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
In our last Friday Faculty Foci of the half term before the recent holiday, Deputy Headteacher Mr Searle launched this year’s Passport to the Prom Initiative with all staff...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
The Year 11 Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE group completed their final food assessment before half term This assessment is part of their NEA 2 which is worth 50% of the total...
Posted by Alison Hanbury
As part of our annual World Book Day celebrations we are holding a Book Bake-Off competition, open to all students in the school. The challenge is to bake a cake or series of...
Posted by Teresa Turton
On Friday 11th February, Year 8 and 9 were treated to two performances in Spanish and in French from the Onatti theatre company. We were very excited to offer this enrichment...
Posted by Victoria Hargreaves
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
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
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
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
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
The Yoto Carnegie Medal is awarded annually by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. Every spring, reading groups in...
Many of you will be aware that the BBC has been celebrating literature through the ages, culminating in the creation of a list of ‘100 Novels That Have Shaped Our World’. See...