Resilience Friday 5 February 2021 - West Craven High School
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‘Ad Vitam Paramus’
‘We are Preparing for Life’.
Resilience
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Friday 5 February 2021
We can be followed @WestCravenHighSchool
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
Key Messages
I hope that this E-bulletin finds you and your family well.
This week is National Children’s Mental Health week. Students in all year groups were involved in activities
throughout the week to promote their well-being. This included our 'ditch your devices' campaign on
Wednesday afternoon where live lessons were suspended in favour of exercise, going out for a walk or
participating in an activity from our well-being passport.
The addition of live lessons to our remote learning, offered to students from January, has been so positively
received by students. The ability to engage directly with our staff and for students to be able to ask questions
and receive immediate feedback on their work has improved our online provision. Unfortunately, we have
experienced some technical issues in the first few weeks as information has been transferred between
systems. Usually they are resolved in a timely fashion as soon as we are aware of them.
Here are two useful tips to help with live lessons. If your child needs technical help or a password reset, then
please email help@westcraven.co.uk. If it looks like your child is missing an invitation to a live lesson, please
ask your child to email the class teacher, from their school email account, to request they be added to the
lesson.
The sad news of the death of Captain Sir Tom Moore this week inspired Natalie in Year 7 and Jasmine in
Year 8 to produce beautiful words and art work in a truly fitting tribute. Please see their work featured later
in this E-bulletin.
Tuesday saw our La Chandeleur competition led by Miss Jowitt, our French teacher. La Chandeleur
(Candlemas), is a religious festival held on the 2 February each year, when traditionally crêpes are eaten in
the evening. Congratulations to all our winning students for successfully following a video in French to make
crêpes.
Next week will be our final week of the term. I look forward to announcing all our award winning students;
those who have excelled in their remote education or have gone above and beyond to support their peers,
family and our local community in their extra-curricular activities.
Next Tuesday is a National Safer Internet day and students will be exploring the reliability of information
found on-line. How do we separate fact from fiction?
Please stay safe and follow all Government guidance.
Mrs Tracy Foy
Principal
February
1-7 Children’s Mental Health Week 12 School closes for half term
9 Safer Internet Day
Thank you to Natalie in Year 7, for
this tribute to Captain Sir Tom
Moore.
She has created this beautiful piece
on an art app called IBIS Paint
Captain Sir Tom Moore
Our thoughts go out to Captain Sir Tom Moore
Who fought for queen and country in the Burmese war
He reached the grand age of 100 years’ old
I imagine there must be lots of stories to be told
He wanted to help the nurses fight the deadly coronavirus
What we went on to do really did inspire us
He raised 33 million pounds by going for a walk
His efforts were astounding and made everybody talk
RIP Captain Tom, thank you for the inspiration
You will never be forgotten by the whole entire nation
Jasmine, Year 8
Pop Art Some fabulous art projects from Floyd, Joshua, Noah and Harley, who have produced these colourful Pop Art pieces. Poppy has been busy creating some of her fantastic make up art.
Still Life Art
Riley and Lillie have been working hard on their Patrick Caulfield still life artwork projects.
Michael Craig Martin
Year 7 students have been working on the Michael Craig Martin still life images. Thank you to Lily-Mai,
Emily, Ava, Sofia and Jasmine.
Extreme Reading Competition Some great entries to Mrs Woodward’s Extreme Reading Competition! Zara can read even when she’s doing the crab, Lola-Leigh is enjoying the Philosopher’s Stone while walking along the canal and Ava is relaxing on a sun lounger, with a hot brew, in the cold January weather. Jasmine is reading whilst performing a head stand, and Isabelle and Faith have both reached new heights with their reading! Mrs Whittle has transformed into her alter ego Frida Kahlo and Mrs Boardman is reading on her rocking horse.
Computer Skills Year 7 students were asked to create a presentation, based on a topic of their choice, to showcase their computer skills. Some fine examples from Tyler, Kaya, Finnlay, Dylan, Ciaran, Darcey and Bradley.
Geography Challenges!
Look out next week for details of our forthcoming challenges related to the topics we have been
studying in Geography this term. We're getting creative with junk modelling and edible treats.
More details next week!
Fairtrade Fortnight
Choose The World You Want Festival
Fairtrade fortnight is celebrated every year at West Craven, and this year will see those
celebrations go virtual with the ‘Choose The World You Want Online Festival’.
Watch out for more details next week, and find out more here -
https://action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/73941/subscribe/1?ea.tracking.id=fthp2021
https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get-involved/current-campaigns/fairtrade-fortnight/
Geography
Year 9 have been continuing their work on coasts and have produced work of an excellent standard,
demonstrating a clear understanding of the processes of weathering and erosion.
SomeHope
great work
these are from
of useFennella, Darci, Libby, Edie and Alice
Geography Year 7 have been exploring their favourite human and physical features in Africa. Miss Sumner was super impressed with some unusual choices and enjoyed reading her students responses. They have also been learning about African biomes and about the five main types of biome on the continent. Some great work from Joshua, Tyler, Bradley, Natalie and Kaya.
Great British Birdwatch
Last weekend was the RSPB's Big Birdwatch weekend, lots of us were out spotting the birds in our
garden, including this magnificent starling in Leo's garden, and a small flock of sparrows visited Mrs
Clemson's. She also saw a Blackbird, but he was a little camera shy! Mrs Boardman was visited by
blackbirds, robins, sparrows, a wren, magpies, and collared doves too. If you have any photographs of
the birds that visit your back garden or yard, please share them with us.
Paige in Year 10 has been looking out for birds all through January, including 'Lucy'. Lucy is a female
chaffinch, and is special because she is leucistic. This means she has partial loss of the pigmentation in
her feathers. Throughout January, Paige has been keeping a list of the birds she has spotted in the
garden, at last count there had seen 20 species including lots of finches, robin, dunnock and Mrs Price's
personal favourite, a wren.
RE
During Holocaust Memorial Week, Year 9 explored the topic of Crime and Punishment with Mrs Pilling.
They discussed hate crimes, which is when the perpetrators criminal behaviour is motivated by
hostility. Students were asked to demonstrate their responses to hate crimes.
RE
Mrs Ali was impressed with this RE work from Emily-Jayne and Kelsie-Morgan.
Mrs Ali
Emily=is Knowles was blown away by these pop art submissions, from PowerPoints to face painting.
Thank you to Annie, Arlo, Calleigh, Emily, Freya, Grace, Harris, Isabelle, Jasmine, Logan, Lottie, Olivia,
Rayan, Ruby, Ryan and Scarlett.
Fantastic POP ART submissions!
From PPTS to Face painting, Just AMAZING Year 8!
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Mixture of classes here too - I haven't found a way for a video yet, but I will!
I want the first ppt slides to be used if possible but thought you would be better to do this on whatever software,
as I don't have any at the moment / screen shot for you Julie!
Emily, in Year 7, has created a fantastic
Blown away by them, and permission for Logan has piece of work
been as she begins to show her
allowed.
understanding of different beliefs
Hope all of this is of use. surrounding the origin of the universe
within her RE lessons.
History
Year 8 have been looking at how the rich Elizabethan's displayed their wealth through the fine houses
that they built. The two pieces of work show Hardwick Hall and how its features showed off the wealth
of the family that built it. Thank you to Isabelle and Arlo!Crêpes Anyone? Some entries to Miss Jowitt’s crêpe making competition. Miss Jowitt has set a French crêpes competition for students, to either follow a video in French to make crêpes, or to draw a picture of their dream pancakes and toppings. The winner will receive a voucher for a visit to a pancake restaurant in Skipton. Some mouth-watering entries from Evie, Faith, Jack, Annie, Alfie, Isabella, Ruby, Jasmine, Ruby and Mrs Birtwell.
As well making crêpes, Alfie, in Year 7, has been busy baking a chocolate cake and cookies!
The Hub
PSHCE
This week’s lockdown well-being
task was to produce an original
piece of artwork, in any art form.
Mrs Pilling loves this fantastic piece Lola-Leigh has risen to the challenge of the student well-being
of work from Ava. Passport Challenge and created this great artwork. She has
also taken a socially distanced walk and photographed the
wildlife she saw.
National Storytelling Week
Well done to Alfie, in Year 7, for this wonderful piece of writing; submitted for Monday’s challenge.
The captain vanished, the submarine left tarnished, stranded on an iceberg. I look around to see
nothing, nothing but the blank open space of the tundra, along with the blue violent Weddle
sea, the waves crashing against the ice engulfing the seals. As I look to them, I see one of them
giving me a look of defeat as they cry in their incomprehensible language. They look so helpless
as the waves drag them back into the sea only to spit them back out again.
I go inside the submarine, inside it looks perilous as can be: squeaky doors, squeaky floors and
what is this? I find a secret hatch leading down some rickety old stairs, I go down curious as to
what I could discover. To my surprise I find a treasure chest, and I am amazed when I see the
remains of what looks like a crew member, no, the captain himself - just bone and leather
draped on his body. I go to open the chest when I hear chains rattling and then they snap! I
see the most horrific, monstrous sight ever. It looks like half-giant monkey, half-giant snake.
I run, run for my life, as this thing chases me down the hallway and out to the ice. Eventually, I
come to a dead end with the creature not far behind as the snake tail weaves towards me.
Suddenly CRACK. The ice has split, swallowing the beast whole and saving my life. I sit there
dazed and confused. Had Mother Nature heard my thoughts and come to save me or is this just
my imagination? To check, I get a piece of ice and hit myself. It hurts so I guess it wasn’t a
dream. As I head back to the submarine, I find a button and as I am curious, I press it. To my
amazement the submarine lights turn on.
I run over to the submarine and inside it’s now warm as the heating has come on and as you
well know I’m curious, so I run home, grab everything and get to the submarine to take off as it
now looks in perfect condition for a journey. Where? Somewhere even I don’t know (my parents
died a long time ago so they are not around to tell me NO). As I steer the submarine away from
the iceberg I scream and set off through the choppy Weddle sea ‘to infinity and beyond’.
Alfie, Year 7English As part of their work on creative writing, Year 9 have been developing a piece of work about Trenches. EXPOSURE - What are we going to write? Paragraph 1: A description of the trenches at night Paragraph 2: A flashback to signing up Paragraph 3: A flashback to an awful memory from the trenches Paragraph 4: A flashback to a beautiful memory from home Paragraph 5: A description of the trenches as the sun rises Some highlights from Mrs Stoker's class - which are fantastic! The rat infested trenches mentally drained the men fighting for their part. Above me the glacial air filled the jet black sky. The piercing night was an unforgiving nightmare to never wake up from. Below me the impenetrable ground made it almost impossible to sleep. All over me I could I could feel lice gnawing at my anatomy. To the side of me the disintegrating trench wall overcame me with dust it filled my lungs I wheeze the more and more I’m here. It was a nine o’clock on a Saturday I walked into the decrepit, depressing conscription office I felt I had a duty to serve my country in these times. The room I sat in gave me shivers it was sub-zero temperatures. The wall paper was falling off the walls revealing the dull, unpigmented enclosure. The stench of fetid cheap perfume lingered through the air. Bing Crosby red sails in the sunset muffled in the background. I received some plain cut paper asking for my signature, it was time. It was a ferociously boisterous night I sat there on watch, it was getting late and my drenched clothes were beginning to chafe. Suddenly I heard a mammoth CRASH, the air instantaneously felt thin I had to see what was happening so I peaked the trench wall. I have never felt fear like that before. A colossal cloud of gas was riding the wind, it was slowly getting to the trench we couldn’t do anything else but run for the gas masks and try and wait it out. I looked around and all I could see was worried and hysteria filled their faces. It was 4am on a Tuesday morning the date was the 14 December 1937 it was a beautiful and humbling moment when my baby girl was brought into this confusing world. Her name is Marilyn she was 8lb 6 ounces. I swore to myself that I’d give her the best life possible from day one. Every day in the freezing winter the sun would rise at 8 am. Everyone loves sun rise because it fills the trench with a comforting warmth. It is the perfect way to wake up and It was the only sense of comfort we get. The sun was like a ball of fire in the sky, the same ball of fire that would bring happiness and joy to so many men fighting in the trenches. Daniel, Year 9 Darkness. It won’t be for long; the Germans will throw a grenade. We will run. It’s always the same, it’s just a question if you get into a dugout quick enough. The rats scurry round my feet as I wait, the ground trembles as a shell goes off. My ammunition box is running low as I poke my gun over the top. I am met by heavy gunfire and deafening noise. I haven’t washed in weeks, you learn not to notice the smell, or the crusty mud that oozes through your clothing. I breathe a sigh of relief when the guns stop. I remember signing up, mum was so proud. I almost laugh at the irony. “James Smoak” “How Old?”, The general had asked, sizing me up. “15 sir.” After that it was a bit of a blur. I was in full health and was to go straight to the trenches. I can still picture the tears in mum’s eyes as she waved goodbye, I was doing this for her. Everything I did was for her.
In my first week of trench life I had already learnt the lay of the land. You see a rat? Kill it. You get rations? You share. That’s just how it was, you had to help others if you wanted to survive. A couple of days in, I made a friend. Harry. He was a small thing, no taller than 5’2. He was nice. When I found him nothing was left. Maggots crawled through the bullet wounds and rats gnawed on his exposed bones. I had to leave him there, in all the smoke and fire I had to leave him dead on the ground. Mum would be so proud. I think back to before the war, there no use dwelling on the past. I was 11. Dad came home from work and kissed my mother. He dipped her before coming back up. I used to cringe and tell them to stop. But now I see how lucky I am. To have even one parent alive. It wasn’t the war, he died peacefully, in his sleep. That brings me peace. The night is over, but darkness still looms. As the sun rises rats scramble into the shadows, hiding themselves from view. Its peaceful in this early hour. It won’t be for long, but for now it is. Violet, Year 9 Below, rat infested trenches were as miserable, mentally draining and the extremely low temperature as the Antarctica. Above me, the jet black sky made the ground and dark and black as the black hole. Mud is caked to every inch of the trench and is basically a part of me now. The icy breeze blew against my skin, while I was almost freezing to death. I manoeuvred my inhuman body away from the blood sucking leeches that lay infested everywhere. Everywhere around me, was silence despair. As the gunshots stopped firing, the awkward silence began; everyone stood as still as a corpse on the floor that has just been shot right in front of my eyes. In front of me, there was a desk which had millions of sheets of paper on it. They were the signing up sheets. On them, there was posters about wanting you to join and persuading you to join the war and if you didn’t, you were seen as weak and unmanly. It was 9:30 on a wintery, freezing, but joyful Saturday morning. Snow poured on me. You could basically call me a snowman who moved around like a man with a gun. I remember saying goodbye to my family it was hard but I got through it. It was like torture in a jail cell, but we were in a car park. On the soggy, icy-cold paper, we had to sign our name. Just like millions of other men on that day. Every time a gunshot went off, I got spine chilling feelings in my body. No one was worried about signing up. We knew we were probably going to die here and everyone and the British side just wanted to cherish their last thoughts of their family and friends back home in their lavish, love some little household. Everywhere around me, is 10ft walls of wet mud, which gets in your pants and rubs the skin of your body. You can get in excruciating pain that I very hard to go away, because there are no showers on anything luxurious. I hate this! My beautiful, delicate, cosy home is the only place which helped me go to the war I thought to myself just before I went into the bitterly-cold, less normal, dirty trenches. My home was the only place I had good memories from my past. One time, me and my best friends went out to play football, and we had the best day of my life. We got loads of people to play with us, and we had a match and it was like the champions league finals. All of the people there got ice-creams from the ice-cream van and that was my best memory. Sun rise was the only thing in the whole day that kept me going. It was like a forest burning along the road and the blinding ray of light it gave of. It was almost blindingly bright. He birds would always chirp away in the background of everything. No loud gun shots would go off in the morning and it was all nice and peaceful until someone shot at us. Jackson, Year 9
Silence stretched across the trenches. Darkness engulfed us. Dead lifeless souls laid in a pool of blood, as rats as big as cats feasted on their corpses and nibbled at their toes and fingers. The stench of rotten death, dominated my senses. My body was drowned in the cold icy grasps of the merciless mud that ate away at my flesh as if I was its dinner. In front of me, laid a dead man whose screams of terror and pain echoed inside my head, the moon shone down on the battle field and revealed splatters of crimson blood everywhere. The winds frosty fingers crawled up my back and froze my spine, snowflakes fell onto my corpse-coloured skin as the wind howled like a wolf. A pen laid buried in the trenches underneath the mud beside the man. All of a sudden, he remembered signing the form that brought him to this terrifying, treacherous place. He remembered his friends pressuring him to join by saying that it would be so much fun going to another country together then he remembered them calling him scared and weak because of him not wanting to join this was the thing that made him sign up. He remembered picking up the pen and his stomach churning, as he slowly wrote his name on the form underneath many other names debating whether or not to finish the signature that would change his life forever. He then remembered the weight that was lifted off his shoulders and the feeling of satisfaction that he had proved his friend wrong but then then that satisfaction that he felt ended as he slowly drifted back to reality to hear bullets ricocheting off the ground. The sound of grenades being thrown pierced his ears as he remembered his friend pushing him out of the way saving him from a grenade, he then remembered getting up to say thank you to his friend but instead looked down at his feet to see just a pile of ashes scattered along the trench. He remembered the waterfall of emotions that came over him and sobbing over his friend’s ashes that were swallowed up by the mud in seconds. He remembered thinking it should have been him while salty tears ran down his face, the sordid stench of restless death filled his nose as he watched more men fall into a pile of cold contorted bodies rotting in the bottom of the trench, and thought he would be next. BOOM! An explosion brought him back from his dreadful memory and back into the real world. Once again it was night you would have been able to hear a pin drop a pleasant smell filled the man’s nostrils. He remembered sitting at the old mahogany table with his family and smelling the pleasant aroma of golden, crispy roasted chicken, potatoes cooked to perfection and vegetables steamed to superbness. He then remembered how him and his siblings would squabble over who gets to sit at the head of the table and who gets the biggest spoon of mashed potato but the one thing they all agreed on was to give the veggies to their dog Barney. Crack! Bullets shot over my head I was no longer sat at the mahogany table with my family but instead covered in icy, cold mud all alone with lifeless bodies. In front of me I could see the golden rays of the sun separating the clouds and giving them back their bright white colour. The skies dawned a clear, blazing blue, in the distance, birds sung in the sky as the sun poured through the clouds, bathing the hills that were far away in its gentle apricot light. Soldiers that were caked head to toe in mud woke up to the early morning sunshine. Warm sunshine brought warmth to our freezing, cold, exhausted bodies. Once again gun shots were heard on the horizon and off went soldiers over the top like lambs to the slaughter. The warmth of the sunrays brought relief to my soul for just one moment however that didn’t last for long as I was next. Jolie, Year 9
WE ARE A READING ACADEMY
Reading is empowering. It can develop our confidence, our wellbeing and our ability to
express ourselves. As we absorb new language, we naturally use it in our speech and
communication and can adapt it in different situations and contexts. This week, as part of
National Storytelling Week, students have been listening to storytellers bring their tales to
life with their voices and expressions, and using these as inspiration to create their own
wonderful stories.
Our very own Trust Chief Executive, Mrs Ghidotti, has also been busy reading this week
when she was invited to be guest storyteller for some of our younger children in the
community. Thank you to Mrs Ghidotti for sharing her experience with us here…
“Picking up a well-read (and often tatty) book is always comforting - less so when you are
about to video yourself reading it as a bedtime story for a group of children! I always love
the familiarity of stories I have read and I have been reading this one on and off for
eighteen years! Yet reading out loud to an audience I didn't know was nerve-wracking - 5
year olds can be harsh! But I soon settled as the words I love were on the page in front of
me.... I nearly giggled at all the things that usually get me, and as I read on I became lost
in the story and not so conscious of the camera. Books are written to be lost in. I've got to
say that I was glad to get to the end without fluffing a line so no second take needed! Plus,
hopefully I converted a few more children to "My Penguin Osbert" which can only be a
good thing! As a mummy I really believe in the bedtime story routine - I want my son to
feel the same love for books and the escapism I do (even if he does know that asking for
a second book delays actually going to sleep!)”.
Here are some top tips for successful and happy reading:
Read aloud! Read together!
Set yourself achievable goals and time-scales.
Turn off your electronic devices.
If possible, choose a quiet and comfortable space to read.
Choose a topic or genre that you enjoy.
Read at a level that you understand - you can build on this as your skills and
vocabulary develop.
Reading quote of the week…
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
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Tom wrote to us on Twitter and said,
“Looking forward to seeing you all in May. Until
then, my very best wishes. Keep safe”.PANCAKE DAY
Le deux février 2021
Work through the power point to help you understand the video
on how to make a crêpe French style.
With an adult, make some crêpes following Telmo and Tula’s
recipe.
You could send a photo of your crêpes to your teacher.
*Ingredients are on slide 14. Mix them together, heat the pan
with a little oil, cook and toss the crêpe.
Add a filling of your choice.
OR draw your ideal pancake with fillings and label in French.
Winners will receive a voucher for a visit to a pancake
restaurant in Skipton once lockdown is over.
Bonne Chance et Bon Appétit!
(3) Telmo et Tula - Comment faire des crêpes avec les enfants, Dessins animés - YouTubeSAFER INTERNET DAY COMPETITION
Tuesday 9 February 2021
Each year group has their own activity – competition details are on ClassCharts. https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/2021STAR OF THE WEEK
ASPIRE POINTS
Ambition Supportive Positivity Independence Resilience Equality
The Theme of the week is Resilience, well done to the following students who received the
most positivity points on Class Charts.
7.1 Madi McNamara 9.1 Casey Jarvis
7.2 Riley Moss 9.2 Edie Poole
7.3 Jacob Dinsdale 9.3 Emily Crowder
7.4 Tyler Bond 9.4 Tayyab Hussain
7.5 Harry Middleton 9.5 Kelsi-Morgan Bailey
7.6 Jasmine Walton
8.1 Carter Capstick
8.2 Alfred Holman
8.4 Joshua Taft
8.4 Noah Syers
8.5 Floyd Whittaker
10.1 Ciara Duffy 11.1 Thomas Harding-Hill
10.2 Bradley Bennett 11.2 Jason Zarzycki
103 Alex Waddington 11.3 Moizam Hussain
10.4 Harry Carpendale 11.4 Olivia Day
10.5 Maddison Whitaker
11.5 Pablo Aspin
Top Parent Awarded Points
10.2 Liam Richardson 8.2 Isabelle Jesson
9.4 Florence Garrity 8.4 Jasmine Hartley
11.5 Eden Barritt 8.3 Jenson Shackleton
7.4 Natalie Barritt 11.3 Oliver Hartley
11.4 Rio Garrity 9.1 Erys Gaul 7.2 Olly Smith 7.4 Finnlay Ross
7.1 Ross Swindells 10.3 Poppy Walker
8.4 Jack Trickett
9.4 Alice Longden
10.4 Max Lea
7.4 Darcey Harper
7.4 Lola-Leigh Buchannan
11.4 Alfie HornerLive lessons and student engagement
Week commencing 25.1.21
Year Daily % Daily % Daily % Daily % Daily % Weekly %
Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri
7 91% 89% 90% 93% 91% 91.5%
8 77% 90% 83% 83% 81% 83.7%
9 86% 85% 87% 89% 87% 88%
10 67% 69% 74% 75% 79% 74%
11 78% 85% 89% 98% 91% 88%
We wanted to share with you the records we keep of the percentages of students who are logging
on to their live lessons. It is clear, that in some year groups we have work to do! The pastoral
team are regularly making contact with those students who are not logging in. We are, however,
incredibly grateful for the support of our parents in helping many of our young people engage with
their online lessons.
If you do have any concerns in regard to your child and their access to their lessons, please do
not hesitate to contact the school office. help@westcraven.co.uk
DFE Guidelines state: the remote education provided should be equivalent in length to the core
teaching pupils would receive in school and will include both recorded or live direct teaching time,
and time for pupils to complete tasks and assignments independently. The amount of remote
education provided should be, as a minimum:
Key Stages 3 and 4 to receive 5 hours each school day. If parents feel their children’s
school is not providing remote education of a suitable quantity and quality, they are
encouraged to in the first instance raise their concerns with the teacher or headteacher.
In developing their remote education, we expect schools to:
Have systems for checking, daily, whether pupils are engaging with their work, and work
with families to rapidly identify effective solutions where engagement is a concern.
Student wellbeing
We are becoming increasingly conscious of the amount of time our young people spend in front
of a computer screen and the ongoing effects this lockdown is having on the wellbeing of our
students. As a result, our PHSE coordinator Mrs Pilling has put together a student passport for
those students in Years 7, 8 and 9. This passport contains several different challenges and
activities, that we hope will be enjoyable and fun, but won't mean more time in front of a
computer. Details of these tasks and introduction video have been set on class charts.
We are pleased to say there will be prizes given to the students who produce the most creative
responses to these tasks.Year 11
Remote Revision Classes
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Subject Staff Subject Staff Subject Staff Subject Staff Subject Staff
English
(Triple AT Art HW Business GT Art CK Geography NPR
Scientists)
Maths Computing GT
Health &
(Triple PP Business RE DW History NPO
Fitness
Scientists) French CJ
RG
NPO Geography SB Food PA History AB
Science SH All sessions are:
(Trilogy) JB 3:15pm – 4:15pm
RC Health & Social Religious
AP/DW JG Media Studies AT
GB Care EducationStudent Webinar – Stress to Success GCSE Pod
You are invited to join a Student Webinar - Stress to success In school ‘NOW’
(Avoiding burnout and staying focussed and stick to a We have a new online resource called GCSE pod.
plan) - GCSEPod. After registering, you will receive a confirmation This is for students to access. It hosts a raft of
email about joining the webinar.
resources to support them on their GCSE journey.
Join at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_D7YDLM5EQ-- Visit: https://www.gcsepod.com/
jRCN0J6K47w For further details, view the parent letter dated 8.12.2020
https://www.westcraven.co.uk/letters-202021/1086.html
A BIG well done to the Top 3 podders
Natalie Amos
Aimee Morris
Jessica Moorhouse
We are competing against schools from across the North West in
GCSEPod Games. The more pods our students watch, the higher
up the league table we go.Reading for Pleasure
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Audio-Book App!
You can log onto Lancashire
BorrowBox to access eBooks and
audio books.
Visit:
https://www.borrowbox.com
All you need is to have a
Lancashire postcode.
You Tube: How to install
For NEW or existing the BorrowBox App
members, please follow https://www.youtube.
Supporting your child reading
the link for com/watch?v=7mYB6
Including places to access FREE reading material QoUiuE
and FREE e-Books Keep in touch-
libraries and complete
Reading Recommendations
the online form.
Top tips to support reading at homeNational Apprenticeship Week
Our school website contains lot of information and guidance at:
https://www.westcraven.co.uk/careers-information-and-
guidance/357.html
https://www.research.net/r/NAW2021Virtual Work Experience Boost your
Year 10 students future career
aspirations
Give yourself the best
chance of securing high
quality work experience
Sign up NOW
https://www.s4sn
extgen.org/ Wates: An Insight into the Construction
Industry International Women`s Day 2021
Build Yourself with Wates
Virtual Insight Day 8 March 2021
16 February 2021 Eligibility: 14 – 19-year-old
Eligibility: 14 – 19 year olds females keen to network and learn about why
keen to network and learn construction is a rewarding career choice for
about roles available in the women.
construction industry. Application Deadline
Application Deadline 8 February 2021
29 January 2021
If you are interested and would like to be selected please email a letter of application to:
aadams@westcraven.co.uk
If you have any questions about the process, have forgotten your login details or are having technical issues, please get in touch with
experience@speakersforschoools.org and the team will be more than happy to help.Online Safety
Remote Learning and Live Lessons
Year 9 Students Online Safety
A ‘Fantastic’ opportunity if you are considering a career in
Digital Media, Web Design, Commercial Art or Advertising
Supporting you and your child with online safety
The school website has been updated with new
information to keep you and your child safe online.
https://www.westcraven.co.uk/search/online-safety/388.html
https://www.westcraven.co.uk/mental-and-physical-
Monday 1 March 2021 wellbeing/1059.html
Would you like the opportunity to partake in
one-weeks work experience and
work remotely with Industry Professional Trainers?
Do you work well in a team?
Do you enjoy using social media and producing logs and websites? Remote Learning
and Live Lessons
This might be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!
Access the direct link to the Remote Learning
Are you interested?
and Live Lessons page.
Would you like to take part?
Email your letter of application to Mrs Adams This page contains a video on how to access
AAdams@westcraven.co.uk learning via Microsoft Teams and useful how-
to-guides
Closing date: Friday 5 February @ 3pm
https://www.westcraven.co.uk/remote-
learning-and-live-lessons/1137.htmlWellbeing
All these books ae free to borrow on the BorrowBox app.
Please email Mrs Boardman if you have any queries.
“You just feel like you’re alone. You feel like it’s only you.
You’re in your bubble. I found that…one of the most
important things you could realize is that you’re not alone,
you’re not the first to go through it; you’re not going to be
the last. I wish I had someone at that time
who could just pull me aside and (say),
‘Hey, it’s gonna be OK. It’ll be OK.’
Have faith that on the other side of your pain is something
good.”
Dwayne Johnson, The Rock
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