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PRINCIPAL’S WORD

& THE TALENT OF TOMORROW IS...

WHAT A PEACH!

DE FERRERS SAW THE FINAL FOR TALENT OF TOMORROW & IT DIDN’T DISAPPOINT, WITH ‘DOUBLE HELIX’ CLAIMING THE TITLE!

M A York - Principal

Dear Parents

This is our !rst news-letter as

an academy and

Key Stage 3 Drama Club members are starting on their next perfor-

mance, which is ‘James and the Giant Peach’! "e performance will be going out to local pri-mary schools and to parents in the summer term. Well done, Drama Club students and keep up the hard work!

Year 11 GCSE Drama students have worked hard over the past year

and produced some interesting work ranging from Children’s "eatre to experimental Physi-cal "eatre. "ey are now em-barking on their !nal perfor-mances for their GCSE and we wish them the best of luck!

Last Friday hundreds of students, parents and groupies packed

Trent Hall to the ra!ers in order to support this year’s Talent of Tomorrow’s "nal-ists.

A#er two spectacular heats during the previous week, much deliberation by our panel of esteemed judges, we saw nearly forty acts reduced to a !nal !#een.

"e variety of acts was huge and students from all year groups were represented. "e audience was treated to rock bands, singers, instrumen-talists, dancers, magicians and comedians. Even though some of the performers were extremely nervous before taking the stage, every single act was of the highest quality and received a rapturous reception.

Whilst the judges were making their !nal decisions the entertain-ment continued. First of all Mr Hand gave a spellbinding rendition of ‘Lady In Red’, much to the delight of the Year 11 girls in the au-dience! "is was followed by a high-energy performance by local street dance troop ‘Touch Of Life’. for more details see www.toucho!ife.co.uk

A#er much cogitation, the panel of seven judges !nally decided that this year’s winners would be DOUBLE HELIX from Year 11, who performed one of their own songs, ‘"e Funk Song’, followed by a cover of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers’, ‘Dani California’...

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I am sure you will agree that it demonstrates the richness and depth of talent we have within our community. We are look-ing at re-designing our half-termly communication to re-$ect our new status and would welcome suggestions from you as parents.

It was pleasing to note the re-cord numbers of students seek-ing a place at our new academy in September 2011. De Ferrers has received its greatest ever number, of !rst choice selec-tions from parents. "is, of course, places added pressure on the academy to ensure that we continue to o%er an excel-lent standard of education for generations to come.

"e academy is very focussed on ensuring that all students who are taking external exami-nations this year are thoroughly prepared. Sta% are o%ering all manner of additional help to students. I hope you will sup-port this and ensure that, if required, your son/daughter at-tends. Time is running out!

Finally, I would like to thank all parents for their positive com-ments about my time in charge of de Ferrers. I would like to re-assure you again that it is de!-nitely ‘business as usual’ and that the search for an excellent leader for the academy has al-ready begun.

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The latest “cool” read in Dove Learning Cen-tre appears to be the

“Beast Quest” series by Adam Blade. Popular with boys in Years 7-9, many are racing in to compete with each other to read the whole series! Can you survive the Beast Quest?

"omas Wood 9/8 has started writing his own Book 4 based on the fantasy series…..

“Tom ran over and stood next to Ivan and knelt down to Mr Cook-Abbott checking his temperature. “Sir, are you OK? What happened here?” Mr Cook-Abbott groaned and looked up at Tom and said faintly, “It was a !re dragon but

When collecting or dropping students o# at the start or end of the day please take extra care and pay attention to all the tra$c regulations outside the academy.

"ese markings are to make the area safer for your children and other road users. "ese include the “school keep clear markings” as well as the double yellow lines. "e Police and the Parking Enforce-ment O&cers have been made aware of the problems in the area and are going to keep an eye on the situation.Access to the site is restricted at the start and end of the day un-less you have made an appointment or access has been agreed in advance with the academy."ank you for your help and co-operation in this matter. It is for your child’s health and safety.

WHAT’S EVERYONE READING?

Just before Christmas a crack team of Year 8 students departed from

Dove with one thing on their mind, WINNING!

"e challenge is designed to give hands-on experience in designing solutions to real-life and genuinely tough science and engineering problems. "is challenge saw the stu-dents designing a method to remotely transplant a heart and liver not real organs, but a series of balls to be placed into strategically positioned pots. Sounds simple….it had to be done remotely via a video link. "e team of budding engineers started the day by evaluating the task and designing some initial solutions. "ese consist-ed of several sheets of remote grabbing like devices with di%ering amounts of potential success. "e students devel-oped some ideas and set about purchasing materials and the tools necessary to manufacture the device. "e going was tough, especially for Mr Bell and Mr McKee as the teachers from all the schools had been set the same task – except in half the time. "ey worked fast and under great pressure to create something that didn’t embarrass the students, and more importantly, themselves! Once the sta% creation was completed, they both pitched in with the group to support

it headed to William Allitt!”

Popular with Year 9-11 girls who “can’t put them down” is the House of Night series by P.C.& Cristin Cast. "is Dark Romance series features venge-ance, romance, vampires and treachery.

Trent Reading Club has been reading and discussing “"e Reluctant Fundamentalist” by Moshin Hamid. Now the group of Year10/11 boys are reading “My Swordhand is Singing” by Marcus Sedgwick.

If your child would like to nominate his/her top !ction book then read it, note it, like it, vote it on:www.sta"ordshire.gov.uk/ytf We take a group of students from the Reading Club to the Young Teen Fiction Awards each summer term to vote for their fa-vourite from a shortlisted choice of six-titles.

the build. Now it was truly a head-to-head competition against the other teams from

many other schools in Sta%ordshire and the

clock! Each team had one minute and one operator. To remind you, this was to be done via a video recorder giving a live feedback to a monitor. "e op-

erator could only use the monitor screen to guide the grabbing gadget to the “organs” to be picked up and then placed into the correct part of the “body”. We were very impressed and proud of the team’s performance so far. "ey had designed and built something that stood a really high chance of success, so high a chance, that they were the only team to get both organs into the correct place within the one minute. All teams sat quietly waiting for the overall results for the day. De Ferrers had won! "ey beat six other schools to come !rst and, more importantly, they came second nationally, with only one point between !rst and second place. "is means the team stands a good chance of going to London and representing our academy in the national !nals. "ese star students are: Amna Ali, Joshua Bagnall, Mandeep Boughan, Declan Hines, Eliza McAuli%e and Tim Paul. "ere are still Faraday chal-lenges taking place around the country and the national leader board could still change so watch this space...

P.S. Some of you may be wondering how Mr Bell and Mr McKee got on with their contraption? Well, they did it in 47 seconds- two seconds quicker than the winning side! Both examples are on display in reception and if you are interested in becoming a Technologist you can take a look at www.theiet.org

FARADAY NATIONAL

SUCCESS

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ACHIEVEMENT &GUIDANCE KEY STAGE 4GUIDANCE KE KE EY SEY SEY T ST S AGTAGT E 4E 4E

The 2011 Senior Citizens’ Party was an-other huge success with our Year 11 stu-dents running the whole day.

Ms Taylor, from the Hatton Pensioner’s Lunch-eon Club said, “!is is the third time we have attended and it never fails to impress. !e hosts and hostesses were brilliant. !e students are so talented and they put so much work and e"ort into making this an enjoyable a#ernoon. !ey are a credit to your school”.

!ere were a number of fund raising activities that took place raising a considerable sum of money for the party. A trip to Old Tra"ord to watch Man UTD vs. Valencia was just one, where one hundred and sixty students and twenty sta" enjoyed an evening of top class football.Other fund raising activities included a pyjama day for a group of girls, a football tournament and a charity walk!!ere are a number of other excursions arranged for Key Stage 4 in the near future such as ice skat-ing and Alton Towers – keep your eye on the no-tice boards!

!e Year 11 students are now counting down to the start of the GCSE examinations with a little over forty academy days le# – scary!Examination timetables are now with students

and for a full list of the summer examinations, along with the controlled assessment plan, please visit the Parent Portal using the log in details that were issued on Consultation Day (www.my-childatschool.com) Extended learning opportunities are taking place on a regular basis now with lunch time and a#er academy sessions being run for various curricu-lum areas. Students are reminded that these are not a detention, but an opportunity to complete work in preparation for the exams. A timetable of what is available and when will be available soon!

Year 10 Work Experience is fast approaching (Tues 3rd – Fri 6th May) and half of the students in Year 10 have a place so far. A real push will be needed by all those that still require a placement.A date for the Year 11 diary is Monday 4th April 2011 for the Year 11 group photograph.Excellent attendance and punctuality are essen-tial for high achievement!

A reminder that the correct procedure if your child is absent from the academy for any reason is a telephone call on the "rst day of absence, followed by a note brought into the academy on your child’s return. %ank you.

As part of the Connect-ing Classrooms Pro-ject, the Enterprise

sta" at the academy have been working closely with the Coun-ty Adviser for International Links and acted as hosts to the Principal, Mr Luo, of Shanghai Heging School during Decem-ber.

Despite the language barrier, we were lucky enough to have our own interpreter (Xuan Zhuang) who played a major part in the success of the visit where Mr Luo was invited to at-tend our Senior Citizens’ Party and to also visit Cadbury’s world on our Year 12 Business trip.

We will be working on collabo-rative projects with the Heging School which will provide new and exciting learning opportu-nities for all involved and en-compasses the ‘international mindedness’ of !e de Ferrers Academy.

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...Second place went to the Year 12 comedy magic duo, COULD IT BE TRAGIC and third prize was awarded to three very tal-ented Year 7 students RAIN AND SHINE, who thoroughly entertained with their combi-nation of singing, dancing and comedy. A further prize, open to Dove students only, was won by the Year 9 rock group, SABOTAGE who opened the show with their versions of Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Crazy Train’ and Blink 182’s ‘All "e Small "ings’.

Many thanks to everyone who helped with the organisation of the event and a huge well done to all the students that took part – you were all superb!

TALENT OF TOMORROW

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TEAM NICARAGUA 2012

ART STUDENTSARE OUT OF

THIS WORLDYear 9

and 10 B T E C

students are currently work-ing on their lat-est assignment to produce tex-tile wall hang-ings and body adornment for the academy production. !is year’s production is ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’, so the BTEC

students are taking inspi-ration from science $c-tion and new technologies.

YEAR 8 HISTORYCHALLENGE

YEAR 9 HOLOCAUST DAY MEMORIAL PROJECTYear 8 History students

took part in a History Challenge last term based around the theme of ‘China’.

!e standard of work produced was very high and showed real %air and imagination. Mr Dol-by, our expert judge, found it very hard to decide on the win-ning entries from an impressive array of work which included models, projects and videos.

!e $rst prize overall was won by Millie Haynes (8.7/8P4) and Caitlin Minshall (8.8/8P4) who made a traditional Chi-nese dress and produced a project to go with it. Other prize winners were Chloe Middleton (8.1/8C5), Lewis Collins (8.3/8C5), Emily Law-less (8.2/8C2), Olivia Ben-nett (8.5/8C1), Lucy Beckett (8.2/8C6), Jade Hall (8.12/8P4) and Aaliyah Williams (8.4/8C3). Well done to all those who took part and rose to the challenge.

Since the last newsletter, Team Nicaragua has been working hard to organise events, stands and prizes for all you lucky

people in the academy!

For example, we’re having a ‘Valentine Sweethearts’ Disco on the 15th of Feb for Years 7 and 8 – music, fun and sweets for all! We’re also planning stalls at the Pre Prom Extravaganza and the Talent Show giving you the chance to win lots of great prizes! In the long term, we will be planning a teacher car wash (watch out!), a stand at the Hollyoaks football match and, if the disco is a hit, many more like it to come! Keep your eyes open around the academy to discover what may be coming next, from all of the Nicaragua Team. All the funds raised are helping the team get to Nicaragua in the summer of 2012 to work on a community project.

Twenty-two Year 9 Human-ities students have taken

part in two Holocaust Memo-rial Day workshops during January.

!e students worked with sta" from the New Vic !eatre and produced some very impressive work.

!e students created some shadow puppet theatres depict-ing the moving stories of fami-lies a"ected by the Holocaust. !e work produced will be on display as part of the ‘Untold Stories’ art exhibition at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas from 18th February.

History

Our Young Enterprise team, Forte, managed to secure "rst place at the recent trade fair in Burton town centre.

!eir enthusiasm and professionalism enabled them to achieve the highest score from the judges and to also sell over £100’s worth of their retro vinyl products. !ey are now looking at increasing their range and are contacting local independent retailers to see if they will be happy to sell their exciting new products. Congratula-tions to all of the team members who have worked really hard to achieve this success!

YOUNG ENTERPRISE SUCCESS

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Congratulations to Miss Roberts, Miss Shenton, Miss Vizor, Mr Hand,

Miss Wood, and Mr Cook-Abbott for completing the nine month voluntary Growing Leaders programme.

!e programme is self directed in nature and involves attend-ing $ve training sessions.

All six participants have also taken on a whole academy ini-tiative, the life span of which will go beyond that of the course.

!e academy is committed to supporting sta" and we cur-rently have a further four par-ticipants on the next cohort which started earlier this year.

PHOTO ESSAY COMPETITION SUCCESS

All six participants have also

will go beyond that of the

which started earlier this year.

CELEBRATING

STAFF

SUCCESS

RESIDENTIAL COURSES

ANNUAL LONDON ART TRIP

D of E candidates from !e de Ferrers Acad-

emy took part in their main fund raising event of the year over the Christmas period. !is included bag packing at Sainsbury’s and tow-ing Santa in his sleigh around the streets. !ey man-aged to raise a fantastic total of £8,455.56. Gold candidates are currently raising money to help fund their expeditions to North Wales whilst Bronze and Silver candidates are busy training and preparing

Art students from Years 9 to 13 spent Sat-urday 9th February in London visiting two major art galleries. !e morning

was spent at the Tate Modern where students looked for inspiration from contemporary and o#en challenging art work.!e students then took the scenic walk to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Both students and sta" had a really enjoyable and thought provoking day.

Residential courses are a great way for students who enjoy a particular

subject to mix with other like-minded individuals and to de-velop their social skills and in-dependence.

Various Engineering courses are being o"ered by the Small-peice Trust for students in Years 9-12 and will take place over the summer, with one for Yr 9 students being o"ered from the 11th-14th April 2011. Applica-tion forms can be downloaded from www.smallpeicetrust.org.uk or can be collected from the acad-emy.

YMT:UK (Youth Music !eatre) and NODA (National Organi-sation for the Dramatic Arts) of-fer a number of Musical !ea-tre courses during the course of the year. Again visit www.youthmusictheatreuk.org, www.noda.org.uk. As well as opportunities for singers.dancers and actors there are also oportunities for musicians and composers, and also those students who wish to pursue the Dramatic Arts at university level.

for their expeditions to the Peak District in May and June. Candidates who have completed their Bronze, Silver or Gold awards are looking forward to a Presenta-tion Evening on 1st April at the Town Hall, whilst Gold candidates

are planning their trip to St James’s Palace to receive their Gold Award from the Duke of Edinburgh.

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The Year 12 BTEC Art students have recently entered the Charnwood Arts Photo Essay Competition.

!eir starting points varied from journeys

to dreams to fears. All of the photo essays were individual, imaginative and expres-sive. Louis Crossley’s photo essay was shortlisted in the competition. It docu-

mented his daily routine, making every-day tasks more creative. Well done Louis!

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SCIENCELIVE

GYMNASTICS

FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEADERS’ AWARD

On 24th January 2011, nineteen Year 11 Science

students attended the “Science Live” conference at the Sym-phony Hall in Birmingham.

!ey were enthused and in-spired by the well chosen speakers for the day. Topics ranged from human fertility to the exploration of space. All of the speakers were leading spe-cialists in their $elds, providing the students with insights into their careers as scientists. One student commented: “A thoroughly enjoyable expe-rience that inspired us to take science further and into the future. It was great to listen to prestigious scientists talk about subjects they were passionate about and see science used in everyday life.”

Tamsin Chadwick a Year 13 student ended 2010 on a

high note.

A#er her success at the West Midlands Senior FIG compe-tition in October 2010 when Tamsin won the overall title and four gold medals, this al-lowed Tamsin entry into !e British Challenge Cup.

!is is a national competition for FIG (Federation of Inter-ernational Gymnastics) Sen-iors and over twenty girls from around the UK entered.

Although there were no medals this time, Tamsin came a very credible $#h in the Champi-onship, this being the highest ranking she has ever achieved at a National Competition.

Well, just back from clearing up a#er our latest event, the

Fashion Extravaganza and Pre Prom Night. It was a fantastic evening of glitter and glamour as models paraded the catwalk in beautiful evening wear from Private Collection, hats and fas-cinators from Best Kept Secret and gorgeous Prom wear from the aptly named Drop Dead Gorgeous. !ere were many stall holders selling shoes and bags, jewellery and accessories and hair and beauty products and they will all be listed on our webpage within the next

For the "rst time at %e de Ferrers Academy, nineteen Year 9 students have successfully completed a training course enabling them to be recognised as Foreign Language Leaders. %roughout the Autumn term they discovered what it’s like to be the teacher rather than

the student in a classroom. %ey considered what it takes to be a successful teacher, how to plan lessons, motivate the students, deliver a lesson clearly and have all your resources to hand in full working order. Alongside these skills they also learnt more about how to work co-operatively with others; they increased their sense of responsibility and their self-con"dence.

%e course culminated in two mornings in late January where Year 5 and Year 6 pupils from John of Rolleston came to the Dove Campus to be taught by the Language Leaders. %ey conducted themselves very professionally and delivered their various lessons to the younger children who enjoyed themselves enormously, par-ticularly since the Leaders had generously provide edible mo-tivational prizes!

%e students involved should feel very proud of themselves for achieving this award. %ey are: Natalie Bartram, Abigail Birtles, Sam Borrington, Tom Borrington, Helen Cooke, Dominic Hickman, Ross Hipkiss, Jon-ny Hunt, Tyler Lowe, James Pickering, Sophie Richardson, Isabella Sellers, Dominic Staley, Joel Stanley, Jade Russell, David Waters, Joshua Welsh, Daisy Wheat and Hannah Wolfenden.

PARENTS, STAFF, FRIENDS ASSOCIATION.

few days. Lots of thanks to: the stallholders, the audience, Matt Mills the technician for look-ing a#er the lights and sound system and Dave and Liam, the incomparable compères. !anks also to Mark Zaccaria the photographer who gave his time free of charge to come and take photographs, to Phil Bax-ter who helped set up the cat-walk and Glenn who decorated it and to all the PSFA members who helped to make the even-ing so successful. Finally a big thank you to all the models, in particular the three members of sta" who ‘volunteered’ at the last minute to help on the $rst catwalk – an absolute baptism by $re but they did superbly well and then of course, all the Year 11 students who mod-elled the Prom wear – quite a transformation! !ese were:

Millie Billings, Sophie Cole, Beth Considine, Serena Dyche, Amy Geary, Abbie Rai, Abbie Wright, Nicole Wright, Jake Boulter, Jack O’Sullivan, Cal-lum Slaney, Kierran Tunstall. We will hopefully be giving you a link to some pictures in due course.

We barely had time to draw breath before we put on the bar at the Talent Show on last Fri-day night which was another success.

Up and coming events – watch out for the Quiz Night on Fri-day 18th March at Dove and hopefully another Hollyoaks Charity Football Match on June 26th.

Anita McLean - Chair - PSFA

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For those who don’t already know, at de Ferrers we have had high success within basketball over the years. For the $rst time last year we set up a de Ferrers Basketball Academy for

girls and boys from Years 7-9 every Monday night from 3.45pm to 6pm at the Sports Hall. !is proved to be very successful.We have continued with the Academy this year and this has again proved to be very successful so far, and we have had a growing number of girls coming along. I think the long tradition of basket-ball success will continue for many more years to come.If you are a keen on basketball and would like to improve on your skills and learn the game and have the opportunity to continue with basketball outside of de Ferrers then speak to a member of the PE Sta" for a consent letter.

Girls’ Basketball!e Year 9 Girls’ Basketball team has been entered into the Year 10 County Cup this year and has played one match and have reached the semi $nal. !e students played St Joseph’s College, on Decem-ber 8th 2010, winning 38-20, away at the Michelin Centre. !is was the match that put them through to the semi $nals of the Year 10 Cup. !e girls will play St John Fisher, on February 16th 2011, away at Newcastle College. Good luck girls!

Also the girls got through to the U14 County Finals. !ese took place on Tuesday 8th February 2011, playing away at Fenton Man-or. !e girls $rst played St John Fisher and put in a $ne display even though the game started in a rather rocky way; they man-aged to pull things round and gave a gritty performance, losing the game 6-17. !e following two games were a $ne display of bas-ketball and proved that the girls have put so much hard work in, in the training sessions at the academy on a Monday night. !ey played Blake Valley next and won 36-2 and continued with an-other win over St Josephs 20-8. !e girls once again put on a $ne display proving that their fast breaks, solid defending and some tremendous shooting is something for other teams to watch and it was an enjoyment to watch too. Well done, girls!

Girls’ Team: Kira Banham 9.6, Courtney Barlow 9.12, Phoebe Hinds 9.1, Holly Web-ster 9.5, Zara-Jane !ompson 9.9, Sophie Richardson 9.8, Megan Reavill 9.6 , Tami-kah Campbell 9.8, Milly Bowering 9.11

or those who don’t already know, at de Ferrers we have had

was an enjoyment to watch too. Well done, girls!

Girls’ Team: Kira Banham 9.6, Courtney Barlow 9.12, Phoebe Hinds 9.1, Holly Web-ster 9.5, Zara-Jane !ompson 9.9, Sophie Richardson 9.8, Megan Reavill 9.6 , Tami

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Despite the winter months, some of the Academy Athletics

teams have been in competi-tion recently, competing in the Sports Hall Athletic competi-tions. At the District Champi-onships, hosted at de Ferrers, the Year 7 and Year 8 Girls’ teams both won their competi-tions comfortably to claim the District titles. "e boys could not quite match this impres-sive achievement but still per-formed fantastically well to !n-ish in second place in both Year 7 and Year 8 competitions.

As a result of winning these competitions, both girls’ teams quali!ed for the County Finals in Stoke in January. Against nine other sports partnership winning schools from across Sta%ordshire both acquitted themselves very well and were a credit to the academy. "e highlight of the a#ernoon was the performance of the Year 8 team who !nished second to !nish as County runners-up.

The football season has continued with remark-able successes for all of

our teams in the various cup competitions. To date, we have remained unbeaten in all age groups of the District Floodlit Cup, with Year 7 having made the !nal. Year 7, along with Year 9, have also been performing fantastically well in the County Cup with both teams through to the semi !nal stage currently.

Principal: Mr M A York BA (Hons) BEd MBA

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SPORTS HALL ATHLETICS

FOOTBALL

TABLE TENNIS

BASKETBALL

Not to be out done by the boys, our girls’ football teams have also done the academy proud, with the Year 7 Girls winning their District competition and Year 9’s !nishing as runners-up on goal di%erence in their league. All results since Christ-mas are shown below;

Year 7Beat Granville 4-1 (Floodlit Cup Semi Final)Beat Painsley 4-0 (County Cup Quarter Final)

Year 9Beat Paget 11-0 (Floodlit Cup Quarter Final)Beat QEMS 8-0 (County Cup Quarter Final)

Year 10Beat Granville 5-0 (Floodlit Cup Quarter Final)

Year 11Beat Granville 11-1 (Floodlit Cup Quarter Final)

Our traditional success in basketball has con-tinued this year, with

our younger up and coming teams stealing the limelight! "e Year 9 Boys’ team has dom-inated the District League, win-ning all matches comfortably to qualify for the County Finals. In addition the students have advanced to the semi !nal stage of the County Cup. "e Year 9 girls have proven to be equally successful in also qualifying for the County Finals. "e Year 11 team members have won their District League and the Sixth Form team are through to the semi !nal stage of the County

Cup also. Fingers crossed that all teams can maintain their success through to the end of the season!

Year 9 BoysBeat "omas Alleynes 76-8 (League)Beat John Taylor 50-8 (League)Beat Robert Sutton 102-20 (League)

Year 9 GirlsBeat St John Fisher Year 10 Girls 38-22 (County Cup)

Year 10Lost to John Taylor 34-27 (League)Beat William Allitt 43-15 (League)Lost to "omas Alleynes 42-32 (League)

Year 11Beat William Allitt 48-31 (League)

Sixth FormLost to "omas Alleynes 64-39 (League)

Having won the County Team competition be-fore Christmas, the

Under 13 Boys team travelled to Bradford on an early Sun-day morning to compete in the regional !nal of the English Schools Table Tennis Champi-onship. Competing against the best schools from across York-shire and Derbyshire, the boys did fantastically well in some very closely fought matches to !nish as runners-up and quali-fy for the National Semi-Finals in Blackburn on Saturday 5th March. "is ranks the team in the top sixteen nationally! Team: Liam Burt, Andrew Heathcote, Jack Prescott, Ed-ward Watchman, George Hod-son-Walker.

In addition, eighteen students recently competed in the Dis-

trict Individual Championships at Robert Sutton. "e success continued with James Ward beating Kunal Manek in an all de Ferrers Under 19 Final. "e Under 16 Boys’ Final was also an all de Ferrers a%air with Ed-ward Freeman edging out Joe Byrne in a closely fought game. Andrew Heathcote won the Under 13 Boys’ title to make in a clean sweep of boys’ titles and Bekki Lycett won the Under 16 Girls’ Competition meaning the academy won all four com-petitions entered!

HOMEWORK CLUB RAFFLE

OASIS CLUB

AFTERNOON HOMEWORK CLUB

Just to remind students who have been invited to the Oasis Club, it runs every

lunch time from 12.50pm until 1.15pm. Look forward to seeing you there.

Open every evening from 3.30pm to 4.30pm

Everybody Welcome

Winners of the homework club ra&e!

- Mariah Wright - - Liam Park-er - - Gabby Dennis - - Akeeb Yasin - - Humairau Khadija - - Liam Farrell - - Shane Mor-ris - - Ricky Sleight - - Daniel Edwards Yr10 - - David Lang-ford - - Daniel Spencer-Smith - - Callum Russell - - Daniel Lee - - Saba Akhtar - - Sinead Rustem - - Ashkan Salimi - - Ryan Timmins