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100% Attendance<br />
Over the past few weeks we have<br />
been celebrating student success of<br />
achieving 100% attendance for the Spring<br />
Term. We held two celebration brunches<br />
during tutor time for our fantastic<br />
students, in total we had an amazing 74<br />
students. All students were sent a letter<br />
home praising their achievement along<br />
with a personalised invitation.<br />
To celebrate all students had brunch<br />
together with the Pastoral team and senior<br />
staff it was a great opportunity to celebrate<br />
such a fantastic achievement and we are<br />
all immensely proud. The pastoral team sat<br />
and spoke to all students after serving the<br />
students their brunch.<br />
We will continue celebrating high<br />
attendance within the school so make sure<br />
that you are here every day, and maybe<br />
you will receive an invite to our next<br />
celebration brunch. Keep up the good<br />
work.<br />
Geography Fieldwork<br />
On Friday 4th <strong>May</strong> a number of Year 10 students undertook their Geography GCSE<br />
fieldwork in Birmingham City Centre. This was the first of two fieldtrips that they<br />
will go on to collect and analyse data in preparation for the Geographical skills exam<br />
that they will sit in the summer of Year 11.<br />
Students were put into groups and individually completed a number of surveys at 5<br />
locations around the city centre in order to test the hypothesis: ‘Regeneration of<br />
Birmingham City Centre has had a positive effect on the quality of environment’. The<br />
surveys carried out included: a pedestrian count, a traffic count, a quality of environment<br />
survey and field annotations. The surveys were completed during the<br />
morning and then again in the afternoon to gauge the effect that different<br />
times of the day may have had. There was also a little bit of time for them<br />
to visit the Bullring and make a couple of purchases!<br />
Students will now be using the data to produce a range of graphs in order<br />
for them to analyse and test whether their hypothesis was correct, or<br />
not, ready for the summer.<br />
The students thoroughly enjoyed the experience and conducted<br />
themselves in an appropriate manner. Well done Year 10!
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