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SHOUT 2012
Tuesday, January 31st 2012
Friday January 20th 2012 - ELECTIONS
Students in Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 nominated and voted for students to represent them on the Mary Rose School Council (SHOUT)
Thursday January 26th 2012 - TEAM BUILDING DAY
The newly elected student representatives met in the school library for team building activities to launch SHOUT the student council for Mary Rose School. The group discussed some of the important skills they needed to practise and played circle games to practise looking and...Read More
KS1 Topic Launch - Help
Thursday, January 26th 2012
The topic in Key Stage 1 this term is ‘Help!’ and pupils will be learning about the people who help them around school and also in their local community. This will include locating the main people who help them around school, such as Alice the nurse and Lee the caretaker, and watching them in action!
Pupils will also have lots of opportunities to role play helping people in a variety of contexts. We are also planning to visit our local fire station and take a trip to the...Read More
A Letter From Debbie Jordan
Tuesday, January 17th 2012
Dear Friends, Parents and Carers,
Happy New Year to you all.
Firstly, thank you to everyone who was able to support our first Mary Rose Christmas Fair. There were a variety of stalls selling seasonal items, many of which were made by the pupils.
Some pupils met Santa and had their photo taken with him, and we were also able to greet the motorcyclists when they arrived with their presents and money for the school.
The Fair also made a profit of £306 – 46.
Here are a few dates of...Read More
Ks3 Topic Launch - Fashion and Music
Wednesday, January 11th 2012
On Wednesday Key Stage 3 launched their new topic on fashion and music with a PLT day. Each class had a music session where they listened to music starting from the 1940s and moving up through the decades to the 1990s. They quite clearly expressed their preferences for the songs within each decade and joined in with the different rhythms.
The pupils explored a whole host of fashion items reflecting trends throughout the decades and it appeared that the uniforms from the war were the most popular,...Read More
O2 Gymnasts
Tuesday, January 10th 2012
On Tuesday Discovery class had the fantastic opportunity to go to the O2 Arena to see the international men’s artistic gymnastics Olympic qualifying event. The pupils were very excited and loved the whole experience. They were treated like royalty, being led to one of the executive boxes to view the spectacle. The pupils really rose to the occasion, supporting all the amazing gymnasts and soaking up the whole atmosphere of the event. They tried to keep count of how many turns and somersaults the...Read More
KS2 Topic Launch - On the Stage
Monday, January 9th 2012
In Key Stage 2 our topic is ‘On the Stage’ and we have decided to focus on the story The Wizard of Oz.
We launched our topic with a very special theatre themed day. All of Key Stage 2 met in our make believe theatre where the students travelled along the yellow brick road to their seat. Sharks class had to find the seat that matched their ticket number!
During the interval we returned to our classrooms to prepare our interval treats. We baked microwavable popcorn, mixed cocoa powder with...Read More
Primary Department perform at Portsmouth Cathedral
Tuesday, December 13th 2011
For Mary Rose Primary Department, seasonal celebrations started by performing at Portsmouth Music Service’s ‘Special Schools Christmas Celebration – Little Angel Gets Her Wings’.
Following 4 weeks of hard work rehearsing at school, pupils from Octopus, Dolphin and Penguin classes excitedly headed off to Portsmouth Cathedral – sparkling proudly in our school colours (with the help of gold and blue tinsel, of course!).
With scripts and a huge assortment of props...Read More
Children In Need - Nursery and Key Stage 1
Thursday, November 24th 2011
On Friday 18th November, pupils at Mary Rose participated in lots of fun activities to help raise money for Children In Need. As the theme for Children In Need this year was ‘Spots’, pupils and staff turned up to school in very spotty fancy dress costumes! Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 had organised some extremely spotty activities to participate in during the day. These included jumping on the spot trampete exercise, going on a spot hunt around school, playing ‘Pin...Read More
Walrus Class Visit Staunton Country Park
Thursday, November 24th 2011
As part of our ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ topic, Walrus class enjoyed a trip to Staunton Country Park. We had a lovely time meeting all the animals, feeling their different furs and fleeces, and helping to feed them. Our favourites were the geese and the sheep. We think that the sheep quite liked us too, as one of them tried to follow us home! In the adventure playground we were able to try different equipment and use our bodies in different ways. We shared the equipment really well by...Read More
ICE Skating
Monday, November 21st 2011
Starfish class went to visit Gosport Ice Rink and had a really wonderful time! The staff at the rink were very welcoming and helpful and took all the children around the ice in their buggies. They were all laughing and smiling! It was a wonderful sensation to move at such speed and to feel the cold air on their faces. This was a new venture and so successful that we will be going back again soon. The parents who came along with us were amazed at the level of enjoyment show by the children and it was...Read More
PE in the Community
Monday, November 21st 2011
A group of students in the 6th Form have been accessing community facilities as part of their PE in the Community module.
In September the students had two lessons at the Portsmouth Golf Centre. Not only did they have a great tutor there but the Golf Centre also kindly subsidised the lessons. The students thoroughly enjoyed the lessons and showed real improvement over the two lessons. They continued to practise their skills in the local park for the rest of the half term.
Since half term the group...Read More
Signs of Autumn
Friday, October 7th 2011
As part of their topic on seasons and the weather, Starfish Class have visited the local parks to look for signs of Autumn! We enjoyed visiting both Milton Park and Bransbury Park and had fun playing with the leaves and we took some back to school with us and used them to create our wall display! We have shared stories about hedgehogs and then we all helped to paint a big one. We stuck lots of spines on him and we hid him under the leaves, ready to go to sleep for the winter! Next week, we are...Read More
Discovery Class at UKSA
Friday, October 7th 2011
What a glorious week Discovery Class had at UKSA sailing on the Isle of Wight. We went on the last week of September and hit the Indian Summer. There were many activities pupils were able to participate in and they certainly all joined in fully. On our first day we went to the onsite pool and experienced wearing buoyancy aids for the first time, as well as building water confidence. After having a generous evening meal we played team building games, including rounders and monkey football.
On Tuesday the...Read More
Britannia Sponsored Walk Day
Monday, October 3rd 2011
Last Friday was a very special day in Britannia Class. It was the day of our sponsored walk in aid of raising money for children at the school to go on school holidays. We chose New Zealand as our country in the Rugby World Cup. Our parents and carers dressed us up as the New Zealand All-Blacks rugby team! Those of us who had protective helmets wore them as they looked like rugby helmets. Before we went on the walk we watched the rugby team doing the Hakka and then we watched a demonstration of the...Read More
Steve Cunningham's visit to Mary Rose School
Monday, October 3rd 2011
Steve is the Fastest Blind Man in the World!! He came to Mary Rose School to tell us about his AMAZING achievements. He showed us films of him completing some World Records.
Steve was the first blind man to:
drive really fast in a car
go really fast in a power boat
fly around Great Britain in and aeroplane.
He has also been the captain of Great Britain’s blind football team and has played cricket too. So, we thought we’d put him through his paces. Steve played football...Read More
KS2 Topic Lunch
Tuesday, September 20th 2011
This year Key Stage 2’s topic launch day was an introduction to our new topic ‘Our Environment’. The children in Sharks, Dolphins, Seahorses and Penguin class were introduced to an interactive, sensory story called Michael Recycle. Michael Recycle is a super hero who wanted to clean up Earth, he encouraged the characters to recycle and not be so wasteful. All of Key Stage 2 became followers of Michael Recycle and helped to turn off a number of electrical devices from bubble machines...Read More
Key Stage 4 PLTs Day Autumn Term
Monday, September 19th 2011
This term in Key Stage 4 we are focussing on ‘challenges’ and our Personal Learning Thinking Skill (PLTs) for this term is ‘Independent Enquirers’.
For our PLTs day this term we had a carousel of three different, challenging activities in which our students took part.
The three activities consisted of firstly a ‘mountaineering assault course’. This activity took part in the school hall and involved a variety of different challenges and problems solving elements for...Read More
Discovery First Day BAck
Monday, September 19th 2011
We have had a busy first day back at school in Discovery class. We told each other what we got up to in tge summer holiday. After break we enjoyed having breakfast in assembly. In the afternoon we did some messy artwork with papier-mache and then played some team games with Twickenham class outside. The result was a draw! We will have to try and beat them next time!Read More
Purbrook First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
The new term started with lots of smiles and cheerful greetings in Purbrook as Karl Barker welcomed six new friends into the tutor group. Daniel, Yasmin, Cade, Matthew and Rhys joined from Wimbledon and Wembley classes, whilst Ella has come to Mary Rose School from Redwood Park.
The students enjoyed a busy morning which started with a lively discussion about the things they had enjoyed in the summer holidays. Yasmin was very happy as she had celebrated her 17th birthday yesterday, and her mum had sent a...Read More
Widley First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
We have had a very busy day!
We all had plenty of news for each other and everyone seemed to have a great holiday. Charlie enjoyed seeing and meeting Lee Evans the comedian in Bournemouth and visiting “Jacks Place” Bradley loved Paultons Park and Hannah has celebrated a brilliant 18th birthday .
After a relaxing break we started designing the covers for our own home/school books and then enjoyed a school assembly with everyone.
Lunchtime was very busy with everyone in school and...Read More
Twickneham First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
Twickenham Class students have settled back into school life quickly and are really excited about joining Key Stage 4 and the new challenges ahead of them this year!
In Twickenham Class this year
Darren would like to improve his swimming
Marcel is looking forward to trips and Friday Assemblies
Jordan and Richard are looking forward to going on the minibuses
Nathan, William and Zoe would like to do Rock Challenge
Carl and Cassandra are happy to be back at school because they...Read More
Dolphins Forst Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
Pupils in Dolphin Class have really enjoyed their first day back at school today. For Safraz, Brandon, Jacob, Aidan, Aymene and Isaac it’s been fun to be back with old friends again. For Billy it has been a chance to make new friends and get to know a new classroom and new staff. A special “ Dolphin welcome” to Billy and Samir from the staff team.
We began the day by singing our good morning song to everyone and introducing ourselves to each other. We had some choosing time and...Read More
Penguins First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
Schools back and Penguin class are really glad!
After a little bit of apprehension about starting the new school year in a new class the Penguins were full of smiles and laughter. They had a really good first morning back catching up with their old friends and making new ones. In the afternoon they kick started their autumn term’s topic about ‘Our Environment’. The classroom was turned into a beach, but our Mary Rose beach was really messy so they had to clear all the...Read More
Seahorse First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
Seahorse class have had a fantastic and colourful first day back. We have sung songs, listened to new routine music and even had time to create our very own seahorse pictures which we will be using to begin each day. Louis, Ollie, Byron and Lois couldn’t wait to get messy with paint and glue.
All of Seahorse class love our new soft areas. Everyone got chance to explore. Aurora and Callum loved investigating the light tunnel.
Grace enjoyed saying hello to both old and new friends
All of...Read More
Nelson First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
Nelson were all pleased to see their classmates and we spent some time first thing this morning catching up with what everybody had been doing during the holiday. Then we looked forward to the coming term. This year during our tutor time we are going to be learning about the culture and traditions of some of the countries that will be coming to Britain for the Olympics next year. As we are all quite keen on food our first focus is going to be on the foods traditionally eaten in those countries. The...Read More
Walrus First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
Walrus class had a great first day back at school. It is a new class for all of us, so we had fun getting to know each other and exploring our classroom. We settled very quickly and enjoyed playing together. We really liked playing parachute games, using the interactive whiteboard and being outside in the adventure playground. We’re looking forward to lots of fun activities this term based on our theme of Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes.Read More
First Day at School
Monday, September 19th 2011
Everyone in Octopus class has had a busy and very fun-filled first day at school today. Tasnim, Jacob, Darcy, Finlay and Harriet couldn’t wait to say ‘Hello’ to each other again after the summer holiday and they were very excited to meet their new classmates Harvey and Theo! They are looking forward to meeting Carys, another new classmate, tomorrow.
We began the day by singing ‘Good Morning’ to everyone and learning some new names. Pupils saw their...Read More
First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
Starfish class really enjoyed the first day back at school and they seemed very happy to be back! We shared a Tac Pac session this morning, sang lots of songs and rhymes and this afternoon we went swimming! we packed a lot into our first day.
Poppy and Theo’s mums joined us in the pool and we all had a wonderful time! We look forward to Ollie and Alyssa coming back to school tomorrow and finding out all their news!Read More
Britannia Class First Day Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
We were all SO happy to be back at school today – some of us couldn’t stop smiling!
We had fun tearing, ripping and crumpling up paper to make leaves and flowers for our rainforest display.
Breakfast in assembly!! What a wonderful smell we all enjoyed when we came into the hall – bacon, eggs, toast! It was a great way to start the new school year.
In the afternoon we enjoyed spending time getting to know each other during some free time out of our chairs...Read More
Endurance First Week Back
Monday, September 19th 2011
Endurance class have been BUSY today. There were lots of new people in our class so we spent some time getting to know each other. We found out the sorts of things that we liked, played some team games outside and thoroughly enjoyed having a second breakfast in Assembly.
Then we started learning about unusual animals from around the world, this afternoon we used stencils of the animals we had learnt about to create prints on fabric. We will admit to being quite tired at the end of the day (see picture...Read More
6th form accreditation report
Monday, September 19th 2011
The curriculum in the 6th form at Mary Rose is developed each year around the needs of the students. Individual timetables are written to support each student’s personal needs supporting them to develop skills for their future.
All work by 6th form students at Mary Rose is accredited and for the first time in the last academic year some students have been presented with their ASDAN Personal Progress Award Qualification.
The range of accreditations that the students achieve ranges from ASDAN...Read More
National Schools Sport Week – Inspiring Dreams: Our Legacy
Monday, July 11th 2011
Monday 27th June – Friday 1st July 2011
‘Inspiring Dreams: Our Legacy’is Mary Rose School’s project in the build up to the 2012 London Games. As part of our build up and with the aim of developing and leaving a legacy for our young people within the City we decided to team up with our local School Sports Partnership to hold a disability sports taster awareness week at the Mountbatten Sports Centre for mainstream and special needs schools.
Monday
Day one of the big...Read More
Out into the local community
Friday, June 24th 2011
On Fridays, Britannia Class have enjoyed going out into the local community. We have been taking photographs of each other taking part in activities, such as: crossing the road and posting a letter.
We have been using these photographs in our English work to sequence them in the correct order.
We all really look forward to our turn in the community.
Mary Rose vs Cedar School
Thursday, June 23rd 2011
On Thursday 23ndJune The Cedar School from Southampton came together with the Mary Rose school to practice football skills in mixed teams, we started of by playing out in the muga, we all introduced ourselves and each group spent five minutes on the each station, testing different football skills such as shooting, dribbling and passing.
After the first half of the morning of beautiful sunshine, it started raining a little so we finished of our games inside. It was soon lunch time and time to...Read More
Rock Challenge 2011
Thursday, May 19th 2011Lin Turner
Students from Key Stages 4+5 and staff from across the school took part in Rock Challenge 2011 at Portsmouth Guildhall on Thursday April 28th.
However the planning for this event starts in the Autumn term when the theme and ideas for the performance are discussed.
In January the Corali Dance Company delivered a workshop day when we explored movements around the theme of “Changes” We decided to show the changes through the seasons of the year which gave us all a clear focus to show the...Read More
Creative Partnerships Project Days
Thursday, April 28th 2011Jo Wright
This term we have been working with creative practitioners Neil, Catherine and Teresa on our project days. Key Stage 2 have been doing work on the topic of Ancient Egypt. Key Stage 1 have been exploring Traditional Tales such as Jack and the Beanstalk.
Skills we have learnt
On project days we have worked in class and in the art room. For all of us the art room was a new environment. Some of us weren’t too sure about it at first, but we have so much fun in there working with clay, that now we...Read More
Traditional Tales Themed Lunch in Primary
Friday, April 1st 2011
The end our Topic of ‘Traditional Tales’ this term, Key Stage 1 invited Key Stage 2 to a Magical Fairytale lunch on Friday 1st April. In the week building up to the themed lunch, classes in Key Stage 2 were sent an email with a link to listen to songs from various traditional tales, including Jack and The Beanstalk and The Gingerbread Man. Key Stage 1 decorated the dinner hall with an enormous beanstalk, from which all their artwork could be seen hanging. Pupils were offered a...Read More
Sharks enjoy Multi-skills
Tuesday, March 29th 2011
Shark class have been very busy over the past couple of weeks and have been training very hard!
Today Shark class took part in a mutli-skills festival with children from Cliffdale School. The activities involved using a range of physical skills as well as using other skills such as patience and listening. Over the past two weeks students from the Physical Education department at Portsmouth University have been helping shark class to prepare. They ran two training sessions for the class and helped...Read More
Junior Football Organiser Course
Tuesday, March 15th 2011
Bradley Ryder, Eliza Rusby, Hannah Thompson, Robyn Fletcher, Callum Rowlands, William Palmer, Nathan Harper, Zoe Barton, Georgia Rogers, Daniel Blower,
As part of our young peoples leadership development at Mary Rose Hampshire FA came in to deliver the Junior Football Organisers (JFO) Course to a group of 12 pupils and students.
The day began with some theoretical aspects about safety considerations and what our young people believed should be involved within a football session.
We played lots of...Read More
Enable Ability – Bowl-a-thon!!
Tuesday, March 1st 2011
Enable Ability is an established independent charity for the care, welfare and advancement of disabled people living in Portsmouth and the surrounding area. (www.enableability.org.uk)
This year Enable Ability held a fundraising Bowl-a-thon at AMF Bowling, Bedhampton. The group invited different agencies to join them in bowling from 11:00am – 11:00pm in order to raise money for their projects.
Always keen for a challenge Mary Rose...Read More
Wembley Class News Letters
Saturday, February 19th 2011
Wembley class have been on work experience. Each student written a about their experience and what they got up to. Please take a look at the gallery to see their work.Read More
The French Riviera
Friday, February 18th 2011
Britannia Class enjoyed the special MFL days this week. They took part in lots of leisure activities including Tour De France and The French Riviera, the whole of key stage three also made some yummy food for the French Café.
The pupils in Britannia Class really enjoyed the French Riviera session where they had the chance to make boats and experience the beach.Read More
KS3 MFL Days
Friday, February 18th 2011
KS 3 have just completed their two MFL days for the term. The experience was linked to the term’s topic on leisure. On Wednesday the pupils were put in mixed groups from all the classes and completed a carrousel of activities. They made their own game of Bilboquet and played a game in the group accompanied by musical challenges and French counting.
They looked at and made their own Riviera boats, learning colours in French. The Tour de France was a popular activity, following a cycle route in the...Read More
Endurance - Leisure in France
Friday, February 18th 2011
Bonjour!
This week for MFL we learnt about Leisure in France. We had lots of different things to look at and try. We visited the French Riveriera in a blow up dingy! Played French games such as Escargot and Boules. We did a tour de France on bikes and had lots of races following different courses. In the afternoon we had a French café, and sampled some traditional French food. To help decorate the café we made lots of different table decorations, made our own string of onions to wear...Read More
Victory Class - Learning Judo
Friday, February 18th 2011
This half term Victory class have enjoyed learning Judo. We had a special teacher called John come in on Monday afternoons. We learnt lots of different skills and had a fantastic time.
Discovery Class - French Days!
Friday, February 18th 2011
In Discovery class we thought we would tell you about some of our favourite activities. We enjoyed finding out about the heart and explorered a real one! We worked really hard making art work based on the French artist Gris. We made ice sculpture discs to hang on a tree outside and theought our French days were tres blen!Read More
Primary Department Egyptian Themed Lunch
Friday, February 18th 2011
This term Key stage two have been studying Ancient Egypt. On Friday 18th February the children from Shark, Penguin and Dolphin class hosted an Egyptian themed lunch.
Each of these classes worked together to make invitations and sent them to friends in Key stage one. The children then continued to work hard and made a range of table decorations which would show the children in the other key stage what they have been learning about.
On the day the dinner hall was decorated, the tables were set and Egyptian...Read More
Wheelchair football tournament
Thursday, February 17th 2011
This half term the classes of Mary Rose School took part in its first intra class wheelchair football tournament. Penguin, Britannia and Wimbledon classes were involved.
The preparation for this event started after Christmas with all three class learning about Wheelchair football in their PE lessons. As the tournament date approached each class were asked to design and make their own football shirt. The creative challenge was on!!! Each class took time to think about how to make their football shirt...Read More
Lunch time football club
Thursday, February 17th 2011
This half term Portsmouth FC’s Respectability programme have been supporting us in the delivery of a football club held every Thursday lunch time. During these sessions the enthusiastic coaches come and deliver a great session which is motivating and inspiring to our young people. Each week a trophy is awarded to a player that has work to their full potential during that session. That player gets to keep the trophy displayed in their classroom to remind them of the hard work they have had to...Read More
Special Olympics
Monday, February 7th 2011
On Saturday 5th February our squad of athletes took part in the Indoor Athletics National Final held at the Mountbatten Leisure Centre, Portsmouth. Athletics squads from all over the country took part in the event as far away as Bath. All in all there were 200 competitors. Each squad took part in a range of indoor athletic events which included adapted traditional events such indoor shot putt, standing long jump and sprints.
The Mary Rose Squad stood out from their other competitors, dressed in their...Read More