College Summer School – Outstanding!
Broadening Minds, Broadening Horizons, Discovering New Things
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” Margaret Mead
During the summer of 2021, we were pleased to welcome over 115 year 6 students as part of our summer school transition project. During the two weeks there were a number of different activities for the students to participate in. All students had access to externally provided numeracy catch up programme from the Tutor Trust, as well as catch up literacy programme which was provided by the College’s Academic mentors, Mr Supria and Mr Lee-Jones.
The students were also able to gain experiences of other subjects within the College, such as textiles where they designed and created their own fictional monster puppets, art where they learnt new techniques for creating drawings, orienteering which provided them with valuable skills in finding their way around the College building and PE lesson which introduced them to some new sports including dodge ball.
At the end of each week, the hard work and excellent behaviour of all students was rewarded with the arrival of an ice cream van for break and pizza delivery for lunch.
All staff and students involved across the two weeks had a wonderful time getting to know each other.
Statements from Year 7 Students who attended Summer School 2021
Millie Wick “I enjoyed the numeracy lessons because it helped me with my maths when I started in September. I also felt more confident doing my assessments. Summer school was really fun and I gained a lot of positive experiences from attending.”
Jack Edwards “Summer school gave me the confidence to actually start the school as I knew the layout. Furthermore, summer school helped me understand some of the subject I would be studying, such as DT. Finally, summer school helped me have fun, meet new people and look forward to starting properly in September.”
Theo Brennan “One thing I liked about summer school was the numeracy and literacy lessons. They helped to remind me of topics and work I had covered in Year 6. Having these extra lessons gave me the confidence to do well in my GL assessments.”
Joseph Mason “In summer school I enjoyed all of the different activities such as sport and DT. I also enjoyed the numeracy lessons which helped me to get settled in maths lessons when I started in September.”
George Reid “I enjoyed summer school because I was able to attend with my two best friends. I also enjoyed the literacy lessons and this was because of the best tutor, Mr Lee-Jones who made everything so interesting and easy to understand.”
Lola McKeown “I enjoyed the opportunity to find my way around the school before starting properly in September, this made the experience less scary. I particularly enjoyed the clay modelling in Art where I made a cup which I was able to paint in the second week of summer school.”
Joanna Vinu “I really enjoyed summer school because it was a new experience and the lessons like numeracy, literacy, science really helped me and gave me confidence to try my best in the GL assessments.”
