We continue our ‘feel good’ Friday lunch time rewards this week. Heads of House select one pupil per year group for a multitude of reasons to be celebrated at lunch time and presented with a token to select a book from our reading rewards vending machine.   Senior Leaders then select one pupil from each year group. 

 This week’s winners were selected for the most class charts points in their first week? 

• Y7 Z Franklin for making a Valuable Contribution  
• Y8 L Fothergill Exemplifying our Turves Values every day 
• Y9 M Eaton Being a model pupils and role model for others 
• Y10 Ayaan Imitiaz Pupils of the week with most positives 
• Y11 C Brookes working hard despite the pressures of Y11 and being resilient 

An additional award was given this week for F Grainger for his exemplification of the Turves Values in the community and helping a member of the public in distress. 

7x1 have glided their way into secondary school and have settled in wonderfully! All boys are putting in their best effort, and trying their hardest. 7x1 were given the task of article writing 13/09 which they all took too really wonderfully.   In year 7, the boys look at a text called ‘Ghost Boys’ which highlights racism and the unjust social system of America.

They were asked to write a short article making people aware of how Jerome was unfortunately killed and they had to make sure they included emotive language.   Three boys did this in particular, these were: Theo E (7A1), Christopher F (7A1) and Joshua H (7A1). Their writing was superb and allowed themselves to venture outside the box.

They all created their own metaphor to allow their readers to feel captured by the emotion they feel. Christopher F did this spectacularly through a series of rhetorical questions: “Why did he get killed? Why? Why?! Why?!!”.   Well done to all of these boys! Moving from year 6 to year 7 isn’t an easy task, but they have made it look easy with their written work!    

We happily welcomed back our ‘feel good’ Friday lunch time rewards this week. Heads of House select one pupil per year group for a multitude of reasons to be celebrated at lunch time and presented with a token to select a book from our reading rewards vending machine.   Senior Leaders then select one pupil from each year group. 

 This week’s winners were selected for the most class charts points in their first week.

• Y7 A Moore – amazing contributions in form time  
• Y8 A Dale – always being polite and respectful, upholding Turves Values 
• Y9 J Stewart – Most positives in his House 
• Y10 G V. Richards – H MackCracken – Increased merits and great start to GCSEs 
• Y11 C Wildman – Zeph Benjamin – Excellent start to Year 11 

Year 11 have made fantastic start to their exam year in their maths lessons. Through both their maths lessons and form time maths interventions year 11 have got a clear aim to uphold the Turves values and be self-motivated to achieve.

In form time students are completing a mix of focus tasks targeted to specific points in the exam paper to build up maximum marks. They are also spending time looking at the 1 and 2 mark core skills questions to maximise their marks in the first half of the paper.

In lessons Miss Soden and Mrs E. Hussain’s class’ have started looking at Pythagoras’ Theorem and Trigonometry to explore side lengths and angles in 2D and 3D shapes. Mrs Love’s class are plotting and exploring Cumulative Frequency graphs. Mr Adam’s is looking at probability and Mrs M. Hussain’s are looking at rounding.

Shout outs to J. Rouse 11B1, J. Oguntimehin 11B1, M. Bates 11A1, J.Inman 11T1 and G.Worrall 11B2 who’s beautiful work is shown below. Great effort year 11, keep it up!

We happily welcomed back our ‘feel good’ Friday lunch time rewards this week. Heads of House select one pupil per year group for a multitude of reasons to be celebrated at lunch time and presented with a token to select a book from our reading rewards vending machine.   Senior Leaders then select one pupil from each year group.

 This week’s winners were selected for the most class charts points in their first week?

Y7 B Singh

Y8 E Kenny

Y9 B Mallet

Y10 G V. Richards

Y11 C Wildman

In English, we have welcomed Year 11 pupils back and have begun our study of our last key literature text: the play 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B. Priestley. To appreciate the play as a dramatic piece, pupils are performing each act with their peers serving as the audience. Thus far, our 'actors' are engaging well with the script and are interpreting the dialogue and stage directions to bring Priestley's characters to life, much to the enjoyment of the audience. Pupils' understanding of stagecraft is also developing; they appreciate the importance of setting, lighting and props, for example, to enhance the play in performance. Special mentions go to S. Ndong, W. Cornick, M. Weston, Z. Reid and C. Bosley (pictured right to left) for their valuable contributions; they have depicted the Birlings' dinner party with confidence, enthusiasm and insight. An excellent start to the year and your studies, Year 11!