March 2015 - Park Campus Academy

Park Campus Academy
News
March 2015
www.parkcampus.org.uk
Creative Minds at Park
Campus! Young Commissioners
Project It has been a very busy term here at Park
Campus Academy. Our students have been
engaged in some particularly exciting
learning activities, for example the Young
Commissioners Project, production of
sumptuous, mouth-watering meals in our
Chef’s Masterclass and opportunities to
explore real life journalism.
This year promises to be our most
successful to date with students gaining
more qualifications than ever before
coming into the summer exam series.
As our Year 11 frantically focus on
completion of their GCSEs, this year also
sees some of our students successfully
achieving their “Passport to Employability”.
These industrious ‘employees’ are in the
process of finalising their vocational creative
arts and media qualifications. This
programme will be expanding to offer an
increasingly diverse and flexible curriculum
to more of our students next year.
Reintegration continues to be a focus with a
number of students reintegrating to
mainstream secondary schools, and more
planned for the summer term.
I continue to be very proud of the
achievements of our young people who
continue to embody our ethos of “A Second
Chance at Success”
I would like to wish you all a very restful
Easter break.
Shaun Dodds,
Headteacher
Park Campus
Gipsy Road,
London SE27 9NP
Commissioning Manager for Lambeth, Helen
Sharp and her team have been working with
four Year 11 students from Park Campus
Academy: Rhianna, Alvin, David and Giorgio.
They worked on the final stages of the
interviews for commissioning youth projects,
and engaging young people in Lambeth.
Rhianna explains what she was involved in: “On
9th February 2015, myself and three other
students took part in the young commissioner’s
project. The project involved interviewing
potential alliances who want to deliver youth
projects for young people living in Lambeth.
When interviewing the people, we each had a
question to ask the different alliances. I really
enjoyed doing this project and it was a good
experience. I would definitely do it again.”
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Chef’s Masterclass
Restaurant Reward Trip
KS3 and 4 students have been given the
opportunity to take part in a nine week Catering
Work Experience Programme with our chef, Mr
Groen. The work experience will take place
every Tuesday in the Food Technology
Department with Mr Brown. Students will have
the opportunity to prepare a number of different
dishes as well as gain knowledge and insight into
the catering industry.
Last term 8A and 9B were treated to a reward
trip to JRC Global Buffet Restaurant in Croydon.
Here you can eat your way around the world
and engage you taste buds with the delights of
Thai, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, British,
Mediterranean and much more. They also have
a wide range of deserts including fruits, cakes
and pastries to keep you wanting more!
The final project will
involve students having
to plan and prepare a
three-course menu for
the Senior Management
Team.
We sampled the extensive range of textures,
sweet, sour and savory.
Everyone quietly feasted in an atmosphere of
tranquility. After an hour and a half we wobbled
out. BEWARE! Not for the faint hearted!
Journalists in the Making
On Wednesday 11th March 2015, three Year 8 students went to visit ‘The Voice’ newspaper. Joao
explains what they got up to.
“We went to interview the Managing Director of ‘The Voice’ newspaper, Mr George Ruddock. Kyall,
Shaidon and myself asked him all sorts of questions, like; when did the newspaper start?
The newspaper started in the 1983s and ran into financial problems in 2004 and was taken over by
‘The Gleaner’, which is a Caribbean newspaper that started in the early 1800s in Jamaica. After the
Second World War many people came from the Caribbean to the UK; this was known as The Wind
Rush period. Where the readers went, the newspaper followed: Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester
and London.
Mr Ruddock told us he worked at ‘The Gleaner’ in Jamaica. He explained, to
become a journalist most people try to get an internship, which is mostly given to
students in their first year of sixth form; then you would need to pass media at
university. ‘The Voice’ gets most of its stories from freelance, self-employed
journalists who writes the story up and sells it to the newspaper company.
Newspaper companies can also tell the journalist to focus on a certain type of
story.
‘The Voice’ is a tabloid newspaper, but ‘The Gleaner’ is a broadsheet; the
difference between tabloid and broadsheet is that broadsheets are bigger and
factual. Tabloids have more pictures and have a lot more gossip.
I had a good day at ‘The Voice. newspaper, I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.”
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Dates for
the diary
27 March 2015: Student finish for Easter
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13 April 2015: Students return to school
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7 May 2015: School closed for Election
Polling day.
Park Campus
Gipsy Road,
London SE27 9NP
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22 May 2015: Students finish
for Spring break
1 June 2015: Students return to
school at 10am
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www.parkcampus.org.uk