“Forget Homer: think George Lucas, the great Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001- A Space Odyssey’. In fact the sci-fi pastiche is really an amusing ex-cuse for a selection of famous stories turned into witty and accomplished sketches.”
– Time Out (said of the original play)
A SPACE ODYSSEY
Year 11 GCSE Drama are putting on a production of “The Odyssey” by Homer.
But forget Ancient Greeks and heroes of stone. This is more like Homer Simpson than Homer the Ancient poet of Classical Greece. The entire story is retold set ‘in a galaxy near you’ as Star Wars would say.
The students have been rehearsing since the end of last term. They have managed to create an extraordinary array of video, sound, and lighting effects to bring the story to life. It is Fun, fast and daft.
‘BOARD’ OF OPEN DAYS? Not anymore.
On Friday the 4th October an open day to introduce the new year 7s was in full swing! The year 13 BTEC business students (with the help of Mrs Aworth) arranged for the theme to be Monopoly based, in which the whole school was transformed into a real life giant Monopoly board with a grand prize of *drum roll* an iPad!
To win this iPad students had to work their way around the building collecting money and stamps from different faculties in the school, sacrificing their cash on quiz questions at the tax stations. At the end of the board, students could exchange this hard earned cash for prizes. The winner of which turned out to be a student from the Business Academy’s very own primary School - Julia Uscinska.
By Charlie Heselden & Jessica Pryke
I am delighted that Yellow House Senior Students have launched this new newsletter. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the large number of Academy Senior Students and Subject Prefects that supported our recent Open Events as tour guides and subject helpers. The evaluations from visitors were superb and last week our amazing Sixth Formers took the lead in supporting our Sixth Form Open Evening. It has been a very successful term and the vast majority of students have continued to show genuine pride in their behaviour and attitudes towards learning.
Well done!
Have an excellent break and see you next term.
Mr Guy Nichols
“Forget Homer: think George Lucas, the great Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001- A Space Odyssey’. In fact the sci-fi pastiche is really an amusing ex-cuse for a selection of famous stories turned into witty and accomplished sketches.”
