In Nurture 1, our focus in Maths was exploring the concepts of taller, shorter, longer, and bigger. The children really engaged with the activities and showed wonderful endeavour values by challenging themselves to build the tallest towers, the smallest structures, and the longest bridges.
Nurture 2 will be doing their novel study on ‘Owen and the Soldier’ this term so for their hook lesson they became soldiers in the trenches for the morning.
In Humanities, to complement the reading of Jungle Book, Nurture 2 have studied the geography of India and tropical rainforests with a focus on animals and plants.
Recently in Computing, Year 8 have been learning how to use Microsoft Outlook.
Recently, Nurture 1 have been learning about the history of Britain’s kings and queens in their humanities lessons.
In Computing, Year 9 have been combining the use of Shapes, Actions, Hyperlinks and Animations to design a maze game in PowerPoint.
Both sites at Fairholme and Westfield ended their half-term with a Halloween party.
Westfield 2 have been creating some amazing science fiction stories during their English lessons.
This week Post 16 have completed their first sessions at work experience; our students went to Floralands Farm Park, Rumbles Café, West Notts College, Sam’s Place and Fountaindale School.
This half term Nurture 3 have been exploring The Stone Age and learning about life as a caveman.
Westfield 1 have been studying Willy Russell’s ‘Our Day Out’.
Year 10 have been trying different recipes to make meatballs.