In our efforts to continue to develop students’ literacy we launched a ‘Word of the Week’ programme last year and it is continuing this year.

The ‘Word of the Week’ will be displayed in classrooms and around the school and will be used throughout lessons in order to ensure students are developing their vocabulary. Literacy achievement points can now be awarded to students for the correct usage of these words in all lessons.

The ‘Word of the Week’ for the week commencing 10^th October is: Ossify

Ossify:

1.  To convert into or cause to harden like bone.

If cartilage ossifies it turns in to bone.

2.  To become rigid or inflexible in habits or attitudes.

Some people have had such bad experiences that their opinions about their local town have become ossified.

Synonyms: Floating, Joyful, Effervescent.

Antonyms: Solidify, Stagnant, Unyielding.