Music:
Miss Patrick has made the following nominations this week:
Tyler 8TA – Tyler produced a brilliant piece of Electronic Dance Music on GarageBand this term. Miss Patrick was impressed with how he applied knowledge of dance music to structure his piece in keeping with the appropriate conventions. Every aspect of the piece had been thought about very carefully and this was evident in the final piece – excellent work.
Eva 8CO – Demonstrated perseverance in our Ukulele unit this year and made great progress – including being able to perform some of the trickier strumming patterns and helping other students to learn the chords.
Vanessa 8TU - Vanessa presented great leadership skills during our Djembe unit this year. Vanessa demonstrated her ability to lead and support the rest of the ensemble, using only musical signals to communicate change in a piece of music – this is in keeping with west African drumming practices.
Jamie 8CU and Leighton 8CO have consistently worked hard in every unit this year. Their positive attitude to learning over the year has been lovely to witness and has meant that both students have continued to progress and develop their musicality. The students have gained confidence in composition, performance and are able to notice elements of music when listening to a particular piece – Miss Patrick is very much looking forward to seeing how they grow next year!
Special mentions also to:
Filip G who achieved a distinction in Grade 5 drumming this year too, which is a brilliant accomplishment! He also led the Djembe group for culture day this week. Miss Patrick would also like to mention the other students in the Djembe group as they performed brilliantly as a group (after just 1 prior rehearsal!) Emily I, Reva, Filip, Kinga, Emily F and Oliwia G.
Max K 8CA was chosen to take part in a piano masterclass with a concert pianist. Max played a piece he had been working on for the pianist and was given some top tips to improve his performances in the future.
Maths:
Miss Kaur has made the following nominations this week:
10A1 Maths for a fantastic set of results in your maths mock! Huge well done to Annie for receiving the highest marks in the class! The whole class has worked incredibly hard this year and have shown true resilience they have been a joy to teach.
9A1 Maths who have worked hard this year a special mention to Marian on achieving full marks in 10 of his FTG’s this year (so far) and also receiving the highest number of marks in his assessment!
8A3 Maths with the first nomination to Mia Brooke for her effort in maths, she has voluntarily given up many minutes of her lunch over the year to ensure she understands the work and ask further questions – your effort does not go unnoticed Mia well done! Another nomination to Daniel who has been putting a lot of effort into completing work consistently in lessons and moving on to challenge and extension tasks and his effort shows in his improvement in his FTG scores over the year. Further nominations are Sophie L for trying her best to participate in classroom discussion and follow up her solutions with correct mathematical working and Sam for effort in lessons and his assessment. The whole class have come a long way well done. Miss Kaur would also like to mention 7A1 7C2 7C1 7B1, all classes have been modelling ratio with bar models and their books look fantastic.. keep this up please! Finally, 7ST – for your participation in activities week you worked so well together which was great to see.
Mrs Wynn has nominated Year 7 student Billy for his excellent effort and skill knowledge shown when working with the new bar models in ratio.
Mrs Wynn would also like to mention the following students who have shown great progress this year and worked hard:
Year 7 students Dominik, Jordan, Margarita, Sophie, Billy, Harvey, Rylee, Daisy, Aiden, Christopher, Corne and Milan. Year 8 students Jennifer H, Crystal, Kevin and Finn. In Year 9, Mihai, Petru, Amelia, Antoni and Angela and Year 10 students Mathew B, Hollie and Kian.
Mr Lee would like to say well done to Year 10 who have done fantastically in their mock examinations. A special mention to Annie, Clayton, Matthew B, Robert, Talia and Denis for being the best in their respective classes. We look forward to continuing the hard work with them in August!
Mr Horne has nominated Year 8 students Irena, Evie, Amelia, William, Olivier, Roisin, Lauren and Jennifer and Year 9 students Rene, Phoebe, Olivia, Nadia, Sophie, Kyle, Leonie, Keeley, Angela and Amelia for excellent work this week!
Food Tech:
Year 10 conquered swiss roll fatless sponges in their last lesson! Every singe one was perfect and Mrs Firmin was extremely pleased!
Science:
Scientists of the week are:
Year 7 student Dominik for great graphing skills during practical work.
Year 8 student Sophie who also displayed great graphing skills.
Year 9 student Szymon S for a good effort within the bonding topic.
Year 10 student Isla for excellent effort in Chemistry.
PE:
Mr Rogers has nominated Lewis, Pawel and Dominik in Year 7 for their excellent batting in Softball and Jack and Kevin for their excellent performances at Tennis club.
Humanities:
Mrs Vaghadia has made the following nominations this week:
Jennifer in 8ST for her excellent work in RE this week well done, Christopher in 7Si for asking lots of questions in RE to deepen his knowledge.
Also nominated are 9CO for their excellent work and research this week on the task which was set, lots of excellent questions asked and high levels of engagement, 10ST, Mrs Vaghadia is really proud of how far you have come this academic year and wishes you all the very best for Year 11 keep it up, 8TU History for working super hard on their abolition of slavery work this wee, 7TA RE for their consistent hard work this term in RE you have been a great class to teach and finally, Year 10 Sociology students for their excellent commitment to the course and always working really hard in the lesson. Good luck for year 11.
Mr Strumpher has nominated all his classes for working exceptionally hard over the course of the year. Rest well over the holidays and enjoy it.
Mr Hallas has nominated Year 8 students Aleksandra A, Alicja Z, Georgia K and Milly R for their impeccable work ethic in geography and history. These students can always be relied on to kick start a class discussion, making valuable and insightful contributions to further the debate.
Mr Gealy has nominated Jennifer and Sarah (8TE). All year they have worked fantastically hard, shown a real enthusiasm for the subject and demonstrated a deep knowledge and understanding. Also nominated is CJ (7CA) who can always be relied upon in both geography and history to help others, start discussion and always works hard, Nana (9TA) for her positive attitude in every lesson, Toby and Oliver (9SW) for their commitment to developing their wider subject knowledge and a final special mention to Year 10 students Annie, Dylan C and Georgianna for both their consistently positive attitudes and hard work through the year which has resulted in positive results in their end of year mocks.
Mr Harris has nominated Sarah (10C)who performed brilliantly to get a grade 9 on her history mock! Also nominated is Year 7 student Lucas who is a very gifted historian and has knowledge beyond his years. His historical skill is well beyond where he should be! Endlessly impressive!
English:
Miss Duncan would like to nominate 7A1 for their brilliant effort, focus and creativity all term. In our detective fiction module, this has allowed us to solve some of the cases before Sherlock Holmes himself! She would also like to celebrate 9BY who have engaged with the poetry we have studied this term – they are tackling GCSE content and concepts excellently.
Finally, Miss Duncan would like to congratulate 10BP1 for the results in their Literature and Language exams, with special mention to Isla, Faizah and Ruby for their high scores.
Mrs Brown and Miss Arshad are so proud of the progress pf Year 12 students Carmen, Sacro and Shay have made this year, exemplified by excellent mock results. Well done!
Mrs Rice has nominated Year 8 students Jasmine, Veronica, Milly, Addison, Luba and Alicja for their excellent analysis of non-fiction texts and Maisy, Oliwia, Beatrice and Georgia for excellent improvement of their speeches.
Miss Hogan has nominated Danica, Emie, Milan, Filip, Isabelle, Haydn, Alan, Moyo, Harry, Liberty, Freya, Brachen and Maja for their amazing newspaper crime reports.
