oodwin Times

Term 5

Chequers Kitchen Cookery School have been running baking sessions for our students wanting to learn a new skill and

grow in confidence as they knead! Our baking takes place every Friday after school and the students have been

making a selection of breads, including Provencal fougasse bread, garlic bread, a variety of rolls and Chelsea buns. A

big thank you to Kent Community Foundation who have funded our sessions.

Stephanie Hayman, who manages the Chequers Kitchen Cookery School, wanted to let parents and carers know that

there are lottery funded cookery lessons for adults who may want to refresh their cooking skills - cut out the ready

meals and cook from scratch on a budget! Now is your chance, it is free, just bring along your main ingredients.

If you are interested, please contact Stephanie on info@chequers.kitchen or telephone on: 01304 362288.

Science had its first breakfast revision session for Year 11 this term. All 45 students from the 5 groups, showed great

dedication and willingness to put the extra effort in towards their chemistry exam.

We would like to congratulate them all on their hard work.

Next term the Goodwin Academy Duke of Edinburgh Club (DofE) are having a practice bronze level expedition at “The

Swattenden Centre” near Cranbrook. We are hopefully taking 3 groups over the weekend of 24th June. They will be

hiking for 10-12 km per day with all their equipment on their backs, pitching tents and sleeping out over-night, along

with cooking all their own meals. This is in preparation, for those that successfully pass the training, to move closer to

their qualifying expedition later on, possibly this year.

Those that have signed up to do the Duke of Edinburgh Award and have not completed sufficient training to attend this

are still able to come along on the Monday and Tuesday training sessions, as it is a progressive award completed as

they achieve certain elements. They are signed up until their 25th birthday, so there is no rush to complete the

elements. However, the quicker they do them the sooner they can progress, if they wish, towards the Silver and Gold

Awards.

Happy camping.

Year 12 Travel and Tourism students visited Viking

Recruitment in Dover for the day. Viking delivered a day-

long workshop relating to jobs within the travel and

tourism industry, focusing on preparing a cv, job

vacancies, job descriptions and finishing off with

interview skills.

As part of Travel and Tourism coursework, students are

going to apply for a job vacancy and we look forward to a

follow up visit in late June. During this visit, Viking will

conduct job interviews with the Travel and Tourism

students.

Goodwin GCSE and Year 7 Brass musicians take part in a ‘Jazz Journey’ in November 2017. It is a long-term project

where our students develop ensemble, solo and improvisation skills led by the Deal Festival Education Team. Students

worked well to form a team and learnt how to refine their listening skills and work closely as an ensemble together.

They are moving forward to learn blues style pieces and advance their performing skills further over the coming

months until the main event in November. Goodwin have been working closely with The Deal Festival this year and

are very appreciative of the experiences that this connection offers, inclusive of support with the progress of the

Goodwin Brass Band, who are performing at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School on July 10th in a large scale ‘Bold

As Brass’ event.

On Tuesday 25th April, three classes from Year 7 went to the Maritime

Museum in Greenwich to complete a Transatlantic Slavery Workshop.

The Year 7 pupils were able to work with the Greenwich team

uncovering information from historical documents about how slaves

were sold in auctions. They were able to handle historical artefacts to

discover how the slaves were treated during transportation on the slave

ships and on the plantations. The pupils were able to look at

merchandise that encouraged the abolition of the slave trade, as well as

being provided with the opportunity to visit a gallery to uncover Britain’s

role in the slave trade.

Transatlantic Slavery Workshop

Over the past few months, a group of Sixth Formers have been attending the Dover Maritime Skills Academy for a few

sessions with Viking Recruitment. In these sessions, we were taught about a number of different safety techniques that

can be applied in a range of situations. These sessions have looked at key aspects of personal safety as well as looking

at the safety equipment onboard modern ships, and throughout this we have covered the following areas:

Sea safety techniques

Firefighting Training

Basic first aid including hands only CPR, how to effectively place a bandage around broken arms etc. We also

learnt the correct way to place somebody in the recovery position

Navigation equipment on ships

Different types of ship

The different survival teams and organisations- RNLI, Search & Rescue

These sessions have been conducted using a mixture of classroom theory as well as giving us the opportunity to put

these skills into practise through practical exercises. The sea safety training saw the students in their pool executing a

number of different procedures: entering and exiting a 12-man safety raft, dragging casualties to the edge of the water,

safely entering the pool with lifejackets on, and being given the opportunity to enter the water with the lifejacket on

from a 3.5-meter platform.

The firefighting session saw us experiencing the breathing apparatus used by fire crews, looking at the different ways

they tackle a fire using the fire hose from a fire truck. We then applied these skills with the fire hose to a situation of a

fire in a container. Prior to this, we were looking at the safe way to do hands-only CPR and the different situations

where you might need to do this.

Finally, the latest and last session was the theory of the different organisations that will come to your rescue if you do

find yourself stranded at sea. After this classroom exercise we then went down to Dover’s Western Docks and climbed

aboard one of Dover Maritime Skills Academy’s boats and had a chance to steer the boat with the assistance of one of

the staff. These sessions have given us all the basics of Personal Safety Training and also gave us an insight into the

different safety equipment that is found on a modern ship.

Viking Recruitment are one of the organisations responsible for providing staff and guest services to a range of cruise

corporations: P&O, DFDS, Fred Olsen, and Viking Ocean Cruises are just some of the organisations they supply the

workforces for. Viking Recruitment have been providing professionals to world-wide ships since 1988!

These experiences has given us a much wider insight into the maritime industry and the rigorous training the staff have

to undergo to meet modern-day Health & Safety requirements, and this is all thanks to Viking Recruitment.

Tom Casey,

Year 12 Sixth Form.

Gymnastics Floor and Vault Competition - Monday 27/3/17 – Folkestone Academy

After attending a flourishing gymnastics club on a Thursday after school, four Key Stage 3 students stepped up to

competition level: Harry Eastley, Jessie Mae Holdsworth and Megan Day from Year 7 and Ellie Meindl from Year 9.

With our entries being re-arranged at the last minute due to absence and lack of a full squad, all our competitors went

into the advanced team competition.

Being in round 2 we had a fair wait and watch of the first half of the competition. Our squad practised and soaked up

the atmosphere patiently. When it came to performance time there were a few nerves as the group performed

confidently with wonderful level of flair and control over

the vault and floor routine, leaving Mr Towe astounded

at the mind bending shapes and skills of our students.

The students were a true credit to the academy and

came in a respectable 8 out 12 schools from across Kent.

Congratulations again to all students.

A Year 3 and 4 mini tennis competition on Tuesday 25th

April 2017 was held at the Deal Indoor Tennis centre,

organised by the coaches and staff from the venue.

There were 16 primary schools representing the

Dover, Deal and Sandwich district, supported by

leaders from Goodwin Academy.

The event ran from 1-4 pm with the overall winners

being St Faiths Primary school. St Faiths will be

attending the Kent school games final on the 27th June.

The sport leaders performed outstandingly by

representing and demonstrating the school ethos. The

coaches at the event commented on the

professionalism of the sport leaders, with extra praise

for Kaci Golding and Matthew Craker on how they led

the teams and encouraged throughout.

Year 10 Girls Rounders vs DGSG Monday 8th May

Our Year 10 girls arrived at the Danes playing field full of energy and enthusiasm for their first rounders fixture against DGSG. Although the rounders pitches were not marked out and the girls were playing on the middle of a football pitch, they were unfazed by the tricky conditions. The Goodwin Girls batted first in what would be two innings per side of eight minute-long innings. The early

enthusiasm resulted in some slightly careless batting and the loss of several outs. However, the girls focused and

began to show some excellent consistency. Although not showing any big hits, they achieved several half rounders and

then a full rounder towards the end of the eight minutes to finish with a score of 6. In the DGSG innings the girls were

a little disorganised, but showed some excellent fielding skills despite the playing surface, particularly in moving the

ball around the posts.

Inbetween innings the score was 6 to Goodwin and 7 ½ to DGSG. A half time team talk from Mr Cousins asked the girls

to focus on each ball and ready themselves to expect it to come to them. A consistent batting innings in the second

resulted in an overall score of 11 rounders to beat. This was a tough task but the girls applied themselves well with

some more outstanding ground fielding and moving the ball. The Goodwin Girls successfully got all of the DGSG

batters out in the innings and a little more experience would have led them to a win as the girls’ school scored 2

rounders’ at the end when trying to rush batters around.

Although the Goodwin Girls got all of the DGSG out in the second innings it was not enough to prevent DGSG winning

11 – 12 1/2.

Player of the match - Emily Hoskins – excellent consistency with the bat hitting 6 out of 8 attempts, and excellent

fielding at fourth base.

Bravery award - Maddie Gosse – when batting she took a blow from a ball that flew up off the bat and hit her in the

mouth. Despite blood and brace damage, Maddie stepped up and continued to play showing an outstanding

competitive GOOD WINning attitude.

Thursday 27th April 2017 – Kent County Cricket Club Schools Day Out

Men in white clothes, tea and sandwiches, the thwack of leather on willow. All things associated with cricket and for a

select group of students they had chance to see the professionals plying their trade at St Lawrence Cricket Ground for

Kent Spitfires v Hampshire Hawks in the Royal London One Day Competition. Aside from being much cooler than what

people may expect of a summer sport, with many of the fans and team staff wearing woolly hats, scarves and coats,

the students were excited to be able to be part of an exciting day out. We were one of a number of schools invited so

the atmosphere was electric in our section. During the day we enjoyed a training session from the Chance to Shine

coaches in the indoor centre and chanced our hand at the Crazy Catch event, along with a hotly contested scavenger

hunt around the ground. Students enjoyed being able to play games on the outskirts of the ground and on the pitch

during the interval, making many new friends from other schools along the way.

The students were a real credit to themselves and Goodwin Academy throughout the day and will hope for a sunnier

day if invited next year!

Term 5 – Tuesday 18th April to Friday 26th May 2017

Term 6 – Monday 5th June to Wednesday 19th July 2017 The Academy will re-open to students on Monday 11th September 2017.

Every Monday a core group of students have been taking part

in “Moving on Up”, a Parkour Project that sees them flipping,

climbing, jumping and rolling. Each week they go from strength

to strength and the tricks they can now do are amazing! Soon

they are going to Canterbury Gymnastics to train and use their

professional Free Running Course, and from there they will

take a Parkour qualification and make a short film.

Although this is an invitation only group, we shall be running a

Basic Training Camp next term and any Year 7 or 8s who are

interested in joining can contact Mrs Hayes-Watkins or Miss

Wheeler to sign up.