EFA Weekly Round Up 30th September

Essa Foundation Academies Trust Weekly Round Up 30th September 2022

We are recruiting

We are delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for a Teacher of Art to join our Arts team at Essa Academy on a permanent, full time basis!

This is a wonderful, cutting-edge faculty with exceptional results.

Please visit our website for the job pack and application form.

www.essaacademy.org/vacancies

Click to download and print this month’s calendar!

This week we celebrated Languages Week and the European Day of Languages at Essa Academy! From a staff dress up on Friday to student quizzes and cross-curricular lessons, our students had a great time and learned a lot. Thank you Team Languages!

Essa Academy Coffee, Cake & Connections Thank you to everyone who attended our Connections, Coffee and Cake event on Tuesday! Great to see and support so many of you. Well done to Miss Blackburn for organising.

Our brilliant front-of-house staff from tonight’s event! Well done Student Leadership, professional and welcoming as always!

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ClassCharts At Essa Academy we use ClassCharts to reward behaviour points, set blended learning and provide live updates to parents and carers on your child’s behaviour and learning in school.

See your child’s reward points and negative points as awarded by staff See if your child has received any C1 - C4 detentions Check your child’s blended learning tasks (homework) See your child’s timetable

All parents have been provided with a code to sign up on the app or website.

If you do not have your code, please contact: abbie.rock@efatrust.org

School Gateway School Gateway is parent engagement app used by Essa Academy which will allow you to keep up to date with school life, pay for school trips and meals, communicate with the school and view your child’s achievements and reports at anytime from anywhere.

If you’re not yet signed up, use the information below!

You can also use the web version!

Essa Academy Player Visit We have now received the official photographs from the Manchester United player visit last week!

Again, an amazing opportunity for some of our students who were able to meet players like Antony and Harry McGuire!

Watch their Official Video:

Essa Academy Year 9 Tournament

Very proud of our Year 9 footballers this week who competed in the Manchester United Foundation Academy tournament against other schools across the North West. Some amazing performances - you did us proud.

Some of our Year 11 students also took part in another wonderful event with the Manchester United Foundation this week. All will be revealed in next week‘s round up… watch this space!

Essa Academy Coming Soon…

Some of our Year 11 students also took part in another wonderful event with the Manchester United Foundation this week. All will be revealed in next week‘s round up… watch this space. A very special day for all involved.

Essa Academy Saturday School Last week we began our first Saturday School sessions of the academic year. Our first round will be led by English, Maths and The Bridge for targeted students. The sessions run from 10am 1pm. All students invited have had a letter and / or phone call.

More subjects and opportunities to come soon! If you’re interested in Saturday School or tutoring for a specific subject, let your teacher know.

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

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Essa Academy What’s for lunch?

Start planning your lunches with our food menu for next week! As always we have sandwiches, noodles, pasta and jacket potatoes too.

Very proud of this week’s star students across all five year groups as selected by the Head of Year and Wellbeing Lead.

These students demonstrated excellent effort, standards, spirit and achievement last week and were chosen out of around 200 other students in their year group!

Keep it up! Well done to all.

Our weekly social media infographic from the Wellbeing Team to support parents and carers. Zoom in to read.

Essa Primary Year 1 In Year 1, we have been learning about people who work in our local area and the names of the different jobs they do. We had some staff from our school to come and visit us in Year 1 to tell us about their jobs at Essa Primary. The children were very intrigued and asked many questions about their roles!

Essa Primary Year 2 In Maths we have been busy understanding the place value of tens and ones. We can now partition any two-digit numbers!

Essa Primary Year 3 This week, we have been innovating our own version of the Tin Forest and writing our own folk tales. We have enjoyed following the structure and using our own ideas. Have read of Afeefah’s story!

Essa Primary Year 4 In Year 4 we have been applying our knowledge of different jumps to the vault.

We learnt all about how to get onto the vault and how to land safely.

We have had so much fun.

Essa Primary Year 5 Coding fun – planning a traffic algorithm. We planned, made a sequence and programmed a simulation in 2code. The pupils had to drag objects into place then work on sequence for example using a timer. Adapt sequences due to scenario. Fantastic work Year 5.

Essa Primary Year 6 In Year 6, most of our pupils have had the opportunity to develop their bicycle riding skills and develop their understanding of how to ride safely on the road. The children have developed their glide, control, pedalling and awareness of surroundings whilst on their bike, in Level 1.

In Level 2, the children learnt how to start and stop, pass stationary vehicles and to understand, negotiate and share the road. We are incredibly proud of the determination and effort all of Year 6 put into these lessons.