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Cedar Mount Academy’s Weekly Bulletin Half Term 3 Hard Work
Respect
Aspiration
2017 Well done to Johnzaib (8-2) for achieving 100% in December. The bike looks amazing! Turn over to read more… CEDAR MOUNT ACADEMY, GORTON EDUCATION VILLAGE, 50 WEMBLEY ROAD, GORTON, MANCHESTER M18 7DT
Points of Interest Principal’s Message Welcome back and Happy New Year to all students, parents and staff. We hope that you had a restful and enjoyable Christmas break. It was great to end the term with a whole school assembly, showcasing student talents and rewarding attendance. There is a lot to look forward to in the Spring Term with trips, sports events, and residential visits and much more as well as the usual excellent teaching and learning that goes on every day. We have moved to our new single lunch hour with a range of activities and clubs for all students and this has gone very well so far. We are delighted to be working with City Year, a charitable organisation who have placed a team of 7 18-25 years old with us for the rest of the academic year. They will mentor students, running clubs and supporting behaviour across an academy day. I look forward to seeing you at a school event soon.
Attendance Award and Whole School Assembly Huge congratulations to Johnzaib
(8-2) who
won the attendance award for 100% attendance throughout December! Well done to all the other students who managed to grab an attendance award too! A special mention to those students who performed in the whole school assembly, you set a very high standard for CMA students and should be very proud of yourselves. Excellent entertainment!
Attendance Breakfast Message from Attendance Team; The following registration groups had the highest attendance for the last half term so will receive a breakfast. Please note we have had to allocate each year a specific date due to room booking constraints. The room is booked for 08:45 to 09:30. Year 7 winners are 7-4 with 97.11% Breakfast will be in the conference room on Tuesday 17th January. Year 8 winners are 8-6 with 97.38% Breakfast will be in the conference room on Wednesday 18th January. Year 9 winners are 9-2 with 95.52% Breakfast will be in the conference room on Thursday 19th January. Year 10 winners are 10-2 with 95.14% Breakfast will be in the conference room on Monday 23rd January. Year 11 winners are 11-3 with 95.11% Breakfast will be in the conference room on Wednesday 25th January.
Helping the Community Message from MPR and NCO; MPR- I received a message from Rev David Gray re our donation to the Coffee4Craig Charity (based in Levenshulme) for the grab bags on 22nd December. It read “Thanks for your support for Coffee4Craig in the run up to Christmas. Much appreciated”. I also had a call from the lady from Coffee4Craig, thanking us for our very kind and much appreciated donation to them. NCO- We fed over 100 homeless people on the last day of term with grab bags full of sandwiches, biscuits and drinks with the help of Mad Dogs Homeless charity in Chorlton. They also tweeted us…
Big thanks @CedarMountHigh 4 the food bags on behalf of @Coffee4Craig @MadDogsHomeles will distribute to Mcr's homeless 2night #bigchangemcr
What’s on in Manchester?
24 Hour Jamathon Follow Up Message from ZPA;
Thanks to everyone’s support on the CMA 24 Hour Jamathon last term, we had our delivery of instruments and music resources this week. Photos below show what our crowdfunding money has gone towards. On behalf of all the students that use this department on a regular basis and everyone who donated money to support us, thank you. You really have made an impact here at CMA.
Maths News Message from SME; Year 7 pupils no longer have an excuse for arriving late to school in the mornings after they spent their maths lessons in the last week of term making clocks to take home for Christmas. Before any designing and building of the clock could start, the pupils had to create their own calculations for each of the numbers on the clock face and it was a pleasure to see the pupils trying to make their sums as challenging as possible. Mr Mellen was invited to choose the best clock from each class and congratulations go to Mario, Aneesa, Ehtasham and Maria for making the final five. However, the overall winner was Antonica for her complex calculations alongside a brilliant design.
Well done!
An Inspector Calls Message from CWY; A dark 7.30am on Wednesday 21st December saw a gaggle of excited travellers gathering in the bistro – and that was just the staff! Miss Reid, Miss Heagney, Miss Scholes, Miss Losztyn, Mr Dillon, Miss Crockford and Miss Wyatt were soon joined by some 70 or so equally eager students and everyone was looking forward to the journey down to London to attend a performance of ‘An Inspector Calls’ at the Playhouse Theatre. After a boisterous entry on to the coach followed by several counting of heads, the coach set off to much cheering around 8:15 for the long drive. Only a few shouts of ‘Are we there yet?’ could be heard as we made our final approach to the outskirts of London and everyone peered through the windows to catch their first glimpse of a familiar London landmark. Tracking right through the middle of Trafalgar Square, giving us a fantastic view of Nelson’s Column and his guarding lions, the coach finally pulled up at the entrance to the theatre just after 1:30. Tickets presented, seats were found and we all waited for curtain up – and wasn’t it worth waiting for! A brilliant performance from a superb cast brought the play to life and the students were treated to a stunning adaptation of the play they had studied so intensely in their lessons. Students enthusiastically expressed how much they had enjoyed it and that it had helped them understand it more clearly. Despite many requests to do some ‘touristy things’ and ‘Christmas sightseeing and shopping’ after the performance, we unfortunately had to get back on board the coach for the drive back to school. As we journeyed through the dark, the singing and loud chatting gradually lessened as students gave in to their tiredness and some fell asleep. Arriving at the gates just after 11pm, it had been a long day but definitely one to remember.
A good day for everyone.
City Pathways challenge4challenge Trip Message from Mr Milligan; On Thursday 22nd December students in involved in the city pathways program were invited on a trip to an indoor climbing centre. Students were split into teams to complete a series of tasks in which they had to stay off the floor. All students enjoyed this even though some were a little unsure about being at height, climbing and balancing above the ground. Well done to all involved;
TAFARA NECO KEMAR DAVID JAYDEN ALEX LUKE ADE BENAMIN JAMES JOE MATEJ RAMIKKA SHELEIGH
City Year UK Message from Miss Walsh; I’m Miss Walsh, the Impact Officer for City Year UK who are now working here at Cedar Mount Academy. I line manage Team Unity, my lovely team of 6 volunteers. I will be working closely with CMA staff to ensure we provide the best possible service. City Year is a youth social action charity which challenges young people to tackle educational inequality, through a year of full time voluntary service. My lovely team of 6 are volunteering full time until July. Myself and the team will be working on whole school initiatives, including supporting with Breakfast time, Lunch duties, afterschool clubs and anything else that’s going on. In addition to this, the volunteers work closely with around 60 focus list students who have been identified by staff as requiring additional support with attendance, behaviour, curriculum; or any combination of the three. We are here to serve. Serve the students and the whole community here at the academy. We will be supporting and underpinning all behaviour strategies that are in place. We are grateful to have been welcomed so quickly into the academy and just want to get stuck in! We can’t be missed in our bright red jackets – so please do say hello. We look forward to getting involved in all aspects of academy life in the coming months.
This week’s City Year Profile is… Name: Miss Walsh Age: 24 How long have you worked for City Year? Since December 2016 What is the best thing about working for City Year? The culture – everyone is genuinely very happy and caring. If you could be a character in a Disney film who would you be and why? I would be Mulan because she is independent and determined. What’s your favourite subject? Law – I studied it at University and taught it at A Level. What are you looking forward to implementing at CMA? I am particularly looking forward to implementing our culture, especially the idea of the ‘growth mindset’. Ability is not fixed; everyone can be brilliant it just takes an open mind, self-belief and effort.
CMA Top Achievers!
Well done to the following students for gaining the highest amount of Cedar Points this week! Year 7 Achievement Points Syed 16 Manha 12 Manjot 11 Mohammad 10 Zaeem 10 Awaisul 10 Kacper 10
Year 8 Achievement Points Shafayet 19 Luis 13 Abdullah 12 Romil 12 Shahzad 12 Kashif 12
Year 9 Achievement Points
Aya 15 Malik 12 Mollie 12 Yen Nhi 12 Mia 11
Year 10 Achievement Points Hamza 13 Abdullah 12 Hussain 11 Aaminah 10 Numo 10 Joha 10 Samer 10 Kulsom 10
Year 11 Achievement Points
Subhan 13 Sulaman 11 Hasan 11 Damian 10 Lacey 10 Elina 10
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What’s on @ CMA This week’s events Monday 9th January Extended SLT Meeting Tuesday 10th January CPD- Twilight Wednesday 11th January ALT
CMA Attendance for week commencing 19th December- 90.11% Values Hard Work Respect Aspiration
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!
