Due to advanced information released by Exam Boards, we are able to invite X24 students in during our staff days in March to complete some hands on science required practical experiments.
Students in both Admiral and Skipper will each be invited to a morning session and an afternoon session to complete these experiments.
A paper copy of these letters will also be sent home with an attendance slip to complete – we ask that these are returned by Monday 7th March please.
If there are any questions/queries, please contact us on:
Y11 will be sitting their second round of mocks when they return to school after the half-term break. This timetable should help students to plan and manage their revision.
What a lovely (albeit WINDY!) afternoon for Y11’s PE session. Yesterday I had the pleasure of an hour of football in the glorious sunshine! We have some real talent in Y11! Organisation, Leadership, and pure skill – I’ve seen it all!
We say this all the time, but Y11 really are doing us both proud! We had some wonderful praise postcards yet again as part of this week’s community meeting, and it’s lovely to see some different names this week.
Well done Y11 – keep working hard, getting smart and being kind. We’re really impressed!
Some absolutely wonderful praises were shared in our year group community meeting this week. Reading these out has to be the highlight of our week! Y11 are working so hard 🙂
Just a quick update on some key information and upcoming dates for our Y11 students (including those all important GCSE dates!)
Firstly, we’d like to massively appreciate those students who are attending in-school and after-school revision sessions, including D6 on Saturday. There is no doubt that this level of commitment to their learning will be reflected in their final grades. Our current revision session timetable is here, but is being updated with more sessions which we’ll publish once finalised.
Although these are optional at the moment, we are targeting specific students to attend and we ask that parents support this. Teachers will be in touch with students and their parents with details of when they need to attend extra revision sessions.
In addition to focussed revision sessions, we are pleased to announce that Extended Study is back up and running for Y11 students Monday-Thursdays, 3.15-4.30. This means that students can stay for an extra hour after school to complete any extended study that’s been set or work on revision tasks with support from staff, away from any potential distractions at home. Please note that this is just for our Y11 students at the moment, but we’re hoping to offer to other year groups soon.
Here’s a quick look at some key upcoming dates – further information about each of these events will be published in separate blog posts:
1st Feb – 11th Feb
Student led conferences
3rd February
GCSE revision information evening for Y11 parents
21st Feb – 4th March
Mock exams 2
16th May – 24th June
GCSEs (full timetable will be published at a later date!)
w/b 27th June (tbc)
Final Word and celebrating Crew
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:
After an active PE lesson, Year 11 have knuckled down and produced some quality work during our study+ sessions. Skipper are in a science session, and admiral are split into small groups for independent study, history and maths. Check out some high quality revision from our wonderful Y11s – Kate, Ashley, Ricki, Loris, Imogen, Isaac and Alfie!
Yesterday, we launched our Learn2Earn Revision Rewards scheme to Y11 as a way of recognising the hard work and commitment of those students who are attending our lunchtime and after-school GCSE revision sessions (and perhaps encourage some of our other students to attend, too!)
So, what is Learn2Earn?
A rewards ‘loyalty’ scheme for revision – the more sessions students attend, the more points they earn!
After 5 sessions, students receive a small ‘reward’…
After 10 sessions, students receive a medium ‘reward’…
All completed cards will be entered into a ‘big CREW reward’ prize draw – so the more crew participate in sessions, the more chance their crew have of winning the ‘bigger prize’ at the end of Y11!
Y11 students working hard in one of our lunchtime History revisions sessions.
Here is our current revision timetable. Please note this is currently under review and we’ll be adding more sessions soon:
Don’t forget that Y11 – and Y10 – students can also attend D6 on a Saturday morning, from 9am – 12:30pm, which is back up and running this weekend (15th January). D6 provides students with a relaxed and informal study space working alongside our expert Student Coaches. We are expecting these to get busier as GCSEs get closer (16th May – 24th June.)
We look forward to seeing lots of students there!!!
What a term 1B has been!!!! I started my new role as phase lead for X24 in November, when we returned to school – and it feels like a lifetime ago!!!
Crew Macmillan have had a fantastic term, yet again!!!! As we left for the Christmas holidays, I decided to take a look back on some of the things we’ve done this year – from January 2021 to now. Take a look at some of the memories below – from year 10, to year 11 – we must take lots of crew photos now! This is a real challenge when crew hate having their photos taken!!!!
Remember WAY back in March, we did a sponsored crew walk for Macmillan (even with Ricki’s broken foot?!) – and raised £135 from Captain Tom’s 100 challenge?!
… and as the summer term ended, we enjoyed a lovely crew breakfast! (until Mr V stole all the pancakes!)Continue reading →
As part of our ‘giving back’ project, Y11 are dropping into crews across other year groups to lead/support sessions!
Imogen, Courtney & Milo headed into Crew Kahlo (Y9) to support with Passage presentation prep… here’s how they got on!
“My group presented to Crew Kahlo on Tuesday and it was really helpful to their passage presentations. We got amazing feedback from all students and they worked extremely hard towards improving their passages.”
