Weekly Buzz 4th May

The Weekly Buzz Portland Place School 4 May 2020

French language comic strips A Day In the Life Of Sam Osborn!

English travel brochures

Lots of art!

Noticeboard To get us started this week, here are some messages from your teachers!

Set work finished? Time for a break? Free time at the weekend?

Miss Coates recommends… The Shows Must Go On with Andrew Lloyd Webber

https://www.andrewlloydwebber.com/the-shows-must-go-on/ Watch the Andrew Lloyd Webber: Royal Albert Hall 50th Celebration this Friday at 7pm BST on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel!

Mr Jones recommends… Katherine Rundell’s ‘The Book of Hopes’ https://literacytrust.org.uk/news/katherine-rundell-launches-the-book-of-hopes-a-free-childrens-bookby-over-110-authors-and-illustrators/ Katherine Rundell launches ‘The Book of Hopes’: a free children’s book by over 110 authors and Illustrators.

Noticeboard Virtual PE lessons Yoga/gymnastics Thursdays 09:00am - Year 6 and 7 11:40am - Year 9 13:30pm - Year 10

Noticeboard Staying positive

Teachers and students have had to adapt to a new way of delivering and receiving information: distance learning. I am a firm believer in having a positive self-talk and I have asked my students to reflect on the statements below.

Jan Ceylan in Year 10 wrote the following: "I prefer the phrase 'This is tough, but so am I' because I truly believe that in life nothing is impossible. If something is hard, you must work harder to overcome it! Work and dedication will overcome the challenges in the long run- I am absolutely certain!"

Murong Li in Year 9 said: "I really like the phrase 'All I need to do is take one step at a time. Breathe.

You got this.' This helps me stay calm and focus on the positive things in my life. It also tells me that I should not worry too much or overload my brain with the negative information that circulates on social media during these difficult times."

Which statement can you relate to the most?

Take care and stay well,

Miss Florea

Noticeboard Literacy Corner

Noticeboard 7 Day Lockdown Filmmaking Challenge At 5pm on Friday 8th May, Mr Flack will be opening the 7 Day Lockdown Filmmaking Challenge to all students from Years 6-13.

Rules 

Students must send an email to Mr Flack in order to register for the challenge. The closing time for

registration will be Friday 8th May at 5pm. 

On the evening of Friday 8th May, students will receive a brief via their school emails. Within the brief

they will be given a prop and a line of dialogue. 

Students then have to create either a short film, a sequence or a film script within seven days, with all

finished projects having to be handed in by 5pm on Friday 15th May. 

A winner will then be announced in the Weekly Buzz on Friday 22nd May - with first prize being a £40

Amazon e-voucher.

The prize may only be won by a student, but if staff and parents wish to take part they may certainly do so!

Why not get involved? Join the challenge, have some fun and register with Mr Flack today (mike.flack@portland-place.co.uk) See poster on next page!

Noticeboard

Dear all, I am pleased to say that we are still offering our LAMDA classes online. Students are working one-to-one with our LAMDA teacher via Zoom. If you would like to get involved with LAMDA we do have some spaces remaining.

Please email Mr Chivers for more details.

David.chivers@portland-place.co.uk

News Year 6 & 7 It was fantastic to see everyone on Zoom for our first Y6&7 assembly! Thank you to Mr Bradbury, Mr Jones & Mrs Pieri for joining us.

All students have really handled this change with such maturity and resilience. They have adapted to working remotely and have been producing fantastic work. Everyone has adjusted to the new routine and is staying very positive.

Congratulations to all of our Y6&7 stars of the week - Pierce, Valery, Luke, Issy, Maxim, Sebastien.

A special mention goes to Aubrey & Sarp for demonstrating resilience and making a brilliant start to Year 7. Finally, I would like to say a huge well done to Emily, Jenny, Josh & Egor who are currently working from overseas. Despite the time difference, they have managed to submit their work and keep up to date with all lessons - hugely impressive!

Well done Y6&7 - keep up this great work. We are all looking forward to meeting again.

Miss Boyle

News PE This week in PE a number pupils have completed home boxing fitness workouts! Please see some action shots below from Rachel Winch, Maxim Mydlar, Sam Obsorn, Roberto Hinton, Ryder Nayak, Luke Ahrens and Isaac Meyer doing their best Muhammad Ali impressions whilst working up a bit of a sweat!

News KS2

News Modern Foreign Languages Y8 and Y9 French students were asked to make comic strips on their birthdays in quarantine. They used the present, past and future tenses and described how different it will be this year. The best ones were made by Gene. Irene, Ukona and Laura as you can see below. Well done!

Gene

News Irene

News Ukona

News Laura

News English Year 7 have been making travel brochures in Mr Burton’s English lessons.

Valery Vogel

News Sarp Karaca

News Isaac Meyer

News Sonny Shelton

Hillside beach club (Turkey) My brochure by sonny Shelton

 In hillside beach club there are many things for

Entertainment

everyone to have a go at including a kids club for the really young ones and a slightly older one for the teenagers. There is also a football pitch. Many people use the pitch at night to have a laugh with your friends.

For the family events there are competitions where you can compete to win cool prizes like free ice creams or free drinks. Later on in the day happy hour is announced which is usually everyone’s favourite time.

During this time you can get hot tea and muffins and look out over the sunset. And if you want more excitement there are pool parties and water polo.

 The hotel rooms are some of the best I have ever

Hotel rooms

visited, the beds are so comfy with big mattresses guaranteeing and sleep like a baby. The cleaners come every day to make your room untouched like you have just arrived and they leave a life size bird made of petals on your bed!!! On Sundays it is kebab night (me and my dad’s favourite night) and after you have finished your amazing kebabs you can head over the the mini market the people set up and get yourself a token of a carved turtle necklace or a whale bracket. Or any other amazing piece of cool looking things. Every night there is a show hosted in a arena right next to the restaurant.(every thing is close together) where I watched the semi final of the World Cup.

News Learning Support

News A Day in the Life of‌ Sam Osborn with a twist!

I have put my camera on a marked point so the photo of the lake is exactly the same in each picture. It is the same photo taken at the same place and at different times of the day and also what I am doing at that time in the day.

I took a picture at 8am at breakfast.

I took this picture at 9am, when school starts and at the lakeshore

And at the lake.

I took this picture at 11am and at the lake.

I took this picture at 1pm, and at the lake.

I took this picture at lunch and at the lake.

I took this picture at 5pm and at the lake.

I took this picture at 3pm and at the lake.

News Art This week Year 8 were creating art with Celtic patterns. The first one here is by Jessy and he says: “My four dragons represent fire, ice, Earth and lightning”

Jessy Francis-Baum

Gene Allan-Turner

Maxim Mydlar in Y7 created this piece, based on ‘Paris Through My Window’ by Chagall.

News This week Year 6 were asked to draw scents

Danny Maclean

Hazuki Kira

Year 8 did some shading work

Violet Brodie

Roberto Hinton

News Year 9 designed their own graffiti tag

Irene Peleteiro

Sophie Djurasovic

Reuben Wiseman-Oxinanlde

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Kieran McKintosh

Jake Cossey

Madoc Jones

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