3DRB International Day of Light

 International Day of Light 2024

On Thursday 16th of May, it was the International Day of Light. This is a day when we look back and see how light based technologies have influenced and changed many different subjects in and outside of education, such as art, science, cultures and also medicines. 

To celebrate this day 3DRB went with an artistic approach and we looked into making cyanotypes. Cyanotypes are a type of photography which involves exposing a special kind of paper or material to natural light and it can create an image with an appropriate amount of time. In the group, the all went around and found some leave, sticks, flowers or some other naturally found items that were on the ground. They arranged those items onto the material sheets and let the sun expose it for around 5 minutes then everyone took a look at what they made. They could see the difference for those who managed to keep theirs completely still and those whos items moved in the wind and how the light effected it. 

KS3 explore nature writing!

  

Exploring nature writing with author Yarrow Townsend. 

On Thursday 20th a handful of our  year 8 and 9 pupils got to meet author Yarrow Townsend to discuss her new book and to take part in a creative writing workshop. 

The pupils had an hour session sat in the sunshine on blankets, reading extracts from her book, discussing the types of birds seen in the city and then writing what about what they think it would be like to be a bird going on a journey, as well as creating maps birds might take for future story writing. 

It was a great session, where pupils interacted and engaged with nature, encouraging imagination and supporting their creative writing skills. Thank You Yarrow!

Another HH5 Blog from 3HI

 Here are a few more photos from 3HI's Healthy High 5 lesson last week :) 

You can see Tony, Connor, Ivan and AJ working very hard-well done boys.

Quiche!

Recently KS4 have made quiches. They first made their pastry dough so that they could line and blind bake these before we added the fillings in the next lesson.

They were learning the importance of shortening the gluten strands by covering them with fat during the rubbing in method to make delicious crumbly pastry.

They tasted amazing!

 

Healthy High 5 with 3HI

 Here are a few photos of 3HI taking part in their HH5 lesson yesterday. It was lovely to see lots of different activities happening and all pupils really engaged and having a great lesson.

KS3 Year 9 English

Gothic Horror 

The half-term just gone the year 9 pupils were exploring Gothic Horror stories. They studied the book 'The Woman in Black' looking at the characters, themes and settings of Gothic horror before planning their own. 

They have then had the opportunity to either write or type their stories. This has led to a week of all pupils excitedly writing their short stories, each pupil had set a specific goal of how many words/pages they wanted their stories to be. They have all worked incredibly hard and beat those goals, with the most stories being a minimum of two pages long. They should be super proud of the hard work they have achieved during this unit! Well done Year 9's!  

SCLT Online Safety

 

ONLINE SAFETY

Our school is a member of the Southampton Co-operative Learning Trust. This is a group for schools in Southampton to share and work together for the better of the pupils.

On Wednesday 22 May, the trust schools got together to workshop ideas for an upcoming Online Safety campaign that will be supported by Arts Work. The SCLT wanted to bring together pupils from all the schools and with a range of different ages to collaborate on ideas.

Josh and Leo where chosen to represent Key Stage 3 from The Polygon. They did fantastically well to contribute their ideas and give their opinions on how social media has an influence on young people today. 

Your Future Career Event

 Your Future Career Event

Today pupils in KS4 visited the 'Your Future' Career Event. This was hosted at Solent University and involved local colleges, Universities and employers, all on hand to give the pupils information about courses, apprenticeships, training programmes and job roles on offer.

Pupils spoke to a variety of the exhibitors in order to explore their own career interests and options for their next steps.

Life Lab 3JG

3JG's trip to LifeLab and cross-curricular learning.

Check out the bottom picture and the amazing extended writing pupils are completing reflecting on their experience back in school.    

 

Life Lab 4NA

LifeLab is a unique, state-of-the-art teaching laboratory dedicated to improving adolescent health by giving school students opportunities to learn first-hand the science behind the health messages given to them in the Science and PSHE curriculum in school.   

The pupils all participated in numerous experiments and said the opportunity to use high tech equipment in a real hospital was amazing! 

The staff at LifeLab not only provided excellent resource packs for all pupils but lessons were tailored to  meet pupils needs and were not only engaging but ambitious. The enthusiasm from staff to promote a love of learning and personal wellbeing was infectious from the moment we entered the organised and inspirational lab. We cant thank staff enough and look forward to returning next year! 

Look out for 3JGs LifeLab photos coming soon!