Eaglet Newsletter 2011

Caistor Yarborough Academy’s Newsletter: December 2011

Warm welcome for International Partner School

Year 10 student Ellie Tuplin said, “It’s been a great experience being able to communicate with thosefrom Finland and to listen to them speaking about their country and traditions.”

In the past two and half years, CYA studentshave striven to create international links and

projects with other school communities worldwide.These Year 10 and 11s are studying an InternationalGCSE in Global Perspectives; a Cambridge Universityqualification that seeks to encourage independentlearning skills, as well as raising students awarenessof the many pressing issues that occur nationally, in-ternationally and globally.As part of this work, our IGCSE students were suc-cessful in their application for funding to plan and de-liver a Bilateral Comenius Project based onsustainable agriculture with the Pappilanmaki Sec-

ondary and Padasjoki Upper Secondary Schools inFinland. The title for this collaborative work is

“Our Food Future,” which hopefully suggeststhe kind of tasks that lay ahead relating to the de-velopment of sustainable food production.As a precursor to the start of this work, ten Finnishstudents and two staff arrived in Lincolnshire with twodays planned to attend Caistor Yarborough; experi-encing life at the Academy through a ‘day as a stu-dent’ by attending several lessons, sharingperformances of the traditional folktales of ‘The Kale-vala’ and visiting Lincoln to explore Lincolnshire’s her-itage. To celebrate the beginning of this joint venture,an evening was set aside to welcome everyone, witha buffet meal and presentation to wish all the verybest for “Our Food Future”!See page 10 for more student opinions.

The Eaglet

HollyWickham/Samira Essrout

Norman/Saxon both are Journalists

both loveTextiles

Holly: DropDead Fred

Samira: Lil-Wayne Holly: Clowns

Shopping and ‘Grand Designs’/Clothes, shoes, music Never Say Never/Never a failure, always a

lessonAn Interior Designer/ A Fashion Designer

Meet the Team… James Rispin Saxon

Editor Jam JarLibra

SmurfScience, Drama, Technology

Too many to choose from!The people who think they know everything annoy

us who do!Airplanes, especially the WW2 Spitfire

An Aviation Engineer

Amber Doughty Roman

News Journaliston the cusp of Piscies and Aries!

5ft something!My Chemical Romance

You’ve done something stupid, now do something crazy! I like fridges!

SproutsArt, Music and my puppy

Not sure yet!

Georgia Peck Viking

Entertainment Journalist GeorgeCancer/Gemini - depends on the

magazine!Unknown

The Wanted How to Train your Dragon!

I’m Random!Spiderslistening to music

To one day open my own CafeBusiness

Alannah Friend Viking

Sports ReporterPiscies

5ft 8..? Taller than Alice!The Wanted

Twilight seriesSpidersSports

…not sure yet!

Alice Young Norman

Sports ReporterCapricorn

Shorter than Alannah!The Wanted

Twilight - all of them!Egg sandwiches!

Sports A PE Teacher

I was very excited when I heard that I was on the team,especially when I got the job of editor! When I was in primaryschool I tried unsuccessfully to get a school newsletter fortwo years, year 5 and 6. I was really pleased when I heardthat this school had one and was keen to be on it, especiallywhen I heard that there was places available on the newteam. I hope that this newsletter is more appealing andinteresting to students. We have tried to create a newsletterthat appeals to everyone, students as well as parents.In this issue we have many new and exciting articles includingthe fabulous Homework Projects, the Whole School Photo-graph, our Academy Production ‘Oh! What a Lovely War,’Lincolnshire Discovery Day, Connecting Classrooms, Inter-House Challenges, Sports and more!I have been very lucky to have been editor for this issue.However, there will be an opportunity for a new editor nexttime for a different member of the news team to give it a try!I’ve enjoyed the experience and we all hope that you all enjoy the new approach to ourAcademy’s newsletter. We look forward to receiving any feedback.

Head’s Welcome…Welcome to the Eaglet, and congratulations to James and histeam for its production. The astute amongst you will have real-ised where the title comes from! The layout is a further improve-ment to our newsletters and we sincerely hope you like it.I have been fortunate to see many of the things shown takingplace, not least the OWALW production last week, and what agreat show it was.Individual as well as group success, is celebrated here andcongratulations to all students who have contributed in any way.Our International work continues, as does our charity support, allan important expression of our values. We look forward tosending students to Argentina at Easter and visitors from Fin-land looking at sustainability in October. This exposure to differ-ent cultures, languages and beliefs enriches the whole schooland offers experiences not often seen in other Academies.The Inter-House challenges provide a great opportunity for stu-dents to contribute to the success of their houses and it’s greatto see news of the Houses written by the students.As ever as you can see from the contents it has been a busyterm, and at the top of the hill as the weather closes in, some ofthe things seem a long time away. We would like to say goodbyeto Mrs Bilton and good luck in her new post, and a warmwelcome to Mrs Ratcliffe who is joining the Maths Departmentin the New Year. We hope that you have a lovely Christmas andthat the snow stays away in January!Enjoy the Eaglet.

Students in Y10 Business Studiesgroups were visited this term by JonnyTeeling and Will Pierce who are the de-velopers of the world’s most successfulsocial interactive website for young peo-ple. Snog.com based on the TV show“Snog, Marry, Avoid” went viral at itslaunch and in the first two hours had60, 000 hits, which as Jonny explainedwas three times more hits than Face-book had in its first two hours!The two young business men who re-cently graduated from Leeds told thestudents that to be successful took,“Ridiculous hard work” but that you alsoneeded to be a team worker, a problemsolver and determined even in the faceof difficulties.Despite being offered over £100, 000to sell the website both Jonny and Willmade the decision to attract investmentand are now working with a leading in-ternet provider and designer who hasinvested half a million pounds insnog.com. Immediately following theirafternoon at CYA the pair were off toLondon to negotiate a further invest-ment of a quarter of a million pounds!Jonny said, “When we began, it was justa fun idea to make a bit of money but

now we employ ten people who designand create ideas and we are working onother web ideas and designs all thetime. The real success is not just in themoney but in realising a dream andhelping people enjoy their online time.”When asked about e safety Will com-mented that this was key to the develop-ment of the site and anything whichcauses offence or is dangerous is imme-diately removed.It was a great opportunity for our Y10Business Studies students to meet suchup to the minute and relevant peoplewho are making a massive success oftheir lives. As Year 10 students HollySteane and Eloise Linton commented,“These guys were up to date and verymodern. They inspired us to be creativeand when I checked the website out wewere very impressed by how profession-al it was. They were very approachableand they made us feel like we could besuccessful too!”A final word from Jonny who said to thegroups, “The biggest risk of all is not totry in the first place!”I think all of us at CYA could “Marry” thatidea!

‘Bake a Difference’ week was sponsored by the charity group ‘Concern.’ This was a national event wheremoney is raised by organisations, including schools, through a baking event. At CYA several of the FoodTechnology classes baked goods to sell at break times.Permission was granted by Headteacher Mr Newnham to go ahead with the event as we knew that sellingcakes would have an impact on our own canteen sales.Students from different year groups manned a cake stand during the whole week. These students gaveup their own time to do this and did a fantastic job setting the stall out and taking money for the charity.CYA managed to raise over £100, which was sent to charity ‘Concern.’ Mr Walker, teacher of FoodTechnology, was extremely proud of the students that helped, and those that also paid money for thecakes and other baked goods. The money we raised will make a difference to those less fortunate thanourselves. Well done everyone!

Students bake a difference

WHAT’SINSIDE…Connecting Classrooms

with Morocco….seepage 5

Check out the wholeschool photo on

pages 8 & 9

A different approach tohomework….see page 8

Entrepreneur’s make astart on page 13

Academy production,OWALW student

review…see page 14

See which House isgetting ahead on

page 15

Keep a look out for ourown sports star….see

page 16

I am a Parent Governor on the board of CaistorYarborough Academy, with my eldest son in Year 8.I began as a Governor last year when my son start-ed at the school. The board is made up of twelveGovernors and of these four are Parent Governors.There are also Community Governors and threeStaff Governors, including the Headteacher. Theboard is chaired by Tony Maund who has been aGovernor for 17 years. The Governors are a diversegroup and bring a depth of experience to the board.Alongside all the staff, the Governing Body is con-cerned with and responsible for the success of theschool, representing and serving the local commu-nity. The purpose of the board is to provide a longterm view and ensure that the school is accounta-ble for its actions. Furthermore, the board supportsthe Academy and provides the challenge necessaryto ensure that it is highly successful in providing anexcellent education for all.In order to enhance the Governing Body role withinthe Academy, training was attended by all Gover-nors during November. This training gave greaterclarity to the roles and responsibilities of Governorswithin the school, especially for newcomers likemyself. It also served as an opportunity to reviewthe way the board is organised and will operate inthe future. This is an on-going process and willevolve over time.A further positive outcome from the training wasthe suggestion to provide monthly Governor Drop-Insessions at the school. On the first working Tues-

day of the month from 16:00 to 17:30 Governorswill be available for you to talk to, to discuss anyissues you may have or suggestions for improve-ments within the Academy. This offer is open to allparents, staff and members of the local community.No appointment is required. The first GovernorDrop-In session will be held on Tuesday 10th Janu-ary 2012 in the Cuboid Meeting Room.The Governor Drop-Ins are in addition to the weeklydrop-in sessions offered by the Senior LeadershipTeam of the Academy where you can come and talkto a senior member of staff about anything you wishto in relation to the school.I do hope that you will get in touch with us, shouldyou wish to seek further information, support oradvice or to make a suggestion. And I am sure thatyou will support the Academy in providing excellenteducation for all students.

Joanne EdgarParent Governor

The Modern Foreign Languages Department wel-comed our visitors from the Sidi Bennour and Eljadi-da regions of Morocco. The visitors were here as partof the Connecting Classroom Project, set up by theBritish Council. The project allows a group of schoolsto connect with schools worldwide and aims to im-prove students’ knowledge and understanding of

other cultures whilst preparing them for life as globalcitizens.Throughout the visit CYA students and the Moroc-can visitors enjoyed a range of activities. HannahNeve, Kathryn Neve, James Robertson and Ellie Tup-lin were given the opportunity to ask the visitorsabout aspects of Moroccan life and their educationsystem. Our visitors also met with IGCSE and Span-ish students for a brief presentation. The guestswere also treated to an evening of performancesfrom all of the Lincolnshire schools involved, includ-ing CYA’s Olivia Ridlington and Barney White, beforeeveryone tucked into a Christmas roast dinner, ca-tered by Caistor Primary, and finally experiencinglocal heritage in Lincolnshire.The visit was very positive and is the beginning of apartnership that will last for many years to come.

Moroccan visitors greeted by Caistor Yarboroughstudents

Caistor Yarborough Academy Governorsduring their training session.

Connecting Classrooms…

CYA raised£544.80 for

Children in Need

Armistice DayOn the 11/11/11 at 11amwe remembered all thosewho have fallen in conflictsacross the world fightingfor our freedoms. AsJames Robertson com-mented, ‘It is important toremember those who felland it was good that CYAwent further by having thelast post played’. AliceBrumby agreed that boththe trumpet being playedand the poem being readbefore the two minutes si-lence was a ‘very effectiveway to show our respect’.Mr Newnham and the stu-dent council also laid awreath at the Caistor WarMemorial.

School communities cametogether to remember.

Year 11 student Clare Pickering has alreadyreceived an outstanding achievement; Clare isthe first student in the country to receive a newnationally recognised qualification called‘BTEC Learning for Life.’ CYA is leading the waywith this new qualification, which incorporatesTeamwork, Refelection, Independence andCreative (TRICs) styles of learning. Representa-tives from EDEXCEL, Student Coaching andCYA were all very impressed by the standard ofwork and the way Clare had approached herportfolio and her learning journey.“I am really grateful that CYA gave me the opportunity to achieve thisqualification. The versatile qualification recognises and appreciates eachindividual’s talents, which is down to the student to showcase through anymeans that they feel I suitable. For me I recorded my learning journey ofsports that I enjoy through different mediums such as video and visualinformation.” Clare Pickering

GCSEPod is the most comprehensivelibrary of “mobile” learning and revi-sion resources available. With 9 sub-jects already covered, GCSEPOD arealso adding Spanish and Music thisyear, which will bring the totalnumber of GCSE subjects covered to13 with more than 250 hours of edu-cational content and more than2,500 podcasts.The content can be used by theteacher in the classroom, on homecomputers for reinforcement, or onthe vast majority of mobile devicesfor revision (Apple, Android andBlackBerry).Students can watch when they’reconnected and download the pod-casts for when they’re not.The content is mapped to all majorexam boards – students can searchfor relevant podcasts for any specificexam.Schools whose students used GCSE-Pod for the first time this year havereported an average increase of 6%in A*-C grades, including Maths andEnglish.

Currently in production for thisschool year – we will completeFrench, German, Spanish and MusicTheory and add new content to Eng-lish and Religious Studies.Students are given unlimited accessto the resources, streaming anddownloading, and there is no addi-tional charge for the content thatcomes on stream.In summary, GCSEPOD is a greatsource of professionally written andproduced educational content –mapped to all the major examboards – which students can accessat any time on the technology thatthey carry round in their pockets eve-ry day.Students suggest that it is very userfriendly, that they can revise at anytime and the podcasts themselvesare very clearly designed to supportthe work they have done in lessons.

Caistor Yarborough Academy Logonlink can be found at:http://www.gcsepod.co.uk/school-login/caistoryarborough2011/

It’s a first for Clare!

Thank you for your ongoing support of the newuniform. Students continue to look very smart andguests to the Academy regularly praise the appear-ance of our students. A few general queries havearisen which we will try to answer . If you cannotfind the information here, or on our website, pleasedo ring and ask.

Yes of course as long as the boots are under thetrousers are formal, sensible and appropriate forschool. Leisure boots, such as the UGG style, arenot permitted. In the winter season only, boots mayalso be worn with a skirt, as long of the type asstated above.

Certainly! The same applies for the boys as for thegirls

Yes to travel to and from school and at break times.Many students are already wearing coats. Howevercoats, scarves and hats have to be removed onentry to the building. Lockers can be used for coatsduring lessons

Yes. but it has to be removed on entry to the schooland not worn for movement between classrooms.

No make is not to be worn at school. Students whowear make up will be asked to remove it and, if theissue continues, parents will be informed. Nailpolish should not be worn either. Any facialpiercings must be covered if not taken out.

EOM classes add alittle Zest…

In October we were visited by a fantastic theatre company called Zest. They gave the Year 11 studentsa moving and emotive performance about homelessness called ‘Until It’s Gone.’ With just four perform-ers, they held the entire year group captive with their true to life, gripping story of how it is so easy tomake mistakes in life, take the wrong path and end up with nothing. The story followed a young manwho stole from his best friend to buy drugs, abandoned his pregnant girlfriend and threw away his rela-tionship with his Mother.After the performance, Year 11 were invited to give their points of view, ask questions and even changethe ending to some of the scenes for a more positive outcome. All in all, most enjoyable and a privilegeto have such talent under Caistor Yarborough Academy’s roof.Year 11 student Jack Chalk said, “The message that was portrayed was clear and relevant to thepresent day and state of society.”

“It was outstanding, funny, exciting and visually interesting. The production gave lotsof useful information about homelessness and what you could do to overcome this. Ithought the performance was really beneficial and gave everyone an insight of the

consequences of being homeless.”Ellie McCall, Year 11

Students from Caistor Yarborough supported pupils from their local primaries byacting as ‘Carbon Ambassadors’ and will continue to share ideas and worktogether. Lincolnshire County Council is piloting the Carbon Reduction Project withCaistor Yarborough Academy and local primary schools. It brings awareness toyoung people and staff in schools as it explains how improvements can be madeby using simple and effective measures. Each school planned to return to theirbuildings to perform audits and to work out where and how changes can be made.Read the Norman section in Inter-House Challenges on page 15 to see how CYAplan to make changes.

Vestibulum velit orci,bibendum eget

The reason for the whole school photo is becausethe school hadn’t had one in near enough fiftyyears. And also because of the new uniform. Lastyear the school councillors asked for blazers. MrNewnham wasn’t looking for a new uniform until it

was mentioned in a meeting then he thought itwasn’t such a bad idea.On the day of the whole school photo it was MrNewnham’s birthday, which makes it even morememorable for him. Mr Newnham was congratu-

The Power of Homework Projects…

Cameron McCallwith his British

Legion certificateand poppy cakes

For his homework project, Cameronhad a huge cake sale for the BritishLegion. Inspired by family stories andtheir involvement in the war, Cameroncontacted the British Legion to see howhe could help. He managed to raise amassive £154.00, he did not expect toraise that much, “I only expected toraise 60 pounds” he said. His custom-ers enjoyed his cakes very much “Love-ly” said Ryan Frankish, “they werenice” said Connor Batman. Cameronraised much more money than he ex-pected and from seeing how fast thecakes were selling people had to getthere early, students and teachersalike. He wrote to local wholesalers to

source ingredients, and on Thursdayand Friday he brought in three hugeboxes of cakes, and altogether hadabout 200. It was a massive success.Cameron had very cleverly manipulatedthe homework project to be able to dothis. It really does show the versatility ofthe homework projects, the differentthings that could be done. Cameron gota good grade and the British Legion gotall the profits.Miss Alison Davis said “As Cameron’stutor I am so proud of what he hasachieved, the time, effort and level ofmaturity that he has shown throughoutthe whole process was exceptional.”

“We hope students will have the opportunity to take a wholeschool photograph home in their student lifetime at CYA” Mr

Newnham

lated by Tempest (the company that took the photo)for how little time it took to organise us and put uson the benches. If that was quick then I’d hate tosee a long time! Mr Newnham has proposed anidea that the whole school photo will be taken every

5 years, “We hope students will have the opportuni-ty to take a whole school photograph home in theirstudent lifetime at CYA” Mr Newnham.

Alice Brant exploredColour In Space

Alex Riley researchedabout Colour Blindness,

“ I really enjoy these Home-work Projects, they are a

lot of fun.”

Joshua Millard with his ColourOrganiser, “This machine isprogrammed to recognise

colours so that it can organisethe balls.”

Tom Jennissen-Green was in-spired to look at Colour Changes

and Camouflage

Projects areMagical

for Year 7 students

Students in Year 7 havebeen creating pieces ofwork based on the theme‘Magical.’ Tutors have ex-pressed how imaginativesome of the work has been.CYA plans to showcaseHomework Projects on theAcademy website next term.

Charles CaleyHomework

Project

Orders can still be placed for the whole school group photograph on 0800 0232576, then selecting option3. Please quote Reference No: 300245-156. This line is for orders only, payments by credit or debit card.

As last year, CYA students once again have beengiven the opportunity to attend The National Art andDesign Saturday Club at The Grimsby Institute ofFurther and Higher Education. NADS was set up bythe Sorrell Foundation in 2009, to give young peo-ple opportunities to develop their talent and exploretheir artistic potential.This year five more CYA students have been invitedto attend the ‘Saturday Club.’ The workshops theyhave participated in since September have encour-aged them to be more creative and independent.The skills they have learnt and the work they haveproduced so far has contributed significantly totheir GCSE Art portfolios. GCSE students MayGuest, Daisy Bettany-Riley, Jordon Brow, EmilyGreen, and Pamela Matthews were invited to takepart in The National Art and Design Saturday Clubat Grimsby Institute of Further Education.

Over the course of the year they will explore artforms including painting, drawing, sculpture, 3Ddesign, ceramics, stop-frame animation and pho-tography – producing work that could strengthentheir GCSE portfolios and support diploma applica-tions. The programme will include inspirational vis-its to London and a master class at each locationled by leading artists and designers and culminatesin a Summer Show.

IGCSE students talk Finnish…“Over in the Year 10 IGCSE group, we’ve been starting our Comenius project with Finnish studentsfrom Padasjoki High School. Some of the students from the school came to CYA and as part of theirthree day visit, we all went to historical Lincoln. It was honestly a brilliant experience! We’ve beenexchanging email addresses and pictures, and also have made a website to place our projects onto!As well as that, we’ve also made a blog to track everything we’ve been doing. As part of our plans,this important discussion and information site will be updated as time goes on. Overall it’s been afantastic couple of terms and I can’t wait to see where it goes.”Year 10 student, Ellie Lovelock

Inspiration at the weekend for budding Art students

Students share performances of traditional folktale‘Kalavela.’ Above: Finnish students perform their version.

“When taking my Choices I reviewedseveral subjects when I saw IGCSE onthe list of options. After enquiringabout the course I found that it was achallenging subject that would requireteamwork and other important skillsthat could be useful to me. It is achoice with varied content and so itoffers different learning perspectivesthat I have found interesting and pro-gressively helpful. By this I mean itallows students, such as me, to workcollaboratively with my peers and hasmade me feel part of a tight knit groupof students. I hope that as I workthrough my IGCSE I will improve my connections with overseas students so as to obtain a betterunderstanding of other cultures; their views and traditions.”Year 10 student, Cameron Clark

A message from theParents, Teachers and

Friends Association(PTFA)….

“The PTFA would like to thankyou for your continued support

and take this opportunity towish you all a very HappyChristmas and Best Wishes

for the New Year.”

Is there something in particular youwould like to see on our Academy

website?www.caistoryarboroughacademy.org.ukis regularly updated with information.As always we would like to hear from

you, please contact us with anyfeedback.

Dates to Note for 2012:

TERM 3: Wednesday 4th January - Friday 10th FebruaryTERM 4: Monday 20th February - Friday 30th MarchTERM 5: Tuesday 17th April -

Friday 1st JuneTERM 6: Monday 11th June - Thursday 19th July

BANK HOLIDAYSNew Year Monday 2nd JanGood Friday Friday 6th AprilEaster Monday Monday 9th AprilMay Bank Holiday Monday 7th MayLate May Bank Holiday Monday 4th JuneHMTQ Diamond Jubilee Tuesday 5th June

Wed 4 Jan: Start of Term 3, Week ATues 10 Jan: Y10 & Y11 GCSE Exams start Governor Drop in Clinic 4pm - 5.30pmTues 17 Jan: Y9 Choices EveningWed 1 Feb: 11SS Chemistry Practical DayFri 3 Feb: 11S Chemistry Practical DayTues 7 Feb: Discovery Day: International DayWed 14 Feb: HPV Vaccinations Y8 Girls

Mon 20 Feb: Start of Term 4, Week A

The 26th September was European Day of Languages andwe celebrated all week in MFL lessons. The aims of theweek were to promote life-long language learning and toraise awareness of other countries and their cultures. Inlanguage lessons, students learnt how to communicate inseveral different languages and learnt about other cul-tures and traditions.In November, we enjoyed having visitors from our partnerschool in Morocco. We would like to thank Miss Gamblefor all her hard work linked to the Connecting ClassroomsProject. Also, Miss Gamble organised a tapas tastingevening for our Year 10 Spanish students at La Tasca inMeadowhall (See photo above).All Year 11 GCSE French and Spanish students will be un-dertaking Speaking Exams in January – we hope that theirrevision is well underway. Please may we take this oppor-tunity to remind all Year 10 and Year 11 students that wedo offer after-school revision sessions. These sessions runfrom 4pm until 5pm. French is on every Monday of week Ain D6 and Spanish every Tuesday of Week B in D5.We eagerly await our residential trip to Paris. We departMonday, 18th June and return Friday, 22nd June. One placehas become available, if you require further details pleasecontact Mrs Knight, Main School Office.

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Students get ataste of

business atCadbury’s World

Year 10 Business Studies and Food Technologystudents enjoyed a fun packed day out at Cad-bury’s World on our latest Discovery Day. Stu-dents experienced a fully interactive tour thatallowed them to look at the history of Cadbury’sand chocolate production with special effectscinema presentations. The tour involved a de-tailed look at the manufacturing and packagingprocess involved in making and selling Cad-bury’s chocolate. Students then experiencedthe fun Cadabra ride, which added more diver-sity to the trip. After visiting the chocolatemaking room where they watched chocolatiersat work, demonstrating traditional handmadetraditional chocolate making skills, studentsalso got a go at writing their own name usingfresh liquid chocolate!

After, students got down to serious businesslooking at the Cadbury’s Advertising Avenue.Students received a superb presentation with aquestion and answer session from JenniferBosomworth, a representative of Cadbury. Jen-nifer explained the business’ history, branding,functional areas, marketing and sales strategy.With the opportunity to complete the speciallyproduced Cadbury’s Business Studies work-book, gaining information from the Q & A,students understood aspects such as healthand safety and confectionary production. Duethe fact that it had been a very hot day much ofthe chocolate melted to a liquid on the coachon the way back, that most confectionary re-sembled hot chocolate in a wrapper!

Discover Lincolnshire….CYA held a ‘Discovery Day’ earlier in the term wheresome areas of the Academy focused on Lincoln-shire life. Whilst some students visited the LincolnCastle and Lincoln Cathedral as part of a Art andHistory tour, others remained at the Academy tocreate the tastes of Lincolnshire in Food Technolo-gy, using local produce.

Other departments ventured further into discovery,with the Science team offering a variety of activitiesas James explains….

“I was in Science during the Discovery Day. I thought it was very interesting. We built a peri-scope and a rubber band powered car. My team-mates and I enjoyed building the car and beingcreative. We received prizes for the cars creativityand how far it travelled. There were other prizes upfor grabs for the periscope design and for goodteamwork skills.”

In Year 10 students are developing theirenterprise and innovation skills. Nineteen

Business Studies students are participating in the Young Enterprise Company Programme. This involves settingup their own real business by creating a product and trying to make a profit. The students have come up with theunusual name of ‘HARBA GOAT’ for their company. The group is deciding on possible things to sell and is carryingout market research into goods and services that will hopeful prove very popular and successful. They have twobusiness managers James Kennedy and Olivia Palmer. All the other students have roles which will help thebusiness. The students will be working in areas such as Accountancy, Product Marketing, IT, Customer Services,Sales as well as other areas. The students are hoping to create products and services which can be sold in andaround school, as well as at county trade fairs. We hope that you can support us!!

‘Their joy and relief as the curtaincame down was apparent. Theywere, deservedly, very proud of

themselves’. Mrs Ayres

In October a group of Y11 BTEC Acting studentsperformed an abridged version of ‘Macbeth’ at HullTruck Theatre as part of the National Shake-speare’s Schools Festival. It was in front of anaudience of nearly 500 people and was deemed agreat success by both festival organisers andaudience alike.After rehearsing for six weeks, their piece was de-scribed as ‘polished and sophisticated’ by the Na-tional Theatre Director who gave feedback at theend of the evening: a ‘true ensemble production’.Directed by Mrs Karen Ayres, Leader of CreativeLearning at Caistor Yarborough Academy, the piecewas part of the students’ BTEC Acting

qualification but also a great opportunity to build onconfidence and performance skills.Set against Mafia 1920s, this production had allthe themes of ambition, revenge and murder asMacbeth identified those who stood in his way, and,with his wife, decided their fate. The witches werethe Dancers at the Heath (a nightclub) in downtownChicago who predicted Macbeth’s future after hisskirmish in gangland America. The students provid-ed their own costumes of slick suits, flapper dress-es and the like contributing heavily to the‘sophisticated’ style of the production.

Several of the Young Enterprise students…

Two Year 9 students spent an afternoon atCaistor Primary School as part of their re-search for an English magazine project. Ash-leigh Scholtz and Charlotte Ingley-Smith areproducing a magazine aimed at younger chil-dren and wanted to discuss their ideas withan ‘Apprentice’ inspired focus group.They asked the year 5 and 6 students questions such as,“what type of magazine do you buy?” and “which bit of themagazine do you look at first and which is the most impor-tant?”The students enjoyed their time there. Ashleigh said, “It was

really helpful; we got a lot out of it”. “The children were very cooperative and theygave us a lot of ideas”, Charlotte added.Their magazine, titled ‘Princess’, (pictured right) will be finished by Christmas, afterwhich time the students hope to return to show their finished product.

Oh! What a Lovely Production

Ashleigh and Charlotte gather informa-tion for their magazine

Wednesday 7th December; one pro-duction, big crowd! It’s hard to per-form in front of many people butthese people managed to pull it offwith ease. ‘Oh! What A Lovely War’was simply brilliant. Many peoplewere behind the curtains, the un-seen stars, worked as well as the performers. A historicplay had very realistic costumes, the soldiers, the nurs-es, everyone. Staff worked really hard on the cos-tumes, and they turned out really well. The very firstsong ,’Row Row Row’, got every ones attention straightaway; quick, catchy, the audience loved it. I have to sayan extra well done to Bethany Lomax, Annie Dolby andHarriet Fleetwood for the excellent English, French andGerman accents! The performers had done well, theaudience looked interested and were clinging on toevery word. ‘When Belgium Put the Kibosh on theKaiser’ was a very catchy song and stayed in my heada while! It was great to see the cast giving off great bigsmiles in the songs, they were obviously enjoying it.Although all the cast were fantastic, a special mentionneeds to go to Ellie McCall,as Elsie, and George East-Dunning, as the MC, for their outstanding performanc-es. The facts in the background helped you imagineyou were there , witnessing the information as it camethrough. Jack Chalk was brilliant in his extremely

funny role as Field Marshal Haig. He made the audi-ence laugh while keeping a reasonably straight face.Well done Jack! Throughout the whole play peoplelooked fascinated and were obviously enjoying it. OliviaRidlington, as the Head Nurse, gave an emotionalprayer and song which made everyone think aboutthose who had given their lives - it was not an easyperformance, but Olivia did really well.The actors, backstage stars, everybody involved in theplay worked hard in the limited time they had, to comeup with a fantastic play like this is amazing, and I’m notthe only one who thought this.Mrs Ayres said, “I’m proud of everyone performingtonight, I’ve particularly loved this piece. It went reallywell, and with a big cast like this, cramming it in was achallenge, but we did it. Well done everybody!” MrNewnham also agreed the play was extremely goodand very proud of its performers. The play was excel-lent and you should all be proud of yourselves, welldone!

“We were very nervous but once you getout there you know it will go better than youthought. The quality of the whole play isfantastic. We are really proud of ourselvesand had a lot of fun doing it.”Annie Dolby and Harriet Fleetwood, Year 10

Students find answersat Caistor Primary

An Activity PackedWelcome for Year 7

This year’s activity eveninghas been a great successwith the Year 7 studentsgetting involved in a varietyof House related activities. The night included compe-titions such as bench ball, scavenger and a talentshow, which offered new experiences for the stu-dents, working as teams to complete the challengesset. Lead Viking, Mrs Brewster commented “Theevening was a great opportunity for Year 7’s to bondas a house group and make new friends.”After taking part in bench ball, Viking House earnedenough points for a place as equal second, as well assecond in the scavenger competition. Mrs Brewsterwas happy with the evening and told us “The talentcontest showed a wide variety of acts and was veryentertaining.” Overall the Year 7’s activity eveningproved to be a memorable experience and enter-tained all!

Cross CountryOn a cold day in November, students and staff tookpart in the Inter-House Cross Country. Three laps ofeach field equalled House points.Year 9 Saxon student Charley Eaves placed secondand helped gain points for her Saxon House. Charliesaid “It was fun and hard work but I really enjoyed itand would do it again. It was nice to be cheeredalong by my friends.”Despite the weather, the inter-house challenge hadmany competing to ear more points for their house.The results for the girls were:1st: Saxons2nd: Romans3rd: Normans4th: Vikings

Operation Christmas SHOEBOXMrs Spencer’s form group BSPER came togetherand made a whopping 16 Christmas Boxes for theSamaritan’s Christmas ShoeBox Appeal. Each formfrom each House was asked to produce boxes asteams, which was part of an Inter-House Challenge.After interviewing Mrs Spencer, this is what she saidabout how her form contributed this HouseChallenge,“We all brought in a selection and madeup all of the boxes during a form time. Students weremotivated by a DVD that they watched and we all feltwe had to help. Almost everyone contributed and it’sa nice way to remember the importance of Christ-mas.” The full total of Christmas Shoeboxes acrossCYA was almost 70!

Inter-House Challenges

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Carbon Reduction WeekMrs Bilton and Mrs Betts have been working withLincolnshire County Councils carbon reductionteam. So on the 21st November it was Carbon re-duction week for our school. The aim of this weekwas to reduce the energy we use and hence reduceour energy bills. By being more energy consciousand energy efficient we can save up to £20 per pu-pil, per year in reduced energy costs. This moneycould then be used for other things other than pay-ing for wasted energy!! To encourage the wholeschool community to save energy, we are having ahouse challenge next week where each form canearn points for their house.Our Energy Efficiency Inspectors (a team of SeniorCouncillors) have visited form rooms during VTG tocheck that rooms are being used in an energy effi-cient manner. The criteria was (one point for each):Appropriate use of lights; Appropriate use of heat-ing; Windows not open unnecessarily; Recycling boxin use; Electronic equipment turned off if not in use(where appropriate).The Energy Efficiency Inspectors have visited eachVTG twice and will score a mark out of 10 over theweek. Then rank the houses from most efficient toleast and points will be added to house totals.

I first started judo at the age of 4, whenI went along with my sister, Rebecca andbrother, Matthew. We all used to go toCherry Willingham Judo Club as we livedaround the corner. We then got intro-duced to Grimsby Judo Club and used tomake the journey twice a week to trainthere and then we all started to fight forthem.I started competing at the age of 8 yearsold and we used to go to the local competitions in Goole,Knottingly and Hull, where I used to do very well and most

times won my weight group. I am now in the Cadet age group which means I fightboys of the same weight as me and born in the years 96-97. I won the Bronze thisyear at The British National Championships and had won Bronze also at the Heart of England Championships,both of which are ranking events for the England squad. With the combined points it ranked me as number 1in England, the number 1 in Great Britain is a boy from Scotland!We train twice a week at Grimsby with our club coach Terry Alltoft, or sometimes Ian Johns who also takessome of the sessions. This weekend I am visiting Dartford Judo Club (right next to the crossing) for a fullEngland squad training day. My next competition is in December, which is the trials for the CommonwealthJudo Tournament that will be held in Cardiff in January. Then, January starts a very hectic schedule of rankingevents for me with the ultimate goal to get to the European Cadet Championships, which will be held in Turkeylater in the year.

The Year 9’s opened the season with a convincingwin over De Aston. The Year 10/11’s played theGiles School in the County Cup and despite going 1– 0 up, ended up losing 1 – 2. However, for a teamthat has not really played much before they acquit-ted themselves with enthusiasm, with CourtneyParker and Samira Essrout playing skilfully. TheYear 8’s are currently in the County Cup, which is

league based for the first 3 matches – they lost thefirst match to Deepings School and are yet to playthe next one.

Years 3 and 4 from Grasby and Osgodby played intwo tournaments inside. Courtney Parker, JakeThompson and Ben Brackenbury officiated through-out and were fantastic!

Winning at the Heart of EnglandChampionships, Sept 2011

Ryan at the BritishChampionships 2011

Year 7 students achieved their Level 1 and Level 2 ‘Bikeability’ Awards on a cold Tuesday in November.The whole day was spent on cycles. Cycling skills were first assessed on the astro-turf car park at Navi-gation Lane before they took to the roads to learn basic manoeuvres such as overtaking parked cars,turning left and right off a main road and turning into a main road. Tutors from the Wolds Sports Part-nership ensured that the students were safe and learned the correct techniques. The session endedwith a quiz on the highway code. Well done to everyone involved!

Ryan’s Judo journeyfor Gold so far…

The Year 7 girls came 3rd in the team competition and the Junior Boys 4th out of all the Coastal &Wolds schools - 16 in total!The Year 7 girls team consisted of Saskia Bennett, Lauren Bennett, Chloe Pixsley, Devon Wood, LucyPearson, Reegan Pauley, Sophie Wilson, Chloe Williams.The Junior Boys team consisted of Rob May, Will May, Luke Wood, Cameron McCall, Armand Key-worth, Hobey Phillips, Will McPhee.

Rob May: 8thCallum McCall: 14th

Ellie McCall: 16th Cameron Taylor: 4thRyan Paige: 13th

Saskia Bennett: 6thLauren Bennett: 12th

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