Student

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Arete Excellence of any kind Music Dance Music by Daniel Nartea, Year 9 Student

Daniel has been learning about dance music in his Year 9 music lessons. He has been able to use this music sequencing software on the internet, which means he can work at home, as well as in his Music lessons.

This term he has looked at drum programming, audio editing and chord sequences as part of his assessment work.

Through his own independent work he has been learning about basslines and drops too.

Daniel’s work shows a good awareness of structure, texture and phrase length in dance Music.

Mr Searl Head of Performing Arts

AretĂŠ Excellence of any kind Computer Science Programming by Marvin Copleston, Year 10 Student

In Computer Science, students have been studying the concept of Selection in the programming language of Python. Marvin grasped this concept very early on and wanted to extend his learning.

Marvin was tasked with designing a program that populated an array with random numbers. An array is a data structure that holds a wide range of variables of similiar nature. This area of programming historically has been a challenge for even the most confident of programmers.

Marvin was able to complete the task effectively using computational thinking and a logical approach to the task.

This was very impressive work from a student who has only recently started learning the programming language.

Mr Wills Assistant Principal

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Artwork

A r t w o r k

by Layla Armstrong Year 10 Student Year 10 Student

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Photography

by Jessica Mayne Year 11 Student

Areté Excellence of any kind Art & Design Architectural Studies by Katelyn Hockley, Year 11 Student

We have been studying the work of Ian Murphy and students have worked with processes, while Year 9 students havesimilar run a Spanish teaching looking at architectural details. lesson once per fortnight to members of staff at Colchester Academy, offering them the Ian Murphy is a UK based over 30 years. The chance to artist learn of basic vocabulary and artist is constantly on the lookout next were artistic structures they couldfor usehis if they to challenge, butholiday one aspect remains constant in in a which Spanish speaking country. his artwork is his love of architecture.

Lesson 1 was how to introduce yourself and Katelyn has used newspaper, say brown paper where youand are tissue from. paper to create a textured ground then worked top Lesson 2 is based on how to order theonmost with fine line pen and acrylicpopular paint for theand highlights. food drinks.

ThisStudents is an outstanding piece ofthe work from by Katelyn. have introduced lessons using a “Do Now” activity; teaching the easier vocabulary before moving onto the core Ms Coburn vocabulary, followed by pronunciation Head of Art &plan Design practise. Each week, these students the next lesson to build on prior knowledge and cement the language into teachers’ long-term memory.

Miss Constantinescu Head of MFL

AretĂŠ Excellence of any kind Spanish Speaking Assessment by Connie Leggett, Year 8 Student

This is a very impressive start to the year in Spanish for a Year 8 student who only started learning the language in March.

Listening is notoriously difficult to score high grades, as you do not have much time to assimilate to the sound of the language when entering a classroom after studying and speaking in English all day.

However, Connie has achieved 100% in her Spanish Listening Assessment. This is excellent progress and I hope it gives Connie the confidence to continue her language studies.

Mrs Alvarez EAL Coordinator

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Artwork

by Leo Bryden Year 11 Student

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Artwork

by Jessica Turnbull Year 10 Student

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Arete Excellence of any kind Childcare Inclusive and Non-Inclusive Practise by Angel Akatobi, Year 11 Student

This piece of work by Angel is from a coursework piece for the subject BTEC Childcare.

She has shown clear excellence with knowledge and understanding of coursework material.

She has produced work to the highest category of distinction, showing clear analysis of case studies.

This has helped enable her to be currently achieving a Distinction* overall in her Childcare course.

Miss Jones Head of PE

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Culture

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Character

Commitment

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Currency