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Parent and Carer Bulletin 15th January 2021 Happy New Year to everyone in the Glossopdale School community. It’s a pleasure to introduce the first bulletin of 2021, and to showcase the amazing work that our students have been completing while at home, as well as some in school. We know how hard it is when we are separated from each other; please encourage contact with peers, tutors and teachers via Google Classroom, timetabled Google Meets and our Q&A session for parents and students on Monday 18th January. We look forward to seeing you. Take care and best wishes from all at Glossopdale School.
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Top students Freddie A Toby T James G Erin S Francesca A
Natalie S Zara B Elliott S Jenna S Romany C-B
Joshua A Franke O Harry B Daisy R Shannon J
David B Harry S Jason W Sam R McKenzie H
Lyla G Alfie E Megan W Benji P Rebecca R
Finlay M Sophie L Samuel J Emily W
Molly V
Notices
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Mobile Data Class Charts
We use Class Charts to award
Schools can now help students work
online using free mobile data
THRIVE points for excellent work
increases or 4G wireless routers and behaviour. This is especially
provided by the Department for important during lockdown and our
Education. We can request this principal way of communicating
support for children and young quickly and effectively with parents.
people who meet all 3 of these
criteria:
Please email your child’s Progress
-do not have fixed broadband at home Leader or Year Manager if you need
-cannot afford additional data for their your login details.
devices
-are experiencing disruption to their face- https://www.glossopdale.derbyshire
to-face education
.sch.uk/Contact-Us/
If you think you may be eligible and wish
for the school to apply on your behalf,
please email info@glossopdale.school or
ring school reception.
Personal Development
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Term 3: Here’s a look ahead to the topics Year Group Focus:
your children will be exploring in assemblies
and tutors time over the next few weeks. Year 9 Living in the Wider World
Year 9 have started this term focusing on
Year 7: - CEIAG Living in the Wider World. They have been
looking at Motivation by learning about
Year 8 – Character and Leadership
Roger Bannister who was told the 4 minute
Year 9 – Living in the wider world mile was impossible! We discussed the
view that the most powerful habit for
Year 10 – Living in the wider world success is setting yourself goals….and
Year 11 – Living in the wider world believing you can achieve them. This was
then followed up by discussing how to set
longer goals and how to make sure they
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are realistic but ambitious. The conclusion
CEIAG is Careers Education Information and was that students should be open to
Guidance.
opportunities in all aspects of life.
MBV and Cz - Modern British Values and
Citizenship
Personal Development
The two assemblies since half term The second part of the assembly
have focused on Values and then a
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focused on support available from an
two part assembly focusing on organisation called Kooth. This is an
Encouragement and Support. online mental health community that
Encouragement - the first part focused offers support to students in terms of
on a running race and the impact of online support and counselling, a
encouragement before and afterwards. magazine service, forums, self help
We looked at the fact that, by giving tools and live chats controlled by
people encouragement, we embolden qualified counsellors.
and empower people, so that they
know they are doing a good job, or Ask your children to show you the
that their efforts are appreciated. The assembly Kooth produced for
assembly moved on to discuss the Glossopdale which explains in more
idea that support will be required detail the services they offer.
along the way and we looked at
support methods and resources
available to students during remote
learning.
Mental Health
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Mental Health
The Kooth website, as introduced to students in this week’s assembly,
can be accessed here: https://www.kooth.com/
We highly recommend Kooth and other excellent services such as
YoungMinds. However, we also have in-school and remote support for
children and their parents too. If you have a concern in this area, please
contact your child's Year Manager or the school lead for wellbeing, Mrs
Gilbert on sgilbert@glossopdale.school
We also have links to a range of ranges to support mental health on our
website here:
https://www.glossopdale.derbyshire.sch.uk/-Parents/Student-Support-
03042020100116/
Reading
2 Quick Reads A Hunger Games Novel
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Whilst short and highly suited to reluctant
readers, these 2 titles don’t come short of
offering great and thought-provoking stories for
the younger reader.
Football is Jimi’s life and he dreams
about playing for his favourite
team, the Lions of Senegal. But Jimi’s
big brother and his friends say Jimi is
just a cub and could never be a lion. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne
Can some of Jimi’s footballing heroes Collins revisits the world of Panem sixty-four
(Drogba, Vieira, Touré) inspire him to years before the events of The Hunger Games,
prove everyone wrong? starting on the morning of the reaping of the
Packed with facts about the great Tenth Hunger Games.
footballers of Africa. 64 pages It delivers a mesmerizing look into the life of
Coriolanus Snow and the root causes of his
Omar’s family had to fight to survive in villainous behavior. Collins once again proves
their own country. Now they have come to that she is a master of building a fascinating
the UK and at last they have a safe place to world around complex characters who must
live. But then Omar meets Sam and the grapple with the complications of chaos and
fighting begins all over again. Sam’s control and their effects on human nature.
always there — in Omar’s tower block, in Although aimed at slightly older readers, this
his class, in his face and getting under his might be just too much for younger Hunger
skin. He wants to push Omar around, but Games fans to resist!
Omar’s had enough and he’s ready to push AGE: 13 yrs +
back. 50 pages 518 pages
Reading
Year 7s continue to build
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A wintry read for 2021 - a on Reading Successes of
book that sparkles with 2020
frosty magic. Each time one of our Year
7s passes an Accelerated
Reader quiz,
the system tots up their
word count for their
books.
This was our TOP TEN at
the end of 2020.
Who will top the league in
2021?
11 year old Lina has never seen the world REMEMBER: You can now
beyond the prison camp until the night she quiz from home between
escapes with her best friend Bogdan. As pair 8.30am and 3.15pm on
journey across a snowy Russian wilderness, they week days!
are pursued by a vengeful sorceress and her pack
of shadow wolves. The children will need every https:ukhosted19.renlear
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own – if they are to survive… Login details in your
AGE: Any 378 pages planner.
Reading
Some stories just keep on …and inspire new stories
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fascinating us… Gulliver's Travels (1726) describes
Great Expectations (1860) has been the four voyages of Lemuel
reviewed many times for 150 years. It’s Gulliver, a ship's surgeon who is
the essence of a classic to survive such shipwrecked and finds himself in
a long time and still be read. Whenever Lilliput, a miniature world.
you start reading a Dickens novel, you Towering over the people and
can expect it to be long, and contain all their city, he is able to view their
the elements of a story telling. Certainly, society from the viewpoint of a
Dickens is one of the masters of the art. god. He gets some bitter insights
AGE: Any 290 pages into human behaviour…
AGE: 14+ 345 pages
This is a dazzling story within a A thrilling adventure inspired by
story. It’s based around the the classic story of Gulliver’s
characters of Matilda who lives Travels, this is also a gripping
on a tropical island of modern narrative of rescue and
Bourgainville, and Mr Watts, her refuge, from a writer at the height
teacher who is the only white of his powers. A book about
person around; Great breaking down walls, at a time
Expectations by Charles Dickens when many are trying to build
is their only textbook. Tender them. And a timeless reminder of
and surprising AGE: 14+ humanity’s infinite capacity for
219 pages good… even when those humans
are very small indeed.
AGE: Any 276 pages
(with pictures)Celebration: Global Studies
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Katie C, Year 10 Geography. A small part of an excellent
presentation on urban regeneration in Salford Quays.
Lauren S-H Year 9Celebration: Maths
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The Maths department are delighted with students’
participation with Century Tech, the online learning platform.
Head of Faculty Mr Jackson says: “We are extremely pleased
with the way the students have taken to the new software,
which has been invaluable during remote learning. We can’t
name everyone who has produced excellent work I’m afraid,
there are so many, but here is a sample of people who have
gone above and beyond………..”
Amy L, Rebecca R, Alfie E, Zoe C, George C, Niamh H, Erin S,
Lydia G, Claire P, Stephanie B, Katie C, Joseph M, Benji P,
Rebecca R, Jenna S, Emma W, Emma W. Some students have
spent over 18 hours on Century since it was unveiled in
September, undertaking independent study, as well as
completing set assignments. Students can access personalised
revision plans at any time, so need never complain of having
nothing to do!Celebration: English
I walked through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raised
them to that blessed Star which led the wisemen.’
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This quotation is something Marley says to Scrooge when describing his regrets in life, and
tries to encourage his partner not to make the same mistakes he did, to lead him to his fate
in shackles. It means that he ignored all the people in need, who he didn’t treat as his peers
or ‘fellow-beings’ in life, as Scrooge was doing in the present. By saying that he ‘ never
raised them to that blessed Star which led the wisemen’, when referring to his eyes, it shows
that Marley did not help people and was not a kind man, as the wisemen were when baby
jesus was born in the original story of christmas, bringing the child gifts from a far way
away.This creates religious connotations as, though Dickens wanted the novella to show the
non-secular side of christmas full of love and giving, but this reference to the bible
completely opposes that, so he also manages to appeal to his Victorian audience, who were
mainly Christian by having some references to religion. In this quotation, he manages to
combine both ideas of religion and giving, showing the kindness the wisemen showed in the
bible, encouraging the people of the Victorian times to use Christmas to be kind to those in
poverty by the means of their own religion, as jesus was born into poverty in a barn, and rich
men came to help him. This could be applied to their own life as it tells them not to hide
away from those in need and just look away, but to allow themselves to be led by its light.
The idea of looking down creates an image of someone shameful of their surroundings, and
Excellent analysis of
not wanting to acknowledge the poverty that was so plentiful in those times, especially as the
rich and poor lived so close together in the streets of london, due to the industrial revolution
busying the streets with workers. This creates an image of Marley being ignorant and close-
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas
minded to the ideas of helping the poor, which is mirrored in his living business partner,
Scrooge. This creates a contrast between the Scrooge we come to know in the end of the
novella who is willing to help the poor and does not shy away from the true spirit of
Carol’ by
christmas.
Why does Dickens present Scrooge as exhausted by the end of stave 1?
Millie T Year 10
Dickens presented Scrooge as exhausted at the end of stave 12 because it shows the
impact the supernatural visit from Marley has had on him, though it may be small. This is
shown by the fact that Scrooge ‘tried to say “humbug”’ but wasn’t able to. This shows that
Scrooge is capable of change as he hesitates while trying to utter his negative words.
However, the text continues to show that the change won’t be easy for Scrooge, or he is
reluctant to do so, as this one encounter was enough for him to go ‘straight to bed and fall
asleep on instant’. Dickens' prior explanation for this was that a possibility for this
overwhelming tiredness was the ‘emotion he had undergone’. As we know scrooge had
previously been presented as a cold and unfeeling man (‘hard and sharp as flint’), it shows
that the encounter with the ghost of Mmarley had arose some kind of reaction, which is
surprising as before this the audience was led to believe that he was incapable of feeling.
This foreshadows the gradual and eventually drastic change in heart Scrooge will
experience throughout the novel. However, the fact that it causes him to become exhausted
solely from the first short conversation, it creates the idea that the change will be very hard
on him and he will have to truly push himself to be fully reformed. Alternatively, scrooge's
exhaustion could create the image of a man who is hiding from his feelings and is protecting
himself. This is shown as the act of going to sleep can also be interpreted in this case as a
way to hide and escape reality, avoiding having to have another encounter with a
supernatural force that could cause another long hidden feeling to rise to the surface. This
could show that Scroogescrooge fears change, furthering the foreshadowing that the
transition between being a bad and good person will be particularly difficult for him.Celebration: Food Technology
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This work was produced by
Keir G in Year 8.
It’s a piece of persuasive
writing to encourage people to
think about how much is
wasted and thrown in the bin
over the Christmas period.Celebration: Modern Foreign languages
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Lauren D Y9: She has accurately Macy F Y9: Macy wrote a great paragraph in
described how she feels about school French about things you can do where she
subjects in French. Great use of lives. She has used infinitives correctly,
opinion phrases and intensifiers to which is a tricky grammatical item to get
make her opinions more complex. your head around!
Mia G Y10: Mia has correctly used masculine and feminine adjectival agreements in her
mini-paragraph. She also used the word ‘depuis’ which is a very high level word in French.
Je suis passionnée de cinéma. J’adore Timothee Chalamet. Il est cool et beau. Je suis fan de
Timothee depuis 2018. Timothee c’est très élégant. J’ai vu le film The King. C’était bien.
J’adore ces films et je les recommande. Je vais voir son prochain film.Duke of Edinburgh Award
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Year 10 and 11 students:
Phone calls to all students
currently enrolled on Silver and
Bronze will be made over the
next few weeks. During the call
we will discuss the activities
that students can do during
lockdown and arrange to sign www.dofe.org
off sections that are now
complete.
Year 9 students who would like
to sign up for Bronze are
invited to do so via the form.
https://forms.gle/HN8G8prp3ir
wGf7N7
Details will then be emailed.Sixth Form: UCAS update
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Our Year 13 students have been receiving their University
offers and invitations to interviews. A number of students
have taken part in online video interviews and assessments
for various courses including social work, nursing, paramedic
science, biomedical science and maths and physics
assessments with the University of Cambridge.
We’ve been supporting students by running mock interviews
and helping them to feel comfortable talking via Teams,
Google meet or Zoom. If your child is in Year 13 and wants
some interview prep and advice, they should ask Miss Geary.Sixth Form: Year 11 Interviews
Our Sixth Form admissions
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programme is underway, we have
received lots of applications from Year
11 students to join our Sixth Form.
It is not too late to apply. Our virtual Open Evening is still
available to view online.
The Course Directory and Application Form are
available at www.glossopdale.school/sixthform
#SteppingUp #Aspire&Thrive #CreatingYourFutureSixth Form and Year 11 students and parents
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The online university and
apprenticeship fair is a great way
of searching options after Sixth
Form. More details are available
on their website.
The event is free to students and
parents, simply register online
https://ukuniversitysearch.vfairs.
com/
#SteppingUp #Aspire&Thrive #CreatingYourFutureSixth Form
Student Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Mrs Boakes is our Sixth Form Learning Manager
and oversees our Sixth Form mental health and
wellbeing support services.
Any student can arrange to talk her if they want
some advice or support. Parents and carers are
also welcome to email her on
kboakes@glossopdale.school or call her directly
on 01457 862336, if they would like to discuss
their child’s wellbeing.
We have a wide range of self help and referral
services to support sixth form students with exam
stress, workload, general anxiety and other
wellbeing issues.
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