Well done to MTJBS pupil Quinn Mcmenamin who recently won the AIB Art competition!
Quinn entered the 10+ category and was selected as the winner – his art piece featured a lovely tribute to the NHS.
Well done Quinn!
Lockdown Challenge: The Periodic Table
The U6 chemists have been rising to the challenge of self-isolation combining Chemistry with their creative skills to produce a patchwork Periodic Table. It involves sewing a square for each element showing its symbol and will provide the Chemistry department with a memory of ‘Life in Lockdown’. So far 14 girls have joined in the challenge and the countdown of 114 elements has begun. It isn’t the quality or quantity of the finished product but the team work, the realisation that they can sew if they put their mind to it and, above all, using mental stimulation in a different way to equations, reactions and organic mechanisms. I trust permission was sought to use a school blouse for the material for Chlorine!
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School tech team producing PPE visors for frontline carers
Staff at Merchant Taylors’ School in Crosby have begun making protective visors for healthcare workers during the Covid-19 outbreak.
The design and technology team at the Boys’ School site are now creating 300 items of the protective equipment every day in conjunction with the Merseyside PPE Hub collective.
Using materials provided free of charge by the Optimum Group, they are being distributed to local hospitals, care homes and North West Ambulance Service.
Two Costa Coffee shops in Crosby and Gateacre are providing hubs for the collective of local businesses and schools, which is now producing more than 5,000 visors each week.
Andrew Beddard, head of design and technology at the school, said: “Across the country, we have seen the crucial role that technology and innovation is playing in the fight against the Coronavirus and we are proud to be playing our own small part in protecting frontline healthcare workers.
“This collective effort is making a real difference to the working conditions of people risking their lives to help others and we would appeal to any other organisations that may have the materials or technology to produce PPE to get in touch with us.”
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MTJBS’ Letters to Family
Our Junior Boys have been writing letters to their relatives who they can no longer see due to the current Coronavirus pandemic, as a means of keeping in touch. All of the letters are wonderful and we thought we would share a few!
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Get Connected
We’re asking pupils of all ages to write to older alumni and local people in the Crosby community. Merchant Taylors’ is a strong and varied community, and we want our pupils to reach out to those who may be feeling isolated or vulnerable in these tricky times.
All you need to do is write a letter, talking about yourself, what you study at school, how you’re finding being at home all the time, and perhaps what you’d like to do in future – and we’ll do the rest! Younger pupils are very welcome to draw a picture instead, anything you think might cheer someone stuck at home up, and that tells them something about you.
If you are hand writing a letter, or drawing a picture, please post it to MTS Get Connected, Merchant Taylors’ Primary School, 134 Liverpool Road, Crosby, L23 5TH and we’ll post it to someone for you. Hopefully they will even write back! If you’d like to type or email something, please send it to our alumni office ([email protected]) or Mrs Byrne ([email protected]) and we will send it on.
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Melissa Wins Place on XMaS Scientist Experience
Just before the Easter holidays began the Physics Department received the amazing news that Melissa Hennessy has won a place on the XMaS Scientist Experience. This means that next year she will be jetting off to Grenoble to take part in the Synchrotron@School Programme in the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF).
Melissa won her place on the four day all expenses paid trip after entering the national XMaS competition. She completed a newspaper article on the life and works of Physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, highlighting the impact she has had in narrowing the vast gender imbalance in the Physics world. This is the fourth consecutive year that MTGS have had winners in this competition and we know from previous girls’ experiences that Melissa is going to have a fabulous time.
Well done, Melissa!
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Physics Challenge
The Physics Department have got a challenge for you!
Using only things that you can find around the house can you build a roller coaster for a marble? If you don’t have a marble, you can improvise for example rolled up blu-tack or a cherry tomato. The Physics department want to see who can come up with the best rollercoaster and will be judging on:
- Use of resources and creativity
- Thrills (just how fast and how many loops can you get in there?)
- Overall aesthetics
Click HERE for full details and some examples
Entries can be sent to Mrs. Lynch at [email protected] and don’t forget to share yours online using #MTSRollerCoaster
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Year 12 Pupil Gives Key Workers a Boost
Year 12 student Tom Bennett and his cousin Anthony gave key workers in the NHS a boost last week as they treated them to over 40 shopping bags full of goodies.
Tom and Anthony, who were supported by Stephen and Georgina from Tesco, delivered the bags full of bread, fruit, chocolates, deodorant and more to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Duty manager Charlotte Nelson, who collected the shopping, said: “The shopping bags were donated to ambulance drivers, ward staff on 9X and 10, plus in ITU and also to security and front desk staff – it was such a lovely gesture and though all staff deserve a treat and a ‘pick me up’ I knew both 9X and ITU have had a difficult few days.”
A huge well done to both Tom and Anthony for such a kind a thoughtful gesture during these difficult times.
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Latest Guidance on External Examinations
Ofqual has published detailed guidance relating to the grading of A Level and GCSE examinations this summer.
The process is based upon centre assessment grades and a centre-generated rank of students in a subject, formulated using a wide range of attainment evidence.
Merchant Taylors’ is committed to ensuring that all grades submitted to exam boards truly reflect the effort and attainment of students over the last two years and give a fair, reasonable and carefully considered judgement of the most likely grade a student would have achieved if they had sat their exams this summer and completed any non-exam assessment.
Ofqual has made it very clear that schools and other centres must not, under any circumstances, share the centre assessment grades nor the rank order of students with pupils or their parents before final grades have been issued. These grades must remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process and the judgements within it.
It is important that all students continue to work hard on their studies and develop a deep learning of their subjects before they move on to the next stage of their academic careers.
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U6 Create #MerchantsAtHome Video
Our Upper Sixth girls have been getting creative whilst having to isolate by making a fantastic Tik Tok video. Well done girls!
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