Wednesday, 25 September 2019

National Fitness Day


KS4 and National Fitness Day 25.09.19

The KS4 boys were given the opportunity to participate in the National Fitness Day initiative this afternoon by joining in with a fitness circuit as a group. Participants accross the country will have taken part in at least 10 minutes of continuous activity in order to raise awareness of the benefits of being fit and healthy. Well done boys on taking up the callenge! As a group we smashed the target! If you would like to find out more visit www.nationalfitnessday.com.
#FITNESSDAY




Jack powering through the sit ups

Alfie our head boy leading by example!

Dean adding his own dance twist - getting active!





The end result! 

Well done - excellent effort!


Friday, 20 September 2019

3HI Boat show trip



This week 3HI had the opportunity to visit the boat show in Southampton. Careers in Southampton kindly organised tickets for our school, which was hugely appreciated.  The class was luckily enough to be able to participate in a range of water based activities which included: Catamaran sailing, power boating and the class favorite rib speedboat ride! we look forward to next year, below is some photos showing exactly how we got on.







                                                                                                                                                

3KP Boat Show

This year our school was very lucky to receive Boat Show tickets sponsored by Careers Southampton. 



KS3 students went to the Boat Show on Monday 16th September. 


3KP engaged in a paddle boarding session. Firstly, everyone had a go at paddling on a single-person board kneeling down and then standing upright. Some attempts to stand up on a board resulted in children (and staff!) falling into the water. Later, a few of us went on a bigger board where we had to work together to paddle rhythmically in order to move in a desired direction.






We also looked around the Pirate Ship and explored its darkest nooks and crannies.




Friday, 19 July 2019

3LB go to SWAC

3LB students have recently been offered an opportunity to go to Southampton Water Activities center
For the past three weeks they have had the chance to  engage in a different activities. 
The weather was on their side and They were able to build a raft, try paddle boarding and went sailing, as well as jump of the pontoon. 
Some were a bit unsure to start with but they all enjoyed themselves and embraced the challenges given to them and had a good time - even when their raft broke while they were out in the river.













Art in 2018-19


In Art this year, we have had many pupils’ complete loads of work to a very high standard. This included pupils who love art but also pupils where Art may not be their favourite subject, but they completed loads and loads of work and work very hard. There were numerous projects that were completed across the year. This included a Sea Project where students would study numerous parts of the Ocean and use it as inspiration to create wonderful artwork. This involves work with mussel shells and iridescent paint, while also numerous drawings of sea creatures (Octopi, Fish, Sharks). While completing these projects, pupils would learn different techniques and use different equipment, thus furthering their Art development. This included using chalks, charcoals, pens, pencils and paints amongst the number of different Art equipment we have and use for Art at the Polygon.

Every pupil that completed work in Art during this year should be very proud of themselves and their work, whether they did a lot of work or little. They would have shown resilience and commitment to completing pieces that may take more than one lesson to complete, and this is something they should be proud of as having resilience and commitment is an important skill in life!  

Wednesday, 17 July 2019

Bags2School




Many thanks to everyone who brought in clothes, bedding, bags or shoes into school for our collection. Especially 3BW who collected the most items from all the tutor groups.
The items will now be sold to importers and wholesalers in many countries of Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and Asia.
Every year UK consumers dispose of 1.13 million tonnes of clothing and shoes. 70% will be reused overseas, but 80,000 tonnes are incinerated and 350,000 tonnes end up in landfill.Thanks to everyone who sent clothes for our collections, we have saved 68 kilos from being incinerated or becoming landfill.

What out for next years collections dates to see if we can recycle even more.





Thursday, 11 July 2019

Sports Day!

Today was the first of our two whole school sports mornings. All boys were split into four teams which included all the different age groups. All participating boys did really well in the hot conditions and we saw lots of examples of excellent teamwork and resilience!

Well done boys and staff who also joined in and did their best! We look forward to more of the action tomorrow- lets have another great day, strong performances and I hope you can smash some more school records!


Red team looking ready!

Go Liam!

Marley after the shuttle run challenge!




Andrew going for a big throw



Super performance from you today Jack- Let see more of the same tomorrow!


Mrs White showing them how its done!

Alfie following suit!