December 2016

From all the staff at

The Coppice Newsletter

Members of The Coppice Academy’s Singsation Choir took part in a

fundraising Christmas Carols event at The INTU Potteries Shopping

Centre last Friday. The choir had been rehearsing the popular festive

tracks such as “I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday”, “Merry Christ-

mas Everyone”, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” and “Jingle Bells” among

many others to bring some upbeat festive cheer to the shoppers in the

market place. They certainly drew a crowd of bopping admirers to their

performance as the morning progressed. The students and staff put on

a great performance and raised over £80.

Back to school – Wednesday 4th

January 2017

Singsation Entertains

in Hanley

Friday Enrichment- During Friday afternoon’s

Enrichment sessions, Miss Oakley and Mr Goodman

have taken the students out to a number of venues on

the Magical Mystery Tour. The Enrichment sessions

are a reward for all of the hard work of the students

throughout the week and so we have sought to make

these visits really memorable. So far this term we

have had a wonderful visit to Newcastle Fire Station

where the students were able to use the water hoses

and explore the emergency vehicles and try on

equipment. We also visited The Potteries Museum and

saw, close up, the Spitfire as well as many other

exhibits of local history. The students really enjoyed the wildlife section and the

interactive activities. More recently we have visited Glebe Farm and the students

were able to pet the animals and feed the rather greedy Llama’s, some students

were afraid of losing their fingers but overcame their fears to offer a tasty carrot

to the goofy toothed creatures with whacky hair.

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Annual reviews

Thank you to all those parents who

attended our Y11 Annual Reviews this

term. It is essential that we work

together as a team, especially when we

transfer to Education Health Care Plans.

Well Done Coppice

A cademy – we

raised £105 .30 on

our Christmas

Jumper Day for

local charity Donna

Louise Children’s

H o s p i c e . W e

wanted to help out

this brilliant char-

ity and support our

good friend Kav!

Coppice gets GOLD! We were very proud to announce that The Coppice Academy gained a GOLD award in

this years “Heart of England in Bloom” competition.

Schools across the Midlands entered this prestigious gar-

dening competition and we were judged in the Summer

term.

Donna from Heart of England came to school to present

the students with their GOLD award. Well done everyone.

We are very excited about next years’ entry and with this

in mind we would welcome any garden ornaments that you may want to donate.

Following on from the success of the Britain in

Bloom and Heart of England competitions KS4 mix

are broadening their gardening horizons and helping

to keep local gardens and parks neat and tidy.

A big thank you to Newcastle Borough Council for

their continuing support.

Focus on Maths: Class 8/9-3

have been using their maths

skills whilst shopping for

breakfast club and visiting

the cafe– handling money,

recognising and totalling up

the correct coins.

Focus on English: This half

term Year 7 and 8/9.1 have

worked enthusiastically on

their non-fiction, advertising

project. They have created

their own product, produced

adverts and have written an

advertising pitch, using per-

suasive techniques in order to

appeal to their target market.

Their products were on sale at

the Christmas Fair.

Children in Need 2016

Headteacher’s

Award

Jacob Droogmans ICT Prize Oliver Malam

John Bevan Award William Merron French Prize Sarosh Bukhari

Soroptimists Sarosh Bukhari D&T Prize Lily Harrison

Literacy Prize Denis Metaj Humanities Prize Dylan Lloyd

Numeracy Prize Ryan Moss Community Award Jack Burgess

Science Prize Kyeron Hamlett Art Prize Jacob Hanley

PE prize Saul Pharoah PHSE Prize Chloe Evans

MAT Wed prize Jack Phillips Music prize Chloe Bentley

Y7 Callum Bagnall Y11 Marshall Yates

8.1 Chelsea Vicary KS3 mix Kieran Jones

8.2 Nicole Hughes KS4 mix Joshua Timmis

Y9 Bradley Heath Mobiles Amin Mohammed

Y10 Shea Dutton

Recognising Achievement at The Coppice In November we invited students from last year’s KS4 to attend our awards evening

celebrating the wide range of accreditation they gained last summer.

Mr Phil Harrison, Director of SEND at the Shaw Education Trust, gave a congratula-

tory speech . We also gave out subject awards recognising hard work and achieve-

ments from across the school to the following students:

We also had class awards from The Rotary Club , Newcastle presented by Mr

Daniels. We feel very lucky to have their continued support– they are good friends

of the academy.

LATEST SPORTS NEWS- KS3 Mix learn how to play table

cricket with Steve Lightfoot from Staffordshire Cricket.

In the New Year we are putting our skills to the test by

playing in a table cricket tournament.

On the 30th November 12 students

from across the school represented

us in some indoor athletics organised

by Excel Academy. There were relay

races, obstacle races, long jump, triple jump, shot put and

javelin throws. KS3 came in 2nd place and KS4 came in 4th

place. Well done to the following who took part: KS3 Team

Josh Russon, Dion Woolliscroft Townsend, Saul Pharoah, Abi-

gail Burnett, Chloe Davies, Megan Taylor KS4 Team: Alex

Macleod, Jacob Handley, Callum Pemberton, Fiona Jones, Jordanna Kennerley, Claire

Jackson

Leaving us.......

We will be saying goodbye to some colleagues this Christmas.

Guy Booth our music therapist has been working with our stu-

dents for a year now. He has made a big impact in a short

time. We will miss him and wish him well with his next place-

ment.

Jane Gardiner has been teaching English at the Coppice as

part of her teaching experience. She is continuing at Black-

friars Academy– all the best, Jane!

Stacey Oakley has been our amazing acting vice principal

this term. We have enjoyed having her with us and are sad

to see her return to Blackfriars FE but know we will see her

lots especially during transition visits.

Clare Taylor recently left the Coppice after 7 years as TA.

She will be missed and we wish her all the success in the fu-

ture.

Matt Morrell is taking time off to look after his new daughter and will be back in

the Summer term.

Rebecca Meakin has been a TA here for almost 10 years working in several differ-

ent classes and being involved in many whole school activities. She is about to start

her maternity leave—good luck and best wishes.

Our caretaker Dave Mansell has been coming to the Coppice at dawn, in the snow ,

ice and hurricanes ( and English drizzle ) for over 15 years . He is easing into retire-

ment and we are sure that he will continue to be a friend of the Coppice for years

to come!