Books are powerful!  With reading stories, anything and anywhere is possible - travel to distant places and times, as well as jumping into someone else's life or understanding more about our own. To celebrate World Book Day on 7th March, students in Y7 enjoyed posing in front of the green s...

Kooth is a mental health service and they have arranged a 45 minute virtual training session on how you can support your child to manage exam stress.   This will be particularly helpful for parents/carers of students in Y10/Y11/Y12/Y13 The training will cover the following...

All week, students have been thinking about possibilities for their future, with form-time activities and our Futures Fair.  In form, students have been looking at Goal Setting (self improvement is a key employability skill), What Could Be (what aspects of work motivate you, what the positives...

On the last day before the February half term holiday, the geography department A level Iceland visit departed safely, despite a fissure eruption on Iceland and the snap cold weather in the UK threatening to make things a little more uneasy then usual! Luckily neither got in their way and on th...

All our KS3 students have been working on their entry for this year’s Everyone A Writer competition in their English lessons. They have produced written work inspired by the theme “Proud” and have explored concepts such as cultural pride, their role models and their own personal ac...

Our Y10 students experienced a live performance of Macbeth when the Quantum Theatre Company visited school on 21st February. This was a great opportunity to see the play on stage, and Y10 will study this play for their GCSE in English Literature - an invaluable experience organised by the En...