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Keeley is the fastest U17 sprinter in England

Keeley won the under 17 100m in 12.66 sec at the Devon open track and field meeting in Plymouth, later followed by a stunning win in the 300m, setting a massive new Personal Best time of 38.92 sec.

This time sets a new All Time South-West best performance, which had stood for 13 years, and currently ranks Keeley the fastest under-17 300m sprinter in England. Congratulations Keeley!

Netball and Football Success

Congratulations to Mia Denby, in Year 12, who has gained a place in the England Colleges team for Netball.  This is an incredible achievement and she has already played in Ireland this year.

Farrah Ambrose, Year 9, has been selected for the Football Lioness pathway. This builds on the great success she has had for both the school and Devon.

I am very proud of the success of all of our girls, who have made this the most successful sporting year for our girls in the school’s history.

Greenpower Chivenor

These are some great pictures from the recent Greenpower race.

Year 11 Exams

Year 11 are well and truly in the final stretch of their GCSE exams with only a few taking place next week. They have continued to work really hard and have made a real impression on staff.  On Saturday around 50 came in for some final preparation ahead of their Monday exam (Maths Paper 3). The amount of revision that has been taking place before school and during break times has been amazing.  The Year 11 team are so proud of the year group and are excited to see the results of their hard work on results day.  Well done Year 11!

Year 9 HPA

On Monday, the Year 9 High Performance Academy students met in the Platform for their end-of-year celebration. Students gave presentations to each other on subjects they had been researching in HPA this year using online university courses from universities such as Harvard, Edinburgh and UCL. The presentations were extremely well-researched and confidently delivered on a range of subjects such as the development of antibiotics, different punitive models of criminal justice and classical mythology. Students also celebrated their hard work this year by eating lots of pizza in the sixth form cafe! Amazon vouchers as prizes for the best research were awarded to Harrison Harkin (Investment Law), Ben Jeffs (The Individual in Chinese Culture), Rebecca Quarshie (The Pyramids of Giza) and Lauren Tanton (Chernobyl). Well done to everyone involved for an extremely impressive year with HPA!

TA go Coasteering

It’s official…. We’re now a school that does Coasteering!

On Friday, a handpicked group of intrepid (and naively trusting) students, bravely and selflessly took the day away from lessons so that Mr Bez could use them as guinea pigs for his National Coasteering Charter Coasteering Guide Award Assessment.

We travelled to Anstey’s Cove to meet the assessor and after the initial formalities we kitted up and headed down to the sea, the day was sunny and the sea was flat, a perfect day for coasteering.  Following the usual route in/through/over the rocks we made our way to increasingly big jumps as students’ skills and confidence increased.  With a falling Spring tide the final jumps became bigger and bigger but all of the students met the challenge with gusto!

All that was left (for the assessment) was a swim test and rescue drills, the students even joined in and could have passed the assessment themselves!

Then it was back to the minibus for handshakes, de-kit and maybe a cheeky ice cream!

Watch this space for more coasteering trips and more instructors passing their Guide award.

SummerFest Pitch

I met with the Sixth Form team who are leading our annual SummerFest.  The music students did a very professional job outlining their vision for SummerFest and I was delighted to be able to give them the funding for it to go ahead.

Year 9 Geography

Miss Fannon’s Year 9 Geographers have been completing Bi polar evaluations of the sea defences at the coast. For this they have evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of sea walls, groynes, rock armour and gabions. This is all part of the Coastal Landscapes Unit in preparation for their fieldwork.

Year 7 Art

Some students in Year 7 have been working with local collage artist Philip Eley in an afterschool art club. They spent the first session playing a drawing game that was similar to Bingo and this week’s session trying to recreate fantastical images by collaging shapes, objects, people and colours found in magazines. The responses are incredibly imaginative and playful…I’m looking forward to hearing about the ideas they have for their own artworks next week!

Students of the Week

Year 7 – Jamie Hancock and Emilee Fenner

Year 10 – Daniel Bellingham and Abigail Mealin

Year 9 Rounders

The Year 9 rounders team played in an U14 area rounders tournament at Stover school on Wednesday. They played several closely contested matches and secured a win against Newton Abbot College. The girls worked well as a team, adapting their fielding and doing some fantastic catches! They also batted well, with some great hits resulting in scoring lots of rounders.

Well done, girls!

Ellie Farthing, Kelsey Drew, Chloe German, Kiki Marker, Mailie Beavis, Phoebe Smith, Lucy McMahon, Maisie Sandercock, Larna Waller, Ashleigh Evans, Frankie Skelly, Matilda Stevens

Prestigious Diamond Award

Year 7 – Olivier Szyszka, Giovanni Vaio and Madison Wood

Governor’s Platinum Certificates

Year 7 – Luke Sanderman, Francis Roberts, Emilee Fenner, Alana Houlihan, Lilly-Rose Haughton, Annalise Little, Owen Spies, Mason Maxwell, Poppi Jones, Calum Carpenter, Izzie Mildren,  Ebany Fawkes, Leonard Toribio, Rosco Biagott, Lucy French, Jesse Isemede and Keeley-Mae Moran

Year 8 – Naomi Szyszka and Archie Somerset

Year 9 – Oliver Welsh, Grace Halsey, Ashleigh Evans,, Brodie Reddish, Ben Jeffs and Amelia Rose

Governor’s Gold Certificates

Year 7 – Freddy Novis, Serenity Ward, Jenson Tandy, Myah Sellick, Freddie Wallis, Esmie Riggs, Serenity Ward, Alfie Makin, Mia Wilkins, Bobby Joint, Sophie Howard, Bonnie Stacey, Noah Amor, Maddie Smith, Jessica Ferguson, Ben Walters, Levi Jones, Eric Montague and Olivia Martin

Year 8 – Summer Pallant, Leon Snell, Sophia Peryer and Mollie Peters

Year 9 – Orley Copeland, Chloe German, Ayden Goldsbrough, Oscar Mills, Carla Lawrence, Kiki Marker, Sonny Long, Summer Lawford, Oscar Leonard, Kaiden Mclaren, Toby Waring, Lewis Phillips, Amelia Rose, Rebecca Quarshie, Scarlett Finley-Squires, Julia Tatarynowicz, Amy Rogers, Phoebe Smith, Connor Dean, Imogen Symonds, Lili Budavolgyi, Lottie Roberts, Sera Elsa Joman, Abigail Yau, Alex Nagy, Hannah Brazier,Olly Whittred, Naphtali Phinehas, Blarye Holden, William Candy, Barnaby George, Nyla Wakefield, Miley Soby, Halayna Hussain, Nevin Vithayathil and Emilee Payne

Governor’s Silver Certificates

Year 7 – Flo Evans, Tate Reynolds, Alexis Kovacs, Toryn Bond and Kierra O’Neill

Year 8 – Sophie Dean, Alexa Lyons, Allanna Butler, Benjamin Nicholson, Teddy Watson and Edi Ference Csibi

Year 9 – Amelia Wisniewska, Demi Minty, Alba Fogarty, Nya Bettridgr, Layla Broadway, Cody Jones, Lena Galazkiewicz, Thomas Connelly, Ellie Mildren, Charlotte Little, Jasper Franklin, Analais Biggs, Emma Giles, Freya Coatesworth, Callum Pile, Lauren Tanton, Francesca Skelly, Scarlett Lacey, Kiel Mortimer, Harry Paull, Serina James,  Marlee White, William Kelly, Lucas Quaintance, Luke Horrocks, Halle Wooton, Lola Benney, Jake Knight, alana Livermore, Charlie Wise and Lucas Chappell

Governor’s Bronze Certificates

Year 7 – Emily Bowden, Luna Truong, Riley Page, Phoebe Grindling, James Cosh, Alexa McCarthy, Aaron Pinto, Bonnie Talbot and Morley Villiers

Year 8 – Ava Luker-Hulme, Ellie Bowden, Trent Blackmore, Ellie Simpson, Stella de Rose, Euan Miller, Janzen Flores, Emilia Warner, Will Wrathall, Tanya Neil, Olivia Williams, Maria Nihtyanova, Reuben Harrison and Alfie Speed

Year 9 – Kyron Connor, Sienna Painter, Millie-Ann Wigston, James Bond, Eunan Campbell, Rayhan Shamin, Brody Cooper, Nea Joshy, Mason Bryant, Gracie-May Tolley, Amelia Lawton, Olivia Fordrey, Sophia Burnham, Matthew Bailey,  Scarlett Huxtable, Maile Beavis and Anna Pearn

Principal’s Gold Certificates

Year 7 – Gabrella Piasta, Lily Hubbard, Beth McMahon, William New, Rose Murray, Oliver Withers and Summer Dockrey

Year 8 – Saphi Byers, Harry Lee, Maxwell Murray,Summer Pallant, Lewis Allington, Ivan Masliakovas, Ethan Lewis, Lily Campbell, Leah Hollis and Oscar Read

Year 9 – Joselyn Full, Leela Cartwright, Mason Mitchell, Ryan Allaker, Ruby Sellick, Blake Adamson, Nikkita Hookway, Bella Williams,Logan Hammacott, Olivia-Mae Franke,Lily Hawkings, Faye Cassidy and Karthika Sundharam 

Year 10 – Emma Matthews, George Scrimgeour, Dean Conway and Austin White,

Principal’s Silver Certificates

Year 7 – Frazer Whitehead and Jake Richards 

Year 8 – Elijah Addai, Ethan Greenwood, Caleb Harford-Brown, Sophie Dean, Allanna Butler, Teddy Watson, Alexa Lyons, Archie Norcott and Sydney Summers

Year 9 – Summer Holmes, Ethan Piri-Sadigh, Leo Maasz, Kacper Drygiel, Matilda Stevens, Diogo Pestana, Chloe Burton, Jade Cook, Ethan Lynch, Poppy Sims-Walton, Neve Lithgow, Ollie Cooper and Louis Tillen

Year 10 – Colby Britton, Cerys Lowe, Noah Tyson and Olivia Hoskings

Principal’s Bronze Certificates

Year 7 – Tyler Scott

Year 8 – Finley O’Leary Black

Year 9 – Libbie Grindling, Lora Cadman, Sophia Box, James Northcott, Brody O’Neill, George Luscombe, Daisy Cosh, Lucy McMahon and Millie Routledge

House Students of the Week

Year 7

Brunel – Bonnie Talbot

Christie – Ruby Turner

Darwin – Faith Hartley

Fawcett – Fraser Whitehead

Harrison – Mari-Ray Cutajar

Kitson – Sofia Adamson

Nearne – Heidi Milner

Pengelly – Thomas Zaple

Year 8

Brunel – Louise Porter

Christie – Sophie Dean

Darwin – Finlay Clark

Fawcett – Mason Findlay-Peers

Kitson – Tyler Evans

Pengelly – Poppy Sanderson

Year 9

Christie – Isabelle Kelly

Harrison – Daisy Johns

Kitson – Bella Blatchford

Nearne – Joselyn Full

Homework Students of the Week

Year 7

Brunel – Izzie Mildren

Christie – Isla May

Darwin – Seraphina Rozier

Fawcett – Belle Silvester

Harrison – Alfie Williams

Kitson – Toryn Bond

Nearne – Poppy Haslett

Pengelly – Lucas Vesely

Year 8

Christie – Sonny Cayford

Darwin – Riley Gilmour

Fawcett –  Sean Canham

Kitson – Tristan Ellis

Pengelly – Ivan Masliakovas

Year 9

Christie – Lola Benney

Harrison – Barnaby George

Kitson –  Adam Copping

Nearne – Oscar Mills

Pengelly – Chloe German

Sparx Leaderboards

Sparx Level Up

Congratulations to these students for achieving a new level in their Sparx this week! Certificates and badges will be awarded at the end of every cycle.

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