Spanish pen-pals initial letter

By D Pearson23rd March 2018

Students in C24 Pioneer and Explorer who have requested a Spanish pen-pal – in order to have an authentic audience for their modern language studies – are now required to produce an initial letter to their correspondent(s), unless they have already done so and this has already been posted to them. This is in lieu of Extended Study homework in Spanish set for this week.

Ideally we need letters to be placed in a sealed envelope, with the Spanish recipient’s name written on the front and the author’s name written on the back. We intend to post them off in one large package, so they must be handed in to Mr Pearson or Mrs Sprakes by Monday 26th March.

A list of our students and their correspondent’s details can be found here.

Some slides that might be useful to help compose the letter in Spanish can be found here.

Spanish assessment next session – extended study

By D Pearson27th January 2018

Our students are aware that they will complete an assessment of their knowledge and progress in Spanish next week. They will be asked to write a paragraph about themselves in Spanish, that might include details such as:

  • Their name, age and birthday
  • Subjects that they like and dislike and reason(s) why
  • Food and drink that they consume and/or don’t consume
  • Details about family members such as number of brothers and sisters, names and ages of relatives etc.

To help them to prepare for their assessment they were set reading homework on self and family the week before last, they have been provided with a handout to structure their ideas, and they have received a copy of the slides used in sessions and examples of students’ work (taken from their exercise books) that evidence these learning targets. The handout is also included on these slides that have been e-mailed to our students’ school e-mail addresses.

For those students who have requested and now received a Spanish pen-pal, this paragraph could form the basis of their first letter to their Spanish correspondent.

C24 MyMaths Extended Study

By J Smith24th January 2018

Students have 3 exercises to complete in MyMaths. These are additional practice questions for our Chefistry expedition on:

Ratio and proportion.

At this stage students should not worry about whether they are too easy or too hard, as each task increases in difficulty.

The username is:

xpschool

The password is:

rectangle137

Students then use the details I shared with them in class to get into myportal.

 

The deadline for both classes is Wednesday at 8pm.

STEAM homework week beginning 18.12.17

By D Pearson19th December 2017

C24 Year 7 Pioneer students have been asked to complete their STEAM Learning Target write-up, following the structure and adhering to the content list that they were issued with last week. This work is required by Friday 12th January 2018 , so that students can include it in their portfolio of work on our current Society, Steam and Speed Learning Expedition. If any students take their STEAM exercise book home to help with this homework, then they must bring their book back into school on this date too. The original list shared with students last week can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10EydsUIs4ScUmj5IUYbm6E_ru6HkynHC3L2taBwB1-Q/edit

C24 Extended Study – Spanish Homework

By D Pearson15th November 2017

Our C24 Y7 students have been asked to complete a worksheet on school subjects. This will help them to begin to build the 2500 word vocabulary that they will need to acquire by the time they sit their GCSE Spanish exams.

For both our Pioneer and Explorer groups, this homework was set today and is due in for marking next Wednesday 22nd November.

As always, if any student needs extra help to complete this work then they may attend an Extended Study session after school.

I help to supervise this session on Thursdays.

C24 Maths Extended Study MyMaths

By J Smith10th November 2017

Students have 6 exercises to complete in MyMaths. These are additional practice questions on:

Highest common factor, lowest common multiples, fractions, decimals and percentages

At this stage students should not worry about whether they are too easy or too hard, as this will give us data about level of understanding of lesson content in addition to the marked grapple in Maths.

The username is:

xpschool

The password is:

rectangle137

Students then use the details I shared with them in class to get into myportal.

 

The deadline is Tuesday at 8pm for Explorer  and Wednesday 8pm for Pioneer

 

X-Block Art – Extended Study homework

By D Pearson3rd October 2017

Following the huge success of their last piece of art homework, C24 students in X-Block groups E1, E2 and E3 will be asked to produce a sketch drawing, done at home or in supervised Extended Study, on one of the following themes chosen by their group:

  • An object commonly worn or carried on oneself (e.g. a wallet, an umbrella, a comb, spectacles, set of keys)
  • Flora or fauna (e.g. houseplants, wild flowers, cactus, nettles)
  • An object found in my house
  • A vase or similar cylindrical object
  • An object found in my garden

The remit is deliberately vague and abstract as we are interested not only in the reason(s) behind our students’ choice, but also in the manner in which they choose to represent their three dimensional object. This homework is due for submission as follows:

E1 – homework set on 03.10.17 and due in on 10.10.17; E2 – homework set on 04.10.17 and due in on 11.10.17 and E3 – homework will be set on 12.10.17 and due in on 19.10.17. Thanks.

C24 Extended Study – ART (X-Block) homework

By D Pearson21st September 2017

Our students in both X and P groups have been asked to take home the original art stimulus (or access the one they bookmarked on their device), as well as their first draft sketch done in class, and produce a second draft at home.

As we will be performing a gallery walk next lesson it is important that they bring the original and both drafts to their art lesson next week.

Group E1 = Art lesson 26.9.17     Group 2 = Art lesson 27.9.17    Group 3 = Art lesson 28.9.17