Eaglet December 13 - Caistor Yarborough Academy
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Eaglet December 13 - Caistor Yarborough Academy
The Eaglet Caistor Yarborough Academy Newsletter: December 2013 By Emma Francis and Lauren Smith, Year 8 On 18th October, three quarters of a century ago, the school was officially opened. Caistor Yarborough Academy celebrated 75 years of success and achievement. Many guests turned up to the event and they all attended the school in previous years. One of the guests that attended was 86 years old Phyllis Hollings, who was the first 11 year old girl to step inside the school, and the first girl to ever go on the gym ropes! Phyliss said, “Norman Collins was a wonderful headteacher”. A trip down memory lane was enjoyed by all the guests thanks to a wonderful display of photographs and reports, some of which were supplied by former pupils. Some current students entertained the guests with a musical spirit. Lucy McGuire, former student, performed a range of music throughout the evening. Mr Jeremy Newnham also made an announcement by introducing the Academy’s Head Boy, Callum Mutton, and Head Girl, Alan- nah Friend, which was a former tradition of the school. Congratulations also went to Deputy Head Boy, Edward Kaczmarek and Deputy Head Girl, Sophie Hopper. During his speech, Mr. Newnham also recited some of the events from the headteachers diary from when the school was first opened. The event was a great opportunity for students to hear about Caistor Yarborough’s history and for the former pupils to reconnect with the school, old friends and to see how the school has developed since they were at CYA. The event was very successful and we would like to thank everyone that helped and everyone who attended. Here’s to the next 75 years!! If you would like to see any of the old photographs, check out our online gallery at http://www.caistoryarboroughacademy.org.uk/ news/Pages/75-years-of-Caistor-Yarborough.aspx Page 1 Meet the Team… Check out the hard work of the Student Council on page 4… Lots of House News on pages 6 & 7 Read about our Primary Outreach work on page 8 Support TEAM SMITH on page 10 Take part in our competition…page 13 Reviews and entertainment…page 14 This edition has articles, reviews, art work and more by the following students: Erin Fegan Logan Brammer Sam Ehret-Pickett Keir Sowerby Myles Palmer Emma Francis Sam Keeling Sophie Myshrall Bonita Price-Pillai (Illustrations) Neve Beamont Harry Gates Lauren Smith Georgia Astbury Pheonix Tempel We also have contributions from…. Jade Whitehead House Points…page 16 It has been a cram-packed few weeks with plenty of news articles created, reviews written and photographs taken! We have had some new students join us and I think that they have done a good job, in particular Georgia Astbury and Phoenix Tempel, especially as they both only started a couple of weeks before the deadline! We also think that Bonita has done a great job too with her illustrations throughout the newsletter and hope to see more next time. Keir Sowerby, Year 8 Fact 1: The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula. Page 2 Welcome to the final newsletter of the year. As always, it has been a very busy year with record-breaking results – and more to come. Our Year 7 students have settled in very well and it was great to speak to so many parents at Parents’ Evening. Our political masters keep changing things, which has meant changes mid-course for Year 11, especially in English, although students have coped admirably well. Whilst on the subject of Y11s, could I encourage parents to monitor their use of Doddle and the GCSEPod at home to make sure that students are revising in a steady and organised way? The same should also be true for other years. We will continue to focus on reading as a skill. With everyone reading during each lesson, it is encouraging to see such a diverse array of books the students have chosen. Now that the wind and tides have subsided, I suppose we shall see the inevitable snow. Please watch Twitter and the website if snow is forecast for latest updates on the Academy’s situation. Finally, I wish you all a safe and happy Christmas break and hope you enjoy reading our newsletter. Caistor Yarborough Academy have a ‘Drop In’ session EVERY Tuesday 4.00pm - 5.30pm with a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). If you have any questions, queries or would like to discuss anything with a member of SLT, then pop along to reception. Fact 2: If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don’t, you can’t see it Page 3 STUDENT COUNCIL The Student Council have been very busy this term organising a range of events and activities to support a variety of charities. Some of these events include: Non uniform day to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness. ‘’Wear It Pink”- Most students participated in this day by paying £1 towards the charity. Lots of students also wore an item of pink clothing to show their support. Even the boys were wearing pink!! -Shoe Boxes- The Samaritan’s Purse Appeal This appeal sends shoe boxes to disadvantaged children in poor countries around the world. Stu- dents at CYA have once again shown an overwhelming amount of generosity by donating items. Read more on page 11 and check out our photographs! have been on sale for a £1 to help raise money for Children in Need. A total of £100 was raised for the charity! Poppies were also on sale at the beginning of November to raise money for the appeal. Thank you to everyone who bought poppies. - in aid of Save the Children ‘Save the Children works in 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their poten- As we approach the centenary of World War I there is no better time for students to take part in a visit to the battlefields in Belgium to commemorate and reflect upon this nationally and internationally significant event. Two visits will be leaving from CYA in June and July 2014 to give students the opportunity to enhance their learning and take part in commemorative events, to reflect on our shared history and understand the magnitude of lives lost to fight for the freedom that we have today. Whilst in Ypres students will visit a number of museums, including the Flanders Field Museum and burial sites for both Commonwealth and German soldiers to gain a better understanding of the conditions during the war and the scale of the conflict. We will also lay a wreath on behalf of the Academy in the last post ceremony at the Menin Gate to pay our respects to the fallen soldiers of the conflict. To give students the opportunity to make this experience personal with links to the local area we would like to ask parents and carers, should you wish, to share with us the names of any family members who sadly lost their lives and are buried in one of the tial.’ – Save the Children is a charity that CYA supported last year and we have chosen to support them again in 2013. Friday 13th December was a non-uniform day and students were asked to wear a Christmas jumper to show their support for the charity. Jumpers could be shop bought or homemade. Prizes were given for the best jumper in each house. A total of £352.10 was raised. cemeteries in Ypres. Students will have time whilst in Ypres to attempt to find these graves and personally reflect on their family’s loss. Year 9 students are currently studying WWI and students have had the opportunity to look for their own relatives as well as research names listed on the cenotaph in Caistor. Sophie Wilson, a Year 9 student, was able to search for one of her relatives, her Great Great Grandfather Private Joseph Todd (pictured above) and discovered that he is buried in Hargicourt near Ypres in a British Cemetery. If you would like to research at home whether any family members may be buried in any cemeteries abroad you can visit www.cwgc.org. If you find that you do have relatives and are happy to share these with us please email: [email protected] and mark emails for the attention of Stephanie Carlin. There are a few places still available on these visits. If you would like more information please contact Mrs Knight in the main school office. Fact 3: The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires in redwood forests take place inside trees. Page 4 BTEC Learning for Life (L4L) is a qualification which helps students to show extra skills they have. Evidence for this qualification is collected in a folder and CYA uses TRICs (Teamwork, Reflective, Independent, Creative learning) as the basis of learning. Below are examples: Independent Learning: certificates of a music exam would suggest independent learning which you can include because you have done the exam on your own. Teamwork: a homework project, if you worked in a team then you could put the project booklet in your book and write a witness statement to show you worked as part of a team. Reflective: If you worked on something a few weeks ago then you had to write a report on that then you could get your teacher to sign a witness statement to show you were reflective in your report because you had to reflect about what you worked on. Creative: this might be something about, say, historians and you were allowed to record it in any shape or form and you decided to do a diagram of people with information around them. By drawing the people and thinking about it differently, then that would be creative because you have thought of something in a different way. At the time of writing we have just finished the Year 11 Mocks and (thanks to a certain Mr Gove) rather fewer GCSE exams than we usually have at this time. On the whole the Year 11 students have had a very mature approach, despite several of them being under the weather and suffering from the occasional case of exam nerves. Well done! The Year 11 students received their mock results on a ‘Mock Results Day’ on 2nd December. They each received an envelope containing their individual results, just like the real thing next August. These results give a good indication of the grades we can look forward to next summer. Let’s hope it has been all smiles but if not, at least they have time to identify areas for improvement. To support them in this we will be holding an additional Mock week from Friday 7th February to Thursday 13th February. The results from the real GCSE exams will arrive in school on 9th January 2014. The next external exams will be Cambridge Nationals in ICT to be held in January 2014. Many Year 11 students will be taking this exam and timetables will be distributed before Christmas. We then have quite a gap before we start again at the beginning of May 2014 with exams for Year 9 and mock exams for Year 10, running straight in to the final GCSE exams for Year 11. Provisional timetables for the summer GCSE exams will be distributed to students in January or early February. Please don’t ask for details of exam dates before this time as we simply don’t know until the entries are made. For your information the date suggested by the exam boards for the final exam is 24th June 2014 but students may also have BTEC work to complete before they finally leave us. Please remember that we cannot re-schedule or rearrange external exams. They must be taken on the date and time given on the timetable so book holidays or other appointments at these times. Have a peaceful Christmas. VACANCY: EXAM INVIGILATORS (OCCASIONAL, PARTTIME) We are looking for patient, organised people to join our friendly team of Exam Invigilators. Working for short periods at various times throughout the year duties consist of supervising students in examinations and ensuring that the rules for the conduct of examinations are adhered to. No special skills are required, other than a reasonable standard of education along with patience and common sense. Training will be provided. Pay will be on a monthly claim basis. For further information please contact Alice Forster (Exams Officer) at Caistor Yarborough Academy. Tel: (01472) 851383 or email [email protected] Fact 4: Raindrops range in size from about 0.02 inches to 0.031 inches! Page 5 Fact 5: Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink! Page 6 The Autumn term is always a busy one and we have had plenty to celebrate. During our House Assembly in October Viking tutors each nominated a student of the term. These students stood out in their tutor group because of their leadership, attitude and support for each other. The winners of this award were Max Garland (SKeeV), Elise Johnston (HBagV), Kalam Gardner (SWriV), George Gissing (EwooV) and Luke Wood (GLorV). Many students were also recognised for 100% positive comments and attendance. We were entertained by George East Dunning, Ben Kirman and Charlotte Souter Smith making it an enjoyable occasion for us all. The shoebox appeal in aid of Samaritans Purse has brought the best out in everyone, with many generous gifts and donations for the boxes. A special thank you goes to Mrs. Wood’s tutor group who put together a magnificent total of 16 boxes. Tutor groups have been involved in our anti-bullying campaign by writing pledges, poems and designing an app to educate students by talking and thinking about internet safety. Thank you to everyone who has done so much this term to make it a successful one for the Viking House. I wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas. Fact 6: Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do! Page 7 The art room is a bustle of As is always the case, the Art room is a ‘bee hive’ of activity where our students are provided many opportunities to create and experience the visual arts. In Years 7 to 9, three major projects based on the work of Matisse, Monet and Canaletto were started with some super individual research tasks that were completed at home. The work and effort of many students was superb and have been put up on display. If yours isn’t exhibited, please forgive as we have only so much wall space. I will try my very best to get the next batch up once it has been handed in and assessed. Year 10 and 11 students have also had to ‘embrace’ this new academic term with tasks and act- Over recent weeks I have been hosting science workshops at CYA for Year 5 students from our local primary schools. As part of the workshop Y5 students have been designing and producing bath bombs to take home for their friends and family. This fantastic opportunity has provided primary students with an insight in to secondary school science and their first experiences of using chemicals safely in a science laboratory. The science workshops have been extremely enjoyable and we look forward to the next term of events. A big thank you to Year 10 students Georgina Marshall-Latimer, Abbie-Mae TyrieBowman, Hollie Baldwin and Niamh Skipworth for helping out! Miss Natalie Syson (Teacher of Science/Joint Primary Outreach Coordinator) Fact 7: Selenophobia is the name given for the persistent and irrational fear of the Moon. Page 8 creative activity… -ivities set by Mr Wright. Going in to the art room during the Mock Examination, it was wonderful to see individuals using their time so wisely and with such creative outcomes. The pictures above try to capture how our students enjoy this subject and use it to expand on a Marks for speaking and listening in GCSE English to be scrapped! GCSE English is required in almost every career. Before now pupils have had to comprise arguments and have had to discuss their chosen topic. However the Exam regulator Ofqual says that ‘the present situation means there is "inconsistency" in how schools set and mark the controlled assessments - in effect course work which is carried out in school, under supervision’. However students and teachers are furious. The problem is broad range of skills that can be applied in other areas of their curriculum. Year 8 work on display - the focus for their work was Monet’s Japanese Bridge at Giverny. that some students have already taken their speaking and listening controlled assessments, the marks will not be counted because the test now no longer exists in GCSE English. Mrs Loryman expressed her concerns about the changes: “Speaking and Listening is an area of strength for our students. We are disappointed that their achievements will no longer be recognised in their GCSE grades.” The new arrangements mean that students will receive a separate grade for Speaking and Listening, but it will not be counted as part of their GCSE grade for English. Fact 8: A noun is a ‘describing’ word. Page 9 Last Summer I cycled to the local leisure centre for a dip in the pool. After gathering everything together, I jumped on my bike and set on my way – not a long journey, a mile or so on one of the main roads into Louth. As I cycled out of the village, a car pulled up alongside me and to my surprise it was my son with my hubby. My son realised I hadn’t taken my cycle helmet and together they made a point of driving to find me, to ‘order’ me to put the helmet on, as I had done to my son so many times before he ventured out on his BMX! It was at that point that I realised I had also succumbed to the ‘peer’ pressure of appearance – I didn’t want to spoil my hair! As it turned out, in the same month, a young boy called Ryan Smith had also had a similar thought, but Ryan was caught out when he was struck by a van in an accident that probably couldn’t have been avoided. Ryan suffered severe brain injuries, injuries which may not have been as bad if he had worn his cycle helmet. Ryan is 16 years old and a student of Skegness Grammar, where he flourished in his academic life, including sports. The accident, which happened on a narrow road in Lincolnshire, put Ryan in a coma. Thankfully, Ryan is now awake but the injuries he sustained means that he will have many years of rehabilitation ahead of him. Ryan’s family have since set up ‘The Ryan Smith Foundation’, a charity that aims to promote cycle helmet safety awareness in schools and who are petitioning to make cycle helmets compulsory by law. The Ryan Smith Foundation raises funds to assist those with brain injuries, and to support their families. I have followed the story of Ryan Smith and his family via his Facebook page and I have been touched by the strength of the whole family. I believe that cycle helmets are as important as car seat belts. As a parent and occasional cyclist, I believe that if cycle helmets are introduced as compulsory by law then the peer pressure of ‘but no one else wears them’ will fade out over time. Ryan’s family intend to take the petition, hopefully signed by more than 100,000 signatures, to be debated in the House of Commons in April 2014. At the time of print, the e-petition online had just over 10,429 signatures so there is still some way to go….so please visit The Ryan Smith Foundation online, where you will find the link to the e-petition to add your signature…. It only works if you verify your email, which often ends up in your junk mail, so make sure you find and verify it, then your signature will count! Don’t lose any of your loved ones for the sake of wearing a helmet. What cost would you put on a life compared to the cost of a helmet? Class of 2014 Fact 9: A fresh egg will sink in the water, a stale one will float. Page 10 Much Ado about… Congratulations to Ben Kirman, Year 11 & Jade for their part in winning Division 1, and the National Championships in Cannock in the Drum Corps of East Coast Elite! Two former CYA students, Matthew & Daniel were also part of the band. Read more at www.eastcoastelite.org Time is of the essence! Time is what our lives are revolved around…time is of the essence! So without clocks, no one would know where to go or what to do. Clocks are important so they need to work. When they don’t work it is annoying! When they have stopped or are broken it would be nice if they were replaced or fixed, as they are the very foundation of our society! When you have forgotten your watch, the only chance of realising the time is clocks! Let’s hope we see some batteries in those lovely time telling devices in the future! By Sam Ehret-Pickett & Logan Brammer, Year 8 What an amazing start to the school year and to my first year at Caistor Yarborough. William Shakespeare is transported to the 60s and becomes a brightly coloured spectacle of hippies and punks. Throw in Austin Powers and you have the Year 11 performing arts student’s production of Much Ado about Nothing. The cast was brilliant, we managed to create this show in just over 6 weeks including casting, learning lines and deciding on a theme. We performed the show at Hull Truck Theatre as part of the Shakespeare School Festival and were given the opportunity to open the whole show! The performance was fantastic and everyone created the most amazing characters! Everyone involved thoroughly enjoyed the experience, creating a show, working with professional actors in a professional theatre and even a cheeky McDonalds just before the show opened. Well done to everyone and thanks to CYA for your support! Operation Christmas Child… The shoebox appeal is run by the Samaritans Purse. They are a charity that delivers shoe boxes filled with great presents to children in poorer countries. The Samaritans Purse works with ministry partners to deliver the gifts. The children that receive the presents are given to them through need, regardless of their background or beliefs. More than 100 million children have experienced Operation Christmas Child and more will in years to come! When they open the boxes at Christmas, their smiles will widen while exploring what they have been given. As a school, each form group have contributed to making as many boxes as possible. The winning form was EWooV (Mrs Wood’s tutor group) with an outstanding 16 boxes! We’d like congratulate Mrs Wood and everyone in her form for making a substantial effort towards the appeal. Let’s not forget how much effort the other forms made too, as between all of them we made an astonishing total of boxes. By Georgia Astbury, Year 7 Fact 10: At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse! Page 11 Compared to primary school, the lessons at CYA are completely different. At primary we often did the same lesson at the same time of day. We didn’t have bells, but because we were in the same class throughout we still got to the lessons at the right time! At CYA the lessons are really challenging and the bell gives us time to get to our lessons and to work hard for a solid hour. Here at CYA the teachers have a lot of knowledge about As part of ‘Anti-bullying Week’, students their subject/s but at primary, teachers had to have wider were asked to create a pledge wall withknowledge for different lessons. Some of the teachers prein their tutor groups. Above are some ferred to do more ‘fun’ lessons and sometimes we worked in examples. Check out more of our studifferent sets. dents work on anti-bullying at: I loved it at my primary school, but I love it here too. Alwww.caistoryarboroughacadmy.org.uk/n though the lessons here can be hard work, they can also be ews/Pages/AntiBullyingWeek fun, especially some lessons and teachers. Gaining a perspective on the world… Global Perspectives at Caistor Yarborough have been at the forefront of this international subject and just to prove the point we were asked to trial a new Global Learning Platform. This entailed working with several other CIE schools and then providing important feedback to Cambridge about what we thought of this secure internet facility. In fact we are featured in Cambridge’s OUTLOOK magazine which is circulated to all CIE centres globally. Go online and have a read – we are on page 16. Also, if you’re a bit nosey you can have a look at some of our senior “The learning area is such a GP students and a rather old good way of connecting chap; take part in a film that looks at how Global Perspectives is be- with people. You can share ing used in many centres in other information, upload piccountries. tures and videos.” Left are some stills taken from the work we did with the Cambridge film crew. In late September we had the privilege of having Lord Norton, a leading authority on British Parliamentary procedures come and talk to us and other senior students. On Tweeter Lord Norton said the following which I thought summed up the quality of questions being asked by those students who attended this important event. To finish off this terms article I just want to say a huge ‘thank you’ to all of my IGCSE GP students for their hard work and dedication and for learning to ‘go it alone’. Fact 11: Starfish don’t have brains! Page 12 Fri 20 Dec: Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is a disease that attacks the upper and lower neurones in the brain. Motor neurones leads to weakness and wasting of muscles decreasing the ability of moving the limbs and makes it difficult to use speech, being able to swallow food and can create problems with breathing. The muscles that are first affected tend to be those in the hands, feet and the mouth, this is dependent on which type of the disease has been diagnosed. The affects of MND can vary between person to person, from the presenting symptoms, and the rate and pattern of the disease progression, to the length of survival time after diagnosis. The number of people living with MND at any one time is approximately 7 in every 100,000. It can affect any adult at any age but most people with the diagnosis are over the age of 40, with the highest incidence occuring betyween the ages of 50 and 70. http://www.mndassociation.org/ from the website provided you can find out more information about this disease. End of Term 2 Mon 6 Jan: Tues 7 Jan: Thur 9 Jan: Staff Training Day Start of Term 3, Week B November GCSE AQA/Edexcel Results to students Thurs 23 Jan: Y8 Parents’ Evening Fri 24 Jan: IGCSE English results to students Fri 31 Jan: Onatti Spanish Theatre Visit Mon 3 Feb: Norman Celebration Assembly Tues 4 Feb: Roman Celebration Assembly Y11 Mock MFL Listening Wed 5 Feb: Saxon Celebration Assembly Thur 6 Feb: Viking Celebration Assembly Fri 7 Feb: Box Clever Theatre Visit Fri 7 Feb - Thurs 13 Feb: Mon 10 Feb: Tue 11 Feb: Thur 13 Feb: Fri 14 Feb: Y11 Mocks (all other subjects) Y9 Choices & Parents’ Evening Valentine Music Concert End of Term 3 Staff Training Day Mon 24 Feb: Start of Term 4, Week B Mon 24 Feb: Fri 28 Feb: MFL Speaking Exams Thur 28 Feb: Y10 Parents’ Evening Fri 7 Mar: Onatti French Theatre Visit Mon 17 Mar: Y7 Parents’ Evening Tues 25 Mar: Y10 BTEC Devised Performance Fri 4th April: End of Term 4 These are 3 different competitions for CYA students to enter: Find the False Fact: There are 15 facts written along the bottom of each page, one of them is false! Can you guess which one it is? Have you read this? “…the e-petition online had just over 10,429 signatures so there is still some way to go”. This sentence is written in an article within this newsletter, can you find it and tell us what page it is on? Can you see this? Somewhere in this newsletter is the main photograph from the image above….can you find what page it is on? EARN YOURSELF 10 VIVO POINTS FOR EACH COMPETITION IF YOU GUESS CORRECTLY! OR ENTER AS A VTG GROUP FOR HOUSE POINTS! Send your answers to [email protected] or write them on a piece of paper with your full name and your tutor group (remember to write if its your individual entry or your VTG entry) and take them to reception for the attention of Mrs Lowe! Fact 12: China was the first country to use paper money. Page 13 Reviews and Entertainment Game: Fifa 14 Game Review Now I’ve played it myself and it has to be the best Fifa I have played. The ultimate team causes you to think outside the box as you can’t get amazing players like Rooney, Messi and Casillas strait away you have a budget and you have to get players that aren’t well known like Zidane or Rob Elliot and it’s just so realistic that the players know what to do before you do it. Now you can choose what type of training you do in the arena from basic passing to advanced tricks so Fifa 14 is a must buy!!! 7/10 Book: Cherry Crush - Cathy Cassidy Cherry lives with her dad in a tiny vintage flat. But when he finds the perfect woman, they are forced to move to the other side of the country. Leaving friends, school and employment behind. With three step sisters and one mega cute guy, will Cherry be able to cope in her new life? This book is part of the ‘Chocolate Box Girls Series’. This book is a real page turner. It has so many emotional experiences that children can become faced with in their lives. When Honey throws out something that means the most to Cherry, how will she retaliate? Book: Ascend (Trylle, #3) - Amanda Hocking Wendy has finally settled in to being a royal in the Trylle world and is prepared to become Queen and marry one of her friends. Then Loki, a prince from a stronger tryllic tribe (which belongs to her father), turns up at her door in such a state that she lets him in to recover under guarding. Loki causes disturbances and a war is about to start! This is a great book to read with surprises at every page! Fact 13: Humans are the only animals that can blush. Page 14 When Jamie was asked how the school supported him with both his education and training that he needed, he answered that the school understood how to help By Jade Whitehead, Year 10 him train. Jamie trained day after This year’s Young Enterprise group in Year 10 is called ‘Imagine’. day, whether he won or lost, he They are currently working on fundraising ideas such as cakes just got out and practiced, no mat- sales and sponsored trampolining to raise money for the resourcter what the weather! Although es needed to make their products; bracelets, T-shirts and also earhard to train in the rain he still phone holders. The group is currently selling shares to raise gets out there to practice as it has capital. Everyone is encouraged to help and support the group in to be done! He trains six days a order to make this year a success. week. His biggest achievement in his whole life is that Jamie got to the finals in the Paralympics. When asked if being in a wheel chair disadvantaged him he replied, “Being in a wheelchair has its perks and its disadvantages.” His mum and dad and coach have supported him throughout, even to the point of waking Jamie up at 7:30! Jamie has been on courses. His goal was to get a medal but getting a world record has proven how good he is. He was one of the most untrained athletes at GB’s Paralympics as Jamie only had 21 months of training. He planned to go the collage 3 days and the rest he trains. His greatest supporter is his Mum and Dave. The person who is encouraging Jamie the most is probably his coach. Before his recent success he was funded by his parents, but now he is funded by the British Foundation which helps with travel and hotels. Dave inspired Jamie because Jamie saw him do it and he was really impressed. He never knew what he wanted to do, he thought maybe basketball then he got into racing! Equestrian Champion Fact 14: The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year! Page 15 Caistor Yarborough Academy has again achieved the Bronze Kitemark Award for Sport. This means that the academy continues to offer 2 hours of Physical Education to the students along with a varied and regular extra curricular programme including sports clubs and competitive fixtures, whilst adhering to the School Games ethos. They won the district tournament at De Aston and will progress to the school games on the 5th March at Grantham Mere's Leisure Centre. It was a closely fought contest against 6 other schools, with Monks Dyke and ourselves both winning 4 games and losing one. We came out on top as our only loss involved one basket whereas Monks Dyke lost by 3 baskets! Well done to Emma Drayton, Sophie Wilson, Chloe Pixsley, Lucy Pearson, Beth Haynes and Dionne Berry. INTER-HOUSE NETBALL Year 7 and Year 8 had an Inter-House Netball competition. Both were on the same day. Most people assumed that the scores were joint, but that wasn’t quite the case… Saxons and Romans came 1st with 5 points each, whereas Normans were joint with Vikings with 1 point each. Both were good games and enjoyed by all…Well done! FIXTURES Year 7 girls netball - have played 2 friendly fixtures recently. Against De Aston, it was a fairly scrappy game with both teams adjusting to playing another school. Caistor Yarborough Academy won by 3 goals to 0. Caistor Grammar brought their B and C teams to play us in the sports hall and all teams put in some fine performances with Caistor Yarborough beating Caistor Grammar by 8 goals to 4. They have re-challenged us and we will play their A team in the New Year! 40 55 44 36 Fact 15: Only 5% of the ocean floor has been mapped in as much details as the surface of Mars Page 16