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Children's Mental Health Week
1st - 7th February
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The theme for Children's Mental Health week is "Express Yourself." In the spirit of self-expression we want to encourage our young people to communicate how they feel and to express their true identity. Listen to some podcasts which explore the journey other people have been on:
Connect with groups:
Talk to someone who can help you express your feelings:
- Childline – 08001111
- Samaritans – 116 123
- Young Minds – 85258
- If it is an emergency – 999
This Video is really useful to help you think about mental health in simple terms.
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Headteacher Commendations
Many congratulations to the following students who have reached the conduct points threshold for Headteacher's commendation certificates this week:
Year 7: Jacob Armitage, Dante Badenhorst, Reuben Ballentine, Will Bissett, Bela Bradshaw, Emily Cridland, Elliot Dickens, Ben Dolman, Diana Enwright, Mia Franklin, George Gibson, Gigi Ionescu, Jenna Roper, Albie Sheehan, Sidney Stanley-Whiteley, Seth Wedin, Tori White, Josh Whitehead, Amelia Woollven
Year 8: Ella Andrews, Erin Coates, Annelie Eaton, Grace Frost, Zoe Gilmour, Annabelle Isgrove, James Lee, Milly Pearce, Charlotte Pole
Year 9: Maria Amaral, Nicole Benischke, Alex Cockram, Esme Croxton, Alexa Ford, Grace Hurst, Charlie Osmant, Sophia Papasouliotis, Sofia Passmore, Max Taylor, Izzy Townsend, Toby Wilson
Year 10: Tiri Chida, Tom Collard, William Mawn
Year 11: Molly Axtell, Lloyd Carosi, Mads Palfrey, Anna Papasouliotis, Peter Skeen, Tyler Symester, Niamh Titerickx
Four of our commendation winners were able to receive their certificates from the Head in Frontline this week!
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Trustees' Commendations
The following students have this week received their e-certificates having reached the required number of conduct points for their Trustee's Commendation. Many congratulations to:
Year 9: Kimi Powell, Eleanor Woollven
Year 11: Molly Axtell, Lloyd Carosi, Mads Palfrey, Anna Papasouliotis, Peter Skeen, Tyler Symester, Niamh Titerickx
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Trustee Vacancy
We have a vacancy for a Trustee with IT experience. If you are interested, or know of anyone who may be, please see further details here and/or contact Sue Hathway, Clerk to Trustees.
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World Book Day
Thursday, 4th March
To celebrate World Book Day the Library is launching 'The toilet roll challenge' to decorate a cardboard tube with a book, fairy tale or nursery rhyme character. A chance for families, students and siblings to get creative. If you have any spare toilet roll or kitchen roll tubes please send them in to school if your children are attending our frontline provision. Take a picture of your tubes and email them to Mrs Dibble.
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FareShare
We are proud to have been able to support our families with FareShare parcels for the past four years. We collect the food and toiletry donations on a Wednesday and distribute them to our families on a Thursday morning. If there are any local organisations who have excess food, toiletries, household cleaning products etc, that they wish to donate to our cause please contact Mrs Mckay at the Academy to arrange collection/drop off. Likewise if there are any families who wish for our support in these challenging times please contact us confidentially and we will respond.
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The Annual Careers Convention – Part 1
Last night our first ever online Careers Convention went live! If you didn’t get a chance to ‘attend’, it will stay on our website for a few weeks so feel free to revisit all the education and training providers involved. Just click on this link to take you to the online Careers Convention. If you’ve found that the Careers Convention has left you with more questions to ask about potential career paths, you might find a visit to our new website page with recommended careers research resources useful.
A reminder that ‘The Careers Convention Part 2: Employment’ will be coming up in Term 4, we hope you find that useful too. You can also book a one-to-one careers interview with Ms McGonigal by emailing careers@churchill-academy.org or talking to your tutor. We hope you enjoyed the event. Thanks to Ms McGonigal, Mrs Franklin and Miss Clements for the work that went into organising the event.
Mr Morgan
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'Visiting' speaker from the Bank of England
On Thursday despite the lockdown and the vagaries of technology, we were delighted to welcome Malindi Myers who is the Bank of England's agent for the South West. With almost 50 Business and Economics 6th form students in attendance, Malindi gave a fascinating talk about her career path and the role of the Bank of England's agents in the formulation of monetary policy. Of particular note was her encouragement of students to go for all opportunities as they arise and not to hold back for fear that they are not good enough. A very thoughtful and inspiring address.
Mrs Davey
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Food & Nutrition
Once again Food & Nutrition students have been very busy cooking lots of different dishes.... ranging from macaroni cheese, brownies, burgers, scotch eggs and sometimes whatever students can find at home to cook with! Just amazing! We are so impressed with students efforts so far this term. Keep these dishes coming. As we have said, if you are unable to cook the dish that your teacher has set, be creative and cook something else!
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Options evening information for GCSE Food & Nutrition
We thought we would take the opportunity to give you some insight into our amazing subject, GCSE Food & Nutrition, please take a look at the video we have created, and we look forward to speaking to you soon during Options evening.
Please see our video here.
Of course, if you have any questions that you would like to ask beforehand, please feel free to email foodtech@churchill-academy.org
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Sixth Form Applications & Interviews
If you have sent in your application to us recently you will have received an email confirming we have received it over the last week. We will then be scheduling interviews over Terms 3 and 4. Please do not worry if you don’t hear about your interview date quickly, there is a large number to process and it will take several months to interview all applicants.
Interviews in Term 3 will be conducted over Zoom. It would be normal for students to be excused from lessons for a Sixth Form interview during the school day so the same will apply with remote learning. We hope that, by Term 4, we will be able to resume interviewing in the normal way.
We will be planning our curriculum option blocks around applications received by the end of Friday, 8th January. Whilst we cannot guarantee to provide all subject combinations, we aim to make sure that students who have applied by this deadline have the best chance of studying all the subjects they have chosen.
We are still accepting applications so if you have not yet applied, please use the Word application form and send it, when completed, to 6thform@churchill-academy.org.
Mr Morgan
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Free School Meals
All families eligible for Free School Meals should have received an email about the voucher system which will be in place throughout this national lockdown. If you have any queries, please contact Stephanie Franklin at the Academy.
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Update from Frontline: now at capacity
Frontline is our in-school provision for the children of critical workers and other eligible students. Our Frontline provision is now at capacity, so we are undertaking needs-based assessments for any new applicants and we are not able to offer any further full time places. Therefore we would urge families only to apply for places in Frontline if you meet the criteria and you cannot work without them.
To enquire about places in Frontline, please email Frontline@churchill-academy.org. Please remember that, even if you are eligible for a place, you are not entitled to one. Do not send students in to school unless you have a place confirmed.
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Remote Learning
Students should continue to follow their normal timetable when learning from home. All students are expected to "attend" the lesson via the links provided by their teacher in Google Classroom. The "live" element may be a short introduction to the learning task, or may last longer, depending on the lesson content. Attendance and participation will be monitored closely every lesson as part of our daily engagement check, with any issues picked up by tutors in the weekly check-in.
Please see the website for details of our full remote learning offer and expectations.
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The Churchill Challenge!
 The Churchill Challenge is now six weeks in, with 500 students and staff signed up and over 4,000 activities recorded. Collectively we’ve covered a whopping 29,000 kilometres - the equivalent of traveling from Churchill to Chile, then onto Tanzania via Timbuktu! Lancaster still lead the pack with Windsor chasing them down, followed by Tudor, Stuart, Hanover and the 6th Form.
Keep on going - the challenge runs until 21st February!
Good luck!
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Diary
February
w/c 1st Year 13 Mock exams - postponed
3rd Year 9 Options Evening - SchoolCloud online event - 4pm-6pm
10th Introduction to Apprenticeships for parents & carers, live virtual event 6pm – 6:45pm
10th & 11th Year 9 HPV and meningitis vaccinations - postponed
12th Inset Day - no lessons/students in school
12th End of Term 3
22nd Start of Term 4
March
10th Year 13 Parents' Eveninig - SchoolCloud online event 4pm - 7pm
24th Year 12 Parents' Evening - SchoolCloud online event 4pm - 7pm
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During this past week I have been reviewing student progress reports, and rewards data. I have been hugely encouraged by what I have seen. During this reports season - reports have gone home for Years 7-11 and 13 since January, with Year 12 to follow - teachers have awarded over 12,000 effort grades. 93% of those grades were at the Academy's expected standard of "good" or "excellent" effort - a fantastic achievement. 
