🏆The Festival of Sport scores are in and the winners are:

🥇Year 7: Ali 🥇

🥇Year 8: Ali 🥇

🥇Year 9: Franklin 🥇

🥇Year 10: Einstein 🥇

 

🏆Our Festival of Sport was a fantastic three-day event, with each year group enjoying a dedicated day of sporting activities on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday🏆

 

🏆Throughout the festival, students took part in a wide variety of sports, including Rounders, Volleyball, Fitness, Badminton, Softball, Swimming and Dodgeball. The event provided an excellent opportunity for students to experience different activities, develop new skills and challenge themselves in a fun and supportive environment🏆

 

🏆Across all three days, students demonstrated enthusiasm, determination and excellent teamwork, while developing a wide range of sporting skills and characteristics, including communication, resilience, leadership and respect. It was wonderful to see so many students encouraging one another, embracing new challenges and giving their very best throughout each activity🏆

 

🏆The Festival of Sport was a great success, with students thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to stay active, work together and celebrate the benefits of physical activity. Well done to everyone who took part and contributed to making the event such an enjoyable and memorable experience. The beautiful weather added to the atmosphere, and students were able to enjoy an ice cream while cheering on their classmates and celebrating their achievements🏆

 

🏆A huge thank you goes to Newton Abbot Rugby Club for generously allowing us to use their excellent facilities to host the event. Their support played a key role in making the day such a memorable occasion and we couldn’t have done it without such support from the local community🏆@newtonAbbotRugbyClub #newtonabbotrugbyclub #localsupport 

 

🏆Well done again to every student who took part. Your enthusiasm, resilience and team spirit made this year's House Olympics another tremendous success, and we are already looking forward to next year's event!🏆

🏆The Festival of Sport scores are in and the winners are: 🥇Year 7: Ali 🥇 🥇Year 8: Ali 🥇 🥇Year 9: Franklin 🥇 🥇Year 10: Einstein 🥇   🏆Our Festival of Sport was a fantastic three-day event, with each year group enjoying a dedicated day of sporting activities on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday🏆   🏆Throughout the festival, students took part in a wide variety of sports, including Rounders, Volleyball, Fitness, Badminton, Softball, Swimming and Dodgeball. The event provided an excellent opportunity for students to experience different activities, develop new skills and challenge themselves in a fun and supportive environment🏆   🏆Across all three days, students demonstrated enthusiasm, determination and excellent teamwork, while developing a wide range of sporting skills and characteristics, including communication, resilience, leadership and respect. It was wonderful to see so many students encouraging one another, embracing new challenges and giving their very best throughout each activity🏆   🏆The Festival of Sport was a great success, with students thoroughly enjoying the opportunity to stay active, work together and celebrate the benefits of physical activity. Well done to everyone who took part and contributed to making the event such an enjoyable and memorable experience. The beautiful weather added to the atmosphere, and students were able to enjoy an ice cream while cheering on their classmates and celebrating their achievements🏆   🏆A huge thank you goes to Newton Abbot Rugby Club for generously allowing us to use their excellent facilities to host the event. Their support played a key role in making the day such a memorable occasion and we couldn’t have done it without such support from the local community🏆@newtonAbbotRugbyClub #newtonabbotrugbyclub #localsupport    🏆Well done again to every student who took part. Your enthusiasm, resilience and team spirit made this year's House Olympics another tremendous success, and we are already looking forward to next year's event!🏆

We jumped out of the classroom and into sport’s day like🏃‍♀️🥏😀🏅 Some wonderful photos will be with you this afternoon, but we wanted to celebrate a few clips of our wonderful students in action at the amazing Newton Abbot Rugby Club (more on this amazing club, later)! With the heat, we felt in necessary to swap traditional athletic running races out for a range of team games and activities instead, allowing them to moderate their level of exertion more effectively and take appropriate breaks when needed. And wow!! Did they do us proud🥰 just look at them GO!🏏🥍🏆

🎶🎸On Saturday 11th July, the Coombeshead Academy Soul Band were invited to perform at the 'Party in the Park' in Chudleigh, which is part of the town’s current festival, Chudfest 🎶🎸

 

🎶🎸Their performance was excellent as they played a strong set to a large crowd in the wonderful sunshine: again, highlighting how confident and boundary pushing our students are ❤️ After their performance, the people attending the event came and spoke to the pupils about how much they enjoyed their performance and were commenting on how they perform to such a high standard🎶🎸Did any of you attend this wonderful local event? We would love to know🎶🎸

 

Once again, our musicians represented the school in a professional and admirable way, and we are SO proud! 

🎶🎸On Saturday 11th July, the Coombeshead Academy Soul Band were invited to perform at the 'Party in the Park' in Chudleigh, which is part of the town’s current festival, Chudfest 🎶🎸   🎶🎸Their performance was excellent as they played a strong set to a large crowd in the wonderful sunshine: again, highlighting how confident and boundary pushing our students are ❤️ After their performance, the people attending the event came and spoke to the pupils about how much they enjoyed their performance and were commenting on how they perform to such a high standard🎶🎸Did any of you attend this wonderful local event? We would love to know🎶🎸   Once again, our musicians represented the school in a professional and admirable way, and we are SO proud! 

✨Our weekly round-up is early as there is so much going on at Coombeshead Academy! See what our amazing students have been up to, below✨  
🤩Top row: our Year 7 students were selected as part of our final term of celebrating success. Rather than their normal timetabled lesson, a select students who have shown excellent success this academic year took part in a pool party! Congratulations to our Year 7 cohort on a very successful year!🤩
 
 
🤩A taster of our incredible sports days: a more in-depth post will be coming out early next week so watch this post but I could not resist sharing at least one!🤩
 
 
🤩‘Shrek the Musical’ has been absolutely sensational and so incredibly received: we are filled with pride at the depth our students have gone to make the show such a success! There is still a little bit more time to get last minute tickets to tonight’s final extravaganza!🤩
 
 
🤩The year 12 Maths students spent the day at Plymouth University on Tuesday. The aim of the day was to give students ideas as to how they could use their A level in maths in future careers. The first session was all about fluid engineering. Students worked with Pelton Turbines, which are used in hydro power. The aim of their experiment was to adjust the water flow rate into the turbine to reach the optimal ratio, where minimal energy is being wasted but there is still enough force to power the turbine. Session 2 was focused on learning how to use micro-bit to programme autonomous vehicles to travel around a race track, and session 3 was a carousel of Maths problems, with each group having to solve as many of the problems as they could in the allocated time, with Coombeshead solving 9 of them. The students all had a great time, and the sessions helped them all to decide exactly what they want to apply to study at University next year.🤩
 
 
🤩Finally, a special shout-out to Year 8 Diversity Ambassador for his outstanding commitment to promoting diversity in school. He has come up with the ambitious idea of contacting the embassies of all the countries represented at Coombeshead Academy (over 40 of them!) to collect their national flags and celebrate the global diversity within our school community. During the May half-term, he even travelled to London to support his project and was invited to have tea at the Philippine Embassy! What a fantastic example of initiative and cultural awareness. Well done! 👏🌍

✨Our weekly round-up is early as there is so much going on at Coombeshead Academy! See what our amazing students have been up to, below✨  🤩Top row: our Year 7 students were selected as part of our final term of celebrating success. Rather than their normal timetabled lesson, a select students who have shown excellent success this academic year took part in a pool party! Congratulations to our Year 7 cohort on a very successful year!🤩  🤩A taster of our incredible sports days: a more in-depth post will be coming out early next week so watch this post but I could not resist sharing at least one!🤩  🤩‘Shrek the Musical’ has been absolutely sensational and so incredibly received: we are filled with pride at the depth our students have gone to make the show such a success! There is still a little bit more time to get last minute tickets to tonight’s final extravaganza!🤩  🤩The year 12 Maths students spent the day at Plymouth University on Tuesday. The aim of the day was to give students ideas as to how they could use their A level in maths in future careers. The first session was all about fluid engineering. Students worked with Pelton Turbines, which are used in hydro power. The aim of their experiment was to adjust the water flow rate into the turbine to reach the optimal ratio, where minimal energy is being wasted but there is still enough force to power the turbine. Session 2 was focused on learning how to use micro-bit to programme autonomous vehicles to travel around a race track, and session 3 was a carousel of Maths problems, with each group having to solve as many of the problems as they could in the allocated time, with Coombeshead solving 9 of them. The students all had a great time, and the sessions helped them all to decide exactly what they want to apply to study at University next year.🤩  🤩Finally, a special shout-out to Year 8 Diversity Ambassador for his outstanding commitment to promoting diversity in school. He has come up with the ambitious idea of contacting the embassies of all the countries represented at Coombeshead Academy (over 40 of them!) to collect their national flags and celebrate the global diversity within our school community. During the May half-term, he even travelled to London to support his project and was invited to have tea at the Philippine Embassy! What a fantastic example of initiative and cultural awareness. Well done! 👏🌍

🌟 Our Coombeshead Students Shine in Student-led Q&A Activity! 🌟 A selection of our lovely students recently took the reins of our social media and ran their very own Q&A activity in which they reflected on their experiences here at Coombeshead. They worked hard together to create thoughtful questions and provide well-reasoned answers whilst also leading how they wanted it to be filmed. They are really keen to do a follow up video and would love to know what you would like to see next? A day in the life of a student, perhaps? Let us know in the comments!   It was fantastic to see such enthusiasm, creativity, and teamwork throughout making this video and I’d like to say a big well done for their excellent effort, confidence, and participation: we're proud of the authenticity and determination you continue to show every day! 👏📚