Welcome to our latest Teaching & Learning Bulletin and its new format. Whilst we continue to work under the most unusual of circumstances, it is clear that our students have engaged with their learning in very creative ways. We wanted to create a space to display examples of students' outstanding work, undertaken whilst working away from the school. To do justice to this, we have given this bulletin its own mini-website; do explore the various tabs at the top to find out about activities from all areas of the curriculum. A number of students have continued to attend the school site, and during Easter and half-term, various alternative activities were undertaken by them.

I would like to extend my thanks to all our staff for their hard work and efforts in developing resources and programmes to continue to engage their students but significantly to you, our parents for all that you do to support the learning of your children during these extraordinary times.

Edward Rodriguez

Headteacher

Easter Holidays Activities with key worker students in school

Easter Quiz Eggstravaganza - Mrs Edwards

Students engaged in a fun, interactive Easter Quiz, with a few eggs thrown in!

Gory Writing -Mr Ashcroft

Writing gore can be difficult! A lack of confidence in your writing or ability can make your work either too descriptive or overly-detached, both of which separate the reader from the story. Students spent the day writing gory scenes and creating repulsive yet engaging writing.

Time Capsule Activity -Mrs Fogarasi

In what is a very strange time for us all, we also feel it is an important time to remember what is going on in order to reflect on this experience in the future. Students spent the day creating their own time capsule film to look back on these times.

Upcycling: sewing activity -Mrs Slater

Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality and environmental value. Students spent the day making textile ‘room tidies’ from old jeans, and their very own face masks from donated fabric scraps.

Team-building tasks and Leadership Games-Mr Parry

Team building games and activities help a group of people learn to work with each, discover what each other's strengths and weaknesses are and just generally get to know each other better. Students spent the day supporting one another with various challenges.

Funky Paper Challenge -Miss Sullivan

Everyone’s faces looked rather bemused when I told the group we were going to make a book out of paper bags, but that’s exactly what we did. Animals, films inspirational quotations were the chosen themes. Then it was up to students to collate their pictures, construct the book out of bags and glue everything in place, finishing it off with some embellishments and binding. I bet none of our students expected to create a book this Easter!

Team Pictionary and Keith Haring Sketches -Mrs Clutton

A fun game for any group activity, Pictionary is a drawing game where one person draws and other players try to guess what is being drawn. Students really enjoyed taking part in this heated activity!

Students were also opened up to the world of Keith Haring and his artwork and had a go at some of his ideas themselves.

Sports Antics (Sports Hall/Astro) -Mrs Morris

The purpose for the day was for students to participate in a number of sporting challenges. The first challenge was a softball hitting competition to various targets and the second challenge involved the game of Footgolf on and around our astro pitch. The students designed the 9 hole course using various pieces of equipment as hazards and obstacles and played a match play format against each other.

In the afternoon we were forced indoors due to rain and finished the day with a Foot-tennis match with students designing their own rules. A thoroughly enjoyable day.