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7th July 2010
Essanyu Continues Its Hard Work!
On Wednseday 14th July, 6 students along with members of staff from Nunthorpe School will depart from Middlesbrough on an epic journey of a life time. Their final destination is thousands of miles away in Uganda with the aim of developing the English, Sport and IT cirriculum at Ndekye School along with a celebration of the opening of a community internet cafe that they have helped to fund.
What a journey we have all made to even get to here! Jake Anderson (lead student) and Madame Hellaoui travelled to Uganda last year with ODEF to scope out the school trip for this year and over the last two years, enormous amounts of time, work and effort have been put in to ensure we have all the funds and resources to travel, aswell as raising an extra £4900 to fund the internet cafe, as we enter a different culture, different landscape and meet different people. We have a wonderful trip planned with many exciting places to go and people to meet. This includes visiting projects such as AOET (http://www.aoet.org) and Uganda Hands for Hope (http://www.onlinehope.org), meeting Mr Norman, the District Education Officer but also visiting the local community of Bushenyi and Ndekye School, teaching students about life in the UK.
We have a positive outlook for our visit and have plans to make a lasting difference. It is a chance to see the positive impact we can make to the children of Ndekye, Uganda and we hope it will be a life changing experience. We will be posting updates where possible during the Uganda 2010 trip. For all the news, please visit the trip updates page on www.essanyu.co.uk.tt
Jake Anderson
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16th June 2010
Joe and Emma aim high!
We are happy to introduce ourselves as the new head boy and girl for 2010-2011. We are writing this blog to tell you how we got this job and why we think we can make a difference to Nunthorpe School.
As former house captains, we were selected for an interview after a letter of application to Ms Clinton and Mrs Smith. We were successful in securing this important role because of our enthusiasm and ideas for improvements to make the school “Outstanding.”
Our main personal project will be on teaching and learning and we will work closely with teachers in the planning and assessment of lessons, to make those five hours better for every member of our school community.
Over the next academic year, our two aims will be to make our school an “Outstanding” environment and to make the students proud to be a part of our school. We will do this through close communications with you and trying to make lessons more enjoyable and productive for everyone, students and staff alike, by building the community spirit and competitive vibe within the school.
Hopefully by this time next year we will have clearly achieved these goals and left our mark on Nunthorpe School.
We’ll see you around school so feel free to stop and talk to us about anything, your ideas will be valued.
Anyone who has any ideas to drive the school to outstanding, please feel free to post your ideas here in this blog or you can email us at jharris6088@nunthorpe.co.uk
From Joe and Emma
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9th June 2010
Student Voice Blog: Recycling!
Since early 2010, Nunthorpe’s Student Voice has been running a recycling initiative, backed by the world renowned Biffa. A lot of hard work was put in, to get the scheme running: Ordering bins, assembling bins, placing bins, presenting a recycling related assembly and much more.
Every Thursday a group of around 12 Student Voice volunteers stay back after school in order to empty the bins and re-line them. The scheme has been a great success, backed by many students and teachers; it is so effective that the amount of recyclable rubbish being collected is jaw dropping.
That is nearly all the rubbish recycled in a week. Imagine we wasted 52 times that every year for so long!
Please leave a comment on how you think the scheme is going and how it could be improved!
Thank you,
Temi, Student Voice.
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22nd April 2010
Nunthorpe students have a new school website!
Welcome to our new school website, we hope you enjoy it!
Many school websites are out of date, difficult to access, not student centred and all round dull. Our new web site is none of those things. It now has a fantastic new look and has lots of new, interesting and relevant content.
I am one member of a team of fantastic, hard working prefects in school. We take part in house duties, helping out the PDLs and APDLs with tasks in house areas and tutor groups, and helping the house to benefit from the decisions and contributions that we make. We also take part in one early morning duty, one break duty and one lunch duty per week, alongside a member of staff. This makes us visible and approachable in the school community, and along with our own ties, matching our house colour, makes us instantly recognisable. As a group, we have a positive influence and consider ourselves to be a helpful role model to all the students.
I hope that this blog post in the new student section of our website will be the first of many and hopefully will make students feel part of the site, encouraging them to participate and get more involved with the content posted online.
Jake Anderson
Year 11 TJST
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