Croft Community School

World Mental Health Awareness Day 80 (Article 1, 19,24,28,29,31,36,)

By n.beckham October 13, 2020

80 had an amazing day during World Mental Health Day and the staff of 80 decided it was best to let the boys choose what made them happy and feel good which was having treats and playing games and staying safe. The classroom was set up abiding social distance and playing a game of ping pong into the cups and if their own ball his in a cup they received a treat. Using the Top Trumps cards they made in math’s they had some great challenges and we finished off with choosing an Emoji chocolate to express how they were feeling.

NSPCC – Apps, Games and Social Media Reviews

By n.beckham October 13, 2020

Check out the NSPCC Safety rating for popular Apps, Games and Social Media sites on:

https://www.net-aware.org.uk/networks/

LMI Bulletin Issue 464

By steven October 13, 2020

Dear All

The latest LMI Bulletin is available now:
https://www.supportinginspiration.org.uk/ne/lmi-bulletin-issue-464

This includes:

Sunderland regeneration

5G rollout to create work in telecomms

ONS latest on impact of coronavirus on the economy and society

Shortage Occupation List

Provisional 2019/20 apprenticeship data

Regards

LMI

Graham McCabe

LMI Officer

World Mental Health Day

By l.herkes October 9, 2020

Thank you all so much for the donations that are coming into school. For more information about mental health and how to support your child/young person, please check out Young Minds website where there is a free helpline for parents and crisis text messaging service.

https://youngminds.org.uk/contact-us/

Investigating calorific value

By d.henderson October 8, 2020

Class 10N have made an excellent start to their Entry Level Certificate qualification with the completion of their first assessed practical.

COVID-19 restrictions has meant a few changes to how we work but take a look at 3 of our class demonstrating their skills

Well Done 10N!

Year 11 Art

By n.beckham October 7, 2020

Art and fresh air are both good for our mental health and well being, so Year 11 GCSE Art pupils went outside today to create indented clay panels for their Texture project.

RRS Silver Award

By l.davis October 6, 2020

Big day in school today.

Very exciting news in school today! We have been attempting to gain the RRS (Rights Respecting Schools) Silver Award over the past year and today all the hard work and endeavour has been realised, as after a 3 hour meeting school was awarded the RRS Silver Award.
This is a great achievement for school, so well done to all the staff and pupils involved – you should all be very proud of yourselves and your achievements

Mnemonics 😯

By n.beckham October 5, 2020

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😯 Miss Oliver’s group entered into the RRS(Right’s, respecting School)competition and worked together with Mrs Devlin and Miss Lee with the children to make up a story to help them remember the Class Charter rights and their is 42 so it was a massive job. The class decided on using a mnemonics tool suggested by Bobby Rockett. Mnemonics is a tool that helps us remember certain facts or large amounts of information, and is particularly useful when the order of things is important such as out rights. They can come in the form of a song, rhyme, acronym, image, phrase or sentence. Mrs Devlin has attached the final competition entry which was judged has one of the winners. Well done everyone in 😯 that’s amazing.

Mrs Devlin

RRS Hazel Class

By l.robson October 2, 2020

Hazel class spent time talking about their rights.

To support our understanding we placed the statements around the classroom next to examples.

Article 19: Pupils decided they wanted to stick the article next to the fire alarm in class.

Article 12: We placed this with the ‘Tell-Me Tree’ in class. In Hazel class we might draw pictures, write down or take photographs of things we are proud of or something that we are worried about, to then discuss with an adult or peer.

Article 13: Pupils wanted this next to the computers.

Article 31: This went next to the choice cupboard.

Article 28: We put this article on our working wall that has all of our wonderful work on.

Article 24: We decided to put a copy of this article on the hand washing station and on our snack box.

Article 29, 7 and 8: These articles went onto our targets/about me wall.

Article 39: Pupils stuck this to our classroom door above the switch that when pressed says :Open the door please”.

Article 30: We placed on our PECS books as they help us with our communication.

By l.robson October 1, 2020

Hazel class loved PE today.

We were fire fighter bears saving the day.

We had to crawl under and along benches. We climbed up and over like fire fighters would with their ladders. We then jumped down after putting the fire out and crawled back to the start.

Hazel class enjoyed being fire fighter bears.

When we were finished we spoke about the importance of keeping the equipment clean for the next class.

Great work Hazel team!