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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...
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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
One might wonder how we could get students to still get a decent practical experience with remote learning in subjects such as Food Technology, but as is shown below, the students...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
Year 11 are fabulous home cooks! Mrs Hanbury’s Year 11 GCSE group have not let learning from home stop them accessing the food skill side of Food Preparation and Nutrition....
Posted by Alison Hanbury
It was a very enjoyable lesson to be in the food tech kitchen on Friday, making vegetable soup with a few year 7s that are currently in school during the latest lockdown. The...
Posted by David Chalkley
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 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 remotely from home.
I was impressed with the online attendance and thanked students for their hard work in these challenging times. It was good to speak to Emily and Cameron about their outstanding work in Mrs Amao and Mrs Bowyer’s technology classes.
Emily’s group were researching packing for various products to prepare them for the practical work where they will create their own uniquely designed packaging.
Cameron was using some new 3D design software to create a marble run which will be physically made in lessons next week. The challenge is for the marble to move, but as slowly as possible!
It was impressive to see the high engagement and excellent work being completed.
I attended a workshop by Manisha and Karam from HSBC on investing. They shared key insights into investing to the business and economics students. They defined investing as...
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...