The Final week of Christmas cake Club

16th December 2014Mrs H WALKER

We had such a busy and productive week – with some absolutely amazing results!

I couldn’t be prouder of your imaginative and individual ideas. The families of Homestart will be overjoyed at the present of a homemade cake in their hamper!

A huge thanks to Miss Morton and Mrs Locke for helping during the club and Mrs Scarlett for all her organizing prior to the club. Robin and his team in the canteen also need a huge thanks for providing some stunning decorations to add a professional touch.

The winners of the competition  judged by Robin, Mr Sweeney and myself are:

1st Prize – Aoife Gallagher – 8 Theresa
2nd Prize – Lily Carroll – 8 Ward
3rd Prize – Katie Weir – 8 More
Well done!
 photo 13 (4) photo 14 (4)photo 12 (3)photo11 (5)

The Hour of Code

7th December 2014Miss N GODWIN

hour of code

So you have seen the posters, now it’s time to sign up and try an Hour of Code.
What is it?  It is a worldwide initiative to encourage everyone to have a go at coding.
Last year over 10 million people tried it.
Join us in D2.8 at break time, lunch time and after school.
Click on the link below and sign up using your school email address to register your hour(s) to our event.
There are tutorials based on Frozen, Angry Birds,  or Flappy Birds.
Let’s see if we can reach 1000 hours over the week.

Year 8 Geography: Montserrat Assessments

10th January 2014Mr A KELLY

Just before Christmas, the year 8 students in the Geography Department were completing assessments on The Montserrat Volcanic eruption and they had the opportunity to create their assessments in various styles, including newspaper articles, interactive 3D models or as a movie. Please feel free to come and see some of  the work, which is on display in G22. One Student, Bruno in 8 More, decided to do his assessment as a movie, please follow this link to see his outstanding effort:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gro98tlUrmE

Year 8 Art Club

23rd October 2013Mrs C HENDERSON

Year 8 Art Club started this week with pumpkin carving.

If you would like to come to Art club please sign up with Mrs Henderson.

We meet on Tuesday lunchtimes.

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“Step Into The National Health Service”

23rd October 2013Mr D RITCHIE

“Step Into The National Health Service”

National Competition 2013

Year 8 have been given the opportunity to enter the above national competition. The competition allows students to explore careers in the NHS but more importantly teaches them how to research independently and to extract the key information that will be used in their presentations. These key independent learning skills will stand them in good stead as they research GCSE Options in year 9 and further education and employment choices in the future. The competition is open now and closes on December 20th 2013. By 20th December copies of the students presentation materials must be with Mr Ritchie. He will send them off to the NHS in early January 2014. Mr Ritchie is acting as the students mentor for the duration of the competition

Extra-Curricular Attendance PRIZE DRAW!!!

17th September 2013Mr N BRIGGS

As an extra incentive for students to attend extra-curricular sports and activities, the PE Department is offering raffle tickets to students who attend extra-curricular sports clubs. Therefore, if you attend 2 different clubs per week, you will receive 2 raffle tickets for that week – the more the merrier and the more tickets you have, the better chance you have of winning!

These tickets will be entered into a prize draw, to be drawn at the end of every term, with the winners winning great prizes and privileges from the PE Department such as skiing lessons, paint balling etc. (Prizes TBC at a later date).

There will be one prize draw per year group (7-10) making your chances of winning even higher!

Get yourself down to as many extra-curricular activities, whether that be to compete as part of a team, socialise with friends, or to keep fit and increase your chances of winning these great prizes!