Key Stage 3 Learning

Well done to those who presented their ethos ideas in assembly today. Respect, Resilience and Teamwork! 

Over the past few weeks Year 8 have been learning about Islam, looking at what Muslim's believe and how this impacts their life.

We will follow this topic up by visiting a local mosque later in the year.

Today we road-tested our first 'Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food' recipe; with the Year 7's cooking spaghetti pasta. They showed fantastic focus throughout and loved tasting the food they had made. Well done everyone, and thank you Jamie!  

Year 7 have been perfecting their hand sewing and cutting skills. Designing and creating felt monsters.

By the end of their 'Introduction to Comics and Graphics Texts' module in English, Year 7 students produced their own fantastic comic strips.

They had to include comic conventions including: emanata, narration boxes, speech and thought bubbles.

One enthusiastic Year 7 student said "I…

Year 8F re-visited and re-drafted their newspaper articles about the wreck of The Demeter cargo ship in Whitby. This event was noted in Act 2 Scene 1 of Dracula: The Play. 

Students were encouraged to use a range of different language techniques to create a tabloid style news article. They also…

Year 7 students created some eye catching posters for Anti- Bullying Week in Citizenship on Monday. This year's theme is 'Power For Good'.

We started our new units of work in KS3; 7/8F looking at place value and 7/8H looking at straight line graphs. To answer a regular question, "Mr Gordon when will I ever use this when I get a job?", we started the units by discussing and researching the possibilities. Students wrote a small…

Year 7 have been well and truly warming up their voices recently.  Since September we have been dedicating time to singing and there have been all kinds of requests from Chris De Burgh to Benson Boone! Well done year 7.  Keep singing with enthusiasm!

As part of an introduction to our unit of work on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist', year 8 have been learning about Victorian workhouses.  They have done a great job of reading information and generating mind maps to introduce the context.  We look forward to exploring this text this…

Just before half term we ran our Inter House Scrabble competition. We had ten students from KS3 competing, and were very impressed with the quality of the words they came up with! Well done to all who took part. Look out for more Inter House Competitions throughout the year - they're a great way…

Year 7,8 and 9 have been helping the performing Art department to make bunting for the Christmas show. They have enjoyed practising their machine skills.