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- 19/05/23
All aboard the EMPATHY TRAIN
An engaging Trauma Informed linked lesson looking into emotions and feelings took the learners on a journey in Minecraft. Learners were provided with a lesson from Minecraft in Education where they were asked to find an area a long way away from each other and then have some free build...Read Full Story - 17/05/23
National Numeracy Day 2023
How much of the times tables can they recall - from the 1 times table to the 12 times table...Read Full Story - 16/05/23
Knife Crime Awareness Week (15th May - 21st May)
"Everyone must understand the problem of knife crime, because everyone has a personal responsibility to tackle it. #KnifeCrimeAwarenessWeek highlights the complexity of the problem, the devastation that it causes to families and communities and ultimately that knife crime is preventable. We kno...Read Full Story - 05/05/23
Diving Deep Into Cells
Revision for Year 11 learners as the exam window begins to be opened. In the last handful of lessons available, along with additional time given from their subject teachers our learners are working hard. Today, Mr. Butler, along with Mr. Little and Miss Shan took on Yellow Group with their Science r...Read Full Story - 05/05/23
Music Therapy Informed Activities at the Sanctuary
At the Sanctuary, we have been learning to play Ocarinas. Learners choose a coloured ocarina of their choice and learn to control their breathing and use their fine motor skills to play. At the moment, we have been learning the 8 notes of the scale and practising rhythms through play.Read Full Story - 28/04/23
Kindness | The Sanctuary
This term at The Sanctuary, our learners have shown kindness to nature and spent some time on the school farm. They each chose a packet of vegetable seeds and carried out the process of planting and nurturing them.Read Full Story - 21/04/23
Therapeutic – Topical
This term’s therapeutic focuses at The Sanctuary will be on promoting emotional regulation and understanding behaviours. At the Sanctuary we value Wellbeing – both for our learners and our staff members. Each week we have Wellbeing Wednesday where staff are given the opportunity to bo...Read Full Story - 21/04/23
"Can we play chess?"
"Can we play chess?" asked a learner. Given any opportunity to bring in thinking skills, Mr. Butler of course said yes. This was to be challenging as in his younger years, Mr. Butler was on the chess team at school (not that long ago he hastened to add) so he may have been a little rust...Read Full Story - 19/04/23
Knives Down Football League
School Council has secured a £500 grant from the Northumbria Violence Reduction Unit who had £15,000 available to support young people and allow them to put forward ideas that would help to stop young people from carrying knives and make them feel safer.Read Full Story - 30/03/23
Parents Evening 29.03.2023
A huge thank you to all parents and carers who attended our parent's evening on the 29th of March. It was wonderful to see so many of you there to support the learning journey of our young people. As always, your support is massively appreciated, and I know we can safely say our young learners v...Read Full Story - 30/03/23
Learning, by questions
Consolidating learning with Mr. Butler as some Year 10 learners have been recalling their 4 operation methods and branching into fractions - some as a retrieval, others as a refresher.Read Full Story - 29/03/23
Music Drop Down Day- Making your own Djembe Drum
As part of the Upper Site’s musical drop down day, learners took part in a variety of lessons relating to different music such as African, Djembe drumming and DJ practice.Read Full Story