STEM club students have been getting into the Halloween spirit by making spooky magnetic slime. They learned about cross-linked polymers and ferromagnetism, then experimented to find the right properties and consistency. They were able to make slime that would follow and even swallow their magnet...

On 29th September our Y10 Performing Arts students performed an original piece of theatre on the Crucible stage as part of the Sheffield Theatres Response Project. The students watched Dancing at Lughnasa and then through a series of workshops responded to the play, it's themes and set to create...

At the beginning of October, representatives from the University of Cambridge came to speak to Y12 students who are considering applying to Oxford/Cambridge. The Y12s enjoyed hearing from current Cambridge University students about why they chose to go to university, what life is like at uni...

At Meadowhead, our Maths curriculum aims to build students’ problem-solving skills. Before the summer, Y9 students were given one of four percentages problems. They were asked to work in pairs to discuss how to approach the problem and write a method for their solution. It was a great chanc...

On Thursday14th August Meadowhead’s Sixth Formers received results that are on course to be the best ever in both attainment and progress. On an incredibly positive morning, students and their families joined Meadowhead staff to open their results. The quality of the results is an incr...

We were delighted to welcome Ken Cook CBE, Meadowhead’s first headteacher, to the assembly hall on Thursday 17th July 2025 to lead the presentations of the Cook Shield and the Sports Day Cups. Mr Cook was first appointed deputy headteacher to our predecessor school, Jordanthorpe, in 1973, and...