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We are proud to say that we have managed to keep the Chase Terrace Academy foodbank running throughout Lockdown and have sent out over 100 parcels. We are calling for your help once again to enable us to help our local families in the run up to the Easter break. Our foodbank is now depleted and we desperately need to restock. With this in mind, we would be grateful if you could possibly spare a food or toiletry item that could be sent into school next week to support our cause. All donations can be left by students at the dining hall entrance.
“Eggs for Easter” campaign
In addition, we would also like to launch our “Eggs for Easter” campaign and would welcome an Easter egg donation. Any gifts would be given out via our foodbank, as well as treating a local care home. We would love to give the residents and the care workers, with your assistance, an egg to show that the Chase Terrace Academy community care.
We very much appreciate your continued kindness and support. Thankyou.
Back in school at last:
This week has seen the Sports Hall block work as a Lateral Flow testing centre for our staff and students and has been a hive of activity. For the time being therefore our students have been based in the older part of the building to maintain safe distances and reducing contact points.
Although the curriculum was slightly disrupted due to lack of facilities the Department have worked hard to motivate and engage our students in school Physical Education once more. Our activities have included:
Performers of the Week
Last week our performer of the week was awarded to Grace in Year 9. She is a regional gymnast and has had to work extremely hard to maintain her fitness levels. She has attended our remote fitness and morning HITT sessions. In addition to this Grace has sent us pictures and videos of her own training and her attempts to beat the teacher in the challenges that we have set via form tutors and Twitter.
This week our performer of the week was awarded to Tom in Year 9 who has involved himself in every part of PE life. He has worked particularly hard in the live activities and provided the PE staff with excellent feedback . In addition he has completed a log of all the activities that he has participated in. Well done Tom.
Extra – Curricular Activities
We were keen to engage in physical activities face to face as soon as this was possible but also to maintain some of the live online classes running though Lockdown. It was very important to put in health and safety checks and complete a rigorous risk assessment so that we could operate a program. Unfortunately students can only attend clubs in year group bubbles and we do have to limit numbers. Where possible our classes are located outdoors, but if this is not appropriate to the activity we have worked in very well ventilated large spaces.
Please see our extra – curricular plan below up until Easter:
Day | Activity | Staff Member | Time |
Tuesday | Netball (Year10) | Mrs Tooth | 3.00 -3.45 |
Wednesday | Boxercise (Year 9)* Netball (Year 11) Dance (Year 8) | Pete Woollard/Miss Wilson Mrs Tooth Miss Vivian | 3.00 -3.45 3.00 -3.45 3.00-3.45 |
Thursday | Boxing Year 9 * Hockey (Year 7) | Wayne Elcock/ Mrs Tooth Miss Wilson | 3.15 – 4.00 3.00 – 3.45 |
Staying motivated and working hard in PE?
Professional sportspeople talk to you about their experiences inside and outside of sport. We would like to introduce you to:
Zach Wallace – Great Britain international field hockey player
Zach took time out to talk to us about his career pathway, and how it has developed over the years. He is currently preparing for the Tokyo Olympics this coming summer – we wish him every success.
Stay fit and healthy.
Chase Terrace academy PE Department
We have seen strange times in the Chase Terrace Academy PE Department since the beginning of Lockdown. We have had many questions to answer… but mainly, how do we engage with the pupils at this very difficult time and how do we encourage them to engage with us? The following information newsletter highlights what we have achieved.
Pupils have participated really well in an extensive PowerPoint that we sent out via Show My Homework. PE Staff recorded explanations as to how to make the most use out of the presentation, encouraging them to investigate and participate in a healthy active lifestyle. The sections included:
From the feedback that you have sent in about the activities you enjoyed, we have created collages and filled a notice board with a small sample of your activities.
In addition, we have delivered the following enterprising activities:
Created PowerPoints and quizzes: This was to continue with theory development in the sports that we should have participated in, if we had been in school.
PE Department set up a Twitter account:
An extra medium of communication was set up to promote activities that the students could get involved in to maintain an active healthy lifestyle. We linked with organisations to promote free, safe online activities. Our account is @CTA_PE if you would like to follow us. We also used this media platform to support the initiatives below:
Beat the Teacher: Practical challenges were created by the PE staff that were recorded and sent out via registration and on Twitter. Pupils were then encouraged to attempt the same challenge and see if they could achieve higher scores. There were many who did!
Online “Performer of the Week”: Pupils have been working so hard to stay active that it has been only right that each PE teacher could nominate a person who deserved that extra recognition. Sadly we couldn’t nominate everybody, but it was lovely to have so much choice.
Accessed money for instructors to deliver live weekly extra-curricular lessons on Teams
We were extremely lucky to have links with James Austin, the Burntwood and Lichfield School Games Organiser and Tasmine Turner, Sports Development Officer for Burntwood and Lichfield (also an ex Chase Terrace student.) The money that the two generously allocated allowed us to access the following coaches who all delivered live extra-curricular clubs for our Chase Terrace students which have been well attended:
We know that our pupils can go on to see these instructors in and around the Burntwood area through Tasmin’s Getin2it Program. Please visit the website as our pupils are now familiar with some of the activities. These will be delivered in outdoor spaces as soon as it is allowed. The online feedback about the activities has been fantastic.
Delivery of live extra-curricular lessons by the PE Staff on Teams
In addition to the instructors the PE Team delivered a fitness session and a HIIT session twice a week where we were able to interact with the students.
Moving Forward:
We have contacted variety of sports people and asked them to support us motivating our pupils to return to activity again. Our first motivational speaker is below. Have you seen him on the television recently in the World Indoor Athletics Championships?
Elliot Giles
Elliot Giles recently broke the British 800m record while running the second-fastest indoor time in history. His time of 1 min 43.63 seconds, which he ran on Wednesday (February 17th 2021) at the World Indoor Tour in Torun, Poland, beat the record held by Sebastian Coe, which had stood since 1983 Elliot took time out, two days before this record breaking event to speak to the pupils of CTA.
Hard work, commitment and resilience do pay off!
Stay fit and healthy.
We’ve had a fantastic start to Careers Week 2021! We started the week with live ‘Guess Who’ guests who were streamed into live lessons, including graduates, the Navy, a dance teacher & finance directors to name a few, answering questions, giving advice and sharing their own career stories!
Thank you to all our guest speakers who are supporting us this week.
Click here to see our guest speaker videos.