C27 Visit to York Chocolate Story

10th May 2023Vicky Collinson

As part of our expedition in Spanish this term, exploring the issue of child labour on cocoa and sugar plantations in Latin America and Fair Trade, C27 from XP and XP East visited York’s Chocolate Story. We learned about the origins of chocolate and how it is produced. Students were surprised to learn that chocolate has its origins in Mexico, and only came to Europe following the Spanish conquest of the Americas. The word that we use for chocolate comes directly from the Aztec word “chocolatl”, which was a cold, bitter drink mixed with chillies.Students tried this drink – not a popular choice with most! They also had the opportunity to try cocoa during various stages of the chocolate making process, and then made their own chocolate lolly.

Crew Nightingale – Working Hard in their new expedition.

25th April 2023Mrs N Mawby

Students in the crew have settled into their new expedition “Hold back the River”.

In English students have been getting smart learning about Normans and how William became King. In Science students have started to learn, ‘How does water shape our world’? This is achieved by getting smart and answering the Learning Targets of ‘I can identify the parts of plant and animal cells. ‘I can name some specialised cells and explain how their structure links to their function’.

When X28 Admiral designed and ran their own countries..

17th April 2023Eleanor Wilkinson

An awesome start to Immersion week for X28 (Year 8) today!

They have hit the ground running, designing their own government and country.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you gave a 12 or 13 year old keys to their own country? Have them choose the type of government to oversee it, and design their own immigration and international relations policies?

X28 have designed thoughtful countries, researched different forms of government, created and designed a national anthem, and decided which international organisations to apply for membership too.

A great start to Immersion year 8!

 

X25 Citizenship Mock Feedback

By Eleanor Wilkinson28th March 2023

Year 11 citizenship students received their grades back today and completed a self-reflection on how they prepared for their Mocks.

Students have taken this reflection home to discuss with parents/guardians.

There is space for it to be signed by parents/guardians and return in session time tomorrow.

Well done to year 11 for their hard work around their mocks!

 

X28 – POL Rehearsal and Assessment Fixing!

17th March 2023Eleanor Wilkinson

Year 8 Students have been working incredibly hard this week. After receiving assessment feedback, all of X28 has had the opportunity to improve their history assessments by responding to critique and improving their work. To finish their week, year 8 have started full rehearsals for their Macbeth production. Have a look at their awesome work! Amazing, hard work across all of year 8!

National Careers Week

6th March 2023K Burns

Parents Guide

This week is a celebration of all things CAREERS. Please take this opportunity to have a look through the parent guide and have discussions whatever the age.

Make it a family thing, whats the most unusual job someone in the family has done? What did you want to do at the age and how different has your career path taken? what advice would you give to your (insert age) self now?

X28 Being Human Presentation of Learning – Thursday 15th of December

7th December 2022Eleanor Wilkinson

On Thursday the 15th of December, X28/Year 8 XP students would like to invite you to their Presentation of Learning.

 The students will be sharing their learning as part of the ‘Being Human’ expedition.

We would love to see you there to share in their experience and progress. It will start at 4.30pm and last until approximately 5.30pm. Students are to stay in stay in school for practice.

We look forward to seeing you all there for the final POL of 2022!

Year 9 (X27) Skipper working hard in art

2nd October 2022Miss Jones

I wanted to share some of the beautiful work that 9 Skipper has been producing in their art sessions.

I am so impressed with the craftmanship and quality.

Year 9’s first expedition of the year is called ‘Another Brick in the wall’ which has the guiding question ‘How are our lives affected by structures?’

They have created their own expedition title pages:

They have been looking at the street artist Phlegm and reproducing their own work in his style as well as an artist research page.

As you can see – it’s looking great!