Year 9

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Foreword

At our recent celebration of achievement assembly the following received awards for being the years most improved students:

• Lee Fawcett
• Rebecca Miller
• Gavin Taylor
• Clare Rudd

In addition 9Y3 received an award for being the most improved class.

Congratulations to all concerned!

Congratulations also go to Alex Gutteridge who has managed to achieve a level 1 in the NVQ test for coaching basketball: A very commendable feather in Alex’s cap.

Talking of achievements we must mention Liam Cox who raised money for Comic Relief by singing in our assembly. Liam is also a member of Sunderland football academy but he has confirmed that he won’t be giving up footie for a life in karaoke.

Shame about that Liam – on second thoughts, perhaps not.

We are delighted to report that our Wednesday NULP and literacy sessions have been successful. Both Val and Les are delighted with the motivation and commitment of their groups and Mrs Beattie has reported that every student in the Literacy group has increased their reading age; well done to all concerned.

Staying on the subject of reading Mrs Huggins informed me that the attendance at her reading challenge sessions has been very impressive – indeed positive referrals have been received for many reading challenge students.

We were really pleased with the turnout at our Year 9 parents’ evening and we were even more pleased when we received e-mail messages and telephone calls from parents informing us that they had found the evening very helpful. We are hoping for an equally successful evening on Tuesday 1 may 2007 when we are holding our Options information session in the main hall.

Obviously our work this year has been organised with the SAT’s in mind as we feel it is crucial that we are seen to be successful in our fantastic new building. To this end we are holding booster classes and collapsing the timetable prior to the SAT’s in order to facilitate extra Maths, English, and Science lessons.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERY YEAR 9 STUDENT.

Make sure you achieve your personal best by revising on a daily basis.

JUST DO IT!

PB AT KS3:

NOTHING LESS WILL DO

Mrs E Halsey (Year 9 Director of Learning)

Student Comments

To get a balanced view of Year 9 we asked pupils to comment on what it was like being in Year 9 at Boldon School.

Pastoral programme

Personal and Social Education (PSE)

• Self Image/Self Esteem
• Assertiveness
• Living with others - Parents, Brothers and Sisters,  Living in Care
• Avoiding stereotyping – Typical Teenager, Images of Young People, Gender Stereotyping, Racial Stereotyping, People with Disabilities, PHAB, Images of other countries, “North East Alliance Against Homophobic Bullying”
• Personal Safety for Women
• Boys Will Be Men, Boys’ underachievement, Raising Boys Achievement
• Charity Work - Jigsaw Appeal, Operation Christmas Child
• Raising achievement - boys and girls
• Class assembly - Each group presents an assembly to the rest of the year
• Anti-Bullying

Sex and Relationship Education (SRE)

• Families and Parenting
• Teenage parenthood
• Relationships
• Rights, Responsibility and Safety
• Aids related issues around December 1st - World Aids Day
• A theatre-in-education production

Healthy Lifestyle and Safety

• Eating Disorders
• Fit and Healthy Lifestyle
• Mental Health - Coping with depression
• Primary Health Care
• Parenting skills
• Drugs
• Health interviews with School Nurse
• First Aid

Career

• Introduction to Careers Library
• Introduction to Careers Software
• Initial careers interviews
• Induction of work related pupils with Outside Agencies
• Work related enterprise event

Citizenship - Spring Term

• Prison!  Me!  No Way!
• Local Government
• Central Government – parliament, MPs, election process, role of MPs
• Stereotypes - looking at images, labels and challenging stereotypes
• Environmental Law
• Year Council and School Council elections and meetings

Financial Literacy

• Marketing and Production

Equal Opportunities

• Gender Stereotyping
• Racial Stereotyping
• Sexual Stereotyping
• People with disabilities

Learning to Learn

• Learning Style Analysis
• Self assessment/target setting/action planning
• Revision prior to exams
• Behaviour and procedures for exams
• Learning to Learn - preparation for SATs
• SAM Learning

Environment Education

• Plant trees and bulbs
• Conservation - Managing the countryside - Pressures on the countryside - Planning a country park
• Decision making and environment awareness

Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional Literacy – help them to help themselves
• Learning to Learn work on self assessment/target setting/action planning, and links with progress file work

Progress File

This work helps pupils to think ahead to what they want to achieve, plan how they will get there and it helps them to recognise their interests, skills, qualities, learning preferences and achievements.

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