Digital Learning

Digital Learning has always tried to balance the three components of office skills, media manipulation, and coding with computational thinking.

I continue to be amazingly impressed with the sheer creativity, imagination and hard work that Sandroyd pupils put in during (and often outside of) lesson time, with some phenomenal pieces being created. The Year 6 coat of arms project, for example, always produced some superb finished designs, and the Year 8s always impress with some seriously geeky functions in Google Sheets, but all year groups impress. New projects this year included virtual trips from travel spots around the world created by Year 8 using the Google Earth projects facility, and videos made of stop frame animations and in the Puppet Pal app in Year 3.

Toby Carson Head of Digital Learning

English

We were delighted to welcome Mrs Williams into the department at the start of the year, allowing us to teach the three classes in each year group concurrently. Once again, the children have achieved outstanding results in English, with all three scholarship candidates gaining ‘A’ grades; at Common Entrance, over 80% of the Year 8s were awarded either an A or a B. Most importantly though, the children are enjoying their English lessons; we continue to introduce them to a broad range of fiction and non-fiction texts as well as poetry and plays – highlights have included The Arrival, Holes, Journey’s End, Frankenstein, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Private Peaceful, The Odyssey, Refugee Boy, Danny the Champion of the World, Of Mice and Men, Journey to the River Sea, Romeo and Juliet and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.

Henry Knight Head of English