The Great Year 8 New Forest Nerf Adventure

Last week, 3KP went on a trip to the New Forest for a Nerf battle as part of the boys' entry-level qualifications. 

The boys considered the costs, location, and potential risks when choosing their activity. 

There were lots of different games that the boys had planned- playing in duos or in teams!

The boys were also allowed to dress in camo, so they were able to camouflage between bushes and trees when approaching and hiding from the opposing team. 

They all looked great and took their role very seriously! 

Luckily, it was a lovely, sunny day and there was not much public around which meant we had lots of open space to dodge and duck the foam bullets. 

One of the highlights of the trip was seeing the boys help each other and share their Nerf guns with everyone. 

Most importantly, all of the boys had a smile on their face at the end of the day and they already want to go again!

4SK Pond Dipping

 Pond Dipping with 4SK

4SK had a brilliant lesson hunting for life in our school pond.  We are also really pleased to see that our frogspawn has hatched and our pond is full of tadpoles. 

ICT Year 7 - Micro:bit

In ICT we have been using micro: bits to code in a variety of ways. The pupils created codes to play Rock, Paper, Scissors and 20 Questions. They have had to input codes for words and shapes using different functions and inputs. All of the pupils have engaged well and have shown great teamwork by helping and supporting each other.

Polygon staff fundraiser for City Catering

The 10,000 Step-a-day challenge has come to an end!

Well done to everyone who joined it and made a brilliant effort to get their steps done everyday for the last month. 

Collectively, we did over 8.5 MILLION steps which is equivalent to about 4,250 miles!

We would like to thank our sponsors for raising £823 which will allow City Catering to provide the local families affected by food poverty with tasty and nutritious meals. 

Whole School Awards - National and Internationally accredited achievements!

      

As a school we are very proud of the continued amount of hard work we all put in to achieve so many national and internationally accredited whole school awards.  These awards have been gained over many subject areas across the whole of the school curriculum.  They have helped our school in continually developing and have made our pupils more aware of; themselves, their community and the wider world.

If you would like to learn more about each Whole School Award we have achieved please click on the link below:

https://www.polygon.southampton.sch.uk/whole-school-awards-1/

You can also click on the icon below that is found on our school website which takes you to the Whole School Award page:

The Polygon School Attendance

Reg Group:	w/e Thursday 01/04/2021	w/e Thursday 22/04/2021	Plus/Minus
HI	77%	80%	3% UP
PR	78%	91%	13% UP
SK	81%	81%	4% UP
AW	87%	96%	9% UP
CM	70%	68%	2% DOWN
JB	80%	71%	9% DOWN
LB	90%	93%	3% UP
KP	92%	92%	-
EPMH	97%	96%	1% DOWN

Citizenship and Picture News

As part of the citizenship curriculum, each tutor group learn and reflect upon topical and current issues each week in the form of picture news. This weeks question was based on the following news story:

The Union Jack will be flown on UK Government buildings every day of the year under plans to celebrate the United Kingdom’s heritage and pride. Ministers are set to issue new guidance this week to get the world-famous flag displayed all year round – not just on designated days. Under current guidance, the flag is only required to be flown on all UK Government buildings in England, Wales and Scotland on special days, such as the Queen’s birthday.

The move comes after BBC Breakfast presenters Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty were accused of making fun of Communities Secretary, Robert Jenrick, for displaying the Union Jack in his office. That sparked a backlash from the Corporation and a statement from director-general Tim Davie that the BBC is ‘proud to be British’.

As a class, we had a sensible discussion around the issue and independently recorded our thought for the class scrapbook

'Should we be allowed to fly flags anywhere' 

KS4 coursework NCFE Health and Fitness

 

KS4 Synoptic Assessment

Our KS4 boys have been busy working towards achieving their synoptic assessment for the level 1/2 technical award in health and fitness. As part of this coursework, the pupils are required to assess fitness levels for different components and design training programmes for each other. They have made a fabulous start to their work and we will be working hard after Easter to meet our submission deadlines. 

Well done boys and keep up the great work.

Our Additional Learning Platforms - Term 2

 

Well done to everybody for their hard work on our Additional Learning Platforms in the second term of this academic year.  A special mention to Ryan K for completing the most online work during the lockdown period - see poster below.  

The poster below highlights all of the great work completed by our pupils during Term 2 on our Additional Learning Platforms.  Keep it going and good luck to all in trying to win the weekly competitions.

KS4 Imaginative Writing

 Imaginative Writing 

KS4 have been working hard completing their initial assessment for our imaginative writing unit. They have started to produce some lovely pieces of writing using fantastic vocabulary.