EFA Weekly Round Up 23rd Sept

Essa Foundation Academies Trust Weekly Round Up 23rd September 2022

On Monday we closed for the national bank holiday to honour Queen Elizabeth II in her state funeral.

Staff and students watched from their homes and as I’m sure you’ll agree, experienced an emotional, memorable and moving procession and service.

This was the first of its kind in our lifetime and it was extremely sad, whilst also being exceptional. On Tuesday students and staff shared their thoughts and agreed that they felt very proud to be British.

In honour of the our late Queen and new King, we continue to teach and embody our British Values every day and celebrate living in this wonderful country and community.

We are recruiting Visit www.essaacademy.org/vacancies for more information

Essa Academy Open Evening

We cannot express enough how thankful we are to our community, parents, carers, students and staff for allowing us to achieve our most successful Open Evening ever.

With over 450 visitors through our doors on Tuesday 20th September and wonderful feedback, we are humbled and very excited for the future!

Best

ATTENDANCE EVER!

We want to say a particular thank you to our student helpers who were incredible on the night and received amazing feedback from visitors. Also a very special thank you to our staff, who once again went above and beyond to make the night memorable and wonderful.

Watch our highlights!

Faculty Winners Science Maths Humanities

Congratulations to our top faculties on the night as chosen by our guests! It was incredibly close this year, with every subject receiving a vote as No.1!

We surveyed 99 parents / carers who visited us and received some very humbling feedback. Thank you to all.

74 out of 99 parents surveyed left saying that Essa Academy is their first choice.

were

Please bring your device (e.g mobile phone or laptop)

Essa Academy BBC Share Your Story On Wednesday 21st September we welcomed the BBC into Essa Academy as part of their #ShareYourStory tour.

It was wonderful to hear inspirational talks from their employees; the students were hooked!

Thank you.

Essa Academy Rap School!

On Tuesday our English faculty hosted a series of workshops through Rap School! The Rap School run educational rap and spoken word workshops for young people. Rap and spoken word poetry are an alternative way to teach literacy, poetic techniques and vocabulary through creative writing. Learning to collaborate and perform raps and performance poetry aloud helps build confidence and improve communication skills. Our students loved it!

The new Young Writers Competition is here! Last year we had some wonderful entries which resulted in students’ work being published. We encourage all to join in again and can’t wait to read the creative ideas you come up with. See Miss Antrobus or Mrs Hayes for more information.

Essa Academy Faculty Events International Day of Languages!

Some of our Year 11 students visited Runshaw College this week for a European Day of Languages event where students were able to practise their language skills in a college environment with other language students

Next week is Languages Week at Essa Academy!

Watch this space in the next edition for more!

Cooking up a storm!

The smells from the food corridor this week have been amazing! Focaccia bread made by our talented Year 10s!

Essa Academy Best Book Every week we will feature our best book / books!

This week we congratulate Abdullah and Arya from Mrs Hayes’ Year 10 English for their superb note taking, thoughtful work and beautiful presentation. Well done!

Essa Academy In other news…

Here are some other news stories from this week taken from our Essa Academy social media accounts…

Why not follow us? @EssaAcademy @Essa.Academy @EssaAcademyOfficial @EFATrust

Essa Academy Prospectus Following our Open Evening, our new prospectus is now available to view online!

Take a look to read about our curriculum offer, vision and values for 2022 - 2023.

www.essaacademy.org/prospectus

Essa Primary Reception Reception have been exploring different ways to practise their number recognition and phonics. The children have loved writing new graphemes outside with large pieces of chalk and recognising numbers to 10 on a large number track.

Essa Primary Year 1 In Year 1, we have been learning about our local area in Geography.

We learnt about different types of housing and features around school and then looked on Google Maps.

The children enjoyed recreating their own 3D maps showing what our local area looks like.

Essa Primary Year 2 In English, we have been reading ‘The Jolly Postman’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We have created story maps, retold the story orally and started to innovate our own versions of the story.

Essa Primary Year 3 In Science, we investigated which surface created the most friction. We measured how far the car travelled on each surface and found that the jumper had the most friction and the table had the least.

Essa Primary Year 4 In Year 4 we have been exploring properties of different states of matter. We weighed different fizzy drinks, stirred them until they went flat and then weighed them again. We discovered the gases do in fact have mass!

Essa Primary Year 5 In Year 5 we have been exploring the book “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. We have explored the characters, setting, historical vocabulary. We have worked hard using text to complete: point, evidence and explain tasks. Currently, we are writing the next chapter in the story. For homework we could write a dairy extract as a workhouse child and this example is the first page of Zainab’s writing in Giraffes – well done!