Category: Newsletter
BBC Gardeners Worlds Live – Meal in a Barrow Competition
BBC Gardeners Worlds Live – Meal in a Barrow Competition For the Meal in a Barrow competition, students from Years 7, 8 and 9, along with some keen staff gardeners, came together to design a recipe, the ingredients of which could all be grown in a wheelbarrow. Thanks to the kind donations of plants from […]
view postKS4/5 History Film Club
To start the year off, we watched A Knight’s Tale, a lesser known film starring the late Heath Ledger. It follows the peasant-born William Thatcher on a quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. The film, taking its title from Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Knight’s […]
View postSummer II Newsletter
Headteacher’s Introduction Dear Parents and Carers, I am delighted to introduce our summer term newsletter. You will see from this the wide range of opportunities, activities, extra curricular provision and superb achievements that the girls have been involved with this term.At the end of this term, we say goodbye to the following members of staff; […]
View postYear 10 RAF Brize Norton
Twenty-two year 10 students visited RAF Brize Norton and really enjoyed themselves. We went there with no huge interest in the RAF but with a curiosity to find out more and it has really opened our eyes to a possible career in the RAF. All of the personnel we met were friendly and approachable – […]
View postYear 10 Industry Day
For Careers day I went to Land rover. It was an absolutely amazing experience, which taught me a lot about the company itself. To begin with we were given a presentation on Land rover and a bit of background information. In 2008 they were taken over by India’s Tata Motors, which took them out of […]
View postYear 10 German Exchange
11 other students and I had the opportunity to visit Kaufbeuren, a small town near Munich in Germany, on an exchange last week. We spent a weekend with our host families when we arrived, emerging ourselves into the German lifestyle. During the week we were able to visit an outdoor monkey zoo, where we could interact with the […]
View postYear 10 GCSE Art and Design Visit
On June 28th, Year 10 Art GCSE students visited the Lapworth Museum of Geology and Barber Institute of Fine Arts, both located locally as part of Birmingham Universtiy. Pupils were provided with many opportunities to observe art and natural forms and handle precious artefacts such as ammonites, the skull of a sabre tooth cat and […]
View postYear 9 Residential Whitemoor Lakes
For our Year 9 residential, we were given the choice to either go to Rhineland, Germany or Whitemoor Lakes, Lichfield. As you can probably tell I choose to go to Whitemoor Lakes. Unlike the smaller group of year 9s that had chosen to go the Germany, we left school in the morning on Monday 10th […]
View postYear 9 Residential Boppard
On July 7th 44 students and 5 teachers arrived in Boppard, Germany. Our three full days in Germany were filled with exciting activities the teachers had planned for us. Everyone who went on the trip fully enjoyed the experience. Throughout our visit to Boppard we learnt a lot about the history of Boppard and we […]
View postBest Nuffield Research Placement Project
Engineer of the future, Mariyam Bi – Best Nuffield Research Placement project in the West Midlands Region. In the summer of 2016 I took part in a Nuffield Research placement at Coventry University, this involved 4 weeks of research in an academic setting. My project was to develop a cheap microscope using a glass bead […]
View postYear 8 Activity Day Saltmine Theatre Company
On Friday 7th July, for activity day, year 8 was treated to a special visit from Saltmine Theatre Company. They performed a short show for us about radicalisation and extremism, because they were the important themes that our activity day was based around. They also led a workshop with us where we got to ask […]
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