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Year 7 Nuneaton Library

On Friday afternoon, 24 year 7 pupils visited Nuneaton library to borrow ‘human books’ to celebrate the end of Careers Week.  They had an amazing time listening to the books’ stories and also took the opportunity to explore the library, speak to librarians and learn as much as possible.  They borrowed various books including 

Jason Buck: ‘Fantasy Storyteller for Adults and Teenagers’

Kim Hackleman: ‘Shout Out for the Arts Coordinator’

Hareena: ‘Family Learning Co-ordinator’

Ele Haddon: ‘Operational director performing arts charity’Emily Jeffcott: ‘Diary of an Apprentice in the Arts’

Well done to year 7 and a massive thank-you to Anjna Chouhan for organising the event.

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Girls across England enjoy Biggest Ever Football Session on IWD 2024

Over 465,000 girls took part in the Biggest Ever Football Session on Friday 8 March. To coincide with International Women’s Day, a record-breaking 465,000 girls from 5000 schools across England took part in the FA and Barclays’ third Biggest Ever Football Session, as part of the ‘Let Girls Play’ campaign.

This year, the Biggest Ever Football Session saw more registrations than ever before, with 71 per cent of the schools who have signed up having never done so before, highlighting the ever-growing demand for girls to play football. 76 per cent of schools who have taken part in the previous sessions have stated the activity has influenced equal access in their school. The commitment to increase participation was delivered thanks to campaigning and this was on the back off the EURO 2022-winning Lionesses and an open letter they addressed to prospective Prime Ministers Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss which looked to increase the chance for girls to play the game in school with participation at only 63 per cent in 2022.

This was Etone Colleges second year involved with the initiative and we made sure it was bigger than last year with the help of the Etone Football Education Academy. This year saw the Academy players both Male and Female delivering sessions to a range of Girls across Year 7 and 8 with a variety of warm up, skill based activities and game scenarios to give the pupils an experience of all areas of the game. During the day the academy delivered high quality sessions to over 150 Female students. Well done to all involved.

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CCF

After a cancellation of a flying session at the end of Jan and the re-tasking of the staff at Cosford who conduct the flying for the CCF, we thought we would not be able to fly for a few months. However, due to a delay in the re-tasking activities we are able to secure six places for a last minute day of flying on Tuesday the 5th March. Although the day started gloomy with fog and low cloud cover forcing the flying start later than usual the pilots worked their magic and all six of our young people form the school got in the air in what turned out to be a beautiful bright sunny day. All the cadets were able to take control and fly their aircraft and many of them experienced negative G forces and had ago at some acrobatics.

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World Book Day

On Thursday Etone was out in force to celebrate World Book Day 2024. The initiative started in the early 90’s to support getting the world reading after reading ages dipped to an all time low. Flash forward over 30 years, now the day is celebrated around the world as the flagship event in the literacy calendar.

To show our own support Etone took part in a number of initiatives to get the whole school involved. First of all our staff raided their costume boxes to dress up as their favourite literacy characters. This year our team had some truly genius offerings with story book characters, real life role models and of course Winnie-the-Pooh. This year the PE team decided to show their true colours, by spotting up as a group of the 101 Dalmatians. Mrs Oakley of course led the team as a terrifying Cruella Deville, whilst the MFL department wowed with fairytale favourites. To tie this in with our pupils’ fun, they were tasked to find out interesting facts about each of the characters, with one interesting fact being from Mr Bowley, whose idol (Richard Branson) started his first business – the magazine Student – to get more students in the country reading.

Next up our Year 7 Form Teams descended to the Hall to take part in this years edition of The Big Book Quiz. A cornerstone of our celebrations, Phoenix once again steered towards victory to make it a second year in a row. Check out the results here.

Finally, our day ended with a scavenger hunt challenge to find out which staff member’s favourite read was on their list. With the results yet to be declared, we await next week for the award.

  1. 7P1 – 54 POINTS
  2. 7C2 – 49 POINTS
  3. 7P2 – 45 POINTS
  4. 7C1 AND 7D1  – 40 POINTS
  5. 7G2 – 33 POINTS
  6. 7G1 – 25 POINTS
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Diana Awards

We are delighted to announce our Antibullying Ambassadors have passed their training with the Diana Award in supporting and collaborating with other pupils to develop the strong community feeling we are proud of at Etone. As part of the program, our pupils were invited to attend their final workshop at the Diana Awards HQ and receive their certificates and badges. 

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Long Service Awards

A huge congratulations to our staff who attended the annual Matrix Academy Trust long service celebration meal last Friday. They joined colleagues from across the trust at the wonderful BANK.  Racking up over 700 years’ service collectively across the trust.  Another huge thank you to you all for your continued dedication to our community. 

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National Citizen Service

NCS 2023 is on on Friday 8th March! This is your chance to get out into the world with your mates and build skills for work and life. You’ll be taking part in fun challenges, making new friends, and gaining confidence and independence along the way.

NCS away from home experiences are available across the country. Each experience is 5 days and 4 nights, and includes a variety of activities centred around one of three themes: LIVE IT, BOSS IT, or CHANGE IT. The experiences will boost your CV and college or university applications, highlighting the broader range of skills you’ve gained to employers and higher education providers.

This year places are limited more than ever!

To find out more or how to sign up, check out the NCS leaflet attached to this email or visit the NCS website https://wearencs.com/head-away-from-home to secure a place today!

The NCS team will be coming into Etone College to present the away from home opportunities to you on Friday 8th March. We strongly encourage youto discuss this opportunity with your friends and parents/guardians beforehand so you’re ready to express your interest on the day and don’t miss out.

Parent pack: DOWNLOAD

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M&G Enterprise Challenge

On Thursday 29th February 30 Year 7 students had the opportunity to take part in the M&G Enterprise Challenge. The aim of the day was to act as large-scale event organisers in charge of arranging a pop concert for 10,000 young people. The students had to consider many different aspects of running the day. The first task they were given was to create a questionnaire to decide on different aspects of the concert such as the type of food and music on offer. After collecting the results of the questionnaire they displayed their results using a bar chart. Next they had to decide on the most important part of any concert, the set list, ensuring they had enough acts to last the length of the concert and to keep track of the total cost. Finally the students set their ticket price to ensure they made a profit and the long awaited stage design commenced using nets of 3D shapes. The students worked excellently together showing their employability skills throughout the session.

 

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Etone’s Got Talent

Etone College is so full of talent as seen in our auditions on 27th, 28th February and 1st March.  Mrs Kaye-Shepheard, Mrs Leftwich-Lloyd and Miss Oakley were treated to comedy, music, instrumental recitals, singing, bands, drama, acrobatic and modern dance … the list goes on and on.  A huge well done to everyone who auditioned; it take immense courage, focus, preparation, creativity and confidence to take part in auditions and we are incredibly proud of every auditionee for putting themselves forward. The line up for the Talent Show final competition on stage at 7pm on 4th July is amazing; tickets will be on sale soon to join us, the Etone Choir and the Etone Dance Squad for an amazing evening.

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Male Mental Health

It is recognised that young men sometimes are less likely to talk about their feelings as they think they need to be strong and not show emotions. At Etone College, we want to change that culture and we want all members of our school community to know that.  We want to empower our young people, especially boys and young men to talk about their mental wellbeing and emotions in a safe and healthy manner. At Etone College, we have been promoting boys and young men’s mental health and have held mental health awareness events for boys at breaktimes. The latest Childline analysis shows that 1 boy for every 5 girls talk about mental health on Childline and boys are less likely to contact the services when having negative thoughts. We have created a Mental Health booklet to show how Etone’s male teachers look after their own mental health, Etone’s top tips, what the celebrities have to say and have signposted support for our young people to access. Please follow the link and have a look at our key messages and do please continue the discussions at home. 

Male Mental Health Booklet

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