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Year 9 have been working on their free music compositions and many students have chosen to use Band Lab to produce their music.  There has been everything from video game music, to science fiction film music.  Keep up the creative work year 9.

Wow! What a creative week we have had in the English department! As part of National Storytelling Week, our Key Stage 3 students have been writing their own lyrics and songs about issues that are important to them.  The work they have produced has been phenomenal and Miss Sutterby and I are very…

The 9th to 15th February 2026 is National Apprenticeships Week.

Students watched a whole school assembly all about Apprenticeships and have been completing short activities and tasks within their Citizenship lessons to learn more. 

Did you know there are 700 different apprenticeship…

Our year 7/8 higher group have been doing some fantastic work on equations, inequalities and sequences. They have been able to multiply out and factorise brackets. Work on equations with the group being able to both form and solve equations and simple inequalities. As we finish off sequences…

Year 7/8 foundation have been busy developing their skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using formal methods. This has then been used in a variety of contexts including; solving problems with perimeter and area, financial problems, frequency trees and converting metric…

We have been engaging our learners at Samuel King's to think critically, participate responsibly and take ownership of their digital lives using a super unit of work from common sense education.

Students have built online resilience with our easy-to-use lessons, which have included videos,…

To conclude their Preparation for Work and GCSE Options topic, Year 9 designed their own adverts for jobs of their choice, noting some of the skills, qualities or qualifications required. 

To enhance their learning about WW1 and life in the trenches, Year 8 listened to a special presentation in their History lesson from Mr Cockle, who spoke about his career in the British army and the work he did as part of Operation Orbital in Ukraine. Students were shown photographs, video footage…

Year 10 have blown me away with their GCSE poetry analysis this week.  They have been comparing Percy Shelley's 'Ozymandias' with William Blake's 'London'; both Romantic poets, and both giving strong messages about the abuse of power.  Keep up the great work year…

We have been exploring solos and harmonies in choir this week.  Danika has been sharing her expertise from her GCSE singing lessons with Mr Waldock.  The choir are enjoying learning some new songs in preparation for our next performance.  

Today in our lunchtime club we had some year 7s showing off their golfing abilities using the Wii!

G.C.S.E students have started preparing work for their mock exams. Learning different techniques in oil paint.