Virtual Welcome Day 2020

Hello everyone! This is the guidance for a very unusual Welcome Day! We hope everyone who participates in this day, whether it is in a primary classroom or in the home environment enjoys what we have created and feels they have learned lots about Penrice Academy. If there are any questions or queries about the day itself or about the transition to Penrice please contact me: ktaylor@penrice.org.uk.

Running order of the day:

Part 1: Welcome Assembly

A welcome from Mrs Taylor (Head of Year 7) and Ms Gambier (Head of School) as well as an opportunity to meet the tutors.

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Part 2: Interactive Lessons

Science with Mr D’La Borde and Mr Round

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Humanities with a little Modern Foreign Language (in 4 separate videos as below)

Geography with Mrs Challis – Go to the YouTube video by clicking here

History with Mr Wright – Go to the YouTube video by clicking here

French with Mrs Smith – Go to the YouTube video by clicking here

Spanish with Mrs Smith – Go to the YouTube video by clicking here

Creative Arts with Mr Goodlad, Miss Morse and Mr Brodey

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Part 3: Postcard challenge and farewell (End of Day Assembly)

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Please note:

The videos are accessed via a Youtube link.
Science equipment and master copies of resources ready for photocopying have been delivered to Primary Schools for those students experiencing Welcome Day at their primary school.
There are number of resources available to download below – it would be a good idea to do this before the lessons.
There are examples of the postcard challenge available below. These are useful examples and also give lots of information about the Year Team who will be working with Year 7 in September.

Postcard Challenge

At the end of our Welcome Day I set a postcard challenge for our incoming Year 7 students. These postcards should be brought into school when we start in September and will create a fantastic display in each tutor room with we can all learn about each other. To help our new students get started the Year 7 Team have created their own postcards. Have a look and find out about each team member (you can click on the image to see the postcard bigger)…