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Continuing cricket success for Ryan Jones 10SC
Monday, May 18th, 2009As you all know Ryan was under the spotlight as a student profile in the last issue of Xtra time in January. Following two selection weekends Ryan has achieved his dream -he has been asked to join the England (adult) training squad for Blind Cricket. There are 20 in the Squad ranging from 14, Ryan who is 15, up to a totally blind player in his 40s!! Most are 20-30 though! This squad will train together monthly (he is going again this weekend to Southampton -Sport England pay for Hotels and travel!!). It will be from this squad that the team to play against Pakistan in a test in England later this summer will be chosen. Ryan played cricket in Northampton on Saturday for his adult team and is in Surrey this morning for Surrey junior training. Ryan is being taken out by our PDM Mike Darragh on Wed to help coach in primary schools, and he is playing for the school on Thursday.
Rest asssured though -his course work is up to date- he was told he is on course to get an A in Business studies course work and he will revise this afternoon for his mock maths paper tomorrow!
So everyone, you CAN be a top class sports person and also look to keep up with your studies!
Well done Ryan, you deserve this success, keep up the hard work in sport and with your studies!
Submitted by Ms Ponulak.
Message to Year 13 students from Ms James
Friday, May 15th, 2009
You the Year 13 group (2007-2009) have travelled the journey of setting up a new Sixth Form with all of us in the Sixth Form staff team.
This is one of the reasons I shall hold you all in a very special place in our joint life in Bacon’s. You have responded so openly and generously to me and to all that we have set out to do, with such amazing individual outcomes and successes. You have shaped your own futures with courage and perseverance and with a lot of humour, always needed when the going gets tough.
So I wish you well in all your futures. I know that the bonds you have formed with each other and with Bacon’s are strong and can withstand the test of time. So I really hope to keep in touch with many of you as you walk through the doorway into the rest of your life.
As ever
Elizabeth James: Director of Sixth Form
Bacon’s win UEFA competition
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Channel 4 Work Experience Day
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 
The students named below have been selected by Channel 4’s Talent Coordinator Kate Beveridge, having produced a written application and competed with hundreds of other students.
The aim of the day is to give students a taste of the media by offering:
- An insight into what it takes to create what Channel 4 do – and get it onto the screen
- Opportunities to chat with Channel 4 departments and independent production companies who are offering work experience placements
- Practical workshops
- Careers advice
The students taking part are:
Liridon Limani 6th Form
Lucy Sycamore 6th Form
Louisa Scialo 6th Form
Lauren Scoltock 6th Form
Mwari Barahira Yr11
We hope you have an excellent day - and we want to hear all about it upon your return!
Amy Blakemore - Foyle Young Poet of the Year
Monday, April 27th, 2009Amy Blakemore has been honoured for the second time with the Foyle
Young Poet of the Year award. Read about her and her amazing achievement on the Times Online, the article was also published in the Sunday Times
Magazine last weekend.
Well done Amy, we are delighted for you and very proud of you and your achievement.
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The Times Online: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article6044758.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1
Amy Blakemore, currently studying English Literature, History, Philosophy and Ethics at A level in our Sixth Form has been for two years one of the 15 overall winners of the prestigious Foyle Young poets of the Year Award in 2007 and again in 2008; this award is the number one poetry award for young people from 11-17 recognising and rewarding the brightest future stars of the poetry world.
Each year the number of entries is extremely high level – nearly 10,000 poems are entered from all over the world. The winners’ top prize is a course at the world-renowned creative-writing Arvon Centre; Amy has now attended the Arvon Centre for two consecutive years, she has been tutored by poets and made real friends of other young poetry prize winners, some of whom came to Bacon’s this academic year and read their poetry to a Sixth Form audience.
The winners revealed that for young poets all over the world, poetry is a special means of providing a distinctive voice in world full of its own noise – it can make its voice heard above all the distractions. The young poets show that it is possible to unite with a universal identity through their use of language.
Ms James
Education.. “either bestows a person the freedom of their culture, or deprives them of it”
Friday, April 24th, 2009The title of this blog entry is a loose quote from Malinowski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinowski#References), which is also used at the beginning of the Conservative Party document, “Restoring Pride in our Public Services” which sets out their likely manifesto for education appearing in a general election coming to a country near you soon. The quote means that a good education opens doors and provides access to the rich wealth of experiences that our culture has to offer. A bad education does the reverse, it deprives a person of those experiences and limits their future opportunities. This is an extremely important point for British society as 16% of our current adult workforce is illiterate, denying them access to everything written and printed and all that written and printed media have to offer (like a job requiring the ability to read or write).
Part of the measure of a an outstanding school is what happens to it’s students when they leave at the end of Year 11, this also indicates what future opportunities for young people have been secured.
Last year 99.5% of Bacon’s students went on to either continue education, training or to enter employment (4.5%). By way of comparison the figures for the surrounding borough were 87% continuing with their education and training, 9% going into employment and with 4% becoming unemployed.
I am very pleased that Bacon’s college is doing so much to improve the life chances of young people from a very wide range of backgrounds, cultures and abilities. Young people leave Bacon’s College with significantly enhanced life opportunities and have as a consequence the benefit of the rich experiences that their culture has to offer.