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We have had another busy week at the Academy full of a variety of opportunities. Our Year 10 drama students welcomed in The Stanislavski Experience Company, our Geography students have been creating models to advance their learning, and we check in with some more fantastic extracurricular activities which students are welcome to join. In addition, you can find out how we commemorated Armistice Day at the Academy. Honouring Our Heroes: Academy Cadets Commemorate Armistice DayOn Friday 10th November, cadets from the Academy's CCF RAF contingent were on parade to mark Armistice Day. It is important that we all remember the sacrifice made. 
After observing the two-minute silence, cadets and staff marched past the OC, Flt. Lt. Bloomfield and the Headteacher, Mr Arnull and gave the customary salute. – Mr Burlace 
Biscuits and Boundaries: How Year 9 is Digging into GeologyOur Year 9 Geographers have been working hard investigating how our extraordinary planet is capable of creating disastrous hazards, such as volcanoes as well as spectacular landforms such as the Himalayan mountain range. Our students have brought their learning to life by drawing detailed sketches, cleverly dissecting Oreos, and sculpting vivid Play-Doh models. 
The first step is to understand why our tectonic plates move. Ranveer has created a detailed sketch to show convection currents within planet Earth; this is the mechanism behind the movement of our tectonic plates. 
Tectonic plates can move in three different ways, away from each other, towards each other, or side by side. Each movement is then responsible for the formation of a hazard or a landform. In a delicious demonstration, students split an Oreo to represent earth's crust and slid the halves over the cream, mimicking the movement of tectonic plates on the liquid mantle 
Yves and Lexie have created a detailed annotated Play-Doh model of a conservative plate boundary. As the plates move side by side, they may get stuck and start to build up pressure, once the plates start to move again the sudden release of the pressure creates disastrous earthquakes in countries like Nepal and Haiti. 
Braydon and Ethan have created a superb model to show how volcanoes are formed on constructive plate boundaries. As the plates move apart this creates new space for magma to flow on the earth's surface. Layers of lava cool over time, and as the layers build up, they eventually form volcanoes such as the Icelandic Eyjafjallajkull volcano. 
Explore more of our impressive annotated tectonic plate models! – Miss Perkins 
KS3 Computing Club: Your Gateway to the Internet of ThingsThe KS3 Computing Club gives those who attend the opportunity to explore the world of the 'Internet of Things'. Some of the activities we can explore include taking apart a computer to see what components are inside and how they are all connected to each other; controlling an Ollie Robot which can be programmed using a simple block-based programming language. In the future, we plan on devising an obstacle course that they can program their robot to navigate. 
Students have also started to examine the world of game development using a free language called Kodu Game Lab, which lets them build their own game world and program their own components. Future Computing Club activities planned include video and sound editing and working with Microbit computers. If anyone in KS3 would like to join us, don't miss out; come along this Wednesday to room 304! – Mrs Y Smith 
The Stanislavski Experience CompanyOn Tuesday 7th November 'The Stanislavski Experience Company' worked with Year 10 and Year 13 Drama students developing their devising skills and knowledge of the theatre practitioner Antonin Artaud. 
This was a fantastic experience for the students from different Year Groups to work creatively together. They created powerful and thought provoking drama using immersive strategies. This new learning will support both Year Groups with their Drama qualifications as Year 10 students will soon be embarking on their 'Devising Drama' unit and the Year 13 students will use their practitioner knowledge to justify performance concepts in their written exam 'Theatre Makers in Practice'. Ward's ZAFTA Triumph!Mrs Ward scooped the coveted ZAFTA at the end of half term. In celebration Zog enjoyed some netball in his custom-made bib! – Mr Mills 
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