National Quarter Finals, house charities and velodrome trips
House Charities
During this round of house assemblies, the focus was the fundraising that our students had been doing for local charitable organisations.
Each house is aligned to a local charity with links to the house figurehead; the charities were carefully chosen by the students themselves.
For the past four terms, students have been raising money for their charities through events such as non-uniform days and a Spring fayre. As always, there is a healthy element of competition involved.
During the week representatives from the eight charities: The Children’s Society, Rowcroft Hospice, Animals in Distress, The Premature Baby Unit, The Royal British Legion, Torbay Coast and Countryside, The Red Cross and Torbay Stroke Support attended the assemblies to tell our students a little more about the work they do, receive the monetary donations and thank the students for their hard work.
The representatives were able to tell students what their money would go towards providing, for example, the money raised for Stroke Support will be used to hire a room in Paignton Library- on a weekly basis- to allow stroke survivors to attend support group meetings and the money raised for Animals in Distress will go directly towards feeding some of the many animals in the charity’s care.
Our students were very interested in the information they received and are already enthusiastically planning how they can raise further sums in the future.
Brunel – Checkpoint – 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
Nearne – The Red Cross
Pengelly – Torbay Stroke Support
Effort Boards
At the end of each cycle you can guarantee it will be packed around each of the year group screens. We are all very proud of our incredible students’ efforts.
Royal Ballet School Success
Olivia Painter has successfully auditioned for a place as an Advanced Associate at the Royal Ballet School in London on a Saturday. She will start her training in September 2023 alongside her A levels. This is an incredible achievement and we are very proud of Olivia.
Lacie Benson
Congratulations to Lacie who was part of the Royal Torbay Yacht Club Squadron where her and her crew were awarded First Place in The Fast Fleet Category.
Maths Period 1
Miss Aplin’s group have come to the end of Cycle 3 of their Maths Period 1. They’ve worked hard to consolidate their understanding and application of multiplication and division and should be very proud of their efforts.
Cycle 4 sees lots of new students joining the Maths Period 1 in Y7 and Y8 and we look forward to supporting them further in their maths understanding.
Photographed are: Ellie Bowden, Georgee Westhead, Emily Cooper, Cohen Andrews, Lily Wilson, Alfie Spicer, Lola Reece, Zak Helmore, Leah Hollis, Lily Bortoli and Lily-Rose White.
Well done to Mrs Wooldridge’s maths intervention students have also worked very hard this cycle and made some excellent progress.
Photographed are Hamish Herring, Joshua Henderson, Aliviya Lawrence, Darcey Mellish, Dan Hutchison, Evie Alford, Florence Mills, Shannon Clark, Connor Dean, Aaron Saunders, Olly Whittred and George Luscombe
U13 Girls Football into the National Quarter Finals
On Monday, the U13 Football team took on Cleeve School, who travelled down from Cheltenham. It was the toughest game of the season, but we managed to come away with a 1-0 win, scored by Kayla with an assist from Frankie. The girls played brilliantly, despite it being a tiring game. We are through to the quarter finals of the National Cup. We are waiting to find out which school we will be playing in the quarter finals, but we know it will involve a trip to London. This is the fourth TA team to reach a national quarter final this year.
Well done to Ellie, Maria, Evie, Neeve, Kayla, Ava, Frankie, Amelia, Poppy, Farah and Leela we are extremely proud of you!!
U15 Netball Academy
On Wednesday, two teams from our U15 Netball Academy travelled to play Ivybridge School in readiness for their netball tour to Wales and taking part in the World Student games at Loughborough University in May and June. From the start, a stand-out component of both teams’ games was their high work rate and determination to play with intensity during all four quarters. Well done to all that represented Team TA to such a high standard. After two very close games, the girls came away with a well deserved win (13-12) and draw (7-7). Congratulations to Tammy Westacott who was voted both player’s player and opposition’s player of the day. The girls will continue to prepare thoroughly for their upcoming tours with several more upcoming netball fixtures which will feature in the blog and weekly training sessions.
U15 Netball Academy
Tammy Westacott ©, Elspeth Herring, Elise Pile, Ella McLachlan, Emily Graham, Summer Connolly, Maisy Green, Katie Rowe, Jemimah Jones, Lydia Bevan, Millie Sneap, Isabelle Moxham, Amara Phillips, Brooke Tully, Ema Kestell and Eve Cameron
Year 11 South Devon Cup Semi Final vs SDC
On Wednesday the year 11 football team reached the final of the South Devon Cup. The team managed to beat South Devon College in a dramatic penalty shootout. Our performance was not at the level we usually show, however, the team showed great character and a level of discipline in exceptionally trying circumstances.
TA will now play the TBGS in the final next Wednesday at Devon FA. The goalscorers were Will Green and Charlie Pope.
Velodrome Success for Year 7
Our Year 7 cycling finalists travelled to Newport’s Olympic Velodrome in Wales to compete in the annual house cycling finals. This year’s competition was the biggest ever with over 70 students in year 7 competing for a place on the minibus. Students had to produce the fastest times in our onsite races to qualify. The velodrome consisted of a 2 hour session. In the first half a professional coach trained our finalists and we held the races in the second half. The standard was excellent this year with the top 5/6 positions only separated by 100ths of a second. Well done to everyone who participated in the competition. Not only the finalists but everyone who took part in the trials as well. House points were gained from every entry.
Year 7 Girls
Gold -Millie Russell
Silver – Annie Aldous
Bronze – Maria Nihyanova
Year 7 Boys
Gold – Toby Howell
Silver – Jamie Tully
Bronze – Alfie Spicer
Velodrome Cycling Finals – Year 8
15 year 8s travelled to Newport on Wednesday for the house sport cycling competition. There was a huge uptake for the competition this year, with 75 year 8s competing to get a place at the Velodrome. After an hour and a half training the races took place that consisted of a timed lap of the track. Well done to all involved, the competition was excellent with only half a second separating the times for 7 boys. Well done to all 75 students entering and gaining house points for their participation.
Boys
Gold – Sam Johns
Silver – Oliver Crocker
Bronze – Maks Adach
Girls
Gold – Frankie Skelly
Silver – Lucy McMahon
Bronze – Grace Halsey
Athletics Success
Over the last 2 weekends, Grace competed at Exeter Arena against athletes from all over the South West in the beginning of the summer events season. All of her hard training, with not one but two local clubs, over winter paid off. She achieved personal bests in all 3 of her events. In 100M she now runs under 14 seconds, 200M in under 29s, and after trying hard last year to throw the shot over 7M, she achieved it with a throw of 7.82M. Well done, Grace!
U16s Rugby Cup Final
Will Reed, Will Harrison and Aaron Goddard played in the rugby Fisherman’s shield cup final Sunday for Torquay Athletic Rugby Club. This was the finale of the rugby season and the end of their junior rugby together. Their opponents were Exmouth, and the match was played at Brixham in the pouring rain. It was a close match, ending in a draw of 12:12. The cup was shared between 2 deserving teams.
Exeter Athletic U13 Rugby
Louis Tillen, in Year 8, took part in a recent trip to an international age grade rugby tournament, in Lisbon Portugal with the whole Exeter Athletic U13 team and had the most incredible few days away, playing teams from all over the world.
The whole team played their hearts out, playing with raw passion and pride, flying the flag for Exeter Athletic Rugby Club and English youth rugby.
The boys ended up placing 6th out of 28 teams, reaching the quarter finals, coming away bruised, battered and exhausted, but with pride in their hearts and memories to treasure forever!
Here are their results:
Day 1
Pool Game 1 – Exeter Athletic 60-0 CDUP
Pool Game 2 – Exeter Athletic 50-0 CR Sao Miguel
Quarter Final – Exeter Athletic 0-5 GDS Cascais
Day 2
Play-off Pool – Exeter Athletic 15-0 RHINOS
5th Place Final – Exeter Ath 15-20 Dubai Falcons
Students of the Week
Year 7 – Aiden Hooper and Lily Thomas
Year 10 – Ollie Clarke
Year 11 – Will Hemus and Millie Randall
House Students of the Week
Year 7
Brunel – George Evans
Christie – Riain Leal
Fawcett – Anya Cosslett
Harrison – Erin Glancy
Kitson – Aiden Hooper
Nearne – Lexi Cave
Pengelly – Holly Nunn
Year 8
Brunel – Grace Halsey
Christie – Hallie Davies
Fawcett – Aleksander Treder
Kitson – Adam Copping
Nearne – Daniel Piper
Pengelly – Julia Tatarynowicz
Year 9
Brunel – Oliver Denison
Christie – Izzy Towell
Fawcett – Ruby Bovey
Kitson – Benjamin Watts
Nearne – Bartosz Mitula
Pengelly – Leo Helmore
Homework Students of the Week
Year 7
Brunel – Lilly Drake
Christie – Emily Lucas
Fawcett – Halle Walker
Harrison – Honor Dawson
Kitson – Lucie Bowers
Nearne – Emily Watts-Simpson
Pengelly – Matthew Campan
Year 8
Brunel – Amelia Rose
Christie – Declan Smith
Fawcett – Diogo Pestana
Kitson – Corey Batten
Nearne – Layla Broadway
Pengelly – William Kelly
Year 9
Christie – Callun Jackson
Fawcett – Ryan Williams
Kitson – Liam Trapp
Nearne – Caitlin Williams
Pengelly – Sonny Paton
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