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  • Year 7

    A lovely surprise gift!

    May 11, 2020 /

    I was very touched and surprised today to receive these lovely flowers and a lovely card from one of my pupils. I feel privileged to work with caring and appreciative pupils and families.

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  • Year 7

    All set for Mother’ s Day in Year 7

    March 19, 2020 /

    We made cards and boxes of thanks for our mums today.

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  • Year 7

    Year 7 reading station

    March 4, 2020 /

    We have completed our reading corner or station and we LOVE using it!

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  • Year 7

    A great ICT lesson with Mr Ross

    March 4, 2020 /

    Year 7 had a treat yesterday when Mr Ross came in to refresh our Sketch Nation skills.

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  • Year 7

    We love our writing sessions

    March 4, 2020 /

    We really like our writing sessions in Year 7 and we are very proud of our achievements.

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  • Year 7

    Our favourite: The Friday Maths Bingo!

    February 28, 2020 /

    Well done you all!

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  • Year 7

    Peer learning in Year 7

    February 27, 2020 /

    We learn better when we help each other.

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  • Year 7

    Pancake day in Year 7

    February 25, 2020 /

    We all enjoyed our pancakes this morning.

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  • Year 7

    Great Valentine Breakfast in Year 7

    February 14, 2020 /

    What a lovely start of the day, we joyed waffles and freshly baked bread with milkshakes. But most of all we enjoyed sharing, laughing together and being part of a great team.

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  • Year 7

    Collaborative work in Year 7

    February 13, 2020 /

    Collaborative math work today. Well done all. Great working as a team.

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  • Year 7

    Knife Crime Awareness in Year 7

    February 13, 2020 /

    Today we looked at the serious issue of knife crime and we all decided to create a poster to raise awareness and discourage people to use knives.

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  • Year 7

    Superb effort in PE today

    February 12, 2020 /

    Obstacle course for Year 7. Well done all for your resilience! Very impressive.

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  • Year 7

    We love reading in Year 7

    February 12, 2020 /

    Another great reading session today. Well done to you all.

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  • Year 7

    Fantastic writing in Year 7

    February 12, 2020 /

    Today we finished our writing. We went from research to key words, from objectives to draft and finally we produced our long piece of writing. Well done to you all. Great work !

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  • Year 7

    Practical Maths in Year 7

    January 13, 2020 /

    Today we tried to increase the size of a chocolate bar by going from 24 pieces to 25 pieces. It was all in the cutting and re-arranging the pieces. Great work Year 7! Of course we shared the remaining pieces at the end!

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  • Year 7

    Who’ s donne it?

    January 8, 2020 /

    Year 7 classroom was turned into a crime scene this morning. We have all been investigators today to try and find out what happened. Who was it? What happened? Why?

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  • Year 7

    Macbeth and Witchcraft in Year 7

    May 21, 2019 /

    We had a great literacy lesson this morning looking at the power of the Witches in Macbeth and how different the story would be had it not been for the prophecy at the start.

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  • Year 7

    Animation Workshop for KS3

    May 7, 2019 /

    We had a great introduction to animation skills this afternoon when we all gathered in the Heart Space to watch, discuss and design cartoon characters. We are all looking forward to creating a great animated version of Macbeth.

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  • Year 7

    Year 7 collaborative play

    May 3, 2019 /

    We had a great session yesterday sharing resources and ideas building castles together using Minecraft.

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  • Year 7

    Macbeth in six frames

    May 1, 2019 /

    A super piece of work. Well done Jack!

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  • Year 7

    The story of Macbeth retold by Year 7

    May 1, 2019 /

    Today we managed to retell the story of Macbeth in six frames using Book Creator. Well done to Ripley who showed great imaginative skills!

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  • Year 7

    Fraction work in Year 7

    April 30, 2019 /

    Today we looked at fractions and how we can work fractions out from a pack of Skittles. Yum yum maths!

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  • Year 7

    Our Biographies

    March 28, 2019 /

    In Year 7 we looked at biographies and decided to wrote a biography about Dr Harold Shipman who was infamous for being Britain’s most prolific killer. This shows the process we took of gathering information, planning and drafting before producing the final biography.

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  • Year 7

    A fun way to learn symmetry…the Symmetry Invaders!

    March 27, 2019 /

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  • Year 7

    Year 7 letters from the trenches during WW1

    February 7, 2019 /

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  • Year 7

    The first draft of our “Letter from the Trenches”

    February 7, 2019 /

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  • Year 7

    War Horse in Year 7

    February 5, 2019 /

    Today we finally watched the first part of War Horse. We have not watched it all yet but we are already looking forward to the next viewing. Emotional so far!

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  • Year 7

    What does 50% of 500ml look like?

    February 5, 2019 /

    Year 7 used beakers and percentages skills to work out the answer.

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    Life Act, Opening Minds Theatre Company

    January 22, 2019 /

    What a pleasure it was to welcome Life Act to Springwell to perform to our pupils. An inspiring performance that had the pupils gripped. Thank you so much for coming, we loved it. #CelebratingDifferencesAtSpringwell #OpeningMinds ❤️

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  • Year 7,  Year 8,  Year 9

    KS3 Immersive Experience: The Trenches

    January 15, 2019 /

    KS3 had an amazing immersive experience today. They had the opportunity to ask Private Henry Fairhurst à lot of questions related to WW1 and his experience in the trenches.

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  • Year 7

    Collaborative learning in Year 7

    January 15, 2019 /

    Some lovely collaborative learning today in Year 7. We created a little shop and asked Jack to go shopping! Great learning whilst role playing, well done!

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  • Year 7

    A great drama lesson today Year 7!

    January 14, 2019 /

    We had a great drama lesson today, a lot of fun and some very funny stories. Well done!

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  • Year 7

    Who was Private Fairhurst?

    January 8, 2019 /

    Today we have learnt a few facts about Private Fairhurst by looking at some of his belongings from WW1. We know he was a miner before joining the Regiment in 1914 and was sent to France to fight during the war. He was to be married on his return. We also found out he was from Barnsley!

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  • Year 7

    Lovely Christmas feeling this lunchtime!

    December 20, 2018 /

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  • Year 7

    The story of the birth of Jesus

    December 18, 2018 /

    After learning facts about Hanukkah, the Day of the Dead and Diwali, we have looked at the reason why we celebrate Christmas in our country. Some great work in Year 7. Well done!

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  • Year 7,  Year 8,  Year 9

    Dia De Los Muertos Celebration

    December 13, 2018 /

      Ripley our sound technician            Mrs Witherspoon doing the face painting, which both staff and pupils loved Miss Maw modeling her beautiful head dress       The Day of the Dead Alter and Offerings for the return journey of loved ones     Pass the Sombrero. Enjoyed by everyone and the winner was Jamie Hawcroft from year 9  

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  • Year 7

    Jack is very proud of his maths work today.

    December 6, 2018 /

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  • Year 7

    The Rice Experiment in Year 7

    December 5, 2018 /

    During our SEAL lesson we looked at the Rice Experiment and how love, hate or neglect can affect things. Ripley created a monitoring sheet for us to record our findings in the next couple of weeks. We will keep everyone posted!

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  • Year 7

    Using coordinates to create a picture

    November 21, 2018 /

    We realized today that it is so much easier to complete a jigsaw when we can use coordinates to locate all pieces! A practical maths lesson enjoyed by all.

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  • Year 7

    Positive Play- Minecraft together- being kind

    November 21, 2018 /

    As part of Kindness week we have decided to play together on each other’s world and make sure that we send each other kindness messages. We looked at how sometimes we receive unkind messages when we are gaming and we thought about how it makes us feel. Thankfully today we were all very kind to everyone!

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  • Year 7

    Year 7 re tell the story of Diwali

    November 13, 2018 /

    Year 7 re created the story of Diwali as a storyboard. Well some, some amazing pieces of writing!

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  • Year 7

    Springwell Kindness in the making

    November 9, 2018 /

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  • Year 7

    The story of Diwali

    November 8, 2018 /

    We have learnt facts about Diwali and we have started our storyboard.

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  • Year 7

    Indian food testing in Year 7

    November 6, 2018 /

    Today we read the story of Diwali and the Festival of Lights. We found out some facts about India and we did some Indian food testing.

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  • Year 7

    Year 7 maths

    November 6, 2018 /

    Today we used sweets and skittles to play battleship. What a great way to learn coordinates!

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  • Year 7

    Halloween buns decorating in Year 7

    October 26, 2018 /

    What a lovely way to end the half term!

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  • Year 7

    Year 7 pupils read their spooky stories to Primary 1

    October 25, 2018 /

    Our topic was Fantastic Beasts this half term. We enjoyed writing our own stories about beasts and mysterious creatures. Today we went to Primary 1 to read our stories to the pupils. They very much enjoyed our fantastic imaginative writing!

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  • Year 7

    PSHE play for Year 7

    October 24, 2018 /

    We had a visit from the Yew Tree Theatre Company. We discussed peer pressure, choices, friendship and influences. Well done Year 7 for your mature comments.

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  • Year 7

    Stress relief flour babies

    October 5, 2018 /

    Year 7 had a great time making flour babies today to use when we feel a bit stressed or anxious. We had a great time but we also demonstrated we are getting very resilient as it is really hard to make these!

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  • Year 7

    Friday morning is Maths Bingo in Year 7

    October 5, 2018 /

    There is no better way of revising multiplication or division….we love to learn and have fun at the same time.

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