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We are urworth Welcome to the thirteenth edition of our newsletter. As usual

there’s a mix of school information, news and activities in this

edition – if you have suggestions of things you’d like to see

included just let us know.

You can also follow @HurworthSchool if you are old enough to

have an account but please make sure you follow all the safety

rules you’ve learnt in school if you are on social media or

gaming platforms. Remember that if you are on social media you shouldn’t be making friend requests

to any member of staff at school.

Now that you’ve all been learning at home for a while the routine of this should be familiar to you all now so just a few reminders this week following the latest round of work which was set on Monday.

Remember if you need paper copies of your work then please just call school and let us know – you can do this at any time if your circumstances change (e.g. your laptop breaks of your parents/carers need it for their work now). If you send work back to us once you’ve done it then it will be passed on to your teachers so you can get some feedback

If you are working on Teams and get stuck with anything then the link below is to the user guide on the school website you were all sent when we first closed:- https://hurworth.swiftacademies.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/Microsoft-Teams-Guide-2020-V1.pdf Remember that when you press ‘Hand in’ you need to actually have completed your work – some people pressed hand in as soon as the work was set on Monday so you wouldn’t have had time to do it!

Your teachers are posting messages to you on Teams when the work is set and are also contacting you via email – if you need anything e.g. the work is too easy and you need an extension task or it’s too hard and you need some support then just email your teacher directly and they will get back to you as quickly as possible. If you’re not sure of their email address just start typing their name in and it will automatically come up

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Remember this is optional not a ‘set’ piece of work but it will be really helpful for you when we do come back; this

fortnight’s challenge was Revision Clocks and there will be a new one next week

While the school is closed this is a great opportunity for all those of you in Year 10 to develop your independent learning skills to support you in preparing for your exams next year. Mrs Reilly will be setting you tasks to complete based around a different revision strategy each fortnight to help you build up your range of strategies. You will be sent a PowerPoint explaining the strategy along with some tasks from different subjects. The more photos you send in or work you hand in when we return to school the more prizes you can win! More details of this will be given in the fortnightly email which will only go to Year 10 students on Monday.

All of your teachers are really proud of the amazing work you’ve been doing

during lockdown – many of you have put a great deal of effort into the tasks

set and have gone above and beyond what was asked, well done. Over the

next week you’ll be starting to receive some Praise Postcards in recognition

of this so watch out for them dropping into your inboxes!

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Take a look at this amazing interactive Royal Society of

Chemistry Periodic table. Click on any element and

discover its history, as well as its uses and properties.

Make sure you don’t miss the best bit in the video

section where chemists show amazing reactions and

pass on many surprising facts. You can even download

this to your phone.

https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table

There were no crowds, not even the Queen watching the horse racing at Royal Ascot this week. Usually Ascot is full of racegoers sporting extravagant, exotic hats. This year top milliners have made more than 40 rainbow-themed hats to be auctioned to raise money for NHS and carers charities. Take a look at the extravagant creations and chose your favourite on: https://www.ascot.co.uk/millinery-auction

A quirk of perfect timing produced some

amazing weather this week. The sun was at

the perfect angle to view lightning produced

by electrical charges in the atmosphere and a

rainbow from the sunny spells in-between

localised showers. See more pictures and a

double rainbow at:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/53

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If you are in Year 10 then you should have already

received your mentoring appointment information –

it has been lovely to see those of you who were in on

Wednesday to Friday this week and everyone else

will have your appointment next week either in

person or via Teams. If for any reason you can’t make

your appointment remember to let school know!

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Last week we told you about the Mass Dance project. Remember that the dance has been broken up into small segments which will be posted out on social media every Monday building up to the complete routine for the last week of term so if you’ve already learnt last week’s steps then you need to check out this week’s too! The segments of dance will be posted on the Darlington School Sport Partnership Facebook page and twitter @DarlingtonSSP .

Still on the theme of using clothes this one

needs an odd sock! Don’t throw that odd

sock in the bin. Get creative and turn it into a

crazy glove puppet like the one in the video:

https://www.loveyourclothes.org.uk/guides/

sock-puppets-and-kids-activity-packs

Want to create your own style for free. Take a look in your wardrobe and rather than throwing away your unwanted clothes get creative and upcycle. A new look can be achieved by getting crafty and altering, combining garments or adding some embellishment. Update a t shirt or make some new shorts from a pair of jeans. You don’t need a sewing machine just a needle and thread and an idea. You can find help at these websites: https://www.loveyourclothes.org.uk/videos/upcyc

ling-tips-makeitnew-challenge

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c77jz3mdme

zt/recycling

Please check with your parents/carer before you

get creative!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/530494

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Remember that this calendar runs right through the month so check it every day to see what the activity is – for today’s it doesn’t matter when the memories are from so why not try doing your top 5 from both before and during lockdown!

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Find the missing words below by following the RHYME, LETTERS and

MEANING links e.g. a word that rhymes with cheek, has one letter

different from pear and has the same meaning as mountain would be

peak. The number tells you how many letters are in the word. Answer in

next week’s edition

The answers from Edition 12 are at the end of the newsletter

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Miss Syson wanted you to

have a numeracy

challenge to help keep you

entertained! Submit your

answers, along with your

tutor group,

to nsn@hurworth.swiftaca

demies.org.uk Points will

be added to your tutor

group totals. Answer next

time and more to follow!

Find your way out of

the grid entering at the

entrance arrow. You

must follow only one

path which does not

cut corners jump walls

or repeat itself.

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Premier league football resumed this week and

the Championship is coming soon.

Can you name 16 different last names for teams

in the Premier League and Championship –

here’s one to start you off… City

Only 15 more to go!

Try making the longest

sentence you can with

each word starting with

the next letter of the

alphabet e.g. A boy

called Dave eats flies

What’s the longest

sentence you can

make?

This is one you can either do by yourself or play with

someone else – you can do this for lots of different topics

too e.g. films, TV programmes, food etc.

All you need to do is start off a chain and then make sure

that the last letter of the first one becomes the first letter of

the next one e.g. for music acts it could be:

Adele

Ed Sheeran

Nickelback

Kaiser Chiefs

S Club Seven

Etc…

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That’s it for this edition. Take care,

stay safe everyone and stand by for

Edition 14 next Friday!

Edition 12 answers

Zygolex – pout; latter; score; fast; pour; last; gush; gust; lust; rush; sin; rash; kin; hurry; sit

Word pyramid – ode; redo; drone; ironed; eroding; ordering; bordering

Who wants to be a millionaire? - £100 A; £200 C; £300 B; £500 B; £1 000 D; £2 000 A; £4 000 C; £8

000 A; £16 000 C; £32 000 D; £64 000 B; £125 000 A; £250 000 C; £500 000 A; £1 000 000 C

Maths challenge – See diagram