Groby Kitchen Staff provided a fabulous Christmas Dinner
for KS4 & 5 students and staff in the Groby building today!
The picture above is of our 8 finalists from the Leicester Mercury Education Awards
hosted at the King Power on Thursday 6th December.
WELL DONE TO ALL OUR FINALISTS AND WINNERS!
Grace Fleming WON ‘Student of the Year’
and Evie Dunn WON the ‘Music Excellence Award’!
WELL DONE TO BOTH GIRLS!
Full coverage will appear in Wednesday 12th December’s Leicester Mercury!
It was a fabulous evening of celebration, with
BGLC having 8 out of 39 finalists and 2 winners out of possible 13 categories!
KS3 & 4 Science Club has been running every Wednesday after school, for the past 6 weeks. Students were invited to sign up for the sessions they were interested in, including; rocket making, fruit DNA extraction and fire writing to name but a few. Last night’s activity was burning metals in oxygen – see the pictures of students lifting the lid of heated metals to allow oxygen in. Next was an impressive display of acetone being burnt to measure the speed of fire!
On Thursday 29th November, a majority of Year 11 students were interviewed by local business volunteers.
This provided students with the opportunity to practice their interview techniques and to boost their confidence for real life! The remaining Year 11 students will be given the same experience on Wednesday 19th December, arranged by Leicestershire Cares.
Students applied to be part in an amazing project, that brings together and showcases technology in an education setting, by creating an Online Learning Platform. 23 students across all three key stages, were chosen to work with Lenovo and PCS Business Systems.
The project’s aim is centered on creating distance learning resources, for students in a range of educational settings, including children in hospital schools such as Great Ormond Street Hospital, giving students the opportunity to visit places that they are currently unable to visit themselves. In conjunction with Elizabeth Woodville Primary School, we will be creating our own website to showcase the content and media we create. This will contain resources, lessons and virtual reality experiences for our school and others to explore. The project and equipment such as virtual reality headsets, 180 degree cameras, tablets and laptops are being provided by Lenovo for the duration of our project.
On Thursday 29th November Mr Chris McQuade; Operations Manager of PCS came to BGLC, to guide the students through the project’s website brief and to demonstrate the amazing equipment!
Dulci Binns and Mikayla Wildgoose both Year 9 students here at Brookvale Groby Learning Campus, both play for Leicester City Women’s U14’s team. On Sunday 11th November they were selected to represent the Midand’s in a Regional Trial organised by the English Schools Football Association. Dulci and Mikayla successfully made it through and will now go on to represent the Midlands in the impending final international trials. These U15’s trials, will be held on the 9th December at Stafford Town FC, where they will compete with the best players from the South West, Sout East and North regional trials, for final England squad selection.
WELL DONE MIKALYA & DULCI – BROOKVALE GROBY ARE REALLY PROUD OF YOU! Good luck for the final trials, for the U15’s Girls England squad selection!
Mackenzie Smith, Year 9 student at Brookvale Groby, plays for Leicester City Women’s U15’s as well as for Desford Boys U14’s on a Sunday. During January this year Mackenzie was appraised by an England FA scout whilst playing in the midfield for Leicester City Woman’s U15’s Development team. He considered her to have elite international potential and was invited to a weekend FA Midlands regional camp over Easter at Lilleshall, and subsequently selected for three day National Performance Camps at Warwick University in August and October this year.
Speaking to LCWFC, Mackenzie Smith said: “It was a fabulous surprise to be selected, I’m really excited. The girls are all great players, so it encourages everyone to step up and do their best. I enjoy just training and learning at the England camps. I’m looking forward to the new challenge.”
“I love playing for Leicester City Women’s Development Centre on a Saturday and for Desford Boys on a Sunday. It’s helped me develop different skill sets. My teams are both top class and the coaching staff are all highly qualified.”
Leicester City Women Under-15’s Manager, Holly Morgan said: “Mackenzie is truly deserving of her selection into the next National Performance Camp. With an abundance of talent and an unwavering attitude to learn and develop, I have no doubt that Mack will excel at this level.”
“All at Leicester City Women are extremely proud of her.”
She has just attended an individual development weekend at Nottingham Trent University and is set for another National Performance Camp at Warwick in December.
Currently at 13 years of age, Mackenzie will be eligible in 2019 for selection to the England U15’s National Team, and will continue striving to represent them at international level.
WELL DONE MACKENZIE – BROOKVALE GROBY ARE REALLY PROUD OF YOU!
We have another finalist GRACE FLEMING for ‘Student of the Year’
Leicester Mercury Education 2018 award!
Leicester Mercury Education 2018 award!
Grace’s friends nominated her for ‘Student of the Year’ for her determination through her exams, coping with the news that her mum had terminal cancer a week before exams started. Grace coped so well, but her mum unfortunately died the first week of the school holidays. She was desperate to live long enough to see her daughter get her results but sadly she didn’t.
Grace even commenced NCS days after her mum died – only missed one day, the day of the funeral.
Mrs Fleming even dragged herself out of hospital to see Grace go to prom,
a memory family and friends will never forget.
a memory family and friends will never forget.
How fantastic it is for Grace’s friends to champion her and all that she has gone through in such a brave way, recognising how determined Grace was to do her best, she never made excuses.
This is what true achievement is.
This is what true achievement is.
Our campus really does have students with excellent values to be proud of,
who really do live your school ethos.
who really do live your school ethos.
We have some fabulous news to share with you, the following students and teachers are FINALISTS for the Leicester Mercury Education Awards 2018:
- Music Excellence Award – Evie Dunn
- Newly Qualified Teacher of the Year Award – George Hagen
- Newly Qualified Teacher of the Year Award – Maimuna Peerjee
- Science and Maths Award – Timothy Cowling
- Science and Maths Award – Jill Brown
- Sport Excellence Award – Lizzie Warner
- Inspirational Teacher of the Year Award – Amelia Ainsworth
The awards ceremony will be held on Thursday 6th December 2018 at the King Power Stadium.
The awards are open to everyone and recognise those within the education sector who are excelling in what they do.
GOOD LUCK to all our FINALISTS!
Year 9 student Will Alves entered the MOTD ‘Can You Kick It’ competition in the search for the UK’s best young technical freestyle footballers. Hosted by ‘Sam and Mark’ from CBBC and world champion freestyler John Farnworth, the first of 10 episodes was aired on Friday 9th November and features Will, as the search begins. Click on the URL below to view this episode:
GOOD LUCK WILL!
Brookvale Groby Learning Campus is so proud of you!
Fingers crossed you bring the trophy home!
