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Current news
Mary ward
Abigail's party play
Loreto pathways exams
Loreto prom
Loreto leavers assembly
New students day
Mary Ward Day
Arcade Club Bury
Blackpool
Boccia
Sports Day
Chester Zoo
Abigail's Party
For our arts award level 1 qualification we went to see Abigail's party. A lot of Pathways student really did enjoy the play.
Loreto Pathways' Exam
The Loreto Pathways’ exam takes place in the classrooms during middle of May. There’s going to be exams in these subjects which is Maths and English. And it’s only for 2 weeks, 1 week for Maths and 1 week for English. There are 3 exams for English and 2 exams for Maths. For English there is speaking and listening, reading and writing. For Maths there is calculator and non-calculator. Some students will do Entry level 2, and some students will do Entry level 3. The exams are only for the second-year students. We did mock exams every Tuesday to prepare for the exams in May and we have been improving a lot. Sometimes we do one to one session with the teacher to practice. We got a couple weeks until the exam start, and I only feel confident for maths but I don't think I feel confident for English.
From Taha
Loreto Prom
Loreto Leavers' Assembly
New Students' Day
written by Wasima Begum
On the 26th of February myself and several students performed in front two schools and parents in the round stage at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. The theme of the performance was sanctuary. Our interpretation of this theme was to focus on the struggles and prevalence of homelessness in the UK.
We expressed this through multiple drama techniques we had learned in college. These included physical theatre, writing and performing our own sanctuary themed song and incorporating statistics (facts) about homelessness into our performance. On top of this performing in the Royal Exchange was really intimidating!
Our performance followed the story of a troubled young man, David, being pushed into homelessness by family problems with his mum and her new boyfriend. We tried to demonstrate the vulnerability and ease of young people becoming homeless. In the end the family argument is resolved, and David’s mum takes David back in the house and everyone is overjoyed. We finally sing our song, “No Danger”, and all took a bow and received applause.
As you can see, we put so much hard work into this, but it all paid off in the end when we delivered a brilliant performance to our friends and families in the round.
Although our performance has a happy ending this is often not the case for homeless people and leaves us with something to think of. It was a brilliant day which everyone thoroughly enjoyed!
The exam experience:
Before I started my English exam, I had to do lots of revision in lesson it would take me around 45 minutes. I would listen to everything that the teacher says and I would also make sure that I would understand everything and if I didn’t understand something I would ask the teacher for some help.
A couple of weeks before my Maths exam I was doing lots of practice papers and they were non calculator and calculator papers which helped me a lot in the exam. We did a multiplication practice paper and we also did division, addition and subtraction. I found the division difficult. But then I got to use it and I was able to do it in the exam.
Before I went to do my English exam I would get lots of homework to do at home and most of my English homework would be writing an email, writing letters.
On the day of my exam I was feeling anxious about it. The one that I was feeling the most nervous about was the maths and writing paper.
In my maths exam I was feeling really worried to do it. But on that day I was the most scared about was the non calculator paper.
Before the speaking and listening exam you have to choose what topic you want to talk about then, once you have choose the topic you need to write it step by step then you have to read it to the other person. Then after that they have to ask you questions about it. Then after that you have to listen to them and then you have to ask them questions about what they wrote.
When I first did my English exam I passed both papers. I was so happy that I was able to pass them both.
But when I done my maths paper I didn’t pass the first time but then I done lots more practice papers which then after I did lots of practice papers I was able to pass both of my exams. I was so happy I passed the reason why I was so happy about it was because I got a really high score on my paper.
I was glad that my friends passed all the exams.
Rafaela
Archive news
Internship workplace interview
Where did you go on work experience?
Emma – christe hospital / apartment(texball)
Harris – Rspca (charity shop)
Cory – christe Hospital
Ben – football museum
Did you enjoy work experience?
Emma – yes, she did
Harris – yep, he did
Cory- yes
Ben – yes, he did
Where are you going to after college?
Emma – looking and searching part- time job.
Harris - working in Manchester airport.
Cory - christe hospital
Ben - getting a part- time.
If you did work experience what’s your favourite?
Emma – lily café
Harris – Rspca (charity shop)
Cory – christe Hospital
Ben – football museum
What exams are the hardest?
Emma – no exams
Harris – no exams
Cory- Entry level 2 all subjects
Ben – ICT
What lesson did you enjoy?
Emma – cooking
Harris – sport
Cory – all subjects
Ben – sport
What lesson did you not enjoy?
Emma – sport
Harris – drama
Cory- nothing
Ben – English / drama / math /cooking.
What exam are you doing?
Scott – English and ICT
Shakira - English and maths also ICT
How you feel about the exam?
Scott – feels good.
Shakira - stressful
Have you been revising for your exams?
Scott - none-stop revising.
Shakira – practising memoring
What level are you on exams?
Scott – level 1 for everything.
Shakira – level 1 and entry level 3
Which exam are you dreading the most?
Scott – ICT
Shakira - Maths
Has it been weird not having your normal lessons during exams?
Scott - Difficult but not weird.
Shakira – takes little time
Do you have any tips for next year’s class students?
Scott – revising like mad for 8 weeks.
Shakira – study and ask for help.
Pathways have reached out to a local illustrator to help design a book with quotes and pictures from students.
Questions about exams
Upper six have has there exams we thought we would ask them what its like to be in that situation they have been doing it for the past month.
Questions. Did you feel nervous?
Corey: I felt nervous at first but I felt okay at the end.
D’relle: I felt nothing but after I felt confident.
Question: How well do you think you performed?
D’relle: I felt that I did well and I was very confident.
Corey: I felt like I did good but I needed a little help.
Question if you could, which exam would you retake?
D’relle: None of them.
Corey: I would check through my answers next time.
Question: For the lower sixth, what advice would you give them?
Corey: Work hard and play hard.
D’relle: Try hard to believe in yourself.
Corey: Check through your work when you finished to check for any mistakes.
Platinum Jubilee
Group 1 is making a personalised cup coasters and making a red velvet cupcakes for the queen's jubilee. If you want a cupcake and a coaster it will cost £2 and they will be selling next week Tuesday. We want to find out what did they do for the Jubilee, so we interviewed a few groups.
Question: What did you guys do for the Platinum Jubilee?
Zack: I went to a Bollywood night club and we did a picnic where there was sandwiches, crisps and scones.
Question: What was your favourite thing about the picnic?
Zack: The scones were my favourite thing.
Anis: I liked the Jubilee flags (bunting).
Zack: We saw a poster of Queen Elizabeth and saw 70 years of reign.
The Pathway's student has done bake sale to raise money for Ukraine they have made cupcake, tray bake, rice Crip spies cake and fairy cake for the Ukraine charity.
The Pathway's student has thought about what has happed to Ukraine and they want to help them by giving them some money they have raised £70 pounds for charity in the bake sale .
My podcast today is about the challenging that is running in Lockdown.
Hello and welcome to my podcast. My name is Fatima. My channel for this is 24k news. My podcast about the challenge that is running in lockdown. Today I am doing a presentation to Debbie about her interest to teach students with learning disability. Thank you Fatima for inviting me to your podcast.
What interest you to teach student with learning disability?
When her daughter was small she took her to a play group where there was a small little boy that was about 3 years old. He was autistic and she was fascinating me the way he pilled up the Lego and the from that he has always interested her.
What do you do in your spare time?
In my spare time I like to go for walks. I really like going for walks in lockdown, I also like to do Pilates which is like Yoga
What experience have you learnt?
In Lockdown I want to be thankful for everything that I got for my family and friends and for my health. I am thankful for having wonderful students in the department.
What are the something that you have done in the collage?
Right I make sure that all our student in Pathways department are safe and included in everything that they want to be included in. I make sure that the lessons are interesting for the student. We have outside agency coming in to see the students and working with them. I do a lot of outside of the curriculum to make sure all of the student are kept safe
What are some good thing in being in a bubble?
Good thing in being in a bubble is that you feel safe and that you know that you are keeping other people safe.
What are some bad things in being in a bubble?
Some bad thing in be being in a bubble is that you can’t see your family and friends if they live far away.
If we were going in to lockdown again what would your change about the setting?
Online learning for the students was fantastic and the staff work hard to give the student-interesting curriculum with different lesson everyday so there is nothing that I would change .
If the student with physical learning disabilities that cant understand the teacher that much or that well or that well what would you do?
So what we have done with some of the student is who have struggle with physical disability and they haven’t be able to come in to college because they are shielding at home. They have a record at home were they can take part at home in the lesson. They have staff phoning them twice a wee to have a chat with them to make sure they are ok.
why has covid 19 be challenging for young people?
It has being challenging for young people because they have been in school and it has been so different for them and they were out of school and they haven't be able to do there EXAM. They haven't been able to meet their friends. They haven't been able to see what college they want to go to. I think some young people found it really difficult.
what are some thing that you have set all ready to prevent from us getting covid 19?
So in the department most of all the staff are vaccinated now. All the students had their vaccination. We keep in a bubble where the students go home and the staff clean all the tables and the door handle. Everywhere they have touched we do it on a regular basis every day. We also make sure that they are not sharing pens and pencils. I brought pencil cases for all the students so they will have there own pencil case. And also we try to encourage the students to make sure they are social distancing and wearing their mask at all times.
How do you get everything organise for your point of view?
I start planning a year in advance for September, so we have all the new students ready for September. We have already interviewed them and have met their parents and I make sure that all the leavers upper six know were they are going for you. Fatima, your going on a supported internship and I make sure that the lower six students that are moving to upper six are very clear on what they will be doing. We have planned an open day for the new students to come in so that they can see that department and meet the staff because they haven't have chance to meet them because of COVID . I plan the timetable for September so that I do all the timetables for September so that everyone has lesson
Do you ask the teacher how they plan their lesson ?
We have a scheme of work. We have a teacher meeting every week and we go through the planning for the lesson and planning for the curriculum. and we ten to look at the lesson and weather it suit the student and weather they can progress.
we haven't be able to meet our friend in other class why have you created that ?
So the lower six and the upper six students are all in another building so each year group was put into bubble. lower six was put in there own bubble and there own staircase. upper six was put in there own bubble. Pathways were put in to there own bubbles . The reason we kept Pathways separate from other parts of the college even though everyone is separate because we have students that have medical needs and if they get Covid they would be very poorly.
In our department we are in bubble right know but we cant see our friend in other bubble why is it like that?
Well the upper six students have left now so they have left for studies leaver and until everyone is vaccinated and until the Covid rate really goes down we won't be mixing with other departments just to keep everyone safe.
Next year when we see the lower six the new ones that are going to come in September that will be different are we actually going to see them?
You might do . Your going to be busy doing your internship.
Do you go and visit your family and friend now at home?
Yes sometimes
Do you have to keep your distance away from them?
Yes
Do you have to wear a mask?
Yes
We are in a college with three and a half thousand students so you got to be careful.
Did that explain everything then? Yes it did
How has Covid affect you in collage?
It has effected me alright because we are in a safe bubble and we are not getting anything such as not getting any viruses. The teachers and teaching assistances give us more support than usual.
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Did you enjoy it? yes i did enjoy it
what were you expect to see on our website? I have been told that you guys have set up a new agency were you have set up a website were other people can see
The Event of Boccia
Written by Wasima Begum
For the past few weeks students from the Pathways Department have been participating in an internal Boccia tournament to find out who will go to the national Boccia finals in Nottingham. This is very exciting because lots of students have been matched against their close friends leading to some very heated games. Towards the end we started to do a livestream on the college Instagram to see the final boccia games with the most skilled players. This was exhilarating as everyone was cheering on their favourite to win in college!
From this process we have found our Boccia representatives. We are very excited to be sending 4 members who are Wasima, Taha, Ramsey and Pherrell.
How did we manage to get to play at the nationals you might ask? Loreto college attended the Northwest regional championships facing two other colleges, Blackburn college and Manchester college and beating them both!
The finals are being held at the University of Nottingham on the 19th OfApril. We have been practicing the Boccia game in college with the finalists and they can’t wait to go to Nottingham.
We have been asking our sport teacher Ben how he feels in anticipation of the finals.
Ben says that he feels “quietly confident” but thinks the most difficult thing will be supporting each other as a team.
The team members share the same sentiment as Ben but are feeling a lot more confident in their abilities. Wasima also emphasised the importance of teamwork and mutual support and both Wasima and Taha believed we could win this year!
Interviews:
Student representatives: before the tournament
1) How are you feeling about the Boccia game?
Taha – he is feeling good.
Wasima- I feel excited and nervous at the same time.
2) How do you think we will do?
Taha- he said we will do well.
Wasima- I think we are going to do great. I believe we will win it this year!
3) How do you feel as a team?
Taha – he said good so far.
Wasima – good, we get to communicate with each other. Your not doing it by yourself so it is important to work together as a team and support each other.
4) Are you proud of your achievements so far?
Taha – he said he is proud of his achievements.
Wasima- Yes, I am so proud of my achievements this year because it shows my progression in boccia.
Ben is the mastermind who coaches these 4 students for Boccia.
How did you feel about completing the boccia tournament?
Ramsey- He felt excited and proud.
How did we do?
Ramsey- he said we did ok.
What can we improve for next time?
Ramsey- He said we should come earlier then we have more time to practice.
Bens questions:
1) Why did we decide to Boccia?
Ben – Because it’s a very inclusive sport. Its engaging and I have never really taught it up until this year.
Did you think you get to the finals?
Ben- yeah, I had complete faith that everyone would try their hardest.
2) How hard is it to be a team?
Ben- it depends. Some players can gel really well and are on the same level and chemistry. However sometimes it takes
longer for some players to learn how to play with each other so it can sometimes be more difficult to work together.
3) How do you feel about the Boccia tournament?
Ben- quietly confident. After watching everyone playing in recent weeks, everyone involved has shown that they are more than capable of performing to a high standard of Boccia.
4) After the nationals
What was the experience like?
Ben -He think it’s exciting and really enjoy the fact it was our first national event as department.
How did you think we performed at the nationals?
Ben- we grow into the day as we played, he thought that after first 4 games we pick up momentum and finished on 2 really strong wins.
What can we improve for next time?
Ben- higher place finished however as it was our first event I am glad everyone gives it their best efforts and we finished where we did.
What advice you could give for next years?
Ben – go enjoy yourself and don’t take it too seriously if you don’t finish where you want to.