EssaFoundationAcademiesTrust 13thMarch2023
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Essa Academy Mental Health & Wellbeing
In the run up to GCSE exams its important to us that we are helping our Year 11 students manage any stress or anxiety that they may have. To support all students uring this stressful time we have the following resources available.
Exam stress
-Student Minds www.studentminds.org.uk/examstress.html
Exam Stress – Young Minds
https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/feelings-and-symptoms/exam-stress/
Online Mental Health and Wellbeing Platform
www.togetherall.com
Perfectionism Workshop
https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/resources/looking-after-yourself/perfectionism
Revision Timetable Apps (found in app stores)
My Study Life SQA My Study Plan
Timetable
My Academic Development
https://www.bolton.ac.uk/leaponline/My-Academic-Development/MyAssessments/Examinations.aspx
My Personal Development
https://www.bolton.ac.uk/leaponline/My-Personal-Development/MyWellbeing/Stress-Management aspx
The Life Lounges online mental health and wellbeing page (study skills, anxiety, health eating, self care and much more)
https://libguides.bolton.ac.uk/lifelounge
Self Refer to the Life Lounge
https://www.bolton.ac.uk/student-life/student-support/life-lounge/
Essa Academy World Book Day
BOOKDAY BOOKDAY WORLD WORLD
We celebrated World Book Day!
All staff at Essa Academy dressed up as book characters and the children loved the inpiration and efforts.
Essa Academy World Book Day
"Ifyouaregoingtogetanywherein lifeyouhavetoreadalotofbooks." RoaldDahl.
Essa Academy National Careers Week
Thanks to Miss Millburn, National Careers Week has been in full swing this week.
Students at Essa Academy shared their voices, giving suggestions and thoughts on how our careers lessons can be improved.
Essa Academy Rewards Assemblies
Thisweekwehavebeen celebratingthestrenuous effortsfromourstudents. Wekickstartedtheweek withyear11andyear10's rewardsassembly.Well donetoallthetremendous effortsfromourremarkable students.Wehavesome excitingrewardstrips comingup.
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Whats going on at Essa?
The Bolton Schools’ Dance Festival
So much effort, practice & hard work went into this piece of dance; they danced their hearts out to a sell out audience & absolutely smashed it. We aree super proud of them all!
Well done girls!!
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Whats going on at Essa?
Congratulations to Mr Lorenzen and Mr Farrington for completing the 4x4x48 challenge last weekend, where they ran 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours. What an incredible achievement in aid of a great cause.
Garden therapy stimulates all senses: sight, touch, taste, and sound, all through the use of different plants and materials.
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This week was the finals for the science communication competition
2023! The Essa Science teachers have listened to over 200 speeches, each individually created, practiced and performed by a Y9 student. A monumental effort from both staff and students culminated in the finals on Wednesday. Congratulati to you.
A huge well done to all our fi they had to perform their pie spoke with such confidence You did outstandingly, and th Thank you to all Y9s for thor lessons.
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Amassivecongratulationstoallcontestantswho participated.Wehadsomeinterestingtopics presented,fromWhatismelanin?toHowvideo gamescanhelpyourlearning.
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Year 10 have been working on some complex skills this week, deboning a chicken.
Year 7 took part in the best flipper challenge!
Cookinghelpstodevelopachild's planningandtimemanagementskills.
Essa Academy Leader Boards
Take a look at our current leader boards, this week for Sparx Maths.
Essa Academy Upcoming Events
Take a look to see what exciting events we have comping up this term at Essa Academy.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Essa Primary Reception
The Reception children have enjoyed creating art based on the artist Kandinsky.
The children drew their own circles using wax crayons and printed circles using different objects. All the children have explored colour mixing and created different secondary colours for their pieces of art.
Essa Primary Year 3
Year3havebeenusing differentmethodstodivide numbers.Weusedlolly stickstoworkoutdivision calculationswithremainders. Weweresoconfidentwith this,wemovedontoworking outthesecalculations pictorially!
Essa Primary Year 5
Year 5 after exploring the artist Cai Guo-Qiang as inspiration we then created our own sculptures using everyday objects.
