The Polygon Attendance Week 12

 

Best Attendance goes to...

Most Improved Attendance goes to...

Additional Learning champions...

Additional Learners this week are...

Oliver (3BR) 

Marely (4CM)

Winners of the attendance draw:

Kenzi (3AW)

Sean (3HI)

In addition to celebrating attendance, we offer the prizes of £10 and £5. This is to encourage our pupils to celebrate and to keep up there own personal attendance. Those pupils with 100% attendance have a chance to have their name in a draw. If you want to be in with a chance to win, come to school everyday! The draw takes place every week! How amazing is that?!

We have a display board with more details of pupil names for 100% or please ask your tutor to inform you of your progress! 

All awards and cups are announced every Friday during class assembly. 

Keep up the good work everyone!

Is that a python on the playground?!

Whilst learning outside with Miss Long, Ivan discovered an unexpected surprise on the playground. With Miss Longs support, Ivan remained calm and befriended the stranger!

Planting Crocuses Donated by Southampton Rotary Club

 

One of our year 7's planting Crocuses.

Thanks again to the Southampton Rotary Club for the kind gift of 1,000 bulbs to our school.

Our boys have managed to plant 200 so far and should have them all planted by next week.

Looking forward to spring 2022.

Uno Match

 Kenzie, Owen and Miss Harrop battled hard to win an Uno game at the end of a maths lesson. The level of focus and concentration was immense, a good game, very well done!

Remembrance Day Art

Remembrance Day Art 

Most of the students took time out of their usual project work to do styles of remembrance day poppies.

Outdoor Learning Autumn 1.

Outdoor Learning Autumn 1

During our outdoor learning lessons the pupils have been developing their team working skills a new tutor groups. The boys have shown resilience when faced with new challenges and losing in games. They have engaged with learning new team games and working with peers that they do not always work with. They have also built trust through activities such as blind folded mazes and trust falls.

When faced with challenges and adapting to the different rules to a new game the boys took their time to understand what was asked of them and the main objectives of the lessons were. Once they understood that, they were able to break down step by step instructions given to them when required. For example, when the group of pupils scored points using team work it was important to highlight the impact and the reward working as a team will get them.

The boys have been demonstrating their ability to work and motivate each other within a team in game settings through communication and listening to each other. They worked together to get the outdoor learning area clear and ready to do other activities after half term. 

Year 7 Art

The Year 7s have been working on colour theory unit and learnt how to mix and blend to create secondary colours during art lessons.

Art - Wildlife

Art - Wildlife

The boys have been using a range of different techniques that they have previously learned or have newly experienced in a lesson.

Techniques used on this project by the boys are;

• Printing
• Acrylic painting
• Water Colour painting
• Chalk Pastel

The Polygon Attendance Week 11

The Best Attendance goes to....

 

Most Improved Attendance goes to...

Additional Champions this week are....

Most Additional Work Completed by:

Harley (3PR)

Callum (3PR)

Nathaniel (4CM)

Mason (4CM)

Roch (4CM)

Readers of the Week: 

Ivan (3LB) 

Marely (4CM) 

Winners of the attendance draw:

Sean (4JG) 

Mason (4CM) 

In addition to celebrating attendance, we offer the prizes of £10 and £5. This is to encourage our pupils to celebrate and to keep up there own personal attendance. Those pupils with 100% attendance have a chance to have their name in a draw. If you want to be in with a chance to win, come to school everyday! The draw takes place every week! How amazing is that?!

We have a display board with more details of pupil names for 100% or please ask your tutor to inform you of your progress! 

All awards and cups are announced every Friday during class assembly. 

Keep up the good work everyone!

 For Remembrance Day, every tutor group in school took part in a 2 minute silence. 

We take part in this two minute silence to remember the soldiers from World War One and World War Two who died to protect our country. 

Skipping to Success

Year 7 complete a range of fitness activities each week. Today they successfully achieved 100 skips each at the start of a Mr T session, they counted carefully to keep track of how many skips they had done. They are focussed on keeping physically and mentally well to help achieve a healthy lifestyle and wellbeing.

Well done Brad!

Great determination Ivan, well done!

Impressive skipping Oscar, great attitude!

The Polygon Attendance Week 10

 

Hope everyone has had a good week at The Polygon. The attendance for the whole school has only dropped 1% and about half of the tutor groups have seen a rise in their attendance records for the week. Please find the data table below to show the statistics for the previous week compared to week 10.

Most Improved and best Attendance goes to 3LB 

                                                                        

                                 Additional Learning Champions                                                    

  

Most Additional Work Completed by:

Charlie (EPMH)

Readers of the Week: 

Tyler (3AW) 

Roch (4CM) 

Winners of the attendance draw:

Aiden (3AW) 

Bradley (3LB) 

In addition to celebrating attendance, we offer the prizes of £10 and £5. This is to encourage our pupils to celebrate and to keep up there own personal attendance. Those pupils with 100% attendance have a chance to have their name in a draw. If you want to be in with a chance to win, come to school everyday! The draw takes place every week! How amazing is that?!

We have a display board with more details of pupil names for 100% or please ask your tutor to inform you of your progress! 

All awards and cups are announced every Friday during class assembly. 

Keep up the good work everyone!

Wonderful week for 3LB

3LB have had their most successful week so far at The Polygon. They have focussed on increasing the number of respect points they gain, this has helped them improve their behaviour overall. All have gained at least 100 points this week, very well done!! As well as this they have all achieved 100% attendance, which is excellent. Consequently, they won the highest group attendance award and the most improved attendance award. To top it off Bradley went on to win the individual attendance prize. Very well done boys, Miss Harrop and I are very proud of your progress and attitude.

3LB Double cup winners

Brad - couldn't believe his luck ... hard work really does pay off!

Remembrance Day

3LB took a full and active part in remembrance day activities in school. We reflected on what and why we remember and being respectful. Ivan read a war poem to the class, we observed the two minute silence with a popular radio channel and created poppy pictures in art.

Ivan reading to the class, very well done, you were fantastic!

Mental Health and Well-being: The Joy of Plants

Plants have proven to have a positive impact on mental health and wellbeing, and there are many ways that you can incorporate this into your daily lives. A recent survey showed that 60% of people in the UK feel happier when surrounded by plants, and since lockdown more and more people have felt the benefits of houseplants and plants in general. I am one of those people and have become quite green-fingered as you can see from the photo of some of my plants below:

Some of my various plants and cuttings

“The Joy of Plants” website: https://www.thejoyofplants.co.uk/

Has some interesting information on “Forest Bathing”, Mindfulness and Air Purifying plants. Shinrin-Yoku: Forest Bathing is becoming increasingly popular as due to its health benefit and that fact that its free! Check out the website link to find out more about this.

thejoyofplants.com

One of our pupils enjoying nature on a recent walk in the woods

Class Trip to Sprinkles

As a reward for positive behaviour, good engagement and high attendance, 3LB were rewarded with a class trip to Sprinkles. Following a walk across the park, they chose a table, browsed the menu and ordered. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience and were very full up afterwards!!

Concentration Matters

 All our learners are trying hard to improve their concentration, which has been affected by long spells of often working alone at home during lock down. 

In maths we are encouraging learners to record independently, identify the equipment they need to answer a question and increase the pace at which they work. 

We are very pleased with the children's attitude to learning, well done!

Marcus and Tarkan fully focussed!

Data Detectives

Year 7 have been collecting data from other children in school and finding the mean, mode, median and range.

They used iPads to create bar graphs and pie charts to display the information effectively.

Year 7 Go to the Cinema for the First Time

Year 7 have settled in very well so far this Autumn. They are working well in lessons and beginning to make a good contribution to our school, helping with recycling and taking part in School Council meetings. Their tutors are so pleased that they took them to the cinema as a reward to see, Ron's Gone Wrong, their behaviour was excellent and they were a pleasure to spend time with in public. They represented our school very successfully.

Brad and Ivan on their way to the cinema.