Year 11 MOCK EXAM Week – Monday 28th January 2019 – Friday 1st February 2019
In preparation for GCSEs, our year 11 pupils will be taking MOCK exams.
Please have a look at the slides for strategies to deal with Exam Stress.
After the Christmas break, for the first two days, secondary students worked in their tutor groups, working on the whole school theme of ‘Preparing for Adulthood’. Students engaged in a range of activities which focused on the four strands of PFA:
- Employment
- Independence Living
- Community Inclusion
- Health
Students feedback was that they thoroughly enjoyed the event, in particularly a visit from the Army to discuss career opportunities.
Keep checking the website for further PFA events.
As part of the school’s careers’ themed event, students were visited by the Army where they learnt about possible career options. They were given the opportunity to ask questions and even tried on the Army equipment. Students were shocked at how heavy the kit weighed.
We are holding a Parents meeting on Monday 1st April 2019 from 3:30pm – 5:00pm. This will be an informal meeting when parents can collect their child’s report and talk to staff regarding progress both academically and behaviourally. Refreshments will be available and anyone with transport difficulties should contact the Centre as it may be possible to arrange this.
Useful information and hints and tips about staying mentally healthy over the Winter period can be found below:
https://wellbeinginfo.org/south-tyneside-xmas/
- How to reduce and avoid seasonal Blues
- Ways to overcome Christmas stress
- Be happy in your own company
- Ways to Look After Your Mental Health during Winter
- Ten tips for dealing with festive debt
- Strategies for coping with bad times
Another document has also been created containing useful information, including:
- Pharmacy opening times
- Emergency contact numbers
- How to access local Food banks
- Where to access Low Cost Meals
We will be holding informal parents meetings on Wednesday 13th of December 2017.
For Primary pupils come and see all the fantastic work your child has been doing this term and have some refreshments and a chat to the staff regarding their progress from 1:00pm until 2:45pm, then you can collect your child.
For Secondary pupils come along and collect your child’s progress report, chat to their teachers and key workers and see the brilliant work they have been doing this term. Light refreshments will be available from 3:00pm until 5:00pm.
We would like to Thank all parents and stakeholders who attended our coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support. All of our pupils used their Home Cooking lessons to make delicious cakes and biscuits to sell with teas and coffees.
At this year’s event we raised an amazing £255.10 so well done to all of the staff and pupils, particularly Mrs Johnson for organising such a brilliant event.
The service was invited to enter students into the Vision for Education Photography Competition. The theme for the completion was ‘Out and About’. Callum Longstaff a Year 10 student won the competition with his photograph of the ‘Poppies at Woodhorn Colliery’. Tim Ayton from Vison for Education attended an assembly to present Callum with his prize of a £50 Metro Centre voucher and a digital camera to the service.
