Summer term 2025

Welcome back!

It’s been a great first week of the summer term and we hope you all had a restful Easter Break.

7CR- 7CR have had a fantastic first week back! They have been out on a walk to the river and are loving the warmer weather. They have been very engaged with their learning in Science, Maths and English, using teamwork and super communication skills for all their learning.

7CR are the best!

7AD-  7AD have been out on a walk down Charlotte’s Bridge to explore the river and local wildlife. In Science they have done some amazing work learning about atoms which the whole class were very engaged with.

9BP- 9BP has had an amazing first week back and have started a new topic in English, starting to learn and discuss poetry. The first poem they read and discussed was Life doesn’t frighten me by Maya Angelou and her use of stanzas to bring a flow and her feeling in the poem. In cooking they made lasagne which all turned out wonderful. In maths they have revisited their work on angels to reinforce prior learning and sum of interior angles in all polygons and exterior angels. In Humanities they have been learning about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s and 60s and the significant people from that period. In Science they have been also revisited their work on atomic structures and the different states of matter.

10MP and 10JFC- 10MP and JFC have been doing great work in maths multiplying by 10,100,1000 and applying this knowledge to change metric units.  They have also started a new project in their creating stencils to start their graffiti project.

Spring term 2025

Week ending 21st March

7CR-

Another busy week here in 7CR which started off with the boys digging like crazy but much to their disappointment they've still not made it all the way to China!! In Science, the boys have been learning about forces using items around the classroom to develop their knowledge. They focused on speed and worked out how fast different objects could travel. In English, the boys have been watching film trailers, then reviewing them which they've found a lot of fun. We have also used our brains together to solve river crossing challenges and practised our touch-typing skills. We had a lovely trip to the local park on Thursday. The boys had a race to see who could climb to the top of the spiderweb first, we have a class full of spidermen! We loved the sun, roll on the summer so we can spend more time outside!

7CR are the best!

7AD-

This week they went to the park in Rural Science, all students enjoyed doing the exercises, learning outside the classroom is a valuable part of our curriculum. Students all practised being safe. In maths they continued their work on area. In RE they have been learning about the tree of Christianity and different denominations. In science we have investigated balanced and unbalanced forces. In maths they have contused their work on shape and been smashing it.

9BP-

 9BP has had another busy week! They have been doing some amazing engaging work on what fraud is and how to stay safe from it in PSHE, working as a team for a quiz at the end of the lesson getting 100%! In Science they have completed a test on cell division and they all made a super effort, also started looking at the structure of DNA and meeting Miss Davies’ new anatomy mannequin, doing some discovery learning with it. In English they have been working on a new piece of Sherlock Holmes this week, The Red Headed League, where they learnt about introspection and how Sherlock found this by listening to classical music. In maths they have done a number assessment and started work on data collection.

10JFC-

10JFC are settling well into their new class group. They have been bonding as a class and taking part in lots of group activities. In science, they have been learning about photosynthesis including what plants produce and need during this process. In maths, they have been doing a number assessment and learning about utility bills for later life. In maths, 10JFC have been working on an end of unit assessment in preparation for the end of term. They were up for this challenge and their hard work has paid off!

10MP-

This is the first week as a larger tutor group and have been settling in well! They have progressed from photosynthesis and began to look at adaptations of plants and animals to their environment, we related this to the stick insects and the hamster. In maths they have been doing some amazing work on surface area

11MU-

Our year 11s have been doing their mock exams this week and we are so proud at their perseverance and wish them the best of luck!

Week ending March 14th

7AD have been doing an amazing job planting trees as spring is starting to arrive! In maths they have been working on estimating area, shapes and have been absolutely smashing it! In English they have been focusing on symbolism in gothic poetry such as in The Raven by Edger Alan Poe which they are finding very engaging!

7CR have had a super busy week, starting with making some very scrummy jam tarts in food tech, then going swimming to make a splash. The boys have used a lot of energy carrying on with digging their hole (they're digging all their way to China! But agreed that making a pond might be a more successful goal). In Maths they have been learning about area, which they all enjoying working out their hand area and seeing who has the largest hands in the class. In rural science the boys loved getting out and going to Meldon reservoir where they learnt all about how a dam works, which they found very interesting after trying to build their own in a stream a few weeks ago.

7CR are the best!!

9BP have had another great week. In Maths they have worked on circumferences and today 14^th of March worked on Pi for International Pi Day! In Food Tech this week they have made some stunning Jam Tarts.  In English they finished their work on A scandal in Bohemia. In Rural Science they have done some tree planting which was enjoyed by everyone, although they couldn’t match 7CR’s digging scale! They also put down their books and Chromebooks to go out on an adventure to the river this week, singing walking songs and trying to spot some fish!

Week ending March 7th

7CR

This week 7CR have started an amazing pond project. During their explorations in Rural Science, they started digging and decided to develop their hole into a pond. They have been working on their project every spare minute to get the project finished before the end of Spring in the hopes of some frogs arriving. They have been calculating the area of the pond so that they can buy the appropriate amount of pond liner and are collecting rocks to make the perfect habitat for any pond creatures.

7AD

In science this week 7AD have been meeting our new class pet and some of our students took part in a football match, this was really great to see, we are so proud of our students getting involved!

In rural science we have been working on adding to our whole school by planting bushes.

 We are working on coordinates in Maths, we have some real maths stars amongst us!

9BP

9BP made pancakes on an open fire during rural science on pancake day and had an amazing walk in the spring sunshine to the local reservoir to see where the local water comes from, made pasta and meatballs in food technology. They carried on their work with Sherlock Holmes in English. In maths they have been covering angles with parallel lines. We have introduced the key words alternate, corresponding and interior angles. We have finished off this week with a relay. In Science they have done a cloning experiment with cauliflower and are awaiting their results! The nature of plant stem cells mean that plants are much easier to clone than animals.

10JFC

 This term we are working on number from place value, multiplying and dividing decimals to percentage change. Estimating to the nearest integer (whole number) and one decimal place.

In English we are reading Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. We are concentrating on understanding the characters in the first chapter.

Week ending February 28th

7CR had a great  swimming lesson, made scones in food technology, went on a walk around Belstone and played tutor-based team games.

7AD students have been working on different types of forces in Science and created their own comics and art in their free time. Digital media they are completing their work ahead of the other classes and have begun their own independent projects 

9BP students went on a trip to Dartmoor which they really enjoyed as it was the first sunny day out this year! They have also been working towards their own reward time. In Maths, the students have been working on angles, measurements of turns, rules associated with full turns, half turns, straight lines and polygons. In English lessons they have been working on Sherlock Holmes and have started the text A scandal in Bohemia. In Humanities they have started work about Black History. In Digital Media they have been working on putting documents together in a professional way. 

11MU have been preparing students for their upcoming assessments. In Maths it has been a busy week, working on factors, multiples, high common factors and low common multiples, ratio and proportions have all been covered. In English the children have been doing practice papers for their exams in the coming weeks.

Autumn term 2024