Australia – Mr Lyons

Our Class Team

Teacher HLTA TA TA
Matthew Lyons Steven O’Brien Rachel Daye Daisy Scarffe

Contact the teacher at matthew.lyons@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+

We start this newsletter by sharing the news of our exciting trip we had on Friday to Hugh Baird college. All Australia class really enjoyed this experience.

This week we have combined our skills from this term in PE, finishing off with a game of basketball.

In food tech we have enjoyed using different ways of preparing salad. Check out our social media posts for pics.

In Life Skills this week, we are really thinking about what we can make in tech whilst considering Health and Safety in the Workplace.

Please, everyone enjoy a well earned rest this half term.

Week 22+

Australia class, this week have been learning all about apprenticeships through Zoom from various organisations such as engineering and the rail sector.
We have also discussed internet safety and the importance of being vigilant and safe online.
In PE we played End ball, this proved to be great fun. Well done to all.
For food tech we made Egg in the Hole. Delicious.

Week 21+

This has been a very productive week in class Australia, we have continued our swimming programme. All participants have clearly enjoyed these sessions.

In class we have looked at Mini-beasts and using the Top Trumps approach, we were able to compare and understand differing attributes.

Maths work this week, we have been learning about how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit and CM to Inches. Again, well done Australia class.

In food tech this week we have made Royal rice. We have discussed different rice dishes, touching on Chinese New Year.

Well done everyone!

Week 20+

Australia class have enjoyed our week as we have been swimming. The students have been brilliant and a credit to themselves with the way they have took part. We were involved in a Coding zoom, which was very informative and the students learnt about careers in coding. In food tech we made crunchy chick pea sandwich was produced a very interesting taste. As part of our project we finished our bug hotels and placed around the forest school, we are excited to see who stays!

Week 19+

We had a great week in Australia, on Monday we celebrated World Religion day, this involved investigating the six main religions and than we had a lively debate on some ethical issues. On Tuesday we spent time adding to our terrariums as part of our beast creator project. We added to this after our visit to the museum on Thursday which was great fun. We continued to develop our basketball skills through dribbling and had a great time putting these skills into our game. We continued to explore our health eating unit in food technology by making Mackerel pate! This was certainly a taste experience! Students on Friday enjoyed celebrating National reading day by taking part in a speed reading challenge and by creating their own one page short story.

Well done Australia what a great week!

Week 18+

We have enjoyed a very busy week in Australia class. All students have contributed a lot during our first full week back after the New Year.

We have carried on with our study into Mini Beasts whereby we are furnishing the outdoor terrarium with various damp twigs, bark and other items to hopefully encourage some new friends to inhabit. STAY TUNED!

Basketball on Wednesday proved to be great fun, we had a lot of fun and some great skills were on show.

Thursday in food tech we created some lovely Jerk chicken burgers. They were delicious.

Week 17+

Welcome back and Happy New Year one and all.

Australia class have made a fantastic start to the new term.

This week, (albeit only a short one) we have covered a range of topics. This term we will be covering Mini Beasts. As a class, we explored our forest school and despite the cold weather, the students made some great discoveries. We not only found various “beasts” well also came across some interesting Fungi.

In P.E. we calculated how far we could run in 12 mins. All students made a fantastic effort. Well to done all!

Week 15+

Class Australia have had a busy week, students have taken part in some Christmas activities making decorations.

Some of the students took part in the fantastic talent show, well done to those who took part.

We enjoyed the Christmas carousel on Wednesday, making, eating and drinking various festive crafts.

We enjoyed eating Christmas dinner together.

The class enjoyed the pantomime “oh no we didn’t , oh yes we did!”.

Week 14+

Australia class have had a busy week, we enjoyed making Christmas biscuits, which yet again did not make it home as the students loved earing the biscuits! We enjoyed a very competitive game of Boccia, which the students showed a great level of tactical thinking. The students have been developing their ability to use division to solve problems in Maths. We have explored the myths of Spring heeled Jack and the big cat of Cornwall.

Week 13+

Australia class have enjoyed the last week of November.

We began the week with visiting Myerscough College, this was a great time of investigating what goes on at the Croxteth Campus and meeting Shelly the Tortoise. We looked at marriages in RE which led to an interesting debate.

We enjoyed PE with LFC on Wednesday developing our Basketball skills. In our project lessons we have been researching about Mexico and on Thursday we visited Chiquito’s Mexican restaurant, the students enjoyed sampling the Mexican menu!

Three of the class began their journeys as mentors and had some fantastic training and we look forward to seeing how they work.

Week 12+

Class Australia have enjoyed a busy week! We finished our class reading book “Beyond the Horizon” which had an exciting end!

We had a class tournament playing Boccia, which became a tactical battle.

We made Cardamom biscuits in food technology; the students worked through a number of assessments and performed very well.

Highlight of the week was Boccia tournament as the students interacted in competitive but fair manner.

 

Week 11+

It has been a busy week for the students, especially the Year 11 students who have been sitting their mock exams. They have worked so well and tried their best. The year 10 students have enjoyed lessons with PNG’s year 10 students. They have enjoyed a PE session with LFC. We made Mexican Christmas bread for Food technology called Rosca De Reyes. The students have been researching local colleges as part of our Employability lessons.

We also welcomed Mr O’Brien to the class as our new HLTA, the students gave him a warm Australian welcome.

Week 10+

Australia class have enjoyed a great week, we have explored 19th century English texts, developed our ability to manipulate fractions and learnt how to use Excel.

On Wednesday we enjoyed a PE with the LFC Foundation looking at attacking and defending.

We celebrated World Science day by investigating the Nervous system in several different ways. In food tech we made Honey cake and we spent time remembering those fought for the country on Remembrance day.

Week 9+

Australia have enjoyed our very busy week, we have dived deeper into Fractions and enjoyed learning how to add and subtract them.

We have been exploring the hidden meaning in texts in English.

We played Boccia as a class which was a very competitive lesson, with students developing their hand eye coordination. In Food tech we created Mexican pockets to support our investigations into our Hola! Mexico project.

A great week class Australia, well done!

Week 8+

Australia class we have reached the end of our first half term! Australia class has had an amazing final week. We had a fantastic trip over to Anfield stadium where they engaged with a Careers Fayre and saw a lot of job opportunities for their futures. We have also continued to look at sequencing and how to figure out different formulas.

We have also ended this week with a super Halloween party that was sorted out by the KS5 (Thank you!) Australia class you have been an absolute fantastic class and the class team hopes you have a fantastic half term. Be sure to get plenty of rest.

Week 7+

Australia class have continued to look at the amazing human body and how the effects of air pollution can damage the lungs. Australia class have also looked at creating a fantastic meal by making roasted cauliflower.

To end the week we are creating our own board games for our Alchemy Island to get ready for the weekend.

Another fantastic week keep it up Australia!

Week 6+

As always Australia class have been hard at work this week and created some amazing pieces of work.

They have looked at song writing and how images can help writers create songs with meanings and a story. They then compared a host of songs to see if they could discover any patterns as well identify metaphors, similes and alliterations (The Australia team were definitely singing with joy when they saw the work the class had produced.) The class have continued to look at the wonders of the human body and how are stomach can break down certain types of food and how that food is converted into energy and what happens to the leftovers.

Last but not at all least Australia class have looked at building up their own CV when they go out and look for jobs. Not just typing up a basic CV but how to make it a CV that an employer would look at and say “WOW!”. The pupils did this by using the START profile system and will be able to add to this profile while in Australia class.

Another successful week in Australia and we hope that all of our class get plenty of rest!

Week 5+
Week 4+

Australia class has continued to do amazing work this week.

Hope you have not planned any holidays as Australia class have been planning travel guides on the different planets in our Solar System, apparently Mars has the most beautiful sunsets in the system. Australia class have also started to look at fractions, half of them are looking forward to doing fractions and the other half are even more excited to be looking at this unit. Finally, since Australia have been so golden, we have researched the metal gold and where is the largest amount of gold in the world (get your mining equipment ready!) As always Australia is showing great progress and look forward to our next week!

Week 3+

Australia class has had a very busy second week.

We have been continuing to explore Alchemy Island and how we can use mapping to plot our journey through this Fantasy island. We have written numerous short stories each unique and fantastic to read. On Monday it was Roald Dahl day and we looked at some of the fantastic books the great author had created. We discovered that Abbot’s Lea School is filled with portal ideas for our big writes (fortunately we did not lose Mr Hatton in one of the many portals). Australia engaged well with looking at the human body and how the heart powers the entire body. After all this hard work Australia class made a delicious risotto that even the great Gordon Ramsay would be proud of. A fantastic week for Australia class with another very happy and proud team.

Week 2+

Australia class has had a very positive first week back. The pupils have shown that they are ready for the new school year and the class team could not be prouder of what they achieved so far. From looking at small extracts of fantasy writing to holding debates on whether pupils should choose their own lessons, (which ended in a tie) Australia class has hit the ball running. The class project is looking at Alchemy Island and even though the quest has only just begun so much has been done already from locating key features on the map to landscape drawing. We are looking forward to continuing this project and can’t wait to see what this school year has in store for Australia class.

Working hard in PE

Exploring the world according to HG Wells

Investigating exercise and our heart rates

 

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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