Developing ‘Executive Functions’ in our Learners
Even in this last week of term, staff were sharing best practice in our usual morning Staff Briefings and we were privileged to hear from Mr Chalkley, Head of Design and...
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Even in this last week of term, staff were sharing best practice in our usual morning Staff Briefings and we were privileged to hear from Mr Chalkley, Head of Design and...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The Year 9’s were welcomed into D&T Food for the language enrichment day. They had a very sweet day baking Magdalenas and Madeleines. What are Spanish magdalenas? In English,...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
It has certainly been a very different first half term back but despite all that’s going on in the world, it has been fantastic to have my textiles classroom back in action, with...
Posted by Niralee Pattni
The Year 13 food science and nutrition students have had a few decisions to make with regards to the course units because of covid. WJEC said they will disregard Year 12 and base...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Year 11 GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition group have made an excellent return to practical skills in the kitchen. They had been learning about food hygiene issues when using raw...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Over the past few weeks, our students have been working on the D&T monster project. They were asked to challenge themselves by creating their very own monstrous characters...
Posted by Niralee Pattni
“Go to work on an egg” was an advertising slogan used by the United Kingdom’s Egg Marketing Board during the 1950s and 1960s I have no idea why we needed to...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Calling all students! We have now launched the D&T Monster challenge! Using resources that you have at home, make us a monster of your own! You can be as creative as you like!...
Posted by Niralee Pattni
In 1985, the British singer Billy Ocean, released a song called “When the going gets tough, the tough get going”. The meaning behind this No1 chart hit was; when...
Posted by David Chalkley
I continue to be inundated with delicious looking food my students have been making from the planned activities I have been sending home. I am particularly proud of my Year 10’s...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
Even in this last week of term, staff were sharing best practice in our usual morning Staff Briefings and we were privileged to hear from Mr Chalkley, Head of Design and Technology share how he is developing greater independence in their learning with all his students. Encouraging them all to develop ‘executive functions’ to find their own solutions to problems they may encounter and ensuring that they have a packed toolbox of learning characteristics is key. He also showcased the online platform Seneca which we would encourage all our students to be using on a daily basis and work on achieving those marginal gains – a 1% improvement every day for a year secures nearly 40% improvement overall – worth aiming for!

Below are the results for points accumulated in November. Wow!! What an amazing effort from Abhi and Djani!! Both smashed last month’s individual record which was 4468...
It was a real pleasure to see the year 10 3D design class working so hard on a Friday afternoon. This half term they are focusing on improving the quality of their practical work...