Our Class Team

Contact the class teacher at neil.griffiths@abbotsleaschool.co.uk

Our Weekly News

In the boxes below, you can read about our best moments in school.
We are sharing our weekly news every Friday.

Week 23+

A busy final week in Christmas island before our half term. We made a paella in food tech, which some of the students enjoyed. We have been also learning about healthy and unhealthy relationships also looking at the many forms of relationships, understanding the differences.

Week 22+

Christmas Island have been working and learning about LGBT this week and how it effects everyone, we took part in a live stream and questionnaire viewing our opinions. This week we also made a full English breakfast with meat and also meat free in food tech this week.

Week 21+

Christmas Island have been working on application forms and how we address ourselves during an interview.

We have also been learning about building up relationships and learning how all relationships can be different, incorporating online safety to keep us safe.

Week 20+

It has been great to see a full class of students again after so many positive cases of Covid in recent weeks. It has got to be said this class has coped maturely with a difficult situation. It has been a joy to see the support and encouragement they have given each other.

It was making pizzas in Food Preparation. Always popular. In English we practised Speaking, Listening and Conversation skills, the topic of Films and TV shows saw lots of participation, comments and questions from the students.

Week 19+

This week in Christmas island we have been discussing about diversity and prejudice. We worked together in pairs to look at each others differences.
We have also been looking at interview techniques, how we look, our body language, how we dress, how we speak, how we address the interview, what we are likely to be asked and how we respond. As a group we took it in turns to take part with an interview.

Week 17+

Christmas Island returned back to school after a well-deserved break.

We all caught up with how our breaks went and what we enjoyed the most during the time off.

We have enjoyed putting a power point together looking at our interests for English and also working on keeping ourselves safe when travelling, looking at all areas that we would have to take into consideration when planning the trip.

Week 15+

Christmas island have had a busy week enjoying the 2022 Christmas talent show , making bacon, sausage and vegan sandwiches for key stage 5 staff and pupils, we have also enjoyed a variety of craft activities preparing for the party next week and decorating our classroom.

Week 14+

Week 13+

Happy December!

We have begun preparing for Christmas in class by decorating the classroom. The students really impressed us with their organisation and teamwork skills and the room looks great!

In maths this week we have continued completing work around shape and have been measuring accurately and using the measurements to work out the perimeter of various shapes.

In English we have practiced our speaking and listening skills by having classroom debates. We all listened respectfully to each other’s viewpoints and presented valid and well-researched arguments based on our own personal views.

On Tuesday we made afternoon tea in Food Tech which was amazingly tasty, we worked in small groups to prepare sandwiches, scones and sausage rolls before enjoying the feast as a whole class.

Week 12+

Christmas Island Math’s this week has been practicing and becoming fluent switching between analogue, and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks including calculating adding on time. Some of the class, more confident with time, investigated calculating areas and volumes of compound shapes.

In English the class continued writing more extensive narrative. Sustained writing is an area lots of students find tricky so the staff were really pleased with the results, from stories to restaurant reviews.

Our physical activity warm up was led by one of students, Kyle, before some competitive games of Boccia to hone our targeting skills.

PSHE / Life-skills saw the students discussing Mental Health and researching the help available through organisations such as, MIND and Childline.

Week 11+

Week 10+

This week Christmas Island enjoyed researching important figures in science for National Science Day.

We really liked playing target games in P.E and tallied up 1000s of points with our brilliant aim.

We took part in Remembrance Day by participating in a minutes silence and discussing what life would have been like for the soldiers during the war.

We have also continued our employability project by making posters for our Christmas Cafe.

Week 9+

In Christmas Island this week we have had a lot of disruption and changes due to exams (and other things) but everyone tried really hard to cope with this.

We have had quite a lot of good class discussions and everyone has shown how good they are at working together in groups/teams. ‘Keeping safe on the internet’, ideas for ‘enterprise projects’ and talking about ‘right and wrong in a given situation’ have been the topics for discussion.

Week 8+

The last week of term, wow, this has flown!

We have completed mock exams in Christmas Island this week. Students were really mature in their approach to the mocks and tried their best. On Thursday we attended the Liverpool Careers Fair at Anfield Stadium where we had chance to speak to employers and some colleges about our futures.

Christmas Island staff team would like to wish students and families a restful half term.

Week 7+

Christmas Island have been looking at road safety and independent travel in employability.

We have focused on how to cross a road a safely and how to use buses.  We have revisited spellings and our reading skills in English as well as looking at the features of non-fiction books. In maths we have looked at interpreting data and collating information.

We made an amazing vegetable pasta dish in food tech, our kitchen skills are improving rapidly and we’re all becoming more confident in the food tech room when using the equipment and following the recipe independently.

Week 6+

Christmas Island have been looking at data in maths this week.

We have looked at bar charts and how to interpret data. In English we have looked at formal and informal language and how this is used in different situations.

We looked at slang terms and created a mini-translation guide for common scouse slang.

We celebrated world poetry day on Thursday by looking at a selection of poems and writing our own based on a tutorial by the poet Simon Mole. We read these out in class.

Well done Christmas Island for a fantastic week!

Week 5+

This week in Christmas Island we have been developing our maths skills looking by looking at percentages.  We have looked at the different ways percentages can be represented such as decimals and fractions and used this knowledge in our work.  In English we have looked at facts and opinions and how these are used in the media to advertise or persuade. We were very good at differentiating between fact and opinion in adverts and text, there’s some very good critical thinkers in our class. In food tech we made spaghetti and meatballs. The staff were really impressed with how confident we were in the kitchen and that several of us said we have helped make this at home.  Have a lovely weekend.

Week 4+

Week three already, this term is flying by!!

This week we enjoyed a visit to Myerscough College in Croxteth Park. We had a guided tour of the site and found out a lot of information about the courses on offer. We have looked at CV building in employability and discovered that a lot of our skills and qualities are just the sort of things an employer would be looking for. We talked about the vocabulary that is expected to be used on a CV and the meaning behind the words. In ICT we have looked at using the internet and how to search specifically for information by using keywords as well as composing and sending emails.

 

Week 3+

This week in Christmas Island has been very busy.

We have made spaghetti bolognaise in food tech which was delicious, the students really got involved in the process from start to finish, prepping ingredients, cooking and cleaning up after themselves. We celebrated Roald Dahl Day on Monday by learning about Roald Dahl’s life and answering questions by picking out key information from the text. We also looked at some of the novels he wrote for adults. Some of us were very surprised to find out he didn’t just write for children. In maths we have been looking at money and using our problem-solving skills to pick out key information in word problems.

We have researched colleges in in employability lessons and identified courses we are interested in and what we would like to achieve in the future. Have a restful weekend 🙂

Week 2+

Welcome back Christmas Island! It’s so good to see you all. We’ve had a great first week back in school. We have looked at the expectations of students in sixth form and have focused on team building, taking part in class challenges including survival skills and shelter building,  inventing a new product for a Dragon’s Den pane and presenting our pitch and taking part in team games in PE. We made paninis in food tech which were really tasty.

 

Well done everyone for a great first week back

Links to open sessions at Hugh Baird College and Myerscough college for September:

https://www.hughbaird.ac.uk/events

https://www.myerscough.ac.uk/whats-on/online-course-advice-morning-february/

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