Now, at the end of the first cycle of the timetable, we’re all fully back into routine and making good progress. It’s hard to believe that Year 7 have only been with us for a couple of weeks as they confidently approach their new learning. In English, with Miss Bargewell, they’ve been exploring what the sea symbolises in literature – and Moana! Over in MFL with Madame Reed and Madame Cave, the focus was on greetings, introductions, asking questions and cultural context (France/French culture) e.g. How many baguettes are produced a day/per year? Would you believe it? 10 billion per annum!
On the Humanities corridor, in RE with Mr. Woodward, students were exploring Nietzsche’s claim that “God is dead” and debating whether an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God would allow natural disasters to occur. In History with Mrs. Ennis, students were exploring historical skills including chronology and looking at their first topic, a local history study of the Vikings. In my Geography class, students were classifying human and physical features and using their confident atlas skills to locate them on a map.
Number operations, multiplying and dividing integers and decimals and order of operations were the focus in Maths with Mrs. Murphy whilst in Music with Mr. Jackson, students were exploring ‘what is music?’ using echo games, how sounds are represented on paper and learning a song in order to compose new words to fit.
In Science with Mrs. Salter, one class learnt about the different forces and balanced and unbalanced forces whist the second class carried out their first practical on microscopes, making their own onion skin slide.
Finally, 7B familiarised themselves with our library as they took part in a ‘scavenger hunt’. They had to find characters with unusual names and books with interesting titles.
In assemblies this week, Mrs. Murphy has been speaking to students in Years 9, 10 and 11 about how they can get involved in the Duke of Edinburgh award. Students in Year 9 will be able to complete the Bronze award and Years 10 and 11, Silver. We’ve been delighted at the number of student who’ve participated in previous years and I’m confident that we’ll have a great take up this year. If your child in interested then you are warmly invited to find out more at an information evening at 5.30p.m. on Monday 22nd September. We try to keep the cost as low as possible and, with that in mind, we’ve got a Duke of Edinburgh fundraiser cake sale on 19th September.
Thank you to those who’ve been able to attend Expectations Evenings this week. It’s been great to share what we’ve got in place in school to ensure student success and to hear feedback from parents and carers. We’ll send out summaries of the evenings to all at the beginning of next week.
Next week, GCSE Business students will be going on their study trip on Thursday. Looking forward, preparations for Open Evening are underway. This year it’s on Wednesday 8th October. As usual, we’ll be closing at 1.30p.m. to prepare and we will look forward to welcoming back many students to talk to Year 5 and 6 students and their parents and carers about their experience of Boroughbridge High School.
Have a lovely weekend!