Sixth Form Pool Hayes Sixth Form Open Evening: Thursday 10th January 2019 5:30pm-7:30pm - Pool Hayes Academy
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Issue 1 | December 2018 | www.poolhayes.attrust.og.uk | Tel: 01902 368 147 | office@poolhayes.attrust.org.uk | @PoolHayesAcad
Sixth Form
TERM DATES
Pool Hayes Sixth Form
Autumn term 2018
2nd half term: Monday 5th November-Friday Open Evening: Thursday
21st December
Spring Term 2019 10th January 2019
1st half term: Monday 7th January-Friday 15th
February 5:30pm-7:30pm
Half-Term break: Monday 18th February-
Friday 22nd February
2nd half term: Monday 25th February-Friday
12th April
Summer Term 2019
1st half term: Monday 29th April-Friday 24th
May
Bank holiday: Monday 6th May
Half-Term break: Monday 27th May-Friday
31st May
2nd half term: Monday 3rd June-Friday 19th
July
INSET Days
Friday 7th December 2018
Friday 25th January 2019
Monday 22nd July 2019
KEY DATES
Christmas Jumper Day
Wednesday 12th December
Mock exam dates
Tuesday 11th December-Friday 21st December
BTEC examinations begin on Monday 7th January
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Make Your Mark
As a member of the Youth of Walsall, a local young people’s cabinet group, I introduced the Make Your Mark
campaign to our Sixth Form earlier on this year, in September. Make Your Mark is the UK’s largest youth consul-
tation and every year the UK Youth Parliament representatives meet in the House of Commons to discuss the
things that matter to young people the most. I was a representative for the campaign in organising the cam-
paign assembly and organising the ballots and getting the votes. All Sixth Formers voted on one of the 10 issues,
ranging from mental health to a curriculum to prepare young people for life, from putting an end to knife crime
to tackling homelessness, in which I managed to get a total of 131 votes. This added to the over a million ballots
for this year’s campaign, and to the 88,922 ballots from across the West Midlands. This campaign was a politi-
cally-inclining and interesting campaign for all of us as it opened Sixth Formers up to in-depth questions and de-
bates. I felt like this was really needed, as we need to be politically aware of the things that will be affecting us
in the future, and it was great to see how everyone participated in discussions related to the topics, which high-
lighted their passion in getting involved in more programmes like this.
Harvind Grewal
Remembrance Day
On the 9th November Pool Hayes staff and students commemorated
all those who fought in World War One by observing the last post
played by Mr Penn and holding two minutes silence at 11 o’clock. As
this year commemorated 100 years since the end of World War One,
members of Short Heath’s Royal British Legion visited our school and
lowered the flag to half mast during the last postal as a sign of re-
membrance.
Also, Pool Hayes Sixth Form are proud to have raised £464.94 to do-
nate towards this year’s poppy appeal.
On Sunday the 11th November both staff and students attended the
march from the Royal Legion Club (along with Short Heath’s Scouts,
Guides and Brownies groups) to the memorial with the President of
Sixth Form, Harvind Grewal, and School Prefects laying wreaths on
the cenotaph. We sang the national anthem and held two minutes
silence at 11 o’clock before marching back up to the Royal Legion.
Victoria Haywood
OUR CHOSEN CHARITY
We have chosen ‘Mind’ as our Sixth Form charity because we
believe that mental health is very important and deserves to
be focused upon more and it is a big part of life and society.
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The food bank Our Children in Need day 2018!
This Christmas season as a sixth form we decided Our Sixth Form community made a fabulous
to congregate and collect food to aid those in show of support for Children in Need this
need. This is an important cause as poverty is esca- year to raise money for children who deserve
lating, so people are becoming increasingly de- the support and medical help they need in
pendent on the food bank outlets. order to thrive and be given the same oppor-
Over the past decade there has arisen over 2,024 tunities as the rest of us.
food banks in operation across the nation. The Everyone pitched in to raise money, whether
UK’s biggest foodbank network, The Trussell Trust, it be to provide cakes and doughnuts (Krispy
show that a record of 1.3 million food parcels was Kreme’s) for the bake sale, or to come in
given to an estimated 666,000 people over the sporting pyjamas or something yellow or
past year. These figures shows that the foodbank spotted. We want to thank everyone for do-
helps people and continues to do so. ing their part and really helping to make a
The need for a foodbank is everywhere, 795 mil- difference.
lion people worldwide face hunger, hunger knows We managed to raise an astonishing £168
no borders. Foodbanks are there to rescue per- between years 12 and 13, contributing to
fectly edible food before its discarded. A donation the 60.7 million pounds raised this year
could be from as little a tin of soup to fresh pro- across the country!
duce. Students from our sixth from have come to-
Natalie Law
gether to collect various items.
Karys Lucas
Mary Poppins
This years annual school performance of ‘Mary Poppins’ took place on the 4th, 5th and 6th of December. Stu-
dents began the audition process back in April of this year and have only had a matter of months to gather
and prepare every aspect to create this magnificent show. Sixth form students Megan Kelly and Sophie As-
bury steal the show as Mary Poppins with support from their co-stars Jack Knott who plays Burt, Faith
Whitehouse and Elle Kirk as Jane Banks, Mark West as Michael Banks and many more of our talented stu-
dents who make up a fabulous cast!
However, the show would be completely lost without the director and Head of Drama Mr Monksfield, along
with choreographer Miss Priest, music director Mr Dunphy and costume/prop manager Mrs Rowlinson.
The show was a massive success and has been yet another great achievement on behalf of everyone involved
at Pool Hayes Academy.
Elisia Raybould
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Elevate
The 21st November year 13 be visited by Elevate as they delivered a session on how to effectively revise for
exams. Two sessions were running: one for those who were taking part in English or maths re-sits which fo-
cused on how to ace those subjects. Meanwhile in the common room there was another session on a much
broader scale.
Overall, the sessions were met with positive feedback as students felt it helped them a lot and taught them
very useful tips such as staying organised and rationing your time and were given these tips by very entertain-
ing hosts.
Hopefully these tips and tricks can be put to good use when mock exams begin Tuesday 11th December 2018,
BTEC Controlled Assessments begin Monday 26th November 2018 and BTEC examinations begin 7th January
2019, all students have been given exam timetables for these.
Christmas Cookies!
Ingredients:
For the cookies: For decoration:
125g butter, unsoftened 400g white fondant icing
125g golden caster sugar Icing sugar for dusting
1 egg, beaten 100g pack mixed red, yellow, black and
1 tbsp Vanilla extract blue ready-to-roll icing
250g plain flour, extra for dusting Tube white icing, for sticking.
Tube black icing
1. Heat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then beat in the egg
and vanilla. Stir in the flour and mix to a fairly soft dough. Tip onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently.
Put the dough on a plate, cover and chill for at least 2 hrs.
2. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to a thickness of around 0.5cm. Use a cookie cutter or water
glass to stamp out 7cm rounds. Re-roll the trimmings and repeat.
3. Transfer the biscuits to two lined baking trays and bake for 8-14 mins until the edges turn lightly golden in col-
our. Leave to cool.
4. To decorate, roll out the white fondant icing on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Stamp out 7cm circles
using the same cookie cutter or glass as before, then use a dab of the white tube of icing to stick a fondant
round on each biscuit.
5. Knead together some of the yellow and blue icing to make green icing, then do the same with the red and yel-
low icing to make orange (alternatively, buy separate packs of each colour). Roll out one icing colour at a time.
Stamp out a 7cm circle of icing, cut in half and stick on for a hat. Cut a strip of another colour and make some
markings to make it look like the elasticated band of a hat, then trim to fit and stick on. Repeat with all the
biscuits, mixing and matching colours.
6. Decorate the hats with icing spots and stripes, if you like. Roll out balls of coloured icing, poke holes all over
with a cocktail stick and stick on as pom poms. Mould lumpy balls of the orange icing for noses and roll out
balls of the black icing for eyes. Press down to flatten, then stick on with white icing. Use the tube of black
icing to pipe rows of dots for the smiles. Leave to set. Will keep for up to five days in an airtight container.
By Megan Spittle
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TIPS!
By Grace Hartshorn
Tips for parents: Tips for students:
Have a look at what subjects Remember to take breaks,
your child is taking to gain a don’t over-do it.
better understanding of their Have a revision timetable
work. that you can stick to.
Support your child in their Have a plan.
revision.
Remember to have some
Create a suitable, distraction “me” time
-free space and enforce set
times for revision. Remember there is always
room for improvement
Have set times for social
media. Use past papers to practice
Don’t put too much pressure Always ask for advice
on them, they know how Try out different revision
hard it is! techniques to see what
Create time to spend with works best for you
and supporting your child. Always stay positive .
Website links:
www.physicsandmathstutor.com
www.snaprevise.com
https://www.ucas.com/
https://scholar.google.co.uk/
GOOD LUCK!
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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