Unity College students were recently involved in celebrating the ‘European Day of Languages’. PD groups took part in a quiz and discussed the role of languages in the wider world. Year 7 Modern Foreign Languages students also took part in a whole college competition to design a poster following the theme of ‘My Sports Language Role Model’. The Languages department were overwhelmed with the effort the students put into the competition and 10 entries were chosen to be sent to Aston University in Birmingham.
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Duke of Edinburgh Fundraiser
Aimee Shearer, a student at Unity College, and granddaughter of former Mayor, Councillor Frank Cant, is using her fundraising experience as part of her work towards a Duke of Edinburgh bronze award. “It’s a good way to meet different people,” said Aimee. “There’s no reason why young people can’t get involved in fundraising and help others.” Aimee has been fundraising for a number of years but this is the first time she has been allowed on the committee. When Aimee’s grandad Frank Cant was the Mayor in 2012-2013 she was part of the fundraising team and contributed over £400 by
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Restart a Heart
Over the last week all students in year 7, and many staff, were involved in Restart a Heart training run by North West Ambulance Service (NWAS). Volunteers from NWAS, Lancashire Fire Service, Lancashire Constabulary and Royal Blackburn Emergency Department worked with students to train them in life saving skills including CPR, using an AED and the recovery position. Students thoroughly enjoyed their sessions and felt they had gained some important life skills.
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Unity College Sporting Success 2017
Year 7 girls netball team, participated in the Burnley High Schools Tournament competing against Shuttleworth, Hameldon, Burnley High School, Sir John Thursby and Blessed Trinity. Both teams did exceptionally well, group 1, took first place, and group 2 took seconds place. A great start to the netball fixtures ladies. Unity College netball teams from year 7 & 8 took part in a large netball tournament held at Thomas Whitham Sixth Form. This was a successful afternoon where over 100 students from across Yorkshire, Pendle, Burnley and Blackburn participated in the event. U13’s girls Football team competed in the Premier League
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Football Winners!
Girls u12 Football team played Ormskirk School last Friday, winning 2-1. Megan Rodriguez secured 2 goals overall, one in the first half and another in the second half of the game. The girls U12 will now go through to the second round of the Lancashire Cup. The teams Goalkeeper, Isobel Halton obtained the player of the match. A fantastic result ladies! Picture from your left to right on back row; Charlie Candland, Ella Devers, Madison Larnach, Front row left to right; Leah Rowley, Isobel Halton and Megan Rodriguez.
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Dancing Partners
Olivia Hickey and Jodie-Leigh Weller gave up a Sunday afternoon to spend entertaining the elderly people at Dove Court Nursing Home. Both girls are classical sequence dance partners and wowed everyone with their performance. They also spent time talking and dancing with the elderly people and staff at the nursing home. Everyone had a lovely afternoon, well done girls!
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Employer Engagement Visit
This week we invited the RAF, The Royal Navy and BAE Systems to college to talk to year 7 and year 8 students. We found out that only 10% of the engineers in the UK work force are female! The Unity College Science department want to inspire all of our students to be the very best they can be, especially if they can have really great careers in science and engineering! We would love to get more of our female students interested careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Firstly we explored the world of drones, the technology behind them and
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Macmillan Coffee Morning
Thanks to all the year 7 parents who attended our coffee morning on Friday 29 September. It was a great success and we raised £350 on the day! Plus we are still raising money on our raffle table which ends tomorrow. The year 7 students did a great job in preparing, serving and tidying up!
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Jamming with Raspberry Pi and Scoped Solutions!
During our transition period year 6 were lucky enough to work with a local specialist software company called Scoped Solutions, to learn how to code. Scoped Solutions gave students an insight into the real world of Computing and the importance of learning how to code. Year 6 were required to use their problem solving skills to debug errors in code and then learn how to develop it to make a Piano! The Raspberry Pi’s were used to show students how they can control a device through the use of code. Scoped Solutions demonstrated how the Raspberry Pi can be used
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Burnley Literary Festival
Year 9 student Sophia Redjeb has had a high profile role in helping to promote this year’s Burnley Literary Festival and has this week recorded a radio advert for 2BR to promote the Festival to young people. The advert will run for 4 weeks and has gone live today! Sophia was extremely professional when she visited 2BR’s studios and has done an excellent job with the advert. Sophia found the experience really useful as she’s interested in radio as a potential future career opportunity. Well done Sophia!
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