Three Bosworth Academy students; Dilraj Attwal, Greg Jones and Zac Meakin came second in the Intermediate Boys County Cross Country Championships.
The team success was a result of a number of races with strong performances at both the Ratcliffe College and Thomas Estley College rounds of the season.
Greg Jonesâ strong results over the season finishing with a final event fourth place have resulted in selection for the English Schools Championships on the 16th March in Derbyshire.
The Academy congratulates all those involved and wishes Greg all the best for the national event.
The new Academy netball kit has had a lot of use over the past few weeks. The year 10 and year 11 netballers have started their spring fixtures. They played in a joint fixture against Groby, where we mixed the teams up. Bosworth took an early lead and maintained it throughout the match, to eventually win 6-3. Player of the match was Alice Hammond.
The year 10’s played in the county netball tournament on Wednesday. We came up against some stiff competiton- Loughborough Grammar School, Our Ladies Convent and Oakham. The girls fought until the end playing 3 tought matches but unfortunately did not make it through to the quarter finals. It was a cold night and they showed real spirit to play the way they did in unfavourable conditions! Players of the tournament were Esther Stock and Hannah Pugh.
This week both teams went to William Bradford. A few new faces have joined the team who are new to netball which was brilliant to see. We unfortunately lost the year 10 game but they are a development side at this stage of the year. The year 11 girls are practicing hard for their GCSE Practical Exam in netball so it was really important that they play well together. A new addition to the team was Abby Cresswell who was injured at training was back at GS and what a great addition she was. With Taniche Taylor at GA and Aimee Hamilton at GD, the team was unstoppable. We won convincingly 21-2. Busayo Sanusi and Abby Cresswell get players of the match.
Lorna Croucher
PE/Head of Year 10
Bosworth Academy
The Under 16 Football team are having a successful league campaign. In October they traveled to Groby College and came away 4-3 winners. After taking a commanding 3-0 half-time lead the team quickly threw this lead away in the second half to allow Groby to level up at 3-3 however in the last five minutes Bosworth managed to notch a winner to claim the points. On 27th February they entertained John Cleveland College and strolled to a comfortable 7-1 victory including a hat-trick from Ellis Bollen. The team is well lead by captain Ellis Smith who works hard to sort the team out and liaises with the manager, Liam Grest to get messages to players. On 5th March the team travel to King Edward VII Coalville for the penultimate league match ahead of the final game versus Hind Leys of Shepshed.
If the team can finish top of the league they will progress to the League Cup semi-final representing the West Leicestershire district again the winners of either the North or South Leicestershire league.
In recognition of their commitment to the three age group rugby teams operating at Bosworth Academy 15 players were lucky enough to take up a place on the trip to Headingley Carnegie Stadium to watch an England training session in preparation for the upcoming 6 Nations. The players saw Stuart Lancaster putting the England players through their paces with match simulation drills and set piece plays. Following the hour long training session England players took time out to reward the travelling fans by signing shirts and balls. Bosworth Academy students collected autographs from 5 or 6 different players and even got the chance to stroke the beard of local hero Dan Cole.
With book shelving the length of a football pitch, enough paint to fill two bath tubs and over 2km of cabling the brand new library at Bosworth Academy is complete. First damaged in the summer floods and then winner of a nationwide competition to refurbish part of their school building, the Academy nominated its library and adjoining classrooms for a transformational makeover courtesy of Styles & Wood, the property support services group, and their supply chain partners.
The library is firmly back at the heart of the school and has been renamed as The Compass. Designed as a vibrant research facility to encourage independent study and foster a love of reading, the project radically improves the tired 1960s building through a new layout, improved environmental control and a superior lighting scheme.
The Compass name was selected through ballot by the 1300 pupils at the school, who were involved from start to finish: putting together the original entry, creating design requirements and even briefing architects and engineers. Compass cleverly integrates new technology and the latest furniture designs into a flexible area divided into five key zones: research, presentation, independent study, reading and teaching. The Academy is investing in new technology – increasing the number of pcs, including a set of iPads, for use in The Compass. The catalogue of books within the library is expanding in parallel to keep the pages turning for pupils.
Simon Brown, Vice Principal at Bosworth Academy, said: âWe started out wanting to encourage more children to use the library, for reading and study. But this refurbishment is so much better than we could ever have dreamt of or afforded out of school budgets. The Compass will help generations of students find the direction they need to be successful in whatever they want to do. We are hugely grateful to Styles & Wood for their vision and everything they have achieved.â
The makeover competition was part of Styles & Woodâs education offer, Revision and was run in conjunction with their community support programme. A team of employees has volunteered their time and expertise, coordinating 20 suppliers who donated their services. In total over 2,100 hours were worked on site to bring the studentâs wish-list to life.
The company chose Bosworth because of the passion they demonstrated. Having recently become an academy they clearly showed they were taking their future into their own hands. According to Gideon Levene, Head of Education within Styles and Wood, the student video put together for the entry was particularly inspirational. He comments: âThis has been a challenging refurbishment project, keeping disruption to a minimum in a fully working school. We saw huge potential in the library and used our expertise in refurbishment including ventilation, acoustics and design to create an amazing space to inspire the students. We believe refurbishment is an exciting process to transform spaces, it is what we do and we do it well. The Compass should build aspirations for young people in Bosworth for years to come.â
Below you can see our stop motion video of the whole development from start to finish:
Staff uniforms, sweatshirts, hoodies, polo shirts – when a school changes its name inevitably there is a lot of out-of-date sports kit. Bosworth Academy, which became an academy earlier this year, has found a solution to the dilemma of what to do with good but unwanted items. Rather than discarding it to landfill, 198 items of clothing are on their way to the deprived region of Amizmiz in Morocco.
The school has a long association with Morocco; in the past seven years over 200 pupils have been on expeditions in the Atlas mountains, as part of their leadership and learning outside the classroom. Amizmiz lies at the foot of the High Atlas mountain range and has many small Berber villages nearby without electricity or running water. Struck by the need in the area, these groups have often ended up giving the shirts off their backs to local communities or taken small gifts for children in order to help.
Pupils and staff have been busy collecting and now three massive cartons of children and adult clothing are being sent to a region where winter temperatures can plummet to -20 âC. âWe encourage a strong sense of community and an understanding of the wider world,â explains Chris Parkinson, Principal of Bosworth Academy. âWe are very proud of our new name, but even prouder that we can make a contribution to an area which has been so welcoming to us, but doesnât have the benefits we take for granted.â
The clothing will be distributed directly to the most needy communities with the help of World Challenge Area Manager, Daniel Seton. World Challenge organises the Academyâs annual expedition to Morocco.
Athletes staying in the Olympic and Paralympic Villages during the London 2012 Games will have the chance to admire special artwork created by students from the Get Set network school Bosworth Academy. This initiative shows how even more schools are playing their part in London 2012.
28 schools from across the United Kingdom including Bosworth Academy were invited to work with professional artists and photographers to create artwork that will be displayed in the Villages throughout the Games. The images are set to provide a great addition to the accommodation making athletes from all over the world feel at home.
Bosworth Academy took inspiration from artist Tine Bech who was commissioned to work with the students to create the artwork using light to create the engaging and exciting images. Five out of the seven images submitted were selected to be mass produced and housed within the athleteâs apartments.
With the country basking in the afterglow of London 2012 and the Paralympics continuing to impress, Bosworth Academy is learning lessons from elite sports and applying them to the world of education. And with rugby 7s set to be an Olympic sport in Rio, who better than Emily Scarratt, England and Lichfield full back and centre, to help staff learn from top coaches and athletes?
Scarratt, 22, is a former pupil of Bosworth Academy and has been capped over 20 times. She will address over 100 of the Academyâs teaching and support staff at the first training day of the new academic year on 28 August 2012, sharing insights into team working, athlete centred coaching, the use of feedback and the role of analysis in performance improvement.
âJust as we saw the cycling or swimming teams supporting each other to achieve fantastic results, we want to create a team culture within the school leading to continuous improvement in teaching standards,â explains Chris Parkinson, Academy principal. âI want the staff here to achieve their personal best. Not in terms of time or distance, but by giving our pupils the best start in life.â
Staff will be encouraged to develop a questioning style and coach each other to improve their teaching. Emily will explain that âstatistics donât lieâ and show how the use of GPS tracking in rugby has transformed performance, likewise the latest web based technology will have a similar impact on teaching, so that staff can analyse their lessons and get peer review.
The school achieved Academy status earlier this year and has just seen its best ever exam results. Chris concludes: âBy looking outside of education for inspiration, our staff can learn from world class performers. This day will set the tone for the year ahead and will keep the Academy at the forefront of education.â
