Friday Reading – Strengthening Literacy across the School
Every Friday our school falls silent for 20 minutes and in every CDC Time students are read to by their Character Development Coaches as they carefully follow the texts with...
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Every Friday our school falls silent for 20 minutes and in every CDC Time students are read to by their Character Development Coaches as they carefully follow the texts with...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It made for such a positive end to the first half term of the calendar year and to see so many talented students taking part in this year’s School Production Little Shop of...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was encouraging to join our superb Year 10 students in their Main School Assembly on Wednesday morning led by Associate Leader and Head of Sixth Form Mr O’Kelly. The theme of...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Pictured here are some of our hard working students in Year 13 at the end of the Raising Achievement Assembly held just before the half term holiday. Collecting their Level 3...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
A few weeks ago I had the privilege joining a Year 7 Character Development Group for their Friday reading session in A Block and saw a perfect partnership between the teacher Ms...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Earlier this term Ms Speker shared with all staff in one of our morning briefing meetings about the power of Swivl – a recording device that follows the teacher around the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Last Thursday’s enrichment day for Sixth Form students covered a whole range of exciting activities including those based around promoting positive Mental Health and Sexual...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to see our hard working and creative Year 10 students engage so well throughout the day last Thursday as they followed a great programme of study based around the...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Our hard working Year 11 students maximised their study time for their important core subjects of English and maths by spending the day ‘deep diving’ into these two...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It has been so nice this week to enjoy our first school production for a number of years, the quality of which has been stunning. The singing, the acting, the very professional...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
During today’s 4th Drop Everything And Read event, the whole school had a wider reading non-fiction focus. My year 12 A level English Language and Literature class are studying...