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Word of the Week – Lurid
Word: Lurid
Synonyms: Intense, vivid, over-bright
How it can be used in a sentence: The lurid food colouring turned my stomach.
BCA triumphs in the finals
What a difference that a year makes.
The Year 8 Team. Lost 20-16
Unlucky to lose in the final. Excellent team play and structured rugby. Overcome by a much bigger side. A bright future predicted.
Year 9 Team. Won 36-20. A dominant display to beat a well organised Great Sankey Side. They played attractive flowing Rugby League. They were led by Man of the Match Jack Wright.
Year 10 Team. Won 14-12. Gutsy team effort. Playing against an excellent team. The boys worked together to produce the shock of the night. Man of the match Declan Leonard in outstanding form.
Year 11 Team won 32-12. Top performance from a talented team Deserved winners in their last final. Excellent Rugby played in a great spirit. Man of the Match Danny Walker was excellent from the dummy half role.
Word of the Week – Invigorated
Word: Invigorated
Synonyms: Revitalised, re-energized, revived
How it can be used in a sentence: I feel invigorated after a week off school.
Word of the Week – Infamy
Word: Infamy
Synonyms: Notoriety, Disrepute
How it can be used in a sentence: 9/11 was a day that will live in infamy.
World Scratch Day – ICT Trip
On Saturday, 9th May Mr Norbury and Mrs Stamp took a group of twelve key stage 3 pupils to Manchester to take part in ‘World Scratch Day’ an event hosted at the Manchester Football Museum by Code club.
This was a fantastic opportunity for pupils from Beamont Collegiate Academy to submerse themselves in a range of coding experiences delivered through two workshops. Pupils formed two teams; Year 7 and 8 pupils began the morning learning how to code in Sonic Pi. They were challenged to code the Match of the Day theme tune while year 9 pupils developed their coding skills in Scratch as they were given the challenge of coding a football game. The teams later swapped sessions.
The pupils were left with a real thirst to learn more with pupils asking ‘when will we be organising another coding trip at the weekend!’
If you would like to try out coding for yourself you can join us at the Warrington Coderdojo, here at Beamont Collegiate Academy. The next Coderdojo will be on Saturday 23rd May, starting at 10.00am.
For more information see:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/coder-dojo-warrington-tickets-16878367652
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Go Carting Rewards Trip
On May 6TH a group of 10 pupils enjoyed a trip to Go Carting. The Trip was arranged by Mrs. McNulty , the Pupil Premium Co-ordinator. The trip was arranged as a reward for attendance at revision booster and intervention classes, also some Saturday classes. The boys played Pool and raced in two races. It was an enjoyable evening and every pupil was a credit to the school.
Word of the Week – Cynical
Word: Cynical
Synonyms: Pessimistic, sceptical
How it can be used in a sentence: You don’t have a cynical bone in your body.
Minecraft club goes from strength to strength
Minecraft club goes from strength to strength.
In September the ICT department launched a coding (computer programming) enrichment club. We have since introduced Minecraft and the spring term saw the biggest numbers yet. ICT classrooms packed with avid students crafting and playing Minecraft on a weekly basis.
Pawel Chilkiewicz in year 7 has been a key student in helping the ICT department set up the club. Whilst the ICT department facilitates the club Pawel often leads sessions; teaching his peers how to craft.
There are many opportunities at BCA to get involved in coding. The ICT department are taking a selection of year 7, 8 and 9 students to ‘World Scratch Day’ at the National Football museum in Manchester on Saturday 9th May where students will take part in workshops to learn how Scratch can be used to control a Scratch based football game and using Scratch to read sheet music.
If you would like to find out more about coding club speak to a member of staff from the ICT department.
The club takes place in C3, Wednesday’s from 2.35pm until 3.35pm – Come and join us.