Year 11 Charity Day

Last Friday our Year 11 pupils rounded off the time before their study leave with a splendid Own Clothes Day as well as a collection of food and other items for the Food Bank at St Catherine's Church … [Read more...]

Year 11 Chapel Service

On their last Friday before going on study leave next week, Year 11 decided that they'd like to make an extra visit to the Chapel. … [Read more...]

Year 11 History Revision

Mrs Wideman’s History class used post-it notes this week to do some ‘Active Revision’.  They had to collect facts relating to the different topics they have been studying and then group them … [Read more...]

Bookworms – Year 11

The Year 11 Bookworms met for the last time on Friday before their move to the Lower Sixth.  The book was The Long Walk by Stephen King.  For a short novel there was an awful lot to say about it and … [Read more...]

Alistair’s Advertising Success At Sheffield United

Alistair Wood in Year 11 has been approached by Sheffield United Football Club to design and produce advertising for the club. … [Read more...]

Year 11 Making Moby

Following their debate about the respective merits of Moby and Buckley, the Year 11 GCSE Music students moved on to develop their understanding of Moby's Why does my heart feel so bad?, as part of … [Read more...]

Year 11 Music Debate

As part of their GCSE Music course, our Year 11 students took part in a spectacularly passionate debate in a recent class, with the argument being: 'Is Moby or Buckley more inspirational to teenage … [Read more...]

Year 11 Extract Onion DNA

After studying the structure of Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as part of their IGCSE Biology studies, Year 11 spent a lesson extracting DNA from onion cells, using cold ethanol to obtain fine strands of … [Read more...]

Year 11 Debating Success

Many congratulations to Jacob Beaumont, Georgia Hills and Gabriel Ketzer in Year 11 who won their first-round heat in the English Speaking Union’s Public Speaking Competition for Schools.  Jacob, … [Read more...]

Christmas Gifts For Our Troops

Our Year 10 and 11 pupils have clubbed together to send Christmas gifts to our troops in Afghanistan.  Chewing gum, razors, pot noodles, biscuits and the troops’ favourite .... Haribos (!), as … [Read more...]