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STANDING OUT THE MAGAZINE FOR MOUNTS BAY ACADEMY - Cover: Sports Day 2021
STANDING OUT
THE MAGAZINE FOR MOUNTS BAY ACADEMY

                                                                         Cover: Sports Day 2021

    CHAMAELEON   DELPHINUS   DRACO   PAVO   PEGASUS   PHOENIX   TUCANA

                                                                                              2nd July 2021
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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

                                                                Life Is A Rollercoaster
Phew, the last seven days have been a rollercoaster of mixed emotions.

The week started full of promise, especially if you are a sports fan. Many of our current
students have parents and family members who have attended over the years, so like me
they might have been looking forward to seeing two of our sporting Alumni performing
for Exeter Chiefs against the Harlequins in the premiership final on Saturday. It was a
thrilling match but in the end we weren’t left celebrating despite strong performances
from both of our boys.
Tuesday was a much better day. The sun shone and we had an amazing
Sports Day. Many of my colleagues and members of our upper school
commented that it was almost like being “back to normal”. The sense of
strenuous good humoured competition throughout the day was palpable.
The smiles on the faces of all involved confirmed that we were right to
hold the event, despite all of the additional work required by our whole
team to make it happen in the most Covid Secure way. If you haven’t
seen images of the day already, take a look at Mr Jones’ excellent video
on our website here:
http://mountsbay.org/sports-day-2021
Of course Tuesday also allowed the whole country to put the last 18 months behind us
for just over 90 minutes whilst we watched our England football team progress to the
next round of the Euro’s by beating our old nemesis, Germany. Those of you that know
me well will have been able to imagine the satisfaction I felt watching my fellow
Yorkshireman, Kalvin Philips, command our midfield. Bring on Ukraine tomorrow!

Sadly, Wednesday presented us with the challenge of having to isolate some students
and some colleagues for 10 days as a result of the government guidance on the
definitions of a “close contact” to a positive lateral flow test. You will be pleased to
know that those isolating have once again seamlessly switched back to attending our
“virtual school” until they can return.

I understand that this has highlighted the rise in cases in the area, with many of you
feeling worried about what this means to attendance. We are committed to keeping the
Academy open to all of our students as we know that their mental wellbeing is at least
as important as their intellectual progress. As such we will continue to follow our policy
of keeping things as close to “normal” as we can and mitigate any risks through
rigorous use of face coverings when moving around combined with effective sanitising
and cleaning. Remember if you have any concerns, all of my colleagues stand ready to
talk to you.

Oh and did I mention we are playing Ukraine on Saturday? Have a great weekend!

Best wishes

Les Hall Academy Principal
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A WORD FROM MR ROYLE

            Happy Friday to you all!

Now that we have calmed down a little after a Tuesday full of
sport - congratulations to Chamaeleon House for their sporting
prowess and also to the England team who produced a
performance to get them through to the next round tomorrow
night.

Wednesday was a day and a half! Many thanks to all students, members of staff and
parents/carers who dealt so positively (maybe not the best word to use?) with the Covid
situation. The decision to send so many students to isolate was not ours - we are advised
by Public Health England and must follow their advice, whether we agree or not. We want
a school that is full of young people and staff who are happy and healthy and enjoying
stimulating and challenging lessons, but we have to be safe and follow the guidance given
by Department for Education and others. Many thanks to all of those parents and carers
with whom we spoke and tried to answer your questions. Thank you for your patience
and understanding - lovely to see and hear that the #BeKind message is being followed
by most of our Academy families. We are thinking of all of those Year 10s who will by now
be on day three of ten of their isolation. Stay strong and keep to the isolation rules in
order to protect all of us and our families from Covid. We understand that frustration,
particularly when the sun is out.

Buses remain a bit of a challenge this week - please can we ask all passengers to wear a
face mask and to carry a valid bus pass or to pay the correct fair. Drivers from all
operating companies have complained about students trying to board the vehicles
without bus passes.
                                        If you forget your bus pass, which we all do on
                                        occasion, then the school can issue a temporary
                       demy
        Mounts Bay Aca                  pass which will last for seven days (five school
                                        days). During this time, students and their
                                        families need to contact the provider of the bus
                                        pass - might be Cornwall Council, might be
                                        Mounts Bay Academy and get a replacement.
                                        The drivers have stated that they are going to
                                        refuse travel to students who regularly fail to
                                        wear a face covering or do not have a valid bus
                                        pass. Unfortunately, the regulations concerning
                                        Covid and passenger vehicles are not decided
                                        by us, and so we have to accept that all students
                                        must wear a face mask (unless they are
                                        medically exempt) and they need to carry a valid
                                        bus pass for that route.
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A WORD FROM MR ROYLE

The Social Development Team had a good meeting on Monday and in response to some
parental comments concerning behaviour points. We are going to make a change:

Currently, parents receive details of some behaviour points
but not the reasons behind them and so naturally those
parents wanting to know more contact the Academy for
further details. However, we have found a way to share all
behaviour points with parents via the Edulink app and can
include the teacher comments giving the reasons for the M
code. We hope that this will save the frustration of
parents/carers knowing that something has happened at
school but not having enough detail to have a further
conversation with the student about this. This includes M
codes issued for uniform infringements, mobile phone
confiscations and lessons for which the learner is not ready -
no pen, no iPad, no book etc. This allows parents/carers to get
a more complete picture of where things are not quite working at the Academy.

We will of course continue to publish achievement points in the usual way and I am
delighted to let you know that there were 3739 achievement points awarded during the
week of 19th June compared to 934 behaviour points. I am sure that I talk on behalf of
all of the staff when we say that we love giving out achievement points and I hope that
you enjoy receiving details of them.

Enjoy your weekend - the highlight is obvious! I remember
Shevchenko from his Chelsea days. However, don’t go counting
chickens - no such thing as a dead cert in football these days!

Enjoy the game and #BeKind

Best wishes,

Mr S Royle
Vice Principal
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BE INSPIRED

                                                                 Maggot Sports Day

Maggots had their own Sports Day this week. Year 7 science students investigated if House
colour made a difference to their speed. By measuring how far the maggots travel in a
minute students were able to calculate their speed. Thanks to Mr Hoyle for obtaining the
maggots and ensuring they were in peak condition for their races!

                                                                      Report by: Miss Page
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BE COMPETITIVE

                                                     Sports Day 2021

    Click here to see film and pictures of the day
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BE COMPETITIVE

                                                      Sports Day 2021

                RESULTS:
         Chamaeleon 596
         Draco        595
         Tucana       588
         Phoenix      573
         Pavo         565
         Delphinus    553
         Pegasus      496

     Click here to see film and pictures of the day
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BE CURIOUS

                                      Year 7 Drama Club

             Students used the park bench exercise to trial
             a variety of characters at Drama Club. I was
             blown away by the range of different accents
             that came out of one small group.

             We also sorted through the costume cupboard
             and it was impossible for them not to all
             experience a Disney princess moment!

                                    Report by: Mr Dowrick
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BE ADVENTUROUS

               Ludgvan Visit

Ludgvan Year 5 attended MBA for an Olympic sporting experience. They took part in
activities that challenged them. These included both climbing and cycling (BMX),
extreme sports that will feature in the upcoming Olympics with climbing being a new
addition to the 2021 Games.

By engaging in new activities the school are hoping to inspire students and showcase sports
available in the local community. It is a great way to reinvigorate passion, engagement, and
connection to sport.

The students were outstanding throughout the day. They put in loads of effort and really
embraced the new activities. They enjoyed the fun cycling relay slalom and the new BMX
pump track.

A big thank you to the school for bringing the children and for the MBA staff for creating a
fantastic event.

                                                                          Report by: Mr Eddy
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BE
 CREATIVE
               BE CREATIVE

              Year 11 GCSE Graphics

Year 11 may be a now left MBA but its never too late to celebrate some of their successes!
Similarly to Year 9, Year 11 presented their final outcomes as a collection. Students worked
across a range of concepts and mediums including branding, logo design and advertising.
Some students were able to include their own ceramics to complement the project.

                                                                          Report by: Mrs Dale
BE
  CREATIVE
                BE CREATIVE

                                                                      Tate St Ives Project
The Year 9 Art, Graphics, and Photography GCSE Fastrack groups are now in week three of a
five week project in conjunction with the Tate Gallery and are working on a collaborative project
based on the theme of climate change.

The project involves just over 100 students that are working on a range of group and
individual outcomes in different mediums that will culminate into an exhibition at Tate St Ives
from 1st September 2021. This is a huge opportunity for us to be able to exhibit in a world-
class gallery. The pieces on show will be a shortlisted selection of ceramics, textiles,
animation, art and the main centrepiece of a four piece sculptural installation, placed in the
‘Meadow' here at the Academy.

                                          Report by: Mrs Dale
BE
 CREATIVE
              BE CREATIVE

                                                                  Tate St Ives Project

We have been working alongside the artist Greg Humphries, the Tate Gallery learning curator
Rachel Woodhead and other facilitators from the Tate to give students a breadth of
experience and an opportunity to work with professionals in their field.

This week, we are midway in the project and making good progress with creating outcomes.
Have a look at the breadth of skills we can offer our students!

                   Report by: Mrs Dale
BE
CREATIVE
           BE CREATIVE

                         Tate St Ives Project

                            Report by: Mrs Dale
BE
  CREATIVE
                BE CREATIVE

                                                       Year 10 Hospitality and Catering

Year 10 students faced an ingredient challenge this week. They were presented with a few
ingredients and asked to come up with an idea for a dish which they then had to
cook. They quickly started thinking on their feet and sprung into action. This was a chance
for them to also think about presentation. The end results were fantastic. Well done!

                                                                     Report by: Miss Osborne
BE
 CREATIVE
               BE CREATIVE

                                                             Year 9 Fast Track Catering
Today in our triple lessons we split into our mini teams, front of house and the chef team, in
order to start preparation for our pop-up restaurant, which is opening for a short period of
time on Monday 5th of July.

As you can see the front of house team are learning how to set up the restaurant in its
design, and are making decorations for it. They laid tables, and had a go at serving
customers.

The food team focussed on flavour, and making sure the dishes were presented well. The
menu looks great, and the students are really working hard. Look out in next week’s
newsletter for an update on the actual event.

                            Report by: Miss Osborne
BE
CREATIVE
           BE CREATIVE

                            Year 7 and 8 Dance

                         The Year 7 and 8 students have
                         been making the most of the
                         weather in Dance in their Creative
                         Industries lessons. They have been
                         developing some of their own
                         choreography in small groups by
                         applying dynamic contrast to their
                         movement phrases. It has been
                         lovely to be working out in the
                         sunshine!

                             Report by: Mrs Taylor-Hingston
BE COMPETITIVE

                                                            County Runners Up

Well done to the Year 7 Girls who
represented MBA in the Cornwall County
Cup Final. We faced a strong Pool side at
Penryn College. The team gave their all
in the heat and managed to work
together to stop Pool’s consistent
attacks. The team embraced full squad
rotation, listened to coaching points and
adapted their game. Whilst Pool took the
win, the team should be proud of their
performance, what they learned and the
future ahead of them. Well done to all
players. Teacher’s player: Harlyn S.

                 Squad:

                 Matilda Eleanor B          Rosie S
                 Hattie R (Vice-Captain)    Harlyn S
                 Layla R (Captain)          Maia C
                 Ruby E                     Darcey H
                 Keeley B                   Clea S
                 Merryn N                   Emily C
                 Nina C

                                                       Report by: Miss Tattersall
BE COMPETITIVE

                                                                         Rugby Action
Nine Year 7 students from Mounts Bay Academy represented Penzance and Newlyn
U12s at the Land Rover Cup at Crediton RFC recently. They won three out of their four
games against Ivybridge RFC and Topsham RFC playing touch rugby. Their play
improved as the games progressed.

 Team: Dan A, George J, Fletcher M, Harry F, Ferdi S, Louie M, Aaron H, Harrison C and
 Perran M.

                                                                    Report by: Mrs James
BE ENVIRONMENTAL

                                    Speaking for the World at the Detox festival

The DeTox Festival was a massive success at MBA and really made people think twice about
what we where doing to help our school to become more eco friendly and at one with nature.
During the festival we had a number of events including drama, dance, music and speeches.
Maya and Cephia from 7 Tucana and Theo from 9 Phoenix wrote and presented speeches to
the parents and students during the festival. Enid introduced the speeches and helped run the
DeTox Festival. It has been an absolute pleasure for the Eco Teams to have Enid in their
group. She has contributed so much towards DeTox, and we all want to say thank you for the

“
help and cooperation and well done.

      Maya from 07 Tucana writes:

      “Doing speeches at the DeTox Festival was really fun. I hope it really inspired
      people to make a change in their lives and realise what is happening and knowing

                                                                                      ”
      that they can change and help save our world.”

                                               “   Cephia from 07 Tucana writes:

                                                   “I felt an impulse to say something to
                                                   everyone and when I heard that we
                                                   where doing speeches for the DeTox
                                                   Festival I put myself out there. People
                                                   really need to know that the world is
                                                   changing. Most of the time it seems to
                                                   me that they don’t care. They are wrong.
                                                   I wanted to put my voice out there as
                                                   one of the children of the world and tell
                                                   them what is really happening. So much
                                                   is going on with our home planet and
                                                   the fact they are ignoring the earth’s
                                                   plea for help makes me so heartbroken.
                                                   It makes me feel as though they don’t
                                                   care about our generation. I wanted to
                                                   show them that I know what is
                                                   happening and they must know about it
                                                   too otherwise our generation and the
                                                   thousands to come will be in danger.”

                                                                                      ”
                                                                   Report by: The Eco Team
YEAR
                 This Week’s House Points Totals

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Miss Veall’s Message:
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REMEMBER

               Solomon Browne Memorial

This year is the 40th Anniversary when on December 19th 1981 the
Solomon Browne lifeboat was lost with all her eight crew along with the
five crew and three passengers of the coaster Union Star.

The MV Union Star was launched in Ringkøbing in Denmark just a few days
earlier. A mini-bulk carrier registered in Dublin, Ireland, it sailed to IJmuiden
in the Netherlands to collect a cargo of fertiliser for its maiden voyage to
Arklow in Ireland. It was carrying a crew of five: Captain Henry Morton,
Mate James Whittaker, Engineer George Sedgwick, Crewman Anghostino
Verressimo, and Crewman Manuel Lopes. Also on board were the captain's
family (his wife Dawn with teenage stepdaughters Sharon and Deanne)
who had been picked up at Brightlingsea in Essex.

Near the south coast of Cornwall, 8 miles (13 km) east of the Wolf Rock,
the new ship's engines failed. The crew was unable to restart them but did
not make a mayday call. Assistance was offered by a tug, the Noord
Holland, under the Lloyd's Open Form salvage contract but Morton initially
refused the offer, later accepting after consulting his owners. Winds were
gusting at up to 90 knots (100 mph; 170 km/h) – hurricane, Force 12 on the
Beaufort scale – with waves up to 60 feet (18 m) high. In these extreme
weather conditions the powerless ship was blown across Mounts Bay
towards the rocks of Boscawen Cove, near Lamorna….

A request to launch the lifeboat was made by the Union Star and the
Penlee crew assembled at the Lifeboat station; Coxswain Trevelyan
Richards and 7 other crewmembers prepared themselves and the Solomon
Browne for launch... John Blewett, Nigel Brockman, Charlie Greenhaugh,
Stephen Madron, Kevin Smith, Barry Torrie and Gary Wallis.

At 8pm on the the 19 December 1981 the Solomon Browne lifeboat
launched and met 15m waves and hurricane-force winds as she battled
towards the Union Star coaster. By now neither the Navy helicopter nor
the tug that had also come to her aid was able to get close enough in such
conditions. Reaching the scene at around 8.45pm, Coxswain Trevelyan
Richards and his brave crew made repeated attempts to get alongside and
take people off the Union Star. Once, the lifeboat was thrown on top of the
coaster only to slide off into the next towering wave.

The helicopter crew could see that the lifeboat crew had some survivors
aboard but that there were two people still on the coaster and one, if not
two, in the water. Then, moments later, at 9.21pm, they heard over the
radio:

- Falmouth Coastguard, this is Penlee lifeboat, Penlee lifeboat calling
Falmouth Coastguard.
- Falmouth Coastguard, Penlee lifeboat, go.
- We got four men off... look, er hang on... we got four off at the moment,
  er... male and female. There's two left onboard…

                                                                             Report by: Mrs Astley
REMEMBER

                 Solomon Browne Memorial

The message ended abruptly but Lt Cdr Russell Smith, at the controls of the
helicopter, could see the lifeboat, still apparently under control and heading
out to sea. He took this as his cue finally to lift his aircraft out of the
dangerous area where she had been hovering for so long and head back to
Culdrose. He had assumed the lifeboat had made the same decision to turn
for home.

At this point, there was only one other witness left: the tug Noord Holland
standing off, about a mile out to sea. Her skipper, Guy Burman listening to
the vain attempts by the Coastguard to regain radio contact with the
lifeboat, could see Union Star, the casualty vessel, right up close to the cliff
and, intermittently, the lights of the lifeboat. His last view of the lifeboat was
when she appeared high on the crest of a wave, silhouetted against the
coaster's lights. Minutes later, the ship suddenly went dark: possibly the
moment she was at last tumbled over at the foot of the cliffs.

By the time cliff rescue teams arrived at the scene, the Union Star was
already wrecked at the foot of the cliffs and there was no sign of the
lifeboat. When she was eventually found, the wreckage gave no real clues
as to what happened other than that she was ultimately subjected to the
most shattering and violent force imaginable. The largest portion of the
lifeboat, including the heavy engine compartment, was found 300m to the
east of the Union Star, which suggests she met her fate here.

...bravery beyond belief.

  With the 40th anniversary this year the
  families of those who lost their lives on the
  19th December 1981 are working with the
  National Trust to place a large beautifully
  carved granite memorial in a meadow
  alongside the coast path directly above
  where the disaster took place.

  Can you help the families of the crew of
  both boats raise £26000 to build a
  sculpted granite memorial to honour the
  Solomon Browne and Union Star crew and
  passengers who lost their lives.? Please
  donate to their JustGiving Crowdfunding
  Page:

  https://www.justgiving.com/
  crowdfunding/jo-payne?
  utm_id=2&utm_term=39wJnx2Kg

                                                                              Report by: Mrs Astley
A number of our colleagues are planning to do some fundraising, to help get Paul, a service
veteran paralysed in a freak accident in 2019, back home. Without your help Paul faces a
future permanently isolated from his family, his home and his life. You can change that.

On 20th November 2019 Paul experienced an extremely traumatic life changing accident
while windsurfing. It resulted in a severe spinal cord injury. Initially Paul was in hospital in
Derriford and then Salisbury and for the past 12 months, while back in Cornwall, he and his
wife have been unable to meet due to the Pandemic, in fact, she has seen Paul for just six
hours in 15 months!

Due to his spinal injury being incomplete it will take a very long time, years rather than
months, for Paul to experience any recovery. There is a lot of equipment and physiotherapy
Paul will need and if we can help towards this in any way, it would be fantastic.

We would like to help with the costs of getting the house adapted so Paul can return home.
We would also like to help pay for physiotherapy sessions at a hydrotherapy pool as Kate
knows that hydrotherapy will be a massive help for Paul.

         The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity have set up a JustGiving page here:

                                                               “letsgetpaulmorrishome”.

                                                                Here is our progress so far:

We will each be completing miles (some
walking others cycling, running, climbing,
swimming, kayaking, surfing and others just
counting their steps etc), to completely travel
the coast of the UK (12,429km/7723miles). We
started over the Easter holidays.

Each week we will let you know our
accumulated distance and ask that you either
sponsor us per mile or give a general donation.

                                                                       Report by: Miss Dowrick
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Fun activities for everyone varying from circus skills to beach
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                   YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE WEEK

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              Wednesday 21st JULY
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