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Over the last two weeks in Horticulture students have been making fat balls for the bird feeders in the garden, they have refilled the nuts and seed feeders. We have planted lemon seeds, cauliflower seeds and sliced tomatoes, hopefully we’ll have some photos of seedlings in a few weeks to post.
Sixth form students attended Maiden Castle in Durham on Tuesday to take part in the regional table cricket final. There were eight schools from across the region who took part, our students enjoyed the experience and played with excellent sportsmanship. Our team didn’t win but all agreed it was a great day and we wished the winners every success as they go on to Lord’s Cricket Ground for a national competition.
The photos show us before the games and afterwards when we all received our certificates.
Our Year 11 Duke of Edinburgh students recently embarked on the final section of their silver award … EXPEDITION! They had an amazing time and did themselves proud. We wish them the best of luck in the future with their Duke of Edinburgh journey.
Some pupils in Year 11 have enjoyed a Bikeability session this morning. They used either bikes or trikes, depending on their level of confidence, and all listened really well to the instructors. An extra special mention goes to Baraa, who progressed from 3 wheels to 2 by the end of the session – well done!
9H have been exploring things that are quintessentially British. One of the class favourites was definitely Fish and Chips!
We explored symbols of Britain, and then moved on the to making our own afternoon tea. To increase independence students used a symbol-based recipe to work through the steps of jam finger sandwiches.
9M enjoying bikeability sessions in the sunshine this morning.
Today, Students in 7T had a visit from Police Officer Sam Stephenson from Durham Police to enrich our learning about emergency services in our Safety 999 topic for PFA.
PC Stephenson introduced herself to the students, discussed with them that the police aim to help people, recited the number 999 to call in an emergency and even allowed pupils to dress up and role play in her uniform vest.
The students had a great afternoon.
8F enjoyed performing the opening scene of the play. They pretended to be on the ship as it was tossed and thrown amidst the storm!
Here are some of the examples of the Year 11 storage boxes that have been made in resistant materials.
Our year 11 resistant materials class have been working extremely hard recently making their wooden storages boxes.
Year 9 pupils have been working on a print making project this term. Their starting point was ‘oranges’. These are their watercolour paintings of sliced oranges.
