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FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Next week all our students in y

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Next week all our students in years 7 and 8 will take part in Read for Good's Readathon. Read for Good is a fantastic charity who encourage a love of reading in young people whilst also raising money to provide books and storytellers for children's hospitals across the country. As a school community we have supported the charity for many years and raised over £18,000. We look forward to hearing about what our students are reading next week and hopefully we will raise a little more for such a great cause. Feel free to watch the video in our bio to learn more about the amazing work this charity does to help those less fortunate.

https://vimeo.com/221255525

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - The reception children have bee

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - The reception children have been reading ‘The Snail and the Whale’. They have thought about where they would like to go with the whale and wrote some AMAZING thank you letters! They have impressed Miss Ponder so much with their writing that she has given them all a certificate for showing our value of ‘perseverance’ and ‘determination’, Well done everyone! While the children were writing the letters a ‘yellow shell’ moth flew into the classroom. The moth seemed to want to stay so the children created a habitat for it and learnt some facts about it. The next day they released it so it could enjoy the sunshine.

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Congratulations to Year 7 stude

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Congratulations to Year 7 student Elizabeth for winning the Coaches Award for her Netball club’s Under 12s team. Here are a few words from the club: ‘Elizabeth shows great team spirit and is always eager to learn and work hard. She never gives up and this is an important trait which will see her progressing even more so over the years.’ Well done Elizabeth- well deserved!

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Congratulations to our alumni s

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Congratulations to our alumni student, Dom, who entered the Young Artists Royal Academy Summer Show and was chosen to have his work displayed. Here are a few words from Dom: ‘Out of 17,000 people [my work] has been selected to be displayed on site as well as on their website. The words are those of Wilfred Owens from the poem "The Fates". I feel Owen's words can resonate through young people to believe that there is always hope through adversity, for youth. Colour being a big part of my work helps represent the young individuals radiating throughout society. I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone in the art department, Mr Andrews and Mrs Cooke for supporting me. It's been a pleasure.’

GEOGRAPHY - Inspired by the efforts of our year 7

GEOGRAPHY - Inspired by the efforts of our year 7 and 8 students recently, I've ventured out to record some videos of my own. After watching the land use one, have a think about the similarities and differences between where I live and where you live. And see if you can spot any of the features and processes I talk about in the river clips. Link in Bio.

COMPUTING - KS3 have been working incredibly hard

COMPUTING - KS3 have been working incredibly hard to complete the iDEA challenge. We have 7 Bronze award winners and a few of those very close to the silver award! A fantastic effort by all.

ENGLISH - Each year the English Department encoura

ENGLISH - Each year the English Department encourages entries to the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother’s Handwriting Awards, competition which is open to students from counties in the East of England. The aim of the competition is to promote excellence in handwriting, The standard is very high indeed, with very demanding rules to follow. Yet again, one of our Y7 students, Soraia, has been awarded first place in the oldest age range category, winning an engraved pen and a certificate. Here is an example of her beautiful handwriting from another piece of work.; her competition entry was far longer and undecorated! Congratulations, Soraia!

PE - Our Year 7's and 8's are on week 5 of our Int

PE - Our Year 7's and 8's are on week 5 of our Inter-House challenge. They have already made up their own games, ran as far as possible in a week and this week's challenge is how many keepy-ups can they do? Here are the results so far.

MFL - Our year 8 French linguists have been learni

MFL - Our year 8 French linguists have been learning how to use the past, present and future tenses. They were asked to listen to some 'nouvelle star' auditions, (the equivalent of the X factor in France) before giving their verdicts. They had to say who they thought had performed well, what future they thought each candidate had in the competition and give their opinion on the performances. Have a read through of their work and see what they thought. Djambe's audition starts at 2:10 and Emma's is the very next audition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2_PkNCAchU Enjoy!

PRE - As an introduction to the 5 Pillars of Islam

PRE - As an introduction to the 5 Pillars of Islam, Y7s have been thinking about what is important to them and what they do to show its importance. We will be going on to look at Muslim beliefs that are demonstrated through their religious practice such as prayer, charity, fasting and pilgrimage. It's been lovely to read about who or what our students value. What is most important to you? What do you do to show this?

ART - Year 9 artists last week were set the challe

ART - Year 9 artists last week were set the challenge of creating a self portrait using pointillism or Pop Arts' Benday Dots. These are just a small selection of a super bunch.
Well done Year 9!!

FOOD - New GCSE Hospitality & Catering student Nic

FOOD - New GCSE Hospitality & Catering student Nicole used her skills in Food to help make the most fabulous afternoon tea to celebrate her her Dad's birthday, including eclairs from our year 9 scheme of work. Nicole says " Everything in the photo is home made ... I am extremely proud of the eclairs as I have tried to make them again and they have gone really well and puffed up loads"! We are SO impressed!

MATHS - Over 100 of our Year 7 and Year 8 students

MATHS - Over 100 of our Year 7 and Year 8 students took part in the Junior Maths Challenge this week. This year the competition was run online by UKMT with students answering multiple choice questions designed to be answered without use of a calculator or any other mathematical equipment. Example questions from a previous paper are shown below. We look forward to finding out how they have got on.

MUSIC - Eleanor in Year 13 is an amazing singer. D

MUSIC - Eleanor in Year 13 is an amazing singer. Do enjoy the beautiful performance of 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell in our bio.

DESIGN - Y12 3D Design idea generation pages focus

DESIGN - Y12 3D Design idea generation pages focusing on 'organic' to inspire new ideas and forms for everyday products.

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Congratulations to Holly in Y4

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Congratulations to Holly in Y4 who has won the competition to name the new Y3-4 Book Club which started during lockdown. It is now called Larch Love Books! We have about 10 members who are contributing regularly but more members are welcome- please contact Mrs Syme for details.

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - During wellbeing hour on Wednes

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - During wellbeing hour on Wednesday, the year 10s and Miss Lunn spent the time dreaming about a world with infinite money, time and no coronavirus and planned their dream holiday. The conversations that this led to amongst the students about geography, interests and the political climate were all very interesting.

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Some children in Year One discu

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - Some children in Year One discussed ways to save our oceans and designed inventions to help! Gemma’s submitted her idea to LittleInventors.org and it has been posted on their website with a response! Well done Gemma, we are very proud of you!

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - 25 ‘socially distanced’ sta

FEEL GOOD FRIDAY - 25 ‘socially distanced’ staff enjoyed some CPD with an external speaker Robin Launder on Monday 22nd June. His presentation on improving students’ retention and recall was certainly one to remember!

Drama - We would like to announce that Drama and E

Drama - We would like to announce that Drama and English have chosen to subscribe to Digital Theatre Plus. This excellent resource gives us access to a wide range of professional theatre productions as well as more than 300 exclusive in-depth interviews and backstage insights will give your students a deep understanding of theatre processes, including creative and technical disciplines. This week Y7 and Y8 drama students are watching and analysing 'Into The woods'.
All students have been sent a login and password, so if you're looking for something to watch...maybe head to www.digitaltheatreplus.com!

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