Boys Football has changed from a Monday to a Wednesday after school. Starting on 6th October
Please see the enrichment timetable for after school clubs.
Crew Marx back in action!
Last week in crew Marx we focused on our crew fundamentals and resetting our pledges! We have had a rocky start to term in crew with COVID and isolation so this was our opportunity, all back together, to focus on what we learned at Outward Bound!
we started off the week by litter picking around the school and looking after our community!
We then worked on our pledges and how we will work towards meeting our pledges before the end of term. Check out Cameron’s below who is really working on managing his distractions this term and I must say is smashing it!
We’ve added all our pledges and memories to the crew wall and reminded us what we need to get done and we can refer to them every morning!
Great start to term! Can’t wait to see the progress this year!
Madrid 2022 – important information
Good morning, we are at the stage where we need specific information about your son / daughter for the optional fieldwork. We would kindly request that if your son / daughter does not have a passport, that you apply for this as soon as possible. You can do this online, or pick up a form at a main Post Office. The travel company will need passport information in the next few weeks, and we would appreciate your support with this. If your son / daughter already has a passport, please could they bring it in and hand it to their Crew Leader, who will photocopy the necessary information.
To ensure that all participants are medically insured for the optional fieldwork, your son / daughter will EITHER need an EHIC card, OR a GHIC card. If the EHIC card will still be valid for the end of June next year, there is no need to apply for a GHIC card. If the latter is needed, please do this online, following the Government’s website for this. This is free of charge. Again, we would ask you to apply for this card, if needed, as soon as possible.
If there are any specific questions about either of these two documents, please ask at the Parents Meeting on Wednesday 6th October, we are looking forward to this, and are more than happy to help and support.
Preparing for SLCs – and the year ahead!
Crew Finch have spent the week preparing for the first Student Led Conferences of Y11. They will be reflecting on their Y10 mock exam results and sharing how they are preparing for the next round of mocks in November. Their presentations will also be focussing on the bigger picture of what they need to achieve in order to move onto the next stage of their learning journey, post-16 – and how they’re going to get there.
I’m really looking forward to welcoming Crew parents back into school for the first face-to-face SLCs in over a year. I sent out an email with the booking form link last week; if you’ve yet to book your slot please do so.
With the next round of mocks just a few weeks away, it is encouraging to hear that some students have already started revising. We will spend time in Crew looking at different revision techniques to find out what works best for everyone. Meanwhile, Crew have shared their revision tips with each other: the most popular method so far seems to be watching videos to reinforce learning.
I think that the time spent reflecting on their Y10 mock exam results along with last week’s taster day at New College has motivated Crew to really think more about how they are going to succeed, and this has been reflected in how they’ve been working in class. I’m pleased to see lots of praises for working hard and getting smart being put on the praise form from subject teachers for all Crew members.
It’s been a fantastic start to the year and our Y11 learning journey is right on track. Let’s hope it stays that way 🙂
E24/Y11 GCSE Spanish – Leaders of Their Own Learning!
This week some of our E24 / Year 11 GCSE Spanish students taught a mini revision session, covering topics they first encountered in Year 9, to their peers. Their creation of suitable resources to teach material such as musical genres (Frida and Aran), expressing positive and negative opinions of film types (Louie and George), and The Cognate Game and colours (Thomas and Ruby) was set as Extended Study last week and taught by the students themselves this week.
What our Spanish students discovered when they were reminded of being leaders of their own learning is that teaching is actually really difficult! However, a wide range of empirical academic studies conclude that learning by teaching is one of the most effective ways of developing retention and recall of key knowledge….and the students contributed to a bank of resources that they can all access when preparing for their GCSE examinations.
Tom and Ruby’s Cognate Game, followed by their revision of colours proved very popular…..
…..and we applied this knowledge to describe a photo (a GCSE writing task) towards the end.
…..whilst Louie and George chose to focus on building a wider range of adjectives to justify positive and negative opinions of film types.
Information Meeting 6th Oct 5.00-5.30 for C25 and C26 (Y10 and Y9) parents of students going on the Madrid 2022 visit
We would like to invite all C25 and C26 (Year 10 and Year 9) parents of students selected for the Madrid 2022 visit to a short information meeting, to be held on Wednesday 6th October 2021 from 5.00 – 5.30 in the heart-of-the-school (large steps) in XP School. Alternatively, parents may join this meeting remotely, via Google Meet if they would prefer, and a link will be shared in due course.
It will provide an opportunity for you to ask any clarifying questions about our visit, and for us to provide a copy of the payment schedule and also our travel company’s terms and conditions.
For those parents that wish to attend in person we would respectfully request that they observe social distancing guidance and wear a suitable facial covering unless they have an exemption.
E27 Fieldwork Thursday 7th October- Postponed until further notice
URGENT: Unfortunately due to a coach driver shortage across all coach companies in our area, our fieldwork to the Museum of Liverpool and International Slavery Museum will not go ahead next week (Tuesday 5th October X27 and Thursday 7th October E27). You should arrive at school as normal and be prepared to spend the day in lessons and eat lunch as usual.
We are trying our best to plan another date to visit. We will let you know our new date for fieldwork, as soon as we can.
Thanks for your understanding.
Even MORE Beautiful Work from E25!
This time, the beautiful work has come from E25 Explorer in Science!
Explorer have been working hard on understanding DNA – And these are just some examples of the Craftsmanship and Quality of learning taking place in Mr V’s classroom this morning.
This is an example of a quality diagram from Kris of a DNA Nucleotide – a building block of our DNA.
And some beautiful examples of the double helix that DNA molecules form, from Lucie, Billy, Faith, Lewis and Caiden !
Keep up the fantastic work!!
Miss Cocliff & Mr Voltaire 🙂
Instrumental Music Lessons
The Autumn term instrumental lessons will be in full swing by next week for those students who signed up at the end of last year. Most students have received their lessons this week. Any students that didn’t get started this week will be scheduled to start next week.
Payment for these lessons will be set up on ParentPay asap and this term’s invoice will need to be settled before October half term.
Drum lessons specifically will NOT start until after October half term due to Mr West (drum teacher) being on a UK tour with Sir Cliff Richard! Students will still get the correct amount of lessons from him for this term when he returns to us.
Any questions can be directed towards either Mr Jackson or Mr Robins. Just drop us an email if you need any further info.
New students who would like to start lessons in the near future will receive a letter later this term and have the chance to start in January 2022.
Football Fixture- 30/09/2021
It’s live…..
The first football fixture of the school year is this Thursday. The Year 7 and 8 girls team take on McAuley at home with players meeting at the changing rooms as soon as school has finished.
The fixture will be finished by 4:45 and students can be picked up via the gate.
Kit required: shorts, socks, shinpads and football boots/ trainers
Any questions please see Miss O’Grady or Mr Stables