Love Your School: Wednesfield Academy.

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We take a look around Wednesfield Academy and chat to the head of the school in our Love Your School feature.

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00:00Hi, I'm Jay Phillips and I'm Head Teacher here at Wensfield Academy.

00:07At Wensfield we're very proud of our pupils who really do buy into the school community.

00:12We're also very lucky to have supportive parents and a superb staff body.

00:17Here we have a fantastic library as well as this theatre that you'll see and other excellent

00:23classrooms.

00:24We're very pleased that our admissions numbers continue to go up and up and we are now heavily

00:28over-subscribed because parents want their children to attend here.

00:34So we've got three budding scientists here, how are you doing guys, are you ok?

00:37Yeah.

00:38What's your names?

00:39Callum.

00:40And?

00:41Lily.

00:42Emmanuel.

00:43Cool.

00:44What's your favourite subjects here at the school then?

00:45History.

00:46History?

00:47Yeah.

00:48Fair do's, what about you?

00:49Drama.

00:50Drama.

00:51Biology.

00:52Biology.

00:53I see we're almost in the right place for you, aren't we?

00:54We're the science.

00:55And what is it you want to go on to do, kind of once you leave school, career-wise?

00:58Any ideas yet?

00:59I'd like to go into politics and try and improve people's lives and make the area that I grew

01:07up in a bit better.

01:08Fair do, mate.

01:09And?

01:10The film industry.

01:11Film industry?

01:12Yeah, cool.

01:13I'd like to go into pediatric nursing.

01:14Nursing?

01:15Yeah, good stuff.

01:16Well we wish you all the best with your chosen careers guys, take care of yourselves, thank

01:21you.

01:22So this is our library here at Wensfield Academy, we're really proud of how we've restocked

01:27a number of the books and pupils come in regularly at break time and after school and

01:31very much enjoy reading a number of different novels.

01:34We're also very lucky to run a number of different programmes with the Accelerated Reader and

01:38the Lipsonic to help those pupils who may be initially finding reading slightly challenging,

01:43but those programmes and the teaching enable them to be able to access a greater range.

01:48How you doing guys, you okay?

01:50Yeah.

01:51What do you think of your fantastic library?

01:52It's a good size, isn't it?

01:53Yeah, it's amazing.

01:54It is, isn't it?

01:55It's nice and big, yeah, nice and bright in here as well.

01:58What you been reading lately?

01:59Any particular?

02:00I've been reading Dogman, but then I've been going on to Percy Jackson lately.

02:04Ah, he's the one, they've done some of his books into films, haven't they?

02:08Yeah.

02:09Oh, right, cool.

02:10And what about you guys, what you been up to?

02:11I'm also reading Henry, Perry and Curious, I think I'm going to teach it.

02:16Well, if it's as good as the title, it's a good book.

02:18How's it going down, alright?

02:20Yeah.

02:21Yeah?

02:22What's the basis of it then, is it a bit of a fantasy book?

02:24It's called Ugly Pigeon and it's one of my favourite books of all.

02:27Ugly Pigeon.

02:28What about you, mate, any particular books you've been up reading lately, any good?

02:31What's this one?

02:32Let's have a look.

02:33Ah, I've heard of that.

02:34Is it any good?

02:35You can recommend it, yeah?

02:36Great stuff.

02:37Well, we'll let you crack on with your reading lesson, guys.

02:40Thank you for getting involved.

02:41How you doing, guys?

02:42You okay?

02:43You alright?

02:44Yeah, yeah.

02:45You can talk, don't worry about a bite.

02:46What's your name, boss?

02:47Manveer.

02:48Manveer.

02:49Dylan.

02:50And?

02:51Kiera.

02:52Kiera.

02:54Aerospace.

02:55Yeah, yeah.

02:56So, it's our Calcom area where we go for our independent studies between business.

02:59Yeah, it's nice, isn't it?

03:00It's a nice space, actually.

03:01Yeah, yeah.

03:02Really spacious.

03:03Yeah, it feels nice and open.

03:04So, what do you guys want to do then?

03:05Go on.

03:06What do you want to go on and do with your life, buddy?

03:07Aerospace engineering.

03:08Aerospace, yeah?

03:09Yeah, I was going to go on and do the same thing, really.

03:10Yeah, yeah.

03:11Good, good.

03:12Kiera, about yourself?

03:13Early years teaching.

03:14Early years, yeah.

03:15Fair do's.

03:16So, yeah.

03:17Aerospace is not a bad gig for being in Wolverhampton.

03:18Yeah.

03:19And early years.

03:20So, you're good with little ones then?

03:21Yeah.

03:22Yeah, good stuff.

03:23Well, we wish you all the best, guys.

03:24Crack on with it and good luck in the future.

03:25All right.

03:26Okay.

03:27How are you doing, guys?

03:28You okay?

03:29So, we've got Miss Davenport, D&T teacher.

03:30And what's your name, boss?

03:31It's Ritik Singh.

03:32Cool.

03:33So, what are you working on, Ritik?

03:34We're having a little chat off camera.

03:35What's this going to be?

03:36This is like a prototype, yeah?

03:37Yeah.

03:38It's going to be a side table.

03:39Yeah.

03:40It opens and then it closes.

03:41So, it's going to be a side table.

03:42Yeah.

03:43It's going to be a side table.

03:45Yeah.

03:46It's going to be a side table.

03:47Yeah.

03:48It opens and there's a storing object in it.

03:49So, it's like multipurpose, multifunctional.

03:50Great stuff.

03:51Is this the start of your furniture empire then?

03:52Here in Wentsfield?

03:53Yeah.

03:54Well, good luck with it, guys.

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