April 12 - Woodlands Academy

Bouncing into school
Woodlands Academy
As part of their drive to increase
attendance at Leigh CE Primary
School, they approached us to
see if we could help them by
providing an afternoon of fun
activities for the class with the
highest attendance from the
Autumn Term.
There were joint winners, Year 1
and Year 5, so they each came to
Woodlands Academy for a fun
session in our Sports Hall as a reward.
Leigh CE Learning Mentor, Mrs Brook,
said “We are always looking for
new ways to improve attendance
and we approached Woodlands
Academy to ask if they could
help us to reward our children”.
The Year 1 warm-up was
overseen by our Year 8 students
Thane Baillie and Ben Lawson
(right) and Year 9 students Sam
Mitchell and Harvey Suddick.
The children laughed and squealed with delight as they
jumped into the foam pit and as they scrambled to get
out again. The groups then swapped around so everyone
got to experience both activities. On the trampolines the
children were assisted by Ben, Sam, Harvey and Thane as
they gained confidence and learnt to bounce higher and
higher! Mr Austin said “The children had great fun. From
five to fifteen year olds the gymnastics area is always
popular!”
Angel aged six, pictured (top) with Thane said “I liked
going on the trampoline and bouncing really high”.
The afternoon ended in a race to scramble from one end
of the foam pit to the other with the children following
their teacher, Mrs Carpenter, and their Teaching Assistant,
Mrs Poole who were the first to face the challenge!
Qistina, aged five said “I really enjoyed the challenge in the
foam pit, it was fun”.
On their morning at Woodlands Academy,
the Year 5’s had great fun in the foam
pit perfecting their skills jumping
from different heights and using
different jump positions. The
session ended with a fun race
though the foam pit.
Mr Young and Mr Austin said
“We look forward to providing
more fun-filled sessions to Leigh
CE Primary School attendance
winners in the near future.”
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Ellis House ~ Striving for Excellence
Ellis House have recently launched an initiative aimed at praising and
rewarding those students who consistently perform well in their lessons and
achieve outstanding ‘attitude’ grades.’
Last half-term’s winners were : Corey Blackwood, Lee Patterson (below left),
Sam Round, Zack Hankinson, Claude Hunter (below centre), Daniel Roberts,
Rupesh Patel (below right) and Thomas Bettany.
Ellis House ~ 100% Attendance
Mr Berridge, Ellis House Learning Leader, said “In Ellis House we
feel it is important to recognise and celebrate attendance. The
following boys received 100% attendance during the last half
term.”
Year 7 : Robert Anderson, Bailey Angliss, Harry Barwick, Zachary Birch,
Charlie Blakemore, Lewis Blakemore, Ellis Dodd, Daniel Hughes, Joshua
Lamarra, Kyle Mather, Jason Matthews, Jack Moeller, Adam Nicholson,
Dean Paton, Hayden Porter, Sher Singh Lulildia, Jordan Thompson and
Aaron Viner.
Year 8 : Jamie Bird, Matthew Chappell, Liam Horwood, Conor
McQuiggan, Morgan Nown, Connor Parsons, Arran Revell, Jamie
Roberts, Corey Savage, Callum Speirs, Myles Taylor, Lewis Tougher-
Gernon, Ethan Williams and Charles Yogarajah.
Year 9 : Jack Auckland, Cameron Aze, Cieron Carr, Ethan Cassidy, Billy
Covington, Joseph Gilbert, Ben Heath, Matthew Kuznik, Harry Lawton,
Ben Mathew, James Moeller, Lee Patterson, Tom Pittaway, Daniel
Roberts and Kieran Smith.
Year 10 : Samuel Berry, Thomas Bettany, Tom Bicknell, Liam Cottle,
George Curtis, Harry Huggins, Jack Minshull, and Jack Tolley.
Year 11 : Louis Addleton, Cameron Beales, Lewis Gregory, Jack Hawker,
Claude Hunter, Liam Jordan, Ross Knight, William Papadopoulos,
Kurtis Patterson, Lewis Robinson, Samuel Round, Joe Smith and Reece
Thompson.
Free school
uniform for all
Year 7’s joining
Woodlands
Academy.
See page 13 for
more details