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Y9 Options 6th February (All week) – Joanne Bury has arranged for Blackburn College to come in to the RE lessons all week to talk to Year 9 and tell them about the Options Process – choices and what they lead on to. 8th February (Wednesday) – Assembly: Miss Martin to check up on Options progress – Make sure all students know she is available to discuss/solve any problems.
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6th March (Tuesday) – Options Afternoon – we will have an information session for the students (and parents if they can attend). Mr Trickett will give a talk to the students in the Arts Centre during period 6; they will then talk to subject specialists about option choices. Colleges will be there to give advice. 6th March – 20th March – All Year 9 students to have a short interview with Joanne Bury and one of their Pastoral Leaders. 21st March (Wednesday) – Y9 Parents’ Evening – Parents will have the opportunity to talk to staff about Options; Colleges will be in. Miss Martin will keep students informed of any changes to the above programme. This is a long process, no need for panic or worry! If you have any questions come straight to her!
In January, 60 Year 7s and 30 Year 8s were involved in 3 days of film-making workshops with Dan Rowbottom in conjunction with National Heritage Lottery Fund. The focus was local history - life as child mill workers - and during the day they learnt how to spin cotton by hand, researched mill life, wrote scripts and made short
Rhyddings has been accepted as a member of London 2012’s UK-wide reward scheme, the Get Set network. We are now eligible for a number of exciting rewards from TEAM 118: - Bobby Erangey, London 2012. Mr Scott & Brad Morton open the Get Set (london2012. Rhyddings 2012 Olympic Games! com/getset) is the official London 2012 education programme, and through this programme, our students have been learning about the Games and the Olympic and Paralympic Values. We have also been doing work linked to London 2012 and the Olympic and Paralympic Values such as our inter-form Rhyddings Olympics for Key Stage 3. Each form is currently battling it out in a variety of sports after school, all aiming for those gold medals! We have now been recognised by the London 2012 Organising Committee as a school that is demonstrating its commitment to the Olympic and Paralympic Values, and have become a member of the Get Set network. This means that we are now guaranteed free tickets to London 2012!
Digital Champions A Digital Champion is someone who pledges their time to show others all the benefits that the internet can bring. They can inspire people to take their first steps online by telling them about a site that matches their interests, showing them how to use the web and improve their ICT skills. Several of our students have signed up and are now actively seeking family, friends and members of the community who would like help getting online at our first Digital Champion sessions on Tuesday 21st February at 3pm and 6pm. For more details, contact Mrs Cunliffe on 01254 231051.
films. It was a joint English and Drama project with Yr7s (Miss Bamber, Ms Edmonson, Mrs Evans and Mrs Nuttall), and Yr8s were doing it as part of their history work (Ms Prescott).Year 7s had also been down to the Bubble Factory to see Brian, a 71 year old ex-Rhyddings student, switch on the loom for a very noisy demo!