Doddle end of year celebration

It has been another amazing year on Doddle with x4195 pieces of work completed across sixteen different subjects!  Maths and English have seen the highest totals during the year, closely followed by Science.  Five tutor groups have shared our incentive Doddle Champion cup awarded every week in assembly, with 4SK picking up twelve of these!  Well done to everybody for completing work, but a BIG congratulations goes to Alfie for completing the most work in KS4 and the whole school over the year.

Have a safe and enjoyable summer break and we look forward to awarding more prizes in the next school year on Doddle.

A Fond Farewell to Our 2020 Leavers

This Friday we celebrated the departure of our year 11 boys.  It was the first time most of our boys returned to the school following the COVID-19 lockdown,  a lovely surprise to see so many pupils deciding to return to reflect on their time at the Polygon.  

We all watched a video of the boys' time over the years with most parents, pupils, and especially staff trying to put a brave face on it and not shed a tear or two.

Miss Hendon-John reminisced about each pupil and we handed them their leavers' books with comments from our staff team.

We wish every pupil the very best of luck in their future.

Hopefully, we'll see you one last time at the exam results on the 20th of August.

You will be greatly missed!

Please note: All leavers are going onto college, apprenticeship and work placements.

Click here to see more about our Career Plan on our website

Fresh Produce from Our Allotment for the Society of St. James

As an embedded International Schools Award activity - Food Boxes, it is great to see the Global Learning Programme funded project established in 2018 continuing.  Produce from our allotment is given to a local charity to serve in their soup kitchen, giving our pupils a first-hand experience/insight into how we can help those less fortunate in the local community. 

Please click the link below to see our previous blog about the project:

https://thepolygonschool.blogspot.com/2018/07/isa-global-learning-programme-project.html 

Picked...

...cut...

...ready to go...

and freshly delivered!

Being local means we can pick and deliver, without a car, within 10 minutes!

To find out more about The Society of St. James and the work they do, Click Here!

Polygon School Table Tennis Tournament

Today at the Polygon we had a very exciting event in table tennis. Pupils and Staff in teams to compete against each other. Well done to everyone who took part! Absolutely outstanding skills from all!

All rounds, except for the final, consisted of just 1 round.

The winner of each game will be the first team to reach 11, with two clear points.

Three games were played in the final match which had a time limit.


The rules of the game:

1. The ref's decision is final (Respect the ref!)

2. The umpires reserve the right to give warnings where necessary

3. Respect your opponent

4. Respect your teammate

5. Push yourself to do your best

6. Lastly, Have fun!

Teams! 

1. Miss Handley Potts and Miss Fornal

2. Mr. T and Mrs. Thomas 

3. Mr. Crook and Miss Long 

4. Mr. Sparrowhawk and Cameron H

5. Mr. Shutt and Miss Wateridge

6. Mr. Penfold and Callum J

7. Fred and Marley L

8. Mr. Harvey and Tyler W

9. Mike and Tyler B 

The event was filled with crowds cheering and shout outs from Miss Price who did the commentator's job very well. It certainly made everyone giggle and get into the event.

The Winners of the tournament

Well done to Callum and Mr. Penfold! 

Family Fun Day at The Polygon 14th anf 15th July-Nail care and Mini Health Checks

On Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th July the Polygon School held an event with several activities for children and parents to enjoy.

Miss Long provided nail care for boys who wanted it and Mr Vaz performed mini health checks. This included measuring height, weight,  lung capacity and blood pressure. The boys learnt how to take their own pulse rate and did this before and after exercise to measure the increase.

Nail care

Mr Vaz doing a health check with Liam

Miss Long giving Callums' hands a cream

Spray Painting Workshop

Spray Painting Workshop

Four of our eager art students had a fantastic outdoor spray painting workshop with two local artists, Joe Ross and Duncan Newland, who we have worked with before.

The group worked on developing ideas for a brief, and experiencing safely using aerosol sprays outdoors on different surfaces.

The boys had some exciting creative ideas and lots of fun experimenting, leading into a wall decoration project planned for later in the year!

 

 

Outdoor Gym Equipment

We are so excited to see the arrival and installation of our new outdoor gym equipment! This will really help with our provision when returning to school in September.  The gym stations will be regularly cleaned between uses and have been placed so users can maintain an appropriate social distance.

We are really hoping this will further motivate our school community to get moving and take part in sustained activity, These stations will be used as part of the PE curriculum  and will also be available for our pupils to use at break and lunch times. We have chosen a mixture of cardio and resistance based stations to encourage all round fitness.

Our Gym