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Stanchester students help welcome the Queen to Yeovil
Stanchester students help welcome the Queen to Yeovil
Year 5 Students visit Stanchester for WOW Day
Year 5 Students visit Stanchester for WOW Day
Year 5 children were invited to the ‘WOW’ day at Stanchester Academy on Thursday 19 April 2012.
This was a fantastic opportunity for the Year 5 students to visit Stanchester and participate in some interesting and challenging learning. Students gained a taste for life at secondary school, as well as meet some of our staff and enjoy the equipment in our specialist teaching rooms. They also met students from other local primary schools.
Years 7-9 Art Gallery
Years 7-9 Art Gallery
Young People Friendly Award
Young People Friendly Award
The ‘Young People Friendly Award’ is awarded to services that meet the criteria as laid down by The Department of Health ‘You’re Welcome Standard’.
We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the ‘Young People Friendly Award’ for showing that we provide an excellent service for our young people in the school at our NHS School Nurse Drop in sessions, supporting student health needs.
This is a very good example of education working with Health Services for the benefit of students.
Face Britain – Buckingham Palace
Face Britain – Buckingham Palace
Face Britain Projection in celebration of HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Buckingham Palace 19 -21 April. Face Britain, the UK’s largest art project, created By The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts, will be celebrating the Diamond Jubilee by projecting a portrait of HM The Queen, composed of over 200,000 children’s self-portraits (including Year 7 Students from Stanchester Academy), onto the front of Buckingham Palace.
Books for Keeps
Books for Keeps
If you have a minute or two please have a look at the current issue of Books for Keeps (no. 193), and on page 18 there’s four very beautiful book reviews by Eleanor Roda, Amber Pavey, Rachael Palmer and Kate Watson.
Books for Keeps is just about the best and most respected magazine for information and reviews about teenage and children’s literature and it’s lovely to see our students promoting reading and inspiring other teenagers about books.
The website is http://booksforkeeps.co.uk. Marvellous!
GOAL Project-Trip to Warwick University
GOAL Project-Trip to Warwick University
The day we went to Warwick, we were introduced to the “Big Deal” challenge where we were mentored through a “Dragons Den” style competition with the final proze being a trip to Italy. We prepared a presentation on ourselves for when we met our mentor. In this presentation we included our strengths, weaknesses, interests and future hopes and dreams to help our mentor get to know us. We then went into an IT room to find out about the “Big Deal” blog where we contact our mentor for help and advice – key to winning the trip. Also on the “Big Deal” blog, we were able to access the many resources available to help us achieve victory.
We were then shown to lunch where we had a wide range of delicious sandwiches to choose from with many other refreshments to relax with on our break.
After lunch we went into a leacture hall where we had a chance to learn and speak some Italian. This was to get us excited for the trip, if we won.
After this session we would have had a chance to meet our mentor, get to know him and begin discussing our ideas for the business, however, our mentor was not able to make it so him and the coordinator of the “Big Deal” challenge are coming to meet with us later in the week.
Written by Ella Harmer, Holly Reynolds, Chloe Hancock, Amber Pavey and Ben Lansbury
