Primary School Pupils Get A Taste For Maths

Pupils from Dovebank Primary School visited Bosworth Academy as part of a Primary School taster day. As well as visiting other faculties, the group of year 5 and year 6 pupils took part in a 1 hour Maths lesson.

Their challenge was to enlarge a picture of Bart Simpson made up of tiny little parts. The final result was impressive considering each pupil worked individually and the final picture wasn’t put together until the very end.

Miss V DeBolster

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World Challenge Expedition to Morocco 2014

Students watched an inspirational DVD in school from an organisation called World Challenge, who organise life-changing expeditions around the world for young people.

To fin out more about World Challenge, and to hear all about the amazing challenges that your son/daughter will have the chance to experience, click the link below to download a copy of the Parents’ Presentation invitation letter:

Bosworth Academy World Challenge Parents Presentation Invitation letter [pdf]

Alternatively, feel free to contact the school and speak to either Chris Garnett or Richard Hartland about this fantastic opportunity.

Year 10 Boys Tennis on a Winning Streak!

The Academy’s Year 10 Boys Tennis team have had an extremely successful run of matches. We are entered in the Aegon Team Tennis Schools Competition and have played against Dixie Grammar School, Robert Smyth, Ratcliffe College and John Fernley. The boys have won every game and showed great skill in both the singles and doubles to win the games. The winning combinations have been Matt Spence and James Walters and Jack Kinsella and Ross Manion. The boys won the Division 2 league and are a credit to the Academy! Well done boys!

Primary School Winner

During the recent successful Laureates launch evening at Bosworth Academy in April, a Primary School student from Manorfield Primary School in Stoney Stanton won an iPad mini. Miss Kathleen Baxter, Head of the Laureates School and Academy Principal, Mr Chris Parkinson presented the delighted winner with her prize. Mr Parkinson added, “The Laureates is an exciting and forward looking model for how learning can, and must, lead students’ futures. This is symbolic of our commitment to use the most up to date technology to inspire young people”.

Academy Students Make It to Calais

On the 22nd of April 2013, we took part in our triathlon which was a huge success, everybody managed to complete the distances that were set for them and although we were extremely tired at the end of the day it was a great achievement for us all. We started the event at the beginning of second lesson and completed it just before lunch. Hannah and I are currently collecting and calculating the amount of money that we have raised as a team and we are exceeding our £500 target. We are amazed with the amount of donations and support that we have had from the community, Cancer Research and friends and family, and it is great news knowing that the proceedings are going to a cause which is so close to many of us.

Joe Solonenko and Hannah Callender

Young Orienteering

Xplorer is a fun, family challenge that parents, grandparents and guardians can enjoy with primary and pre-school children. Weekly sessions will take place on Mondays until the 20th May at Bosworth Academy between 5.30 and 6.15pm. Come along and have fun together exploring the fields, finding the coloured markers and collecting the free stickers!!

To register your interest and to find out more please contact Emma on 01455 255875 or e-mail [email protected]

Student Enjoys The Cambridge Experience

Greg Jones, Year 11 student had the fantastic opportunity and experience to take part in the Easter Residential Science Master class at Pembroke and St Catherine’s Colleges, University of Cambridge. The three days were action packed with a variety of activities from museum visits for Earth Sciences and Zoology to a performance depicting the life of Galileo also Physics workshops, Chemistry demonstrations and lectures.

Greg said “I really enjoyed the Easter Residential Science Master class as I thought it told me a lot about University life for students through spending two nights at Pembroke College, Cambridge University”. It was clearly an unforgettable experience for Greg and will help with his future plans. Greg added, “Overall I found the course to be very useful as not only did it give me a wider view of science and a better understanding of it for degree courses, but I also experienced University life as well, which helped me plan my subject choices for my future and how I should aim to get into a top University such as Cambridge”.

Golf Lessons A Success

Under the tutelage of Richard Hughes, Golf Professional at Forest Hill Golf Club Bosworth Academy students have been benefitting from free golf lessons made possible through Sportivate funding. The lessons have been a real success with 7 boys going on to play in the Leicestershire Schools Golf Competition and 8 girls taking the opportunity to play the Academy course at Kyngs Golf and Country Club, Market Bosworth. For all of the girls this was their first real round of golf and now all of the girls are keen to continue playing after the lessons have finished.

Healthy Relationships Project

A group of 25 Year 10 students took part in 10 two hour sessions with Soft Touch Community Arts examining the issue of Healthy Relationships. The students really enjoyed the opportunity to find out about this crucial issue as well as the chance to work in a collaborative and active way. The group wrote a series of short drama pieces which were then filmed to highlight different aspects of healthy relationships. The whole of Year 10 watched the films in their tutor groups and discussed the issues that the drama pieces raised. Students who took part were extremely positive about the experience as were those who watched the film in their tutor time.