Alongside our PD curriculum, we have an extensive careers program that is designed to give students the skills and knowledge they need to make informed choices when it comes to post 16 options. This half term there are opportunities for students to learn more about careers: 

• Careers in the Curriculum -  This half term, our Maths and Geography specialists will be sharing with students the skills they gain from studying these subjects and what careers doorways are opened up in these fields! 

• Friday 22nd May - Y10 Rotherham College Taster Day. Each year, our year 10 students have the opportunity to visit Rotherham College for the day to experience college life. This is always an exciting time for students to experience the post 16 world! 

• Work Experience - Our year 10 students will be completing their final preparations for work experience in June. Students need to complete their forms and hand them into Mrs Nickson (Careers Coordinator) as soon as possible to secure their places. Support on how to help your child complete the form can be found here. 

• Parent Careers Engagement - Last half term, we launched a survey to parents to better understand what support parents/carers need when it comes to careers and post 16 pathways for their young people. On Thursday 9th July, we will be hosting for the first time a Parental Careers Conference. We will be inviting our Y9 and 10 students with their parents to talk about careers and have their own careers fair with all the local post 16 providers. While we finalise arrangements, we want to make sure we are offering what parents/carers need. This will be informed by our Post 16 Pathways survey. It is not too late to complete this survey using this link.

This year, our school has started a development journey. We are embarking on a journey to help our school improve and to build a ‘Culture of Kindness and Creativity.’ As part of this program, we are looking into ways to build opportunities for our students to express creativity. Whether that be through the pantomime, music, art or creative writing. Every lesson has the potential to enhance creativity. 

If your child has done something creative at home, please tell us about it so that we can praise and celebrate this. We are at the very beginning of this journey and are very excited to see where it takes us! 

As part of our Artsmark program we have recruited some student Arts Ambassadors to help us drive and celebrate creativity in our school! They received their badges at the end of last half term and signed their Arts Ambassador contracts ready to start work this half term. A huge well done to Noah, Danielle, Skye, Mia and Max our new team of Arts Ambassadors!

Over the last couple of half terms, a group of our year 8 students have been training as NHS Core Connectors.

The students were trained in oral health and hygiene including brushing their own teeth with disclosing tablets! The students then engaged with four sessions, where they planned and created an activity to share their knowledge with year 7 students at our school.

In the final week of HT4, they had planned and then delivered an assembly to year 7 all about the importance of oral health and hygiene. The students who attended the assembly each received a goodie bag containing a new toothbrush, toothpaste, an information sheet designed by our students and some stickers!

Our Core Connectors had to organise the whole thing themselves and they did a fantastic job! They are going to continue working on promoting oral health and hygiene in our school and community.