Issue 01 | 19th April 2024

A Message from Ms Williams

Welcome to our first issue of our new weekly newsletter!

Kind Regards

Ms C Williams

What a visit! What an experience! What a lifelong memory!

32 students from Year 9 & 10 visited the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar to help volunteer at a local oversubscribed primary school; the school is so big it has a morning and afternoon cohort as they can’t fit all the children in! After a range of fundraising events both in school and personal challenges e.g. sponsored walks & bike rides, talent shows, prize draws etc. the students raised over £2000 each for the volunteer experience to Zanzibar. The determination shown by these students was incredible and a clear example of how hard work pays off.

The students were such great ambassadors of Applemore and potentially many a teacher in the making! The students taught a range of subjects to the children in Zanzibar including Maths, English, PE, Geography and Science and the teachers there were ever so grateful. Using nothing but a chalkboard, body language and their own enthusiasm for learning, they imparted new learning to the students in Zanzibar and see them come up, write on the board, repeat the words, answer correctly with a beaming smile was amazing. It wasn’t just teaching but also learning for Applemore students, they learnt some Swahili from the children who were keen to share.

While teaching other students were busy doing with the construction project of creating a new pathway and garden. The staff were so impressed with the students and how much they accomplished so quickly…we even extended our path to the next section as they were working so efficiently. Concrete breaking, levelling, digging, cement, sand and water mixing and planting to create the new Applemore garden. 

Great memories were made with the extra experiences away from the school. Student went monkey watching in the jungle and mangrove forests, snorkelling in the Indian Ocean, visiting the home of local school children, tour of Stone Town and a visit to the night market for ice cream and crepes!

Each week, Heads of Year will be choosing two students from their year groups who have been STARS across the week. Congratulations to our first STARS of the week:

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Year 10 GCSE students had the opportunity to see a unique performance of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ at The Globe on Monday, 18th March 2024. We had a brilliant time and even got to meet some of the cast afterwards!

Exam stress – sometimes referred to as test anxiety – is of course a long-running issue for children and young people. Many experts have suggested that the enforced break to traditional testing during the pandemic (specifically the relative lack of familiarity with exam situations) has exacerbated this problem for those who are currently in education. The possible impact of exam stress on children’s mental, emotional and physical wellbeing is difficult to overstate – and students’ need for support is seldom greater than during these periods of their academic life. This guide offers you ten practical tips for helping young people to manage exam stress and minimise its potentially detrimental effects.

#WakeUpWednesday

Great to see so many wonderful creations by our year 10 Design & technology students last term. Here are some photos of their music awards

#AAA

It was lovely to hear from Ben over the Easter Holidays, who has done some wonderfully inspiring things since graduating from Applemore in 2013 - proud of you Ben!

#MadeAtApplemore

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