Home Learning: Year 8

Even though you are currently not at school, you will continue to develop and grow as an individual. Your AHS journey has not stopped! Each week, we will send you things to think about yourself and set you challenges to share with others and others in the year group. This is optional but we would love to hear from you all!

Personal Reflection

We all have a lot more time on your hands so now is a great time to take the opportunity to learn something new!

This week, we challenge you to learn a new language. Can you learn at least 5 new words in a completely new language?

• “Duolingo”is a free to download, language learning app that you can spend as little as 10 minutes a day perfecting your Spanish, French, German, Japanese or even Latin. There are 30 languages to choose from and your plan is personalised to your ability across speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Try absorbing a new language by watching a film in translation. Amazon Prime or Netflix have lots of movies, TV series and reality TV in different languages such as Korean, Hindi and Tamil. Why not watch one of these with subtitles and absorb another culture?

AHS Journey Challenge

1. Either send us a video of you speaking words from a new language or even write us a message in the language you have learnt!
2. Send a photo or an update on your language learning to either Mrs Edmondson aedmondson@archbishopholgates.org or Mr Williams mwilliams1@archbishopholgates.org and we will share these on the Year 8 page if you give us permission to do so.

Good afternoon Year 8s!

I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine at home in the garden and managed to have a lovely Easter.  I also hope you got chance to eat some chocolate eggs last Sunday!  It was great to hear from Emily-Sue in 8MSt last week and see her wonderful baking: a fantastic rainbow cake, to celebrate the tireless work of our NHS staff.  It looked very tasty too!  Have a look at the challenge for this week and email either myself or Mr Williams with any positive opportunities you have had and taken. It would be lovely to hear what you have been doing.  Don’t forget my Year 8 diary challenge I set a couple of weeks ago too.

Take care and keep safe and busy Year 8s.

Mrs Edmondson

Even though you are currently not at school, you will continue to develop and grow as an individual. Your AHS journey has not stopped! Each week, we will send you things to think about yourself and set you challenges to share with others and others in the year group. This is optional but we would love to hear from you all!

Personal Reflection

This week, we challenge you to make the most of all the cultural opportunities there are on line! Museums and galleries across the UK have provided online tours of their museums.

What a fantastic opportunity to visit a museum you have never seen before!

From the British Museum to the Natural History museum, follow this link to find a virtual tour that interests you!

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/mar/23/10-of-the-worlds-best-virtual-museum-and-art-gallery-tours

AHS Journey Challenge

1. Write a short review of one of the museum you have visited. What did you see? What impressed you? How did it feel to visit these places virtually?
2. Send a photo or an update on your activities to either Mrs Edmondson aedmondson@archbishopholgates.org or Mr Williams mwilliams1@archbishopholgates.org and we will share these on the Year 8 page if you give us permission to do so.

Happy Easter Year 8s!

I hope you are all enjoying the sunshine at home in the garden! At this Easter time, I hope you get chance to eat some chocolate eggs. I hope I get one on Sunday! Don’t forget my diary challenge too as well as emailing either myself or Mr Williams with any positive opportunities you have had and taken. It was great to hear from Emily-Sue in 8MSt and see her wonderful baking: a fantastic rainbow cake, to celebrate the tireless work of our NHS staff. It looked very tasty too!

Take care and keep busy Year 8s.

Mrs Edmondson

Even though you are currently not at school, you will continue to develop and grow as an individual. Your AHS journey has not stopped! Each week, we will send you things to think about yourself and set you challenges to share with others and others in the year group. This is optional but we would love to hear from you all!

Personal Reflection

We have all found we have a lot more time on our hands and this is a great opportunity to try something new.

Have you taken this opportunity to:

• Exercise more?
• Get more sleep and rest?
• Read more?
• Play board games with your family?
• Spend more time with your family?

Try something completely new?

This week, we want to celebrate any positive opportunities you have had at home.

Send a photo or an update on your activities to either Mrs Edmondson aedmondson@archbishopholgates.org or Mr Williams mwilliams1@archbishopholgates.org and we will share these on the Year 8 page if you give us permission to do so.

Hello Year 8s!

I Hope you are all well and staying safe.  Yet another week seems to have gone by so fast.  If we had been at school, today would have been your last day ready for the Easter break!  However, I know some of you took a few days to get into a good working routine so please continue to finish off bits of work if you want to over the next two weeks.  There are also lots of optional Easter activities (through the home learning link) you can do to keep busy too as well as my Year 8 Diary Writing Competition.  I hope some of you have taken the challenge and are keeping a record of some of your days and how you are feeling.  Remember it is good to share your feelings and concerns; it is healthy for our sense of wellbeing.  And, if you are feeling a little bit worried or low, you can always make a note each day of all the good things in your life to be thankful for too.  Keeping positive is really important.

Take care, Year 8s, and remember that Miss Clark and I are still here for you, even over what would have been the Easter break.

Mrs Edmondson

Hello Year 8s!

By now I would imagine that the strangeness of our situation is beginning to seem less unusual and that you, if you hadn’t from the start, are in a routine and accessing school work each day.  As always, teachers are working really hard for you to make sure that you have everything that you need to keep learning.  I often talk about Year 8 being a year of ‘Opportunities’ in your school journey but it is more important than ever now that you are taking those opportunities provided for you.

I know that a lot of you have been doing lots of extra reading and quizzing over the last two weeks and that is fantastic!  A huge well done to any of you in Mr Clements English class who, between you, completed 6 quizzes on accelerated reader, taking your class total for the year to 222 quizzes: that is a lot of reading!

Remember Miss Clark and I are still here for you if you need us.  Just let us know!

Take care, keep safe and keep working.

Mrs Edmondson

Good Morning Year 8s!

So, a week of ‘Home Learning’ has passed and I am pleased to hear how so many of you are adapting to our new way of working and how you continue to show the ‘best version of you’.

I know it can be tricky getting into a routine; my son and I have found it strange too both working from the kitchen table, but with a few treats and little breaks in between, we are enjoying it!

Now, for any of you who like a challenge, are competitive, or would like more to do, I would like to set a Year 8 Competition:

Diary Writing Challenge – Create a diary of your home learning and COVID-19 Lockdown experience.

What you need to do:

• Create an entry either each day or every two to three days with a written account of what you have done and how you are feeling and why.
• You can include drawings and decorate the outside of your diary or even create it on the computer.
• You can include examples of work you have done or items you may have collected on your daily exercise outside the home.  For example, a sample of wild flowers (not from anyone’s garden) or some leaf or tree rubbings.
• You could include photographs (with others permission).
• You could also include any information of how you might be helping others or at home.
• Most importantly, if you have any worries or concerns, you can write about them too and this can really help to feel less anxious.
• It will only be me reading it so it won’t be shared publicly apart from to celebrate the name of the winning entry.

You can hand in your beautiful diary creation during our first week back.

I will look at them and consider the level of effort, written work and creativity and choose a winner!

Good luck and get writing!

Stay safe Year 8s and remember to contact myself or Miss Clark if you need any help.

Mrs Edmondson

Good morning Year 8s!

I hope you are all enjoying the lovely sunshine we are having at the moment and despite not being in school, you are all staying in a routine: getting up early and accessing your online work via our school website. It is also important to keep our bodies fit and healthy too so if you haven’t tried ‘Joe Wicks’ workout yet, I challenge you to do so at 9am every morning through YouTube. My son and I did it yesterday and today I my legs hurt but in a good way! It is a good time to get up for and then you are motivated for the rest of the day.

For now, keep working on the tasks set through the ‘Home Learning’ section on our school website using your books or paper. Teachers will be expecting evidence of work completed and I, personally, don’t want any of you falling behind with your learning too. And remember that we are still here for you too. You can ring up or email school with any questions and they will be passed on to me or Miss Clark.

Take care of yourself and others

Mrs Edmondson

Work is provided for Year 8 students to complete at home via Google Drive.  CLICK HERE, go into the relevant subject area find the Year 7 folder and then you can access the work being provided.

19/3/20 – Students will be provided with papercopies today of the DEAR task they can complete.  If you wish to access them electronically CLICK HERE.