Dear parents/carers,
I hope you’ve had a good week. It’s been another very busy and rewarding week at NAC.
On Wednesday we hosted an alternative sports festival primary event with over 190 students from our feeder primary schools. Once again, our Sports Leaders who led the event were incredible ambassadors for the college and role models to the younger students. The staff from the visiting primary schools could not speak highly enough of them. Well done!
Yesterday our under 16 Netball team competed in the final (four) of the National Sisters in Sport competition at Loughborough University . The event was streamed live and our girls performed amazingly against two of the best netballing schools in the country, narrowly losing both the semi-final and third place play off. We are so proud of everything that the team has achieved and know that this week is perfect preparation for their National Finals next weekend. A huge well done and congratulations!
It was also great to see our 6th Form boys’ football team competing in the Devon Colleges Cup this week; and although we lost to a very strong Colyton Grammar School team it shows how much 6th form sport is developing here at NAC to the point we are now competing in these tournaments. Well done!
Our skiers had their final dry ski slope practice this week before they head off to the French Alps on Good Friday. They are definitely all looking snow ready and can’t wait to get out there and carve up the slopes.
Year 11 have conducted themselves very well in their mock exams this week which bodes well for next week and for the summer. With only ten weeks until the first exam starts, it is really important that they are revising, both at home and by attending the revision sessions we are putting on, so that they feel fully prepared. The exams will produce some really valuable information for our teachers in terms of where there are gaps in our students’ knowledge which can then be addressed in lessons, as well as give students the experience of multiple exams in a short period to demystify what the actual exam period will be like, which will hopefully reduce any anxiety they feel about them.
We are pleased to share that attendance has improved this week, which is excellent, as students can only learn when they are in school. Thank you to all those parents who have worked with us to ensure that their child/ren are in college and making the most of their education.
Our GCSE and A level Religious Studies students have had some great enrichment activities this week. Two year 12 students had an incredible opportunity to visit Auschwitz on 6th March as part of the ‘Lessons from Auschwitz Project’ with the Holocaust Educational Trust; and our GCSE RS students in year 10 and year 9 visited Abbotsbury Church for a practical demonstration of what is entailed in a baptism and a eucharist service with the local Vicar.
Have a good weekend.
Amy