We are deeply saddened by the death of Her Majesty The Queen. She served the nation as our Sovereign for a magnificent 70 years. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to The Royal Family.
During the period of National Mourning we were able to support our students, staff and learning community.
We observed the national holiday on Monday 19th September for Her Majesty The Queen’s State Funeral.
25 August 2022
Governors, staff and students have been celebrating at Medina College today as students received a fantastic set of GCSE results across all subject areas. Despite the challenges presented over the last few years, students have demonstrated their resilience, dedication and commitment to their studies.
Governors would like to pay tribute to the hard work and determination of teaching and support staff who have provided outstanding support to students.
The majority of students are remaining within the Isle of Wight Education Federation community, by moving on to take A Level and vocational Level 3 courses at The Island VI Form. However, students are also progressing into a range of apprenticeships and other further education studies both on and off the Island.
Matthew Parr-Burman, Executive Headteacher for the Isle of Wight Education Federation and Head of School for Medina College, said “The students at Medina College approached their exams with maturity and determination this year. The skills and qualities they have needed to master and demonstrate over the last couple of years, stands them in very good stead for the future.”
“I am extremely proud of our school and would like to thank the staff and parents for their support. I wish each and every student all the best for the future.”
If any student across the Island is still undecided about their next step, The Island VI Form is operating a drop-in session on Friday 26 August, between 9.30am and 2.00pm. Pop in to find out more about the unique and dedicated post-16 campus and the widest range of Level 3 courses on the Island. Alternatively, you can email viform@iwef.org.uk for more information.
Year 10 students took part in work experience last week. This was an opportunity to spend a day in a workplace to see what it is like.
As you can see, Jimmy and Micheal went to White Windows where they had the opportunity to do some quotes for windows, doors and conservatories – loading and unloading work vans. They went to customers’ houses where they measured windows and provided the customer with a quote by using a CAD drawing computer programme.
The Director of White Windows, John Drakeford said ” Both Jimmy and Michael were extremely hard working – I was really impressed with them both”
Isha went to work at Capital Jewellers where she learnt how to serving customers and change a watch battery and general shop work. Isha is now interested in looking at a career in retail as she really enjoyed interacting with customers.
Well done to all year 10 students who took part in the scheme.
This Wednesday we held our first live IWEF concert since 2019, and our first ever federated concert at Carisbrooke College!
The sun shone as audience members gathered outside in our canopied area to enjoy ice creams from Plaza Ices and refreshments served by our School Pastors. The concert began at 7.00pm and featured a variety of musical performances from over 40 of our students from across the Federation.
Students from Carisbrooke College’s School of Rock club joined together to perform alongside Key Stage 4 Music students from Medina College and A level students from Island VI Form. There were also appearances from Carisbrooke College’s choir ‘Sing’ and our Staff & VI Form choir.
Olivia (Medina College Year 11) delivered the first ever live performance of her song ‘Take Me Dancing’, a piece she wrote as part of her GCSE Music coursework; clearly inspiring our younger aspiring musicians. All of our performers then joined together to perform a concert finale of The Beatles’ ‘With a little help from my friends’ having learnt and workshopped the song earlier in the day.
The concert raised £138.50 for the Creative Arts Faculty and will be going towards some new microphones for future musical events.
Thank you to all the students, staff, parents and governors who came along to support this lovely evening, and to our Creative Arts Faculty for organising this fantastic event. We are thrilled to see our students performing at live music events again and look forward to all the exciting opportunities 2022/2023 will bring! All students are warmly encouraged to take part in our musical clubs and activities. Please see your music teacher for more details about how you can get involved next year.
After the first week of the Cambodia expedition, staff have sent us a short update on what they have been up to and the fantastic photos below. It looks like they are having the most wonderful experience and embracing every moment.
“Students are doing well and engrossing themselves in the local culture. At the start, the students explored the capital visiting S21 and the killing fields which was an extremely sombre experience. The last few days they have been constructing a chicken coop for a local family, making tiles and planting 15 banana trees. They managed to find approximately 30 scorpions which the students enjoyed and one of the team held a tarantula!”
Mrs Shorrock and Mr Norman.
48 students from across the IWEF performed an hour’s set of music in basking heat on the Friday afternoon of the Rhythmtree Festival.
Ensembles from Carisbrooke College’s ‘School of Rock’ club performed hits by Oasis, The White Stripes, Vance Joy and various others. Carisbrooke College’s KS3 choir ‘Sing’ performed ‘Don’t worry be happy’ by Bobby McFerrin. Students from Medina College’s Years 10 and 11 also performed hits by UB40, The Beatles and Bob Marley, supported by Tilly Grimshaw from the Island VI Form.
The performances took place on the colourful ‘Carnevale’ stage and formed part of the IOW Music Hub’s lineup of local schools.
Our musical students have had a very busy term with many events and we are extremely proud of them and the effort and enthusiasm they have shown in preparing for these. It has been wonderful to see their performance skills and confidence growing more and more with each performance.
Mrs Peckham
The Isle of Wight Council challenged schools across the Island to take part in a competition to design a trophy for the Tour of Britain cycle race. The final stage of the eight stage race is being held for the first time here and will start in Ryde and end at the Needles.
KS3 students at Medina College took on the challenge in their design and technology lessons and hundreds of fantastic designs were submitted. Year 9 stuent Ella’s design was selected and has been made into a trophy to compete with the other school entries.
The winning school’s trophy will be selected by a small panel from the ITV race commentary team and will have the honour of being presented to the winning team at the presentation at the end of the race on Sunday 11th September 2022.
Well done to everyone who entered and special well done to Ella. We think your trophy is fantastic!
The Federation Games are jam packed days of competitive sports, seeing Carisbrooke College and Medina College compete for the overall trophy. Round robin games are played throughout the morning of the event and are followed by ‘finals’ in the afternoon.
This year we have held not one but three rounds of the Federation Games. This is an event that normally happens in year 7 but, due to Covid restrictions over the past couple of years, the current year 8s and 9s didn’t have the opportunity to compete in it. Therefore, we held the games over three days to give all students the opportunity to be involved. Sports ambassadors from older year groups also supported the PE Team in the organisation and smooth running of the events.
Over the three days, we saw hundreds of students from years 7-9 taking part in competitive but friendly sport. The level of participation and skill shown is testament to the hard work of the Federation PE Team throughout the year.
Mr Rock, Head of PE said “It was an absolute pleasure to watch so much quality sport taking place and to see so many students engaging in it in a massively positive way. My thanks go out to the students, our student leaders/helpers, the staff and the parents for all your support in making such an amazing event happen. A special thank you must be reserved for Mrs Tuck who came up with the Federation Games in the first place in 2015 and has organised the paperwork and logistics for every event since. In her final games before she leaves us, it was truly fitting to name the federation trophy in her honour.”
Mr Philips, Third in Faculty (Science and PE) said “Seeing the vast number of students across the year groups either performing or leading within sport was remarkable. Events like the Federation games are why we do what we do as teachers and sports fans. Simply outstanding!”
Represented by Vinnie
Represented by Jaiden
Represented by Archie
Year 7 Results and Most Valuable Players:
Frisbee – Medina – Lucas
Rounders – Carisbrooke- Angel
Basketball – Medina…on goal difference! – Vinnie
Boys Football – Carisbrooke- Luke
Girls Football – Carisbrooke- Tally/Imogen
Netball – Medina – Poppy
Cricket – Medina – Jack
Year 8 Results and Most Valuable Players:
Football – Carisbrooke – Jaiden
Girls Football – Carisbrooke – Caitlin/Imogen
Basketball – Medina – Aaron and Matthew
Netball – Medina – Ash
Rounders – Medina – Owen/Amy
Cricket – Medina – Isaac
Year 9
Football – Carisbrooke – Archie
Girls Football – Carisbrooke – Gracie
Basketball – Carisbrooke – Hadley
Netball – Carisbrooke – Mia/Jo
Rounders – Carisbrooke – Luca
Cricket – Carisbrooke – Ellis
Frisbee – Medina – Josh
I have been taking a small group of students from Medina College every Tuesday after School during the summer term to Newport Golf Club to learn and practice golf.
Newport Golf Club have kindly allowed us to use their facilities which include a five bay driving range, putting green and nine hole golf course.
The Boys that have attended have developed their golfing skills and shot consistency and will enter the IOW school golf competition next year.
Mr Dye
The year 9 and 10 cricket team travelled away to the Bay school in Sandown on a glorious evening last Thursday for their last match of the season.
Captain Cain won the toss and made a positive decision to bat first. However, the Bay bowlers bowled really well picking up wickets regularly in the first six overs. Ben managed to stem the tide and occupy the crease allowing Medina to pick up a lot of extras. When Ben was caught out this brought Zak to the crease and then the fireworks started. Zak whacked 5 fours all round the ground and batted aggressively throughout scoring a quick fire 25 to the delight of his teammates. After the game Zak said his batting prowess has been helped by playing table tennis regularly which has improved his hand eye coordination.
Zak and Ernie had a decent partnership and Medina finished with 90 from their 15 overs.
Then it was the Bay’s turn to bat. Some hostile early bowling from Cain had the Bay’s opening batsmen on their toes and they did well to weather the storm.
Some good bowling from Jamie and Corey on debut impressed coach Ryan and they both picked up a wicket.
The game was really close with the Bay needing four off the last over. They managed to get the runs with one ball remaining despite the best efforts of Callum with a tremendous diving stop to save a certain boundary.
Well played.
Mr Dye
