Regents Review Spring '18

The Regents Review Spring 2018

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Science A huge well done and thank you to all the Year 11 and Year 10 students who have been regularly attending Period 7 on a Friday. It has been brilliant to see so many of you starting to prepare yourself for the upcoming exams. Period 7 will be running throughout the Spring and Summer terms right up until the Year 11 exams. Each week you are able to self-assess an area of the GCSE that needs to be improved upon and then work with members of the science department to expand your knowledge. If you don’t feel like staying late after school on a Friday for Period 7 then breakfast club on a Wednesday morning from 7.45 is still available in S4. It’s worth dropping in for the hot chocolate

- let’s hope you visit on a day Mrs Griffiths is making them as her hot chocolates are much better than Mr Moth’s! Another big well done goes to the students who joined Mr Ashworth during the February half term for a higher tier required practical walk though. Gaining an in depth understanding of the AQA required practicals will be essential for success in your exams. There will be Easter revision session on Tuesday 3rd April. Mr Moth and Mrs Griffiths would love to see as many Year 11s as possible. British Science Week This year we have been celebrating British Science Week in a multitude of ways. Mr Moth has been in to assemblies explaining the perils of plastic! Student have learnt about the impact of plastic on marine ecology and have been making plastic pledges with the aim of reducing the amount of plastic that we use each year. Do you really need that drinking straw? Can you cope without that plastic bag? Each of you has

made a plastic pledge - have you managed to keep it? Staff from all areas of the school have been publicising British Science Week by taking part in an element hunt. Students have been searching the school on the lookout for teachers wearing element badges! Mrs Rogers from learning support is not thrilled with being ‘lead’ and Miss Reed was dismayed to found out her element ‘selenium’ is used in antiperspirants. On a happy note, Mr Strange was ecstatic at being Iron man for the week. Students and staff alike had great fun in the science week photo booth. Who wouldn’t want to don an Einstein-esque hair do and play around with some science equipment for a goofy photo.

Technology & ICT Year 7 have been investigating the use of algorithms and flowcharts, creating clear sequences and instructions that could be used when controlling a device. A website that students can use at home to practice their skills is shown below: Hour of code hyperlink code.org/learn Year 8 are currently developing their coding skills in programming using “python” which is text based programmer. They have been understanding the key terms of, Variables, Integers, Inputs, Selection & Iteration. They have been challenged to create programs that can undertake calculations, quiz students on topics and in the end they will be creating a text based RPG. This course has been a taster for those choosing GCSE Computer Science. Both Year 7 & 8 have tested their skills in their exams this term, from Year 8 the following students were top under the following headings to the right:

Attainment (top 10)

Progress (top 10)

Jonny Nutt Dawid Sikora Robert Jackson Alex Gesteira Ronald Redmers Maria Dolegowska Henry Lock Abdel Karoui Lydia Barucka Jonny Nutt Logan Kaiser Karolina Waligora George Jack Caitlyn Manning Abdel Karoui Talal Alzahrani Jebin Gaihre Joshua Benson -Armer

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