Secondary School Update (17 February 2023)

Key Dates

• 20th February: Year 9 Parents Evening 
• 21st February: Principal’s Coffee Morning 

Secondary Learning Showcase

Year 10 sports leader certificate launched

Geography Update

This week has been busy in our Geography classes. Our students in Key Stage 3 have been busy working on their latest checkpoints and in Year 8, they have been showcasing the work that they have been doing over the last couple of weeks. For our Year 8 students, they have been working collaboratively in groups to come up with presentations on countries of their choosing, with them conducting research on the causes and consequences of whether their countries are densely or sparsely populated.

In IGCSE, our current Year 11 students have started their new unit, looking at coastal landforms and processes, and this week made lego creations to show how some erosional landforms are made.

Great work Geographers! 

English
 
This week we have been completing the IBDP English B Oral examinations. The assessments all went smoothly with students performing to the best of their ability. Oral assessments are now a part of the IGCSE language assessments and both the English A & B IB courses. This is in recognition of the importance of students being able to present their ideas effectively when speaking, as well as when writing. 
 
In order to support the development of students speaking skills, activities and assessments to help students practice and refine these skills are being increasingly incorporated into the Key Stage 3 curriculum. This can be achieved in a variety of ways, some examples are debates and structured discussions, role play, or character based speaking activities, or even traditional formal style presentations. Being able to articulate their ideas first verbally also helps students to organise their ideas effectively and produce more developed and better articulated ideas when writing.