Message from the Year 11 Team

Good morning Year 11. We hope you are all well andstaying safe.

Well done to all of you who have been submittingwork for your different subjects!Stay in contact with all your teachers and keep on topof your various assignments!

Please remember to keep a copy of all the work youhave been completing!

• Here are some tips to help you carry on with learning as far as possible.

✓ Try to establish a routine. Go to bed at a reasonable time and get up at a sensible time each morning.

✓Get some fresh air and exercise every day. The weather is good at the minute get into the garden or go for a walk.

✓ Eat healthy meals and snacks and drink plenty of water.

✓ Complete some school work everyday, recapping on previous learning and focusing on the completion of past paper questions now that you have the time!

✓ Communicate with each other, your families, friends and teachers. You are lucky that although you are all staying at home you can still be in contact with those you miss and love.

✓ Remember to be kind, help out at home in any way you can.

Message from the Year 11 Team

Catherine Wells our Occupational Therapist has put together a half hour video for you our Year 11 Students offering practical advice, thinking strategies and activities on how to control worry.

Take time to watch the mindfulness recording, Catherine talks about the importance of positive thoughts, routine, sleep, relaxation, gratitude and provides some practical actions we can take to help us get through this time of uncertainty.

https://www.stlouises.org.uk/a-video-from-catherine-wells-occupational-therapist/

Message from the Year 11 Team

Double Award Science – Atomic and Nuclear Physics

Lots of RE work completed this week!

Excellent use of Cornell Notes in RE!

Today is National Numeracy Day!

How many triangles do you see in the picture?

Message from the Year 11 Team

Maths Puzzle

We hope you have been watching and enjoying the ‘Careers Video

of the Day’ on the school website. This week you will have seen

videos from a Podiatrist and West Belfast Business Owner,

An Account, Make-Up Artist and Respiratory Nurse. We hope these

videos have helped inspire you!

Befriending planet earth with Pope Francis

May 2020 will be remembered for Coved-19and its impact on our community. The ‘stay athome’ rule means that we have time to noticemore, to appreciate more and this includesnature and our surroundings. In Laudato Si’Pope Francis suggests that if we really see thebeauty in nature then we will do all in ourpower to protect it. Both the smallest plantand animal, part of our common home, are asource of ‘wonder and awe’. This time of‘social distancing,’ difficult as it is for many,allows us some time to reflect and‘to seek a new beginning’, and take more care ofthe earth.

Caring for planet earth while ‘Social Distancing’

Lord, purge our eyes to see within the seed a tree, within the glowing egg a bird, Within the shroud a butterfly. Till taught by such, we see Beyond all creatures Thee.

Christina Rosetti.

“Only by cultivating sound virtues(habits) will people be able to make a selfless ecological commitment.” Paragraph 211, “… these efforts … benefit society … and often unbeknown to us …tend to spread.” Paragraph 212

Look and See

This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off, amused. The duck, too, was not provoked, but, you might say, was laughing.

This afternoon a gull sailing over our house was casually scratching its stomach of white feathers with one pink foot as it flew. Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we only look, and see.

Mary Oliver

1. Study the picture and the poems. What are they saying to you about our planet?

2. Notice something beautiful locally, e.g. -bird, dog/cat, tree/ flower, butterfly. Take photographs/make a video clip, include some music or birdsong for the background.

Describe how this exercise helps you appreciate God’s creation.

Befriending planet earth with Pope Francis

Social distancing is giving us time to examine our lifestyles.

“The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like and immense pile of filth. … our once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish.” Paragraph 21

1. What is the ‘Normal’ suggested in the diagram?

1. Why does it suggest that we should not go back to this ‘Normal’?

1. A ‘new beginning’, a new ‘Normal’ is needed. Pick one aspect of your lifestyle e.g. use of electricity and mobile phones, clothes and cosmetics shopping. How could you change your usual habit to lessen the burden on the planet and to live a lifestyle more in balance with nature.

1. Our also impact on the environment and lives of people in other countries. Research one of the following (1) dumping of waste in developing countries, (2) child labour in cheap clothing factories in developing countries. Design a poster/collage to urge your friends to live a life that takes better care of our common home and encourages responsible co-operation.

Now make the Links…

Look back on your three Reflections

1. Befriending Social distancing

2. Showing care for others

3. Befriending Planet Earth

Write an article for a Magazine/Newspaper on one aspect of LaudatoSi’ that will stay with you after this experience of ‘Social Distancing.’ is over.

Submit the article to your Head of Year or Progress Leader by Monday 25th May 2020.

Messages from Year 11 Teachers

Miss StewartYear 11 Sociology please have

ALL home works for the EDUCATION TOPIC completed.

Year 11 Geography Students You should have submitted 6 homeworks, one per week. Please ensure these have all

been submitted.

Mrs Robb ArtPlease submit your task that was due

Monday the 20th of April.

Please continue to stay safe and well,

Year 11 Team

Message from the Year 11 Team