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Year 7 have been well and truly warming up their voices recently.  Since September we have been dedicating time to singing and there have been all kinds of requests from Chris De Burgh to Benson Boone! Well done year 7.  Keep singing with enthusiasm!

As part of an introduction to our unit of work on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist', year 8 have been learning about Victorian workhouses.  They have done a great job of reading information and generating mind maps to introduce the context.  We look forward to exploring this text this…

This week we've been looking at Family Members and Daily Routine. Students were asked to write a paragraph in French about what they do on a weekend with their family.

Just before half term we ran our Inter House Scrabble competition. We had ten students from KS3 competing, and were very impressed with the quality of the words they came up with! Well done to all who took part. Look out for more Inter House Competitions throughout the year - they're a great way…

Year 7,8 and 9 have been helping the performing Art department to make bunting for the Christmas show. They have enjoyed practising their machine skills. 

Year 10 have been studying Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth' in great detail.  As part of their learning, they have been reimagining his play in the modern day.  Think famous actors, cityscapes and even space! We look forward to seeing the final results of Macbeth reimagined.

In their Citizenship lessons this week, Year 7 to 9 students learnt more about Green Careers as part of the national Green Careers Week.

We looked at video case studies of those who worked in green technologies or as part of an environmental charity- including 'The Ocean Cleanup'. As well as…

This week is Green Careers Week. In their Citizenship lesson, Year 10 and 11 students learnt all about what a green career is and which sectors offer green opportunities. 

Green jobs can include those that: Protect plant and animal species, help us to better understand planet earth, reduce the…

It has been a week of dodging the rain but the KS4 students have enjoyed playing netball on the MUGA in between the showers

Year 8 students have enjoyed working in the newly developed spinning room.

We've had a super fast first half-term and I hope everyone enjoyed the break! Our year started by looking at how maths links to careers and where we can develop valuable skills within the subject to support our future; as well as finding out the amazing range of jobs our students would like to…

So, at the moment the Higher group of learners have been delving further into Quantitative Chemistry....more and more mathematical based problems they have been solving.  They have been introduced to the "mole", a very large number, 602 sectillion to be precise also know as Avagadro's number. …