Cakes with Kush
By Dayna and Luxman Have you ever wondered why your cake rises, and what gives it its delectable fluffiness? Or even why your cakes always turned out like flat failures? Well Kush...
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By Dayna and Luxman Have you ever wondered why your cake rises, and what gives it its delectable fluffiness? Or even why your cakes always turned out like flat failures? Well Kush...
Posted by Sarah Jackson
Our last week of term was FLAIR week 2022, a chance for students to get involved in many of the additional activities and opportunities offered by the amazing teaching staff at...
Posted by Victoria Hargreaves
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Posted by Victoria Hargreaves
Last Friday morning our More Able Coordinator Ms Hargreaves inspired us to think about exciting plans for this year’s Flair Week, taking place during the last week of term....
Posted by Jeremy Turner
In my Gusto booklet, which contains lots of fun activities, there were a few pages which really caught my attention. Law and Psychology. I have always been interested in...
Posted by Victoria Hargreaves
I had some free time during the Christmas break, so I started flicking through the GUSTO booklet which I got at the More Able evening. I like science so I went to the science...
Posted by Victoria Hargreaves
It was superb to welcome so many students and their parents and carers at our three sessions for our increasing number of More Able students on Tuesday evening this week. Led by...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
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Posted by Victoria Hargreaves
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Posted by Lauren Wright
Forty of our year 11 students were treated to hot chocolate and pastries in the sixth form centre on Wednesday morning as part of our Flair initiative to receive a ‘Shine in...
Posted by Lauren Wright
By Dayna and Luxman
Have you ever wondered why your cake rises, and what gives it its delectable fluffiness? Or even why your cakes always turned out like flat failures? Well Kush from 8M did. And he was determined to find out.
As he sat in his science lesson he always wondered how to be better then the Gusto more-able booklet came long. The Gusto booklet allowed him to be challenged but also have fun while doing it. As a very curious person, the Gusto project enabled Kush to reach his potential. Looking through the book Kush saw an abundance of different types of tasks, but the one that called out to him was the Chemistry task.
This Chemistry task was about what made bread rise. Most people would have said yeast, but Kush went above and beyond and looked at the chemical makeup of this. Due to an amazing evaluation, Kush was given an extension task which appealed to him. Using both of Kush’s interests (cooking and science) Kush had to spend his time making two cakes, one with alleviating agents, and one without.
As we can see here is Kush’s final product in which he created two cakes. We can see one rose and one did not. Kush wrote an evaluation which outlined every single ingredient.
Kush found his passion due to this activity and you can do the same. Maybe one day this will be you.
Forty of our year 11 students were treated to hot chocolate and pastries in the sixth form centre on Wednesday morning as part of our Flair initiative to receive a ‘Shine in...
Three of our Maths Student Leaders had the privileged experience of joining in with the first part of the Maths Faculty Meeting on Wednesday 25th March 2021. Coinciding with our...