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- 21/04/23
Therapeutic – Topical
This term’s therapeutic focuses at The Sanctuary will be on promoting emotional regulation and understanding behaviours. At the Sanctuary we value Wellbeing – both for our learners and our staff members. Each week we have Wellbeing Wednesday where staff are given the opportunity to bo...Read Full Story - 21/04/23
"Can we play chess?"
"Can we play chess?" asked a learner. Given any opportunity to bring in thinking skills, Mr. Butler of course said yes. This was to be challenging as in his younger years, Mr. Butler was on the chess team at school (not that long ago he hastened to add) so he may have been a little rust...Read Full Story - 19/04/23
Knives Down Football League
School Council has secured a £500 grant from the Northumbria Violence Reduction Unit who had £15,000 available to support young people and allow them to put forward ideas that would help to stop young people from carrying knives and make them feel safer.Read Full Story - 30/03/23
Parents Evening 29.03.2023
A huge thank you to all parents and carers who attended our parent's evening on the 29th of March. It was wonderful to see so many of you there to support the learning journey of our young people. As always, your support is massively appreciated, and I know we can safely say our young learners v...Read Full Story - 30/03/23
Learning, by questions
Consolidating learning with Mr. Butler as some Year 10 learners have been recalling their 4 operation methods and branching into fractions - some as a retrieval, others as a refresher.Read Full Story - 29/03/23
Music Drop Down Day- Making your own Djembe Drum
As part of the Upper Site’s musical drop down day, learners took part in a variety of lessons relating to different music such as African, Djembe drumming and DJ practice.Read Full Story - 24/03/23
Kindness
As an educational provider we believe kindness is vital in day-to-day education and part of the scaffolding towards a better future, the sanctuary promotes random acts of kindness such as small gestures for example opening the door for someone and having basic manners.Read Full Story - 20/03/23
Beat That!
Mr Butler was at it again, developing confidence through Play. Beat That, a great series of games and challenges to put against one another. Teams, streams of learners piled into Mr Butlers classroom to challenge themselves on what seemed to be simple activities, but turned out to be something...Read Full Story - 15/03/23
Food Technology Pathways | Flavour & Veg!
The learners following the BTEC Level 2 pathway are working their way towards their first controlled assessment. This assessment will directly influence their grade at the end of the course, so it is really worth putting the effort in now.Read Full Story - 15/03/23
Bike Mechanic, fix my bike!
Possibly one of the hardest jobs a bike mechanic could always get wrong is not tuning the gears, or fitting a chain. No, it's changing pedals. One of our learners at the upper site was really kind this week and brought in an old bike from home that they would like to fix up and donate.Read Full Story - 13/03/23
World book day 2023!
Here at Trinity Academy Newcastle Upper site, we celebrated World Book Day on the 2nd of March with events and activities across the key stages and the response was inc-read-able! Our key stage 4 learners partook in a Book Bistro where they enjoyed brioche, croissants, milk, juice and fruit whils...Read Full Story - 13/03/23
What use is trigonometry?
KS4 learners at the Upper Site were coming to the end of Trigonometry, and to ensure that the knowledge was there, Mr Butler put the final triangle into practice and embedded the use of Trigonometry in the future.Read Full Story