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A Year at Pool Issue 2
October 2013
Over 26 million words read
in six weeks!
A huge congratulations to our year
7s and 8s who have been reading, read-
ing, reading on our Accelerated Reader
Scheme.
Every student in years 7 and 8 is
now part of the Accelerated Reader Pro-
gramme which guides them towards
books written for their individual reading
age. Once a student has read the book
they then use an App on their iPad to
take a quiz to test their understanding of
the book. The students earn points for
the number of words that they’ve read
which they can then trade in for different
prizes.
Our Accelerated Reader Co-
ordinator, Miss Williams, said this about
the scheme this week:
“There is a real buzz about reading
across Key Stage 3. Earning points and
taking quizzes on the books they’ve
read is providing a really exciting chal-
lenge for the students.”
Congratulations to Years 7 and 8 who have read 967 books
since the start of term.
That’s over 26 million words!!
Accelerated Reader Stars
Year 7: Most books read this half term
Alastair Norman - 19 books!
Monica Smitham - 15 books!
Year 8: Most books read this half term
Megan Hood - 26 books!
Miles Waterhouse - 17 books!
Computer Science With Yr 6
Miss Meakin delivered workshops to
a number of our local primary school
students this month.
The students worked alongside our
year 9s to investigate how the different
components of computers work.
The group were given computers to
take apart and identify the pieces of
hardware. They then worked together
to rebuild them.
Other year 6 students will be joining
us later in the year to learn writing code
and computer programming.
Mrs Raybould Joins Us In
English
We are thrilled to welcome Mrs Ray-
bould to the English Department. Mrs
Raybould particularly specialises in
teaching teenage fiction. Her favourite
author is Mal Peet. If you’re stuck for a
book she recommends reading ‘Tamar’
for the amazing twist at the end.
Year 7 Book Buzz
Year 7 Received their free
books as part of the national
‘Book Buzz’ scheme this
month
It was gifts all round for year 7 this
month when they received their free
book through the national ‘Book Buzz’
scheme which has been designed to
motivate reading at Key Stage 3.
Students were given the choice of a
free book from a carefully selected list
of 17 titles including fiction, non-fiction
and poetry. Once they’d selected their
books, they arrived the next week in an
array of large boxes that filled up the
entire English office for a day!
Below are some of the core titles that
the students could choose from:
Soldier Dog by Sam Angus (Macmillan)
Butterfly Summer by Anne-Marie Conway (Usborne)
After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross (Oxford University Press)
Dear Scarlett by Fleur Hitchcock (Nosy Crow)
Miss Groves Joins The History
Department
The History Department are delight-
ed to welcome Miss Groves to the His-
tory team.. Miss Groves is a Cold War
historian. She likes American History
and International Relations.
Pool Academy, Church Road, Pool, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 3PZ
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Reece Wins Gold Medal in British Taekwondo Championships
Congratulations to Reece Rowe in year 7 who has taken part in the Taekwondo British Championships and won a gold medal for ‘Heavyweight in Sparring’.
The championship involved com-petitors from all over Europe. Con-gratulations Reece, we look forward sharing your future success.
Cornish School Surf Championships
Congratulations to our students who took part in the Cornish School Surf Champion-ships which were held at Godrevy this month.
We sent a tem of 5 stand-up surfers and 5 body boarders to the county event. Despite challenging wave conditions, Molly Jackson and Luke Harper, pictured below, made it through to the finals of their heats in the under 14s category.