Year 7 Work Experience

Maroon class visited McDonalds for a work experience session. Students were given aprons to wear to identify them as staff and to protect their clothes when working.  Students had the opportunity to support employees in their role when meeting and greeting customers, clearing and cleaning tables, asking if the customer required sauces for their meal or sugar for their hot drinks and saying goodbye to customers and wishing them well for the rest of their day.  Utsavi and Jospeh said their favourite part of the morning was cleaning the tables. Drake and Austin said they enjoyed greeting people at the door and talking to the customers at the counter.

Students were allowed to spend some of their reward points at the end of their shift and buy a treat for themselves, we practised what we were going to say before we ordered and then asked for our food and drink at the counter. We had another ‘Special Mission’ for Mr. Hugo and remembered to get him a latté.

Health and Social Care

In Health and Social Care, our Year 11 students have been learning about the importance of supporting the social and emotional needs of young children. Alongside completing their very own BTEC activities, the class have been working hard to produce a range of Worry Monster Boxes which have been delivered to some of our Year 7 and 8 classes this week.

The Year 11 students explained that when the younger students are feeling worried or concerned, they can write down or draw their worries on a piece of paper and then feed it to the monster.  Later, they can sit down with their teachers and talk about this worry and see how their feelings have changed. All the students and staff were so impressed with the quality of the designs and these little worry eating monsters look fabulous in their new homes!

Seussical the Musical

Our school show this year is Seussical (Kids). This is a fantastic, colourful romp through many of the Dr Seuss stories. The characters include The Cat in the Hat, Horton, Mayzie le Bird and The Wickershams.

Students in KS3 have started learning the songs this week and will all have the opportunity to participate.

We have also been running auditions and workshops for the principal roles at lunchtimes.

The performances will be on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 June at 6.00pm.

Please do put these dates in your diaries, there will be lots more Seussical news in the coming weeks.

NSPCC Number Day

On Friday 7th February we joined schools across the UK by taking part in Number Day, to raise awareness of the NSPCC by having fun with numbers and celebrating all things maths! It was great to see so many students, and staff, getting involved by ‘dressing up for digits’. We also took part in the NSPCC Rocks competition, with students in all years contributing points by answering questions on their Times Tables Rockstars accounts. Over 3500 schools took part and we were up against tough competition! So while we didn’t win, we finished with an impressive average score of 215 points per student, and a whopping total score of 19,643! Well done to everyone who took part in all of the fantastic maths fun throughout the day.