Year 13 have had Leeds Metropolitan University in to talk to would be Historians about studying for a History degree.
On 30th November Leeds Metropolitan University's History department are giving Year 13 a talk on Victorian shock issues - Death, Disease, Poverty, Murder etc.
Year 9's Calverley Church visits have been completed. We took over
eighty pupils on two field visits, looking for evidence of how old the
church is and how it has changed over the ages. There were some superb
efforts as usual. Much use was made of our digital cameras and ICT!
Clever Ben Waller discovered a blocked up window behind the clock tower
which Mrs Hart had never seen before. (We've only been going since 1987!!).
Miss Lewis has been covering for Mrs Boulter's maternity leave. However, she is leaving at Christmas as she has secured a permanent job teaching History at a school in Guisborough, North Yorkshire. Miss Lewis has been an excellent member of the department. We thank her for all her hard work and we wish her well. Mrs Boulter is returning from her maternity leave in Feb 2005 - Mr Doody will be covering Mrs Boulter's timetable until she comes back.
We would also like to welcome Mr Josephson who is a History student
from Leeds University. He is with us until the end of January.
Mrs Hart
GEOGRAPHY
Year 7 students have been out and about in the local area doing fieldwork.
Year 8 will be reporting on flooding in Bangladesh and we have some superb volcanologists in Year 9.
Year 11 students have just completed their fieldwork and will soon be preparing for next year's exams.
Year 10 students will be looking forward to their Residential Field trip to The North Yorkshire Moors next Spring.
Sixth-form AS Geographers will also be completing a two day field trip
as part of their environmental investigation.
Mr Hutson
KEY STAGE 3 INTERVENTION
During the term a new initiative has been implemented within Key Stage
3. Key Stage 3 Intervention involves pupils who are achieving slightly
below the national average for their year group having extra support
in English, Maths and Science in order to help them to progress to the
next level. The three members of staff who have responsibility for the
programme are Mrs Rauni, Ms Sloan and Mrs Harold. We look forward to
monitoring the impact of the work carried out in the New Year.
Miss Nicholas
MATHEMATICS
Whole school events
Students will have the opportunity to enter the UK MATHEMATICS National
competitions at certain times of the year. Year 13 students did Priesthorpe
proud by attaining Bronze status in the Senior division. The Intermediate
and Junior division will take place in the new year. We are planning
to enter a team for the whole school division later in the school year.
We also have a 'Fun Maths' puzzle of the week and response has been very good with lots of correct entries. We select a prizewinner each week.
As usual we will be having a SUMS week (Subjects Use Maths), where lots of mathematical activities will be taking place throughout subject areas including; quizzes, puzzles, investigations and a maths trail.
Primary Links
Members of the Mathematics department will soon be making the first
of several visits to their 'link' primary schools. These are to help
build relationships with feeder schools and help the transition from
Year 6 to Year 7, with the emphasis on how their lessons differ from
secondary lessons and where we can build on similarities.
The Year 7 Maths Challenge Mentoring programme is up and running with
help from Teaching Assistants and some excellent Year 12 volunteers.
The programme is helping to promote confidence and good practice in
mathematics in our Year 7 students.
Year 8 are taking part in the NSPCC NUMBER DAY this month by doing a 'Sponsored Arithmagons' lesson in order to raise money for this worthy cause.
Mrs Burhouse will also be taking several students to the 'Master Classes' at Leeds Metropolitan University. These give students the chance to take part in challenges and investigations with students from all over the Leeds authority.
Year 11 mocks are with us and extra-curricular revision classes have
been operating for several weeks. These will also be available for the
summer examinations.
Priesthorpe Mathematics Department Wishes Everyone A Very Merry Chrismaths!!!!!
TRY OUR CHRISMATHS PUZZLE:
Samuel, Nicholas, Jasmine, Makayla, Cameron and Morgan each have their own Christmas tree. Each Christmas tree has a different number of candy canes (22, 14, 26, 21, 29 and 13) and a different number of ornaments (43, 17, 48, 24, 18 and 41).
Figure out how many candy canes and ornaments are on each person's
Christmas tree.
1. Cameron's Christmas tree has 19 more ornaments than the
number of candy canes.
2. There are no more than 42 ornaments on Samuel's Christmas
tree.
3. Samuel's Christmas tree is not the tree with 21 candy
canes.
His tree is also not the one
with 22 candy canes.
4. Samuel's Christmas tree has the fewest number of ornaments.
5. The Christmas tree with 43 ornaments is not the tree
with 21 candy canes.
6. Nicholas' Christmas tree has the fewest number of candy
canes.
7. Makayla's Christmas tree has 27 more ornaments than the
number of candy canes.
8. There are no more than 40 ornaments on Nicholas' Christmas
tree.
9. There are no more than 42 ornaments on Morgan's Christmas
tree.
10. Morgan's Christmas tree has 2 more candy canes than the number of
ornaments.
Chrismaths answers
MUSIC
Talented and musical pupils performed at Back Lane Methodist church
on the evening of 23rd November.
The programme was very much enjoyed by members of the church.
Mr Atkins
