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• Monday 18 December 2023 UALS - Careers Newsletter Welcome to UALS Careers Newsletter - December 2023
• Friday 15 December 2023 HPA - Christmas Church Services Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children each enjoyed a Christmas Church Service in All Saints Church.
• Thursday 14 December 2023 UAH - Christmas Tree Decorating Competition All houses were given a school subject to base their tree on. Representatives from all tutor groups took part. Moore was the winner!
• Wednesday 13 December 2023 UAH - Christmas Concert The UAH Christmas Concert took place at All Saints’ Church, Holbeach. All musicians in school took part in a programme of festive music and readings, Pop Choir, Chamber Choir, Staff Choir, Ukuleles, Mash Up and Sixth Form Ensemble.
• Tuesday 12 December 2023 HPA - Christmas Dinner Day On Tuesday 12 December 2023 the children at HPA enjoyed eating their Christmas dinner. They listened to Christmas music and songs and wore their Christmas jumpers. The children really enjoyed this experience and there were clean plates all around.
• Friday 8 December 2023 UAH - Christingle All of Year 7 attended a Christingle Service at All Saints’ Church, Holbeach. Pupils explored messages of thankfulness and thinking of others. All pupils received a Christingle and Musicians from the academy also participated.
• Friday 8 December 2023 HPA - Santa Dash 2023 On Friday 8 December 2023 the children from Holbeach Primary Academy enjoyed wearing their Christmas jumpers and completing a Santa Dash. This was to support active lifestyles and to work towards our academy gaining the School Games Mark for PE and School Sport. The children enjoyed challenging each other and seeing how many laps they could do.
• Monday 4 December 2023 UAH - Chamber Choir The UAH Chamber Choir visited five local care homes to perform Christmas music. Hugely appreciated by all residents and workers.
• Saturday 2 December 2023 HPA - Christmas Tree Festival The children form HPA have been busy designing and making decorations for a themed Christmas Tree in All Saints Church as part of the Christmas Tree Festival. The theme was Christmas Carols and HPA were given 'Good King Wenceslas'. The children made snowflakes to signify the snow on the ground described in the carol, moons and then crowns to represent the King. They also added verses form the carol showcasing their best handwriting. The festival will ran on 2 December 2023 across the day at All Saints Church. We were pleased and proud to win 2nd place, with 197 public votes.
• Tuesday 21 November 2023 GHA - Boccia Success! Three teams of children from GHA entered the School Games Boccia Competition at Tulip Academy on 21 November 2023. The children had a wonderful time and their teachers were very proud of them. Not only did they get to the final, but some of the children had never played before! We are looking forward to the next School Games event!
• Wednesday 15 November 2023 UAH - Shoebox Appeal Working with the Rotary Club. All tutor groups created gift shoeboxes to be given to children less fortunate than ourselves.
• Sunday 12 November 2023 HBA - Remembrance Holbeach Bank Academy paid their respects for those fallen in a trifecta of events:
• Friday 10 November 2023 UAH - Remembrance A special assembly too place for Year 7, along with whole school assemblies through the week.
• Friday 10 November 2023 HPA - Parliament Week This week (6/11/23 - 10/11/23) has been Parliament Week. The children across the academy have used this as an opportunity to further embed the Fundamental British Value of democracy. Across Early Years they have used a voting system to choose their daily story and then begun to discuss and debate which would be better and why.
• Friday 10 November 2023 HPA - Remembrance Service KS2 children held a Remembrance Service on Friday 10th November 2023. Each class produced a wreath which was placed onto the bandstand. Year 6 spoke about the importance of Remembrance and what it signifies. It was concluded by Kasia reading out her prize-winning poem about Remembrance, which ended in a 1-minute silence and the last post.
• Thursday 9 November 2023 GHA - Building Project As part of the 'Building Communities of Specialist Provision: Special School Strategy' Gosberton House Academy has been lucky enough to receive funding from the Local Authority to embark on a building project to create 4 new classrooms, therapy spaces and extend our school parking facilities. The proposed site is to the west of the existing main building and is away from our neighbours. The building will be made fit for purpose to ensure children at our school can reach their full potential and can be educated as close to home as possible. We are very excited about the new project and look forward to seeing it develop. Our children and our community will be fully involved in the project. We hope that the children will engage in designing, reporting, interviewing, photographing and role playing what they are observing. We are very mindful of our ECO School Green Flag status and we will ensure that the new building is integrated into our environment providing additional enrichments to ou
• Thursday 9 November 2023 GHA - Table Cricket Children at Gosberton House Academy have enjoyed the first of this term's weekly visits from Max, who is teaching them how to play table cricket. They have learned lots of new rules and enjoyed practising saying 'you're out' with the correct action too. Table cricket is a game of strategy with different scoring zones and carefully positioned fielders around the table, bowlers use a ramp to deliver the ball to the batter who has to hit the ball into the scoring zones, avoiding the fielders if they can! The children had a brilliant time and are looking forward to Max's next visit.
• Wednesday 8 November 2023 HPA & HBA - Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Open Day Holbeach Primary and Holbeach Bank Academies hosted Open Days for prospective EYFS 2024 families on Wednesday 8 November and Tuesday 7 November 2023, respectively. Both academies welcomed a number of families, with many new families as well as a few sibling families. We showcased some of the work carried out so far in EYFS through presentation of floor books and photos of key events. Examples of the phonic scheme resources Read, Write, Inc.” were presented and explained to the families. Our School Meal Providers, Willoughby Foods. attended both events. They brought samples for families to try and example menus. They were able to answer a range of questions relating to the school meals. The EYFS leader along with class teachers were able to offer guided tours to small groups of families around the academy building. This gave the families the opportunity to see the whole school environment as well as the EYFS unit where their child’s educational journey will begin. The open morn
• Tuesday 7 November 2023 HPA - Academy Football Competition 2 squads of Y3/Y4 footballers represented HPA at a football tournament held at University Academy Holbeach. On a nippy but dry Tuesday morning 2 squads from HPA joined another 8 squads from mostly schools in the Market Deeping and Bourne area for the Year 3/Year 4 mixed football competition. The 10 squads were placed in 2 groups of 5. Each team played their 4 group matches which were completed just after lunch. Teams then played off in knockout matches to decide their overall placings and winners. HPA A Team won 2 of their 4 group matches to finish 3rd in their group and then lost their knockout match to finish 6th overall. They were unlucky to lose one of their matches as they had more chances to score than their opponents but unfortunately couldn't find the net! The HPA B team had hoped to be playing in a more 'fun' series of matches but as no other teams entered on this basis had to play in a competitive format and struggled against very strong opposition. They lost all their
• Friday 3 November 2023 HBA - Duxford Trip Welland had their school trip to IWM Duxford. We travelled by coach and were greeted by the great sight of a Spitfire and a tank at the entrance. We walked through the Air Space building to place our bags, looking skyward towards the famous Concorde and other famous aircraft. Later on in the day, we had the chance to climb up into the Concorde and look at the controls which was very interesting. On our tour, we journeyed through time to see aircraft from both the World Wars, including a Messerschmitt and Blackbird. On top of this already amazing experience, we were also treated to an unscheduled flight of the Spitfire! We saw it take off, land and waved and spoke to the pilots.
• Tuesday 31 October 2023 UAH - Harvest During the first half of term, UAH celebrated Harvest, with a number of events in school. Pupils from all years were invited to donate non-perishable food items, which were then donated to the local food bank. Pupils in KS3 and 4 attended themed assemblies, with the Year 7 assembly being a celebration, featuring readers from the year group, music provided by Chamber Choir and invited guests, including representatives from the food bank and the local Methodist minister, Rev. Luke Smith. Year 8 also enjoyed an assembly given by Micki and Paul Carey-Slater, which, as ever, was entertaining and thought-provoking in equal measure. As part of the festival, each tutor group in year 7 designed a bread wheatsheaf and then representatives from each group created these in dough, with the help of Head of Food, Mrs Brogden. There were some super efforts, with lots of lovely bread mice crawling up the sheaves of corn! Through the celebrations, pupils considered the importance of being grateful for t
• Tuesday 31 October 2023 UAH - Eco Team Air Quality Project Members of the Academy’s Eco Team are taking part in an Air Quality project, run by Lincolnshire County Council. They are taking part in six sessions which will explore what Air Pollution is, what fossil fuels are, the heath effects of air pollution and also how to plan a campaign to improve the air quality at the academy. Pupils have taken part in a number of science experiments, including assessing the lichen growing on trees in the grounds of the school, looking at particulate matter on different surfaces and measuring the amount of ozone in the air. This last experiment was rather challenging because of the recent wet weather, but everyone approached it with a really positive attitude, even as we stood on the field, sheltered by an umbrella, trying to get readings!
• Tuesday 31 October 2023 GHA - Annual Roast Dinner and Sponsored Walk Day At GHA we welcomed families to our annual Roast Dinner and Sponsored Walk Day. Families joined their children for lunch in classrooms or in the hall. The children had been collecting sponsor money and delivering it to school and this afternoon they walked several laps around the grounds of the school, collecting stickers and stamps to show how many laps they had done. We are very grateful for all the support from our families!
• Friday 20 October 2023 HPA - Superheroes! Oak, Ash and Willow Class took on the challenge of superhero training in order to combat the bad choices of Dr Slime, our super villain who tried to recruit them. They underwent training to be awarded 'official superhero' status including making powerful gadgets and shields; posters displaying messages of good advice and mask-making. The children thoroughly enjoyed using Art and D&T skills across the afternoon and being in role. They showed understanding of positive behaviour in a range of scenarios and provide to be super role models for their peers.
• Friday 20 October 2023 HBA - House Point Winners Reward Afternoon 2023 It was (once again) Elm House who were the deserved winners of last Term's house point total. The reward was an afternoon of Pumpkin carving. 30 pumkins were kindly donated by a local farmer and delivered to school by a helpful parent. We saved the seeds for Mrs Lenton who has plans for them and all children carried a pumpkin home at the end of the day.
• Monday 16 October 2023 HBA - Harvest Service It was a bright and chilly Autumn morning and our hosts at St Luke’s had made sure that the church was cosy for us when we arrived. At the front of the church was proudly displayed a straw ‘stack’ which was made many years ago by a local farmer and is displayed every year in church. Glen class showed us their autumn pictures and sang Old MacDonald Had a Farm” using Makaton signing as they sang. Nene class told us about farming locally in Lincolnshire and how the soil and the temperature were perfect for all the crops around us. Welland class dramatised the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 with loaves and fishes then concluded our service with prayers of thanks for harvest. We raised the roof with Cauliflowers Fluffy, Autumn Days and Conkers! This was the fourth visit by Holbeach Bank School to St Luke’s as we continue to build our links with our local community and our nearest church. We look forward to our next visit at Christmas.
• Thursday 12 October 2023 UAH - Careers Fayre Pupils from year 8 upwards attended the UAH Careers Fair which was held in the Sports Hall on the 12th of October. Pupils were able to learn about a wide variety of career pathways and qualification routes.
• Tuesday 10 October 2023 HBA - Young Minds Charity Young Minds are the UK’s leading charity fighting for children and young people's mental health.
• Friday 29 September 2023 HBA - Raising Funds for MacMillan Our coffee and cake sale was a huge success this year at Holbeach Bank Academy. We had a healthy focus this year where the children were encouraged to include one of their five a day. We managed to raise £186, which is outstanding when you consider we have 92 children. The generosity in the room was beautiful. There was a brilliant sense of community within the room and everyone came together to support a cause that is so near and dear to our hearts.
• Friday 29 September 2023 UALS - Macmillan Coffee Morning Once again this year, UALS was proud to support Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 29 September 2023 for our pupils and staff. During break time/lunchtime, cakes and hot chocolate could be purchased from the Food Pod on the yard for 50p each. UALS would like to thank everyone that participated in the Macmillan Coffee Morning. The Grand Total raised for Macmillan Cancer Support was a massive £200.00! Once again, thank you to everyone who donated for this worthwhile cause.
• Monday 24 July 2023 HPA/HBA - Visit to the Poppy Factory On Thursday 6th July 2023, pupils from Holbeach Primary Academy, Holbeach Bank Academy and William Stukeley C of E Primary School visited the Poppy Factory in Richmond, Surrey.
• Tuesday 18 July 2023 HPA - Year 5 Taster Day The Year 5 children from both Holbeach Primary and Holbeach Bank academies enjoyed a ‘Taster Day’ at UAH. They were able to experience learning in the secondary environment. They found out in History about how Kings in the past have died, explored leaf cells under a microscope, created Art in the style of Pop Art and created a music performance. They had a packed day which gave them a real insight into UAH.
• Monday 17 July 2023 GHA - Sports Afternoon HA children, families and staff joined in with hurdles, tennis, egg and spoon races, sack races and sensory circuit activities during our Sports Afternoons in July. During the afternoons, children from classes not involved with the sports sold refreshments in the form of ice lollies that they had made during their cooking sessions. They will use the money raised to buy theme-related resources of their choice, for their classrooms. Thank you everyone who attended and took part – we are very happy that we managed three Sports Afternoons without any rain!
• Thursday 13 July 2023 UALS - Prostate Cancer Walk Pupils and staff at University Academy Long Sutton raised around £3,000 with a day’s sponsored walk to recognise a returning teacher.
• Thursday 22 June 2023 GHA - GHA Receives LPCF Nomination! All staff at Gosberton House Academy have recently been nominated for a Lincolnshire Parent Carer Forum Excellence Award.
• Thursday 22 June 2023 GHA - UNICEF Gold! Gosberton House Academy is a UNICEF GOLD Rights Respecting School!
• Friday 16 June 2023 UALS - Iceland Trip On Sunday 28 May 2023 UALS departed for Iceland. This was part of our plan to bring Geography to life for our students and explore an otherwise unavailable environment.
• Tuesday 6 June 2023 HPA - Ofsted Inspection Holbeach Primary Academy is celebrating maintaining their 'Good' Ofsted result, following the recent inspection.
• Monday 15 May 2023 GHA - Mini Police Year 6 children at GHA have been taking part in Mini Police activities this year. They were very excited when PCSO Paul Holland brought the police car in to show them. During these sessions they have covered stranger safety, being kind and making helpful choices. Hopefully PSCO Paul is going to bring a speed camera in for us to see soon too!
• Tuesday 28 March 2023 UALS - Paris Trip On Tuesday 28 March 2023, UALS departed for Paris. The trip is part of our ambition to offer all learners a residential opportunity whilst at the Academy.

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