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Emily Mayne is currently in Year 13, and is studying for her A Levels. 

Her debut single ‘Nicotine’, produced by a Grammy nominated London based producers was recently released and is available for download now. Emily’s passionate for music, and hopes to continue this in future years. 

Listen to ‘Nicotine’ below:

YEAR 12 TEACHING AT SHIPHAY ACADEMY

Tuesday 24th September 2019

It has been an incredibly successful day for the nine year 12 students  from Churston who have taught French and Spanish to years five and six primary school children.

It is through their genuine enthusiasm for language learning that the students made a wonderful impression on the children and staff alike!

Very well done to Chloe Howgate, Adrienne Knight, Rosa Thames, Francesco Zocchi, Rosie Wallis, Chloe Bayliss, Katie Harman, Edgardo Del Togno,Marina Russo.

Please watch them in action: recordings of  songs, games, competitions are available, photos, you will then get a flavour of their flair for language, zeal and incredible stamina!

Mrs Gorman, assistant head teacher, was very impressed by the work of our sixth formers and emailed the comments below:

“Spanish session – The session was engaging and the children enjoyed learning a few Spanish phrases and the numbers to 11. They coped well when YouTube didn’t work and adapted the lesson quickly. To make the lesson even better, just make sure to speak clearly and loudly to make it easier for the children to repeat the Spanish phrases correctly.

French session 1  – A very exciting and practical session all about animals. By using practical activities, it ensured the children were engaged throughout and also supported with retaining the names of the animals in french. They adapted really well when YouTube didn’t work and sang the song in french confidently. 

French Session 2  – Fasted paced and engaging. All the children felt confident and support to have a go. Good range of activities and teaching styles (varying of volume and intonation in practising phrases, moving in different areas of the classroom, splat). Well-presented and organised. Great use of visual and physical props, in particular, the clothes.  

All the photos are on Twitter @ShiphayAcademy”

It was rewarding to see our students from Churston team up with their international peers. It was a fantastic day whereby Churston students were proudly representing the school, doing it proud! They were supporting the community and helping develop a strong linguistic and cultural capital for younger learners.

Madame Bright 🙂

Once again the school supported this wonderful charity with a cake sale, taking place on Friday 27 September. Last year we raised almost £370 and this year we set a target of raising £400.  

Update

The final total amount raised was an incredible £622.32. A huge congratulations, to all staff and students for their excellent support of such a worthy cause.

Merci beaucoup for making this first workshop of the new academic year so much fun!

Layla, Elliott, Macie, Holly, Finlay, Fred, James, Ben, Rayaan, Lacey, Oliver, Samuel, were the proud representatives of Shiphay academy and enjoyed learning all about forest and sea animals in French!

Churston Ferrers Grammar School aims at forging strong links in the community. Enthusing children about language learning is our mission in the languages department; supporting French and Spanish with our local community is one of the ways that we can help our young people become great citizens of the world!

We have lovely pictures to share of the day, we are also on the Shiphay academy facebook page!

Madame Bright 🙂

An important part of this term’s work focused on learning about the organisation Peace One Day. Founded by Jeremy Gilley in 1999, Peace One Day worked with the UN to establish an international day of peace. This day, the 21st of September, was agreed on by all member states of the UN in 2001, though has yet to be truly realised. Since then, representatives of Peace One Day (such as Jude Law) have travelled around the world, negotiating short-term peace agreements between warring factions in countries such as Afghanistan, with the aim of allowing aid workers to reach those in need. Through this negotiation process, Peace One Day claims responsibility for a 70% reduction of violence in Afghanistan on Peace Day 2008. By 2010, 4.5 million children had been vaccinated thanks to charity workers being promised safe passage through conflict zones around the world. Peace One Day celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

It has been an interesting time in Philosophy and Ethics. This half term we are focusing on peace and conflict around the world. We began by considering what the word “peace” means for us. Students were able to discuss the word and its connotations, and from there engage in a meaningful debate as to whether peace was a possibility in the world or simply an abstract concept.

Although initially skeptical as to whether peace was a realistic goal for the worldwide community, students were interested in learning about the smaller-scale projects that produced measurable results. Students discussed the ability of small acts leading to meaningful change and will continue to discuss such issues throughout the term with our lessons on pacifism and civil disobedience. In response to their learning on Peace One Day, many students worked on producing posters to raise awareness of the day around the school. Our winning poster, by Hannah Gagg, has been displayed in tutor rooms, the sixth form centre, and outside the recently refurbished independent study centre in the Cube. For more information about Peace One Day, visit their website

In July Jaimee Luscombe (10T) attended the British Transplant Games in Newport and represented Bristol Children’s Hospital, Jaimee won a Gold medal in her 3km Cycling Time Trial and Bronze Medals in Ball Throw, Long Jump and Table Tennis. Following her results from last Years Games she has been selected to represent Team GB & NI in the World Transplant Games in Newcastle in August. Jaimee did extremely well winning a Gold Medal in her 5km Time Trial with a time of 14.08 mins in difficult weather conditions, Gold in Long Jump with her longest jump at 3.49m and a Gold Medal in Ball Throw. Congratulations Jaimee!

Tom Nuttall has returned from the World Age Group Underwater Hockey Championships with a Silver Medal!

The U19 GB team played 2 International matches a day for 6 days during the round robin stage of the competition, finishing 2nd in the league table. 

Then onto the knock-out stages and Team GB beat Canada comfortably to go on to face South Africa in the semi-finals. 

The team achieved a significant victory over South Africa. The game finished 5-4 after GB were 2 down at half time and Tom scored the decisive goal with only a minute to spare!

This then led to a final against the favourites New Zealand.  Despite fighting hard, Team GB were unable to beat the New Zealand side who had been dominant throughout the competition and Tom and the rest of the team brought home a Silver medal. 

A phenomenal experience for all competitors and supporters. 

Over the last few months year 8 students Maliha Khan, Nina Keen and India Wyman along with the Art department have been working during lunchtimes on this piece of art to be exhibited in the Paignton Zoo exhibition ‘Making The Right Choices’. This exhibition is about promoting the use of sustainable palm oil. Well done to India, Nina and Maliha for their outstanding commitment and brilliant painting skills and for coming 3rd in the Competition. The canvas will be on display in the indoor picnic area by the education center 22nd-30th August if you would like to see it.

Well done to our year 7 gardening club for producing some fantastic crops. At the beginning of the summer term each form in year 7 was given an empty bed in the school garden. All students filled their area with a variety of wonderful fruit and vegetables, which they then used to cook up some fabulous dishes.

Cooking In The School Canteen

Congratulations to the following students from Year 9D and 9C Food and Nutrition classes for winning ‘ The Food from Around the World Competition’ Rhianna Waller, Millie Feasey, Harry Morey, Isobel Brownen, Scarlett Shaw and Jess Mayoh. These students with the help of our chef Stephen Boxall and his team, had the chance to make their menu on a large scale in the school canteen and serve it to everyone.