This week With Year 11 starting their mock examinations, as is usual at this time of year, our main assembly moved to an alternative rota for Years 7-10. This week’s theme focused on Peace. This follows on from our Remembrance assemblies a fortnight ago. The assemblies began with cast members from our Wizard of Oz school production speaking about their experience in the show, followed by a recording and photo montage from the production. We may now have Over the…
This week Anti-Bullying week was launched with Odd Socks Day on Monday followed all week by assemblies on the same theme. These began with a brilliant performance by our Black Box drama students. The assembly was then based on information from the Anti-Bullying Alliance and included a powerful video read by young people from across the UK who had experienced bullying themselves. Students were encouraged to speak out against bullying and to not be bystanders when they see people being…
This week We have held Remembrance assemblies all week with all year groups. These included speeches from two of our fabulous History Ambassadors who talked about the origins of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance and the famous poem, “In Flanders Fields”, by John McCrae. At the end of assembly we all stood, observed the Last Post (played by one of our musicians) and held a minute’s silence. As usual, no doubt many of our students will also be…
This week We managed to escape the worst of Storm Ciarán on Thursday to welcome hundreds of Year 11 students and their parents/carers to our Sixth Form Open Evening. It was great to see so many of our own students keen to find out what life in the Sixth Form is like and to consider which of the many subjects we offer would interest them the most. We were pleased to see such a large number of students from other…