Following the success and popularity of Lockdown’s weekly celebration galleries; demonstrating the fantastic work and independent learning being done by ERGS pupils stuck at home but keen to maintain their learning . We have decided to keep the initiative going but this time on a monthly basis and celebrating the efforts of pupils across the school both in class and at home. As we learn to work in a new way to keep everyone as safe as possible during these strange times, here are September’s nominations to start us off for this academic year.
Connor Keely Sholes Adventure story_Bait
In ICT lessons Year 8 have began their programming journey in the form of Dance Party. They have used the drag and drop blocks to give instructions to a dance buddy of their choice to a song of their choice. The code is formed in the background. – Mrs McManus
This week Year 9 and 10 Technology Students have been learning about the issues regarding sustainability in the manufacture and disposal of plastics. We spent time looking at food packaging and how sustainable some of the everyday products that we buy. Everyone identified some products that were un-sustainable such as Pringles, different coloured meat packaging and best of all, the Kinder Surprise. To understand the life cycle of the Kinder surprise pupils were set the task of finding out about all the materials used in a Kinder surprise, from the foil packaging, the chocolate egg, the plastic toy, the plastic egg and the paper instructions. We then looked at were all these materials come from, how the product was made and how it reaches the shelves on Tesco’s. Finally, we decided on how to improve the Kinder surprise to help address some of the problems we found. – Mr McDevitt
Congratulations to the following Year 9 Spanish students who discovered lots of very interesting facts about Spain in the recent homework task.- Mrs Crawford
The European Day of Languages Form Class Quiz was won by 10B. They were one of 5 form classes (8A, 8B, 9C, 10A, 10B) who scored highest in the languages quiz, and they then guessed the tie-breaker question correctly. The question was:
“What percentage of the world’s population speaks no English at all?”
The answer was: 75% of the world’s population does not speak ANY English, neither as a first language or as a foreign language.
10B will receive some goodies during form time on Monday! = Mrs Donald
Year 11 pupils Oliver Khew and Katelyn Fee have made an impressive start to their GCSE Physics course with two excellent practical write-ups and illustrations on density – Mr Hutchings
Creative Writing by Eadie Fallis
Creative writing by Jemma Elliott
Creative writing by Edith Mitten
Year 14 German students have been comparing the German and Northern Irish school systems and debating the pros and cons of a school uniform. – Mrs Donald
A huge congratulations to Year 14 linguist Aaron O’Donnell who received a ‘Commendation’ for French translation in this week’s results for the Queen’s College Oxford Anthea Bell competition entered during Lockdown – Mr Bersot
Finally this month, just in case you missed the Year 8 French Breakfast Celebrations for European Day of Languages, here is your chance to see the highlight again.
