April 12 - Woodlands Academy

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Woodlands Academy Paddling towards success Tom Goddard, 11Mc, is fast becoming one of the most successful young kayakers in Great Britain. Tom started paddling at the age of 12 at a local pool where he was introduced to freestyle kayaking. He entered the Youth Freestyle competition which is where paddlers compete against all other kayakers over Great Britain. The competitions took place in Nottingham, Cardiff, Northampton and in Yorkshire. This year he came second in his age group category and was the highest scoring nonsponsored paddler. He also took part in the GB selection events this year and has now qualified for a place on the GB Freestyle Team as first reserve. Tom also entered the GB selection events for Squirt Boating and has also been very successful and has qualified for a place on the GB Squirt Boating Team as first reserve. Tom spends most of his weekends paddling. We look forward to hearing of Tom’s future successes and wish him well in the competitions he is taking part in this year. Year 8 Indoor Rowing Woodlands Academy’s Year 8 Rowing Team (Elliot Brooks, Doug Clark, Shane O’Donnell and Shathees Ganesharatnam and Patrick Kantor) have entered into the National Concept 2 Indoor Rowing League for schools. They currently occupy 9th place out of 131 teams. Each month they are set a challenge to train for and practise. Earlier in the year the team were 21st and 17th but have now rowed into the top ten teams. This is a new competition for us to encourage more boys to get involved in Olympic type sports. Well done, boys.....keep it up! Page 8 Year 8 Table Tennis Woodlands Academy Year 8 Table Tennis team, consisting of Cameron Loughran, Marcel Mapp, Connor Parsons and George Allison, won the Warwickshire Team Championships at Lawrence Sheriff School beating Warwick School in the final 5 – 3. The team qualified for the Warwickshire competition by beating Westwood, Coundon Court and Sidney Stringer in Coventry Round. They have now since taken part in the Midlands Zone Final at Cheltenham College. Congratulations and good luck for future competitions. Year 7 Board Game Inventors In their technology lessons, the Year 7’s have been working as a team to come up with ideas for a design of a new board game. Each group has to decide on a theme for a game before producing a number of design ideas for the board and game pieces. Mrs Palmer said “The project really encouraged independent learning. It really raised the boys’ confidence and encouraged them to communicate their ideas within a group.” Games were marked on quality of design, creativity, quality of game pieces and instructions. Mrs Palmer added “Instead of marking the work myself, we experimented with group marking. Students were asked to give an attainment level for each other’s game and to give reasons for their decision. This really raised the students’ awareness of how they could improve their work and level of attainment and I noticed that the accuracy of their assessments improved as we worked through the different games.”
Issue 15 April 2012 As an introduction to Musical Theatre the Year 7’s were given the challenge of performing a scene from ‘Bugsy Malone’. They had to learn to sing the song ‘Bad Guys’ taken from a scene in the film, while also learning how to take on the role of the characters while performing it. They were taken back in time to act like the gangsters of the 1920’s- 30’s and take on the genre of Musical Theatre and learn to dance. Miss Sedgwick said “To combine all of these disciplines and perform their final piece in front of a video camera was both exciting and nerve wracking. We were so proud of how hard the students worked and with their fantastic interpretations of the dance.” If you haven’t already, you can see the videos on the school website, where you can judge for yourself, if they really are ‘Bad Guys’! Our Young Community Hero One of our Year 7 students, Joel Ellis, was a finalist in the Coventry Telegraph’s ‘Pride of Coventry and Warwickshire Community Award : Young Community Hero’. As well as being involved in Scouts and with the Young Carers’ group, Joel, who is in Stringer House, helps to take care of his mum who is disabled. He helps her with the shopping, cooking and with general chores around the house. Mrs Newman, Learning Leader of Stringer House, says “Joel is a diligent and committed student. He is unassuming and yet takes on his school responsibilities with gusto and enthusiasm. Not a day goes by when I don’t see Joel’s smiley face cheering us all up and I know that he takes that cheery, bright disposition to every lesson. I am immensely proud of Joel’s accolade and what a fine young man he already is. We are very fortunate to have the calibre of student that is Joel in Stringer House and I can see great things for the future.” Rotary Chef Competition This year four Year 10 students from Woodlands Academy - Jomar Ablen, Jordan De Vos, Andrew Stone and Harry Huggins - entered the Rotary Club Young Chef Competition. The internal school round was at the end of January and each student had to cook a two-course healthy meal and present it in a restaurant style setting. The students put in a lot of hard work and their efforts were judged by Mr Roger Woodward of the Rotary Club and Dick Taylor, one of our Governors. In a closely fought competition Andrew Stone and Jomar Ablen won this round and were awarded certificates and cookery books as prizes and they then went on to compete at the Area Final. The Area Final took place on the 8th February at Henley College in their professional catering kitchens and Hospitality Department. Jomar and Andrew had to devise a two-course meal, menu, time-plan and design a table setting on which to serve the meal. They were judged by the Head Chef and lecturers of catering and hospitality courses at Henley College. Andrew’s menu comprised a mushroom risotto starter followed by fresh home-made pasta served with pan-fried chicken in a white wine and tarragon sauce. Jomar’s meal consisted of pan-fried chicken schnitzel served with a home-made potato salad and served with green rocket and mixed leaves. His dessert was a pineapple and banana crumble served with a tropical fruit coulii. Head of Food Technology, Mrs Taggart, said “They faced strong competition from older students at Hinckley Catering College and despite their tremendous efforts, they were very unlucky not to win a place into the next round of the competition as their dishes were highly praised. However it has made them even more determined from their positive experience of the competition that they will enter next year with the ambition of reaching the National Final!” Page 9
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