UP AND COMING CALENDAR OF EVENTS! - ISSUE 6!
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ISSUE 6!
6th January 2017!
Welcome to our first ‘BBG Bulletin’ of 2017. We look forward to sharing ‘BBG News’ with you every Friday. It is
an absolute pleasure sharing events and achievements that take place in school and extra curricular. We are
very aware that our students are involved in a wealth of activities outside of school and we would really like to
share that through the BBG Bulletin. Please do let us have any information, articles, photographs using the
email address below.
UP AND COMING CALENDAR OF EVENTS!
Monday 9th January Y11 Mock results published
Saturday 14th January Recruitment Event
Friday 20th January Year 9 Reports to parents
Monday 23rd January Year 10 Reports to parents
Tuesday 24th January Year 11 Reports to parents
Monday 6th February Year 8 Exam start
Thursday 9th February Exam preparation evening
Monday 13th February Year 7 & 8 NFER test
Tuesday 14th February Year 7 & 8 NFER test
Wednesday 15th February Year 8/9 options evening
21st Feb – 24th February Performing arts trip – London
Saturday 25th February Netball trip - Birmingham
We would love to hear about and celebrate our students’ successes out of school also. Please
send any news items to bbgbulletin@bbgacademy.com
The following work is from Year 8 art sketch books. These two pieces of work are by Annabel Cooke.
The drawings and development ideas are based on
their ‘Masks’ project. The students have done really
well to experiment with the different visual elements
found in the masks studied.
This work is by Sophia Kenny.
This work is by Ryan Haughin.
.
This work is by Charlotte Smith
subject news!
MUSIC FRENCH SCIENCE
SUCCESS! LEADERBOARD NEWS
There's no single universal
! foolproof method to learn a
Year 11 forensic flame testing.
! language, although little and
often is considered to be the
! most effective. Ten minutes
! every day tends to be more
effective and manageable than
! a longer session once a week.
! Here is the latest snapshot of
the KS3 French leaderboard.
! Clearly some of our students
! have been keeping on top of
their language learning over
! the Christmas holidays! Little
! and often is definitely the way
to do it. Bravo et bonne
! année.
Congratulations to the
following students who have
excelled in their ABRSM music
examinations.
• Molly Cordingley, Year 10,
pictured above passed
This technique is used by the
Grade 1 Clarinet police and scientists to identify
• Hephzi Brown, Year 8,
the elements in substances used
Passed Grade 6 Violin with
in evidence. Burning the material
Distinction gives flames of specific colours
• Nathan Wood, Year 9,
that can be used to identify the
passed Grade 3 Viola with elements. Students were
Merit.
evaluating two different
techniques taking into account
Well done, fabulous news. accuracy and safety.
If you are interested in
participating in more science
experiments please join us at
‘Science Club’ on a Wednesday
from 2.40 – 3.20 in room 1.17.
subject news!
MATHEMATICS TOOLKIT
The mathematics department S i m o n To u s s a i n t , C a l l u m
would like to say a big well Blackburn, Callum Cox, Jacob
done to all the Year 7 and Year Jackson, Max Jowett, Daniel
8 students who are improving Killerby, Crystal Knapton, Tom
on their toolkit scores. We are Lowe, Harriet Mackrill, Jacob
especially proud of the Mavin, Alfie Owens, Callum
following students who scored Pickersgill, Holly Taylor, Alfie
10/10 in their latest toolkit test. Walker, Daniel Walters, Luke
The big question now is to see Watson, Chloe Wood, Niamh
if you can maintain this high Tattersfield, Jordan Townsend. The Year 9 Computer Science
score in the February test. classes have recently completed
a series of lessons in Python
Year 7 COMPUTER programming. Many students
Sama Bashir, Bailey have excelled in this area, and it
Cadamarteri, Zoe Cole, Brendan SCIENCE looks like we could be producing
Good Home Offered to successful game and app
Csoka, Libby Doran, Mckenzi Neglected BBC Micro:bits. designers of the future. Special
Duncan, Jessica Garside,
mention must go to William
Summer Haynes, Emma Hirst,
Benjamin Jarman, Harvey Nield, Nathan Wood, Zack
Kellett, Koby Parkin, Luke Jagger, Harvey Gudgeon and
Pollard, Tam zin Schofield, Joe Armitage, who have applied
Amelia Smith-Prosser, Ben themselves brilliantly and shown
Asquith, Evie Bancroft, Daisy great resilience in honing their
Burton, Ella Fahy, Luke Hanson, problem solving skills.
James Jarratt, Sophie Miller,
Matthew Pickett, Olivia Sagar,
HIP HISTORICAL !
Year 8
Cadence Brooke, Hephzi Brown, Last June over one hundred and HOMEWORK!
Oliver Chan, Thomas Clegg, fifty free BBC micro:bits were
Harriet Cross, Vinny Cusworth, sent home with the Year 7 ! is all about
Who say’s History
Poppy Dopson, Isabelle Felton, students, giving them the writing? Year 7 have recently
Myles Firth, Harry Hainsworth, chance to experiment and
! homework to
completed some
Ryan Haughin, James Kettlewell, develop code over the summer show that creativity is
Poppy McGill, Poppy Middleton, break and beyond. I would like abundant in the history
Benjamin Phillips, Nikita Sanctis, to ask all current Year 8 parents classroom. Students
Archie Thrippleton, Thomas if their child is still using the completed work on the
Wilde, Molly Yeomans, Mia micro:bit? If the answer is “No”, chronology of the Battle of
Barnes, Alex France, Moheen then I would greatly appreciate it Hastings and the usefulness of
Hussain, Phoebe Ingham, if you could return your micro:bit the Bayeux Tapestry.
Balnish Kaur, Alfie King, Jessica
to the Computing Department,
Lee, Kyle Patel, Jake Ramm,
so that it could be used by the
Sienna Shaw, Rosie warnett,
n e w Ye a r 7 s , a n d o t h e r
Daniel Jubb, Isaac Northrop,
interested students. There would
Winnie Peacock, Eliza Bould,
Alex Collington, Jasmine Dunne, be more value in allowing
Lewis Eltringham, Paige Evans, others, within the school
Samuel Frost, Lewis Gomersall, community, to use them, rather
Bobbi Hallas, William Hamilton, than have them unused and
Millicent Legg, Ethan gathering dust at the back of the
McCollough, Aaron Rennard, miscellaneous items drawer. Any
Ben Saville, Charlotte Smith, returns would be greatly
Jacob Stuart, Nathan Taylor, appreciated.
careers update!
We are in the process of finalising UCAS applications with all of our students and would like to thank parents for
their support with this. When the UCAS form is complete, students should be applying to colleges and sixth
form centres. There is no limit to the number of applications a student can make, in fact we actively encourage
students to make a large number so they have a range of offers from post-16 providers.
The Careers Advisor will be back in school next week, after a break for the mock exams. All Year 11 students
will have a one-to-one session with the advisor to help them better understand the post-16 options and the
additional advice that is available.
wwww.ckcareersonline.org.uk is a website run by Calderdale and Kirklees and is aimed at both students and
parents. It contains advice on the post-16 options available such as apprenticeships, BTECs and A levels.
Many of the local colleges and sixth forms are still holding Open Evenings and Open Days, please see the list
below for the forthcoming ones:
• 10 January 2017, 7.00 - 9.00pm Heckmondwike Grammar School
• 11 January 2017, 4.00 - 6.30pm Batley Girls’ High School
• 16 January 2017, 6.30 - 9.00pm Huddersfield New College
• 21 January 2017, 10.00am - 1.00pm Leeds City College
• 24 January 2017, 5.30 - 8.00pm Kirklees College: All Dewsbury Centres
• 28 January 2017, 10.30am - 1.00pm Kirklees College: All Huddersfield Centres
• 9 February 2017, 4.30 - 7.00pm Leeds College of Building, Hunslet Centre
If you need any further advice, please contact Mrs S Brazier.
Wo u l d y o u l i k e t o k n o w m o r e a b o u t
apprenticeships? Go along to the Kirklees
Apprenticeship Event and find out more.
It's for young people and their parents
• Find out about current apprenticeship
vacancies
• Ask about the different types of
apprenticeships - Intermediate, Advanced,
Higher and Degree Apprenticeships
• Meet over 40 employers and training
providers
• Talk to apprentices
• Get individual careers guidance
See a range of presentations from
organisations
• 5.45pm to 6.10pm - ‘What an employer is
looking for’ & Application
Forms, (presentation by Rebecca Manning –
HR Manager, Buy it Direct)
• 6.15pm to 6.40pm – The Army -
apprenticeship schemes
• 6.45pm to 7.10pm – Syngenta -
apprenticeship schemes
• 7.15pm to 7.40pm – Covea - apprenticeship
schemes
attendance matters!
Attend & Achieve
Research suggest that missing 17 school days a Year results in 1 GCSE grade drop.
A#endance in one school Number of lessons missed per Number of weeks missed Number of Years missed over
Year Year per Year 5 Years
100%
0 0 0
95%
50 lessons 2 weeks ¼ Year
90%
100 lessons 4 weeks ½ Year
85%
150 lessons 6 weeks ¾ Year
80%
200 lessons 8 weeks 1 Year
70%
300 lessons 12 weeks 1½ Years
60%
400 lessons 16 weeks 2 Years
50%
500 lessons 20 weeks 2½ Years
This weeks attendance leaders.
Year Form Attendance
7 7RFS 98.4%
8 8SSG 98.1%
9 9CSE 96.7%
96.5%
10 10LTR 98.5%
11 11NPG 98.4%
Uniform Recycling
Parent appeal for help. We would be
really grateful if you would be
prepared to donate your old uniform Attendance Fact: poor school attendance is closely associated
with crime. One quarter of school age offenders have truanted
so we are in a position to help other
families replace old or lost uniform. repeatedly.
All donations can be dropped off at
main reception. We will remove
names and wash and iron if
necessary.
Thank you in advance for your help.
@BBGAcademy
sports round up!
Congratulations to Alex Mitchell on his
representative Ice Hockey performance.
Some fantastic photos demonstrating the
skills required to succeed at this level.
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