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The Brilliant club visit Nottingham University A group of 24 of our Year 7s and 12 Year 5s from Belmont Primary School enjoyed their day as University scholars at The University of Nottingham Sutton Bonington, as part of the Brilliant Club launch. The Brilliant Club is a charity, focused on ensuring pupils leave school with the knowledge, skills and ambition to secure places at highly selective universities. The group experienced tutorials in Humanities and Arts, and STEM, a study skills master class and a tour of the campus. The launch was very successful and the students had a great time! The Brilliant Club enjoyed their visit to The University of Warwick on Wednesday 18th May 2016, where they graduated after completing set assignments. The group were particularly excited as they will be graduating after completing their assignments. One group of Year 7’s worked on a STEM topic “Ebola, is it the next pandemic?” and the others had a Humanities project on “ England’s turning points”. The Brilliant Club at the William Allitt School have also been working with Year 5 students from Newhall Juniors, Belmont, Overseal and Linton Primary Schools. Their assignment was “what is fairness?” They have attended the William Allitt School every Wednesday afternoon for their tutorials. All the students have been tutored by PHD researchers who are all experts in their field. We look forward to updating you on the students success in our next newsletter. Mrs S O’Callaghan, Miss A Martin, Miss S Moore – Academic Mentors Derbyshire School's Book Award Students from William Allitt joined over 100 students and staff at the Finale Event for the inaugural Derbyshire Schools’ Book Award. Schools from across Derbyshire came together to hear one of the shortlisted authors Sally Green, talk about her book “Half Bad” and its sequel “Half Wild”. Sally answered some very perceptive questions from the audience, before each of the participating schools championed one of the five shortlisted titles. The 2016 winner of Derbyshire Schools’ Book Award was “Say Her Name” by Juno Dawson. Sue Polchow, from Microlibrarian Systems, whose company sponsored the event, announced the winner at the end of a very busy and exciting afternoon. Juno had been scheduled to attend the afternoon but had to withdraw at the last minute due to illness. The trophy was presented to Juno in April when she visited The William Allitt School. The award was organised by ADLIBS (Association of Derbyshire Librarians in School) to raise the profile of reading amongst students in Derbyshire Schools and to recognise the more popular authors’ works which do not appear on other national book award shortlists. Helen Smith, from Eckington School and Jane Collier from The William Allitt School, who organised the afternoon were really pleased with the buzz generated about books and reading at the event and how well the participating students championed their shortlisted book. Mrs J Collier – School Librarian Page 4
Drama Success to the City Stage Key Stage 4 students performed a run of our Connections 500 play What Are They Like? In the Drama Studio before Easter – this was extremely successful and the students really came into their own. A director from the National Theatre visited on the Friday evening and gave some amazing feedback to the students. The students went onto to take their production to the Derby Theatre Stage – a really exciting and amazing opportunity for all the students involved. Congratulations to all the cast and crew! Miss S Padmore – Teacher of Drama & Mr T Wagg – Teacher of English GCSE Performing Arts Showcase Performance The Year 11 GCSE Performing Arts students did a fantastic job in their exam showcase performance and achieved some fantastic marks with some full marks in both the performance and written element. The piece was based around Rights and links to the school RRSA work in response to their exam brief ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on’. The group created the ideas and developed the piece from the initial Shakespeare quote, successfully integrating dance, drama and singing. Miss S Cohen – Teacher of Dance Official Opening of Newhall Skatepark Students from the William Allitt School were excited to see their chosen design of the new Skate Park in Newhall Park be officially opened during the Easter Holidays. Our students have assisted the Friends of Newhall Park group for many years, by attending the group’s meeting where they have planned, discussed and contributed ideas of the proposal of a Skate Park helping with the group’s Sport England application, and were happy to assist with official opening of new Skate Park showing their skills off to many visitors to the park. Unite 2016 Dance Company have been very busy over the last few months, not only having two performances at Deda, contributing towards the Primary Dance Showcase but also performing at the Brewhouse as part of Burton and South Derbyshire College’s annual Unite Festival. Page 5
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