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Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy
Lower City Road, Oldbury, West Midlands B69 2HE
Tel: 0121 552 5501 Fax: 0121 511 1326
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.ormistonsandwell.org.uk
19th
Term Ends - Friday
December
nd
Christmas Holiday - Monday 22 December to 3rd January
Teacher training day - Monday 5th January
Students return to academy – Tuesday 6th January
Year 12 & 13 Mock exam week - Monday 12th January
Year 7 Parents Evening - Tuesday 13th January
Year 10 IT visit - Thursday 15th January
Year 7 Catch up Residential - Monday 19th January
Year 11 History Trip to Warwick Castle - Tuesday 20th January
Year 10 DTP and Meningitis C vaccinations Thursday 22nd January
Year 9 Parents & Option Evening - Tuesday 27th January
Year 10 Business Studies Trip to - Monday 2nd February
Year 11 Geography Trip to London - Tuesday 3rd February
Year 9 Options Deadline - Friday 6th February
Year 7-13 Ramp up Red - Friday 13th February
Half Term - Monday 16th to Friday 20th February
Hairspray Performance - Tuesday 24th February 7pm
Wednesday 25th February 7pm
Thursday 26th February 7pm
Year 11 Physics trip to Cern departs - Saturday 28th February
and returns - Tuesday 3rd March
Terms Ends - Friday 27th March
Easter Holiday - Monday 30th March to Friday 10th April
Summer Term starts - Monday 13th April
Bank Holiday - Monday 4th May
Half Term - Monday 25th to Friday 29th May
Term Ends - Friday 17th July
Main Holiday starts - Monday 20th July
Autumn Term 2015 starts - Thursday 3rd September
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Shakespeare - 30
Picasso - 23
Dahl - 19
Da Vinci - 18
On Friday 14th November students and staff at OSCA, helped raise
money for this year’s Children in Need appeal. Everyone had the
option to wear either a spotted item of clothing or a onesie and donated
£1 for this privilege.
Ms Makoni and a few of her Year 9 students, also took time out to
bake Pudsey biscuits and cupcakes and sold them for 50p each at
break time.
Pudsey himself also made a guest appearance at OSCA and
undertook the Pudsey run challenge. With the aid of three Year 10
helpers, Pudsey made it around every tutor group and finished in
Da Vinci’s assembly, collecting everyone's donations.
Altogether OSCA managed to raise £586.00 for the Children in Need
charity.
This year OSCA ran a Christmas card design competition
across all the year groups with two categories, artwork and
a Christmas verse.
There were lots of excellent entries and the judges had a
difficult time in choosing the winners, but after much
deliberating the two lucky students were Cyrene Evans
in Year 11 (Artwork) and Anita Sandhu in Year 7, with the following
Christmas verse; May your holidays be happy days, filled with love and laughter.
And may each day bring joy your way, in the year that follows after! Merry Christmas.
The cards are on sale at the Academy and all profits from the sale will go to Russells Hall
Hospital, children’s ward.
Student attendance, punctuality and behaviour are excellent
at OSCA. As a reward for these achievements, an afternoon
trip to Telford Ice Rink was organised. Over 500 students were
eligible this year, even though the bar was raised to 98%
attendance, with excellent punctuality and behaviour records.
On Friday 12th December the students accompanied
by staff, took to the ice. There were demonstrations
of excellent skating skills by students and staff, but
they all took time to look after anyone that needed a
little help.
This was a very enjoyable afternoon and the students
were a credit to themselves and the Academy.
Tuesdays
Homework Club - 3.00pm to 3.45pm in the LRC
Urdu After School Club - 3.00pm to 4.00pm room O13
Basketball - All years Miss Blakey 3.00pm to 4.15pm
Football - (Year 7 - Mr Lovatt) (Year 8 - Mr Horton) (Year 9 - Mr Laird) 3.00pm to 4.15pm
Wednesdays
Panjabi After School Club - 3.00pm to 4.00pm room O13
Homework Club - 3.00pm to 3.45pm in the LRC
Thursdays
Polish GCSE Tutoring - 3.00pm to 4.00pm in room O13
PAPA Key stage 4 Coursework Club - 3.00pm to 4.00pm in room S23
Year 11 Dance - 3.00pm to 4.00pm in room S24
STEM Club - 3.00pm to 3.45 pm in room S06. Open to all Year 7 and 8 students.
Badminton - All years Miss Pearce 3.00pm to 4.15pm
KS4 Football - (Year 10 - Mr Lovatt) (Year 11 - Mr Horton) 3.00pm to 4.15pm
Homework Club - 3.00pm to 3.45pm in the LRC
Fridays
Homework Club - 1.20pm to 2.00pm in the LRC
Year 11 Dance - 1.30pm to 2.30pm in room S24
The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme - 1.20pm to 2.30pm in the new Teacherlab
English students in Year 10 had the opportunity to work with the professional writer and
journalist William Gallagher, a multi-talented man, whose work has appeared in and on ‘The
Independent Los Angeles Times, BBC local & International radio. His columnist work has also
appeared on CEEFAX and the Radio Times, where he wrote the
‘On This Day’ about television history. He has also won awards
for his stage dramas and photography work. Most recently
William has been working with ‘Red Planet’ developing a TV
series.
With all of that experience students were in good hands to
work on the creation of a script, as part of the 'Write On'
programme, developing their imaginative writing skills
required for the top levels of achievement at GCSE.
The workshops took place over 3 weeks, the students
produced some excellent work and they thoroughly enjoyed
A highly competitive and fast game played
the experience of working with a professional writer.
by OSCA’s staff and
Tuesday 11th November, was the start of the OSCA house football tournament, across all year
groups. The tournament was spread over 5 weeks and all evening matches. Despite the cold
weather, the atmosphere and team spirit throughout all the games was excellent.
Year 7, played the last tournament on Tuesday the 9 th December and in true OSCA spirit the
students encouraged each other throughout. The final results at the end of the tournament
were: 1st - Picasso, 2nd - Shakespeare, 3rd - Da Vinci and 4th- Dahl.
On the 4th November, Year 10 and 11 Media & Film Studies students travelled to the Harry
Potter film studios in Leavesden, Watford. Here
they had the chance to explore the sets and see
props and costumes used in the actual films.
The students had the chance to work with
experienced professional actors in workshops
and had Q&A sessions. It was a fantastic
opportunity for OSCA students to experience
first-hand the inner workings of the Media and
Film industry. The experience was thoroughly
enjoyed by all the students and staff involved.
Catch up with the latest news from OSCA at
www.facebook.com/OrmistonSandwellAcademy

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