Year 11

MISS NICHOLA COOPER

HEAD OF YEAR 11

I am so pleased to report Year 11 have been working exceptionally hard and keeping their spirits up in registration and MELS lessons this term.

We have looked at the importance of well being and have encouraged the students to maintain a positive attitude and focus only on those decisions they can make a difference in.

Below you can see an example of a word wall created early in the term about How would you describe being back at school?

ACTIVITIES THIS TERM

Other well being activities this term include Year 11 revisiting some laughter yoga, mindful colouring and also having a go at some meditation and “Charge Up” Activities.

I’ve included the links in the Newsletter and you can encourage your children to have a go at any of these if they are feeling at all anxious. Meditation

Whilst they may seem a little silly, and may not work for everyone if they raise a smile or a laugh then in my eyes they’ve Laughter Yoga Introduction

had a positive effect.

Charge Up 1

Charge Up 2

MINDFUL COLOURING FROM 11GR - Louis Butcher, Alicia Digby-Johns & Seyf Al Samarai

CONGRATULATIONS TO

YEAR 11 REPRESENTATIVES

CONGRATULATIONS TO LILY-MARIE WALTER

Who has taken on the role of Year 11 Representative and to the following students on their positions as House Representatives this year:

11CE Syeda Andrabi & Aadi Sharma 11CH Amina Matthaeidesz & Amruh Tawil 11GR Nadine Yazdabadi & Louis Butcher 11HY Latifa Al Ahbabi & Isabella Abou Nasr 11PE Lara Babbar & Vinuth Ratnayake 11PH Lily-Marie Walter & Sharadhi Somayaji

These positions are designed to improve leadership skills and already they have been impressing me with the creativity they have shown whilst designing the weekly House Competitions.

MORAL EDUCATION AND LIFE SKILLS

(MELS) LESSONS

MELS activities in form time have focused on improving the students understanding of revision techniques and skills.

The first technique we looked at was dual coding. I hope that by introducing new skills in this way it will give the students the opportunity to use the time in the morning effectively. In fact, even if we only use one registration session per week until the approximate date of study leave students will have completed over 12 hours of revision within school time!

As well as productive MELS and registration sessions the students have really been getting to grips with our hybrid teaching and learning model.