Year 11 Mock Interviews 25/02

24th February 2021Mrs M Delage-Martin

Today you will attend a virtual mock interview with an employer to practice interview skills.

Remember to check for your google meet invite which will be sent via email either today 24/02 or first thing on 25/02.You will also be able to access it via your google calendar. The meet is labelled Group followed by a number Mock Interview  so for example Group 1 Mock Interview.

Each meet is scheduled to run all day but please only access and click on the link at the time your tutor gave you.

Have your booklet ready with your application  but you can do the interview without .

Write your first name and surname on the chat function at the start of the interview

Finally if you have any technical issue email

[email protected]

 

Finally good luck we will ask you to give some feedback from your experience at a later stage.

Information for mock interviews

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”: poetry world prepares to mark bicentenary of John Keats

23rd February 2021Miss A Masih

 

 

Almost 200 years ago, on 23 February 1821, the English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome at the age of 25. “I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave – thank God for the quiet grave,” he told his friend Joseph Severn, in whose arms he died. “I can feel the cold earth upon me – the daisies growing over me – O for this quiet – it will be my first.”

Keats gave instructions for his headstone to be engraved with the words “here lies one whose name was writ in water”, and visitors to Rome’s Protestant cemetery can still make a pilgrimage to see it today. But far from being “writ in water”, Keats’s words continue to echo, with a host of writing and events lined up to mark the 200th anniversary of his death.

‘Romeo and Juliet’, a Valentine’s treat for all!

8th February 2021Miss A Masih

 

Watch out for a dramatised production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ which will be streaming online over half term. This is a set text for Year 11 and Year 10 and a fantastic opportunity to experience theatre at home. There will be prizes for the best dressed theatre  photos of you watching it with your family! Letters will be sent out to parents/carers this week with  information about how to access a student ticket price. Here’s a sneak preview…

Support for Broadband Access

1st February 2021Miss K Henshaw

Dear Parents and carers

When more adults and children are working from home, we sometimes discover that our current package isn’t enough to support everyone accessing the internet, and some providers are offering support for broadband access.

If you are interested in finding out more from some providers please click this link: Broadband offer

Bosworth Academy awarded funding to revamp football facilities

29th January 2021Miss K Henshaw

People living in Desford and its surrounding villages are set to benefit from fresh investment into local football facilities. Bosworth Academy has been awarded a grant from the Premier League, The FA and Government’s Football Foundation, to install a new full size, floodlit artificial grass pitch with a target date of September 2021, for this to be available for use.

The Football Foundation is the UK’s largest sports charity and exists to improve the experience of playing football for everyone, by championing fair access to quality facilities.

This grant will enable Bosworth Academy to provide high quality PE, football training and competitive match experiences to its students and football clubs within the local community. The facility will enable Partner Club Desford FC, an FA Charter Standard Club with over 25 teams, to give its 450 members the chance to play and train each week at this new fit for purpose facility.

Players will be able to enjoy playing on a better quality artificial pitch, providing space for more teams to be able to train and the club to continue to grow and develop, offering more opportunities. Additional funding to improve the existing grass pitches, will result in a significant improvement on the existing grass pitches that are prone to waterlogging and in need of improvement.

Bosworth Academy and Desford FC with the help of a number of partners worked with the Football Foundation and Leicestershire & Rutland County FA to secure a £533,948 grant towards the project.

Simon Goodman, Chairman, Desford Football Club said: “Desford Football Club and Bosworth Academy have been working in partnership for a number of years to bring to fruition the plan for a new full size, floodlit artificial pitch. The pitch will be a fantastic asset for both the Club and the Academy, supporting both our ambitions to see football flourish within local communities. We look forward to seeing the project completed and further developments in years to come.”

Robert Sullivan, Chief Executive of the Football Foundation, said: “This grant award to Bosworth Academy towards developing a new state of the art football training and match facility is great news for the local community.

“It will support people’s ability to play our national game locally and therefore help unlock football’s many benefits to physical and mental wellbeing. That’s why we’re committed to transforming the face of grassroots football facilities in this country. It’s therefore very welcome news to hear that this funding will support Bosworth Academy and Desford FC in developing opportunities for all of the local community to be involved in grassroots football for the benefit of the local community.

“The Football Foundation is working closely with our partners – the Premier League, The FA, government and Sport England – to support facility development projects like this across the country over the next decade to transform our grassroots game and unlock the power of pitches.”

For more information, please contact Chris Ripley email: [email protected]

Year 8 Careers event 3/02 periods 1 and 2

26th January 2021Mrs M Delage-Martin

On 3/02 , you will participate in an online ‘meet the employers’ event either periods 1 or 2.

We have sent you some information re this event  and your tutors will tell you more about it during tutor time.  Make sure you listen and read anything we have sent you. We will send you your time and your google meet code before Wednesday. It is the first time  we have done a big school event entirely remotely  so bear with us but most importantly, have fun!

 

Message sent to year 8