In Minecraft Club this evening Liam and Daniel started building a Gurdwara following our fieldwork to our local temple earlier this week.
Beautiful work gents!
Category : Beautiful work
Ethan used his time in Extended Study yesterday evening to get more work done on his team’s robotics kit. Not only that, he has organised the work in progress, labelling up the different elements which are nearing completion.
Great work Ethan.
Yesterday Sonny asked Mr Devitt if he could lead the warm up for the Basketball session in PE. Judging by the tired faces, he did a brilliant job. Well done Sonny!
Today Daniel set up an experiment on our school site. He has installed a can with a pinhole through to photo sensitive paper, onto a south facing fence. Over the coming months this will track the motion of the Sun as we move from Winter into Spring.
What a great idea, and thanks Daniel for bringing this into school!
Lucy has produced a beautiful charcoal illustration of Mr Lovatt’s Dad’s miners’ lamp for our From the Ground Up book. We particularly like how the bands of consistent tonal values give the impression of the metallic surface on the barrel of the lamp. Great work Lucy!
Lucy has also been busy honing her line skills at home over the Christmas break, producing these wonderful sketches of Disney characters.
Good morning, we hope that you have all had a lovely Christmas with your families.
It being a rainy day this morning I have been looking at the geology writing that students were working on for our ‘From The Ground Up’ book.
I just wanted to highlight a really smart strategy that Isabelle has been using to ensure that here writing contains everything that it needs to.
In her prep, Isabelle has been highlighting key information in the model. Likewise, she has been indicating when she has included important information in her prose paragraph by highlighting her notes. This has led to a really solid introductory paragraph.
Smart and beautiful work Isabelle, well done!
Today was the end of our reverse advent in school. Students and families have been providing important supplies of food and household items throughout December.
This morning Emily and Macie from Crew Mosley and Lucy and Sonny from Crew Tatters were able to drop off the supplies to our local Gateshead Food Bank on the Team Valley.
The volunteers at the food bank and we would like to pass on our huge appreciation to all of the students and families that contributed. Your compassion will help spread a little more joy to families in need this Christmas.
Product work continues in HUMAN sessions this week. I am SO impressed with the student’s work, as well as their commitment to producing something really important.
Some top quotes from today:
“I am trying to do an excellent job because this is for our final product and it is important.”, “I am really proud of my writing this lesson.” , “Maybe you could try and find a better synonym for sad?”
As well as students appreciating each other for:
“Really getting their head down”, “Giving me really kind critique”, “asking for critique and using my feedback to redraft their work”, as well as noticing that “he had a shaky start but I explained what he needed to do and he got really focused and then did some great work.”
The classroom culture that these students are nurturing is BRILLIANT.
Well done XPG!
Holly N’s Grandad allowed us to have this triptych of paintings in school given its close links to our current expedition and case study looking at the 1984 Miners’ Strike.
This wonderfully atmospheric painting of the Jarrow Crusade is truly beautiful work. Thanks to Holly’s Grandad for allowing us to have it in school, and a big appreciation to Holly for bringing it in to school.
Ruby has produced this fantastic painting that would be worthy of any album cover, great work Ruby!
