HIghlights from our VLE - Doddle so far from this academic year

Each week we run a competition where we reward success on our Doddle for tutor groups and individuals.  With 86% of pupils having completed work on our Doddle so far this academic year it is a great time to highlight some of our successes:

• x5 different pupils completing the most work in a week across both key stages

•  x3 different Doddle Champions across both key stages
•  Total for the year so far = 1553, compared to last year = 1697
  
• Work has been completed on Inset Days, weekends and during the holidays!!!

"Well done to everybody and keep up the good work!"

Who will win the awards this week?

Solent engineering fest visit

On Thursday 08/11/2018, a couple pupils visited the Solent engineering festival. They had the chance to speak to many different companies about what they do. There was space engineering projects, boat engine building, Royal Navy, Royal Air force, Army and many more. All speaking and demonstrating what, why and how they do their work.

 The idea behind the festival was to provide young people with information of the different opportunities with in engineering. Many of the companies spoke about apprenticeships and how they are a vital role with the company.

The boys enjoyed the day.





Shaquille was set a task to build a house

New arrivals at Morris House

New Arrivals

This week, Morris House had some visitors and they are here to stay! Mr Willis and Reece went out to Pets at Home to collect 4 platies to fill our new tank that was kindly donated to us.

 We also took this opportunity for Reece to work towards a communication challenge for his PiXL Edge. Reece chose the fish, spoke to the lady whilst she bagged them up for us and paid at the till.

Meet the new arrivals: Jesse Fin-gard, Danny Whale-beck, Jordan Pike-ford and Prawn Wright-Phillips. All named after England footballers 😃

RHS Monster Pumpkin

The results are in! So after measuring the pumpkin's circumferance across three dimensions and adding them all up to estimate the pumpkin's weight, it only came to 10 kg! This meant we came 13th out of the 100 schools that received Monster Pumpkin seeds from the RHS, but we didn't believe it and had to measure it ourselves.

We believe it was nearer 60 kg!

Next steps are to cut out the flesh and make soup for another Big Soup Share and a bit of pumpkin carving for Halloween.

CDT Training

Early one Saturday morning six Polygon staff arrived at school for CDT training.

We have all learnt how to use the tools safely by making shaped wood pushers for the CDT room and are looking forward to making the Christmas table centre pieces.

Thanks to Sarah our trainer for the day and the lovely lunch provided as a reward for coming in on a Saturday.

Doddle Champion - week 4

Week 4:

Congratulations this week go to 4SK for winning our weekly competition for tutor groups and to SR for winning the individual compeition.  In addition, a special mention goes to all of 4AW for completing work this week along with 62% of school.

Engagement Centre: Using Microscopes

Engagement Centre: Using Microscopes

This week, the Engagement Programme started using microscopes in their Science lesson. They took a closer look at lots of different things including tape worms, eggs, insects and fish scales. We then labelled a diagram of a microscopes to learn all the different parts.