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Arts for Change: a three day Art / Drama / Music AG&T collaboration between Year 8 students and staff from St Joan of Arc, St Clement Danes, Queens’ and Watford Palace Theatre.
Following an initial workshop from The Time to Change campaign, students from the three schools were led by Arts Professionals in exploring the theme of challenging stigma attached to mental health and produced some inspirational and highly creative work. Here is a selection of photos from the workshops.
Sixty seven Year 10 History students visited the battlefields of the Somme at the end of June. During our trip we visited cemeteries to the British, Commonwealth and German war dead, trench systems, and a museum. At these locations we witnessed the scale of loss in WW1 on both sides and how deadly WW1 actually was. We also had the opportunity to pay our respects to the war dead for the sacrifices they made at Tyne Cot and also the Menin Gate where we witnessed the Last Post Ceremony. The excellent weather, combined with the mature and engaged attitude of the students contributed towards a great trip.
A group of pupils attended Aplsey Paper Mill to learn how to make paper for GCSE Product Design.
A group of pupils from years 8, 9 and 10 attended Hertfordshire University for a Computing Enrichment Day. The day included programming robots, coding with the Raspberry Pi, App development and two inspirational talks by a Master Inventor at IBM and Kate Russell from BBC Click.
St Joan’s very first science journal – Einstein’s Army – written by pupils for pupils has been released and is available HERE and can be accessed from the right hand menu of this website..
Please enjoy reading.
On Sunday 21st of June Miguel Machado completed a 300ft Bungee jump at Bray Lake Windsor in aid of Udayan. Click here to sponsor him
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A huge congratulations to Years 7 & 8 for your generosity and to the Year 10 A.R.C students for all their hard work in organising the food bank drive.
In total the amount collected weighed 171.32KGs which is an incredible amount.
The food bank had this to say:
“It is through the generosity of people like yourselves that enables us to continue to provide for local people undergoing crisis.The food bank provided emergency food – containing sufficient food for three days for 1105 people.”
We are sure that year 9 will respond equally well.
We would like to encourage you to think about providing toiletries as the food bank tell us that these are in short supply.
“It is good to help others as the ‘Golden Rule’ is the foundation of our religion which teaches the importance of helping others. The Trussell Trust is a nationwide food bank which is helping people who have met troubled times giving them emergency food for three days. In the parable of the sheep and goats it says ‘I was hungry and you gave me something to eat’. We at St Joan of Arc have actively supported Jesus’s teaching by supporting this charity and we are helping our local community and wish to continue doing so. We would like to say a huge thank you to both year 7 and 8 for their tremendous generosity as they have truly helped so many people in the community. No doubt year 9 will be as great.”
Year 10 A.R.C Peace and Justice Group.
