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News from the Senior Department
The Senior Department – Our Week In Stats
As you are no doubt aware, I love numbers, so here are some interesting facts and figures from this week in the Senior Department:
- There are 140 pupils in the Senior Department
- So far, this term, we have awarded Year 6 pupils 946 Credits – an average of 14.33 per pupil
- Year 7 have been awarded 418 Credits, which is an average of 12.29 per pupil
- Top Form have been awarded 535 Credits, which is an average of 13.38 per pupil
Of course, the facts and figures only tell part of the story. Behind every credit is a good deed or action; a demonstration of leadership or learning potential. Our pupils are settled into the year now and are on an upward trajectory. I look forward to seeing those numbers go up in the coming weeks and months!
Mrs Wright
Top Form Art Project
Top M’s are focusing their attentions to ‘Rust and decay’ as their project this half term. They are learning the multi-layer technique known as reduction and abstracting.
The designs are loosely based on drawings completed earlier in the term. They will be learning to cut lino and print in layers and as they cut the lino away between each layer they will be begin to create their image.
Here are some photos from their Lino printing lesson today.
Year 6 Drama
Year 6 started their new project based on the theme of trust and friendship in their drama lessons last week. 6LK demonstrated a range of counterbalances. What brilliant teamwork! You can see their lesson in pictures below.
National Poetry Day 2022 – 6 October
Yesterday, we celebrated National Poetry Day, the theme of which this year is The Environment.
In our Literacy sessions on Thursday, we marked National Poetry day together by identifying great lines from famous poems and unscrambling clue words to reveal well-known poets. Pupils were then invited to write a simile or metaphor poem to describe the Earth and their comparisons were really quite impressive with beautiful use of language.
In English lessons that day, pupils were also given the opportunity to experiment with haiku poetry. Haiku is a traditional, Japanese from of poetry with a very fixed structure. The poem has to be three lines in length. The first line has to have 5 syllables, the second line has to have 7 syllables, and the third line has to have 5 syllables. Haikus are usually about nature or some aspect of geography. Pupils in Year 7 wrote haikus on the topic of the environment and engaged thoughtfully with the theme.
Take a look at some for their poems below.
Wild Wisdom Global Challenge 2022
To raise awareness of climate change and sustainability, Beechwood Park has registered Years 6, 7 & 8 to join the online Wild
Wisdom Global Challenge 2022.
This engaging challenge starts on the 10th October, our pupils can access an abundance of online resources to explore independently
and learn more about key environmental issues. For more information about this and how to register your child please click on the link here
Congratulations!
Congratulations to our former student Ben Mairs who achieved the highest grade in the Math Olympiad last year, we thought it would be nice to share his success with you.
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