Iceland 2017 - Day 1

 

 

Iceland Residential 2017 - Day 1

 

Our first day started bright and early with a 09:00 departure from Polygon to London Heathrow for our Icelandair flight to Keflavik Airport, Iceland.

 

 

We were very lucky when we landed as the weather was 15 degrees and clear blue skies, we were assured this was not typical Icelandic weather!!

After we met our driver for the day we set off to the Geothermal Power Plant and Steam vents. This is one of the plants that generates electricity for Iceland.

We needed to stick to the walkways as the ground reached temperatures in excess of 70 degrees.

 

 

Our next stop was the world famous Blue Lagoon. The lagoon is naturally heated to 38 degrees, like having a lovely hot bath, with a steam room and facial skin care bar pool side.

 

 

After we checked in to our accommodation Mr Patchell met us and took us on an evening walk around the sights of Reykjavik. With 24 hour daylight we didn't have a problem seeing what Iceland's capital had to offer.

Mr Patchell showed us the Parliament Building, Reykjavik Prison, the main shopping centre in the High St (where they use old bikes as road barriers) and Hallgrímskirkja, Iceland's largest church.

 

 

After a long first day it was time for bed. Day 2 should bring us face to face with some of Iceland largest waterfalls.

 

 

 



KS4 Work Experience

 

 

Work Experience - Tew Bros.

 

 

Tew Bros, a local independent building company, gave one of our KS4 pupils the opportunity to spend the week with them as part of their delivery team.

 

After a successful interview our Year 11 pupil Brogan worked with their deliveries driver Lee for the week.

 

 

They had to travel to various local building sites dropping off supplies such as bricks, cement machines, generators, timber and scaffolding.

 

Below you can see Brogan helping out to erect a mobile scaffold tower at one of their sites.

 

Thank you to Tew Bros for this opportunity, Brogan very much enjoyed his week with you.

 

 

 

 



Crest Nicholson - Work Experience

 

Crest Nicholson - Work Experience

 

 

Last week the school continued their working relationship with Crest Nicholson. We were offered placements for 4 of our pupils to attend a work experience week at their main site at Centenary Quay, Wooston.

 

 

4 KS4 pupils attended for the week and were able to carry out sessions in Carpentry, Bricklaying, Plumbing and Painting and Decorating.

 

This opportunity has proved to be an excellent addition to our Careers programme at The Polygon School and we thank Crest Nicholson and their instructor Barry for their time and efforts.

 



Key Stage 4 Work Experience!

Key Stage 4 Work Experience 4SK

 

Tom and Arron have been doing extremely well on their work placements this week. Arron has been gaining experience as a teaching assistant at St Marks primary school in Shirley, while Tom has been working in the IT services department at CAPITA. Both boys have had glowing reports from their supervisors and we are all extremely proud of them. After visiting both boys this morning, I was delighted to find Arron being a super role model to the year 3 and 4 pupils, the children on his table were engaged in learning and all doing their Maths work! Tom has been completing IT solution tasks and has gained experience in all the different IT departments including software installation, customer support and hardware. I know he was excited to visit the server room and I hope we will have some more pictures to post soon! Very well done boys!

Mr Adamson looking extremely professional



Tom looking very smart in his work shirt!:)

Tom Hammond learning about the different IT service desks

A hive of activity at CAPITA

Drama, English and Knights!!!

Along with what we are studying in English, Knights of the Round Table, Chaucer and Beowulf, 3LL got into the spirit of Knights in Drama today.

 We started by reading off a short script about a Knight in battle, and proceeded to choreograph a battle scene as characters, such as King, Soldiers, Monsters and Knights.

Our trip to Marwell Zoo

Last week we went to Marwell Zoo as an end of year treat from the Rotary club.
The whole school went on a coach, the weather was lovely and we all had a fantastic day!
Here are a few pictures I took whilst with the Year 7 group.

Enjoying the coach

For some of our boys this was there first time on a coach!

No photos please Miss!

Admiring the penguins



3LL with the lovely Miss Waldram and Mr Betelm

Smile and wave!

Shark attack! We nearly lost Jaiden!

How tall is Liam?

What about JP?

I think Taylor is the tallest!

Liam and Ethan meerkats!

Dean and Taylor meerkats!

Searching for the wallabies

Enjoying our well deserved lunch

The Great get Together at the Polygon!

On Friday Miss Brobson  organised a Great get Together in the form of a tea party as a celebration of Jo Cox's (former MP who was killed last year) belief that we all have more in common than that which divides us. To show this we made webs of connections with string across the hall for each thing that we had in common.
Here are some of our pictures from this lovely afternoon-thank you Miss Brobson for all your hard work and to those boys who helped make cakes and sandwiches-they were yummy!