My new school

Hi 8R, hope you are all having a good year, it's good that you are still leaving comments. This is my new school! Mrs H

Thank You

It was sad saying goodbye to you all. Thank you for your wonderful cards, flowers,buns and presents, I will miss you, Mrs Hx

Apprentice challenge

Well done for your team work and creative skills yesterday - you were amazing!

End of Year 7

This was taken today so we can update our blog

This is our trip to Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island on PhotoPeach

Year 7 Sports

Well done yesterday - you worked hard as a team and came 3rd!!

Development Day Exhibition

Our end of term exhibition on PhotoPeach

Our Holocaust Art Exhibition

7R's holocaust  exhibition on PhotoPeach



Hi it's Elissa I made this movie to show you what we have been doing.We have been making an art exhibition about the Holocaust we have make all sorts and it looks really good!We have been drawing things from feet to houses to teddy bears.

 Bradley produced this work on Felix in the cellar using paint

The most important thing we have learnt in Cultural Studies

Once - Our collages

Once - the character of Felix

Felix shows that he has a great deal of strength and courage when looking after Zelda. We will be creating collages around each of these words - one group per word.

Assessment for Living

You are now beginning you work on Assessment for Living. Please follow this link for more information.

Its courtney here, I have finished my essay and my presentation and will soon be going to practise, it wasn't as bad as i thought, its just the actual thing that i am scared of!

Hello its Megan here, i have finished my powerpoint also my essay and it wasnt that bad to be honest, i am a bit nervous about speaking infront of the 4 people plus my parents and teacher, but i am looking forward to it.

Its Amie, I have finished my powerpoint and nearly my 1500 word essay, just need to adjust some things. I am really not looking forward to the real thing as i am not confident and hate speaking infront of people!

It's kane here I have nearley finished my 1500 word essay with 604 words BUT ! i have ran out of ideas and it needs to be in next week suggestions please ............

LAFTAs

We have been making movies in groups saying about learning different languages for LAFTAs,just shows how inportant it is to learn different languages so you can understand people if they spea diffrent. this is a video what shome people has produced..

The LAFTAs is a competition which asks students to make two-minute film clips which should demonstrate the inportance of different , and learning languages.

Amie

Getting ready to film

Once - Morris Gleitzmann

The Carrot - Chapter One

by Kate P

In the first chapter we have found out that Felix is an orphan but his parents are still alive, Dodie is Felix's friend who's parents died of sickness when he was three and he wants to be a pig slaughterer. Felix is determined that the carrot he got is a message from his Mum and Dad because it's favourite vegetable. He and his parents are Jewish and his parents own a book store and can't afford him, don't want him or they have died. He has been in the orphanage for three years and eight months and wants to say thankyou to Dodie.

We worked as a team and decided what would be in the house that Felix found. Hi it's Kate and Rebecca the first thing weve done this morning is put postit notes ont the chairs and tables to make an 1940-1941 house for the otherteam to raid, then we had to pick things out of the other house to use. My note to the people who lived their was:
Dear people who live here,
I'm sorry for taking your major supplies, I am a nine year old who doesn't have anything plus I need to find ny Mum and Dad! I hope you can understand.
Yours faithully Kate X
P.S. Good luck hunting!

We decide what we would put in our bag if we were Felix & why.

We looked at the chapter where Felix first meets Zelda and looks after her. This is our response to the statement 'You know you are an adult when....'

The Royal Wedding

We began our work on this last week when we wrote about the advantages & disadvantages of marrying a prince! We will carry on this week looking at 'What does it mean to be British', Westminster Abbey & the key landmarks that we saw in London, The fashion & Fashion designers, 'Where in the World' people represented at the wedding, The symbols (what flowers did she have, where was the lace made, who 'loaned' her the tiara!), the history of Royal wedding balcony scenes..hope you all remember your newspapers for Tuesday!

What did you think about the Royal Wedding?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

Danish Pupils teach the lesson

We have had visitors fom Denmark in school this week. This morning four of the boys came in to lead our lesson.

Danish Pupils teach year 7 on PhotoPeach

Working with Qdos

Working with Qdos on PhotoPeach



Yesterday we worked with Qdos dance company & looked at the ideas of racism & discrimination

Class rules poster competition

We had a rethink about our classroom rules, Courtney won the poster competition

A Miner's Tale

A Miner's Tale - The Performance on PhotoPeach




Today was the dress rehearsal for our performance on Thursday!

Dress Rehearsal on PhotoPeach

French 'Devoirs' - L'heure

Go onto www.linguascope.com

Practise 'Quelle heure est-il?'

x3 sessions of 10 minutes

Pay particular attention to 'MOINS'

Education Blog Awards 2011

If you like our blog then use this link & vote for us here!    remember we are  www.7rcs.blogspot.com

Check out the chicken! ONE!

Your first 'Check out the Chicken' homework is to find out about a mining disaster (other tha Huskar!) where did it happen, when, why did it happen & what were the consequences

Don't forget to look on http://barfyr7.blogspot.com/ - it's got photos from our rehearsal last week as well as words for some of our songs!

Here are the words to the song that Morgan and Emily wrote, please learn!!

    1^st verse:

     26 children drowned

    As parents started to scream

    But nobody wants to go back

    To that horrible scene.

     2^nd verse:

     The rain started to fall

      There was a great big storm

      The tunnels started to fill

      While everybody said their will

    CHORUS

     26 children died

      14 survived

      As the lake on top of the ground

      Started to dive

                                                                          X2

        3^rd verse

        26 children drowned

        Some just over se…ven

        Their lives taken

         And now they are in heaven

          4^th verse

          Can you believe?

          How tragic this was

          So many dead

          You need to understand because….

        CHORUS X2

The Paper Bag Game

Monday was an excellent day for us to be team workers, independent enquirers and creative thinkers! The aim of this game, was to go in our teams 1 person collect some newspaper and then follow some simple rules to make a paper bag it was up to you who did what thing and what your tactics were but you had to make 10 of these bags, before you showed them to Amie and Elliot at the bank! If the bags were suitable, and did not have any holes in you would collect one rupee. However, if madam picked a chance card the game would change you maybe had to do 10 small and narrow bags or half the size of the normal bags! We only had 20 minutes for all the game! I learnt definately to work better as a team and this game really gets you involved other years should 100% try this!!! :)  By Georgia F

The paper bag game on PhotoPeach




Kate made a Wordle about our work.

Les Matières - school subjects

J'aime = I like
J'adore = I love
Je n'aime pas = I don't like
Je déteste = I hate

eg je n'aime pas le dessin

Mother's Day Assembly

Dear all, Mrs Rhodes has asked that you invite your mums to assembly on the 31st March. She would like to know numbers so please can you let me know if your mum will be attending. Thanks Mrs H

Check out the chicken!

Coming soon our hidden chicken homeworks for Easter!

REFLECTIONS

Mr Storey asked you in assembly to leave a comment about what had been the highlight of your first 6 months at Kingstone. You can leave your comment in this section. Hope you are all having a good half term, Mrs Hx

SUPERSTAR OF THE TERM!!!!

YOU DECIDE 7R - who deserves the title of Superstar of the Term in French? Who has worked the hardest and contributed the most to lessons in your opinion?

Plots and Protests

Hi its Rebecca and Morgan

                                This morning we had a letter from Mr Milburn saying we had to come to school on saturdays for three whole hours. We did a sweep round the circle and we decided we wanted to protest.
We all split up into different groups (which we could choose) and did different activities such as: performing, banners poster and writing letters. Here is a copy of the letter that Mr Milburn sent!

MEMO : From Mr Milburn

FAO  - All Year 7 Pupils

Following government guidelines which are based on the research findings of the Foster Committee, Kingstone has now decided to adopt the 6D policy. It is important that we address this issue now before moving to the ALC in 2012.

All homework is to be abolished as it has been proved that it is an inefficient method of learning. To combat this, pupils will be expected to attend school on Saturday mornings from 8.30 – 11.30.  New timetables will be issued and this will be phased in during the final term of this year. It is expected that trials with year 7 will be successful and this can then be expanded to other year groups.

 Parents will be informed of this following the next governors meeting.

Any enquiries will be dealt with via the school office in the first instance.

M.Milburn

Madam later on told us that this was not real  and said it was to get us thinking!

   Most of us thought it was real at first so me and Morgan wrote a letter to Mr Milburn and here it is!

                                                           The big banner

Dear Mr Milburn

                                7r are very unhappy about having to come to school on a Saturday so I am writing this letter to tell you why!

       My first point is that some people may have activities on a Saturday Such as: dancing, drama, horse riding and ice skating. Morgan Scully said ‘I could not come to school on Saturday as I have to look after the horses 10 till 4.30 and it will be hard for someone to do it for me.

Amie Courtney and Megan’s argued ‘we do world wide dancing championships and leave on a Friday and we come back on a Sunday and no one could replace us! 

Olivia said ‘I do ice skating lessons on a Saturday because I am training to do a competition and if I win I might meet a professional skater’!

   Furthermore some mum and dads might have split up so their children might go and see there dad or mum and if they only go on a Saturday they would not be able to see their most important people in their life! Georgia said  ‘ I only see my dad once through the week and if I had school on a Saturday I would only see him for a couple of hours and he is one of the most in portent people in my life as well as my mum’!

Kate argued ‘I only get to see my dad on a Saturday once a fortnight’.

Jacob said ‘I only see my dad once a month on a Saturday and if I came to school I would only see him for 4 hours’!

  Finally if teachers gave us homework and it was done properly we could do it at home instead of coming to school and having to get up early!

I think that though we are only 11-12 we still need a lie in!

      I hope you think about all the ideas I have put forward and rethink about having school on a Saturday!

                                           Yours sincerely R.yeardley and 7R

Here are some photos and videos of us working on our protest!

Protest on PhotoPeach








Here is Essa's response

We have made this video to tell what might happen if there was a school on Saturday. We did some dancing because it is important to Courtney,Megan and Amie and if they go to school on Saturday they may not be able to go to their festivals. Because Kingstone will be the only school working on a Saturday they might get bullied . However they will get a better education than other schools .

Thankyou by Georgia Fenton, Megan Lunn, Olivia Appleby, Courtney Foster, Amie Robinson and Georgia Egan. :)