Refugee Week

14th June 2021Sarah Henderson

Refugee Week 2021
14th – 20th June

Our Thought of the Week this week marks national Refugee Week.

 

Refugee Week is a UK-wide festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary. Founded in 1998 and held every year around World Refugee Day on the 20 June, Refugee Week is also a growing global movement.

Through a programme of arts, cultural, sports and educational events alongside media and creative campaigns, Refugee Week enables people from different backgrounds to connect beyond labels, as well as encouraging understanding of why people are displaced, and the challenges they face when seeking safety.  Refugee Week is a platform for people who have sought safety in the UK to share their experiences, perspectives and creative work on their own terms.

Refugee Week’s vision is for refugees and asylum seekers to be able to live safely within inclusive and resilient communities, where they can continue to make a valuable contribution.

Refugee Week Events

Click & Deliver Library Service

22nd March 2021Sarah Henderson

A reminder about our Click & Deliver library service for students.

At the click of a finger, you can go online to select and reserve a book, which is then delivered to your English classroom.

All students should be aiming to read for pleasure for at least 20-30 minutes a day.  There’s so many reasons to read:

  • Reading makes you smarter: research shows that students who regularly read outside the classroom achieve better results across all subjects at GCSE.  Reading improves vocabulary, comprehension and grammar.
  • Reading makes you happier: research shows that reading is good for your mental health.  Regular readers have lower levels of both stress and depression, higher self-esteem and better quality sleep.

 

 

Pi Day

12th March 2021Sarah Henderson

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and to eat pie.

Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point. As an irrational and transcendental number, it will continue infinitely without repetition or pattern. While only a handful of digits are needed for typical calculations, Pi’s infinite nature makes it a fun challenge to memorize, and to computationally calculate more and more digits.