Backpacks 💼👝👜

Hi!
I'm going to cover a topic that you may not have thought about...backpacks.

Here are some key pointers when you're going to go buy a backpack for Year 7.

• Make sure your bag can carry a lot, because you have to carry your books to lessons. Teachers don't keep them in class.
• Also, make sure it's comfortable on your shoulders, you don't want to deal damage to your back.
• One of the best places to get backpacks is Jansport, however, there are other good places, like Pottery Barn kids, or other Backpack stores. The best thing you can do is go to a place that makes backpacks properly, not pick up a random backpack from a supermarket that came with your fifty kg of cheese. (Idk, Carrefour has some random deals). 
• Make sure it's big enough, but not too big. We don't want to find you never made it to school because you where destroyed by your massive backpack.
• Don't just go by the latest trends because you think it'll make you cool and less weird. Get a backpack you actually like and is good for your build, because it's likely you'll use these bag for the whole year, or even two.

Haleema 7E

Life in Year 7 part 2

HELLO! And welcome back to my tour and this time I will be talking about Phone's Policy.
In the senior school you will be seeing kids using thier phones or other devices before the school starts. And that is allowed but as soon the bell rings you should put it away either in your bag or locker. If you are caught using your device during a lesson when you are not told to, you can end up in a detention during your only break. ☹️ Or the teacher will take it away from you and your parents will have to get it back for you at the reception. You are allow to use it during form time or during break. Also do not use headphone or phones while walking, teachers do not like it. 😁 But do not worry ( I am not trying to scare you) if you obey the school's rule, you will be flying though the school (not literally) making new friends and having fun, the most important part of school (in my opinion)🤓.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ~


RATE THE FACILITIES WITH EMOJIS ~

• BREAK TIMES 😋
• LESSONS 🙃
• ECA'S 😊
• LUNCH TIME ACITVITIES 😃
• TUCK SHOP FOOD 😝
• TEACHERS 😏

NOW THAT YOU HAVE SMALL IDEA OF THE RATINGS WHY DONT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE LESSONS AND THE SCHOOL CAMPUS, NEW STUDENTS OFTEN TEND TO GET LOST AROUND THE SCHOOL FOR THE FIRST WEEK OR SO, BUT I WILL HELP YOU;

• THE ENGLISH CORRIDOR ~ 2nd floor
• THE MATHS CORRIDOR ~ 3rd floor
• MFL (modern foreign languages) ~ ground floor
• THE SCIENCE CORRIDOR ~ ground floor
• HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY ~ 2nd floor
• ART CORRIDOR ~ 3rd floor 
• and RE is in any individual room
• DT ~ ground floor

NOW THAT WE HAVE CLEARED THAT... WE CAN MOVE ON THE THE ENRICHMENT DAYS;

ENRICHMENT IS EVERY WEEK WITH THE EXEPTION OF SOME...EACH ENRICHMENT YOU WILL DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT UNLESS IT IS A SERIES OF SOMETHING IN PARTICULAR. DURING ENRICHMENT DAYS, LESSONS WILL BE SHORTER BUT THE SCHOOL DAY WILL BE THE SAME TIME, 2:40.

Teachers, Lessons & Location

Teachers, Lessons & Locations 

Are you worried about getting lost during lessons? What about your teachers? Will the lessons be hard? Well don't worry! From our experience, everything will be okay.

The school isn't hard to get around. There are different corridors for each subject such as the DT corridor, the English corridor, Sports hall , drama hall, etc. These corridors have the different classrooms. If your having trouble, there are directions somewhere on the walls, and if you can't use those, you can always ask the students or teachers to help you. 

Each classroom has two letters and a number to show which classroom your in, for example, La3, Ma7, En8. The two letters show what corridor it's in, English is En, Math is Ma, La is Languages (French and Spanish classrooms). The letter is simply the room number. This is displayed on the doors and again, don't be afraid to ask others if you get lost (I speak form experience 😅).

Now on to the teachers. We all know thoes mean, scary, stict and picky teachers. There will always be at least one. But lucky for you, the senior school isn't one of those places (I think). A very large handful of teachers are very nice and try to teach you up to the best of their abilities. They're nice and you don't have to worry buuuut try not to get yourself a detention.

The lessons more or less work the same way as the Junior School except there are bells between each period. Each lesson is two periods long, but there will be one period lessons too. Each lesson is 40 minuetes long so (if you can add) each double period lesson is 1h and 20mins long. But what are the lessons even like?

They're:

• Fun - most of the time
• Active - you actually don't have to sit on a chair all day
• Helpful - you learn a lot
• Creative - the lessons always have a unique way of teaching you
• Cooperative - there's quite a lot of group work 

The lessons aren't going to be boring, long and long and boring and long like you think it's gonna be, but it does tend to be a bit dismal towards the exams but that's an exception... I guess.
Hopefully this helped you and you have a good time at the Senior School.

If you didn't understand something or have any questions, feel free to comment and I'll try my hardest to help you.

Rabeea 7E

Languages

Here's a bit of information on Languages in the Senior School.

As you already know, you have French and Arabic+ (Is that what it's called or is it something else?). However, it doesn't work like that in the Senior School.

[Quick note though, if you are a native Arabic student, you will do Arabic in language lessons as normal. So you don't need to worry, and can forget about this post completely! 👍]

In Year 7 you have a choice between French and Spanish. However, for the first term you will do French with your form class. Then, for a couple of weeks, you'll try out Spanish (a trial). 

In term 2, you'll have the choice...French or Spanish or, even both. However, for both you had to have gotten an A in French, because it's very difficult. Choose wisely, because you do these languages till Year 11.  If you choose to do both, you will have it split up between your language lessons, or may have to do early morning French (before school starts).

Once you've chosen what language you're doing, you wont be having language lessons with your form class. You will be separated into sets, depending on your Term 1 exam results and overall level, so everyone will be working on the same things.

Haleema 7E 

Homework diary

You use your homework diary to see when there is homework.
There is a a box with he date at the top. You put the subject the homework is for, what IS the homework, the date it is due and there is a column called 'done' where you have to tick when you have finished that homework. Here is also a small box at the bottom of the page that says 'notes/reminders'. I think you know what you have to put there 😋. In the box there is also a 'parent signature' and 'tutor signature'. Every Sunday your tutor will sign your homework diary and they will check if your parent has signed it too. If you have not signed it, it means your parent hasn't seen your homework and doesn't know if you have finished it. Here is also two boxes that say 'Friday' and 'Saturday' that says what events there are on the weekend.

Any questions?

Hello👋,My name is Freya and I am very excited to see you next year! Many people say when you move to senior school  the older students pick on you but that is not true.
I thought when I move to senior school older pupils would point me to wrong directions when I was lost however,the older students guided me to me classes when I was lost.
When you get lost around the school don't feel silly because on my 3rd week in school I got lost and I was 15 minutes late for class 😂 but the teacher understood what happened.
For the first few weeks  you will be able to leave class early before break so you can buy food from the tuck shop.In the tuck shop there are hot meals,salads,refreshments,ice creams🍦and chocolates 🍫extra...
FYI the teachers are soooooo kind,nice and understanding

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