All staff and students had a brilliant first day yesterday at Allenheads. After arriving and settling into their rooms, we participated in team building activities before a yummy spag bol followed by a night time walk and chocolate bananas and marshmallows on the fire!! Photos of today’s adventures to follow later!!
Just a few photos from the residential last week, all the students were extremely well behaved and we all had a great time. We all learnt lots of new skills and took part in a range of different activities. It was great to see .students try new things and watch as the days went by their confidence grow. We went rafting, climbing, weaselling, gorge walking and took part in a nightline walk, roasting bananas and chocolate over a fire. Somehow, after all that many of the students said the best bit was the spaghetti bolognaise cooked with Quorn! We are going to send a photo montage home and will give out a few certificates when all the residentials are completed in the next couple of weeks.
Evening Everybody
Just some dates for your diaries. We have the Year 9 Options Evening on Monday 10th June from 3.15 to enable you to come and discuss your child’s Key Stage 4 Options.
During our Coffee Morning on the 18th June Julie Temple (MCT Rep, Making Changes together) will attend.
Elaine Chandler (SENDIASS) will attend on the 9th July.
P2 have been studying the brilliant work by Michael Rosen. We have learnt about his life and written a mini biography. This week we have performed one of his poems which has inspired us to write our own. Here is a snippet of our performance
18 students met or exceeded their reading targets on Accelerated Reader. Congratulations – your McDonalds will be delivered today!
Well done to the 39 secondary students who were entered into the raffle for reading effort – the winner was Callum in P6 and he has already claimed his £20 reward.
Children in P2 are accessing visual resources around the classroom to allow them to learn more independently. We are working really hard to learn our 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 times tables.
We are taking some responsibility for reaching our EHCP targets, supporting each other in achieving them.
The pupils in P4 have been learning about the five Northern Saints of Northumbria. During the visit to Durham Cathedral the children had the opportunity to dress up as a Saint such as St Bede, St Hilda, St Aiden, St Cuthbert and St Oswald. Even Mrs Ridley played the part of St Hilda and Miss Lee was assigned to be a Bishop for the morning before she became St Cuthbert once the story was retold of his death. The children then enjoyed their lunch together in the Monks’ garden as they would have done many years ago. 
In Science, P5 have been investigating electrical circuits. At the beginning of the lesson, the children were asked to work in teams and were given a range of electrical equipment with the challenge of making a lightbulb light up. This was great fun and after a lot of discussion and attempts, circuits were made and the mission complete. We then investigated lighting more than one lightbulb at a time and we made conclusions as to why the bulb became dimmer. 
P5 have been learning how to tell the time. We found this rather tricky, but enjoyed the challenge! We will continue to learn the time next week and apply our new skills to solve time problems. 
