WELCOME TO YEAR 8/9

Form Tutor - Mr Mkumbwa

our students peer assessing their English writing ahead of their checkpoint exams.

students have been learning shapes and geometric reasoning 

students have been learning about the relationships between organisms in the ecosystem and the energy transfers from producers to consumers. we have also learnt reproduction in Humans. in the pictures below, students were mounting different slides on the microscope to try to see microorganisms which are part of the ecosystem.

As we are getting closer to half term, we are studying electricity and the in the pictures below students are rubbing balloons on a sweater as a way of charging them and trying to stick them on the wall. 

In History students have been learning about civil wars.  They discussed whether Oliver Crowell was a hero or a villain. 

Pictures below shows students making guesses on the monuments in Paris, France.

Year 9 have been working on the theme 'broken' during their art classes.

Year 9 music has focused on using advanced chords on the keyboard.

This term year 9 have been thinking about which subjects they should select for their IGCSES and what they want to do as a future career.

In February 2020 our year 9 students had career talks from different professions. 

Students are learning taekwondo (a combative sport and was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by Korean martial artists with experience in martial arts such as karate, Chinese martial arts, and indigenous Korean martial arts traditions such as Taekkyon, Subak, and Gwonbeop.)

Students have been working hard to improve their speed and stroke technique in the swimming pool.