| Magic Maths - Children's page/blog - 28/11/2008
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Last Sunday Year 6 pupils Ben, Willoughby, Conor, Alex, Tom, Ben and Nicholas went to Magic Maths at Medina High. They did card tricks, dice tricks and
other tricks.
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| Think You Know ? - Jane Palmer - 21/11/2008
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The ThinkUknow Education Programme.
The ThinkUknow education programme being delivered at Somerton Middle School is a resource developed by CEOP to help children learn about the risks they may encounter whilst using the internet and other interactive technologies. It has a number of themes, but focuses on three key messages:
How to have fun online
How to stay in control online
How to report a problem
Children and young people will be taught how to:
•Recognise and manage potential risks associated with their online ac...
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| Ben and Willoughby launch the first Somerton News - Children's page/blog - 18/11/2008
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Welcome to the first Issue of Somerton News! Ben and I are the Editors. Please let us know what you think of our news page.
Email us at: somertonnews@
googlemail.com
Hope to see an email from you soon. From Ben and Willoughby.
On Wednesday 5th November we played football against Sandham.
We lost 4 – 1 although every one played well.
By Andrew Wardle
Last year, Jak Larcombe (6C) entered a Spongebob Competition, and he won. His letter will appear in one of the magazines in January.
On Wednesday 5th November, The year 6 Netball team ...
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| The IT Team - Children's page/blog - 14/11/2008
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We are the school web team, we do everything on the school web site from the blog to new sports captains. ! We are updating the site every week. If you have any good articles we can add contact Ms Palmer.
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| New Sports Captains - Children's page/blog - 7/11/2008
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It's a new school year and the new sports captains have been decided!
Representing Plessey are Jack Blanchard and Amber Richards.
Representing Solent are Claire Groves and Archie Battison.
Representing Ward are Jenny Stokell and Connor Brady.
And for Christy Danielle Holmes and William Kelly.
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| Northwood Parish Council - Jane Palmer - 7/11/2008
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| Congratulations to Mariah Greenham for winning the Northwood Parish council logo competition. The school has recieved a gift of £25. This was presented by Councillor Alan Wells.
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| Interview with Mr Dunford - Jane Palmer - 17/10/2008
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This is an interview with Mr Dunford taken by Sam Elliott.
What do you like best to eat?
I likes to eat duck and pancake from the chinese.
Which celebrity do you fancy?
I fancy Kathrine Jenkings.
What was your favourite subject when you where at school?
Geography because I had a good teacher so I enjoyed the lessons.
When were you most scared?
I was most scared when I got dragged out to sea, surfing in the middle of winter and the sun going down. I owe my life to a good freind who rescued me.
What is your favourt...
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| Global Warming - Children's page/blog - 12/6/2008
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In RE we have been researching Global Warming and the effects it is having on our planet.
I looked at logging.
Here are some of the facts I found:
• We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
• One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and i...
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| Interview with our new Deputy Head - Children's page/blog - 6/6/2008
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James Lumley interviewed our new Deputy Head Mr. Webber
How long have you been a teacher?
I’ve been a teacher for 32 years. For the first 4 years of my career I taught in London before coming to the Island in 1980 where I worked at Medina High for 26 years. I moved to Cowes High nearly 3 years ago before coming to Somerton. I was Assistant Head at Cowes High.
What is your favourite subject?
For most of my career I taught P.E. and I really enjoy that subject.
Do you support a football team?
Not really, if I look at results it’s usuall...
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| Ventnor Field Trip - Jane Palmer - 12/10/2007
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A very foggy start to the day for 17 students from 5B as they headed out on their trip to Ventnor. The weather though, didn't deter the excitement of the students and their teachers Mrs Brodie and Mrs White from having a great time.
The students were off to Ventnor as part of their studies on costal landscapes. They were joined for the day by a guide from the Educational Field Trip Team to explain the costal work preservation undertaken at Ventnor, and to explain to students how coasts are formed and maintained.
Lunch was enjoyed on the beach with the weather improving, ...
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| SCHOOL CLUBS AUTUMN 2007 till further notice - Jane Palmer - 1/10/2007
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BEFORE SCHOOL
Daily Breakfast Club and ICT for girls
Wednesday Recorders, Fitness
Friday Band
LUNCH TIME
Daily except Thursday Technology club
Tuesday Vintage Video Society
Thursday Drama
AFTER SCHOOL
Monday Choir, Creative writing, Yr6 & 8 boys football
Tuesday Homework club, KS 3Global Rock, Martial Arts, Football coaching
Wednesday Yr5 Homework club, Girls football, Technology club, Digital camera club,
Yr8 Junior sports leaders
Thursday Homework cl...
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| House and Sports Captains Reported by Jonathan W. Yr8: - Jane Palmer - 28/9/2007
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House Captains:
Plessey
Aimee Light
Kieran Johnsons
Solent
Beatrice Dale
Jack Duer
Ward
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| Read the winning speech delivered at the Island Rotary Youth Speaks Competition - Jane Palmer - 18/7/2007
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Racism by Taz Whiston
Hello ladies and gentlemen.
It is nice to see so many of you here today.
As you know from our introducer, Jonathan Webb, my name is Tarragon Whiston and my speech for today and to represent Somerton Middle is about the horrendous matter of racism.
What is race exactly?
Let's keep in mind, I'm not going on about a group of children, running for their lives up the school field trying to win first place on sports day. No! I'm on about the human race and the basic information on the subject.
Race means a group of animals in...
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| Activities Week! - Jane Palmer - 6/7/2007
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Year 5:
Year 5 enjoyed fun and games at camp, despite the weather.
Year 6:
Year 6 went swimming at West Wight and Cowes youth Centre wall climbing. IWYAC Water Sports.
Year 7:
Year 7 created their own movies which was wicked ! We also went to Carisbrooke Castle which was fun. Also we had a careers day in school.
Year8:
They went to Marwell Zoo, and Mrs Stanford-Clark brought in her pet Llamas for a mini trek !
Everyone had a great time.
Matty Mc Cullum Year 7 Reporter
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| Web site live - Liam Thom - 29/6/2007
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This web site has gone live with the school's own domain name of http://www.somerton.iow.sch.uk/.
All features will be the same as before and all the content is automatically displayed on the new domain name.
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| Updates to department pages - Liam Thom - 21/6/2007
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Teachers can now upload up to four files per item in the department page. They can also allocate some text to each file; for instance where there is a link to Beethoven's 9th Symphony it would be sensible to add the text "part of Beethoven's 9th Symphony".
It is also possible to specify items as "sticky" which means they should stay at the top of the list, even when newer items are uploaded. Sticky items are itentified by having a darker title bar.
The third change is to disable all HTML tags within these blogs. This is a measure to maintain the integrity o...
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| Somerton successes - Marion Smith - 19/6/2007
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Cricket match today
Island Sports last week
Area Sports
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| The Earliest Olympic Games - Jane Palmer - 10/6/2007
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Did you know -
The earliest Olympic Games were held in about 776BC. In those days the only event was a short sprint, from one end of the stadium to the other. Gradually over the years more were added until there were four days of many different competitions.
Most spectators had to find somewhere to pitch their tents or sleep rough, but important visitors and athletes had special accommodation. It would have been very hot and overcrowded, and the water supply was poor. It didn't stop people coming though!
Only men, boys and unmarried girls were allowed to attend the Olympic Ga...
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| Blogging - Liam Thom - 10/6/2007
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This weblog is available to all pupils and staff of Somerton Middle School.
If you want to get involved please contact Jill Groves and she will issue you with a user name and password.
You can submit as much text as you like as well one image per item.
The image should be a jpg and either be uploaded as a 640x480 pixel compression or the full resolution image that came out of your digital camera.
Suitable software for compressing images includes Picassa (free from Google), Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, Microsoft Office Picture Manager or Microsoft Paint.
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