412 SPRING NEWSLETTER 2024 English The Spring term has been a busy one in the English department! Our Year 7 students are now fully in the swing of secondary school life, and started the new year by reading about treasured fairy tales from when they were even younger than they are now, and it’s been lovely to see them remember stories that they hadn’t heard in so many years and to look at them in a different light! Their hard work has really helped them with their new challenge of reading Shakespeare and the story of the fairies for the first time in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With students set to study poetry in the Summer term, I suppose you could say things are going to go from bard to verse… All the world’s a stage… and our Year 8s and 9s have been reading about it! Our Year 8s went straight from Shakespeare’s tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet to Liverpudlian twins fatefully separated at birth in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers, while our Year 9s have been reading the Arthur Miller classic A View from the Bridge. Our students have adored having parts to act out and working on their very best scouse or Brooklyn accent as they start to build up to the end of their KS3 studies. All of their hard work and enthusiasm is truly setting the stage for success as they move towards GCSE! Within their GCSE studies, our Year 10s and Year 11s are putting in some hard work as they look to bring everything together in those final exams. Our Year 11 students demonstrated great resilience and commitment in completing their recent PPEs and are now on the final stretch to their exams this Summer. Soon, it will be the Year 10’s turn: they’ve now completed all the first reads of their English Literature texts, and will complete their first set of PPEs after Easter. We’d tell you an exam joke, but we wouldn’t want to test your patience. Bring on the Summer term! Follow us @Thornleigh_Eng World Pi Day Maths Follow us @ThornleighMaths The Maths department celebrated World Pi day on Thursday 14th March (the date being 3.14 using the American date system of month first) with a range of activities for students taking place in registration and during maths lessons throughout the day. Activities included a Pi estimation challenge where pupils had to estimate the number of pi symbols on a tie, a Pi memory task which involved students reciting as many digits of Pi as possible, and Pi dingbats. There was also some delicious pie treats for students to sample as well. Numeracy Challenge The numeracy challenge continues to run in all Year 7 and 8 forms this year and the competition between the forms and form tutors has been as intense as ever. In Year 7 at the time of writing Miss Millers’ 7 Omega lead the way with 12 point lead over Ms Hawksworth’s 7 Theta with term one winners 7 Zeta 17 points from the top in third place. All forms have competed really well with almost all forms having at least one week when 100% of all students got a correct answer. In the Year 8 numeracy challenge, a lot of forms have performed exceptionally well this term, with many forms scoring 100% on the challenges each week. The current leaders in Year 8 are Mr Jones’ 8O with Ms Cooper’s 8 Zeta in second place. 8 Alpha are in third place and 8 Kappa are in fourth place. The competition will continue until the final week of summer when the winners will be presented with the coveted numeracy challenge trophy and a form prize.
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