News
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Y13 Debating Competition
The House Debating Competition officially launched with the Year 13 teams kicking off the competition. The title of the debate was ‘Child Poverty is not acceptable in the UK,’ which tied in with the Focus Week on the issue of child poverty. All students showed their debating skills, particularly when […]
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Prize Giving Evening
Our annual Prize Giving Evening saw students gain a wide range of awards to celebrate the many achievements from 2023-2024, with over 60 students being credited for their successes. The evening including Awards for: * Y8 Character Award Awards – for those students which completed their portfolio and have just […]
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Y12 Partnership Evening
Our Year 12 Partnership Evening welcomed in the parents of our latest Sixth Form cohort and painted a realistic but sobering picture of the post-18 landscape. This Y12 cohort recently obtained the highest GCSE-level results our school has ever obtained and they have the incentive of matching the highest A-Level […]
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Girls Football v Nether Stowe
We pulled together our girls’ teams for their first competitive fixtures of the school year – with Nether Stowe the opponent. Our U15 team played a great game, with determination and fantastic effort from all. Unfortunately, the end score did not represent how well they played. The result was a […]
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Staff Long Service Awards
We were delighted to work with our academy trust, The Primitas Learning Partnership, to stage a celebratory event for those staff who have served over 20+ years in our school. The event will be an annual one moving forward so this year saw a chance to catch up on overdue […]
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Y11 Netball Tournament
Our Year 11 girls took part in the in their last school netball tournament at Chase Terrace competing against 7 local schools. Our first opponents were Chase Terrace, and it was a game which we had a high percentage of the possession; while warming up and finding our groove we […]
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EDT Engineering Gold Programme
Year 12 students have recently successfully completed their participation on the fantastic EDT Gold Programme which is a scheme whereby a team of 4-6 Year 12 students work with a local company to design and create a real product to assist with a problem that may occur within the company. […]
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International Day of Democracy
As part of our Focus Week, we marked ‘International Day of Democracy’. As a school we know it is imperative for all young people to have an awareness of democracy and how this applies to the country we live in. Along with a team of students, Emma Mackenzie, our Head […]
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Library Book Sale
We are selling off books in our school library in order to raise additional funds to update our stock. The books are suitable for children and adults and include texts from authors like David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Harry Potter, Alex Rider, and David Baldacci. The books are only £1 each. […]
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Y7 Drama Club to ‘Coming to England’ at The Garrick
Y7 Drama Club students enjoyed a visit to The Garrick Theatre to see a play called ‘Coming to England’. The play depicted the events in the early life of Floella Benjamin focussing on her move from Trinidad to London in the 1950s. It was an upbeat, lively and funny production […]
