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The Duke of Edinburgh has now been running for over 10 years at The
Marches School and Technology College, with ever increasing interest
from students. The Bronze award is completed in year 10, with many
opting to complete their Silver Award in year 11.
Students volunteer in
the local community, learn or develop a physical skill, and are taught
the skills needed to appreciate the outdoors. Working together the
students are supported on group walks throughout the year. Finally
completing a long expedition in the summer on the Long Mynd.
The Marches School and Technology College is taking 40
students in February half term to visit Berlin and Auschwitz
Concentration Camp at Krakow in Poland.
This is the first time that the Humanities Department has organised
this educational trip to support and to help understand such an
important part of world history and their GCSE History course.
Students will have the opportunity of visiting Check Point Charlie in
Berlin and seeing the Berlin wall, as well as a coach tour of the
city. They will then travel to Krakow to visit Auschwitz and Birkenau
Concentration Camps; a local guide will show the party around the camps
and the museum of Martyrdom. The students will also have the chance to
visit the Krakow Ghetto, the Jewish quarter and the medieval market
square.
The students are being prepared for this very informative and, at
times, distressing experience by having sessions with Dr Leoni, the
school’s Social and Emotional Literacy Coordinator.
As part of Operation Boost Year 11 students took their Mock GCSEs
before Christmas and today Thursday, 14th January is Mock Results
day. Operation Boost is the name given to a whole variety of
activities at the Marches School aimed at improving the grades of all
GCSE students. Activities range from Lunchtime and After School
Revision Clubs, Exam breakfasts and the constant targeting and
monitoring of the students.
Year 8 Challenge
At The Marches School and Technology College the whole of Year 8 are
involved in a Challenge where the Boys are competing against the
Girls. So far the girls are winning but only just . . The aim of the
challenge is to keep our Year 8 students focussed and on target.
The students collect points for attendance, good deeds, involvement in
extra curricular activities, behaviour and every half term each student
is marked on their attitude to learning. Students can also lose points
by being late, receiving detentions etc.
The prizes that have been so kindly donated for example two state of
the art laptops from Hollis Office Supplies and Stoneleigh Computers
and Encyclopedias from Oxford Press have made the Challenge very
appealing to the students!
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 January 2010 )
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