Gardening Tools

Thank You Everyone!

Thanks go to everyone who has donated gardening items for use in our school allotment, your contributions have been amazing. 

Thanks to Keith for containers, composter and tubs as well as previous donations to the school, especially the fish tank. 

Thanks to Emma for the lawn mower and edging stones, the pathways are now under control! 

Thanks to Susan for rake, spade, trugs and hedge trimmer and to James for brushes, spades and shovels and to Sara for not only donating tools but her offer of further support for school fetes during the school year.

Thanks to Holly for letting us know about the Free Books at the 3rd Age Centre in Cranberry Terrace, we have a really useful and wide ranging selection for the boys to use.

A massive thanks to the Weston Allotment on New Town Road who had a massive collection for us and donated rakes, hoes, spades, shovels, terracotta plant pots, composter, netting and also bought seeds, gloves, hosepipes and ore for us.

Also not forgetting those that are still looking, especially if you have hand tools such as trowel sets. 

Keep watching as we blog about the allotment over the year.

Incredibles' visit the Cinema!

Leon,Mrs Ash,Miss Long and Deacon

Today the whole school went out for their end of year trips. This is a reward for good behavior and a really nice way to end the term. Mrs Ash, Miss Long, Leon and Deacon went to the Showcase cinema to see the Incredibles 2...which was incredible!
The boys were extremely well behaved and did The Polygon proud as usual-well done boys.
Its been another great year, enjoy the holidays, and I look forward to September!

Doddle - End of year awards

We run a weekly competition as an incentive on our Doddle to reward success of a tutor group and a pupil.  At the end of this academic year we have added up all the totals and have to say "well done" to Jamie for being the pupil with the highest total for pieces of work completed on our Doddle 2017/2018.  Who will win the tutor group award?

Doddle Countdown to 6000 achieved

Seven weeks ago a challenge was set for our pupils to try and reach six thousand pieces of work completed on our virtual learning envoronment (VLE) - Doddle for this academic year.  We have been counting down over the past seven weeks with the pupils only needing sixty-eight pieces of work last week.  However, they smashed it with two hundred and five, achieveing the challenge with a week to spare!  As reward of ice-cream in the sun provided by The Friends of The Polygon was had by all on Monday.  Well done for all of your hard work and excellent year on our Doddle.

 

Thank you to Mrs Brobson for organising the reward

  

    

Polygon Grow Their Own

Summer 2018

Our allotment was in need of a lot of attention at the beginning of this year!

          

But due to a grant from the Global Learning Programme (Poverty and Sustainability Project), we were able to get help to sort out the beds and re-cover our poly-tunnel.

Our thanks go to Matthew and his team from Newfields Gardening CIC. Due to their hard work over a number of days, our beds where dug over and weeded, the grass between the beds cut, and they even helped clean out our shed.

Not only was the poly-tunnel recovered, once we removed everything that was stored in there, they made new beds so we could start to extend our growing season.

So with lots of watering by everyone in school, weeding by pupils during Eco-club in activities and staff at the weekend, we have produce!

Cucumbers are doing well, and Mrs Brobson will be using these before the end of term during cookery lessons.

Runner beans!

And butternut squash, soup in the Autumn term perhaps?

ISA - Global Learning Programme Project

Global poverty and social justice

Whilst completing a pupil assessment for our International Schools Award we earnt £500 worth of e-crecits to spend on training through the Global Learning Programme (GLP).  We are planning to use this funding by staff completing the Global Teacher Award - level 1.  We were then offered the chance to apply for further funding and Mrs Ash and Mr Patchell were successful in gaining a grant from the Global Learning Programme.  As part of the Global Learning Programme (GLP) for England, they wanted to provide additional funding to enable GLP schools to continue to develop global learning within their own school, and with other schools and their local community. The project was based on a particular understanding of global learning and development education: the critical examination of global issues and the roles that individuals and communities can play in reducing global poverty, within a framework of social justice.

Our project:

In addition to the embedded global work we already do within our curriculum, we wanted to develop pupils global learning within the local community, combining with other schools in the future.  Specifically, we wanted the pupils to have an understanding of how poverty is not just in our local area, but a global issue and how their actions can help to reduce this.  In turn this will help promote a greater awareness in Southampton schools of poverty and sustainability. Our project will achieve this by giving pupils the opportunity to see first-hand the impact of growing their own produce, the impact of sustainability, building food crates in a DT lesson, a week of poverty on a global scale in Breakfast Club, an assembly and giving the produce to a local shelter - The Society of St James. 

This all culminated with our output at the school fete and handing over our first batch of produce from the allotment to The Society of St James.  As a school we look forward to building on links we have made during this project and expanding it to the wider Southampton commnity during the next academic year.

The Shelter receiving our first patch of produce - rhubarb crumbles

Doddle - Countdown to 6000 Challenge

COUNTDOWN TO 6000 CHALLENGE: getting close!!!

• As a whole school can you complete x707 pieces of work in x7 weeks for a reward?
• Total at start of this half term = 5293
• x124 pieces of work completed over the past

Total left: x68

School fete

School Fete 2018

The school would like to thank all staff, pupils and the school community who helped make this year's fete a big success on the 29th of June.  The hot weather did not spoil everybody enjoying the many stalls being run by pupils on offer.  In total  £228.85 was raised for The Friends of The Polygon.

          

                                         

Readathon - Week 10!

Well done to 3LB for winning the readathon cup on Friday 6th June. 

They read for an average of 54 minutes!

The full results are below:

1st - 3LB - 54 Minutes

2nd - 3HI - 51 minutes

3rd - 3GS - 38 minutes
4th - 4AW - 33 minutes

5th - 3CM - 31 minutes

6th - 4SK - 28 minutes

7th - 4CF - 25 minutes

Ryan has overtaken Jaiden and Oscar and Sean are catching up with Jerome!

Reece and Spencer are leading the way for key stage 4! 

Doddle Countdown to 6000 Challenge

COUNTDOWN TO 6000 CHALLENGE:

• As a whole school can you complete x707 pieces of work in x7 weeks for a reward?
• Total at start of this half term = 5293
• x279 pieces of work completed over the past two weeks (rollover).

Total left: x192