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Our y7 students where given the chance to visit Durham University for a powering transformation day. The students got to have a mini lecture with an AI and also use the latest Dell Computer equipment to come up with a product to solve a social issue in a dragons den style challenge.
Well done to all of our staff that dressed up for World Book Day
#WorldBookDay
Demolition has started on our old canteen building @BAMConstructUK
The whole of Year 11 were taken to see a production of A Christmas Carol by the English department. It was an amazing show and we really enjoyed it. There was music, laughter, sadness and some amazing puppetry skills. The Northern Stage’s performance was fantastic and it will really help us with our GCSEs. It’s helped us understand character, theme and plot development in a much more in-depth way.
We would like to thank the English department for taking us on the trip and we are looking forward to our next one.
A successful visit to Durham Castle last week with Year 7 – the next trips for EBACC will take place in January and February for Year 8 and 10 students!
Here are some photos from the trip.
In August The Durham Federation was awarded a grant from the British Council to run an Erasmus project with schools from Norway, Turkey, Greece, Poland and Hungary. The purpose of the project is to improve the literacy and writing skills of our students, looking at how each country teaches these key topics and developing shared resources to help develop our practice.
One of the key parts of the project is to visit each country to see how their school’s work and also have the opportunity to explore the country and its history. In November, we hosted the first visit with teacher’s from all six countries meeting to arrange how the project would work.
During the visit, the teachers from our partner schools had a tour of school with our year seven students, observed a number of lessons as well as a number of trips out of school. These included Durham Cathedral, The Baltic art gallery and The Stadium of light.
The visit was a great success and we hope that during the next two years our students will enjoy working with, and visiting our partner countries to help to develop their skills. In March Mr Potter and Mrs V Elliott will be taking four year seven students to Athens in Greece for the next part of the project.
A new campaign for Alcohol Awareness Week (19-25 Nov) warns parents about the risks to their children from alcohol and encourages them to delay the moment when their child first starts to drink.
It comes as new figures suggest parenting tactics aimed at creating a safer relationship with alcohol and introducing drinking at a younger age could actually be giving our children a taste for booze.
Balance are launching the What’s the Harm campaign in Alcohol Awareness Week (19-25 Nov) to raise awareness of Chief Medical Officer (CMO) guidance that an alcohol free childhood up to 18 is the healthiest and best option, and that if children do drink this should not be before age 15.
Many parents know drinking increases the risks of accidents, injuries, smoking and drug taking. But many are less aware of the damage alcohol can do to children’s developing brains, liver, bones and hormones, affecting their mood, their mental health and risking them falling behind at school.
Parents are encouraged to visit http://whatstheharm.co.uk/ to find out about the facts and the myths about children and alcohol, and how best to have a conversation about alcohol with their child.
An alcohol free childhood up to 18 is the safest and best option – but definitely not before 15.
Here are some photographs of last weeks remembrance service.
