Cadets Kit Issue, Amazing Art, lots of academies and hummus...
Year 9 Cadets Kit Issue
The Year 9 Cadets had their first form up when their new kit was issued to each of them. Here are the before and after photos! They all look very smart!
Amazing Art
Every now and then I get to witness something quite brilliant. Mr Haring came to see me on Thursday with this drawing by Bradlee Tarrant in Year 9. I had already caught up with Bradlee earlier this week when he shared a self-portrait that he had done during lockdown. He is brilliant!
Performing Arts Academy
Our Year 11 girls are preparing in the hope that we will be able to put on a great show at the end of this academic year. Here is their first full run through of Six.
Football Academy returns
Mr Hogg was delighted to be able to have training back on this week after a mix of online and face to face training.
Table Tennis Academy returns
Mrs Piwowar was very pleased with how her students in our Table Tennis Academy developed during lockdown thanks to the efforts which included weekly online sessions.
Apprentice Music Technician
Year 9 student, Robin Pightling, begun his voluntary work in the music department this week, as part of his DofE award. Robin, who studies both music performance and music technology, said, ‘I have been looking for some voluntary work to do for my DofE and I came up with the idea of re-stringing and maintaining the guitars and basses in the music department. I have quite a bit of experience working with and maintaining guitars having stripped down and completely rebuilt 2 guitars and restringing my own and friend’s guitars countless times.’ Needless to say, the Music Department is delighted to have Robin on board and say his help will make a significant contribution to the day to day running of the department. They tell me in his first hour he restrung no less than 4 guitars! Keep up the great work, Robin.
Fun Friday!
Fun Friday this week included Bingo, doughnuts, hot chocolate and a scavenger hunt!
Focaccia and Hummus
The Hospitality and Catering students have been producing some dishes from around the world with a real emphasis on creativity and presentation. The hummus and focaccia bread has been really successful with years nine and ten and I was very impressed by their ability to focus on taking a real pride in julienning vegetables – wonderful skills demonstrated. Well done!
Year 7 science
Mr Webber’s class have been looking at how lungs function this week. Here is Mr Webber showing how the lungs expands when air is pushed in to them.
Year 8 Maths
Joe Hosking, in 8T8, modelled his response to a challenging angle-related question incorporating algebra. The class really enjoyed his input and mathematical reasoning. Well done Joe.
Sixth Form guidance meetings
Over the past couple of weeks, our Sixth Form team have been meeting with our Years 11 students to discuss their A level options choices. They have been very impressed with their mindset and focus upon achieving the best GCSE results they can prior to starting Year 12 in September.
Principal’s Gold Certificates
Year 7 – Bella Giffard, Charlie Pettit and Abigail Mealin
Principal’s Silver Certificates
Year 7 – Joshua Rogers, Summer Faulkes, Christian Cornforth, Amelia Rogers, Noah Butler, Oliver Jones, Liam Baillie-Hogan, Sophie Nicholson and Charlie Grimley
Year 9 – Hannah Carr
Principal’s Bronze Certificates
Year 7 – Lottie Davis, Daytona Vickers, Callum Cliff, Amy Harrison, Jessica Mitchell, Liam Trapp, Jaden Trevelyan, Harry Smith, Jacob Tripp, Benjamin Watts, Bella Sherwood, Mya Hoskin, Alfie Mahoney-Bills, Emily Owen, Owen Ingram, William Denega and Willow Kendall
Year 8 – Curtis Poynton, Merissa Farrington, Iliana Lidstone, Cleo Fry, Finley Herbert, Alfie Walker-Fenner, Aj Alexander, Dylan Nock, Lauren Catt, Rebecca Glasson and Marcus De Lucis
Year 9 – Grace Povey, Penny Richards, Karl McMahon, Cameron Sengupta, Coral Rogers, Shelby Astley-Rubin and Kiela Weaver-Snarey
Students of the Week
Year 8 – Lauren Catt
Year 9 – Olivia Painter
Year 10 – Jack Bicknell
Year 11 – Lottie Prowse
Sixth Form – Toby Green
House Stars of the week
Year 7
Brunel – Elvin Fellows
Darwin – Cerys Lowe
Fawcett – Arisa Bejdo
Harrison – Tom Thorner
Kitson – Laila Heavens
Nearne – James Evers
Pengelly – Erin Bond
Year 8
Brunel – Ollie Clarke
Christie – Milo Marshall
Darwin – Megan Sellick
Fawcett – Daisy Gibbings
Harrison – Enrika Vasiliauskaite
Kitson – Kaitlin Wright
Nearne – Kevin Vieira
Pengelly – Poppy Wallace-Fisher
Year 9
Brunel – Keianna Fone
Christie – Charlotte Sweeney
Darwin – Charlie Fox
Fawcett – Aleasha Dunford
Harrison – Harrison Shaw
Kitson – Zachary Jones
Nearne – Robin Pightling
Pengelly – Shelby Astley-Rubin
Homework Stars of the week
Year 7
Brunel – Sophie Nicholson
Christie – Amara Phillips
Darwin – William Denega
Fawcett – Jayden Field
Harrison – Kayden Whittred
Kitson – Letoja Hoxha
Nearne – Lisa-Marie Szewczuk
Pengelly – Lyra Bowstead
Year 8
Brunel – Luke Le Huray
Christie – Amelia Read
Darwin – Mia Weston
Fawcett – Summer Connolly
Kitson – Tyler-Jay Stirling
Nearne – Maisey Green
Pengelly – Alfie Walker-Fenner
Year 9
Brunel – Taylor-Ann Floyd
Christie – Shania Blades
Darwin – Jo Oborn
Fawcett – Rose Bradley
Kitson – Emily Phillips
Nearne – Alana Mitchell
Pengelly – Millie Randall
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