Home Learning: Year 9

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 seen lots of acts of compassion as a consequence of Covid 19 and the lockdown. This week, we’re challenging you to show understanding and empathy through an act of volunteering or charity-all whilst observing social distancing!

This can be as big or small as you like, but here are some suggestions from Miss Turvey:

• try on all their clothes and any that don’t fir go in the charity bag
• write a note to their neighbour just saying hi or similar
• grow your hair and when this is over, have it cut and send it to the Princess Trust
• buy an extra item of food and donate it to the foodbank.

AHS Journey Challenge

This week, we want to hear about what you have been doing to help others!

1. Take a selfie of you doing a some volunteering or a good deed! This is great evidence for the Young Leaders Award!
2. Share your experiences and what you have learnt by sending a message to either Miss Turvey hturvey@archbishopholgates.org or Mr Williams mwilliams1@archbishopholgates.org and we will share a selection of these on the Year 9 page.

Hello Lovely Y9.

I hope that ALL of you have taken some time off over the Easter period, that you have eaten loads of chocolate and that you are healthy, happy and getting some fresh air. Wow, isn’t sunshine in April just the best.

It is week 4 lockdown and week 2 Easter holidays. Some of you will still be positive, productive and being gorgeous, whereas others of you will now be doing your own head in, as well as the heads of the people you live with.

Now is the time to remember the Rhino of Resilience ~ be patient, be kind and keep going.

From Monday school begins for the summer term and you would be well advised to set yourself a daily routine and a weekly timetable; we can all fritter our time away sleeping in, zooming with our relatives and playing on the PS4, but let’s chose to build in time to better ourselves and improve our understanding.

Every day you will need to do some exercise, about 30mins worth. If Joe Wicks is beyond you then run up and down the stairs instead.

Every day you will need to get some fresh air, about an hour ~ walk round the block, go into the garden, open the window and sit by it ~ but breathe in fresh air!

Once a week you will need to have a whole day with NO screen time ~ no social media, no internet, no video games, no emails ~ it doesn’t have to be the same day each week, but just try it and see if your mental health improves.

On Monday we change from Google Chrome to Google classroom; this is to make it easier for you.

There will be teething problems; please bear with us and let us know of any problems or issues.

Thank you to those of you who have sent in photos or emails showing you completing the Y9 challenges; please send me more to hturvey@archbishopholgates.org . The challenges were:

• Cook dinner for everybody
• Hoover the house whilst treating everyone to a rendition of your favourite song!
• Do the ironing
• Sweep the garden
• Give your parents a break and help your younger siblings with their home schooling

• Learn something new about yourself or your family

How inspirational is Capt. Tom Moore who has raised over £13 million by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100^th birthday at the end of April.

Are you still growing your hair long with the idea of getting it cut off and donating it to Little Princess Wig Charity once lockdown is over?

Have you done your elderly neighbours shopping this week? Or mown the grass for the family next door? How about donating your pocket money to the NHS this week? Or buying a tin for the food bank?

Have you painted a rainbow and placed it in your window? Or written an encouraging message on a postcard to the person down the road who lives on their own and popped it through their door?

In the words of Revd. John Sentamu, The Archbishop of York ~

“Be the change you want to see in the world”.

Even when that world is still a little bit bonkers.

Stay safe, work hard, have fun, be kind, virtual hugs to all ~ and keep in touch. Miss 😊

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

After spending so much time at home, perhaps you’ve realised the importance of understanding other people’s needs at home. It can be hard living in such close proximity all the time and you have probably realised that you can do more around the house than you thought.

Miss Turvey is challenging you to volunteer to do more household chores!

• Cook dinner for everybody
• Hoover the house whilst treating everyone to a rendition of your favourite song!
• Do the ironing
• Sweep the garden
• Give your parents a break and help your younger siblings with their home schooling

AHS Journey Challenge

This week, we want to hear about what you have been doing around the house!

1. Take a selfie of you doing a new household chore and sent it to us!
2. Share your experiences and what you have learnt by sending a message to either Miss Turvey hturvey@archbishopholgates.org or Mr Williams mwilliams1@archbishopholgates.org and we will share a selection of these on the Year 9 page.

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 has been a difficult time for everybody and we have all had to stop and think about what is important to us, what we need to do to protect ourselves and others and finally what we need to do to stay well.

Over the last week, have you:

• Learnt something new about yourself or your family
• Found out you can do more than you thought you could?

Thought about what is important to you and what you will look forward to doing when this is over?

This week, we want to hear updates about what you have learnt about yourself and what you have learnt about others.

Share your experiences and what you have learnt by sending a message to either Miss Turvey hturvey@archbishopholgates.org or Mr Williams mwilliams1@archbishopholgates.org and we will share a selection of these on the Year 9 page.

Good Morning Lovely Y9.

I hope that you have managed to get to grips with the google drive and are now all in a set daily routine, which may start with Joe Wicks and may end with you writing in your diary/journal. If you are having any problems or issues then please do contact school (01904 4113410) during school hours or email reception@archbishopholgates.org at any time; there may be a delay but someone will get back to you.

Today is your last day of term and you have your cultural enrichment trip ~ which you can take virtually by following the links below (and hopefully for real in September):

A trip to Kingston-Upon-Hull for SRo, RGi, LBr and RMe would include Ferens Art Gallery, the town trail taking in the White Hart where allegedly the rebels met who started the English Civil War, Amy Johnson’s aeroplane in St Stephen’s Court and also a visit to Wilberforce Museum, the birthplace of William Wilberforce. He was an abolitionist who campaigned against the Slave Trade and for 43 years tried to get his Anti-Slavery Bill passed in parliament. His resilience finally paid off when in 1833 the Slavery Abolition Act became law; Wilberforce had died one month earlier from flu. Check out the 2006 film Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd.

https://artuk.org/visit/venues/ferens-art-gallery-3518#http://amyjohnsonartstrust.co.uk/her-life/

https://www.hcandl.co.uk/museums-and-galleries/wilberforce-house/wilberforce-house

A trip to Wakefield for JLi, BDu and EMo to the National Coal Mining Museum for an expedition down the pit in the tiny cage lift to the coal face; coal was the life blood of Britain becoming Great during the C19th Industrial Revolution and caused the growth of some amazing Yorkshire cities such Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Doncaster and Middlesbrough. Spend the afternoon in the Sculpture Park where you can check out the wonderfully weird world of Damien Hirst, the colourful Portugese artist Joana Vasconcelos and Alfredo Jaar’s Garden of Good and Evil

https://www.ncm.org.uk/            https://ysp.org.uk/exhibitions

A trip to Bradford for Ima, By, JRi and MPe to the Science and Media Museum where the games and animation exhibition would whet your appetite ready for the Space workshop and IMAX cinema presentation; as it is a media museum it has set up an on-line museum experience as well as looking at the science of CV19.

https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/explore-the-national-science-and-media-museum-at-home/                           https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/coronavirus-science-what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-the-virus/                    https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/

Have as good an Easter holiday as is possible, but stay at home and if you are at a loose end then the AHS staff have put optional Easter work on the website.

Take care, stay safe, have fun and be kind ~ virtual hugs to all. Miss 😊

Hello there lovely Y9.

Welcome to week 2 of “lockdown”; I hope you have managed to find a daily routine, for your own sanity as well as that of your parents. To remind you, if you have any problems or issues then please telephone school (01904 411341) during school hours or email at any time (reception@archbishopholgates.org).

I am hearing great things from the English department about your reading habits and would like to congratulate Henry L, Erin N, Laura W and Lucie D on being the top Y9 quizzers. Gold Awards to follow.

Some of you may have forgotten to give the letter from your English teacher to your parents, so a reminder, the following books are your set text and your need to have your own copy of the book AND to have read it: An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley (ISBN 978-0435232825); A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (ISBN 978-1840227567); Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (ISBN 978-0198321668). The letter is available on the google drive if parents would like to read it! You could even get a zoom book group going with some of your friends and read the books together.

Mrs Hopkinson-Kearney would like me to remind the Business Studies students that the deadline for submitting your work has passed, so if those of you who have forgotten to email it to her could do that then she can mark it and give you some feedback.

How are you doing? Are you keeping a journal/diary of the strange times we are living in? I spent the weekend catching up on my Dangerous 60 with Steve Backshall ~ if only we could get him in to talk to you in assembly, then you would all stay awake! So, random shark fact: more people are killed by vending machines than by sharks!

Take care, stay safe, have fun, work hard and be kind ~ virtual hugs to all

Miss 😊

Good morning lovely Y9 on this Friday 27^th March.

Hope that all is well with you; if you are having any issues or problems, with accessing work or just generally in life, then please do telephone or email school during normal school hours ~ there is always someone here.

Did you manage to join in with the “Big Clap” at 8pm last night? Whether you were outside your front door, in an upstairs bedroom window, down the garden or sitting on the sofa in your front room I am sure your kind thoughts and positive accolades were appreciated by the NHS ~ as well as the delivery drivers, shelf stackers and teachers.

What strange and interesting times we are in; I sometimes feel that I am in a 2007 Will Smith movie (merits if you know the movie I am referring to!), but our time in separate houses, learning via the interweb, social distancing and self-isolation will come to an end ~ keep a diary or a journal to record the time we are living in as 20yrs down the line your reality now will be taught in history lessons of the future…and your future grandchildren will be fascinated by what went on.

Take care, stay safe, have fun, work hard and be kind ~ virtual hugs to all.

Miss xx

Work is provided for Year 9 students to complete at home via Google Drive.  CLICK HERE, go into the relevant subject area find the Year 9 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.