Pittington, Durham DH6 1QD
Pupils from various class groups had the opportunity to visit the Centre For Life. This year the exhibition was Game on 2.0. The focus on the day was gaming and how it has developed over the last 50 years. Pupils could play more than 150 playable games which included Pac-Man, Defender and Donkey Kong. Every pupil who went had an amazing time.
On Thursday 4th July the annual county Athletics event took place at Shildon Athletics Stadium organised by Windlestone Hall school. The weather was fantastic and all the pupils performed excellently in their individual events. This culminated in Elemore winning the overall junior and senior boys events. Highlights of the day included Kyle Layton winning the senior boys 800m by a long distance, Isaac Jordan taking gold with a comfortable win in the junior boys 200m and Kristen Myles winning the junior boys Javelin with a distance that would have won gold in the senior boys event!
A big thanks was sent to Mr Nicholson by the Windlestone PE teacher who said had it not been for the Elemore staff running the events (Mr Peat Triple Jump, Mr Morris high Jump, Mr Nicholson Shot Put) most of the events would have been cancelled. Well done to everyone who took part in the day.
Here are a few pictures from our Sports Day, A full report is coming soon!!
Pupils who attend Mr Clifton and Mr Peat’s climbing activity on a Wednesday evening participated in the 2019 North East Junior and Inter-School Climbing Championships held at Climb Newcastle. This individual and inter-school competition is one of the biggest junior climbing events held in the UK.
All the pupils tried really hard, worked as a team and as a result have achieved the highest total group score we have ever had!
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On Friday it was the #YPLCP final showcase. More information and a video of the whole showcase will be provided in the new term, but for now, here is a video from Teesside TV and news article from The Northern Echo.
Year 7 have been working very hard in their Computing lessons. They have used Raspberry Pi’s and the programming language python to program a SenseHat. In addition to this they have started to make their own traffic lights using the Raspberry Pi and created a circuit using LEDs, a breadboard and resistors. Over the course of the next term pupils will make their LEDs flash and eventually program a button and beeper.
Year 8 pupils have also been working very hard, they have completed multiple projects which have included computing building, website building and some work on Adobe Photoshop (examples shown below).
Year 9 have also been using Adobe Photoshop taking inspiration from an artist called Andy Warhol. Pupils have used their own images, multiple layers, filters and blending modes.
We got off to a tremendous start and were 2-0 up at half time, thanks to two goals from Taylor. Windlestone scored shortly after half time to make it 2-1. Taylor scored a corker of a hat-trick, making it 3-1. Windlestone got a late goal but the Elemore team hung on to win 3-2. The team’s defence worked great, and every man contributed to a great game. Man of the Match was awarded to Taylor but it could have been anyone! A brilliant team effort from everyone involved.
On Monday 18th March 2019 a group of pupils went to visit Dunstanburgh castle in Craster, on the coast of Northumberland after studying castles in their humanities lessons. Pupils walked up and around the castle, discussing different features of the castle as well as suggesting why this area might be a good place to build a castle.
Once we had seen the castle, we went to Druridge bay beach to look at the tide and the waves that were there and compared those with the waves we had just seen at Craster. It was an excellent day out with all pupils doing very well and behaving brilliantly, well done!
Key Stage 3 pupils have completed a unit of work on the environment and waste. Pupils from all classes designed a bin to encourage pupils in school to bin their rubbish instead of throwing it on the ground. Each class had side with their own theme, these including, rubbish, graffiti and comics.
