News
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School Update – The End & The Beginning
The following message was sent out to parents on Wednesday 13 July: We are just dropping you a line as we enter the final run in before the Summer Holidays so that you are fully updated for what will be a hectic last few days. Please be assured everything […]
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Sports Day
We were delighted to see saw the return of the whole school Sports Day – it is historically a big event for the school and it was fantastic to see it back. The schedule was jam-packed with activities with field events happening in the morning and then track events and […]
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Year 10 Geography Field Trips
Year 10 Geographers recently undertook the compulsory human and physical field trip components of their GCSE course. The physical field trip involved a visit to Oakamoor to measure the characteristics of a river – standing in a river measuring stone sizes and shapes has never been so exciting! Students also […]
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Garrick House Celebration Assembly – Summer Term 2022
The Garrick House Celebration Assembly for the Summer Term saw multiple winners celebrated including: Academic Progress Awards: These awards are based on both results and progress so all students can take an award no matter what their ability: Year 10 – Emily Clarkson, Phoebe Hansen, Rosie Murray, Myla Lyford, Felix Emanual, Joseph […]
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Seward House Celebration Assembly – Summer Term 2022
The Seward House Celebration Assembly for the Spring Term saw multiple winners celebrated including: Academic Progress Awards: These awards are based on both results and progress so all students can take an award no matter what their ability: Year 10 – Alice Thackaberry, Rowan Wilson, Finbar Birchall, Chanelize Bradshaw, Poppy Grimshaw, […]
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Darwin House Celebration Assembly – Summer Term 2022
The Darwin House Celebration Assembly for the Summer Term saw multiple winners celebrated including: Academic Progress Awards: These awards are based on both results and progress so all students can take an award no matter what their ability: Year 10 – Samuel Wright, Ben Fairchild, Lauren Mace, Harriet Dadds, Evie Roberts, […]
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Silver Duke of Edinburgh Group Battle to Success
Students navigated their way from Waterhouses to Ilam over a three day expedition to earn their Silver Award within our Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme provision. They successfully completed the 20 conditions required for this section of the award and worked together to navigate, cook, camp and keep up spirits […]
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Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Success
A record number of over 50 Year 10 students have successfully been able to plan, prepare, navigate and demonstrate camp craft skills to successfully complete their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme assessed expedition. Students walked just over 10 miles each day, navigating their way around Staffordshire’s Cannock Chase area, […]
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Year 7 & 8 County Athletics Championships
After the recent Cannock and District Athletics events at Aldersley Stadium, eight pupils from Year 7 and 8 qualified to represent Staffordshire at the County Championships. Amongst many highlights, Ellie Irvine’s (Y7) high jump cleared 1.15m to finish 6th. Annie Evans (Y8) threw three discus and her first attempt […]
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Year 12 Trip to Twycross Zoo
As part of their A-Level Biology course, Year 12 students ventured off to Twycross Zoo in order to meet tigers, giraffes, lemurs, snow leopard, meerkats and more besides. The visit was part of their studies on biodiversity and classification of species and provided practical examples to apply to the theory […]
