Hi all,
I hope you have all enjoyed your weekend. With the holidays fast approaching, just a quick note. If you are planning on pulling your child out of school early to visit family, please can you let me know in advance. I have planned all the lessons for the next two weeks and there are still some important assessment tasks that the students will be undertaking. Due to the amount that we have to cover, we will be working as normal until Wednesday 9th December when the students will submit their final essays. Thank you for this.
This week is a short, but busy one. Students will write their cornerstone writing pieces (expository essays) on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. This piece of writing is totally independent and helps to give us a snapshot as to where the students are and what their targets need to be for the rest of the year.
The remainder of this week and will be spent working on their small elements of fiction tasks and editing and revising the cornerstone essay to submit it as the final part of their Novel Study on Wednesday 9th December.
It is a busy time of year, and I have already planned in some less stressful, more fun activities throughout the next two weeks to give the students some much needed downtime.
Thanks and have a great week!