Fun Friday, Concert Video, CCF Lunch and Science
Christmas concert
The concert that took place in The Platform was just amazing. You can watch the performance on our YouTube channel or below.
CCF Christmas meal
On the final day of term the CCF headed up to the Anchorage Hotel to enjoy a celebration Christmas meal. The cadets thoroughly enjoyed their dinner and had their meals served to them by the offices. It marks the end of our first an incredibly successful first term of the CCF.
Brilliant Club
It has been a big week for the Brilliant Club students. The year 10 cohort have all successfully submitted their assignments on “How did technology and globalisation influence the representation of the body in modernist literature?” which they have studied over the last term with Ana Tomcic, PhD tutor from the University of Exeter. The students have written 2,000-word assignments and I have been privileged to read some of them. The quality is astounding and the students have received commendations on their ideas and expression from Ana. The year 10 cohort will have their Brilliant Club graduations at the University of Bath in early February.
In the same week, the year 12 cohort have been preparing for their course on investigative biology with Emma Churchill, focusing on the life cycle of a particular invertebrate. They will have their launch trip at the University of Exeter on 15th January.
Science
This week 9T9 made Nylon in their Chemistry lesson with Miss Cann. They are learning about the polymerisation reaction between two monomers to produce a long chain molecule called a polymer. The longest single thread of Nylon measured an impressive 95cm by Bailey Denyer and Jack Howlett.
Fun Fridays
Today we treated the students to a hot chocolate with Marshmallows at lunchtime. Why? Because we wanted to make just a small gesture to recognise their fantastic efforts this week. Keep an eye out for Fun Fridays becoming a frequent feature of the blog!
Year 8 Parents’ Evening
On Thursday evening we had the parents of our year eights come into school to meet with their children’s teachers to discuss their progress so far this year. This is a very important year for our year eights as they will be soon choosing their GCSE options. The pathways evening, where Dr Hocking will outline how they choose their options, takes place in two weeks.
Team TA Sports Roundup
Futsal
On Tuesday, both the boys and girls Y8 Futsal Teams were in action in the South Devon competition, and both were very successful, qualifying as winners to progress to the County stage.
Both teams won their group games comfortably with the boys beating Churston (3-0) Dawlish (1-0) and Paignton (4-1) and the girls Churston (1-0), Dawlish (5-0) and Cuthbert (3-1).
In the semi finals and final, the girls became penalty specialists, defeating Painton and ultimately Newton Abbot to win the competition outright.
The boys put Teingmouth to the sword in their semi final with some ruthless finishing but were unlucky in the final as they lost on penalties. Having already qualified for the county finals, we allowed Paington to mix their team due to injuries sustained in the semi final – an act which came back to haunt us as one of those players scored the crucial penalty.
Both teams were fantastic, with many compliments throughout the day regarding the quality of our play. Bring on the next round!
Sparx Maths Certificates
These students have been nominated for the first Annual Sparx Maths Student Awards. Year 8 have been using Sparx since they joined Torquay Academy and the nominees were all picked due to their outstanding effort or the greatest improvement from Year 7 to Year 8. We are very proud of their achievements.
Greatest Effort: Phoebe Lown, Jasper Dommett, Grace Povey, Mia Bewers, Lacee Kiff, Klara Cornforth
Most Improved Student: James Scrimegeour, Evan Kinghorn, , Alana Mitchell, Aleasha Dunford, (Not pictured Matt Budavolgyi, Cody Cockram)
Principal Certificates
Bronze: Emily McCondichie, McKenzie Hassanain, Mollie Macfie Jones, Logan Churchward, Alex Thomas, Fearne Harby, Cameron Bolton-Caulfield, Mia Keenan, Emma Roadnight, Lauren Catt, Ava Sams,
Silver: Sam Cooper
House Stars of the Week
Year 7
Brunel –
Christie – Jayjay Henderson
Darwin – Beatrice Corline
Fawcett – Lexi Silvester,
Harrison – Jarad Silk
Kitson – James Lovell
Nearne – James Ferris
Pengelly – Isabella Lovell
Year 8
Brunel –
Christie – Amy Hoskins
Darwin – Kingsley Tarrant
Fawcett – Owen Woodcock
Harrison – Kye Wren
Kitson – Kaitliyn Jones
Nearne – Olivia Painter
Pengelly – Kiela Weaver-Snarey
Year 9
Brunel –
Christie – Amelia Batten
Darwin – Ellis-Hatch, Tasha
Fawcett – Bailey, Leoni
Harrison – Jacob Mason
Kitson – Umeiko Melodious
Nearne –
Pengelly – Chloe Sillis
Homework Stars of the Week
Year 7
Brunel –
Christie – Mollie Macfie-Jones
Darwin – Samuel Stimpson
Fawcett – Yeates, Callum
Harrison – Woody Ronson
Kitson – AJ Alexander
Nearne – Oliver Reeves
Pengelly –
Year 8
Brunel – Reef Beer
Christie – Max Beer
Darwin – Joseph Oborn
Fawcett – Rose Bradley
Harrison – Kye wren
Kitson – Fin Gailsford
Nearne – Oriana McCaul
Pengelly – Coral Rogers
Year 9
Brunel –
Christie – Codie James
Darwin – Aliyah Simpson
Fawcett – Tyler Silvester
Harrison – Hannah Moxhay
Kitson – Maggie Minty
Nearne –
Pengelly – Harley Sneap
