It’s been an intensive week for Year 7 as they’ve completed their first exam week at Boroughbridge High School. They’ve certainly risen to the challenge and very quickly picked up exam routines and expectations. They can now enjoy a revision free weekend. Meanwhile, students in Years 10 and 11 continue on their revision journey as they advance towards their summer exams.

As part of our Raising Achievement strategy, we’ve been focusing on different aspects of teaching and learning and, over the last four weeks, we’ve been trialling a new approach to written feedback. Teachers across the school are using our ‘BHS’ strategy, identifying in students’ work what they’ve done which is ‘Brilliant’ and ‘How to Improve’ before giving students an opportunity to act upon their feedback so that they can ‘Show me’ where they’ve made the improvement. This consistent approach across the school is supporting students to make greater progress.

 

 

 

Thanks again for your generous donations to Comic Relief. Our grand total was £598.

 

 

 

 

Last Wednesday we took a trip to Snozone. Mr. Field reports, ‘We saw another highly successful trip to Snozone at Xscape, Castleford, for Boroughbridge pupils to take part in skiing activities.  The vast majority of the 47 attendees were involved in ski lessons on the nursery slope whilst the experienced skiers in the group honed their skills on the main slope.  All of the pupils made fantastic progress and the Snozone instructors were very complimentary about the positive attitude and effort shown by those involved.  The additional highlight of the trip for a lot of the pupils was the social time with friends around the Xscape complex.  The food retailers were surprised but grateful for the amount of business that the pupils provided, a truly amazing feat seeing them consume so much food!  We hope to organise another trip soon so that more pupils can experience skiing on real snow at this amazing facility.’

In other sporting news, Mr. Field reports, ‘Wednesday saw the Yr8 boys compete at the York City Knights organised rugby league festival at Manor school, York.  The boys competed against our federated partners King James’s in the first game.  Despite being straight off the minibus the boys competed exceptionally well and secured a well deserved 12-12 draw.  The second game against York High was a closely contested affair with York High playing to strengths well in early exchanges.  As soon as some tactical changes were made the Boroughbridge boys started to make headway into the points difference.  The clock was against the team and they narrowly lost 12-16.  The final game against Sherburn High School proved to be the toughest challenge.  A well organised and experienced opposition forced the very best out of the Boroughbridge team, forcing them to show great resilience and teamwork to work through the strong defence.  The game finished 8-16 in the favour of the opposition but the boys were able to take valuable lessons from the game.’

We’re really proud of our uniform standards and appreciate your support with this. In our whole school uniform check this morning it was pleasing, as ever, to note that the vast majority of our students are in perfect uniform. We have, however, a very small number of students wearing stretchy flared trousers made from legging material – please note that these are not part of our school uniform.

 

 

 

You are warmly invited to our Drama and Music showcase next Tuesday at 6p.m. in the Main Hall.

Have a lovely weekend!