Loughborough University Fieldwork 3rd May

BTEC Sport students from C24 and C25 are going on fieldwork to Loughborough University on Tuesday 3rd May.

A letter has bee given to each student to give to parents. Please find the letter below with all the information on.

Any questions please speak to Miss O’Grady or Mr Stables

Big Talk Education

Big Talk Education are in school tomorrow to speak with Year 7 and Year 8 about Relationships and Sex Education.

Essentials:

Year 7+

  • Introduction to Secondary RSE – The basis of knowledge of year 7 pupils can vary considerably dependent on the quality of their primary RSE provision or lack thereof. This lesson is designed to establish knowledge levels, ensure consistent accurate knowledge of core topics and back fill gaps. Themes covered include proactive safeguarding, reproduction, puberty, relationships, body image, gender and reliable sources of information.

Year 8+

  • RSE Building on the Basics – In year 8 we address core themes within RSE, myth busting common misconceptions of young people around sex, risky behaviour, pregnancy, rights and responsibilities, as well as the law. The young people work with the team to clarify definitions of terms they have heard but may not understand, as well as answering questions in a safe confidential environment.
  • Developing feelings – We work with the young people to discuss changes in friendships and relationships as they may begin to develop emotional and romantic attachments. This covers all types of relationships and as with all of our programme, is fully LGBTQ+ inclusive. The workshop covers a range of themes that affect relationships and young people’s perception of what constitutes a healthy relationship. We address peer pressure, abusive relationships and gender stereotypes, as well as contemporary issues such as youth generated images (sexting), internet safety and the dangers of inappropriate websites which we demonstrate can warp a young persons’ view of social norms.

If you have any concerns please contact your child’s Crew Leader.

Y7 POLs + Y8 POLs + Y9 Experts = Woohoo!!

As the rest of the country was winding down for the Easter break, we had Y7 + Y8 Presentations of Learnings, and three different experts in Y9 for our expedition ‘You Give Me Fever’.

The following video captures the essence of what we do really nicely… enjoy!

Y11’s Final Push! (updated 28/4/22)

We hope you have had a wonderful Easter break, and wanted to highlight some important steps for our awesome year 11 students as we push through their final weeks before their GCSE exams!

This is our final term for Y11 to prepare for their final examinations. All Government guidance states that exams WILL take place this year. Therefore, it is crucial that students are ramping up the amount of revision being completed to maximise the impact this is having. Staff continue to work hard and offer extra academic sessions as seen on our enrichment timetable to ensure students are best prepared for their GCSE’s – students also have a wealth of materials readily available to focus their revision around.  We ask that you support us by reminding them of the need to be working hard outside of school hours, too – any support or guidance you can offer at this time really will make a difference!

To further boost our Y11’s academic success, D6 also resumes this Saturday, 23rd April, from 9am – 12:30pm. We have only 7 more weeks of D6 after this: Saturday April 30th, Saturday May 6th, Saturday May 13th, Saturday May 20th, Saturday May 27th, Saturday June 3rd and Saturday June 10th! D6 is open to both Y10 and Y11.

It is also important to note that our Y11’s last day in school will be July 1st, 2022. 

Please also see here the final exam timetable for our 2022 GCSE Exams:

**PLEASE NOTE: The final 2 exams on 24th and 27th June fall on Staff Days… Y11 will be in for exams though!** 

If there are any questions or concerns, please contact Crew Leaders, or ourselves at [email protected] and [email protected].

Mrs Parker & Miss Cocliff x

Race For Life

Hi my name is Jorja-Riley Walker, I am taking part in Race for Life to raise money to beat cancer.

Cancer is happening right now, which is why I’m taking part in a Race for Life 5k to raise money and save lives on 19th June 2022.

1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Every single pound you donate makes a difference to Cancer Research UK’s groundbreaking work.

I would really love your support and if you would like to sponsor me it would mean a lot!

Here is a link to my fundraising page

Thank you

Jorja – Crew Rashford XPE

In memory of My sister Gemma Walker

Enrichment Timetable April-May Half Term

Welcome back to all our students! Another busy half term on offer for all our students through our fantastic enrichment timetable. 

Please note that cricket, rounders and all other sports fixtures will start the week commencing 25/4/22 

Please see the update timetable below 

Any questions please contact Mr Stables 

Lost Property at XP & XP East

Please claim these items, some of them have been re posted due to the fact that they may be an expensive item ,if they are not claimed then we donate to charity, please comment if you recognise anything. Thank you

Crew Rashford

This term has been brilliant. We have really been working hard and focusing on how we can improve our engagement and drilling down in down to how we can better ourselves.  

Each week students revise their main pledges from their recent HoWLs snapshot with mini pledges.

Take a look at some of Crew pledges.

These students have really stepped up and recgonised areas of improvement and work hard on them each week.  

Holly – impressive strides in her engagement in session. It has definitely paid off Holly, nice work, well done!

Sofiya – has shown that by working on managing her distractions she is more productive in session. This is amazing Sofiya, super work well done. 

Sunshine Fun!

Last week we took advantage of lovely weather. Crew Rashford were surprised with some ice creams and a crew session that was all about them. We even had a few running races – I didn’t think we was that competitive!

After our little catch up… here we are with Crew Curie enjoying a spot of gardening. 

We planted some lovely bedding plants. We can’t wait to see how they flourish. Next tasks are some vegetables. So if we have any budding gardening in our parents and would like to donate anything for our garden, please let me know.

Praise Stars

This term goes to….

1st Place ⭐️ Manveer

2nd Place ⭐️ Emma

3rd Place ⭐️ Isabelle

Have a lovely Easter holiday. Reset for next term with bigger and brighter mindsets.