Longfield Academy Newsletter

Diary Wednesday 26th April 4pm-7pm

Year 7 Parent Consultation Evening

Thursday 25th May

Year 8 Make Future Live trip

Friday 26th May

End of term

Dear Parents/Carers

It does not seem 5 minutes since I wrote the opening lines for our last newsletter and yet so much continues to go on around us at the Acade-my. We have seen a number of exciting events taking place and plans for others taking shape in preparation for the terms ahead. It never ceases to amaze me that all of this happens whilst great things continue to happen every minute of every lesson, ensuring that the students at Longfield Academy not only get great teaching but a broad range of ex-periences beyond the classroom too. As we reflect on the term just passed, it fills me with pride to hear the reports that so many bring back telling of the outstanding example our students have been, I recently received an email from a complete stranger who had met our students at the airport whilst on their way to Denmark - he was so complimentary about our students and felt it was important that they knew how impressed he was. Similarly on the tradi-tional trip to Ypres, despite terrible delays and what sounds like a bibli-cal crossing of the Channel, our students were a credit to the Academy and to you their parents. It is these skills and attributes that will always make me proud to lead Longfield Academy. I occasionally am contacted by former students from Longfield Academy and Axton Chase. It is always lovely to hear how well they have done and I point them to the Alumni group that we have. This is a great way for old friends to link up, staff to be updated on successes. If you are a former student, please do contact Lesley McIntosh (lesley.mcintosh@latrust.org) if you would like to register with our alumni to share your memories and successes. So as we go into the Easter holidays, I hope you all manage to have some rest, but I know as a parent it is also a time to replenish school equipment - as we have approached the holiday period, I have noted an increase in trainers. Please do take some time to ensure that appropri-ate shoes are ready for the return on Tuesday 18th April. This is appli-cable to all year groups and will be a focus for our college teams in the first week. So I wish you all a happy Easter and I look forward to welcoming our students back, fully equipped and ready for the summer term. Kind regards Alex O'Donnell Principal

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Attendance results

The college trophy winner of the

month goes to GALILEO!

February

94.29% Anderson

94.91% Galileo

94.73% Matisse

Winning Tutor Groups of the Month

M01/KSU 96.77% Matisse

S04/AHE 98.81% Spectrum

A11/FFE 97.4% Anderson

G04/TMU 99.51% Galileo

Reporting your child’s absence

Press 1 for Anderson students

Press 2 for Matisse students

Press 3 for Galileo students

Press 4 for Post 16 students

All parents want their child to succeed in life. Nowadays, it is more important to have a good education to have better opportunities in adult life. Children only have one chance at school, so poor attendance could affect their future. If your child does not attend reg-ularly they may:

* Struggle to keep up with school work. * Miss out on important pieces of knowledge. * Miss out on the social side of school life. * Do less well in their exams due to missing knowledge.

The parents / carers of any children who are absent must notify the Academy before

9am by calling 01474 700700 and choosing Option 1: Student absence.

Please leave a message stating your child’s full name, year group, reason for absence,

nature of illness and expected return date.

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Balogova, Renee

Bartholomew, Freya

Boulton, Jayden

Davidson, Neve

Denton, Matthew

Desforges, Toby

Dhaliwal, Arjun

Dyett, Olivia

Edwards, Raymond

Ellis, Leo

Fielder-Dyer, Lani

Fitzpatrick, Emily

Flooks, Scarlett

Frazier, Charlotte

Friend, John

Gappa, Nathan

Greenidge, Kieran

Hammond, Harrison

Hendley, Josh

Henney, Abi

Hills, Frankie

Humphreys, Sasha

Jam, Damien

Kapsalis, Maia

King, Morgan

Lee, Zoe

Leighton, Lily

Lewis, Alfie

Loveridge, George

May, Poppy

Meehan, Harley

Mills, Sarah

Morgan, Kate

Morgan, Maisie

Nandra, Maria

Nicholson, Lia

Noordally, Noah

Norman White, Lilly

Parsons, Bo

Pascoe, James

Pooley, Joshua

Poulter, Mia

Quinn, Iwan

Rose, Luke

Ross, Amy

Sands, Adam

Seal, Ava-Samantha

Sengupta, Maya

Sheehan, Francis

Titterrell, Andrew

Truder, Scarlet

Valentine, Jake

Wallace, Mia

White, Samuel

Woods, Tyler

Adams, Harry

Adams, Mia

Atkins, Bradley

Barnard-Mitchell, Georgia

Bateup, Abigail

Blanchard-Gale, Morgan

Brook-Sutton, Holly

Campbell, Emma

Casey, Claudia

Chambers, Billy

Chapman, Ella

Clarke, Nathan

Clarke, Sophie

Collins, Jonathan

Davenport, Mia

Davis, Callum

Demetriades, Conor

Desforges, Cerys

Doherty Winch, Adam

Donovan, Elle

Elliott, Brandon

Farrer, Joshua

Fasham, Daniel

Fidler, Lorcan

Furminger, Morgan

Garner, Alfie

Gladdish, Callum

Green, Morgan

Gulliver, Megan

Hall, James

Hart, Victoria

Hassall, Christopher

Hawkes, Renee

Head, Samuel

Hill, Joshua

Hope, Ryan

Hughes, Mia

Jackson, Daniel

Kenwood, Nicole

Lamb, Ross

Lane, Abigail

Lee, Bradley

Lingham, Kira

Lissenden, Sophie

London, Travis

Lovey, Jessica

McCarthy, Sophie

Merrifield, Abigail

Mills, Lauren

Morgan, Connor

Nicholson, Elise

Noordally, Hope

Pain, Daniel

Parrish-Marage, Lara

Pomphrett, Amelia

Pratten, Lee

Quinn, Tadey

Raeburn-Sweeney, Kieran

Robert, Sebastien

Rollings, Jake

Salter, Ryan

Samson, Lucy

Seyforth, Elinor

Sharman, Danny

Simpson, Madeleine

Smith, Bradley

Smith, George

Speaight, Bethan

Stanhope-Spires, Ellie

Stapley, Samuel

Still, Amy

Thresher, Reece

Titterrell, Robert

Toyeme, Seyon

Tremain, Miles

Trent, Daniella

Trent, Kelvin

Vaughan, Alexandria

Walker, Thomas

Watts, Georgia

White, Michael

Yaxley, Thomas

Yearsley, Kacy

Youells, Robert

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Aldous, Ryan

Andreou, Lenny

Archibald, Samuel

Bailey, Tommy

Banks, Conor

Behr, Sean

Boniface, Francesca

Boxall, Jessica

Brightwell, Ryan

Burnside, Amy

Chinhoi, Tanaka

Chivers, Chloe

Collinson, Marshall

Cross, Joby

Crowhurst, Lewis

Dacey, Samuel

Davey, Jack

Dawe, Matthew

Dawes, Amy

Dennis, Ryan

Evans, Alexander

Flewin, Charlie

Foster, Evie

Gibson-Priest, Freddie

Gilham, Leo

Gorton, Joshua

Gregory, Izaak

Hambleton, Abigail

Hamilton, Raphael

Harle, Will

Harrington, Lily-Mai

Harris, Isaac

Harrison, Isobel

Havard, McKenzie

Haynes, Isabel

Hoang, Lianne

Holmes, Louis

Humble, Elyssia

Jenner, Megan

Johnson, Keira

Juby, Leah

Lawrence, Aiden

Lee, Billy

Levey, Katelyn

Lewis, Alexandra

Locock, Ritchie

Lokat, Riaz

Maher, Jake

McQuade, Macy

Newberry, Darcy

Newton, Rachel

Ogbomo, Joseph

Pakeerathan, Vibishan

Pomar-Dossantos, Cristina

Porter, Callum

Prime, Sophie

Ramus, Anna

Ranger, Josh

Reeves, Sian

Savill, Lucas

Sebastian, Anu

Sharpe, Christopher

Shelton-Hunt, Freya

Smith, Lucie

Soper, Owen

Spooner, Maddy

Toomey, Ronnie

Walpole, Daniel

Walter, Emma

Watson, Joseph

Willis, Kameron

Wilsher, Charlie

Abdulgialil, Fituri

Adams, Daniel

Anderson, Tyler

Atkins, Thomas

Ayres, Ryan

Baillie, Deon

Baker, Poppy

Blair, Kyle

Brightwell, James

Bush, Frederick

Carpenter, Megan

Cassidy, Kai

Castle, Harry

Catley, Elliott

Chapman, Harry

Clark, Harley

Clarke, Taiya

Collinson, Freya

Creasey, Jordan

Dowling, Georgia

Easson, Ryan

Edusei, Pearl

Emery, James

Evans, Kieran

Fairman, Jasmine

Famuyiwa, Mae

Fitzgerald-Canning, Cameron

Foxon, Logan

Frost, Liam

Gillingham, Courtney

Hall, Sophie

Harker, Olivia

Harle, Luke

Harris, Micah

Hawney, Molly

Hemsley, Abbie

Hill, Amber

Hills, Danielle

Ho'Vell, Mea

Howes, Libby

Humphreys, Joel

Jenner, Rhys

Johnson, Hannah

Kent, Levi

King, Elliot

Leadbetter, Kieran

Liadi, Tolani

Lingham, Sam

Lissenden, Meagan

Lomas, Ayva

Mac an Gheairr, Charley

Maher, Shannen

Marshall, George

Marshall, Isabelle

Moran, Jessica

Morgan, Spencer

Newnham, Holly

Newton, Rebecca

Oxby, Mason

Panton, Bethany

Panton, Megan

Parkin, Jade

Pomar-Dossantos, Daniel

Poupart, George

Powell, Harry

Raffiquddeen, Jassim

Richmond-East, Eli

Root, Samuel

Rose, Rebecca

Sadler, Charlie

Service, Shannon

Short, Adam

Smith, Zoe

Spaul, Connie

Sutton, Isabella

Sweeney, Courtney

Synnuck, Alfie

Taylor, Amelia

Thorne, Jade

Thrower, Shaun

Usman, Ahad

Walker, Abby

Warren, Leo

Watson, Lewis

White, Scott

Wood, Emma

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Ansell, Brooke

Bainbridge, Rebecca

Bishop, Thomas

Brown, Isla

Catley, Dylan

Chandler, Sophie

Charnley, Lily

Chester, Zack

Clark, George

Cooney, Faith

Crawford, Max

Crickett, Noa-Joy

Dhoul, Barinderpal

Donegan, Ellie

Drayson, Zachery

Finney, John

Freeman, Scarlet

Fry, Jack

Gidley, Ella

Glazebrook, Daisy

Guselli, Alfie

Guselli, Francesco

Hanson, Molly

Hardy, Grace

Harman, Riley

Hart, Katie

Hawkings, Toby

Hoare, Adam

Howlett, Daniel

Humphrey, George

Irwin, Leya-Skye

Jeffrey, Euan

Keogh, Freya

Knowlson, Jack

Mackway-Jones, Ryan

McBrearty, Harrison

Mills, Liberty

Newman, Dalton

Norman, Scarlett

O'Brien, James

Openshaw, Lyla-Rose

Ottley, Connor

Palmer, Jack

Raybould, Meadow

Redding, Jay

Russell, Tommie

Seager, Holly

Sharman, Ben

Shaxted, Frankie

Smith, Lily

Smith, Molly

Stasko, Wiktor

Stuart, Noah

Taylor, Amelia

Wales, Tyler

Way, Owen

Whiteaker, Laura

Whiteaker, Lucy

Whittam, Michael

Woonton, Abigail

Aslet-Clark, Harry

Banks, Ebony

Biggs, Victoria

Bridle, Poppy

Brown, Brooke

Buckley, Perron

Carruthers, Madeline

Champion, Isobelle

Chapelhow, Joseph

Clarkson, Anthony

Clinch, Maximus

Collett, Zach

Constant, Lucy

Cooney, Destiny

Cooper, Bradley

Cox, Lewis

Cox, Shania

Dawson, Kimberley

Deakin, Max

Dyer, Kelsey

Ellard-Brown, Finlay

Gidley, Charlotte

Glazebrook, Alfie

Gregory, Lauren

Hackworth, Danielle

Harris, Luke

Hawkes, Kieran

Holland, Drew

Holmes, Abigail

Hunt, Lauren

Jackson, Benjamin

Jarrett-Andrews, Aiyana

Jones, Megan

Jones, Samuel

Jones, Tobey

Keayes, April

Kelly, Amelia

Keogh, Jessica

Kirk, Kai

Knight, Cameron

Lee, Charlie

Lee, Harry

Lewis, Courtney

Love, Tom

Lucas, Charlie

Mabruki, Tyler

Maddock, Caitlin

McGillicuddy, Bethany

Miah, Fahim

Mills, Harrison

Mordue, Emily

Murphy, Joe

New, Fern

New, Willow

Norman, Haydn

Osborne, George

Osmond, Thomas

Patterson, Ethan

Powell, Lexie

Quinn, Martin

Richards, Jack

Ripley, Karl

Robert, Ashley

Rossiter, Guy

Sarsam, Rebekah

Sedgwick, Ellie

Shaxted, Travis

Shillitoe, Thomas

Shooter, Reece

Sibthorpe, Joshua

Smith, Tamsin

Stephenson, Nathan

Stephenson, Rebecca

Storey, Patrick

Stuart, Eleanor

Thomas, Charlie

Thomas, Leah-Grace

Thurgood, Lucy

Turner, Luke

Veness, Maisie

Waterman, Emily

Wilkinson, Jack

Wilkinson, Thomas

Williams, Olivia

Willson, Rachel

Wilson, Alexander

Wormleighton, Rhys

Wyld, Katie

Young, Joshua

Go

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Tickets GOLDEN TICKET

ENTHUSIAM SWEEPS THROUGH YEAR 11!

Longfield Academy has recently introduced Golden Tickets as rewards for our students in Year 11. When a student goes above and beyond in their efforts to ensure they are prepared for their exams, whether that be completing some extra work in class, attending a revision session or completing exam practise, they are rewarded by receiving a Golden Ticket from a member of staff. This ticket is filled in with the details of how they achieved it and the students then put them in the Golden Box on reception.

Every week our team count the hundreds of tickets received and log

them all so that we can tell who has received them. Then, at the end

of term, we have a celebration assembly where students are rewarded

for their fantastic efforts.

Prizes are given for the students who have received the most Golden Tickets in each college and there is a prize for the student with the highest number of tickets overall. We are very grateful to be supported by both Nando’s and Costa Coffee in order to be able to offer these prizes.

The big prize however, of a £30 Bluewater voucher, is chosen by

pulling one winning ticket from the box… That person could have

dozens of tickets in the box or just the one but you have to be in it to

win it!

Wo

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Thursday 2nd March 2017 was the 20th World Book Day World Book Day is a celebration! It’s a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) it’s a celebration of reading. In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, desig-nated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and marked in over 100 countries all over the world.

So what did we do at Longfield Academy?

During World Book Day week, each college had an assembly about reading. The tutor time programme throughout the week was associated with reading and the importance of reading. Then on World Book Day itself, there were various activities run from the LRC during break and lunch:

A treasure hunt around the school locating Literary street names

A hunt in the LRC for Roald Dahl characters

Voting for the best dressed member of staff. This activity caused lots of excitement and

competitiveness with the Business and Computing department, dressing up as Batman and friends

celebrating Comic and Graphic novels, the English Department as Roald Dahl characters and various Hogwarts and Robert Louis Stevenson characters.

Year 12 Space Project

Science

For more than 14 years there has been a continuous human presence in space and most of the time, 6 people are living at the International Space Station. This poses a lot of different challenges: How do we safely get people up and down from the space station and also supply them with their needs? How do we keep the crew safe in space? How does being in space affect the human body and how can we deal with that? All this requires a lot of knowledge, technology and money. So why do we go to space in the first place? Is it really worth it?

For the last 3 months students at Longfield have studied a university style course looking at these questions. The students have investigated human psychology and physiology to understand the impact on humans; looked at how the space environment affects ma-chines and technology and seeked solutions to these problems. They have investigated the research that is done at the space station and how that benefits us humans back on the earth. Finally, they all had to weigh up the benefits and disadvantages and answer the question: if you were given the opportunity, would you go?

Through this course the students were given a feel of how it is to study at university and what is takes. They all completed with good grades, with 5 of them getting the top mark and showing skills beyond expectations at undergraduate level. As an award for com-pleting the course they were given the opportunity to visit King’s College London to see the university and talk to current students. They were given good advice on what to con-sider when deciding on university and how to get in to a highly selective university like King’s College London.

Crime Scene Investigation

Science trip

Hello viewers of this newsletter, I'm here to tell you about the crime scene trip a selected few went on, on Wednesday the 22nd February! We had about an hour drive in the school minibus to get to Christ Church University. The teacher we were accompanied by was Mrs H Monks. When we got there they explained to us what was going to happen. There was a murder at a party of a girl named Rachel Lucas, there were 3 destinations on that trip, fingerprints, crime scene and luminol. We each got a timetable of our daily schedule and then we set off to the first crime scene. In the crime scene there were 4 t-shirts of witnesses of the murder. All of them had dif-ferent blood stains so you had to try and work out how it was there. After that we went into a blood stained kitchen and we found a lot of evidence. We found used bloody scis-sors, a bloody rolling pin, a radiator covered in blood and the blind covered in blood! Must of been a brutal murder or was it?

At the luminol session we just learnt about how mixing a couple of house supplies can find you cleaned up blood. It lights up blue if there had ever been blood there. One downside is that with bleach you will get the same reac-tion but then it fades away. Then we had lunch in the university's lovely hall. Fingerprints were the last thing we did. We studied how to look at your own fingerprint! Later on we looked at the murderers type of fingerprint and we got the suspects and matched them up.

We found a match! After that we went to the debrief to find out who killed Rachel Lucas and the killer was... You have to experience that really fun and playful trip yourself! We then got back on the minibus another hour back to school and then we were home! Thanks for reading.

By Fraser Patterson and Sean Behr

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Longfield Literacy Tea Party

On Wednesday 8th March the LRC was host to a Literacy Tea Party, this was for invited parents and students from year 9 to encourage reading and explain the importance of reading and how this affects our grades from now until our GCSE’s and beyond. All whilst drinking tea and eating cake, all lovingly provided by the English Department. We were lucky enough to have some year 11s join us, who explained how they feel reading has helped them through the years, as well as discussing books that they have enjoyed reading, allowing them to be able to encourage others to read. We had plenty of examples of book recommendations and parents had an opportunity to look around the shelves with the students and see what Longfield Academy has to offer.

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The Carnegie Awards The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the UK's oldest and most prestigious children's book awards. Often described by authors and illustra-tors as 'the one they want to win' - they are the gold standard in children's lit-erature. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children's librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.

6 of our Year 8 students are shadowing the Carnegie Awards.

We will 'shadow' the judging process for the CILIP Carnegie Children's Book Awards; we will read, discuss and review the books on the shortlist selected by CILIP's panel of Librarian judges and engage in reading related activity online.

Young people taking part are known as 'shadowers'. The scheme has thousands of registered reading groups across the UK and Internationally - engaging tens of thousands of children and young people in reading.

This reading activity takes place from March to June; from the moment that the shortlists are revealed to the final winners announcement.

We will be working collaboratively with 6 other schools in the ‘Leigh Academies Trust’ and this is the link to our ‘Shadowing Site:’

http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/grouphomepages/index.php?GroupID=27063.

As part of this we will link up with the reading groups at the other schools to discuss the books we are reading. We are then planning to watch the live stream of the awards ceremony in June to see who the winner is.

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As part of Autism Awareness month the students from the Spectrum Centre at Longfield Academy have been designing and developing their own pieces of art to

be displayed at the Stephen Oliver Gallery in Dartford.

Various pieces have been painted on canvas, paper and through 3D models, all highlighting different interests and thoughts. We are extremely proud of the way

students have wanted to share their ideas and the amount of pride they have taken in their work.

The Exhibition is on show to the public from the 1st - 30th April and is situated in

the Orchard Shopping Centre in Dartford. Year 7 students, Morgan Scott, Damien Jam, Daniel Plumridge, Connor Jones and Phillip Watts will be displaying their

work alongside other students’ art work from the Spectrum Centre.

When viewing the work Heather Monks, DOL for SEND, said “I am thrilled with the standard of work and how well each student has expressed themselves”.

We would like to thank Cllr Mandy Garford and local artist Stephen Oliver for

helping to promote Autism Awareness in Dartford and for allowing students to be part of such an exciting art project.

Spectrum Centre The Art of Autism

Belgiu

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Ypres Trip

Year 9 visited Ypres in Belgium on the 17th March as part of their First World War studies. They all had a great day out. Ypres was very busy with visitors, as this year marks the centenary of major battles in World War One. Students tunneled under the woods at Hill 62 and walked through the muddy trenches. They then visited Tyne Cot cemetery and paid their respects to the fallen soldiers by signing their names in the book of condolence. Students were shown the contrast at the smaller, darker, German Langemark cemetery. The Menin Gate was visited in the town centre, which contains over 50,000 names of soldiers whose bodies were never found. The day was completed in the traditional way, through the purchasing of the delicious Belgium chocolates.

Mr. Chambers

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This term saw the Expressive Arts department put on one of its most ambitious shows yet. With a brand new set built from scratch, and a cast of over 30, Footloose easily became one of the best shows we have ever produced. The musical tells the story of Ren McCor-mack (Tom Salter), a ‘city kid’ from Chicago who moves with his mother (Megan Panton) to the town of Bomont, where music and dancing has been banned. Ren ‘can’t stand still,’ and naturally, within minutes, ruffles some feathers, particularly those of Reverend Moore (Conor Donovan). His ambition to change the town does not go unnoticed by the Reverend’s daughter, Ariel (Isabella Sells) nor by loveable hick Willard (Luke Walden), who are all quick to support him in his cam-paign to bring music and dancing and joy back to Bomont. The songs are a combination of 80s classics, (Let’s Hear it for the Boy, Almost Paradise, Holding Out for a Hero and, of course, Footloose) as well as music written specifically for the show, all of which was sung masterfully by the cast.

The show was an enormous culmination of hard work, commitment and passion from our cast, who embraced the difficulties of the show with enthusi-asm and joy (who else can say that they had to skip AND roller skate AND line dance all in the same show?). Key dance sequences were masterfully choreographed by Ella Chapman and Abbie Hemsley (year 9) and our new, improved set was graciously put together by our committed Tech team, headed by Miss Sophie Brewer.

This show also marked the very last school performance for a number of our students who will be leaving us at the end of the year: in year 11 Megan Panton, and in year 13, Ewan Grant, Jack Upson and Luke Walden, as well as Tom Salter, Isabella Sells and Conor Donovan, who have been performing with us in every show since they were very young. We wish them all the best of luck in everything that they go on to do.

Our next performance will be ‘Shakespeare Shorts’ in the Summer term (dates to be confirmed), so if you are interested in getting involved, please come along to auditions, or speak to Miss Williams.

Longfield Academy Performance

P.E. Sports Science Research Competition

Over the past 2 months a group of year 10 GCSE PE students have been representing the school at the Inside Sports Science Research Competition, run injunction with the University of Kent at Medway.

The purpose of Inside Sports Science was to introduce secondary school students to key scientific and technological developments in sports and exercise science in a hands-on and accessible manner, by devising and carrying out a project in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences Laboratories. The title of the project was “The affect of cognitive load on agility performance”

On our first visit, students had the opportunity to tour the university campus and have a go at some different sport science experiments including biomechanics and sport psychology. It was during this visit that the students decided on their project and how they would collect their data during their next visit.

For the second visit to the university, the students had to collect their data. They also offered their service to other projects to help other schools collect data. This gave the students a chance to have a go at some other very expensive experiments.

During their third visit the students had to write up their project notes and create a poster ready to present to pro-fessors and lectures in the Sport Science faculty during a presentation evening. At the presentation evening, stu-dents were judged on their knowledge and understanding of their projects, as well as their presentation skills.

The students worked really well and should be very proud of everything they achieved.

Lewis Cox, Alfie Garner, Ellie Norman, Ethan Patterson, Jessica Perry and Ellie Sedgwick.

Mad

rid Trip

Modern Foreign Languages Department trip to Madrid

At the beginning of March, Miss Charles, Mr Quaggitto and Mrs Redpath accompanied 21 students

from year 9 and 10 to Madrid, the capital city of Spain.

On our first day in Madrid we visited the main sights of the capital, following Mr Q through the

narrow streets of the town centre, discovering the oldest restaurant in the world as well as enjoy-

ing Plaza Mayor and the shopping area of Gran Via.

On the second day, we visited the Real Madrid FC stadium and after a quick lunch, we then

headed to the Prado Museum. In the evening, everyone enjoyed the flamenco show and some

free time to enjoy the busy plazas around our hotel.

On Saturday we discovered the modern art museum (Reina Sofia) and the Royal Palace. Students

also had plenty of opportunities to try out some Spanish food and improve their language skills.

On the last day, we had some time to walk around the Rastro market and the Retiro park before

flying back home.

Everyone had a great time and the students were a real credit to our Academy. Their behaviour

was excellent and they were keen to try out the Spanish language outside of the classroom.

This 4 day trip was the first overnight trip organised by the MFL department for GCSE students and

we hope we will be able to organise further trips in 2018 and 2019 to France and Spain.

Miss A Charles

What has become an annual exchange event since 2011 took place in March when our

year 8 students spent four days in Soholmskolen, our partner school in Denmark.

Students have been communicating via a variety of methods since October 2016 and

therefore for most of the, arriving at the school to meet their pen friend was an exciting

event!

We tried to fit in as many means of transport throughout the trip as possible this year

including coach, plane, trains, local buses, horse, bikes, go carts and of course lots and

lots of walking! By the end of each day though our students still seemed to have excess

energy so night time walks were essential!

Our schedule included a day in school sampling lessons both in traditional classrooms

and in their forest area around the camp fire, a day sightseeing in the capital city of Co-

penhagen and of course afternoons and evenings spent with their pen - pals in host

homes. The delicious food served both at our hostel and in the Danish homes was cer-

tainly very popular, as was the amazement of how well the Danish studentsn speak Eng-

lish. Longfield students could learn a lot from their self motivation and keenness to learn

a foreign language.

Too soon the trip was over and we look forwards to hosting the Danes at Longfield and

in our homes when they visit in June 2017.

Miss Walker, Mr Lyons & Miss Wells

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Longfield Academy Denmark Trip

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are Longfield Academy Alumni

Longfield Academy alumni has been growing ever since we started

in 2016. We now have 400 ex students that have signed up and are

part of the alumni, many of which are happy to come and share

career stories and advice to help our current students.

If you know of anybody (or yourself!) that came to Longfield Academy, Axton Chase or

Longfield Upper, please sign up and join the alumni. You will be notified with newsletters

and upcoming events that are happening in the Academy.

To sign up you can either collect a form from the Academy or go to our schools website

and visit the LAT Alumni page .

We often have students and parents asking us about certain websites or apps and, in particular, if they are safe to use. Net Aware is both a website and app that can be downloaded onto your phone or tablet. It is run by the NSPCC and discusses many of the popular apps and websites. It looks at privacy settings and safety guidelines to be aware of. Apps are reviewed by parents and children so it gives you a good insight into why students may want to use the app and what to look out for. It’s a great resource that we regularly use to check things when new apps become popular. www.net-aware.org.uk

Net Aware

Warhammer Club

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