Today I received an email to say that I have officially passed my NQT year 🎉. Teaching really is the best job in the world, no matter how difficult it may seem at times 🌈.
#RQT
#PROUD
Dance enrichment is growing at
@OutwoodShafton
💃 these students have started a new contemporary dance piece this evening and have shown real passion and determination 👯♂️ so proud of you all 🌟
#proud
#outofthecomfortzone
A great start to this half term getting to know my lovely year 7 form group
@OutwoodShafton
💜 great to hear some positive teacher feedback today too!
#proud
So proud of my mum! She has been on furlough since March last year 💔 she now volunteers for a single parent charity, making up food parcels and delivering them around Barnsley and has been offered a full time job working for them as a volunteer coordinator 🎉
#prouddaughter
One PROUD from tutor this morning 🤩
⭐️ Year 7 superstar form of the week!
⭐️ Learning star of the week awarded to Lexie 👏
⭐️ PROUD Principal award for George 👏
Team work makes the dream work 🎉👏 So PROUD of every single one of you ⭐️⭐️⭐️
@OutwoodShafton
Well done to our first two year 7’s on completing session one of our exciting new ‘Literacy Legends’ programme at
@OutwoodShafton
🎉 you boys smashed it! Looking forward to next week already ✏️📚👏
#PROUD
Since Monday I’ve taught live via Google meet, made loom video lessons, adapted work on Google classroom & turned my living room into a dance studio to teach via zoom 😅 Absolutely love interacting (virtually) with students everyday!
#proud
#blendedlearning
@OutwoodShafton
💜
This had made my week 💜 our internal AP students taking part in our McMillan Coffee morning and taking time to serve our community after school whilst gathering evidence for their
@PrincesTrust
teamwork qualification
#weallbelong
#proud
@OutwoodShafton
6 of our amazing
#studentvoice
met with the local area council today! The words
#engaging
and
#incredible
were used! Our students have been invited to a local area council meeting! Wow!
My first year 8 masterclass complete for our students across
@OGATrust
central region ✏️📚 thank you to all that joined this evening 💜
#teachingandlearning
A fantastic first week back at
@OutwoodShafton
finished with a year 7 ACE praise assembly. I feel very lucky to be working with such a polite, lovely cohort. It’s going to be a great year 💜
#itswhoiam
Great to see some creativity from my year 9’s this morning! Recreating various scenes from Blood Brothers using different resources and materials 👏 well done everyone ⭐️
@OutwoodShafton
Massive well done to 10Y4 for an amazing literature lesson 📚 your focus and perseverance was incredible! Looking forward to seeing you all again today for another brilliant lesson ⭐️
#PROUD
@OutwoodShafton
Great
#standoutsummer
lesson today with year 9. Brilliant team work shown from every single group. I’m looking forward to hearing your team survival speeches tomorrow 🆘🛶🌊 I wonder which team will be the most successful after our class vote? 🤩
@OutwoodShafton
So proud of my year 10 students. Marking books and I can already see some brilliant progress! Poetry quiz tomorrow.. I wonder which team will win the biscuit of the week? 📚✏️🍪
#proud
#ThursdayMotivation
@OutwoodShafton
A fantastic first session this evening
@OutwoodIE
#WomenIntoLeadship
brilliant to network with leaders from across the trust and talk about all things leadership, growth and development. Thank you for a captivating and motivating session
@juliefslater
#WIL
💜
Just wanted to say a massive thank you to my year 10 students for a brilliant literature lesson today. You’ve made a brilliant start on An Inspector Calls and have all worked incredibly hard!
@OutwoodShafton
#PROUD
Set my lovely year 7 form the challenge of learning a new skill this half term as part of the Academy Accolades. I’ve always been rubbish at making pancakes and this morning, I think I mastered it😍 looking forward to seeing your new skills year 7! 💜
One last high of this week ☺️ Noa in my 7X1 class always goes above and beyond, making extra notes in her personal notebook so that she’s ahead of learning for our next lesson
#proud
#itswhoiam
@OutwoodShafton
💜
We are so pleased to invite parents/carers of Y7 and Y8 students to our
#Honours
Launch on Thursday 26 October, 5 - 6pm.
We have lots of information to share & have a guest speaker 😀
Any questions? Please contact Miss Kaye l.kaye
@shafton
.outwood.com
#TransformativeCulture
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees for this years AR awards! I can’t wait to be back in the classroom reading with you all! 🍎📚❤️
#lovereading
Such an incredibly moving
#RemembanceService
this morning, many thanks to members of our community for joining us. Huge thanks to our
#brassband
, students laying wreaths and our SV team for the readings
#LestWeForget
An amazing turn out for the
@DofE
#bronze
award! A grand total of 45
#Y9
students will be completing the award 👏 Miss Kaye will be in touch over the next week to arrange the first DofE meet! Keep your eyes peeled on your DofE google classroom
#aimhigh
#proud
Sunday mornings consist of:
• 1 hour walk
• Cup of tea and a cooked breakfast
• Setting goals/to do lists for the week ahead
Trying to keep a clear routine during these times 💜
#healthymind
Thank you to Grace G, Ebony H and Jessie B for this beautiful gift 🎁 you’re so kind and thoughtful ☺️ we are blessed with such fantastic students
@OutwoodShafton
#kindness
Thank you to everyone who attended the staff Vs student enrichment event this evening for
@BBCCiN
It was great to see so many of you getting involved! Can’t wait to find out who won the quiz and table tennis!!
Miss Kaye and the whole of Brazil (the form group not the country!) are delighted that they have won the Y7
#Superstar
#FormoftheWeek
👋👋👋😃 Well done Brazil!
Well, what can we say? We have started to bag up this amazing collection of gifts with the help of students from our PLC and Bridge.
It’s very hard to describe the overwhelming sense of pride that we have in our students, families and our entire community. 💜
WOW! I’ve been absolutely blown away by year 7 home learning this half term. These students have taken so much time and effort into their models. Well done everyone!
@OutwoodShafton
#proud
#creativelearning
Miss Kaye is pleased to announce that the DofE bronze award in now open for our year 9 students. Any students who are interested please see Miss Kaye in 4.15
#DofE
#excitingopportunity
We could not be happier to be awarded this title. We are so
#proud
of our student and staff team for their collaborative work in order to achieve this award.
Many thanks to everyone at
@iqmaward
, this will make a real difference to the life chances of young people 🙂💜💚
What a privilege to meet colleagues (the big boss!) from
@iqmaward
today! We were thrilled to receive our
#NationalInclusionChampion
banner and, of course,
#Dexter
was super happy to see friends from home 💚
An amazing start to
#dance
#enrichment
this evening. These students have been superstars showing some great teamwork. Really looking forward to seeing the progress this half term!
#PROUD
Saw this earlier today and it really stood out to me. Keep the mind and body healthy during this difficult period of time because ‘the show must go on’. Keep active, no matter if it’s just 5 minutes or 1 hour, it really does help! 🌈🍎💃🏃♀️
Started reading this lovely illustrated book with my form this morning 🌈📚 It’s really inspired the students to write some lockdown stories and poems ready to work towards their accolades this week 👏🎉 thank you for a lovely form time today, Brazil 🇧🇷
#PROUD
A fantastic morning handing out our September
#ACE
Awards to our stand our students who have had a fantastic start at Shafton and are on their way to climbing the
#pyramid
. A wonderful morning of celebration
#proud
#ItsWhoIAm
Thank you to our external
#AlternativeProvision
providers for attending this evening’s
#English
CPD session. Fantastic conversations around supporting our students
Another fantastic event in the academy today. Our very first
#Honours
Breakfast. Students who have reached over 5 badges so far were presented with their Honours Badges to wear proudly on their blazers 👏
Thrilled to share our
#Enrichment
timetable for Y7 - Y10
#Enrichment
starts from Monday 13 September - we cannot begin to tell you how glad we are to be able to offer these opportunities to students again!
What an amazing evening for our Y7 Halloween Praise event 💜 great to see everyone having fun and coming together with friends
@OutwoodShafton
#memoriesmade
8.88k in the bag so far 🏃♀️ This has been a variation of walking, jogging, running and sprinting, whatever I have fancied on the day. It helps when looking over these stunning views of Barnsley too! 🌈☀️
#50kinmay
#fitness
@OAShaftonPE
We are so pleased to invite parents/carers of Y7 and Y8 students to our
#Honours
Launch on Thurs 26 October, 5 - 6pm.
We have lots of information to share & have a guest speaker 😀
Any questions? Please contact Miss Kaye l.kaye
@shafton
.outwood.com
#TransformativeCulture
Two of the key things getting me through lockdown
#reading
#exersise
I’m making these two things part of my daily routine.What’s helping everyone else through? Missing the teaching life and the buzz of being in the classroom with the our great students
@OutwoodShafton
❤️
#staysafe
This week we are hitting the ground running with our student
#TeachingandLearning
assemblies. We have shared the importance of
#Oracy
to our students and how this will be implemented in lessons across the academy to increase life chances and outcomes 😊