Avon Tyrrell Residential Trip: Day 1

Year 10 Work Experience

 

Year 10 Work Experience

We again made workplace visits to our students to see them in action. Many of them were hard at work exploring a wide variety of tasks.

As you can see below we went back to the Co-op to see a pupil doing a stock take. A pupil was assisting the PE lessons at a local Primary School and another was helping at St Mary's Stadium making teaching resources for Saints Foundation.

AI in education conference

 On February 5th the ICT department was invited to attend a conference at Solent University around Artificial Intelligence and potential opportunities and challenges that it presents in education.

This was a fantastic CPD opportunity for staff and a chance to ask some experts in the field for their ideas as to how The Polygon School could benefit from using AI at the school.

We learned the AI is now more intelligent that an ant and a rat, but is a long way from matching that of humans. This is despite the fact that AI programs like Chat GPT4 have read nearly all text from human history!

Some of the positives to AI include:

- Being able to personalise learning

- Greater engagement through interaction and curiosity 

 - More staff time due to efficiency with admin tasks

However there are drawbacks that we must be aware of:

- Privacy concerns around sharing any student data

- Ethical considerations around bias and discrimination in outputs

Thank you to Solent University for inviting the ICT department

Amazing progress in swimming!

 Amazing congratulations to one of our year 8 pupils who has gained so much confidence in the pool he has gone from a complete non swimmer to now having the confidence to collect hoops from the bottom of the pool and swim across the deep end! 

Well done the swimming team are so proud of you! 

Year 10 Work Experience

 

Year 10 Work Experience

This week we have our Year 10 pupils out at a variety of employers on work experience. There were many nervous faces but all of the boys have settled well and are enjoying themselves. 

This week is a big step that our pupils make in their journey to their next steps and a valuable learning opportunity.

We have a pupil at our local Co-op this week. He is learning how the stock is rotated and displayed, helping with stock arrivals and customer services.

We have another pupil at Jungle Jeans. On his first day he made up over 100 party bags and learnt how to use the coffee machine as well as tidying the play equipment. He earnt his cheesy chips at lunch time.

Here you can see another pupil hard at work, this time at Carers Together Charity Shop. He was hard at work in the stock room going through donations to go to the shop floor.

Our thanks go to the employers that have engaged with us this year and we will be visiting the rest of the pupils later in the week.