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LOOKING GOOD:OUR SMART NEWUNIFORM ON SHOW

Beth Proctor and Brandon Joe wereamong the students chosen to modelthe new-look Haywood Academyschool uniform.

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STUDENTS from Haywood Academy and its partner primary schools supported theRobbie Williams Fanfest in Burslem towncentre.

On Saturday 8 February they joined localartists, musicians, market stallholders andbusinesses to celebrate Robbie’s 40thbirthday.

Haywood Academy orchestra performed amedley of Robbie’s hits on the steps of theSchool of Art. Despite the bitter cold theirperformance was amazing and they receivedexcellent feedback from the audience.

Other students took part by baking anddecorating cakes and decorating pottery

itemsdonated bySteelite.These were thenshowcased andjudged by Robbie’s’ step-mum, Melanie Williams.

The event was staged to raise money forthe Donna Louise Trust – of which Robbie isthe patron – and more than £15,000 wascollected. Well done to all who took part.■ Pictured above are some of theHaywood students who took part in theFanfest and, inset, Robbie himself.

Students help to raisecash at Robbie Fanfest

Young dancers brought toys to life

YOUNG dancers from Haywood Academywere invited to perform in the annualStoke School Sport Partnerships DanceExtravaganza staged at Hanley’s VictoriaHall at the end of March.

The event included primary schools,secondary schools, academies andcolleges from across Stoke-on-Trent who were asked to demonstrate their

interpretation of ‘A Day In The Life Of…’stories through the medium of dance andmovement.

Our piece explored the theme of toysand demonstrated what we thought toyswould do if they could come to life.

The students represented the schoolreally well, closing the show as the finalperformance.

YEAR 9 student Nicole Winley won a competition organised by the IntuPotteries shopping centre to design anddecorate a life-sized baby elephant.

The design was called mirror, with thearea above the central line representing ahealthy city and environment, whilereflected below were damaged buildingsand decay, showing what could happen ifwe fail to look after our planet.

Helped by her friends – including LydiaClowes and Rebecca Pennell – Nicole hadto draw her winning design onto a 3-Dmodel and paint it.

The parade took place from Monday 10 March to Sunday 6 April, with 18elephants decorated by celebrities ondisplay in the shopping centre, alongsideNicole’s design.

More than 500,000 visitors saw theexhibition which aimed to raise funds and awareness for the Asian elephantfoundation. Nicole’s elephant will also be going to London for a winners’photoshoot.

Our pictures show Nicole painting herdesign, above, while below is the finishedelephant.

Nicole’s babyelephant makesit Intu a shoppingcentre parade

Firms help our young engineers

BEN Berrisford who works for Knights BMW astheir Product Genius, paid a visit to HaywoodAcademy in January.

Ben – whose job is to research and testevery BMW car – came in to work with ourYear 10 Greenpower Engineers.

Ben arranged for the students to be test-driven in a brand new BMW I3 Electric Car and helped them to analyse the vehicle to pick up engineering ideas for Haywood'sGreenpower Electric Vehicle.

Students also had the chance to quiz Ben in a Q&A engineering session after school.

KMF Engineering also visitedHaywood this term.

Jenny Conlon from KMF camein with two apprentices to workwith Year 11 Product DesignStudents on their controlledassessment.

Students had the products theyhad made tested by the visitors andwere given valuable feedback about thecommercial potential of their ideas.

Our students then recorded thisinformation to evaluate their 3D work.

ALL our Year 8 and some Year10 students went to the BigBang Fair at the NEC inBirmingham in March.

The aim was to encouragethem to study STEM subjectsat GCSE.

The day was very enjoyableand the students saw lots ofnew technologies andsciences at the show.

Some took part inchocolate welding andlearnt about air pressure and pneumatics, while othershad the chance to see the1,000 mph land speed recordBloodhound car.

Shane Grocott reached forthe stars when he chattedwith NASA engineers and gotto meet Space Shuttle pilotCaptain Jon McBride.

NEC tripwent witha Big Bang

Haywood students outside the Academy with the BMW 13 Electric Carand, right, members of the KMF team who visited the school.

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IN February Keele Universitycame into school to make someof our Y7s aware of alternativeand renewable energy.

Their challenge was to makea solar powered car fromrecycled materials.

They then had to charge theirsolar powered cars using desklamps and race them to seewhich was fastest.

Two of the primary schoolstudents who took part in thechallenge are pictured above.

FOUR months of hard workconsulting students andstaff over plans for a new

Haywood Academy schooluniform have finally paid off asdesigns for the smart new look – planned for introduction inSeptember – are at last unveiled.

Primarily in navy blue – withdetails picked out in royal blue – thenew-look uniform consists of jacket,trousers, a white shirt and blackshoes for the boys, while the girlswill wear a jacket with a pleatedskirt or trousers, white shirt, blackshoes and black tights.

Both sexes will wear clip-on royalblue ties with a coloured stripeidentifying each house, whileoptional items include a royal blueV-neck jumper, a HaywoodAcademy navy tunic for the girlsand a Haywood Academyheadscarf. The new designs alsoinclude PE kit.

Work on deciding what the newuniforms should look like began wayback in November last year when aUniform Working Party – consistingof Mrs Sellman (parent),

Mrs Chadwick, Miss Hughes, MrsBrailsford and Mrs Yates togetherwith Year 9 students Dean Watkin,Rahbar Zahman and Nicloe Winleyplus Kara Hulme from Year 7 – wasset up.

The Working Party looked atvarious samples and consideredstyle, colours, PE kit, and whatcould be included in a schooluniform starter pack.

Three different uniform supplierswere then invited to submit sampledesigns which went on display inthe school. Special assemblies were held and students filled inballot forms to indicate whichsample items they preferred.

Headteacher Carl Ward said: "Iam delighted that the collaborationbetween parents, governors, staffand students has resulted in thechoice of new school uniform that isnot only popular with students butis excellent quality and value formoney. The new uniform, whichdisplays the Academy’s new logo, isexceptionally smart, yet functional,and students have commented theywill be proud to wear it.”

Rova Bakki and Edward Selmanmodel the new-look uniform.

Masuma Rahman in the newblazer with optional Haywood

headscarf.

Kara Hulme wearsthe new blazerand pleated skirt.

CerysLancaster, Ryan

Callaghan and BethProctor modelthe new PE kit.

MONTHS OF CONSULTATION COME TO AN END AS HAYWOOD ACADEMY’S NEW-LOOK UNIFORM IS FINALLY UNVEILED

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SMART NEW LOOK: some of the Uniform Working party and the models – seated are Miss Hughes and Mrs Chadwick while standingare, from left, Brandon Joe, Masuma Rahman, Beth Proctor, Cerys Lancaster, Ryan Callaghan, Rova Bakki and Edward Selman.

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GIRLS■ Haywood Academy fitted navy blue jacket with

matching knee-length pleated skirt or trousers■ White tailored shirt■ Black shoes■ Black tights■ Haywood Academy royal blue ‘V’ neck jumper

with navy trim (optional)■ Haywood Academy clip-on royal blue tie –

coloured stripe will identify each house■ Haywood Academy navy tunic (optional)■ Haywood Academy head scarf (optional)

PE KIT■ Haywood Academy navy ‘t’ shirt with light blue

trim (compulsory)■ Navy leggings (compulsory) – available from

The Schoolwear Shop.■ Haywood Academy netball skirt (only if in the team)■ Haywood Academy long-sleeved navy skin top

(optional)■ Haywood Academy fleece training top (optional)

BOYS■ Haywood Academy navy blue jacket with

matching trousers■ White tailored shirt■ Black shoes■ Haywood Academy royal blue ‘V’ neck jumper

with navy trim (optional)■ Haywood Academy clip-on royal blue tie –

coloured stripe will identify each house

PE KIT■ Haywood Academy navy ‘t’ shirt with light blue

trim (compulsory)■ Navy shorts (compulsory) – available from The

Schoolwear shop.■ Haywood Academy long-sleeved navy skin top

(optional)■ Navy leggings (optional) – available from The

Schoolwear Shop. ■ Haywood Academy fleece training top (optional)

Solar power

ALL students receive aCommitment to Progress gradein their lesson – 1-4, with 1being the best. This means thatthe House with the lowest scorewill be the winner.

The C to P results up to Easterare:

1st Phoenix and Genesiswith 389,303

2nd Viking and Galileowith 404,534

3rd Apollo and Pioneerwith 406,353.

Well done to everyone in Phoenixand Genesis, they continue totop the leader board.

The inter-house attendancecompetition results up to Easter are:

1st Phoenix and Genesiswith 94.77%

2nd Viking and Galileowith 94.15%

3rd Apollo and Pioneerwith 93.90%

The gap between the Houses isgetting smaller but Phoenix andGenesis are still in the lead. Welldone to everyone for somegreat attendance figures.

The best Form attendanceresults are:

1st Phoenix and GenesisXBD 96.15%

2nd Apollo and PioneerPEW 95.9%

3rd Viking and GalileoVWY 95.2%

The top form in Yr 11 was PT on95.15% which is a fantasticresult. Well done to everyone!

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Junior Girls Pleated Skirt PackageSenior Girls Pleated Skirt PackageJunior Girls Trouser PackageSenior Girls Trouser PackageJunior Boys PackageSenior Boys Package*Each package contains a jacket, skirt or

trousers, clip-on tie and a PE polo shirt andHaywood Academy navy scarf for thosestudents who wish to wear one.

Prefects Haywood Academy dark blue jumper no trim(optional) Plain royal blue tie.

Parents/carers will be asked to pay £20 for each package, which is heavily subsidised in thefirst year by the school.

For familes where there is more than one child attending Haywood, the cost for the secondchild will be £15 for a package and £10 for a third child. The uniform can be purchased fromthe National School wear shop in Stafford Street, Hanley from June.

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A little peer pressure?

HAYWOOD Academy catering staff hosted their annual Fairtrade lunch on Wednesday 5 March supported by students from the Fairtradecommittee. Customers who enjoyedtucking-in to some of the Fairtradegoodies included City CouncillorsJoy Garner and Peter Haywood,together with Ann Worthington, Chair of Fairtrade Action inStoke-on-Trent.

HAYWOOD Academy students had an opportunity tomeet Derbyshire peer Lord Robert Methuen andlearn about life in the House of Lords when hevisited the school in February.

Lord Methuen met with Year 10 and 11 students to talk about the work of the House of Lords. He also answered questions about aspects of theparliamentary process and day-to-day life atWestminster.

Lord Methuen was very impressed by the interestshown by our students with many probing questionsbeing asked.

The visit was arranged through the Lord Speaker’sPeers In Schools programme, which aims toencourage students to engage more with thepolitical and parliamentary process.

FORTY Year 7 girls visited Lichfield’sGarrick Theatre to listen to CathyCassidy, author of The Chocolate BoxCollection, discussing her inspirationsand her career in writing.

Cathy, pictured, is a writerof young adult fiction whohas penned 20 books.

She has also beenthe agony aunt forteen girl magazineShout and shecurrently has a seriesof three books foryounger readers featuringa character called DaizyStar.

The trip, in February, was veryinformative and gave the students anopportunity to hear about Cathy’sexciting career and what led her tobecome a writer.

Cathy also talked to the girls aboutthe inspiration for her character

creations and quizzed them aboutwhat character they were most like in The Chocolate Box collection.

At the end of the talk students weregiven the chance to ask Cathy

questions about her life and her books.

The girls were verykeen to find out whoCathy bases hercharacters on andwhether she had anyplans to write more

books.At the end of the

discussion the girls wereinvited to a book-signing

session at which they could purchasea selection of Cathy’s books and havethem autographed by the author.

The students thoroughly enjoyedtheir theatre experience, with manyseizing the opportunity to have theirphotograph taken with Cathy.

TASTY TREATS at Fairtrade lunch

THE under-14 netballers playedin a competition at FentonManor with the A Team,left, finishing secondand the B Team, right,third.

A special mentiongoes to Glory

Olanrewafu who playedextremely well.

The under-16netballers have alsobeen playing well,beating Excel Academy15-11 in their last match.

“It was a very closematch and a superbteam effort,” said MrsBrailsford.

YEAR 9 STUDENT Conor Lawton is a bit of a superstar when it

comes to sport.Despite his physical disabilities –

he was born with cerebral palsy(CP) – Conor, aged 14, has alwaysbeen fully involved in sport and hasdeveloped a particular passion forfootball.

He has also competed at regional level in disabilitytabletennis, wheelchair basketballand disability football.

Conor was involved with Inspiredisability sport where he was ableto take part in a range of sports.Following this he was madeSporting Ambassador for Inspire. In

addition he was asked to join amainstream tabletennis club at St Peter’s High School, Penkhull.

Following Conor’s progress intabletennis, he was invited toattend a disability regionalcompetition where he camesecond in the novice section –playing against England nationaldisability players.

At a charity event wherewheelchair basketball was beingshowcased, Conor was asked tojoin and train with Stoke Spitfiresand he has now played for theteam for two years.

Conor’s obvious ability was soon recognised and he was putforward for regional trials. However,

he underwent major surgery on hisright arm in August last year so hasdecided to wait until he has fullyrecovered before he attends thetrials again.

Conor has been identified as having excellent hand–eye co-ordination and is a mean shooter!

He has also played football from a very early age, joiningmainstream football with Port ValeCommunity at Dimensions.

He then discovered disabilityfootball run by Cerebral PalsySport, playing for CP team AstonVilla Marvels and training at AstonVilla Academy on a weekly basis.

Conor was tracked by the FARegional Talent Scout for DisabilityFootball and at age 10 was askedto trial for Staffordshire FA PlayerDevelopment Centre at Countylevel, based at Stoke City FC.

He now trains there every Fridaynight and is currently in his fourthseason.

Last season he was asked tojoin the West Midland CerebralPalsy Centre of Excellence. This isa regional CP squad based inCoventry and Conor plays for theunder-16 squad. The Centre ofExcellence means that Conor plays

in a league all over the countryagainst other regional teams.

Conor has played at the FA’sNational Football Centre – StGeorge’s Park at Burton-upon-Trent – on a number of occasions,both with the Centre of Excellence(CoE) and The Player DevelopmentCentre (PDC). His most recentventure was at St George’s wherehe was top scorer for his team,netting four goals. The next stepfrom the CoE is to join the EnglandDevelopment Squad, which someof his older team mates haverecently done.

Conor’s ambition is to play CP football for GB at the 2020Paralympics in Tokyo – somethingeveryone agrees is entirely possible.

Mr Rutter, Head of Boys PE atHaywood Academy, said: “Conor isa real inspiration to anyone whotakes part in sport and is proof thatthere are no barriers to beinginvolved in sport at the higheststandard.

“He is an incredibly motivatedand determined sportsman andeverybody at Haywood Academywishes him the very best in hisquest to represent Team GB in the 2020 Paralympics.”

Conor’s got hissights set onTOKY 2020

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Netball girls going for gloryand for goals

SPORTROUND UP

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TWO Haywood Academy girls took on theelements to represent Haywood in the Citycross country event on Saturday 1 February,completing a two-mile course. Well done toBeth Procter (Year 10) and Gracie Fern (Year 7).

Girls braved elements

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HUGE congratulations to theYear 9 Futsal team, above, who reached the City finals. All matches were extremelyclose but Haywood narrowly

missed out on getting to the Regional stage of thecompetition.

We are all very proud of what the team acheived.

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Fustal team reached finals

HAYWOOD students weresuccessful in reaching the LevelThree Winter Games to representthe Academy in dodgeball,basketball and indoor athletics.

All teams represented Haywoodin an excellent fashion throughoutthe day and all the studentsenjoyed taking part.

A special mention must go toNikita Lander and Beth Procterwho were asked to umpire the Year5 Netball competitions at thegames. Great leadership girls!

Haywoodstudents at the LevelThree Winter Games –

basketball, above;dodgeball, left;

and indoor athletics,below left.

EXCELLENCEat Level ThreeWinter Games