Devon champions, drama, effort boards and lots of food
Drama
This week I saw our very talented Year 9s rehearsing the play Bouncers, by John Godber It is a play about Lucky Eric, Judd, Les and Ralph who describe themselves as the original men in black as they tell the tale of one night in a Yorkshire disco in the 80’s. I look forward to seeing the finished performances.
New effort boards
Updated effort boards were displayed around the school this week. We are very proud of our students’ efforts.
Year 11 Mock Practical – Hospitality & Catering
The yr 11s on Hospitality and Catering have done us all proud. The levels of focus and concentration on completing their creations was so impressive. They thought carefully about every aspect in the production of their meals from hygiene and knife skills to the aesthetic appeal in the presentation . Massive well done to each of them ! Here are just some of the many highlights …..
Sparx News
TA has been awarded with a Gold Level ‘Sparx Super Star Award’ in the category of ‘Highest Achiever’ for being in the top 5 schools in the world for ‘average on-time compulsory completion’ over our best 9 weeks of the Autumn Term. Congratulations to our students for their consistent effort with online maths homework!
History in the Classroom with Mr Davis
Year 8 have been studying 20th Century conflict in History. In one of their lessons this week, they focused on the nuclear attacks on Japan by the United States of America. Students learnt about the impacts of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and discussed if it was proportionate to have used such powerful weapons – even against an enemy. Daniel Eales and Noah Butler produced excellent answers discussing and evaluating this dilemma.
Mini mountain bike
We are very fortunate that one of our maths lead practitioners, Mr Whelan, is also something of a mountain bike expert and qualified coach. Over recent weekends, Mr Whelan has been building a bespoke mountain bike to ensure even our smallest of students are able to safely take part in our mountain bike sessions.
Year 11 Revision Day
On Tuesday the Year 11s had a session led by Miss Cape and Mr Pugh on how to best prepare for their Pre Public Exams (PPEs).
This week on Tuesday our year 11 students took part in a revision day. The aim of the day was to ensure our students have the tools to revise effectively so they can be successful in their exams. Miss Cape, Mr Pugh and I each demonstrated a different way of revising. Students were also provided with any resources that they need to support their revision. The students engaged well and the stockpile of flashcards is already depleting! Year 11 and 13 students have their final practice pre public exams over the next two weeks so work at home preparing for these is vital
Year 7 Maths with Mr Brett
A Year 7 Maths lesson with the students studying the Maths mastery curriculum. Today the topic was angles and after some practice estimating and measuring angles we moved on to drawing angles with a protractor.
House Charity Assemblies
Over the past week, our eight house leads have held a series of special house charity assemblies. The charity for each house is as follows:
Brunel – The Children’s Society
Christie – Rowcroft Hospice
Darwin – Animals in Distress
Fawcett – The Premature Baby Unit
Harrison – The Royal British Legion
Kitson – Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust
Nearne – The Red Cross
Pengelly – Stroke Support
Students are already familiar with their local house charity but this week gave an ideal opportunity to expand on the work each charity performs, the services each provides and the relevance each has to its designated house. The assemblies were received with real enthusiasm by the students who appreciate that each charity is local and relevant to the people of Torbay. I have already spoken to representatives of all our charities and they are unanimously happy to have our young people on board. Our fundraising started with a non-uniform day in October and will continue with the Year 7 Spring Fayre.
Fun Friday!
This week’s Fun Friday was “Water-Pong”. Students had their eyes on the prize, the aim was to get the ball in the bucket.
Reading Plus
Following the introduction of our new year 9 literacy support program, Reading Plus, we already have our first students celebrating success.
Well done to Caleb Spriggs, Maja Davies and Kaitlin Wright, who have all completed their first level.
Devon Champions – Individual Table Tennis Finals
On Wednesday we travelled to Eggbuckland Community College for the Devon Secondary Schools’ Individual Table Tennis Championships.
Well done to the 13 students, who represented the school in different age categories:
U13 girls – Aleksandra Treder, Caitlin Cornish, Lydia Bevan and Amelia Wisniewska.
U13 boys – Kacper Piwowar, Norbert Tomsia, Thomas Connelly and Finley Allnut.
U16 boys – Kai Fowler, Jakub Piwowar and Ivan Vaplak
U19 boys – Nick Turner and Igor Sniegocki.
All of the students played really well and made us proud. Due to how well they did, they ended up having to play each other a lot in the quarters, semis and finals!
Congratulations to all our medalists:
Igor Sniegocki – bronze medal – U19 boys
Jakub Piwowar – gold medal – U16 boys
Ivan Vaplak – bronze medal – U16 boys
Kacper Piwowar – gold medal – U13 boys
Aleksandra Treder – gold medal – U13 girls
Lydia Bevan – silver medal – U13 girls
Caitlin Cornish – bronze medal – U13 girls
Good luck to our Devon School Champions: Aleksandra, Jakub and Kacper who will represent our school in the National Schools Table Tennis Championship in April in Wolverhampton.
Year 10 Football vs Teign College
Year 10 through to Quarter Finals. On Tuesday the year 10 team took on Colyton Grammar School in the Devon Cup. Colyton were county finalists in year 7 but were totally outclassed by TA.
TA dominated from start to finish and really should have been a goal up in the first ten seconds. TA played some lovely football but missed numerous chances before taking the lead through Will Green on 15 minutes. It was soon 2-0 when Josh Thompson scored direct from a corner. Then the goal of the game five minutes later when Zac Rowland-Steele scored a Scorpion kick.
The second half continued just like the first with Cole Shobbrook making it 4-0 straight after half time scoring with his first touch.
TA will now wait to see who they play in the next round.
Player Names: Will Hemus, Tommy Aldous, Harry Clarke, Danny Frankum, Charlie Pope, Josh Thompson, Reef Beer, Charlie Stevens, Jack Alcock, Will Green, Zac Rowland-Steele, Evan Kinghorn, Harrison Shaw, Vinny Poynton, Lucas Washbrook, Owen Woodcock, Cole Shobbrooke
Girls training
Increasing numbers of girls are taking part in football training each week.
Principal’s Gold Certificates
Year 7 – Leah McClements and Briony Pightling
Principal’s Silver Certificates
Year 7 – Hayden Halsey, Oskar Demkowski, Rufus Scrase, Abigail Hytche, Grace Halsey, George O’Hanlon, Tullulah Houlahan, Abigail Yau, Rebecca Quarshie, Lora Cadman, Fredi Tuci and Leela Cartwright
Principal’s Bronze Certificates
Year 7 – Kloe Darbey ,Lily Hawkings, Gracie-May Tolley, Amelia Lawton, Diogo Pestana, Nicholas Heale, Oliver Walsh, Phoenix Furse, Josh Parkinson, Kacper Piwowar, Leon O’Connor, Lucas Quaintance, Serina James, Isabella Voisey, Thomas Ross, Ollie Cooper, Francesca Skelly, Scarlett Lacey, Scarlett Finley-Squires, Lena Galazkiewicz, Ava Storey, Darcey Mellish, Lili Budavolgyi, Alex Nagy,Sophia Box, Susie Lester and Sienna Painter
Year 8 – Olivia Riches, Amari Phillips, Amber Dicken, Gregg Hindom, Harrison Davies, Liam Bailie-Hogan, Summer Faulkes, Billy Botten, Olivia Walters, Zac Evans, Jessica Mitchell, Filip Frankiewicz, William Denega, Leah Hope, Bartosz, Lisa-Marie Szewczuk and Emily Owen
Students of the Week
Year 7 – William Kelly and Summer Holmes
Year 8 – Lewis Watt and Olivia Walters
Year 9 – Melvin Page and Kaitlin Wright
Year 10 – Evie Heron and Aiden Stapleton
Year 11 – Dominic Bearne and Lizzy Cameron
Sixth Form – Izzy Minty
House Stars of the Week
Year 7
Brunel – Ellen Scott
Christie – Harry Paull
Darwin – Phoenix Furse
Fawcett – Leela Cartwright
Harrison – Mihai Marin
Kitson – Nikkita Hookway
Nearne – Imogen Symonds
Pengelly – Luke Horrocks
Year 8
Christie – Harry Taylor
Darwin – Erin Giffard
Fawcett – Amy Harrison
Kitson – Amber Dicken
Nearne – Noah Butler
Pengelly – Lyra Bowstead
Year 9
Brunel – Isabelle Davis
Christie – Harvey Wooton
Darwin – Serena Iordache
Kitson – Oscar Tankielun
Nearne – Skye Williams
Pengelly – Kasha-Lily Borge
Homework Stars of the Week
Year 7
Christie – Francesca Skelly
Darwin – Grace Green
Fawcett – Connie McMahon
Harrison – Alfie Connor
Kitson – Susie Lester
Nearne – Cody Cave
Pengelly – Millie-Ann Wigston
Year 8
Christie – Amelie Berriman
Darwin – Charlie Greeb
Kitson – Lottie Davis
Nearne – Nelly Siuchninski
Pengelly – Paige Clements
Year 9
Brunel – Taylor Holton
Christie – Alfie Harnett
Darwin – Roberta Bankes Fay
Kitson – Amalia Mihai
Nearne – Amira Shears
Pengelly – Isla Howarth
University Offers
| Surname | Forename | Provider name | Course name |
| Coulson | Sean | University of Reading | Business and Management |
| Coulson | Sean | University of Reading | Business and Management (Marketing) |
| Crichton | Reece | Bristol, University of the West of England | Geography |
| Crichton | Reece | Cardiff University | Human Geography with a Professional Placement Year |
| Davies | Georgia | Bath Spa University | Biology (Professional Placement Year) |
| Davies | Georgia | University of Bristol | Biology |
| Davies | Georgia | Swansea University | Biology with a Year in Industry |
| Deakin | Rory | University of Bristol | International Business Management with Study Abroad |
| Deakin | Rory | Bristol, University of the West of England | Business Management and Leadership |
| Deakin | Rory | Cardiff Metropolitan University | Business and Management |
| Deakin | Rory | University of Reading | Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year |
| Denning | Charlotte | University of Sheffield | Architecture |
| Giles | Beau | Queen Mary University of London | Economics and Politics with a Year in Industry |
| Giles | Beau | University of Southampton | Politics and Economics |
| Giles | Beau | University of Surrey | Politics and Economics |
| Goddard | Siana | Bournemouth University | Criminology |
| Goddard | Siana | Bristol, University of the West of England | Sports Business and Entrepreneurship |
| Handford | Patrick | Aberystwyth University | Environmental Science |
| Harris | Ben | University of Surrey | Physics |
| Harris | Ben | University of York | Theoretical Physics |
| Harris | Elizabeth | Bristol, University of the West of England | Sport Rehabilitation |
| Harris | Elizabeth | Cardiff Metropolitan University | Sport and Exercise Science |
| Harris | Elizabeth | Liverpool John Moores University | Sport Psychology |
| Harris | Elizabeth | Plymouth Marjon University | Sport and Exercise Psychology |
| Hobson | Anna | University of Birmingham | Mathematics and Philosophy |
| Hobson | Anna | University of Glasgow | Mathematics/Philosophy |
| Hodgson | Poppy | Bristol, University of the West of England | Business Management and Leadership |
| Hodgson | Poppy | University of Plymouth | Business Management |
| Holmes | Caitlin | Cardiff University | English Literature |
| Holmes | Caitlin | University of Exeter | English and Communications |
| Jarosz | Wiktoria | Bath Spa University | Environmental Science |
| Jarosz | Wiktoria | Cardiff University | Environmental Geography |
| Jarosz | Wiktoria | University of Portsmouth | Environmental Science |
| Jarosz | Wiktoria | University of Southampton | Environmental Science |
| Johnson | Aaron | University of Exeter | Human Biosciences |
| Johnson | Aaron | Nottingham Trent University | Biological Sciences |
| Kana | Aisa | University of East Anglia UEA | Natural Sciences with a Year Abroad |
| Locke | Dominic | Bournemouth University | Mechanical Engineering (Integrated Master’s) |
| Locke | Dominic | Bristol, University of the West of England | Mechanical Engineering |
| Locke | Dominic | University of Exeter | Engineering and Entrepreneurship with Year in Industry |
| Mahoney | Owen | University of Exeter | Computer Science |
| Mahoney | Owen | University of Southampton | Computer Science |
| Piper | Zoe | Bath Spa University | Business and Management |
| Piper | Zoe | University of Lincoln | Business and Management |
| Poole-Crampton | Daisy | University of Bristol | Zoology |
| Poole-Crampton | Daisy | University of Exeter | Zoology with Professional Placement |
| Poole-Crampton | Daisy | University of Plymouth | Zoology |
| Poole-Crampton | Daisy | University of Reading | Zoology with Professional Experience |
| Rawles | Elias | Kingston University | Product and Furniture Design |
| Rick | Sophie | University of Plymouth | Geography |
| Rick | Sophie | University of Reading | Environmental Science |
| Rogers | Courtney | Cardiff University | Mathematics |
| Sealey | Toby | Plymouth Marjon University | Football Development and Coaching |
| Sealey | Toby | Plymouth Marjon University | Sport Coaching and Physical Education |
| Shewell | Ben | Birkbeck, University of London | Business Psychology |
| Shewell | Ben | University of Buckingham | Psychology with Business Management (2-year degree) |
| Shewell | Ben | University of Exeter | Business Economics with Year Abroad |
| Shirlow | Jack | Kingston University | Journalism |
| Spence | Luke | Nottingham Trent University | Civil Engineering |
| Spence | Luke | University of Plymouth | Civil Engineering |
| Treleaven | Zak | University of East Anglia UEA | Energy Engineering |
| Treleaven | Zak | University of Exeter | Renewable Energy Engineering |
| Treleaven | Zak | University of Portsmouth | Renewable Energy Engineering |
| Treleaven | Zak | Queen Mary University of London | Sustainable Energy Engineering |
| Treleaven | Zak | Solent University (Southampton) | Renewable Energy Engineering |
| Turner | Nick | Brunel University London | Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences |
| Turner | Nick | Nottingham Trent University | Sport and Exercise Science |
| Way | Joshua | University of Hertfordshire | Business Administration |
| Way | Joshua | University of Hertfordshire | Business and Finance |
| Wells | Tamla | Bath Spa University | English Literature |
| Wells | Tamla | Bristol, University of the West of England | English Literature |
| Wells | Tamla | University of Plymouth | English |
| Willcocks | Jasmine | University of Bath | Chemistry for Drug Discovery with Industrial Placement |
| Willcocks | Jasmine | University of Bristol | Pharmacology with Study in Industry |
| Willcocks | Jasmine | Cardiff University | Medical Pharmacology |
| Willcocks | Jasmine | University of Nottingham | Pharmaceutical Sciences (with a Year in Industry) |
| Willcocks | Jasmine | University of Southampton | Pharmacology |
| Wilson | Ryan | University of Bedfordshire | Football Business |
| Wilson | Ryan | De Montfort University | Business |
| Wilson | Ryan | Solent University (Southampton) | Football Studies |
| Wilson | Ryan | UCFB | Football Business & Finance |
| Wilson | Ryan | York St John University | Football Business Management |
| Winterton | Jasmine | University of Bath | Social Work and Applied Social Studies (including Placement) |
| Winterton | Jasmine | Bath Spa University | Early Childhood Studies |
| Winterton | Jasmine | Bath Spa University | Education: Primary and Early Years (Professional Placement Year) |
| Winterton | Jasmine | University of Plymouth | Early Childhood Studies |
| Winterton | Jasmine | University of Plymouth | Education |
| Woodward | Benjamin | University of Bath | Mechanical Engineering |
| Woodward | Benjamin | University of Bristol | Mechanical Engineering |
| Woodward | Benjamin | University of Exeter | Mechanical Engineering |
| Woodward | Benjamin | Imperial College London | Mechanical Engineering |
| Woodward | Benjamin | University of Southampton | Mechanical Engineering |
| Zhelyazkova | Yuliyana | Birmingham City University | Law |
| Zhelyazkova | Yuliyana | University of Bristol | Law |
| Zhelyazkova | Yuliyana | University of Kent | Law and Criminology |
| Zhelyazkova | Yuliyana | University of Leicester | Law with Criminology |
| Zhelyazkova | Yuliyana | UCL (University College London) | Law |
| Routledge | Mark | London Metropolitan University | Photography (including foundation year) |
| Routledge | Mark | University of Westminster, London | Photography with Foundation |
| Sargeant | Leon | Bournemouth University | Multimedia Journalism |
| Sargeant | Leon | Coventry University | Journalism |
| Sargeant | Leon | University of Kent | Journalism |
| Sargeant | Leon | University of Leeds | Journalism |
| Sargeant | Leon | University of Southampton | English with Creative Writing |
| Reshad | Elena | Birmingham City University | Sports Therapy with Foundation Year |
| Reshad | Elena | Bournemouth University | Physiotherapy |
| Reshad | Elena | Bristol, University of the West of England | Physiotherapy |
| Reshad | Elena | Cardiff University | Physiotherapy |
| Reshad | Elena | Solent University (Southampton) | Sport and Exercise Therapy with Sport Foundation |
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