Cedar Mount Academy Weekly Bulletin

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Cedar Mount Academy Weekly Bulletin Half Term 6 Hard Work

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2017 A reminder that our Year 11 prom is next Thursday 13th July @ The Village Hotel, Ashton. Our Prom shop is now open and has many fabulous dresses, suits and accessories for you take a look at. Please call school to make an appointment to attend!

CEDAR MOUNT ACADEMY, GORTON EDUCATION VILLAGE, 50 WEMBLEY ROAD, GORTON, MANCHESTER M18 7DT

Points of Interest Message from the Principal Thank you to all parents who completed the 'Parentview' online questionnaire as part of the Ofsted Inspection this week. The Inspection has gone very well but we cannot share the official outcome until the report is published (in about 2 weeks’ time). Well done to all staff and students who did brilliantly throughout the Ofsted visit. Don't forget that term will end at lunchtime on Thursday 20th July after our end of year assembly. Thanks as always for your support Mr Mellen Amsterdam Trip Have you been keeping up to date with how our young adventurers are getting on in Amsterdam this week?! Don’t forget you can track the groups’ progress via this link https://locatemytrip.uk/map/interval and check in with their day to day activities via our twitter handles below;

@CMAHumanities and @CedarMountHigh

Saturday 15th July

Free Entry

11-3pm

RUSHBROOKS 1ST BIRTHDAY BASH Opening Ceremony at 11am with performances from RPA’s Samba band, RPA children and CMA students performing songs from Hairspray the Musical!

Crafts * Raffle * Tombola * Stalls Free Activities * Glitter Tattoos Bring a picnic * BBQ food for sale Penalty Shoot Out We need your donations please! Gift sets * sweets * tombola/raffle items are all much appreciated. If you can help in any way, please see Becky at Reception

Science Trip Message from DJO; Over the last few months a group of year 9 pupils have been involved with an engineering competition run by Siemens, where they had to design and build their own rollercoaster. This competition saw CMA pitted against 24 other schools from Greater Manchester. Through the process the pupils had to be innovative, creative and show flair as well as being solution driven as the building of the rollercoaster often threw up problems. The project has provided the pupils with an insight into the possible design and engineering jobs in the future that they may well choose to pursue. This week saw the final of the competition. The event was held at the Etihad Manchester City Academy Training facility as part of The Great Science Share, where pupils from across Greater Manchester demonstrated science projects that they have been working on. The Rollercoaster Competition was very close with some outstanding designs on display. The judging panel gave our team a good grilling, but were also very complementary of the design, especially the thrill factor. Following all the positive comments from the judges and pupils from other schools our team left with their heads held high. They have each received an Industrial Cadets Bronze award which will allow them links to the engineering industry for years to come.

Well done Team!

Farewell from City Year UK Message from Miss Walsh; Well, as the year comes to an end, it’s will soon be time to say goodbye to Unity Team. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to have served at Cedar Mount Academy. Thank you to all staff for making us feel so welcome and a part of the CMA community. Thank you for your faith, patience - and all the laughs! Thank you to all of the students for sharing with us your ups, downs and everything in between and allowing to us to support you. Miss Walsh will finish on July 6th and the team will finish on the last day of term make the most of the last bit of time with the team! Have a lovely summer, be safe and be ready to get your heads down again in September. All of you are capable of achieving your dreams. Wishing all of the staff & students all the very best for the future,

Miss Walsh & Unity Team

EURO 2017: Reading for Pleasure and Summer Reading Challenge Message from Miss Molloy Sunday 16th July – Sunday 6th August 2017 Holland (7 towns and cities)

The biggest football tournament this summer is the UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 in Holland. The England Women’s football team (also known as the Lionesses) will take on 15 other great footballing nations to find out who is the best national team in Europe. The tournament presents a great opportunity for our students to read for pleasure. “Literacy with the Lionesses creates opportunities for boys and girls to get behind the England Women’s team, who, as one of the top four teams in the world, have a great chance of reaching the final and winning the tournament.” (Tom Palmer and NLT) The ‘live’ Euro 2017 story, Dutch Diaries: a nine- part cliffhanging story, Dutch Diaries, which will be written live, responding to events on and off the pitch at Euro 2017. Each part is designed to be a 10-15min read and will be written by author Tom Palmer. Chapter one was published online on July 3. Subsequent chapters will be published before 8.00am on July 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19 and 20.

It is ‘live’ in that it will be written as the tournament approaches and begins. It will be about the Lionesses and their progress in EURO 2017, but it will also feature a story line related to Anne Frank’s diary and the house in Holland where she and her family hid from the Nazis. Dutch Diaries will be written in the style of Dork Diaries, a very popular children’s book series, and will be from the point of view of a girl on a school trip to Holland to visit the Anne Frank House and watch England’s opening match. If you’re taking part in the Reading Ahead challenge these chapters would be a quick read and would count as 1 of your 6 reads. You can visit CMA library to read the chapters at Student Work/Sharing/Reading/Dutch Diaries Before school/at break/at lunchtime or after school. Or you can read the chapters at home on your mobile phone/tablet . http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/resources/practical_resources_info/7815_uefa_womens_euro_2017

Tom Palmer is also writing a EURO 2017 blog. It features stories about the Lionesses and his research for Dutch Diaries, which includes a trip to the Anne Frank House with his wife and daughter. You will be able to find it at www.tompalmer.co.uk/2017.

Aya Ahmad’s review of ‘Under Attack’ wins a Portico Sadie Massey Award!

The Portico Sadie Massey Awards for Young Readers and Writers are dedicated to Sadie Massey who was truly concerned with giving opportunities to young people from all backgrounds by encouraging a lifelong connection with books. The Awards aim to complement the work done by teachers in schools across Greater Manchester and to celebrate a love of reading and writing that will continue to grow throughout a young person’s life.

Aya, who is in Y9 at Cedar Mount Academy, received her PSMA certificate and gift bag containing a £20 book token; a copy of Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome, in which her book review of ‘Under Attack’ is published, and some Thorntons chocolates. CMA also received a copy of Time Travellers and the Crystal Dome for the library and we were lucky to meet 3 of the 4 authors who had written a story in the book – the stories are based on historic figures that frequented the Portico Library during the 19th Century. Aya’s final sentence in her winning book review is so profound – ‘A book should not be judged by its size but by its ideas and message.’ The Judges Martin Griffin Melvin Burgess Fiona Hadfield Paul Morris

Tony Walsh

Quote from Aya “It was a brilliant experience and I was really joyful and proud to represent Cedar Mount Academy. I was so excited to meet the judges and it was wonderful to see and hear Tony Walsh (aka Longfella) perform his poetry!”

Well done to the following students for gaining the highest amount of Cedar Points this week! Year 7 Achievement Points

Year 8 Achievement Points



Sean 10 Daramfon 9 Daniel 8 Moise 8 Kyren 8 Awaisul 7 Yaw 7

Chelsea 11 Maheen 10 Elsie 7 Seemab 6 Isatou 6 Sahara 6 Azanul 6

Seynabou 9 Aya 7 Esohe 6 Ifaz 5 Haris 5 Rahid 5 Trisan 5

Alex 10 Ibrihim 8 Dillan 8 Khaleda 8 Mohammed 7 Ali 7 Ryaan 6

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What’s on @ CMA

 Monday 10th July o The Jazz Ticket Rehearsal 3pm- 6pm in MU1  Tuesday 11th July o Yr 7 Football Coaching 3:15pm- 4:15pm  Thursday 13th July o CMA Sports Day- Longford Park o The Jazz Ticket Event @ RNCM o CMA Prom @ Village Hotel  Friday 14th July o Hairspray All Day Rehearsal  Saturday 15th July o Rushbrook’s Birthday Bash- Performances by CMA

Values Hard Work Respect Aspiration CMA Attendance for week commencing 26th June– 70.8% (Year 11 have left)

Weekly Word Search It’s that time of the week again! Let’s see how good you are at solving this week’s word search. The first person from KS3 lunch and the first person from KS4 lunch to take their completed word search to Student Services will get a sweet treat! Good luck!