This week saw the first week of
#Ramadan
and the first time for congregational prayer at
@TrinityAcademyL
!
Prayer is a fundamental pillar of the Islamic faith and shows a Muslim's commitment to worshipping God. Over 100 students came to worship together!
#SucceedTogether
✨️💜
A team of expert professionals, driven by success and motivated to pursue excellence in everything we do.
We are Team Humanities.
#Year3
💫💜
...and we still have another colleague to join us on our next staff induction day! 🤩🙌🏽
Today is an important day!
For Christians, it's
#MaundyThursday
, Jesus' Last Supper before his crucifixion. For Jews, it's the first day of
#Passover
, the day that Moses freed the Israelites from Egypt.
Oh - and we're now half-way through Ramadan!
#TeamInterfaith
💜✨️
Welcome to Team Humanities! 🔥
A powerhouse team, passionate about delivering the best Humanities curriculum to the purple stars of Burmantofts.
#WorldClassExperts
#DreamTeam
💜💫
Eid is coming up! 🥳
This week, millions of Muslims are performing the pilgrimage
#Hajj
in Makkah 🕋
The 3rd day of Hajj is also Eid al-Adha, the festival celebrating Abraham (almost) sacrificing his son - a symbol of obedience for Muslims around the world!
#TeamInterfaith
🌍💜
Outstanding school
Outstanding students
Outstanding staff
Outstanding curriculum
Outstanding opportunities
Outstanding behaviour
Outstanding leadership
Outstanding personal development
Our next step step is inevitable: outstanding outcomes! 🤩💜💫
At TAL, every lesson starts with a 'Recall 6' to activate prior knowledge.
To mark
#InterfaithWeek
, every Recall 6 has included a question about religion!
Every single day, every single lesson, every single classroom has been sharing their knowledge of religion 😍🧠
What a brilliant evening talking GCSE options with our founding cohort! 🥹
Team Humanities were swept off their feet all evening with interested students and parents. Exciting times lie ahead! 👀💫💜
Our new humanities teachers are already right at home 👀
Leading sessions during our Y6 summer school with confidence, culture... and a smile!
#PurpleStarColleagues
👏🏽💜💫
First lesson after the holidays...
Last lesson on a Friday...
One lesson a week...
Yet, Fatima in 7T was able to perfectly recall four strands of ethics using key vocabulary in RS today!
#BrilliantMinds
#PowerfulKnowledge
👏🏽💜✨️
This week, we have been remembering the sacrifices of WW1 and the effects of war...
But we have also focused on the poppy as a glimmer of hope and light amid the sheer darkness.
We continue to reflect on how we can make the future a better place for all 🙏🏽🥀
#RemembranceDay2023
Silent work, guided practice alongside independent learning, genuine enthusiasm to learn, practice, and improve.
Basically, just your average Humanities lesson at
@TrinityAcademyL
! 🧠💜✨️
Team Humanities are back 🤩
We're stronger than ever, ferocious about success and even more determined to transform the lives of our purple stars!
See you all on Monday!
#LetsGo
#SuccessBreadsSuccess
💜✨️
The best that TAL has to offer... a dedicated, proactive, genuinely enthusiastic and phenomenal colleague who elevates our team through their ferocious teaching and sincere support for others.
We are SO proud that this nominee is one of our very own from
#TeamHumanities
! 😍💜🌟
It's almost time for our Open Evening... 👀
We are exceptionally excited to showcase the brilliant work our students do in our lessons!
@TrinityAcademyL
History, Geography and RS are all set up to welcome future purple stars 🤩💜✨️
Wow.
Wow, what an incredible day. Wow, what determined efforts from staff & students. Wow, what beaming smiles. Wow, what joyous conversations. Wow, what creative lessons... Everything had the 'wow-factor'!
A short snapshot of our day ⬇️
#Fusion
#CultureDay
💜💫
This week, we have focused on all things
#COP28
!
We have had:
🌍 Engaging library articles and books
🌏 Debates in Geography lessons
🌎 Lunchtime discussions
🌏 Inspire assembly
🌎 Daily reflection image
What a week of poignant conversations!
#FutureLeaders
🧠💜💫
In RS, we have been having many discussions about what makes an action moral or immoral 🤔
Using the power of
#Voice
, Luca in 7B built up the confidence to lead and challenge his peers to think critically! 🧠
A truly magical moment with a brilliant
#FutureLeader
! 💜💫
"RS can help educate us to respect others & promote tolerance." -Melode 8A
"RS will help me in the future because it has taught me that you can't jump to conclusions straight away." -Sarah 7D
"RS helps me to become a better person." -Ciera 8L
Read more:
First term done! ✅️
What an incredible term it's been:
✨️ Challenging misconceptions in RS 🧠
✨️ Exploring the world around us in Geography 🌍
✨️ Learning from our past in History ⏳️
Next term will be even greater! Team Humanities have exciting things lined up 🤩💜
We have celebrated all things
#Coronation
this week:
👑 Competitions
👑 Inspire assemblies
👑 Research projects
👑 Bespoke library books
👑 Invitations and treats
👑 Crowns and conversations
And now... Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend! 👑💜💫
For many Muslims, today is Eid al-Fitr!
In Arabic, 'fitr' comes from the word 'iftar', which is the breaking of the fast during Ramadan.
We wish our TAL families a wonderful Eid, full of family feasts!
#EidMubarak
🕌💜💫
Our
#DukeofEdinburgh
cohort are at it again!
Today, our students took to the streets to pick litter around the local community. Volunteering like model citizens 🙌🏽
#TheFutureisBRIGHT
(and purple!) 💜💫🌟
One of our favourite weeks in the year is here...
#InterfaithWeek2023
!
We have lots of exciting activities and competitions coming up this week... All will be revealed tomorrow! 👀
✝️☪️🕉✡️☯️☸️
Spanish. Today, students took the lead to introduce new vocabulary to their teams. We learnt greetings, phrases and even numbers in different languages!
A true celebration of culture 🗣💬
What a week of constant recall, perfecting understanding, mastering core knowledge, and (healthy) competition to make success inevitable!
Our students truly take pride in Masters of Recall... and we love to see it! 🤩💜
Whilst the rest of the academy left for the week, our Year 7s were busy building their character!
Within 12 hours, a quarter of Year 7 signed up to volunteer to litter pick 🗑🌍
It might be freezing cold, but our shining Purple Stars warmed us up! 💜💫
#TheBuild
#Earthshot
This week, our geographers carried out
#fieldwork
, collecting data to investigate which biome we live in.
Look at the concentration! Excellent leadership and teamwork from our Purple Stars 🫡💜✨️
Day 2 of
#InterfaithWeek
was special!
Our Year 7s were in full swing of completing their bingo sheets. We've had our first completions already!
We also had some VERY interesting (and heated!) discussions about what brings us peace... just one of the many discussions today! 😍💜
What a day! It is a sheer joy to celebrate MOR success every term.
Miss Ali couldn't make it through the refectory this morning without being bombarded by students showing off their scores in RS, History and Geography! 🥹💜🌟
Humanities Morning Recall tomorrow! 📢
Use our Look, Cover, Write, Check method to prepare and practice. Here is a brilliant example from Milka in Year 7 ⬇️. A true ambassador to her team and to Humanities! 💜💫
#MakeSuccessInevitable
This week, our students have spent their daily silent reflection focusing on this image.
Why? This image is us. It's our diversity, experiences, culture, and our worldviews. It's our TAL family who we are proud to be!
Tomorrow, we celebrate this.
#Fusion
#CultureDay
🌍💜💫
Activating prior knowledge after the holidays can be challenging...
...but not for this master of recall 🤩 what a week of exceptional hard work!
#SubjectExperts
💜💫
Beautiful work, everywhere 😍🙌🏽
🧠 Mastering knowledge
💭 Applying skills
✍️🏽 Perfecting writing
What a week for our scholars in History, Geography and RS! 💜💫
#ThisWeekInHumanities
our Purple Stars have been reflecting on their recent exams and improving based on feedback.
Historians in 7B have been particularly impressive 🤩🔥
What a brilliant Open Evening!
Thank you to all parents, carers, siblings, and students who came to visit our outstanding Humanities Faculty! Not to mention our fantastic team of student ambassadors 🤩💜✨️
We were also exceptionally privileged to have world-class teachers leading a very thought-provoking inspire assembly this week!
Students and colleagues alike listened attentively as we heard about the effects of WWI which led to the founding of
@PoppyLegion
.
#RemembranceDay
🥀
Another day of
#InterfaithWeek
done!
Miss Ali has absolutely loved delivering her Inspire Assembly on
#Rumi
. A brilliant example of expression of belief and interfaith in action!
Our students have been quality audiences listening attentively to the life and lessons of Rumi 💜💫
Our competition for Remembrance Day is now closed.. It took us an hour to judge the many entries!
We are so proud of the genuine empathy and understanding around war and peace. The quality and standard of writing have been exceptional!
Winners will be announced next week 👀🏆💜
Today was a busy day in RS!
After studying theodicies, Year 8 prepared for Masters of Recall using the Look, Cover, Write, Check method to
#MakeSuccessInevitable
. Year 7 are also hungry for success as the final whiteboard shows!
We're MOR ready... are you?💪🏽
#Mission100
%
🚨 LAST CALL 🚨
✅️ Subject Co-ordinator History
✅️ Teacher of Geography
Closing date: Monday
Join our world-class academy with a bookletised curriculum, excellent CPD, strong bfl policy, MAT-wide support, and opportunities to grow with us! 💜💫
Whilst half of the year group work hard at our residential, the other half are...... working hard! 🧠
The same brilliant work ethic all day, every day, wherever we are! 👏🏽
#BuildingCharacter
#BuildingSuccess
💜🌟
Our
#30ActsofKindness
began today! This week is all about our core value of empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of others.
Today, our brilliant Purple Stars created ripple effects of kindness throughout the entire school! 💜✨️
It's been a busy and productive first week back so far in History, RS and Geography! 🧠🌍
One day to go until the weekend, let's make it worth it.
#TeamHumanities
💜✨️
This week, we commemorated
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
🥀
🤍 Assemblies on Nicholas Winton, Raphael Lemkin & Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
🤍 Informative & inspiring reads in the library
🤍 Daily reflection on the Berlin memorial
🤍 Educational input in History lessons
#NeverForget
💜💫
Geographers working hard in the exam...
Geographers working hard in lesson...
...just your average day in
#TeamHumanities
💜💫
After sitting their first ever Geography exam, Year 7 began investigating, researching, exploring and collecting data from
@googleearth
! 🌍🔎
Why do we love Humanities?🤔
🌟 Leadership training
🌟 Team building
🌟 Resilience
🌟 Problem solving
🌟 Critical thinking
🌟 Powerful discussions
🌟 Research-based
🌟 World-class curriculum
We look forward to seeing our Purple Stars tomorrow for another great week ahead!🧠💜💫
"Geography enables us to understand where we all originated and how the natural world works." - Jeremiel 8B
"Every lesson built on the previous one, until I was able to explain the processes in detail." - Tyler 8E
#VOICE
#HumanitiesTakeover
🌍💜💫
READ:
The resurrection of Jesus was one of the most important events in the Christian calendar... This is especially the case in Orthodox Christianity!
Wishing our wonderful Orthodox community a blessed and joyful Easter ✝️🎉💜💫
That's a wrap! One whole year of:
🌟 Exceptional work in booklets
🌟 Knowledge-rich lessons
🌟 Successful MOR results
🌟 Stronger schema
🌟 Improved extended writing
We are SO proud of our purple stars and the progress they have made this year in History, RS & Geography! 👏🏽💜💫
RS exams begin this week! This is a chance for you to:
🧠 Retrieve knowledge from your long-term memory.
🌟 Showcase the core concepts you have learnt.
✍️🏽 Practice valuable skills in extended writing.
🏅 Make success inevitable for the future.
Good luck!
#PrepareToSucceed
💜💫
The brilliant
@JKolota
has worked magic to create an inviting and welcoming display of books that represent different cultures, worldviews and experiences!
All ready in time for Fusion! 🤩
#3DaysToGo
#CultureDay
💜✨️
Our competition for
#InterfaithWeek
is getting competitive...
...so we have EXTENDED the deadline to Friday 24th November!
Students are invited to write their own prayer or poem inspired by the celebration of interfaith. We can't wait to judge and issue prizes! 🙏🏽💜💫
IT'S HERE! 🥳
Our world-class Humanities team took over the latest edition of
#VOICE
... We have stories, staff snapshots, beautiful work, curriculum updates, student input, and MORE! 👀
Follow the link to read about our journey! 💜💫
Many Muslims actually celebrate two main Eid celebrations. The first is Eid al-Fitr (literally 'Festival of the feast') which celebrates the end of Ramadan. Eid al-Adha is actually more significant!
A very blessed
#EidMubarak
to all our purple star students celebrating! 🥳🌟💜
Since Ramadan is a month of mercy and gratitude, all students will be taking part in our daily Acts of Kindness!
A new addition from last year is our weekend challenges. We can't wait to see our Purple Stars shine bright in their communities 😍💜🌟
We had our first ever RS exam last term and what a joy to see the knowledge our students have gained!
Accurate feedback ➡️ guided reflection ➡️ mastering writing ➡️ making success inevitable 👏🏽
Another week ahead of perfecting all the skills Humanities has to offer!
#LetsGo
💜
Geography was definitely a highlight of this week! We had fantastic atlas work in Year 7, developing locational knowledge as part of our biomes topic 🗺️
Meanwhile, Year 8 independently drafted their own diagrams to show the natural greenhouse effect! ☀️🌍💜
#InterfaithWeek
is officially underway at TAL!
🗣 Engaging conversations
🧠 Enthusiasm for learning more
🤍 Exceptional empathy towards others
📚 Excellent subject knowledge
Not to mention our new incredible library display, courtesy of the brilliant
@JKolota
! 😍💜💫
"I want to be a History teacher so that future generations can learn the same things I did & more." -Catherine 7B
"I’m always curious to see what problems people had in the past & how they solved them." -Mohamed 7U
#VOICE
#HumanitiesTakeover
💜
Read more:
It's
#InterfaithWeek
day 3!
Today we're combining our two favourite things: food and interfaith 😍
Below are a selection of simple and easy recipes that showcase the best food in religious traditions! Have a go at making them and send in your pictures 👨🍳👩🍳💜💫
We're ready for Term 2... we hope you are too! 🙌🏽💜💫
Here's to another term full of:
🌍 World-class teaching
🧠 Knowledge experts
🏅 Masters of Recall
📝 Formal assessments
🌟 Practice and perfection!
Oh, and
#InterfaithWeek
is coming up soon....... 👀
We are looking forward to seeing all our shining purple stars on Tuesday….for another incredible term!
💜🌟 Fully equipped
💜🌟 On time
💜🌟 Beautiful manners
💜🌟 Brilliant brains
See you soon, we’ll be on the gate to greet you.
This week in Model United Nations, students used the power of their
#Voice
to stimulate a council meeting on the GERD:
Our TALented students represented a range of groups and governments. An interesting discussion to say the least! 💜💫
#FutureLeaders
What a term 🤩 You've seen the tweets, you've seen the comments, you've seen the videos... now it's time for you to join us!
In Humanities, we are recruiting for:
✅️ Geography Teacher
✅️ Subject Co-ordinator History
Get in touch and visit us! 💜💫
Since Ramadan is a month of mercy and gratitude, all students will be taking part in our daily Acts of Kindness!
A new addition from last year is our weekend challenges. We can't wait to see our Purple Stars shine bright in their communities 😍💜🌟
And here we are, our third and final challenges combined!
💜 Give a gift to your neighbour
💜 Donate to your local food bank or charity
We have loved sharing our acts of kindness every day... Now it's time to spread kindness in your community over the half-term break! 🙌🏽💜💫
Since Ramadan is a month of mercy and gratitude, all students will be taking part in our daily Acts of Kindness!
A new addition from last year is our weekend challenges. We can't wait to see our Purple Stars shine bright in their communities 😍💜🌟
We even had the privilege of welcoming members of our community!
@BSA_Leeds9
sat with our wonderful students discussing local and personal history. A fantastic snapshot into the rich history of Burmantofts 🤩💜
We were so moved to receive this letter from one of our incredible purple stars!
"Constantly going the extra mile"
"Present complex concepts in a clear and relatable manner"
"Dedication to crafting a curriculum that challenges and inspires us"
"A constant source of support" 🥹💜
Preparation for the first ever
#RSexam
at TAL is underway!
Students have been recalling knowledge from September with ease as they have embedded core knowledge into their long-term memory.
#PrepareForSuccess
💜💫
This week, ALL students will be completing their first RS exam of the academic year 👀
Remember to use your revision booklets and knowledge organisers to prepare, practice and plan for success 🙌🏽
#MakeSuccessInevitable
🧠💜💫
RS exams done ✅️
Next week - Geography and History exams!
At TAL, we don't rely on luck. We make success inevitable through hard work, revision and preparation!
#PrepareToSucceed
💜💫
Over one year ago, we joined Twitter/X to share the incredible work that our purple stars produce, day in and day out.
Thank you to our students, parents and colleagues who constantly support us! 💜💫
#MyXAnniversary
Here is
#TeamHumanities
round-up for another week of:
🌎 Investigative fieldwork on biomes in Geography
✍️🏽 Reflective writing on personal morality and ethics in RS
🗣 Skillful debates on Douglas Haig's legacy in History
Powerful knowledge every lesson!
#EveryLessonCounts
🧠💜🌟
So much excitement in one day. Thank you to everyone who made it possible - staff, parents, community leaders and of course our fantastic purple stars! 💜💫
In our daily reflection time this week, we have been thinking about the regalia used during the
#Coronation
.
Our reflection image was this tremendous picture from Queen Elizabeth's coronation! 💜🇬🇧👑
The Sovereign’s Sceptre with Cross and The Sovereign’s Orb have important symbolic roles within the
#Coronation
ceremony. Watch our film to find out their significance.
The story of Christmas unites the Humanities...
🎄 RS in the purpose of Christmas.
🎅 History in the context of Jesus' birth.
🎁 Geography in the significance of Bethlehem.
We wish our students, parents and colleagues a wonderful and merry Christmas! 💜💫