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Careers
Newsletter Year 13
Welcome
School Newsletter
Dear Parents, Carers and Friends of The Deanery, I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well. I am delighted to introduce our latest special newsletter. It is great to see the work that our pupils are doing across all areas of the curriculum. We are very proud of them and look forward to seeing them all again soon. Stay safe. Mr Wood
Year 11 Prom Update
As stated in one of Mr Wood's earlier letters, one of the very disappointing aspects of "lockdown" is not being able to celebrate with the Year 11 pupils at our annual prom, which was scheduled for 3rd July.
We are delighted to confirm that we have managed to secure a provisional date (provisional, as we don't know where we will be with social distancing regulations; this will need to be reviewed nearer the time).
Our new prom date is Friday 20th November 2020. All arrangements remain the same. Any money paid is carried over. More details will follow nearer the time.
Issue 4
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Staff cupcake competition
How have you been doing with your spare time during lockdown?
We would love to hear from you. Please send photos along with a short summary to
Learned a new
skill or started a
fitness regime
Decorated a room
in the house
Arts and crafts
projects
Learned a new musical
instrument or practised more
Improved your cooking and/or
baking skills
Read a
book…or two
Things to cheer
others up who may
be lonely
Helped with
the
housework
What have you been up to?
Members of staff took part in the Deanery does Bake-off Cupcake Competition. There was some tough
competition but the winners were:
Best Flavour Mr Kenrick and Mrs Storey Best Decoration Mrs Johnson Best Overall Mrs Edmondson Special mentions to Mrs Stafford for thinking outside the box and Mrs Cowley for making buttercream for
the first time ever!
A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who participated and staff council for voting
Worship at Home
Worship
As well as our 'Faith at Home' worship sessions that you can access on the Deanery’s Facebook page, Church Wigan also have a number of pages young people can follow and get involved in....
Brighter School Of Discipleship
Follow this page on Facebook and Instagram. This group is run by Church Wigan for young people who want to go deeper in their faith and discipleship. Follow them to see weekly stories of inspiration and find out more about Brighter School of Discipleship
PAIS Wigan
Follow this page on Facebook and Instagram. It is run by the PAIS team who you may have seen in school. It's full of inspirational quotes and activities you can get involved in.
Year 10 Prefects
Year 10 pupils were invited by email to apply to be a Prefect for the following academic year. Pupils
completed an application form and short letter detailing their reasons for wanting to be a prefect and
explaining why they thought they were the best candidates for this role. We were looking for pupils who
will always uphold the school values, and the words of the Deanery mantra, to the highest level!
After careful consideration and lengthy discussions, the following pupils were appointed and will be
wearing the coveted grey Prefect tie on their return to school. Congratulations to them all!
Jess Galvin Hannah Awodumila Robyn Wilding Robyn Walker Genevieve Davies Charlotte Holcroft Gabe Jones Robyn Cartwright-Speakman Sanjara Amir Jamie Barber Sophia Alva Morgan Carter-Maryon Dylan Hawkins Rachel Hornby Ellen Hartley Cerys Williams Holly Daniels Grace Moukam Dylan Chapman Noel Jung April Cheetham Keeley Harrison Tyler Ashton-Linnett Tyler Cowie Chynna Williams Kimberley Sithole Chloe Shaw Sophie Walker Caitlin Haselden
Food Technology
Eat your way around the world One of the many joys of holidays is getting to try local delicacies from around our own country and explore
delicious treats when travelling abroad. With all travel currently suspended, local restaurants closed we may be
missing some of our favourite tasty dishes.
Pupils are being challenged each week to find out about local British delicacies and also investigate countries from
different continents by finding out about climate, staple foods and traditional dishes. When possible pupils are
also being encouraged to make a dish they have found out about and send photographs in to their teacher.
Pupils are busy eating their way around the world – so far:
Charlie Cummins and Madeline Calder both found out all about the traditional Lancashire Hot Pot.
Cameron Haren researched Cuba looking at climate, staple foods and traditional dishes. Chovin Faik has told
us all about her favourite restaurant - Albert’s Schloss and researched traditional German foods.
Jason Tran Nguyen researched into his favourite dish Pho from Vietnam, traditional foods from Norway and
closer to home found out all about The Coventry God Cake, a traditional pastry baked by Godparents and
eaten at Christenings.
Joe Taylor explored the tradition of everyone’s favourite Fish & Chips
Finn Murphy Baker has looked in to the history of the Full English Breakfast and
also Raggmunk a traditional Swedish winter dish.
Some pupils have even had a go at producing some dishes from around the world:
Subject News
Lily Gilligan –
Chinese Vegetarian
Stir fry
Lucy Hill –
Spaghetti
Bolognese
Lucy Hill – Texan
Breakfast tacos
Izabelle Dutton – Fresh
Homemade Tagliatelle
Traditional Roast Dinner
Izabelle Dutton – Fresh
Homemade Tagliatelle
Traditional Roast Dinner
Alex Stead – Mac and Cheese
Mrs McCann pupils have been busy over the past two weeks.
Here are some examples of their practical work.
PE
We have loved seeing your Athletics work last week. This week
it is Tennis, try all the skill and co-curricular challenges on
Synergy and send us your work. Can you complete the step
challenge?? Send in a screen shot of your Fitbit/iwatch/phone
We’re supporting @YouthSportTrust National School Sport
Week at Home to celebrate the impact of sport on young
people’s wellbeing. Check out your Games work on Synergy to
see what you need to do. You can also find out more at
http://youthsporttrust.org/nssw #NSSWtogether @skysports
Science
Gabriella Moseley-Bamford
researched the Coronavirus
and made her own model. Follow us on Twitter
@DeaneryScience
Faye Guy impressed us with her research
about the universe and the planets in our
Solar System.
Chloe Shaw Jenny Chen
Gabriella Moseley-
Bamford Jessica Dawber
Ruby Jackson
Charlie Cummins Katie Telford
Recommended programmes to improve your knowledge:
Ocean Giants - Explore the ocean's largest creatures - humpback whales and 200-ton feeding blue
whales. BBC iPlayer.
8 Days: To the Moon and Back - Using dramatic reconstruction, declassified cockpit audio recorded
by the astronauts themselves and film archive, this is the untold story of the first moon landing. BBC
iPlayer.
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - Professor Brian Cox reveals how Earth's beauty is created by just
a handful of forces. In this episode Brian explains the science behind the colours of the planet. BBC
iPlayer.
Unnatural Selection – From eradicating disease to selecting a child’s traits, gene editing gives humans
the chance to hack biology. Meet the real people behind the science. Netflix.
Business Studies
AND THE WINNER IS …
The Business Studies Department ran a competition to create a social distanced advertisement for a brand of your choice.
The winners of the competition are:
Daniel Moore Year 10 (Mercedes AMG) Sam Halliwell L6 (GAP)
They will both receive a £10 Amazon voucher. Well done.
A Poetic Week.
This week, Year 9 have been writing some carefully crafted poetry with the only theme being ‘Thoughts’.
Here are some wonderful pieces we have had so far:
My Mind Today I Thought About
My mind playing tricks, My mind making me sick, My mind making me mop, My mind never stops. I need to do work, I need to revise, I need to sleep, I need to eat. My mind confusing me, My mind needs to be free, My mind wants school My mind is so cruel Liam Bowker
Today I thought about my family,
The bonding and love we have shared
24/7: with my sister, brother, and parents.
Today I thought about my school,
Empty classrooms, abandoned corridors
And history of smiling teachers.
Today I thought about my friends,
Conversations that strive happily.
Cameron Haren
No escape from the stale lockdown life.
Today I thought about once thriving schools,
Collecting dust, abandoned.
Today I thought about the stormy weather,
People unable to get out
Begging to be reunited with freedom.
Today I thought about people playing online,
What used to be one of many ways to have fun with friends
Now lacklustre and monotonous.
Today I thought about families, divided
The closest of family members.
Now gone months without a single visit.
No escape from the stale lockdown life.
Luke Kelly
English
Extra praise
Well done to Ivan Chen for an excellent piece of creative writing. Your script work was outstanding - Mrs Armstrong is very proud! Excellent work from Sasha Vernon with some very detailed imagery to entice the reader. The following names for all presenting fabulous work in English:
Y7 – Dylan Fitzhenry, Chovin Feik, Robert Brown Y8 - Xander Constantine, Olivia Murray, Charlie Munroe, Alexa Crompton
Y9 – Erica Stewart, Melissa Poyntz, Amber Smith, Finn-Murphy Baker Y10 – Liam Winstanley, Holly Daniels, Matt Jacobs, Ellen Hartley, Rachel Hornby,
Charlotte Holcroft, Gabe Jones, Gabriel Kyle
Erica Stewart Y9
Well done to Year 10 students on some
excellent revision completion outside and
within school!
Performing Arts
This week we have chosen to focus on presentations which our 6th form Performing Arts students
have been working on in the lock down.
They had to choose a performer they admire and then they had to carefully analyse their work with
regard to performance skills. Here are some of the choices below.
Laura Morris
Chris Lloyd: Jackie Chan
Beth Fairhurst: Joaquin
Phoenix
Ella Cavanagh: Jonathan
Groff
Art
Last week the The Deanery High School Art
Department presented a 'Virtual Art
Exhibition', showcasing the work of our
outstanding art students. Check out the
following link if you missed it …
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Tasha Houghton: Gene
Kelly
Currently working on…
Year 7 Year 7 are now focusing on consolidating their previous home learning, looking at effective
solutions to improving slum conditions in India
Year 8 Year 8 are currently revising their rivers unit
focusing on the location of major rivers around the world and key river processes such as
erosion and transportation
Year 9 Year 9 have just started to recap urbanisation and global population growth looking at the
cause and impacts of an increasing population
Year 10 Year 10 are revising their coastal unit, looking at depositional landforms, and hard and soft engineering strategies used to reduce erosion
along the coastline
Examples of pupils' work
Geography
Cameron Haren in Year 9 had created some brilliantly detailed notes on the features of the different types of biomes that are found around the world
Gabe Jones in Year 10 has been recapping the formation of coastal stacks and produced this excellent 3D diagram of how they form
Charlotte Holcroft in Year 10 has been looking at the formation of depositional landforms along the coastline such as spits, which have been formed by the process of longshore drift!
Recommended viewing Year 7 – The Predator’s Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0D7N5JNh8
Year 8 – Lava Driven World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdB4cxFp8is
Year 9 – Monsters of the Forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xolC09BPO-o
Year 10 –Wild Coasts New Zealand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxyVG9rSrjE&t=2425s
Geo Challenge – Photography Contest We want to see your best geographical images! This week we are experiencing a heatwave – take some sunny weather pictures or of an amazing view, nature images or wait until the end of the week the awesome lightning storms return. Send them to your teacher and the best ones go on our Twitter page!
Twitter Follow @deanerygeog for all your latest geography news, revision/home learning tips, amazing images and videos from around the world, and the best examples of work for the week!
Over the next few weeks, we are going to be investigating how Computing may affect our future world.
We will start by learning about Artificial Intelligence and examples of how this is used in our lives at the
moment.
We will begin by finding out how machines gain their ‘intelligence’ through the process of Machine
Learning. Students will then have an opportunity to program their own Artificial Intelligence program to
help save the world’s oceans.
Computing
If you would like to have a go at Machine Learning in some other situations try out one of the challenges
on the website below. Just sign up with your school e-mail address and password:
https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/
Recommended videos:
To find out more about the topic of Artificial Intelligence and why it is so important in today’s world try
watching one of the videos below:
Making the world more accessible:
https://youtu.be/DybczED-GKE
Fighting bias in algorithms:
https://youtu.be/UG_X_7g63rY
The ethics of Artificial Intelligence:
https://youtu.be/GboOXAjGevA
Machine Learning at Google:
https://youtu.be/bHvf7Tagt18
Recommended websites:
If you fancy developing your Computing skills further why not take a look at one of these websites?
Each one has lots of different activities and challenges. If you do have a go, e-mail your teacher to let us
know how you get on!
https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn
https://www.tynker.com/
https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home
http://godigitalmcr.co.uk/go-digital-at-home/
The Great Commission
Religious Studies
What is the great commission?
The great commission is the message that Jesus gave his disciples to spread around the
world after he ascended to heaven. Jesus asked the disciples to go and spread his
teachings and his world across the globe so everyone can know. And that’s what the
disciples did and thus the religion Christianity was born!
Quote from the bible:
“Go and make disciples of all
nations, baptising them in the name
of their Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
obey everything that I have
commanded you.”
What did the disciples do?
The disciples travelled around the world, spreading
the word of God and making disciples in every
nation like Jesus asked them too. This meant that
other people would spread the world of Christianity
until there was disciples in every single nation
across the world. This was how Christianity was
founded and born!
What might Christians do to show they are now following the teachings of Jesus?
Some Christians carry out missionary work across the globe, others commit themselves to
religious life (becoming a priest or minister) while others live a Christian life to others.
Abbie Downey Year 7
Our pupils have produced some excellent work during home learning. Here are some examples.
Ines Huete-Proffitt
Where is God?
1. Is God wise and just?
2. A heavenly control centre.
3. A servant of God.
4. The one who is opposed.
5. So God rewards him.
6. To take everything away from job.
7. Job loses everyone and everything.
I agree with the quote ‘God cannot exist if there is evil and suffering in the world.’ As God is
supposedly omnipotent and omnibenevolent, which means he is all powerful and all loving, in
which case he would stop the suffering in the world and not just that he would want to do
that as he is all loving and would not want to see suffering on those is claimed to love. On the
contrary it is possible there is a God but is testing everyone like in Job which would justify why
there are highs and lows in life
8. He begins to doubt God and is in despair.
9. Job’s friends think he has done something to be punished.
10. Job asks God to explain why he punished him.
11. God shows Job the universe and shows him how complicated it
is.
12. Job learns how complex the world is.
13. God gives Job double of what he had in the beginning.
14. The story of Job could help a response as people can learn to
appreciate the things we walk by and ignore on a normal day
and to be grateful for the simple yet complexed things of life.
Duke of Edinburgh
Silver Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
Congratulations to Dylan Jones 10HX for completing his volunteering, skills and
physical sections. Dylan will now receive his 2020 Certificate of Achievement
from the DofE.
Year 7 have been consolidating their learning on the Norman Conquest of England after 1066, including
William the Conqueror’s use of castles, the Domesday Book and the Feudal System. To support your
learning, we strongly recommend the 6 part mini-series of videos from BBC Teach relating to 1066 an
the Norman Conquest. The first video can be found using the link and hashtags here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sK4JX0co8I #teachhistory #britishhistory #normanconquest
Year 8 have been learning about the rise of Hitler and the destruction
of democracy in Germany during the 1930s. Shown here is an
excellent piece of work from Rhiannon who has explained how the
actions of Hitler and the Nazis exploited the feelings of the people in
Germany at this time. To support your learning we recommend “Hitler:
The Rise of Evil”, available in two parts on YouTube here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMVy8_98I-o&t=7s and “Hitler’s
Circle of Evil” which is available on Netflix. Both productions are rated
age 12.
History
Hello Historians,
Over the past 3 months, we have shown our support for the incredible workers in the NHS in a
number of ways, including our regular Thursday “claps” and “Thank you, NHS” displays.
We recognise that proper health care is a fundamental right for everyone in our country. The NHS is
funded by us, the public, so that everyone can have access to treatment or support they may need.
However, it hasn’t always been this way. The NHS was founded in 1948, following on from the
Beveridge Report which recommended free medical, dental and eye care for all. Since then, the NHS
has saved millions of lives, including many who may not have been previously able to afford
treatment. To learn more about the History of our NHS, we recommend starting here
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Birth-of-the-NHS/
Year 9 have been completing projects on crime and punishment in the Early Modern period (c1500-
c1700) relating to the panic about witchcraft in the 17th century. To support your learning, we
recommend you watch the programme “Bloody
Britain: The Witchfinder General” which is available
here on YouTube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3i2lkwh5P4
Year 10 have been completing their studies on Early
Elizabethan England. Here you’ll see an excellent
revision grid from Cerys which covers Elizabethan
society and explorers. To support your learning, we
recommend you complete our quizzes on Microsoft
Forms, which have been set by class teachers on
Synergy “Class Work” and Homework.
Languages
Ben Derbyshire
Olivia Leech
Icarus in the style
of Matisse by D
Macguire
Year 7 French Art Project
Jenny Chen Year 10 – writing
about family relationships
Calling all Spanish learners! Got BBC iPlayer? Watch Gary Lineker teaching Spanish – would you swap your Spanish teacher for Gary? (I hope not!) https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000k4pp/celebrity-supply-teacher-series-1-6-gary-lineker-spanish
The Deanery High School KS3 Technology
Parachute Challenge
The Technology department set their KS3 students the challenge of designing and building a parachute
out of everyday items. The parachute needed to be able to travel to earth safely. The pupils were then
asked to calculate the speed that their parachute fell using a simple formula and email a picture or video
of their parachute to their technology teacher. Below are a few of the pictures that we received
Technology
Sam Hill used a bin bag for his
parachute.
Megan Chadderton says
her egg survived the fall!
Eve Earley decided that
she may need to rethink
her materials!
Josh Edwards parachute
successfully fell to earth.
Emily Bodle’s parachute
has really taken off! Ben Derbyshire used a food bag
for his parachute.
Ines Huete-Proffitt used a
carrier bag and dental floss for
her parachute.
Amy Duckworth used a bin bag and
launched her parachute whilst on her
trampoline!
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[email protected] Languages
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[email protected] SEN Department
If you enquiries about work that has been set and have not been able to contact your teacher,
please use these as a means of communication.
Subject Email Addresses
School Synergy – A Guide for Students
