Image of Making spiders in cookery!
18 October 2022

Making spiders in cookery!

Students in 3S enjoyed asking spiders out of cocktail sticks, raisins and grapes! 

 

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14 September 2022

Mark Making Fun!

Students in KS3S enjoyed dancing to ‘I’m your man’ by Wham! for their ‘Squiggle while you wiggle’ session that helped them to build the gross motor skills needed to refine their mark making. Students then did some dough disco exercises followed by mark making and letter formation practice. We had…

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8 September 2022

KS4 Heroism Wow Day

KS4 are studying 'Heroism' in their English lessons. To stimulate their creative minds, students start all English topics with Wow Days which provide a range of concrete learning activities. They have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in wartime cooking, wartime outdoor games, building shelters with…

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8 July 2022

Measuring Objects with Kapla Blocks in Maths

Miss Scott’s / Mr Machaj’s maths groups have been using Kapla blocks to measure real world objects in Maths today. They worked really hard with staff and counted the blocks to estimate the lengths and widths. 

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1 July 2022

Year 11 Prom

Students and parents joined our Year 11 students before they departed for their Prom at Holland Hall. Students (and staff) had lots of fun celebrating their final day as Year 11's. 

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9 June 2022

Horticulture

Our Horticulture students has a very busy morning. They harvested vegetables, planted some cucumber plants and weeded the raised beds. 

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27 May 2022

Miss Scott’s class’ Jubilee Celebrations

KS3S had a wonderful day celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubille. We decorated cakes and biscuits, made crowns, had a tea party and played games outdoors with our KS3 friends. We even had a visit from Matilda, Frank and Mrs Darcy!

 

 

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24 May 2022

Key Stage 3 Poetry

Some of our KS3 students have written some brilliant poems about the ocean and the beach. 

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19 May 2022

Mr Mullen's Maths Lesson

In some of our Maths lessons, we have been revisiting some of the skills taught early in the year.  We have been re-discovering fractions, counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, understanding addition and subtraction and the inverse.  We have also developed our understanding of sequencing days of the week…

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19 May 2022

Mr Mullen's 'Lights, Camera, Action' English Lesson

In our English sessions we have begun to explore 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' play script.  In our lessons so far we have explored the features of the text and how it is different to other books they have read.  They came up with some amazing observations.

 

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28 April 2022

Mr Mullen's Applecast Farm Visit

Mr Mullen's English group visited Applecast Farm today.  They had a fantastic time and represented themselves and the school exceptionally.  All of the students loved feeding the animals and some students overcame their anxieties to have an amazing experience.  We finished our visit in the cafe…

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