Tuesday afternoon saw our Annual Presentation of Awards Ceremony hosted at the Villa Marina. The ceremony included speeches by Mrs Brereton, our Chair of Governors, Mr. Coole, our Head Teacher and reviews of the year by student representatives from each Key Stage. A full set of award winner photogr…
Date for the diary - the 2019 Employment & Skills Event will take place at the Villa Marina on Thursday 7th November between 9am to 5pm. More details the follow!
The chance to sample home made cakes, have a cup of tea and chat was well received by both staff and students today. At our 'Tea and Talk' event, in recognition of World Mental Health Day, students had the opportunity to find out more about the support available for mental health issues and engage…
It was lovely to see so many parents of our new Year 7 students at the ‘Meet the Tutor’ evening at Lower School last week. Thank you to everyone who completed the parental survey, which indicates that our students are settling in very well. 95% of parents reported that they feel their child is happ…
On Tuesday 8th October, Year 7 embraced a dropdown day designed to develop an aspect of their year group ethos: ‘Teamwork’. The students were grouped into their houses and rotated around a variety of team challenges encouraging positivity, communication, respect, dedication, willingness and adaptab…
Thursday 10th October is World Mental Health Day and we would like to mark this in school in a number of ways. On Thursday lunch time we will be holding 'Tea and Talk' event in the upper school hall which is open to students and staff. There will not be a charge for this, but donation buckets for R…
The coming months will provide several opportunities for Year 11 to consider their future pathways. Over the next few weeks Year 11 will participate in CV writing tutorials, giving them the opportunity to develop their CVs using the guidance given by employed.im, building on the work they started i…
Winners of the epraise prize draw for a free drink at Costa have been announced with ten lucky students from Years 10,11, 12 and 13 receiving their prize. Congratulations to those students who won and many thanks to Costa for their support of our rewards system.
Last week 32 Year 9 students travelled to Manchester’s Media City in recognition of their success with the Core Skills BBC Young Reporter Challenge which they completed whilst in Year 8. The Challenge was to produce a video news report about an area they felt strongly about. Topics included: Plasti…