I feel very honoured to have been given this role as Head Girl. Ramsey has given me the confidence to be able to take on this role and I feel so grateful to everyone here. The chance to be Head Girl has always appealed to me and I feel extremely proud.

As Head Girl so far this year, I have given a speech at Open Evening, stating all the opportunities I have had at the school. Also, Head Boy (Lewis Crow) and I have voiced the opinions of Year 11 about not being allowed out at lunch times and also talked of setting up new clubs to be run by prefects, in order to give the younger years more opportunities. Later in the year I will be representing the school, as Head Girl at the Remembrance Service in Halstead. Lastly, my aim this year is to help improve the school with new ideas, such as a one way system. Also to make sure all students at The Ramsey Academy have their opinions listened to.

- Emma Gooden

This school term has got off to a good, yet challenging, start and has seen to it that both Emma and I have had a lot of work to do. So far we have written a prefect rota, spoken at Open Evening (twice) and written a good few bits for this newsletter! This work is not set to change as we will be going to many functions, including the Remembrance Day Parade. This year we have (as a school) taken part in many sporting competitions such as: football, rugby, netball and table tennis, all with varying degrees of success, but all students had a good time in each of them.

This week (the last week of this half term) will be Diversity Charity Week which has a ‘Shriek Week’ theme. To create the spooky atmosphere, the school has been decorated with ghosts and ghouls and a fancy dress themed non-uniform day. There has also been a boys versus girls netball grudge match which the boys won 4-2 much to the girls’ dismay.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time as Head Boy so far and I look forward to the rest of the year, except of course the exams!

- Lewis Crow