Norlington Bulletin #6 Week beginning: 29/6/2020

Message from the Principal Dear Parents, carers and students

As always, I hope you and yours are doing well.

There has been a flurry of government announcements and updates with a clear ambition for a full return in September. We will, as always, be reviewing this guidance to ensure any return is managed correctly.

Until then student should continue to follow work provided by the school. This includes new projects for Years 7 to 9 which can be found on the school portal. We have been especially pleased with the Year 10 and Year 12 students who have attended onsite school sessions (Onsite sessions are limited to Year 10 & Year 12 as directed by the DFE). We have a lot of catching up to do if we are to be ready for the 2021 GCSE and A-level exams and these are the first steps.

Complicating our return is the current building work taking place. We are liaising with the project managers, architects, and builders to ensure as much is completed prior to any return to minimise any disturbance to learning.

There are key 4 sections that form our building project. The original aim was to have 3 (Sections 1,3 & 4) completed by the time students return after the summer break. At this time at least one of these will be delayed.

Section 1: New sports hall and outdoor sports area/social space. The new gym and outdoor sports area will transform the experience of all students at the school. Completion has been delayed by a further 2 weeks to the end of September due to sourcing issues related to COVID. We should have access to the new facilities by the start of October.

Section 2: Demolition of current sports hall and creation of new block (6 classrooms and a new LRC). I am pleased to confirm that the demolition of the current sports hall has begun early (last week). This will minimise disruption and disturbance when students return in September and may even speed up final completion which is currently targeted as March 2021.

Section 3: Internal works including canteen expansion, new changing room, new toilets, improvements to G4 (new art/DT room) and G5 (New ICT room) These are all on track for completion by end of August and will be ready for our return.

Section 4: Arches - The conversion of 2 arches into weights gym and a cardio/multiuse space. We are hoping work will start within the next 2 weeks. This has been delayed due to permissions from Network Rail linked to COVID. We are aiming for completion at the end of August. This is tight, however, and we may not have usage until mid-September.

There are timetabling and rooming implications to these delays and we will be developing plans over the next few weeks. While these improvements have been driven by the school’s expansion to 150 students per year group starting with 2020 year 7, these improvements will be transformative impact on all students.

As always I would like to thank all members of the Norlington Family for their ongoing support. These remain interesting times, however, hopefully we are on our way back to more normal times J Hernandez

Current school building improvements

The new serving area in the canteen The new Multi Use Games Area

The outer brickwork is going on the sports hall, you get a real feel for the size from this angle

A view of the inside of the sports hall with the main building

in the background

Curriculum

Departments are setting work either directly on the school portal or through online learning platforms as they

see best. The information below outlines the main learning resource websites that certain departments are

using and has been updated since the last Bulletin. If a department is not listed it means they are setting work

directly through the portal. There is a government backed website www.thenational.academy and also the

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize sites which can be used to support the learning already being set by departments.

Please note for most of the learning platforms you will require Google Chrome as Internet Explorer will not

support all the functions.

Department Online Learning Resource Information

Maths KS3: www.mymaths.co.uk KS4: www.hegartymaths.com

All students should have their individual log ins

English Google Classroom or www.senecalearning.com

All years and classes are using google classroom except Ms Williams’ Y10 class who use Seneca. Details in the English section on next page

Science KS3: www.kerboodle.com www.senecalearning.com KS4: www.theeverlearner.com

Students use existing log in for Kerboodle Year 7 Mr Sayed: cynz5y01g2 Year 8 Dr Saadoune: uroursc0to Year 8: r0598xeqz7 All students will have received their log ins now. If you have not logged in yet the password will be ‘norlington’

Computer Science KS3: www.senecalearning.com KS4: Google Classroom

Seneca code: Year 7: jvoqf0gqqb Year 8: 0ffjqj0b5q Students have their codes

D&T www.senecalearning.com Google Classroom

Year 9 - yuwir1af4c Year 10: Ms Kenyon - 10C/PD1 - w6ju6o3 Miss Oznacar – 10C/PD2 - oo5itoj and 10D/PD2 - 6wqgbsg Ms Inglis (previously taught by Mr Parkinson) – 10A/PD1 - gvjigdn & 10D/PD1 - acjisja

Geography www.senecalearning.com

Year 7- jrs6epris0 Year 8- affp0p3rqb Year 9- pjupentg6a Year 10- d6tsl22ect

French Y10: www.senecalearning.com Google Classroom KS3: www.quizlet.com

Yr 9 lower sets: v96vcqgqr Yr 9 upper sets: v9r7q69exw 10A/Fr1- Ms Minter's upper set: j1rudewf2r 10A/Fr2- Ms Labarbe's lower set: c86g4a4etg 10B/Fr1- Ms Labarbe's upper set: yr5i8ubm24 10B/Fr2- Mr Smith's lower set: hbf76kk7ma 10A/Fr1- Ms Minter's upper set: so4paqk 10A/Fr2- Ms Labarbe's lower set: kcazooj 10B/Fr1- Ms Labarbe's upper set: r4olpoq 10B/Fr2- Mr Smith's lower set: o7yb5wh Codes are in the French folder on the portal

History www.senecalearning.com

Year 7 - kr8ja7t5nd Year 8 - o1pf2pvycc Year 9 - dj4o86ogxk Year 10 - chouychxt1

PE www.theeverlearner.com

Students will have received their log ins from Mr Farnolle

RS www.senecalearning.com Year 8: i2hpzkqn0p Year 9: qyckitkzoc

English Department Online Learning Codes by Year group and teacher:

*All Google Classroom except for Ms Williams’ Y10 class

If you are experiencing difficulty please email student@norlington.school

Year 7-9 Special Projects

All students in Year 7-9 should have received information about Special Projects to be completed before the

summer ‘break’ for certain subjects. If you have not received this please email student@norlington.school

D&T

We have set up a Design & Technology virtual classroom for Y7 and 8 to join using 'Quizlet'. Please follow the

link to join the class.

Y7: https://quizlet.com/join/nEaxsB7SC

Y8: https://quizlet.com/join/bRvQySEHc

Quizlet is a fun and engaging online platform where your son can study information via learning tools and

games. If you have any issues, please contact:

Y7 Miss Oznacar - soznacar@norlington.school

Y8 Ms Inglis - hinglis@norlington.school

French

Mr Smith has emailed home this week with details of how to access the Year 7 and 8 assessments. Please

follow the instructions in the email to access these. Students are reminded to register and complete the

assessments.

Careers

You will have received instructions from Ms McPortland for students in all year groups on how to access our

online Careers programme – Fast Tomato. All students are expected to do this.

Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10

Ms Malin bv2xhey s7y3wlc kfwljb6

Ms Williams mpumg7m SENECA: 3t3luugdql

Mr Wilson fjqo6oq 5lwuk7m qbrrsoh  67xwhji 

Ms Biney o3hj3wi kxhpn5r

Ms Renton ndqva56 zzlyvaz qsrdxbr

Ms Kanel qyijmhc gmcfmfj

English Competitions

KS3 and KS4

Want the chance to utilise your skills and show off your work? Here are a list of competitions

that you can enter.

Let us know if you get shortlisted or win something!

Competition Form and Theme Deadline Website

LEDBURY POETRY

FESTIVAL

Poem based on any theme 16th July 2020 https://www.poetry-

festival.co.uk/ledbury-

under-18s-poetry-

competition-2020/

GENERATION

LOCKDOWN

Personal experience

Poem

Creative story based on

lockdown experiences

17TH July

2020

https://generationlockdown.

co.uk

STEPHEN SPENDER

TRUST

Translate poems from other

languages into English

17th July 2020 http://www.stephen-

spender.org/spender_prize.h

tml

FOYLE YOUNG

POETS OF THE

YEAR AWARD

Poem based on any theme 31ST July 2020 https://poetrysociety.org.uk/

competitions/foyle-young-

poets-of-the-year-award/

YOUNG MUSLIM

WRITERS AWARD

Short Story

Poetry

Journalism

Screenplay

Play script based on any theme

13th August

2020

https://muslimwritersawards

.submittable.com/submit

YOUNG WALTER

SCOTT PRIZE FOR

HISTORICAL

FICTION

Prose Poetry Drama, Fictional diaries

Letters or reportage based on

the past

31st

September

2020

https://www.walterscottprize

.co.uk/young-walter-scott-

prize/

C.A.A.B

PUBLISHING

Short story based on taxi cabs

and magic

30th

September

2020

https://www.caabpublishing.

co.uk/submit-competitions

These books are written by BAME (Black, Asian and Minority

Ethnic) authors and feature characters from a huge variety of diverse

backgrounds. Everybody deserves to see people like themselves represented

in literature and culture. Ms Williams

Brilliant.org

Brilliant.org is an awesome site which shares maths / science and engineering problems.

They are doing 100 problems for 100 days and they often require some proper thinking!

Follow the link below to complete a series of quizzes about the history of Maths.

https://brilliant.org/courses/math-history/#chapter-development-of-algebra

As part of our partnership with Speakers for Schools please see some inspirational vtalks you can log into for

free :

WEEK STARTING MONDAY 29TH JUNE 2020

DATE SPEAKER INFO

Tues 30th June

10am

Add to calendar

Cathy King, Literary Agent, 42 Management &

Production Find out about the world of writing for film, television and

theatre and what it’s like to be a talent agent with SFS & Cathy

King, Literary Agent at 42 Management and Production.

Tues 30th June

2pm

Add to calendar

Simon Hodgkinson Group Chief Information

Security Officer, BP Plc Join us Simon Hodgkinson, Group Chief Information Security

Officer with BP discusses all things cybersecurity. Learn about

Simon's life lessons from a career in tech and gain insights into

the opportunities and careers that exist in cybersecurity!

Wed 1st July 11am

Add to calendar

Celebrating Women in Engineering with Thames

Water & UTC Reading

Dina Gillespie, Area Operations Manager at

Thames Water; Katherine Whatley, ICA Technician

at Thames Water;

Cheryl Atkinson, Thames Valley East Systems

Operator, Control at Thames Water;

Stephanie Mitchell is the Executive Director of

Careers and Destinations at UTC Reading;

Year 11 Engineering Student at UTC Reading, Elise

Hammond

Celebrating women in engineering! Engineering is a key part

of the water industry - through engineering we can innovate

and help shape our world. Women in engineering roles in

Thames Water vary from on-site technicians to design

engineers working on developing new projects. Today we will

meet three Thames Water colleagues along with UTC

Reading’s Careers Lead and one of her engineering students

to discuss how we can support a more diverse workforce,

challenge stereotypes and provide greater opportunities for

women and girls in engineering.

Please note, this event will be moderated and managed by

Thames Water.

Thurs 2nd July

10am

Link to register

here.

A Tortoise Media Think In with Liz Moseley, Editor

and Partner, Tortoise Media Liz’s career teacher told her she should be a librarian. Sadly,

she never made it. Instead, Liz is an award-winning marketer

with 20 years’ experience at global media companies. She is

now an editor and partner at Tortoise where she runs the

ThinkIn programme. She’s also the ‘voice of Tortoise’ in all

Tortoise’s member communications. She was Chief Marketing

Officer for the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

(known as the ‘Oscars’ of the advertising industry) and spent

three crazy years being sued by C-list celebrities as publisher

of heat magazine. She’s also worked for The Times, The

Telegraph and ELLE. Join us as she shares a bit about how

she’s managed to blag it for this long, despite failing to get

into University twice and repeatedly rebounding off the glass

ceiling.

By registering for the event, the student can choose to receive

complimentary membership to Tortoise (worth £100)!

Attendance and Tortoise membership is for students aged

16+. Thurs 2nd July 2pm

Add to calendar

In collaboration with Penguin Talks: Marlon James,

Author & Ekow Eshun, Journalist Multi-award winning author, Marlon James, joins British

writer, journalist, broadcaster and curator, Ekow Eshun, to

discuss what creativity means to them and how we can be

more creative in our lives.

Fri 3rd July 10am

Add to calendar

Andy Haldane, Chief Economist, Bank of England We’re excited to welcome Andy Haldane, Chief Economist

with the Bank of England to discuss the importance of

economics in everyday life, current affairs and their link to

economics and answer questions about his own career path

and background!

HOW TO JOIN THE VTALKS

Join 10 minutes before the VTALK to be ready You can join without needing an account – Watch how here For full speaker descriptions visit the VTALK Schedule here

VTALK LIBRARY & MORE

Watch pre-recorded VTalks from our library here Please see our Schools Guide here. Below my signature is more information on the SFS activity sheet The colour codes can be found under my email signature below

Physical Challenge:

Mr Farnolle has set another Physical Challenge this week.

Flexibility is the range of movement possible at a joint. It is an important component of fitness for all

athletes. Having good flexibility will help decrease the chances of injury, greater strength and improved

physical performance. Stretching is one of the best ways to improve flexibility. The PE challenge for this

week will be a yoga challenge.

1. Select 5 of the yoga poses to perform each day.

2. Hold each pose for 30 or 60 seconds.

Safety tips

1. Ensure you warm up by performing a pulse raiser (jogging on the spot or star jumps) before performing

the yoga poses.

2. Don’t bounce

3. Breathe normally when performing the poses

We’d really love to see some photos of you doing these. Send them to student@norlington.school

Head of Lower & Upper School and Designated Safe Guard Lead, Ms Meiring

I spoke in a previous email about using this unusual time to do something completely different. Learn a new skill, make a lifestyle change, doing something to improve the environment. Following on from Ms McDonaugh showing us her fantastic nails more staff have shared their lock-down achievements: Mr Lealman-Strutt has been busy growing fruit and vegetables. He has also been showing off his carpentry skills by building vegetable growing boxes.

Dr Saadoune was inspired to write a story based around flash backs and her experiences. The story is written in Arabic and has been published (see below)

Like a lot of the people, many staff have been taking to 2 wheels during the lockdown Mr J Ali (Science) is taking it one stage further. He will be taking part in the London to Dover bike ride to raise money for a school in Ethiopia through Muntada Aid. Mr Ali has been training hard for the nearly 80 mile challenge, below is a link to his ‘Just Giving’ page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Joynal-Ali?utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=Joynal-Ali&utm_campaign=pfp-email&utm_term=e6151e3190da40b4bba727ec1e52fa7d Please send us photos to Mr Hobbs phobbs@norlington.school of your lock-down achievements. ***************************************************************************************

For any safe guarding concerns please email: safeguarding@norlington.school

For anyone seeking support during this time please find information from the useful organisations below:

Samaritans (If you need someone to talk to, they will listen): 116 123

Child line (Help for anyone under the age of 19): 0800 1111

Parents Helpline: 0808802 5544

Refuge (National Domestic Abuse Helpline) 0808 2000 247

Mental Health Helpline: 0300 123 3393

Online safety During this time when we are reliant on students using the internet for their learning it is important

that to ensure safety whilst online. Below are some useful links from CEOP to remain safe online:

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/professionals/our-views/onlinesafetyathome-

resources/?utm_source=Thinkuknow&utm_campaign=03f521e658-

TUK_ONLINE_SAFETY_AT_HOME_21_04_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b54505554-

03f521e658-55161729

11-13 Year olds

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/11-

13s/?utm_source=Thinkuknow&utm_campaign=e9ea1fa21d-

TUK_ONLINE_SAFETY_AT_HOME_19_05_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b54505554-

e9ea1fa21d-55161729

14+

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/14-

plus/?utm_source=Thinkuknow&utm_campaign=e9ea1fa21d-

TUK_ONLINE_SAFETY_AT_HOME_19_05_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b54505554-

e9ea1fa21d-55161729

Key Worker Students

The school has remained open for students of parents doing vital jobs every week since the lock down begun

including what would have been school holidays. A number of staff who are able to have volunteered to

work with these students to which we are very grateful.

Art work with Mr Duberry and Mrs Robertson

Week Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

Sept 2020 A 31 1 2 3 4

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Oct A 28 29 30 1 2

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Dec B 30 1 2 3 4

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Feb A 1 2 3 4 5

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March B 1 2 3 4 5

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June 31 1 2 3 4

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July B 28 29 30 1 2

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No school for students

2020/21 Norlington School Term Dates

1st September - Year 7 & 12 in Only

23rd November- Year 11, 12 & 13 in

only

Year 7,8,9,10 & 12 1/2 Term,

Year 11 & 13 Mock exams

5th October - Staff Professional

Development day

2nd September All students in School

1st Day