Category: Senior School

15 January 21

This week Year 9 (III Group) pupils in Ben’s 3D Design lessons were challenged to create a typographic portrait. Kate went even further and did her make up to express a mixture of current emotions. Kate said: “This is the plan that I chose. The colours represent creativity, madness and happiness.” Head of 3D Design…

11 January 21

Last week pupils in Year 7 (I Group) produced some amazing looking cheese scones in their cookery group as part of their PSHE lesson with Becky. Thanks to Ben, Rose, Felix and Troy for sending in these pictures. We hope that our Year 7 pupils and their families enjoyed eating the scones!

10 December 20

This week, Senior School pupils and staff voted for their 2021 Major Officials, who are all Year 12 (LVI) students.  Voting would normally take place via voting booths, but we had to change this to an electronic voting system this year. The winning candidates are: Head Girl: Amy Bloomfield Head Boy: Dreyfus Southall Deputy Head…

20 November 20

To mark Remembrance Day, Becky and Ros’s Company in Year 11 (V Group) held a raffle this week in aid of The Royal British Legion. The charity normally relies on door-to-door sales of poppies to bring in the funds that they use to help the armed forces, ex-service men and their families.  Unfortunately, due to…

19 November 20

This week Year 11 (V Group) pupils have taken part in an A level subject fair in the Sports Hall – speaking to different subject teachers about A level options. They also spent a morning listening to talks by current Sixth Form pupils, hearing from them about what it’s really like to study a subject!…

19 November 20

Some great motte-and-bailey castles designed by Year 7 (I Group) history pupils this week and made out of a variety of materials… concrete, cake, lego, marshmallows and some shredded wheat!

13 November 20

This week saw Year 10 (IV Group) taking part in the St Chris Bake Off. Their task was to bake the best bread. We were so impressed with the high-level skills that students showed us. Hot cross buns; Christmas spiced garland bread with freshly made strawberry jam; garlic bread and brioche with a chocolate dip…

13 November 20

On Thursday our Year 11 (V Group) drama pupils performed their GCSE drama assessments in the theatre, to pupils in Year 11 and socially distanced members of staff! They prepared monologues or duologues on the theme of isolation and there was some really beautiful, very moving work. There was a mixture of pupils specialising in…

6 November 20

Yesterday Year 11 competed in the V Group Bake Off. Much fun was had as pupils were given the task of creating a Swiss roll…quite a technical challenge! It was tough to judge but the eventual winners were Raff G, Hamish H and Saul H – well done all!

23 October 20

Opportunities to run trips are limited at the moment, but our intrepid A Level Geography students ventured into London this term for their first data collection day. The location was Stratford in East London, where the areas around Stratford New Town and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park were studied against a range of criteria. A…