Last week, we met all of our agreed actions from our SOS analysis! Those of us with 0 conduct points headed to the sports hall on Thursday… for a ‘friendly’ (unless your name is Mr Morrison!) game of dodgeball to burn off some energy!

After writing apology postcards and discussing the reasons for conduct points, the rest of our crew (and Miss Cocliff!) headed over to join in.

Luckily, Mr Morrison’s knees juuuuuust about held up, and we were able to get a couple of action shots. I’ll still claim I’m the best at catching (not dodging) though!

It was lovely to see compassion and integrity in crew. Great game, guys – I look forward to our next sporty reward!

Miss Cocliff x

Students in year 10 are working hard on their 3D design product for their first project. They’re using different media and techniques to create viking inspired artefacts.

7 Explorer’s beautiful work following all their preparation in learning to work with acrylic paints and from primary colours.

During this DofE session Crew Ardern began to work in groups to think about what charity organisations they would like to fundraise for as part of their volunteering section of their Bronze DofE Award – Watch this space for more information about events.

Students in year 8 started this term off with immersion activities for their new expedition “Fight the Power”. In Art they grappled with stencils, starting to learn the skills needed to study the street art movement this term. In Science they started to look at Atoms, Elements and Compounds and took part in some Physics challenge activities. In Humanities sessions students grappled with some Shakespeare, looking at Elizabethan insults, witches and powerful natural forces which led into their first look at Macbeth! All these activities are leading students on their journey towards the guiding question “What is power?”

Students have been looking at the causes of World War One in their history lessons over the last couple of weeks. As we worked towards answering our Long Term Learning Target:  I can evaluate the causes of WWI.

This week we have begun to examine the use of propaganda in World War One and how it was used to recruit soldiers for war.

In English our focus has been to develop our skills around descriptive writing. We have ‘purple penned’ our first attempts and are using our anchor text ‘War Girls’ to inspire our writing.