This week the Year 12 Mentors took part in an enrichment day workshop with Miss Salway and Isle Listen. The Mentors undertook their initial training to become a mentor in September and October last year and have volunteered to help Year 10 students as part of the scheme, by meeting with their Year…
Last night we held our Charity Challenge school final. Despite all the uncertainty this year and having very little time to prepare, the teams did a great job of representing their charities. The winning group were advocating for Play Action International; they will now go on to represent the schoo…
Mrs Parr, Miss Reid and Mr Mason attended Willaston Primary school last week to deliver a History and Art session based around a recent SOLE question on the difference between a Leader and a Dictator. All students worked extremely hard and thoroughly enjoyed both sessions. Our staff have been very…
PC Lou Kennaugh has been meeting our Year 7s and delivering educational sessions on the dangers of class B and C drugs. The discussions have been good and students have engaged well. Mr Cretney Head of Year 7
Olivia Kniveton, one of our Y13 Health and Social Care Diploma students, was delighted to receive this beautiful card and flowers from our Lower School Unit students. Olivia has been on a work placement with them as part of the course and has particularly enjoyed joining them on their learning visi…
Mrs Parr, our Transition Co-ordinator has enjoyed engaging with the Year 6 teachers at Onchan School as they facilitate a SOLE (Self Organised Learning Environment) session about the big question “Is there a difference between a leader and a dictator?” This week she returned to Onchan with Mr Mason…
Following their full return to school, the Year 7s have been talking about fundraising for their chosen charity, the MSPCA. A combined £50 was raised with 7G running a stationery sale and 7C holding a cake sale respectively. Well done to all the students involved and thank you to their Tutors for h…
Our Spring rewards breakfast of pancakes with ice cream and hot chocolate with marshmallows was thoroughly enjoyed on Friday morning. We had Year 7 students who have shown the most improvement in ‘Skills’ Autumn to Spring, Year 8 students as nominated by their Tutors and Year 9 students with the mo…
Manx educational charity Junior Achievement has developed an exciting new initiative for the summer holidays. Young people aged 11 – 16 are being invited to take part in a business challenge with the chance of winning a prize. The charity will be running a series of workshops which have sponsored b…