Superstar Students Well done to Claudia Walker and Richard Walker who were

fantastic as the comperes at the Freebrough Academy Awards Evening

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Parents can take a look at important calendar dates, access a range of academy policies and use our ‘Ask a Question’ form to send in any queries.

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Our Students Support Local Older Residents

Freebrough Academy staff and students recently hosted a

special kind of event for senior citizens from the local community.

Around 35 people from Brotton Over Sixties Luncheon Club

enjoyed afternoon tea in the superb facilities of the Freebrough

Restaurant – and they even had a game of bingo!

Since the Academy opened a year ago it has been at the heart of

East Cleveland. Principal Linda Halbert explains, ‘We are

creating a vibrant environment at Freebrough, not only for our

students who are inspired and motivated to achieve excellence,

but also for the local community who can benefit from our superb

facilities and ‘can do’ culture.’

The Brotton Over Sixties Luncheon Club organises popular and

fun activities and outings for older people in rural Brotton.

Margaret Whitehead, organiser of the club says, ‘The event

hosted by Freebrough was a superb social occasion. It’s exactly

what makes our members feel part of their local community, and

connect with people around them.’

Chef at Freebrough Restaurant, Stewart McGreskin says, ‘Local

residents enjoyed well-deserved pampering and attention, and

our motivated students put their skills into real-life practice,

gaining the satisfaction of helping others along the way. Win-win

for us all!’

The event marks an on-going programme by Freebrough

Restaurant to open its doors to the wider community. It currently

provides a before-school breakfast club, break time snacks and a

wide range of healthy, delicious lunches for students. Now it

intends to expand this further, so local people can benefit too.

This has been a very positive and

productive half term in Freebrough

Academy. The vast majority of

students have come back to school

very focused on their learning and

positive about school. We are

delighted with the progress that has been made by Year 7 in

their first half term. Students have worked really hard to become

full and active members of the academy community. The

meeting with Year 7 parents at the end of September confirmed

how positive the transition process had been and how positive

the impact has been on students. 98% of parents said their

child had settled well at Freebrough. This is fantastic

feedback and means that those young people can really begin to

learn and make progress from day one.

Year 11 are really focusing on their preparation for their

examinations and working hard for their GCSE maths exam in

November. They are making good progress towards meeting

their targets and making the most of the many extra study

support opportunities available to them after school. Keep up

the good work. We are very proud of you.

I would like to remind parents and carers that we run a Youth

Club in partnership with the Youth Service, Police, and the Fire

Service. Friday@Freebrough now has 57 members and runs

from 6.30-9.00 pm every Friday evening.

We have had a fantastic end to this half term with two special

events. On Monday 17 October 2011 Freebrough Academy

held its first Awards Evening. Professor Graham Henderson,

Vice Chancellor at Teesside University, presented awards for

achievement and progress as well as special awards for

attendance and contribution to the academy. The event was

attended by The Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland Councillor Mrs

Olwyn Peters, sponsors, governors and community partners as

well as nearly 200 very proud parents and carers. Well done to

all of those nominees and winners.

On Tuesday 18 October 2012 the Science and Engineering

group presented their designs for the "Freebrough Gardens".

Their designs are very creative and original and their

presentations showed evidence of their scientific knowledge and

understanding. We are looking to create some of the designs in

our grounds. Watch this space for developments.

I would like to remind you that school returns at 8.35 am on

Monday 31 October 2011.

We look forward to working with you next half term

Cross Country

Freebrough attended the English Schools Cross Country first

round at Laurence Jackson school on Thursday 6th October 2011.

This is the first year we have entered more than one team which is

something to be proud of in itself. All teams (Junior Boys, Junior

Girls and Intermediate Boys) performed well and pushed

themselves through the hard course, which proved difficult for

even the best runners.

Exceptional performances from Tom Pajak, Kenan Sanderson

Lettin and Adam McMillan who came in 3rd, 5th and 7th place out

of 60. Unfortunately as a team they just missed out on progressing

to the next round by one place as they came in 4th (out of nine

schools overall).

Other performances that stood out include Tyren Lettin (16th

place) and Courtney Taylor (year 7) who came in 6th and was

also running against year 8 students.

All runners should be pleased with their efforts, hopefully next

year we will get through to the next round.

2 November 2011

Year 10 Bowes Museum Trip

10 November 2011 World War 2 Evening - All Welcome

14 to 18 November 2011 Lanehead Trip

Premier League Enterprise Challenge

On Friday 14 October 2011 a group of Freebrough students took part in the Premier League Enterprise Challenge. They did a great job of researching and putting together a presentation which they then delivered to teams from other schools. Unfortunately we did not win the challenge but the girls certainly gave 100% for the Academy. The Teams were: Year 10 team Ashleigh Bailes Nicole Gilpin Faye Parry Megan Scarff Year 9 team Karsha Brown Sadie Howard Nicoe Ovington Nicole Starsmore Leah Jay Watson

A Dedication Through Drama Miss Beasley’s GCSE drama group are currently working on some very sensitive drama work about the 9/11 attacks in dedication to all those who suffered. They are going to display some of this work in the last week of October in the academy.

We’re Getting Our Grown-Ups Growing Freebrough Academy’s Science and Engineering Club held a showcase event as part of the Royal Horticultural Society’s ‘Get your Grown-ups Growing Campaign’ on Tuesday 18th October 2011. The Science and Engineering Club involves students at both Key stage 3 and Key stage 4 and aims to raise students aspirations though applied STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Technology) activities. Over the last term, students have been looking at developing an area of the Academy grounds into a “Freebrough Garden”. Students were set a brief to design a garden that is sustainable, is an outdoor learning environment and provides the school and its community a rich cross curricular resource. As part of their research they have visited RHS gardens at Harlow Carr and been supported by the Bowes Museum, in Barnard Castle. At the event students shared their ideas, experiences and designs in an informal setting. Well done to the students involved for being fantastic ambassadors for Freebrough. They s p o k e w i t h c on f i denc e and enthusiasm about their designs to representatives from the local council, our board of governors and our primary feeder schools . This photograph shows the vision that the students hope will become a reality.

Can you spare a couple of hours each half term?

Friends of Freebrough is a small group of staff and members of the local community who are

dedicated to raising funds for the benefit of our students.

The group urgently needs new members to help with the organisation of fundraising events.

All money raised by the group is used to supplement extra curricular activities and to

provide subject areas with additional resources. Students can also bid for investment in their ideas

during a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style panel.

All parents and members of the community are welcome to join the group for their next meeting on Thursday 3 November at 4.00 pm in the academy.

For more information please contact Mrs Evans on 01287 676305