New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village
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New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village
New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Principal: Mrs Jane Brown Associate Principal: Mrs Rose Angus Outstanding Progress for All Primary Newsletter Message from the Principal Well done to all of the young people who have visited us here at New College Leicester this term—you have been a pleasure to work with. We have been delighted to welcome young people of all ages to be part of our college and to use our fantastic facilities. From Gymnastics to Art; Maths to Science—they have done it all and have really enjoyed it. We are delighted to say that we will be full in Y7 in September—we have even been asked by the Local Authority if we could take some extra pupils as the demand for places here at New College Leicester has been so high. So we will be taking in 200 students in Year 7—20 more than our Admission number! We hope you have a lovely Summer break and we look forward to seeing you in New College Leicester again very soon. Working together is making a huge difference to all of our young Mrs J Brown – Principal people. We would like to wish all staff and pupils at our partner Primary Schools a... Contact Details New College Leicester Glenfield Road Leicester LE3 6DN Tel: 0116 231 8500 Fax: 0116 232 2286 Email: enquiries@newcollege.leicester.sch.uk Website: www.newcollege.leicester. sch.uk Twitter: @NewCollegeeics Volume 3, Issue 5 July 2015 New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village would like to wish you all a... Outstanding Progress for All New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All We are changing …… pass the on word!! Have you been to your Local Leisure Centre recently? We are busy putting the ‘Spring’ into our timetable over the coming weeks. Here is a small list of new and existing activities taking place very close to you. Free junior swimming sessions - Take place every Saturday morning from 9am to Midday. New swimming lesson courses on Sunday morning - New courses to cater exclusively for kids over 8 years of age. It’s another chance to learn to swim amongst your age group. New Aqua aerobics – exercise to music in water sessions on Tuesdays 7pm in the small pool and also in the large pool on Thursdays 8.30pm. These are fun group sessions and very popular with women. New Fitness classes - Also changing this summer is our fitness class timetable. We have weekly classes for Boot camp on Tuesdays 5.45pm. We are programming new Yoga classes to help you relax and stretch on a Thursday evening from 7pm. Come and check out our other classes too. Fitness Gym - We have extended the size of our fitness gym and you can now use free weights and dumb bells at the Centre. The equipment is spread out across two rooms giving more space for you to train and stretch. Artificial Pitch Football – Take advantage of our crazy summer pitch hire prices. Adults can hire the 3G pitch for as little as £16.50 an hour Come visit the Centre and ask for a tour. We also squash courts, meeting rooms, a bar and lounge for birthday parties and functions. We are changing………………… pass on the word. New Parks Leisure Centre St Oswalds Road, Leicester LE3 6RJ T. 0116 2333080 www.leicester.gov.uk/sports New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All Year 5 and 6 Dance Festival In March 2015, New College Leicester hosted a Year 5 and 6 Dance festival in partnership with Maria Bilson at ‘Go Active Now’. Students from Stokes Wood, Inglehurst Juniors, Dovelands and Abbey Primary School took part in the competition. With the support from Maria and the primary school teachers, students choreographed their own group dance which they performed at the festival. Students showed enthusiasm and respect throughout the competition, working in partnership with each other to share their own dance moves. The festival was a huge success with students thoroughly enjoying themselves. We look forward to hosting another dance festival with Maria in the new academic year. Year 1 and 2 Multiskills Festival In April 2015, Year 1 and 2 students came to New College Leicester for a Multi-Skills festival. Students from Stokes Wood, Braunstone Frith and Forest Lodge Primary School took part in the festival. The festival involved students developing basic motor skills such as co-ordination, throwing and catching. Year 9 student leaders from New College Leicester were a massive support, with the students demonstrating and encouraging the primary students every step of the way. Although the thought of coming to a secondary school was a little daunting for some of the students, they all enjoyed themselves, leaving with big smiles on their faces. New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All Year 5 Football Festival In May 2015, New College Leicester hosted a Year 5 Football festival in partnership with Leicester City Football Club. Girls and boys from Stokes Wood, Braunstone Frith, Parks and Forest Lodge Primary School took part in the festival. Coaches from LCFC worked with the pupils to develop their skills and put them into a game situation. Pupils showed great skills with several of them showing great potential in football. Success was celebrated with the winning team receiving medals and a sportsmanship and skills award being presented to two individuals. Although the weather was a little miserable, the pupils were fantastic, showing lots of enthusiasm. We look forward to working with Leicester City Football Club again in the near future. Year 5 Taster Day On Wednesday 17th June, Year 5 students from Stokes Wood, Parks, Inglehurst, Forest Lodge and Braunstone Frith Primary Schools took part in a taster day at New College Leicester. Students spent the day in various lessons around the school, getting a real feel for what life is like as a New College Leicester student. Students learnt to play the Djembe drums in music; paint in the style of Edvard Munch; discover why fireworks are different colours in Science; play cricket in PE; make a key fob in Design Technology; act out freeze frames in Drama; play Cluedo in French; and learn about tessellation in Maths. The students and staff had a fantastic day and all seem very excited about the opportunity to be a New College Leicester student when in Year 7. New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All Year 5 Cricket Festival On Tuesday 23rd June, students from Stokes Wood and Parks Primary came to New College Leicester for a Cricket Festival. The festival was ran in partnership with Leicestershire County Cricket Club. Specialist Cricket coaches delivered skill based sessions alongside a game. There were some fantastic hits, with students scoring lots of runs for their teams. Well done to all those who took part! Braunstone Frith Primary School’s Aspirations Week Pupils from Braunstone Frith Primary School came to New College Leicester during aspirations week (18th – 22nd May) to take part in a variety of activities. Pupils from all year groups experienced Trampolining, Freestyle Gymnastics, Catering, Music, Humanities, French, English, Science, Hairdressing, Maths and Computer Science. The pupils were absolutely fantastic, really embracing the different activities and showing an interest in the possible careers they could have. Inter-form Kwick-Cricket This terms inter-form PE competition has been Kwick-Cricket. Students competed for their tutor group at lunch times, aiming to get as many runs as they could. Students were fantastic, being respectful of one another and showing great team spirit. The Year 7s showed true reliance and commitment as for many of them it was their first experience of the game. The winning team was 7.4. In Year 8 there was a fantastic turnout with 8.6 winning the overall competition and 8.3 coming a close second. New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All Year 5 Gifted and Talented Day On Thursday 11th and 18th June pupils from five of our feeder primary schools (Parks, Stokes Wood, Dovelands, Inglehurst and Forest Lodge) visited New College Leicester for a day. Ten students from each of the schools were selected to attend the day due to their academic achievements and talents. pupils spent the day in English, Maths and Science with lessons that were challenging. The staff at New College Leicester were very impressed with the attitude and behaviour of the pupils and hope that they will teach them again in the future. As for the pupils, they had a fantastic day, learning lots and really enjoying being in a secondary school environment. Overall both days were a huge success which is hoped to be repeated again next year. Year 7 Girls Football The Year 7 Girls Football team qualified for the County Cup, following their victory in the City Schools league. They played against Uppingham Community College and should be congratulated on their excellent performance. They took the lead early on, with a great goal from Loren Easey. Uppingham pulled it back, despite New College Leicester’s strong defence with some excellent saves from Molly Newitt, leading to a final score of 2-2. The game went straight to penalties, where unfortunately the girls lost 7-8. Congratulations to Summer Fleck, Katja Jeffrey, Freya Jeffrey, Loren Easey, Lilly Whitby, Debora Reis, Molly-Rose Newitt, Katie Dixon and Chloe Dunn. New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All English achievements Author Josephine Feeney visited New College Leicester on World Book Day. She had a great time and praised our students as being lovely and enthusiastic. She later wrote a blog post about her time here saying she had “the most brilliant time in New College Leicester.” A small group of ten Year 7 students attended the Reading Rampage Awards Ceremony at the Leicester Tigers Ground on the 4th June. The event was a fantastic celebration of the Reading Rampage challenge where the students were able to meet some of the books’ authors and ask them questions. A special well done to Connie Neale-Reynolds who was our overall winner for New College Leicester as she has managed to read all the books in the challenge! On the 24th April, Devon lad Rich Cottell visited New College Leicester. Rich and his team have embarked on an Anti-Bullying three month school tour, which started in January 2015. The sessions were for our Year 7 and 8 students and were focused on promoting how to stay safe when using the internet and social media, and how cyberbullying can affect people’s lives. Rich Cottell is a musical artist, who delivered exceptional vocal performances of Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking out loud’ and ‘See you again’ by Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa. The students loved it and many got involved in singing along to them! Rich also played songs from his new album: ‘More than just a geek.’ Rich then gave a talk on cyberbullying. Our students were excellent throughout and really got involved in discussing the different ways in which cyberbullying can occur. New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All Year 7 Castle Competition As part of their investigations into power and control in the early medieval period, Year 7 were challenged to produce detailed, imaginative and historically accurate castles over their Easter holidays. Students were able to choose how to present their castle from four different mediums. They could bake a cake, design a poster, build a model or even create a castle in Minecraft! Prizes were available in all four categories and competition was fierce. There were a huge number of very high quality entries and Year 7 surpassed all expectations. The high quality of the work made the decision process extremely difficult; how could we pick the best when they were all so good? However, in the end and after many long and difficult discussions, Humanities staff, along with valuable assistance from last year’s winner Kieran Hood, the following prizes were awarded: Model category: Minecraft category: 1. Katie Dixon 1. Raunak Soman 2. Paige Kernick 2. Hubert Biela 3. Alex Chapman 3. Tommy Smith Cake category: Poster category: 1. Juwairiyyah Abowath 1. Caitlin Locke 2. Conniw Neale-Reynolds 2. Sian Kelb 3. Nadine Rewcastle 3. Jason Carrington Overall winners: 1. Raunak Soman 2. Katie Dixon 3. Juwairiyyah Abowath The Humanities Faculty are extremely proud of each and every entry. We would like to heartily congratulate the winners and all participants. Everyone who entered will receive a certificate. We can’t wait for next year! New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All Fun Activities Match the syllables to make 18 different words that make you think of SUMMER. Each word is two syllables. The first one is done for you! Help the ladybird find her way out! Answers to Matching Pairs… 1. Playground 2. Grilling 3. Baseball 4. Sandals 5. Kayak 6. Outdoors 7. Sunny 8. Bluebird 9. Picnic 10. Explore 11. Hammock 12. Campfire 13. Sailboat 14. Nature 15. Candy 16. Flowers 17. Drive-ins 18. Arcade New College Leicester Learning and Sports Village Outstanding Progress for All Fun Activities Put these words in the crossword grid! 4 LETTERS: Boat Pool 5 LETTERS: Beach 6 LETTERS: Summer 7 LETTERS: Flowers 8 LETTERS: Ice cream Sunshine Bare feet Swimming Umbrella Lemonade 9 LETTERS: Flip flops Sunscreen 10 LETTERS: Watermelon 11 LETTERS: Strawberries Can you help them find the beach? Baseball Bike Frisbee Picnic Shorts Bored Skates Hot Sodas Camp Movies Swimming Parks Beach Lake Vacation Fishing Lemonade New College Leicester’s brand new Café is now open! Our BRAND NEW fully operational coffee shop is now open in the evenings as an additional service for ALL of our valued customers. It is open to all of our local community, so anyone is free to pop along and have a quality beverage or light snack. We have a selection of homemade cakes on a daily basis. Millionaire’s Shortbread, Carrot Cake and Bakewell Tart are all proving to be very popular. Other cakes are available—why not pop in and see which is your favourite. We are open from 3.00 pm onwards Monday—Friday and Saturday and Sunday are dependent on events. At reception you will find our new Community Receptionist ready to welcome you to New College Leicester and our facilities! We look forward to continuing to provide you with an outstanding service and hopefully you are starting to see the benefits of that. However if there is anything that you feel that we could be doing better then please do not hesitate to contact the college. New College Leicester, Glenfield Road, Leicester, LE3 6DN Telephone: 0116 231 8500 Facsimile: 0116 232 2286 Email: enquiries@newcollege.leicester.sch.uk Website: www.newcollege.leicester.sch.uk