Meet some of our Burmese students! & Task 1

Estelle has been working really hard running our Picture Pal project with Burmese refugee students in Chaing Mai and Maesot.

Here is an example of Task 1.

These students are from a migrant workers camp in Maesot on the edge of the Thai - Burma broader.

Estelle has trained up some of the Burmese teachers to teach our Picture Pal project.

Here our some photos of our Burmese students completing their first task in the Picture Pal Project  - ' England and English Culture'.

The students are also researching about Shrewsburys famous connection to Charles Darwin.

Ngwe Chit

Saw Yu May

 

San Poe

Myo Pa Pa

 

Aung That Paing Oo

 These are some examples of the tasks they were undertaking to learn about us, where we are and about the history and culture of England, you can see Charles Darwins head in these pictures.

Here you can see the sort of space they have to work in and the lack of tables and chairs.

Estelle says this is just how it is and the students create their tables where ever they sit!

Here is more of their finished first task.

When you look at their writing it is amazing to think that they are keen to learn to write and speak English!

It must be so hard!

Introducing 8.3 to our Burmese students

Mrs Thompson wrote:


Students from 8.3 are the first to be working alongs side the students in Burma on the Picture Pal Project.
They are working hard to get their self portraits completed to send over. Here are the students taking part.

Chloe, Leon, Kallan, Niall  and Kaylan

 

Liam, Mollie, Laura, Jess and Rebecca

Lucy, Leah, Beth Leoandro and Neve

 

Josh, Harriet, Sophie and Sian

 

Josh, Oliver, Dewi and Matthew

Mr Wakenshaws trampoling club

This trampolining club runs on a Tuesday after school at our Sports Village from 3:30 till 4:30. The school trampolining club is run by Mr Wakenshaw.

In this photo is everyone who goes to the trampolining club.

This is some of the people being told what to do before getting on the trampoline. We have to help set up.

This is someone doing a seat landing before landing to the trampoline.

                                   

This is a person in the rig.This helps support the person in the rig when they are doing a somersault.This stops them from hurting themselves.

 

This is a person just jumping on the trampoline.

This is Jodie going into a back-landing before landing on the trampoline.

This is a person starting to do a full twist.

We enjoy our trampoling club, come along on Tuesday after school if you would like to have a go!

Introducing the Science Department

Hello we are Set 2 and our teacher, Mrs Felstead, wants us to show you the Science Department at our school.

We got into groups to show and hope you like it.

Katie, Becky and Melissa spoke to Mrs Felstead (our teacher)

Q1) Do you enjoy teaching Science? Yes I love teaching Science!!!

Q2) Do you have a favourite area of work in Science? Yes, I love teaching about human biology and plants.

Q3) When you were at school, what as your favourite subject? I liked Science and P.E.

Q4) Have you always wanted to be a Science teacher and if you could teach another subject what would it be? When I was younger I wanted to be a teacher but I didn’t know what subject. Also if I was able to teach another subject it would be History.

Sophie, Chloe and Kelly spoke to Miss Fisher

This is Miss Fisher.  She’s a teaching assistant, she works with our Science group. Miss Fisher really likes Science, she even wants to be a Science teacher.

She's been working at our school for just over a year. She likes working with our group, she said that we are really enjoyable and a pleasant group. 

Miss Fisher thinks the Burma project is a really good project because it lets you know what is going on in the world.

When she was a student at Sundorne School, she used to like experiments especially the one when you get to blow things up or set them on fire.

Charlotte, Christian and Leanne spoke to Mr Wakenshaw

(This is Mr Wakenshaw with Mrs Felstead - he really is that tall!)

Mr Wakenshaw is one of our Science teachers. He has been teaching here at Sundorne for four years now and he teaches all years.  He likes doing Chemistry. His favourite experiment is the thermite reaction.

This is Mr Wakenshaw's Year 8 Science class.

In Year 8 he teaches Light, Sound, Atoms and Elements, Compounds and Mixtures, Food and Digestion, Respiration, Microbes and Disease, Rocks and Weathering, the Rock Cycle, Heating and Cooling, Magnets and Electromagnets.

Mr Wakenshaw has 4 or 5 lessons a day so he doesn’t get a break.

He likes to do trampolining, he runs a club for school on Tuesdays and a private one on Friday.

Josh, Dan and Rob spoke to Mr Thomas another Science teacher at our school

What is your favourite subject in Science?  My favourite subject in Science is Physics.

What is your favourite subject other than Science?  My favourite subject other than Science is PE.

How long have you been a Science teacher?  I have been I Science teacher for two years.

What other jobs have you had other than a teacher?  Before I was a teacher I in the R.A.F. working as an engineer.

What hobbies do you have/do?  I like to play football a lot and I support Wrexham Football Club.

Lucy, Paige, Amy, Chloe and Alisha spoke to Mr Lewis

This is Mr Lewis, our Science Technician.  He has been at the school for 29 years. His job is ordering the chemicals and preparing the equipment for the lessons. Before Mr Lewis came to Sundorne School he was a professional football player for 2 years, until his manager left and he didn’t like the new manager.

His favourite practical is turn the lights off mix 2 chemicals together and light is emitted (luminal).  It must be pitch black for you to see the effect!

Paisley, Sian and Jaime Lee found out what our class like about
Science at Sundorne School

In Sundorne Science is fun and interesting. We find stuff out.  In our Science lessons we sometimes use Bunsen burners and have lots of fun.  We learn a lot of stuff and enjoy doing all the experiments.  In science a lot of us enjoy doing experiments and researching a lot of things. Learning new things every day.

Paisley, Jaime, Sian, Kelly, Sophie, Chloe, Lucy, Alisha, Amy, Paige, Charlotte, Rob, Luke, Josh, Dewi, Dan and Niall like doing experiments.

Leanne and Christian like finding things out.

We are looking forward to showing you some of the work we are doing through this blog.

Luke, Niall and Dewi wanted to show you how we use a Bunsen Burner.

This is a Bunsen burner.

This is the blue flame it is for heating.

This is Luke, Niall and Dewi in front of their experiment.

This is Luke, Niall and Miss Fisher who helps in our class.

Sundorne School Christmas Card Challenge!

All students in Years 7, 8 and 9 are invited to take part in the Sundorne School Christmas Card Challenge.

50p entry fee  could earn you two very special days!

 

You have until Friday 19th November to produce a  Christmas card design.

The rules are:

The card can be any size

It must include the School name and logo

It must have sections that are hand drawn

It can be completed using a range of materials and techniques: digital imagery, college, photograhy etc

Prizes:

Two cards will be chosen from each Year group - you have a real chance of winning!

The final card will printed professionally and used by Mr Pettengell as the school greeting card.

The overall winner and all 5 runners up will win two days off school timetable: a day trip to Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford { a bit like Hogwarts} and a day working in the art department with ceramic artist Dave Farlow!

Entries cost 50p - collect forms from your form tutor or Mrs Thompson - proceeds to Sunrise School!

Judging will be completed by Mrs Jones, Mr Raeside and Miss Cox.

A display of all suitable entries will be displayed in the main corridor!

On the back of your entry form you will find information on how to make sure you get  a successful design! (Cheat!)

The Long Mynd Hike - How was it?

Mrs Thompson wrote:

So finally after months of preparation and a couple of weeks fund raising I line up for the start of the Long Mynd Hike on Saturday afternoon at 1pm, with fifty miles and 8 massive hills to cover I was more than a little nervous!

With all your great sponsership promised I knew I had to do my best!

Somewhere between 400 - 500 people take part in the hike which happens every year.

You can't see it too well but I have to carry a ruck sack holding certain pieces of equipment like food, first aid kit, waterproof trousers etc. It's heavy but because we are running through the night we have to be able to take care of ourselves.

This is how hard the hills are, some people are fit enough to run up them (not me!), most people walk the ups and run the flat sections and the down hills.

If you look carefully you can see the line of people coming down the hill in the background before starting to come up this one.

Most of the race is off road, in the countryside and we come across some great animals in the fields.

I'm on Ponsbury hill here, around 20 miles done and thirty to go, starting to feel really tired here.

At the top of the Long Mynd looking over to Corndon hill -  I have to run to that hill and run over it, it gives you a good idea of the differences involved.

Set up at some places around the course are check points where you have to get a tally clipped to prove you made it and also you can collect some food and drink. They are set up in the middle of nowhere but are brillantly organised.

Grabbing a cup of soup, you never sit stll for more than a few minutes as then the pain sets in.  I've been on the go now for 5 hours and still hours to go! It gets dark quickly after this photo as no street lights or towns anywhere near. People get really spaced apart, we barely see any one else.

After this photo I start wearing a head torch and finsh the run in the dark. It's really important to know the route, have a compass and map as it's really easy to get lost!

This is near the end in the pitch black, the light is a reflective piece of clothing on another runner in the distance.

I started at 1pm on Saturday afternoon and reached the finsh at 3.30am Sunday morning.

I finished after fourteen and a half hours and in a lot of pain!

I was actually the tenth lady to finish and achieved thrid prize for the West Merica Police Novice award!

Thank you to everyone who sponsered me, it's now time to collect the money!

I took a photo of my shoes at around 25 miles as they were getting sore and dirty, turns out this is actually really clean! I ended up with muck up to my knees. The feet have loads of blisters and I am shattered! I was sick twice unfortunatley - this is a hard race!



Girls Footie!

Georgia Mansell 8.1 wrote:

Here is a picture of all of our football team. We all work together and try our best to win our matches. It doesn't matter if we win or not at the end of the day, its fun!

                                            Here is us warming up. We had a big square marked on the fied and we ran around and played traffic lights. Traffic lights is a simple game. It includes running on the spot. Stopping in place and GO! Its a fun game but it can make you extremely tired. But still it's a good warm-up.

Here is a picture of us playing our game. There are different positions in football  such as: Goalkeeper,Defence,Up front and Midfield.

Goalkeeper as you imagine would stay in goal and save goals.

Defence would defend and kick the ball up the pitch when the other team go for goal.

Up Front are the people that score and keep the ball the way there shooting.

And last off -  Midfield are like defenders but they stay in the middle of the pitch and kick the ball to up front for a goal!

 

Here is another photo of us playing a game. We use size 4 footballs and on games size 5 . We use different size balls because of different sized people.

Here is a picture of people waiting for the ball. Waiting to SCORE !!

And finally, here is a picture of someone just missing the goal.

Hope you enjoy reading this.