Year 11 Cambridge National in IT students will be sitting their external OCR examination on Wednesday 12 January. Specific revision material has been posted on Teams and also on students' OneNote class notebooks. Please ensure your child is using these plus e-revision (Google e-revision) as they will have access to a multitude of revision activities on there as well. Please email Mr Sycamore with any login problems.

Over the festive period, if your Year 7 child would like to do some English creative writing we will be posting a task on the school website that they can work on. We have signposted students in their lesson as to where they can find it.

If there are any problems then please email lwilson@northleamington.co.uk

On 11 November, Year 12 and 13 A level students sat the Senior Mathematics Challenge. This was a very difficult challenge, with 25 questions timed for 1.5 hours requiring high level maths thinking skills. The results are now in!

We managed to achieve 15 Bronze Certificates and 7 Silver Certificates, with special mention to Jacob A in Year 13 and Henri T in Year 12 who both achieved 'Best in Year'- well done!

The Wednesday Maths Club for Year 7 and 8 is also doing really well, with Ms Tyreman now having a regular cohort of students attending and working on fun maths problems! This is still open every Week 1 Wednesday at 3:30pm in S205. All interested students are welcome. We are aiming to enter all these students for the Junior Maths Challenge later this year.

Our Year 9 students have been busy in the studio this half-term, exploring the varied areas of formal elements. Here are a selection of their recent ‘Tone’ photographs in response to the Photographer Paul Strand.

Year 9 Photographer Logan has also had fantastic success in a local photography competition LEAMPHOTOFEST where he was awarded overall winner in the under 16 category with the image below. Well done!

PhotoSchool has got off to a great start and students will be holding their first exhibition in school after Christmas. There will be an opportunity for more students to join in January and any students interested should email cmuddyman@northleamington.co.uk to express their interest. Meetings take place on Thursdays 3.20 – 4.15pm each week.

The year 10 science class, 10C wanted to support a non-for-profit organisation. They researched many charities and chose Save the Hippos based in the Turgwe River in Zimbabwe. The class raised £50 in order to sponsor a hippo called Steve. Steve is a house hippo and shares his days wandering around with other hippos, monkeys, warthogs, and his cat friends.

Y7 Science Club

Year 7 science club has taken place this term. Lots of other groups will be taking part over the remainder of the year. Students have completed lots of different activities such as egg drop challenges and creating different potions for Halloween. In the image below the students are making Christmas baubles using acids and alkalis to make the different colours and recording their work.

History

Year 7 have been learning about William’s consolidation of power, including the feudal system, the Domesday Book and the building of motte and bailey castles. They have designed some amazing models, diagrams, PowerPoints and even some motte and bailey cakes. They were delicious!

Thank you to parents and carers for your support with this home learning project.

Religious Education

This half-term, Year 8 have been learning about Hinduism. To extend this knowledge and to engage them further, students were asked to create a mandir for home learning. Students were allowed to be as creative as they wished using any medium, including cakes, drawings and lego. Some students even used digital media such as Minecraft! Needless to say, Year 8 took these instructions seriously, and produced some outstanding home learning that the RE team are extremely proud of. Well done Year 8!