All G28 year 7 students will be carrying out fieldwork at the location of the former Whitburn Colliery and Marsden Village near to Souter Lighthouse in South Tyneside.
G28 Class 1 will be going on Wednesday 3rd November.
G28 Class 2 will be going on Thursday 4th November.
Students will need:
A packed lunch will be provided for students that have free school meals.
Students need to be in school at the normal time of 825am on each day.
We expect to return to school at 4.15pm on each day and will update our website if there are any delays due to traffic.
Here are the unclaimed items that we have in lost property. Please contact your son or daughter’s crew leader to claim any items.
We have set extended study for G28 students through Google Classroom. All work set is due on Monday 1st November. If students have any issues they should contact their teacher through Google Classroom.
We recognise that students have just got their iPads so much of this extended study is revision of work already done in school and is light touch at the moment.
We want the students to get into good habits around doing extended study often, so it would be best if students can space out this work and a do a little every day or two. The work that has been set should help them to see early success in these apps. The work will increase in challenge when we return to school after the break.
Senorita Quested has set some fun half-term challenges for students. She would like each student to complete at least two from:
Muchísimas gracias
See you all in two weeks!
In iPad OS, the web browser Safari behaves just like it would on a laptop. This means that on your son or daughter’s iPad, there is no need to download the Google Apps such as classroom, gmail or docs as they can all be accessed from Safari.
It is a good idea to add your son or daughter’s school google account to their phone too. This will mean they will get notifications on their phone too when teachers email or set work through Google Classroom.
To set up the school account on a phone go to:
Settings, Accounts, Add Account, Add Google Account
Their email address to set up the Google account on their phone will be in the form:
Your son or daughter has those login details saved on their iPad in Google Keep. They can show you this.
You have now been invited to Google Classroom. When you accept this invite you will receive regular emails with a summary of the work that has been set though Google Classroom. You can choose to make these daily or weekly updates.
We use Google Classroom for work in class, and for extended study. Extended Study is completed outside of class time at break, lunch, after school or at home.
Your daughter or son has full and free access to a wide range of educational videos through a site we subscribe to a site called Clickview. We will set work through Clickview’s interactive videos, but during the two-week break they can explore thousands of educational videos on pretty much any topic you can imagine.
Dear Parent/Guardian
I hope you are well. Welcome to our weekly update for the week commencing 11th October.
Last week was a very busy week for us with our first Local Governance committee meeting, roll out of iPads for students, our virtual open evening for new and prospective parents and students and topped off by hosting a Trust executive and Heads meeting on Friday ! Our students have stepped up to the mark on all of these occasions and I thought they were particularly brilliant in our live virtual open evening transmission.
This week is our last week of term before the half term holiday where we will all have a much deserved two week break – hard to believe how quickly the time seems to have gone! Students will be continuing with their expedition work – from the ground up, and also their maths expedition looking at mathematics and numbers involved in food waste. We will also be continuing to use our iPads in lessons and will begin to set extended study tasks for students. We hope to have the issues around the appstore resolved at the start of this week. Apologies for the delay around this.
Students will continue to discuss their Habits of Work and Learning in academic crew this week and will make pledges as we focus on how we can be the best versions of ourselves. We are really proud of how honest and reflective our students have been during this process.
Please continue to give your child a lateral flow test on Sunday and Wednesday evenings and please ensure you enter the result into our online form. This is really important and not only helps to keep our community safe and our school open it also avoids wasting important time on Monday and Thursday mornings in crew when we have to chase up testing. We really appreciate your support in this.
We will begin adding charges to lunches taken to parent pay this week including back dating ones from previous weeks. It is worth noting that you can add credit to parent pay in advance, you do not need to wait until charges are added. If you are having any issues setting up your account please contact your daughter or son’s crew leader.
Don’t forget that we will be closing early this Friday at 1.30pm to allow us time to “degunge” and set up for the next half term. Please make arrangements to pick up your children at the school gate for 1.30pm this Friday.
We now have Monday – Mixed Fitness, Tuesday – French, Wednesday – Extended Study, Thursday – Minecraft & Football/Multi-sport. This week we will be starting a book club with Miss Tatters on Wednesday lunchtimes. Ms Tatters was on her way this weekend to collect the first reading club books from Waterstones in town.
Finally we would like to appreciate a few students in particular: Isla, who has left appreciation cards for staff with delicious cupcakes she baked herself; Ethan who baked cookies for other students on his own birthday and Daniel also who made delicious chocolate brownies for the first lunchtime book club. We are all appreciative but have also gained weight!
Thank you for your continued support through this half term and we hope everyone has a good holiday. We are looking forward to the next half term where we will be focussing on our academic work and beginning to add work to our “beautiful” work portfolios. We are also hoping to organise a mini student-led conference before Christmas which will be an opportunity for you to see some of the work your children have been doing – more on this later.
As usual if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your children’s crew leader in the first instance.
Best wishes
Mark Lovatt
Principal
To join our virtual event this evening please follow this link.
To ask questions in advance, please complete this short Google Form.
Now that students have their devices, we will begin to increase the amount of extended study that students are asked to do. We set extended study through Google Classroom. Your son or daughter can now access this through Safari on their iPad. In time we will add parent emails to Google Classroom so that you get updates on a weekly basis of work that has been set.
Students can either do extended study after school, or at home. This week, students have extended study for Spanish.
The instructions below have been shared with students through Google Classroom. They have links to the resources needed in Google Classroom too.
Task 1) On a blank piece of paper write down all of the vocabulary you can remember from this term so far.
You can: Say your name; say how you are; say your age; say where you live and where you want to live.
Task 2) Look at the pictures you took on your phone for 5 minutes and memorise more vocabulary. When the 5 minutes is up add to the list you made in task 1 in a different coloured pen. Do not copy it over.
Task 3) Google Forms quizzes linked in Classroom. Take your time and read the questions carefully. “Mi Cumpleaños” = my birthday. This is a quiz in preparation for next week so you will need to refer to the Sentence Builder in Google Classroom.
Task 4) Spend 20 minutes improving your letter to a Spanish friend. I am attaching feedback from your previous homework to each of you individually and I would like you all to act upon it to redraft your work.
MARKINGS:
“sp” = check spelling
underlined = a vocab. error or something which is from a translator which should not be there,
^ = a word or punctuation missing
I may have put a couple of observations or comments underneath on how to improve your writing.
– Challenge yourself and see if you can write it from memory.
– Add something new. e.g.” Tengo una hermana que tiene quince años / Soy hijo único.”
– If you look up vocabulary from your lesson resources, that’s fine. Please write it in a different colour pen.
This work is due Monday evening so spread it out through the week. I will be checking it has been done by everyone on Monday night.“
IMPORTANT, CHANGE OF DATE: Due to an Ofsted Inspection in XP East this event will now take place on Thursday 14th October at 4:30pm – 5:15pm.
We apologise for the short notice of this change, but in the new school inspection framework we are in turn given short notice before inspection begins.
This will be an opportunity for parents of potential Y7 students in our secondary schools to ask any questions related to their child’s special educational needs and how we deliver our curriculum. To prepare for the session, we would appreciate it if you could add your questions to this form.
To join the session click on this link. As we are an educational establishment, you will need to sign in to a google account to join the session.
Students have now been given their iPads and cases. The iPads must be set up at home this evening.
Students need to being them back to school tomorrow, and every day fully charged. A fully charged device is part of students’ daily kit check.
This afternoon we returned to the acceptable use of ICT agreement and all students resigned this as a pledge to keep themselves safe online, and to use ICT appropriately.
The ‘Acceptable Use of ICT Agreement’ can be found here.
Instructions for how to set up the iPads are as follows. Students have been given a printout of these instructions too.
We’d recommend setting a passcode for your iPads by going to Settings > Touch ID and Passcode. Once you’ve set up a passcode you can add your fingerprints to unlock your iPad.
You may already have an Apple ID so if you’d like to log into the App Store, you can do this by going to Settings > iTunes & App Store.
You can always get help and support with your iPad from Apple with the ‘Apple Support App’ or by contacting the school.
For insurance claims, please contact [email protected] (see the parents section of the school website)
