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Virtual Careers Guidance Support

Virtual Careers Guidance Support The Personal Advisers from YC Hertfordshire (formerly Youth…

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Simon Balle Stars The staff in the Larch at Simon Balle wanted…

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Chathealth Service for 11-19 year olds Please see the attached School Nursing…

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Primary Newsletter 13.03.20

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Art In Action

On Tuesday, ten fine art and textiles students had the opportunity to…

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FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - We all know how important physi

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - We all know how important physical health and wellbeing is at this time. We are delighted that today, as part of Feel-good Friday, we had our first PE afternoon! All bubbles enjoyed sports throughout the afternoon, from the astro to the hall to yoga to the field and more! A massive thanks to our PE staff for organising.

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Today marked a landmark day in

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Today marked a landmark day in our primary school... Congratulations goes to our Year 4 students on becoming our first 'Larch Librarians' Welcome to the team!

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Take Note, our Adult Choir have

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Take Note, our Adult Choir have had 3 brilliant zoom sessions during lockdown, meeting up, enjoying singing and learning new things. It is great that this popular choir is back together in their Wednesday evening slot. If anyone is interested in joining, please email music@simonballe.herts.sch.uk

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - June marks another month where

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - June marks another month where the PE department at Simon Balle are staying active and encouraging students to get involved in as much exercise as possible with a daily fitness chart! Take a look and get involved as much as you can!

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Olly in Year 4, took on the Wor

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Olly in Year 4, took on the World Bike Day challenge and set himself a route to complete on the day. Excellent effort.

Drama - Year 7 drama students have been exploring

Drama - Year 7 drama students have been exploring character by learning about Roald Dahl’s childhood through his book ‘Boy’. They have read the chapter called ‘The Great Mouse Plot’ and have created ideas for how they would want a performer to play the role of Mrs Pratchett.
Here’s an example of some of their work

Science - Year 7 students used their engineering k

Science - Year 7 students used their engineering knowledge and skills to design a catapult which could launch a projectile as far as possible using only household resources.

Take Note, our Adult Choir have had 3 brilliant zo

Take Note, our Adult Choir have had 3 brilliant zoom sessions during lockdown, meeting up, enjoying singing and learning new things. It is great that this popular choir is back together in their Wednesday evening slot. If anyone is interested in joining, please email music@simonballe.herts.sch.uk

GCSE Business students have made an impressive sta

GCSE Business students have made an impressive start to their course.
This week students started a four week project which will lead to the development of an advertising campaign for a new breakfast cereal.

English - Lockdown has been a great opportunity fo

English - Lockdown has been a great opportunity for our Y7 students to maintain some excellent reading habits established at the start of the year. We have never had such an enthusiastic uptake on Accelerated Reader quizzes. Mrs Syme has been putting out information about many reading opportunities, including free ebooks and author events. Mrs Robins has launched our annual Readathon which supports Books for Good, an NHS charity supporting reading for children in hospital.

Special congratulations to our millionaires and multi-millionaires who continue to amaze us! How many more names can we add to that list in the next six weeks? If you've read a great book in lockdown, tell your teacher and your friends.

Karate/Boxing - Mr Brown and Ali will be organisin

Karate/Boxing - Mr Brown and Ali will be organising Boxing and Karate......Watch this space for more information. Please comment if you are up for training.

Geography - We are very pleased with the positive

Geography - We are very pleased with the positive start made by our new GCSE Geographers. This work is part of a bridging unit being completed by the year 9s as they make the transition to GCSE. As you can see the students are taking great pride in their work, and have been getting into good study habits already. Since they started this work, their cohort has completed 2801 quiz questions on Educake - this retrieval practice is a vital part of the learning process.

The Year 9 Computer Scientists have started learni

The Year 9 Computer Scientists have started learning Python, the programming language they will use for their GCSE. Some really good progress is already being made. Watch out Bill Gates!

PRE - Y10 students will be looking at Philosophy,

PRE - Y10 students will be looking at Philosophy, Religion and Ethics on the TV this term and writing reviews on how well the religious, philosophical or ethical issues were addressed in the programme or film. We have carefully selected material appropriate for their age, but Miss Whitby and Ms Elliott are on the look-out for extending our list.

MFL - The year 7s enjoyed some cross-curricular Fr

MFL - The year 7s enjoyed some cross-curricular French work recently, practising their bar chart drawing skills to plot the most popular activities in a French town after reading a magazine article.

A fantastic message from the PE department (includ

A fantastic message from the PE department (including lots of our staff) on the importance of keeping physically active during lockdown and introducing the KS3 inter-house challenge LINK IN BIO

History - Yr 7 were studying the Crusades before h

History - Yr 7 were studying the Crusades before half term. They were asked to make a leaflet for the tourist information office helping visitors understand the history of the region.
Here are some examples of the great work they completed

Year 8s have been working on Fibonacci and the Gol

Year 8s have been working on Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio projects in the absence of Year 8 Maths Day. Certificates will be sent to the best ones!

What a fantastic celebration of colour and shape f

What a fantastic celebration of colour and shape from our year 7 artists. Inspired by the artist David Hockney to record the British landscape they have wonderfully highlighted what beautiful countryside we are lucky enough to have right on our doorstep

We are delighted to welcome Reception and Year 1 c

We are delighted to welcome Reception and Year 1 children back to Simon Balle today, as well as our well-established key worker group for Years 2, 3 and 4. Just over 75% of Reception and Year 1 have returned, so we thank you very much for having such confidence in us. We hope you enjoy these photos - more also to be found on the schools facebook and twitter feeds! Your children are wonderful!

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