Snapshot - Home Learning Edition
07.05.2020
Welcome to our CTS Snapshot - a weekly celebration update. We would like to continue to share the achievements of our students during this uncertain time. Each week we will include new ideas for student challenges to do at home, nominations of students who we are celebrating in each subject, and updates from the home learning team. If you have done a piece of work you are really proud of, or have completed one of our challenges and would like to share it in Snapshot next week, please email this to homelearning@corbytechnicalschool.org with the title of the email being 'Snapshot', including a short description of your work, and we will choose a selection to share.
Gallery of Work:
This Saturday Miss Buffini will attempt to run 100 miles around her garden for NHS Charities Together. The aim is to start at 10am and complete it within about 24 hours. Miss Buffini has put fairy lights up to make the garden look pretty at night and has friends running virtually with her part of the way to keep her going. Fingers crossed she can complete this challenge. We will let you all know how she gets on in the next Snapshot.
Virtual Sports Day:
We are excited to launch our CTS Virtual Sports Day. This will consist of 6 different challenges of which you can complete as many or as few as you like. There is a page on the home learning part of our website here with a link to our videos which give you more information about this and some demonstrations. This is an activity for all of the school community so please encourage ex-students and your family to get involved too. Please submit your scores through our Microsoft form also found on the website. Entries must be submitted by 12pm on Sunday 24th May. There will be a results show broadcast on Friday the 29th May.
Nominations:
English/Drama/Media:
- Year 7 students Lacey, Kacper B, Ruby, Kyle, Marijah, Lucy, Kara, Oliver P, Jakub, Sandra, Todd and Dominik in Year 7 for their outstanding war poetry assignments. Your perceptive comparisons of Owen and Sassoon’s poems included detailed language analysis, precise use of quotations and terminology - and even clear links to context! We are incredibly impressed with your effort, well done.
- Year 7 student Joshua B for his creative reimagining of Roald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood Revolting Rhyme.
- Year 8 students Falun and Dexter for dramatic gothic writing in last week's English assignment.
- Year 10 student Rio for his wonderful effort on his poetry comparison- excellent detail in comparing two very complex poems, well done!
Maths:
- Year 7 students Chloe, Xavier, Kitty, Danills, Harry, Todd and Ellis for excellent effort and achievement on the assignment.
- Year 8 student Kirsten – 100% on assignment.
- Year 8s Isaac, Keira and Jack for completing 'Memri' tasks on Hegarty Maths.
- Year 9 students Daria, Louis & Emma – 100% achieved on assignment.
- Sanjay, year 9 – completed feedback and improved his assignment score.
Year 10 students Liam and Declan who have had an introduction to Year 11 work (Vectors)
Andre, Jack H, year 11– completing preparatory work for A Level.
- Year 11 student Oliver – completing 'Memri' tasks on Hegarty Maths and achieving excellent results.
PE:
Miss Williams has nominated Year 8 students Falun and Robert for the great fitness circuit cards they produced for their assignment.
Humanities:
Year 7 Geography - the following students did exceptionally well on their assignments:
7TE: Maya, Alfie, Olivia
7CO: Olivier J, Dominik, Isabella, Lacey, Zhivko, Angela, Olivier P and Todd.
7ST: Ruby and Matthew
7TA: Arina
7CA: Scarlett, Lily and Sai-Aaditya
7SW: Mariyah, Zsodia, Xavier, Shanice and Jake.
Kyle and Chloe 7ST submitted superbly written History assignments:
Lucy 7Ta, Oliver P 7CO, and Isabella 7CO produced lovely work in their History essays
MFL:
Year 9 student Annie prepared and cooked an amazing Paella as part of her Spanish assignment, it looked amazing! (see photo below)
Computer Science:
The Computer Science department would like to nominate Year 7 students Robert, Oliver P and Greta for showing superb resilience in problem solving through the coding of their Cat and Mouse games in Scratch. The confident use of key programming techniques shown by these students is outstanding!
Science:
These Year 7 students completed a fantastic Science assignment: Lacey, Dominik, Todd, Oliver P and Isabella.
Design Technology:
Year 10 students Aidan, Shaylan and Ana for achieved the highest marks in this week's assignment task so far. It was a difficult assignment based on core content. Well done!
Assemblies:
The link for this week's assembly is below, we will have a break for the two week holiday and the next assembly will be Wednesday 27th May.
https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/f501d595-01f3-4852-9fb4-01b3db7d1e44
Home Learning Nomination
Snapshot Student Challenges
Each week we will be setting you some extra challenges on Snapshot to do at home. Send us pictures of your successes to: homelearning@corbytechnicalschool.org to share in our next edition.
Life Skills Challenge
Make a meal for the people you live with. You could try out a new recipe or maybe even invent something new based on ingredients you have at home. Ready, steady, cook!
Pictures below are from last week's 'Waste not, want not' challenge. Year 8 Rhian fixed some broken pegs - good work!
Creative Commission
Create a sculpture or piece of artwork using natural materials from your garden or local green space. You could use leaves, flowers, or branches.
Enrichment Inspiration
Write a letter to a friend or family member that you haven’t seen in a while. You may also like to write to an elderly person for our tutor time initiative from BBC Northampton.
Weekly Winners
April 27th – May 3rd
Highest number of students taking quizzes – 7CO & 7TA & 7TE
Highest number of quizzes passed – 7CO & 7TA
Highest number of words read – 7TA
Focus Feature
Mrs Brown is reading The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. She is enjoying this book because it builds the evidence against all the characters. It is a real 'whodunnit' with an intricate narrative. She is also watching lots of theatre. For example, Jane Eyre; Frankenstein; The Phantom of the Opera; Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Othello. Now, is a great time for viewing live theatre from your home. Mrs Brown has also been taking an online course: A Level study boost: Unseen Poetry and the Creative Process
A lovely bit of escapism with mystery, history and romance. The story follows Cara, an antiques dealer who finds a diary written during the war. She is determined to find out who the lady was that wrote it, and what became of her.
As well as reading, Miss Jenkins has also been writing poetry and lyrics for new songs. Why not give this a go? You may surprise yourself!
Mrs Rice is reading The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman. She wanted to get stuck into a series and had always heard good things about “His Dark Materials,” but never read them as a child (she was much more into my Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket books back then). Mrs Rice thinks now is a great opportunity to read all those books you have always wanted to read, but never had the time to. She is also enjoying that, whilst being unable to really go anywhere, she can be transported into another world through the art of storytelling!
Careers News:
Careers information is being sent through Tutor groups in Teams and our Careers Advisor Julie Thompson can be contacted for advice by either parents or students via email at: jthompson@corbytechnicalschool.org
Reminders:
- If you have any queries regarding free school meal vouchers or any student queries please email enquiries@corbytechnicalschool.org.
- For any assistance with home learning, email homelearning@corbytechnicalschool.org.
Corby Technical School
Email: enquiries@corbytechnicalschool.org
Website: www.corbytechnicalschool.org
Location: Cottingham Road, Corby, United Kingdom
Phone: 01536 213100
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