Children in Need

The students at Coppice Academy raised £358.51 for

Children in Need 2017

They did this by selling biscuits, collecting Smarties tubes

filled with change, having a disco and coming to school in

something spotty or own clothes.

The 11KC organised all of the fundraising activates as part

of their Asdan qualification . We were very impressed by

their organisational skills,

ideas and determination.

Thank you to all staff, stu-

dents and parents for

helping us raise such a lot of

money which will benefit

many local good causes.

Pantomime Time!

We took the whole of the school to

see Robin Hood and his Babes in the

Wood at The Mitchell Arts Centre in

Hanley. This production was staged by

Stoke Amateur Theatre Society and

we were made very welcome by cast,

crew and front of house staff. Again,

Coppice students behaved wonderfully

and were fully involved, booing, hiss-

ing, cheering and even dancing!

Here’s what Dan in Y10 said:

The whole school went to the panto

last week at the Mitchell Arts Centre

and it’s called Babes in the Wood. I

shouted boo and this man dressed up as a woman and they had a water gun, they

wetted me on my back and I was laughing.

It was very silly. It had some funny jokes and some that weren't very funny. The

funniest part was the knock knock jokes. The music was good. The lighting was real-

ly good too– Hayden Y10

The Coppice Newsletter

We made it! It’s been a really long

term with lots of events, activities,

teaching, learning and OFSTED!!!

We will be celebrating reaching

Christmas with a range of activities

this week including quizzes, a festive

room decorating competition, themed

Maths and English lessons, staff and

student Christmas lunch and our an-

nual Christmas Church Service. Each

class has been working hard rehears-

ing their performance and we would

love to see friends and family in the

pews of St Andrews Church in the

Westlands on Thursday 21st Decem-

ber commencing at 11AM.

End of term: Friday 22nd December

at 1.15pm

Thank you to all students who supported Donna Louise Christmas

Jumper Day. Another great fundraising day!

December 2017 Back to school – Monday 8th

January 2018

Christmas Fayre We held our annual fundraising Christmas Fayre in late November. Each class came

up with fundraising ideas and organised their own stalls. We were so pleased to

have over 60 visitors on the day and raised almost £400 for school fund. We also

had a special treat from our local PCSO who bought their police car to show the

children.

Heres what 8/9-2 said about it:

I bought a DVD called Monster High. My parents came to the fayre and met my

teacher Miss Meakin. We sold reindeer chocolate sleighs.—Annie

I went to the Christmas Fayre and I went to the police car and I sounded the horn .

I had a cookbook and a box of chilli and I took home a bag of sweets.– Emily

At the Christmas Fayre we sold Santa Sleighs. There were crossbows and some

things that you could win. I went to the police car and honked the horn. I pressed

different sounds and sirens and all the flashing lights. I sat in the front seats and

the back seats. It was a lot of fun.—Harrison

As an extra bonus Mrs Woodwood successfully charmed Newcastle Under Lyme

College into inviting us to their student production of Cinderella. We were blown

away by the professionalism, energy and creativity of the students involved. A bril-

liant production.

Cinderella -I like the dance’s they dance really well. I like everything about it.I

found it funny when the ugly sister thought they were cute but they were so ugly.

I did not like the ugly sisters in the story. We watched it at Newcastle college -

Megan Y10

Recognising Achievement at Coppice Academy In November we invited students from last year’s KS4 to attend our awards evening

celebrating the wide range of accreditation they gained last summer. Mr Guy Booth, Music Therapist, gave a congratulatory speech and Mr Tony Curtis , Chair of the Academy Council thanked students and staff for their hard work . We also gave out subject awards recognising hard work and achievements from across

the school to the following students:

Principles Award Jacob Handley Computing Prize Abigail Burnett

Coppice Citizen Award

Jack Burgess Music prize Sam Jeffries

Pink Sisters Award Poppy Templeton D&T Prize Chloe Bentley

Literacy Prize Kyeron Hamlett Humanities Prize Amy Gowlett

Numeracy Prize Joseph Holland Community Award Asma Hassam

Science Prize Matthew Astbury Art Prize Adam Shallcross

PE prize Dan Grocott PHSE Prize Dion Wooliscroft Townsend

MAT Wed prize Ethan Lythgoe Room 1 Jake Shenton

Y7 Ethan Eardley Y11 Jack Phillips

8/9.1 Lily Harrison KS3 mix Loui McKinney

8/9.2 Ryan Wright KS4 mix Poppy Templeton

8/9.3 Callum Bagnall Y10 Karl Lewis

Congratulations to the Class of 2017