Neatherd High School: It's Flexible Learning Day! #fld2 This is what Neatherd students are doing today: Most Year 7 students will be involved in an ICT & Media activity where pupils will be reporters for the day. Pupils will learn about the best way to present a media story by using their existing ICT skills, as well as learning new skills whilst working in a group. A small group of selected Year 7 pupils will be going to the JDT Music Academy in Dereham for a day that will encourage, facilitate and nurture creativity in every pupil on the day using the recording studio and various instruments at the academy. Year 8 students will be on a trip investigating the impact that tourism is having in Wroxham and the Norfolk Broads. In the morning students will assess the different ways in which conflicts are being managed in the Norfolk Broads through a guided boat tour of Salhouse Broads. In the afternoon students will collect primary data through a range of group activities based in the centre of Wroxham. The Year 9 students will have a Crime and Consequences Day and the opportunity to interact with lots of different organisations based around the theme of ‘No Crime’. Some of the sessions include how to respond if someone has been harmed; meeting a prisoner and prison officer to find out first-hand what life is like in prison. There will be activities to increase the awareness of abusive relationships and what to look out for; presentations to improve awareness of the dangers of drug use and much, much more! As well as these exciting activities, approximately 90 Year 9 students will experience a workshop with STOMP in small groups for an hour and a half each across the day in the drama room. ‘STOMP’ is a musical company who use a unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy and have taken the world by storm with their spectacular shows. As part of World Book Week, Neatherd has secured Sonia Leong to speak to all of Year 10 pupils at the start of the day. Sonia Leong is a multi-award winning professional comic artist and illustrator specialising in Anime/Manga. The rest of the day is split into two activities, the first being Creative Writing workshops linked to the visiting Author which will engage students in a series of activities that will allow them to pair the skills of visual storytelling and the design of setting and character with Macbeth, their Shakespearean set text. The second activity being Maths Mastery Challenges which will involve engaging and exciting group tasks working on continued development of Mathematics mastery and recall of prior knowledge. All of the tasks will contain knowledge and skills from the learning the year 10s have undergone this year and they will help the students in their preparation for their GCSE. There will be an element of competition to the event with prizes on offer; all designed around helping support students in their journey to achieving their best in the new Mathematics 9-1 GCSE. This is their final Flexible Learning Day at Neatherd before the GCSE exam season begins; most Year 11 students will be treated to a day of exciting workshops and presentations on key study skills, delivered by a company called Learning Performance. Learning Performance is the UK’s leading study skills company. Their interactive and motivational workshops show students how to learn, how to revise and how to prepare for exams with creative strategies such as memory techniques. A selected group of Year 11 pupils will be completing their ISA (Individual Skills Assignments) tasks in the Science Department.