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A few weeks ago I had the privilege joining a Year 7 Character Development Group for their Friday reading session in A Block and saw a perfect partnership between the teacher Ms...
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A few weeks ago I had the privilege joining a Year 7 Character Development Group for their Friday reading session in A Block and saw a perfect partnership between the teacher Ms...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Every Friday, the CDC Activity is CDC led reading of a set text for students in Years 7-10 and silent personal study for students in Years 11-13. It is a lovey way to start the...
Posted by Graeme Searle
It was a privilege to walk around the school on Tuesday morning this week and join a number of superb Character Development (CDC) Groups for their 20 minute session at the start...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was a privilege to join our superb Year 7 cohort in their final assembly of the year and see them looking so smart and listening so attentively to their Pastoral Managers Miss...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
As it is flair week, CDC’s have been given the opportunity to allow members of their CDC Group to “take charge” and present the theme of the week...
Posted by Michael Besisira
Karris and Jonathan devised an activity in CDC time on Wednesday to motivate their peers to complete a challenging task. The students were given the task of stacking 7...
Posted by David Chalkley
It was a privilege to join 8 Elm’s Character Development Time earlier this week and listen to our outstanding Head of Faculty for PE Mr Cartledge’s virtual assembly...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Mrs Raymond, a Governor at the school, and I were delighted to have the opportunity to join 8Ash for their CDC time on Monday 1st March. The session began with wishing Seth...
Posted by Stephanie Knowles
I popped into Miss Collins’ classroom during Character Development Coach time a few weeks ago to see how things were going and ended up staying for the duration, as a result...
Posted by Graeme Searle
It was a privilege to visit all Year 7 Character Development Groups for their CDC time at the start of the week last week and see all students so engaged with the activities...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
A few weeks ago I had the privilege joining a Year 7 Character Development Group for their Friday reading session in A Block and saw a perfect partnership between the teacher Ms Brown and the Learning Assistant Mrs Malik.
Mrs Malik was the one modelling the great reading, all students were following carefully with their BMS bookmarks and Ms Brown was supporting the CDC group to make for a really positive start to the day. It was great to see!
On February 7th – 13th the anti-bullying ambassadors ran a workshop to raise awareness of the Children’s Mental Health Week The theme this year was ‘Growing Together’;...
Every Friday our school falls silent for 20 minutes and in every CDC Time students are read to by their Character Development Coaches as they carefully follow the texts with...