Students at The Quest Academy have achieved a 100% pass rate at A Levels. Nearly three-quarters (75%) of all grades were A* to C and 33% were A* to B. A number of students deserve a special mention: Quest’s Head Boy, Azhar Chaudhry achieved A*, A and B (economics, German and history) and will go on to study PPE at Exeter University, part of the Russell Group of universities. Azhar said, “I want to thank the school. I came here 4 years ago from Germany and couldn’t speak a word of English. The school has really made me who I am today. Without the support of Mr Crofts and the teachers here, I never could have come so far. It’s a wonderful school.” Mudeser Adem achieved A, A, C in maths, German and physics, including 100% on his maths’ Mechanics paper. He will go on to read Mechanical Engineering. “I’ve really enjoyed the two years at Quest6. The teachers have helped me enormously and pushed me to achieve my targets. I certainly never expected to get 100% in maths!” Four students (Tracy Asafo Adjei, Patrick Chott, Beilul Fesshaye and Florence Noble) who studied for a BTEC in Business, all achieved Distinction*, the highest grade possible, and equal to A grade at A Level. AS students also performed well, with Year 12 student and Deputy Head Girl, Gloria Lasissi achieving A, A, B and C in economics, RE, history and English; Muhamad Muhamad achieved A, A, B in economics, RE and English, alongside a B in A2 German. These results come just weeks after Quest was judged as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. In recent months Quest has also received two awards from the Good Schools Guide and was recognised as being in the top 12% of English Sixth Forms for Value Added. Andy Crofts, Principal, said “Quest’s Sixth Formers have done us all proud and have proved that the quality of education at Quest is going from strength to strength. Our new state-of-the-art £16.5 million academy building, with fabulous Sixth Form provision has no doubt supported the excellent teaching at Quest.” Mrs Martin, Executive Principal of the Quest Academy and Headteacher at Coloma Convent Girls’ School, sponsor of the Academy, said, “Every year, we see Quest’s results improving. It is such a pleasure to see the standards at Coloma, which has long been recognised as one of the UK’s best comprehensive schools, being replicated at Quest. I congratulate each student on their results and thank every member of staff for their support.” nEwSLETTEr VoLuME 6 ISSuE 1 AuTuMn ‘15 Headline News ■ The Quest’s 100% A Level rate Page 1 Academy News ■ Principal’s message ■ GCSE 2015 results Page 2 Academy News ■ Induction Day ■ Maths Gym ■ Duke of Edinburgh Page 3 Sports Highlights ■ Shanard Jackson ■ The Quest Academy Sports Day Page 4 Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 01 Quest Students Achieve 100% at A Level
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Students at The Quest Academy haveachieved a 100% pass rate at A Levels.Nearly three-quarters (75%) of allgrades were A* to C and 33% were A*to B.
A number of students deserve a specialmention: Quest’s Head Boy, AzharChaudhry achieved A*, A and B(economics, German and history) and willgo on to study PPE at Exeter University,part of the Russell Group of universities.Azhar said, “I want to thank the school. Icame here 4 years ago from Germanyand couldn’t speak a word of English. Theschool has really made me who I amtoday. Without the support of Mr Croftsand the teachers here, I never could havecome so far. It’s a wonderful school.”
Mudeser Adem achieved A, A, C in maths,German and physics, including 100% onhis maths’ Mechanics paper. He will go onto read Mechanical Engineering. “I’vereally enjoyed the two years at Quest6.The teachers have helped meenormously and pushed me to achievemy targets. I certainly never expected toget 100% in maths!”
Four students (Tracy AsafoAdjei, Patrick Chott, BeilulFesshaye and FlorenceNoble) who studied for aBTEC in Business, allachieved Distinction*, thehighest grade possible,and equal to A grade at A Level.
AS students also performed well, withYear 12 student and Deputy Head Girl,Gloria Lasissi achieving A, A, B and C ineconomics, RE, history and English;Muhamad Muhamad achieved A, A, B ineconomics, RE and English, alongside a Bin A2 German.
These results come just weeks after Questwas judged as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. In recentmonths Quest has also received two
awards from the Good Schools Guideand was recognised as being in the top12% of English Sixth Forms for ValueAdded.
Andy Crofts, Principal, said “Quest’s SixthFormers have done us all proud and haveproved that the quality of education at
Quest is going fromstrength to strength. Ournew state-of-the-art £16.5million academy building,with fabulous Sixth Formprovision has no doubtsupported the excellentteaching at Quest.”
Mrs Martin, Executive Principal of theQuest Academy and Headteacher atColoma Convent Girls’ School, sponsor ofthe Academy, said, “Every year, we seeQuest’s results improving. It is such apleasure to see the standards at Coloma,which has long been recognised as oneof the UK’s best comprehensive schools,being replicated at Quest. I congratulateeach student on their results and thankevery member of staff for their support.”
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V o L u M E 6
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A u T u M n ‘ 1 5
Headline News
� The Quest’s 100%
A Level rate
Page 1
Academy News
� Principal’s message
� GCSE 2015 results
Page 2
Academy News
� Induction Day� Maths Gym
� Duke of Edinburgh
Page 3
Sports Highlights
� Shanard Jackson� The Quest Academy
Sports Day
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Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 01
Quest Students Achieve 100% at A Level
A number of students at The QuestAcademy have exceeded allexpectations by achieving strings ofA*s and As at GCSE.
Tara Nelson, who is also a talentedpianist, achieved 8 A*s, 2As at GCSE, a B inAS Maths and a Distinction at Level 2BTEC. Natalia Rojas achieved 3 A*s, 5Asand 3Bs whilst Mohamed Mohamudachieved 3 A*s, 4As and 3Bs and AyeshaShah achieved 3 A*s, 4As, 4Bs and aDistinction.
Tara said, “I’m really happy with all myresults and I’d like to thank all myteachers for supporting me and beingwilling to put in the extra work to helpme achieve all of them.”
Natalia said, “I’m really pleased with myA*s and As. A really big thank you to bothMiss Thomas (French) and Miss Owen (RS& Citizenship) for supporting me as muchas they did throughout their time as myteachers.”
Mohamed said, “I’m ecstatic. We all canachieve well at The Quest if you applyyourself and are resilient throughout the
course. Thanks to all the teachers. They allhad their part to play in helping meachieve well.”
Ayesha said, “I never thought I’d do aswell as I did. I feel really confident nowabout my future.”
In addition to these tremendousindividual successes, students at theQuest Academy achieved 100% A*-Cgrades in Biology, Chemistry, Physics andFurther Additional Science and everystudent who took the challenging TripleScience GCSE gained a grade A*-C.
Principal Andy Crofts, said, “I am pleasedwith our results in many subjects,particularly in Science. Students haveworked incredibly hard and should beproud of their achievements.”
Mrs Martin, Quest’s Executive Principaland Headteacher at Coloma ConventGirls’ School, said, “With the support ofthe leadership team and all the staff atthe Academy, students at The QuestAcademy have had the chance to doreally well. We wish them every success intheir future choices, and really lookforward to continuing our work with allthose who are going on to study for A-Levels at Quest6.”
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ACADEMY NEWS
GCSE 2015 Results 20th August 2015
Principal’sMessage
Welcomeback to thefifth year ofthe QuestAcademy –Coloma Trust;I hope thateveryone hada pleasantbreak.
As you will see from the articles inthis newsletter so much happensoutside of the classroom to enlivenand enrich students’ experiences.
Thank you to the students for theiractive participation in art, sport,drama and music and also to thestaff for their commitment inproviding a first class and broadeducational experience.
It Is through the combination ofexcellent academic results and thewide participation in extracurricularactivities such as the Duke ofEdinburgh Award Scheme thatstudents gain the qualifications andskills that they need to be the mostsuccessful young adults. I would liketo ask all parents to encourage theirsons and daughters to get involvedin a variety of activities to make thisa reality.
We were delighted in June to haveconfirmation from Ofsted that wewere “good” in all respects. We nowbegin our journey towardsbecoming the “outstanding” learningcommunity that we believe we canbe.
With best wishes for the Autumnterm.
Mr. Crofts
The Quest Academy hosted its annualSummer School for our new year 7 pupilsin the first week of the summer holidays.Again, it was a huge success as 80 pupilsfrom various primary schools immersedthemselves in a wide range ofeducational and enjoyable activities.
The summer school was a greatopportunity for our new pupils to beginto feel part of our community and getused to their new surroundings. Activitesincluded literacy and numeracy tasks,sport and games, the use of ICT, teambuilding games, science investigations, a
fun outing to Frylands Woods and muchmore.
To end the Summer school we haddrama and dance performances andgave out certificates to recognisestudents in different catergories.
Pupils who are in the Maths Gym programme wereall invited for the presentation afternoon.
Mr. Treadwell, Achievement Coordinator for Year 7,was invited to present the certificates and trophies tothe students. The students whose names appearbelow received certificates and trophies for workcompleted in the "4 Rules of Number".
I would like to thank Mr. Treadwell for taking the timeto conduct the presentation.
My congratulations go to all of our students, thoserewarded with a prize as well as the rest who havedeveloped and worked really well on the SymphonyMaths Programme.
Particular congratulations to Jessica Owusu forpassing all Symphony stages 16 out of 17 . Welldone!
Allen Ross 7.2Bisma Hussain 7.3Chante Shirley 7.3Mya Thomas 7.2Zanayah Gordon 7.2Lisa-Marie Steer 7.3Jessica Owusu 7.3Reese Rhoden 7.3Noi Sritrailuem 7.3Harry Jones 7.2
In June of last year, 23 students from years 11and 12 embarked on the expedition sectionof their Duke of Edinburgh, spending threedays camping and walking around the NewForest.
Miss Thomas, Mr Wheeldon and Miss Bilsbysaid goodbye to the students at a randomcar park in the middle of the forest. The groups then had the task offollowing their maps, compasses and some minimal instructions to ensurethat they reached their campsite before nightfall. The groups spreadthroughout the New Forest navigating trees, heather, wild ponies and cows.Despite the heavy weight of their 65 litre backpacks, group morale remainedhigh, even during moments of confusion,.
After a successful first day, the groupsarrived back. Unfortunately, the day’sassessment was not over and they set towork organising their camp; putting uptents, getting water and cooking theirevening meal on the impossibly smallcamping stoves.
The groups did so well on the second day that they arrived back to campwith enough time to play football and have a nap before dinner! Hotchocolate and biscuits were enjoyed by all that evening as it was revealedthat they had passed the camp craft section of their expedition.
On the final day, the rain came but thisdid not deter our students who set offmore determined than ever despitethis being the most complicated dayof walking yet. All beat their expectedwalking time, impressing theirteachers and their assessor. Each of our students completed theirSilver Duke of Edinburgh Awardexpedition with flying colours andwere a real credit to our Academy.
Well done!
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Induction Day
Maths Gym Presentation Afternoon Wednesday 8th July 2015
ACADEMY NEWS
Duke of Edinburgh
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On Friday 24th July 2015 Queststudent Shanard Jackson ran in theQueen Elizabeth Olympic Stadium!
Shanard and a few of his teammates fromCroydon Harriers competed in a 4x100mrelay race. Their race was part of anumber of sprint relay races which wereput on by British Athletics as part of it’s“Club:Connect Relays Programme”. Theseraces are for athletes who compete in theUnder 13 to Under 20 age groups, andare designed to educate and inspirethem. The races took place before themain evening’s Athletics, which featuredMo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill, and UsainBolt!
Shanard’s coach has been reallyimpressed with his approach to trainingthis year, and his performances incompetitions. So much so that hepromoted him to the Under 20s teamAND gave him the honour of running thefirst leg! By running first Shanard had theresponsibility of getting his team off to agood start. It also meant that he wasfeatured on the big screen!
Shanard showed no sign of fear or nerves.He got off to a great start, and zoomedaround the first bend and handed overthe baton to his teammate. The rest ofthe team did their jobs equally well, andCroydon Harriers finished third in a timeof 42.89secs.
On Friday 10th July The QuestAcademy put on a feast of sport inwhich nearly 600 pupils were engaged in sporting activitiesthroughout the day.
The weather wasvery kind to uswith clear skiesand warmtemperaturesthroughout theday
The day beganwith a multi-sportsmorning withtournamentstaking place in
Cricket, Rounders, Netball, Basketball,Football, Chess and Dance. All matchesand competitions were closely foughtwith some outstanding performances. Inthe boys football tournament, Hillarydominated whilst in the girls Shackletonwon. Livingstone won the netballcompetition whilst Hillary completelydominated the basketball in all yeargroups except the girls year 9 and 10tournament in which Shackleton cameout on top. Livingstone dominated thecricket and Shackleton won theRounders, Chess and Dance contests. Thismeant that Shackleton took a narrowlead going into the afternoon athleticsevents.
The afternoon events were, as predicted,very closely fought with someexceptional performances and schoolrecords set. Particular mention must goto Donny Senior whose Discus throw of28 metres is a new record, whilst MillieDaly also set a record with her 16.7 metrejavelin throw, Year 7 Aaliyah Smiley threwher discus 18m which was further thanany other girl in all years, this was alsotrue of her 100m time of 13.38 seconds,an amazing performance!
In Year 7, the boys competition was wonby Livingstone with Hillary second andShackleton third. The girls was won byHillary followed by Livingstone in secondand Shackleton third.
In Year 8,Livingstonewon the boyscompetitioncomfortablywith Shackletonsecond andHillary third. Thegirls was closerwithLivingstonewinning againfollowed byHillary andShackletonIn Year 9 boys,the competitionwas dominatedby Hillary whowere followedby Livingstoneand Shackleton.The girlscompetitionwas incredibly close with only 5 pointsseparating winners Livingstone fromsecond place Hillary and Shackleton third.
In the Year 10 boys contest only 19 pointsseparated the three houses withShackleton coming out on top fromLivingstone in second and Hillary third.Hillary dominated the girls competitionwith Shackleton second and Livingstonthird.
All this meant that it was all very closewith Livingstone winning, Hillary secondand Shackleton third.
