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- 30/04/21
Celebrating New Life and Positive Experiences
March welcomed the birth of Trinity Farm’s newest alpaca, named Marathon. The learners have enjoyed celebrating this and were sensitive to the baby alpaca being born prematurely. The learners were extremely caring and considerate towards the needs of both the new farm addition and his parents...Read Full Story - 26/04/21
Wellbeing Bags from NEYouth
NEYouth kindly donated 20 bags filled with goodies to support health and wellbeing. They had everything from mobile phone chargers to shampoo and conditioner. Even cakes to bake and hot chocolate to drink. Everything you could imagine to promote positivity! One student said ‘I think the bags a...Read Full Story - 26/04/21
April 23rd | Outreach
On outreach, on Friday, 23rd April we celebrated St. George’s Day. This involved taking the learners out when at Falconry and creating a fire and cooking food over it as it was extremely hot weather. The learners involved were very engaging when creating the fire and cooking the bacon sandwich...Read Full Story - 23/04/21
Learner Spotlight
Recently, during a BTEC sports lesson, the learners had been planning and executing a training plan to hit their own specific targets and goals. This resulted in the boys engaging in some great, inventive workouts; which lead to them achieving the targets they had set themselves, facilitated by both...Read Full Story - 21/04/21
Virtual School Council
Last term our learners faced a lot of changes. Another lockdown was not something anyone wanted. At Trinity Upper Site the learners persevered through the challenges, some of them attending lessons remotely via teams and some of them continuing to attend the school site.Read Full Story - 19/04/21
Building Polydron
During the second lock down, Jordan and Morgan built one of the diagrams on the Polydron Engineer Set. The object they built contained a working mechanism. Turning cogs in order to create a chain reaction in order to spin the tower. Morgan chose the diagram, taking the lead during the building proce...Read Full Story - 16/04/21
22 Novels for Young Adults to Help Process the Pandemic (or Forget It for a Bit)
A former school librarian shares recent young adult novels to boost kids’ resilience or give them some laughs. A few dystopian picks may provide a new perspective on the current situation.Read Full Story - 12/04/21
Yellow Group do Social Development
In Yellow group, we have been working on social development. Working as a team and encouraging each other while taking part in P.E has been the biggest achievement. The group have developed their communication and teamwork skills to enable them to have a successful game of Basketball. Being kind and...Read Full Story - 09/04/21
Science in the Literacy Classroom? Impossible!
Nothing is impossible for our learners here at Trinity Academy Newcastle Upper Site; and our recent drop-down day, dedicated to Science, was no exception.Read Full Story - 05/04/21
#ReclaimTheStreets #OurStreetsNow
This week in PSHE we have been exploring the impact of the Sarah Everard murder and bringing to the forefront, public sexual harassment. Learners were surprised to learn that this is currently not against the law in the UK and all learners believed it should be. Some learners were appalled at the ex...Read Full Story - 02/04/21
Riverside Falconry
At the riverside falconry, our learner has been showing great resilience whilst embodying our schools' parenting ethos by clearing out an allotment. Whilst it may at first, seem strange that a ‘bit of gardening’ requires resilience, I would like to direct you to the scene that met ou...Read Full Story