3rd March 2017

22nd September 2017

THE MAGAZINE FOR MOUNTS BAY ACADEMY

STANDING OUT

Cover: Day trip to Sweden from Denmark

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Sara Davey Academy Principal

WELCOME TO MOUNTS BAY

The Place To Feel Welcome...

It’s been another wonderful week here at the Academy.

It has also been a great pleasure to welcome visitors from our technology partner Apple who have been reviewing our status as an Apple Distinguished School. Apple Distinguished Schools are centres of leadership and educational excellence that demonstrate Apple’s vision for learning with technology — and they believe they are some of the most innovative schools in the world.

Finally, well done to all of the students who have competed in the Cornwall School Games over the course of the summer. We finally managed to finish all the competitions despite one of the most windswept days we have experienced all year for the finals of the beach games. After a hard fought but enjoyable day, Mounts Bay emerged as champions again for the second year in succession. What a great way to round off the week!

ADVENTUROUS ART

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An AdventureLearning School

We are one of only 24 schools in the country who have achieved this accreditation, which is continuously reviewed to ensure that schools are raising their standards by cultivating environments in which students are excited and curious about learning.

We have had many visitors again this week. We have been conducting personal tours of the campus to prospective new students and their parents as well as the usual array of guests coming in from other schools and colleges to see how we deliver our adventurous curriculum.

I am particularly pleased to announce that this week we also passed the milestone that 80% of our staff have now completed the Apple Teacher Programme.

This weekend will also see the Academy open to 200 prospective new students for our Class of 2023. They will be treated to a fabulous array of adventurous learning activities and participate in one of our amazing “entry point” learning adventures hosted by Mr Harvey and a plethora of his talented colleagues who will be really showing off how much fun learning at Mounts Bay can be.

BE YOUR BEST

Year 9 Success in Food and Cookery

In September 2016 11 students in Year 9 started a new course in Food and Cookery. Over the year they learnt about hygiene, nutrition and developed an array of cooking skills. As part of the assessment the students prepared a two course meal as well as completing written assignments.

Report by: Mr Bromfield

DA VINCI PROGRAMME

At the end of the year all the students achieved a merit or better with two students achieving distinction stars. These would be great results for students at the end of Year 11 so to achieve them two years earlier is a truly excellent effort. Well done to all these students and we know that they will build on this success to work hard towards achieving more excellent results in the future.

EXCELLENCE REWARD

This week 19 Mounts Bay Academy students embarked on the first leg of our annual exchange programme with Helsingor Lilleskol, a small free school about an hour outside Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. If you’re at all uncertain about the geography at this point, think ‘vikings’ and the tallest group of people in Europe, and you’re pretty much in the right place…

Arriving on Monday evening after a marathon coach-plane-train journey, we were greeted by possibly the friendliest group of young people you could imagine at Helsingor Station, the MBA students being whisked away in a flash to the homes of their host families to variously enjoy meals of pizza, spaghetti and flaeskesteg – best translated as roast pork. First lesson: there’s a lot of pork and bacon here!

The next day we spent the morning in school, getting to know not just our Danish hosts but also the group of visiting German students who are spending the week here, too. Teambuilding activities and a lunch prepared by the Danish students quickly broke the ice.

After lunch we jumped on a ferry to Sweden, just a short hop across the water. We were blessed with glorious weather and stunning views, including Kronburg, the castle made famous by Hamlet.

Wednesday saw us on the train again, this time heading into Copenhagen, 70+ students ready to sample the

Vikings, Bacon and The Demon

BE INSPIRED

BE INSPIRED

delights of Tivoli Gardens, the world’s second oldest operating amusement part located in the heart of the city; the world’s oldest park is also in Denmark. Second lesson: the Danes clearly know how to have fun! The Demon and worse were a huge hit with all – some of us struggling to keep down our bacon – and then it was into the city itself for photographs, souvenirs and yet more wonderful sunshine. Copenhagen is abandoning the car by degrees and is now amongst the world’s most pedestrian-friendly cities.

And the fun’s not over yet, but we’ll save our students’ reflections for a second instalment of our Denmark adventure next week.

Report by: Mr Helliwell

A small group of Year 10 students volunteered their lunch time on Tuesday to offer their feedback on the newly launched Cornwall College Prospectus to Kerry Trevenna Creative Executive from Cornwall College.   The newly designed prospectus has a more

career orientated layout and feedback from students was very positive overall, with some constructive suggestions for development.  

Cornwall College Consult with MBA Year 10

MBA FUTURES

Report by: Mrs Masters

"Great to see where students have progressed onto."  - Rhys Brown"Lots of useful information especially on apprenticeships." - Alex Hosking"’A’ Levels should state what exam syllabus they follow."  - Henry Korteling

"Great photos." - Iris Rainbow

Thank you to Rhys Brown, Kieran Harris, Alex Hosking, Henry Korteling, Iris Rainbow and Dan Whiteway for their student voices.

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After a successful year last year the Girls Active programme is back. This programme encourages girls who don't like traditional sports and PE lessons to

try something new. 

There are 15 spaces currently open to join the programme for our first six week block which will begin on MONDAY 2nd OCTOBER. Sessions will take place down at Penzance Crossfit where the girls will be taught all about the Crossfit phenomenon. Girls will squat, burpee, cycle, row, smash ball, and crunch their way through an excellent workout with the friendly team down at our local box. 

The programme will be opened to Years 9-11 first then we will open it up to the younger Years if places become available. 

Sessions will take place every Monday and are free for participants. If you would like any more information or you would like to reserve your place on the programme (this includes girls who took part last year)  please email or see Miss Tripp. 

BE ADVENTUROUS

Girls Active Returns in Ten Days! 

Email: ktripp@mountsbay.org

Report by: Miss Tripp

BECREATIVE

Also, I was very impressed with the standard of their first homework task. Here is an example of a creative timeline showing the history of Penzance. Well done Lucia.

BE CREATIVE

REAL Project

7 Cool are working on their book project capturing the spirit of Penzance. On Monday they worked in teams to produce a creative

version of the town trail. They established rules and roles whilst working in a team and started to produce a creative version of the trail.

Report by: Miss Drew

BECREATIVE

The students have produced very refined and GCSE quality visual outcomes in their first REAL project lessons. They have applied their

poems inspired by Wilhelmina Barns Graham to connect descriptive language and mark making together in the execution of their outcomes. An amazing set of work 7 Blue! Well done! 

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REAL Project

Report by: Miss Green

Report by: Miss Tooby

7 Blue have produced some beautiful poetry inspired by the work of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. They focused on creating strong

imagery in their poems, through the use of a variety of poetic techniques, and concentrated on the relationship between image and text. I am really proud of the lovely work they have produced so far. 

We've been studying “Land’s End” from many angles in our Real Project classes.  We have found our favourite images of Land’s

End and painted them in the style of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, an abstract artist, whose speciality was Cornish Landscapes.  She used very fine detail to catch the spirit of Cornwall.  In her seascapes her use of fine lines created movement within the picture to stupendous effect.  We have been using watercolours and inks to recreate this fine detail in our own paintings of Land’s End, which has been a really fun and inspiring

process, so much so that we have been writing our own poetry.   So now we are accomplished artists and poets.  Many thanks to Miss Green and Miss Tooby for bringing out our creative potential. 

Real Project in Y7 Blue - by Marco Burke

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BECREATIVEBE CREATIVE

3:30 - 4:45pm in the Music Block Auditions for the MBA High Performance Choir are taking place in the Music block after school on Friday 29th September from 3:30pm. They are open to girls in all Years and boys from Year 9 upwards. If you love to sing come along! The sign up sheet will be in the Music block, write down your name and form group to book a time. All you need to do is sing a song for about a minute without backing.

For more information email: eeddy.13@mountsbay.org or athacker.13@mountsbay.org

Hope to see you there!

HIGH PERFORMANCE CHOIR Auditions Friday 29th September

The netball season is in full swing and started with a bang. Lots of positive results for the teams who have played so far, wins all around in fact. Well done to all those who have competed. 

For any students interested in joining netball we have after school training on Mondays and lunch time training on Wednesdays - all in the Sports Hall.

Netball Season

On Thursday the Year 8 Netball team started the season with an amazing victory against Humphry Davy School, winning 27-2 . It was a great all round team performance, and in the third quarter we rotated our positions to challenge ourselves. Well done to all involved and here's to a great season ahead.

Report by: Mrs Trevail

BE COMPETITIVE

Report by: Freya Prodger

The beach events of the Cornwall School Games that were rescheduled from last summer were held on a VERY windy Perranporth beach last Friday.

Teams from Mounts Bay were, there to compete in the surfing, volleyball,  and surf lifesaving.

In extremely difficult conditions the students performed amazingly and I am pleased to report that there were some great team and individual results.  Lots of medals brought home and many points towards the overall school games totals.

The wind made sure that all athletes were tested

and they put in 100% effort throughout the day.  With the conditions as they were the outstanding performances both on and off the water showed the time and training that these students put into their sports.  In the senior surfing finals, 5 of the 8 finalists were Mounts Bay students.A big thank you to both the staff and parents who attended to make the day a great success.

Beach Games

Report by: Mr Raggett

BE COMPETITIVE

Having won the Penwith Schools Surf competition earlier in the year, the Mounts Bay Academy Surf team headed off to Perranporth this week with high hopes of success in the Cornwall Schools surf competition. The surf was very big and windy, providing

challenging conditions for the competitors, especially for those who haven't had a lot of experience in competitions. After a team talk on competition strategy, including pointers from those students who are doing well in the national level, the heats began with Year 7-9 boys. Finlay Hanson, Eddie Roynon and Tom Thompson all did really well getting through to the quarter finals and semi finals. In the end Huck New won the final to take the overall 1st place, with Woody New 2nd and Thomas Reeves 4th. In the bodyboarding Angus McLeod took 2nd place in his first ever competition, in the  girls Year 7-11, Bonnie Whitlock claimed 1st place, with Iris Tanner 3rd and Asha Sykes 4th, and in the Year 10-11 boys Finlay Grey-Williams narrowly missed out on the semi final spot, and Alfie Brown made the semi final, claiming 5th place overall.  With so

many great individual results, Mounts Bay Academy surf team have now been crowned Cornwall School Champions retaining our trophy from last year, a great result! Well done to all the team. 

Cornwall Surf Champions

Report by: Luke New

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On Wednesday 13th September the Mounts Bay U14 football team played Penryn College. We had a good first half and played our best. We had some good shots: Izzy’s

hit the post and the keeper just saved Freya’s shot. When the whistle went for half time Miss Veall told us what we could do better. We put this into practice in the second half in our game play. We passed really well all the way down the pitch and the keeper came out, Rebecca Storey got the ball and shot it into the corner of the goal. Penryn did a good job trying to get the goal back but they didn't succeed. Right at the end of the game Penryn had a corner; they passed it in and it missed and then the whistle went.

MBA WON 1-0. But we couldn't have done it with out Miss Veall.

MBA vs Penryn National Cup Win

Report by: Mollie Maycock

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SQUAD:

Mollie Maycock (C)

Rebecca Storey Freya ProdgerIzzy Graham

Holly McEwen Libby Terry Chantelle Haggis

Lia Byrne

Kelci Prowse Rose Hammond Beau Cowan-Dickie

The Year 8 boys won their first National Cup game vs Penryn College, winning 2-1.

The match took place on Wednesday 13th September at Penryn College with our goals

coming from Jago Hills and Ryan Townson. Well done!

National Cup Win

SQUAD:

Owen Sutton

Ryan SuttonOscar HallsLeo FrostTyler DayusTom ProwseLuka WalkerJoe-Jenson TomlinsonJoe WilliamsLucas PiffJago Hills

Kempa MarksKylo MayesEnzo FavataCharlie HarveyKaiyan Wilson

Report by: Mr Lawrence

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Girls Rugby training is back on after school on a Thursday and we are pleased to announce our biggest ever turnouts so far. Miss Tripp and Miss Page were extremely excited to see over 20 girls at our first training session last Thursday and yesterday's

session was even bigger with close to 30 girls from Years 7 - 10 attending. This is fantastic news for a relatively new club BUT.............WE WANT MORE! 

We play games, we tackle, we roll around on the floor, we get muddy and most importantly we have a lot of fun. If this sounds like your type of thing please come along and try it. All you need is your PE kit and trainers to start with. If you would like to know any more you can see Miss Tripp (Languages) or Miss Page (Science) or just drop us a quick email.  

Next week Miss Tripp wants 30+ girls at training. Bring it on! 

Girls Rugby - Thursdays after school - 3.30 - 4.15 meet in the blue PE building. 

Girls Rugby Back with a Bang! 

Report by: Miss Tripp

BE COMPETITIVE

PiXL Maths App

BE INSPIRED

The PiXL Maths App is a great revision app and website we are using with Year 11 during registration time each week.

It has proven results with students across the country

and includes a combination of questions, videos and help sheets.

All students have the app on their iPad automatically. They can obtain their login details and more information from:

Report by Mr Kent

Well done to:

J TREGARTHEN

E ONEILL

K SHAIL

A BADJAN

A WALLIS

K MACEY

D TILLEY

H LOCKE

J PROWSE

C RODDA

R LADD

K MORRALL

W RODDA

J WILLIAMS

J GIBNEY

N LAW

R OAKES

N OSBORNE-WILLIAMS

A POLYBLANK

E SAWBRIDGE

This week the top form using the PiXL Maths App was 11 Red.  

Each week will we publish a list of the top 20 students in the school as well as the top registration group. This is not a list of students who have achieved the highest scores, It

is an engagement score, as we want students to be challenging themselves. The top 20 students are listed below. Keep up the great work Year 11.

maths

https://mountsbay.fireflycloud.net/mathematics/revision/pixl-app

This Week’s Puzzle:

Which figure should be placed in the empty triangle?

 

 

Last week’s solution:

113.3333 miles

Could you write next week’s puzzle?If you would like to set the numeracy puzzle for a future week click here. You will win

house points.

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Whoever submits the most correct answers over a semester will win an Amazon

voucher – prizes are also awarded to the top scoring parent/carer/staff.

House Competition

Yellow: 41 PointsBlue: 34 Points

Green: 23 PointsOrange: 9 Points

Red: 7 PointsPurple: 4 Points

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Closing date for Entries: Thursday 12:00

This Week’s House Totals

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Maths Quiz

To enter, simply write an original sentence correctly using the word harmonious. Send in your sentence using the link below.

Competition

Congratulations to Kingsley Thomas who wins 10 VIVO points.

Click here to enter the competition

This week’s word is: Harmonious

Definition:

• Marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action: 

• Forming a pleasingly consistent whole; congruous: 

• Pleasant to the ear; tuneful; melodious.

Etymology: late Middle English: via Old French from Latin harmonia ‘joining, concord’, from Greek, from harmos‘joint’.

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