A reminder for families that E25 students would like to invite you to join in with a series of activities to present their learning on the following dates:
For a taster of what we have been studying, visit our expedition website.
We look forward to seeing you and thank you for your continued support.
As we are starting a new STEAM expedition next week, Y7 students will be on immersion fieldwork on Wednesday 3rd April 2019 (please note the corrected date as the original post incorrectly said Wednesday 4th April) The arrangements are as follows:
We look forward to beginning our new expedition!
Since January, Year 7 have been learning about the human body in their Human Machine STEAM expedition. They have been studying cells at the ‘microscopic machine’ level as well as the organs of the digestive and respiratory systems at the ‘macroscopic machine’ level, in order to answer the guiding question “Why is my body like a machine?”
They are now ready to share their findings with you, and would like to invite you to join in with a series of activities to present their learning on the following dates:
For a taster of what we have been studying, visit our expedition website.
We look forward to seeing you and thank you for your continued support.
All E25 students have been sent an email reminding them to revise their Case Study 2 content of the Human Machine expedition. We will use some of our class time after the holiday to revise Case Study 1, but they are free to work on this on their own over the holiday too.
We will have a written assessment on this (as well as Case Study 1) on Friday 22nd March.
There are many resources to support them in their revision, including the expedition website, which itself contains many helpful links, videos, learning target rubrics, quizlets and lesson resources. Some students chose to take their class books home with them and all students were given a paper copy of the revision grid for Case Study 2 to start them off.
Please continue to encourage your child to talk about their learning at home and to share their revision progress with you.
Many thanks,
Mrs Townson
E25 have an Extended Study Task which has been emailed to them, posted on the Expedition Google Site and on Google Classroom. This is due on Wednesday 13th February in our Science lesson.
If they are unable to access it due to permissions on the doc, they should try logging in through their Google account on the XP East website first.
Many thanks,
Mrs Townson
Just a reminder to all E25 students that the pre-learning for tomorrow’s Science lesson involves watching this video and completing this form to demonstrate your understanding of the key points. The aim of this task is to give you a head-start on the content we will be tackling, so please do not panic if you find it a challenge initially!
Thank you to the majority of students who have completed this already and to those who have emailed me with questions or requests for support with this task.
I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
Mrs Townson
E25 have really thrown themselves into their first Case Study, Microscopic Machines, in the new STEAM expedition called Human Machine. We have been looking at our first learning target: I can explain how different cells are adapted for their function.
Caiden is shown below using a video tutorial to build his knowledge of how to use a microscope, whilst Zach M, Zach H and Nikodem were Getting Smart by choosing to spend extra time at breaks looking at their cheek cell slides and onion cell slides. Cerys, Aaron, Zach, Dylan and Shanna are pictured here giving kind specific and helpful feedback in purple pen, whilst Harvey added labels to his animal and plant cell comparison diagram.
E25 have a Quizlet task to work through as pre-learning before our lesson on Thursday 17th January 2019. Use the resources available to familiarise yourself with the 15 words and definitions in advance of our lesson.
We discussed good ways of doing this: it is better to spend 15 minutes each day on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday on the bus, at break or in Extended Study, than to cram it all into one session!
The link is on Google Classroom or you can click here.
Many thanks,
Mrs Townson
This week, C25 have been exploring local data of the soldiers that fell in their postcode in the First World War. They have been using the following source from the Imperial War Museum, an interactive map (A Street Near You), which presents fact files about the soldiers, their death, their rank, and any other records that are on file.
The year 7 classes have then been populating their own personal data set with information on the soldiers in their area, which we will be using this week to calculate averages, create frequency graphs and bar charts.
There were some really fruitful discussions about why some streets did not have any records, and some students noticed that they may have found brothers, or soldiers who had died just days apart. Seeing the map made us all reflect on how devastating the war must have been on our community.
Florence even found one of her ancestors at an address near her current one. We also found records for Arthur and Ernest Hickson, Miss Hickson is going to do a little research to find out if she is related to them.
I’d just like to appreciate C25 for being so respectful and working hard on this, and I’d like to remind Explorer to have it completed by our next lesson on Tuesday so we can start our research.
This afternoon our E25 Explorer students fully observed the HOWLs (Habits of Work and Learning) in their Spanish session, and their level of compassion extended to being a very receptive audience to their peers, during a fitness performance at the end of the day. Muy bien a todos!
