Bath Community Academy Weekly Newsletter – Term 2 Edition 2
This newsletter is issued weekly in order to celebrate the achievements of students and staff as well as to thank those
who put so much effort into ensuring that students at Bath Community Academy continue to have opportunities to
try new things and to maximise their achievements. I hope you enjoy reading this newsletter as much as I enjoy
receiving and collating each item. Please do continue to inform me of any studentsʹ achievements and experiences that
I am unaware of so that they can be included in future editions.
CLF hosts the Prime Minister!
The CLF hosted a full cabinet meeting on Monday, in a classroom at John Cabot Academy in Kingswood, including
the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg. Students from across the Federation,
including nine Year 11 BCA students, attended a question and answer session with Mr Cameron where George Young
asked an excellent question about immigration. All students listened intently and enjoyed working alongside other
CLF students to craft questions for the PM. The full news stories can be seen on the CLF website
(http://www.clfacademies.net/index.php/news-media/).
Maths Quiz 1 – The answer was the bottle costs 50p. Congratulations to George Lynn - See Mr Huxley for your prize!
Maths Quiz 2
There are 300 students in the school.
There are 4 times as many boys as girls.
How many boys are there?
Email answers to Mr Huxley!
CLF Big Charity Read
Today we had 24 KS3 students raising money for charity by taking part in the CLF Big Charity Read. Hopefully,
working alongside other CLF academies, we will raise lots of money for charity.
THE ATC (AIR TRAINING CORPS)
The Bath Community Academy ATC currently has 13 cadets. This group is part of 93 Squadron (Bath) and cadets can
also optionally attend sessions on Tuesday and Friday evenings at the TA Centre on Lower Bristol Road.
Powered flying is available approximately once a month and additional flying slots are sometimes also possible.
The ATC uses the nearby Colerne Airfield under the control of the ‘Vickers ‘organisation and we are lucky to have
such a facility nearby.
The aircraft are custom-built trainers and are especially stressed to cope with aerobatics safely. The pilots are retired
RAF fighter or other type of aircraft pilots with many years of experience. Cadets must be 13 years and 3 months or
over to fly.
The planes are dual control GROB twin-seaters and cadets can choose to do aerobatics if they wish (Mr Elliott has
done a ‘ Loop the Loop ‘ and ‘ Barrel Roll ‘ and have experienced momentary ‘ zero gravity ‘ at the top of the loop and
extra g-forces at the bottom). Flights normally last about 25 minutes and cadets are encouraged to take the controls.
Gliding classes are also available on certain weekends at Hullavington airfield near Chippenham.
For more details, see Mr Elliott.
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Principal: Adam Williams
Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QL
Tel: 01225 426268
Fax: 01225 447036
Web: www.bathcommunityacademy.org
Bath Community Academy is part of the Cabot Learning Federation, a registered Charity No 1119322 registered in England and
Wales (as a Company Limited by Guarantee No 6207590
Registered Office: Woodside Road, Kingswood, Bristol, BS15 8BD)
SPONSORED BY ROLLS ROYCE PLC AND THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND
Project Phoenix
Mr Seavill and the staff at BCA continue to deliver a fantastic range of Project Phoenix activities every Friday
afternoon. To catch up with the latest news and stars of the week, log on to www.bcaprojectphoenix.wordpress.com
BBC
We have made broadcasting history at BCA! Some of our students made it to the final cut of a simultaneous broadcast
around the world to mark the 90th anniversary of the first ever radio announcement by the British Broadcasting
Company!
Our recording went out to 80 million listeners worldwide, on every single BBC radio station, all over the world, at
5.33pm on Wednesday evening. The students were asked to send a message to a future grandchild in 90 years
time. Listen to the broadcast on the BBC website, and see if you can spot some of our students! You will hear Elliot
East predicting that we'll all be living on Mars in 90 years time, and he hopes we won't get burnt!
Well Done!
Curtis Dunn (Year 11) has been selected for the district football squad. He was chosen from 177 other players for the
final 16. All other 15 players are part of professional set ups already so Curtis has done brilliantly! Well Done!
Upcoming Key Dates
Visit our website for more details on upcoming key dates and events.
Term 2 - Monday 5 November 2012 to Friday 21 December 2012
10th Dec – BCA Carol Service 7-9pm
12th Dec – Parent Information Evening 6-7pm
Term 3 - Monday 7 January 2013 to Friday 8 February 2013
9th Jan – Year 10 Parent’s Evening 4-7pm
Term 4 – Monday 18 February 2013 to Friday 22 March 2013
20th Feb Year 9 Parent’s Evening 4-7pm
21st Feb – Year 11 Parent’s Evening 4-7pm
Term 5 – Monday 8 April 2013 to Friday 24 May 2013
Term 6 – Monday 3 June 2013 to Friday 19 July 2013
5th June – Year 10 Parent’s Evening 4-7pm
11th July – Academy Production 7.30 – 9pm
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Principal: Adam Williams
Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QL
Tel: 01225 426268
Fax: 01225 447036
Web: www.bathcommunityacademy.org
Bath Community Academy is part of the Cabot Learning Federation, a registered Charity No 1119322 registered in England and
Wales (as a Company Limited by Guarantee No 6207590
Registered Office: Woodside Road, Kingswood, Bristol, BS15 8BD)
SPONSORED BY ROLLS ROYCE PLC AND THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND