Year 9 Textiles Update
Since January, Year 9 has been working on ‘Project Festival’ in textiles! They have been tasked with researching and designing a product that could be used or worn at a Festival....
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Since January, Year 9 has been working on ‘Project Festival’ in textiles! They have been tasked with researching and designing a product that could be used or worn at a Festival....
Posted by Niralee Pattni
Mrs Hanbury’s Year 10 food students had a real culinary treat last week when they had an online visit from the Ming-Ai (London) Institute. Two healthy eating Chinese ambassadors...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Mrs Hanbury’s and Mrs Bowyers Year 9 Food groups had the pleasure of a visit from an education speaker, Lorraine Hanna from Animal Aid last week to help consolidate the topic of...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Every Friday this term, 2 groups of Year 7 students have been using their newly acquired skills and knowledge in the Friday Kitchen. Students online and in the classroom have...
Posted by Fiona Amao
For our latest project, in order to allow students at home, and in school, to be able to complete the same projects Year 8 have been designing and making marble runs over the past...
Posted by Rae-Anne Bowyer
It was great to walk around the school last Friday morning and speak to students attending in person, face to face lessons and also say a quick hello to students connecting in...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Mr Chalkley has been busy in his workshop going above and beyond in support of our dyslexic students. He has designed and created a number of rulers for our students who have...
Posted by Claire Till
Over in technology, we have launched some new projects with our students, challenging students to get ‘hands on’ and stuck in to some practical tasks. Year 8 student Ben Rutter...
Posted by Niralee Pattni
Year 10 D&T students have been working on their 3D CAD skills this week. Using an online CAD drawing program called TINKERCAD, the students have developed their skills through...
Posted by David Chalkley
To mark this years ‘Children’s Mental Health’ Week I thought I would reflect on the impact of food on your mental health, after all image.png Even though this...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Since January, Year 9 has been working on ‘Project Festival’ in textiles!
They have been tasked with researching and designing a product that could be used or worn at a Festival.
The project involves lots of GCSE style tasks and so gives our year 9 students a real flavour of what is to come if they select textiles as a GCSE.
Unfortunately due to the lockdown, the most enjoyable part (the practical) was out on hold, but since returning to school, Year 9 have been creating some wonderful tie-dye t-shirts and will be enhancing them further, with their very own screen printed designs next week!
Have a look at some of their fantastic work so far!

As we all know, the lockdown has been proving challenging but despite this, our Design & Technology students have been very focused and dedicated to studying the theory topics...
The photo shows Harry and Jude in year 8, with their completed ‘torch in an hour’ project. When?Monday after school, from 3.15 to 4.15 pm in C9. What? There will be a...