The Flagpole

MFL Teacher, Sarah Duran's Year 8 pupils studying French have this week explored a French poem about race equality called Cher frère blanc (dear white brother). One of their tasks was to create something with the words or do some research. Some students have really excelled, please find excellent examples of their work attached in the Gallery and below.

Well done to Amaanya Bose, Thomas Smith, Tom Brinklow, Priya Somel. Kate Pomerleau, Jack Dando and Jacob Iley.

Jack Dando

Jacob Iley

Thomas Smith

Maths Teacher, Tanya Cowan's Year 7 class 7MX1 have been learning about lines of symmetry. They were tasked with making their own symmetrical patterns from objects at home and describing their symmetry. There were some very creative submissions.

As the culmination of a unit about Brazil Mrs Baker's Year 8 Geography pupils were asked to recreate a favela dwelling having looked at many aspects of life in Brazil including migration and the reasons behind shanty (illegal squatter) developments in cities like Rio de Janeiro. There were some creative responses which are attached with images. 

Bea Boakes created a model which she displayed on a digital movie along with a 6 page written description of how she created her model and also background information about favela development.

Alex Mold constructed a life-size favela building in his back garden from pallets, sheet metal, old window frames and other scrap materials – just as favela housing is created in cities like Rio.

Douglas Bray recreated Rio’s colourful homes using his stairs as a backdrop to show the steep hillsides they are often built on.

Amaanya Bose created a favela settlement again on a steep hillside with informative labels.

Year 7 pupil, Heather Allen and Year 8 pupil Raphi Kane were both awarded Da Vinci merits for their DT Clock Design Projects. DT Teacher, Tom Walton was delighted with their outstanding work.

English Teacher, Fiona Moon's Year 7 class have created their own imaginary islands this half term and completed a range of activities such as writing folk tales, describing the plants of the island, producing Attenborough-style documentaries about the animals of the island as well as creating their own language.

In the Gallery and below are examples of excellent work on the plants of the island and island descriptions and maps produced by Hannah Wildey, Samuel Divers, Thomas Leret and Freddie Knott.

Well done all!

Hannah Wildey Plant 1

Hannah Wildey Plant 2

Hannah Wildey Plant 3

Thomas Leret 1

Freddie Knott 1

Computer Science Teacher, Jan Ryalls, has had some of her Year 7 pupils coding games using Make Code Arcade. The website they used can be found nere: https://arcade.makecode.com/ 

She was particularly impressed with the work completed by Ignash Librowski, you can see his work using the link here:
https://arcade.makecode.com/12833-21682-35898-70987

Alternatively you can use the QR code in the image.

Textiles Teacher, Miranda Porter, was delighted with Lower Sixth student, Katie Heywood's, latest submissions for her NEA work (non examined assessment). The production of the design portfolio is an iterative task and is undertaken independently, it is an important part of the course. Katie is producing well researched and detailed analysis and is commended for her excellent work.

Lower Sixth student, Luke Palmer, has completed a fantastic research project on three global economies.

Students were asked to review an emerging nation, a less developed country and a developed nation. Luke's detailed and professionally presented analysis considered Nigeria, Yemen and Sweden and used images, facts and figures to present an insightful and detailed analysis.  

His work has been awarded a da Vinci.

Head of Economics and Business, Lil Gane, explained, "Luke structured his work well, designed it appropriately and found out a lot of useful information. It was a super piece of work."

Art Teacher, Sue Harris, shared more examples of excellent work produced for this term's Food Glorious Food Art projects.  We are sure you will agree that Year 7 pupils, Amelia Chard and Martha Harris, Year 8 pupils, Amaanya Bose, Ava Farren, Kai McNamara and Krystina Yuen and Year 9 pupil, Erin West's outstanding submissions all look good enough to eat. They certainly made us feel hungry!

Well done all.

Year 10 Issy Bunting completed this sketch as part of her pre-reading work on John Steinbeck's classic examination text Of Mice And Men. Her English Teacher, Helen Pascoe-Williams, was most impressed. Getting to grips with the characters in the novel is an important first step in understanding the novel, and this was a great piece of pre-reading work.