The year 7 cricket team have carried on their winning streak with a 6 wicket win over Kings Heath in the Stacey Jackson Jackson Cup. Ibrahim Gulzar hit 16 and Hamid Kazi 20 runs to easily take us past a total of 80 scored by Kings Heath.
Cherry Orchard Primary School have enjoyed the use of our playing fields over the course of the year and most recently held a very successful Sports Day. As another part of our community links Holyhead School approached us to help them with a Year 5/6 Primary Rounders Festival. This was organised and held on Wednesday 19th June on our School fields where for the first time the primary children were able to use properly marked out pitches. Three Primary schools attended and had a thoroughly enjoyable time.
On The 4th of July the current Year Sevens, who did not go to Whitemoor Lakes, went on the trip to the RAF museum in Cosford. In the museum the pupils got to see engines over the years which showed them how much technology has advanced .They also got to see planes and videos of them in use, weaponry used in the cold war and many armoured vehicles. We enjoyed the trip thoroughly.
At Cosford we were divided into two groups. The first place our group went to was the Iron Curtain Cold War section which had models of most of the planes that were in the war. In the museum was a sculpture of James May. This was because he built a plane that was in the museum; also in the museum were some paintings which were amazing.
We were very privileged to be let on the Junilers tri motor aircraft and go into the cockpit. Usually the 4th of July is remembered for Independence Day however, we will remember it as an amazing trip to the RAF Cosford Museum.
Written By: Lewis Allen , Brandon Cunningham-blackwood and Amar Bhullar.
Edited By: Cairo Ubiaro and Karthi Kabilan
Between July 3rd and 5th a number of Year 7 students went on a residential trip to Whitemoor Lakes. The centre is just outside Birmingham, near Alrewas (north of Lichfield, Staffordshire) and it took us around forty minutes to get there.
We all took part in various activities. These included canoeing, raft-building, archery, zip wire, fencing, climbing, abseiling and many more. The two water sports (canoeing and raft-building) took place in the 40 acre lake that the site boasted. On Wednesday (the day we arrived), we had 3 activities, on Thursday 4 (plus a camp fire) and on Friday 1.
There were four ‘lodges’ where everyone slept during their stay. In each lodge there were around twelve dormitories which contained a bunk-bed, two single beds and had an en-suite bathroon.
During our stay, we were served high-class food over three meals. Breakfast was at 8:30am, Lunch 1:00pm and Dinner/Tea at 6:00pm. We had a good variety of food to choose from however, if you did get a bit peckish in between meals you could purchase a snack or refreshment at the ‘Trading Post’ shop or, alternatively, buy something from the vending machine.
Overall, Whitemoor Lakes was a brilliant trip and we had a really enjoyable stay. I would definitely go again as it’s a great place to do things you haven’t done before.
Gugandeep Sohal 7N
The following are some Student views on the recent trip to Whitemoor Lakes:
On Tuesday 16 April, 30 Year 10 students headed to Birmingham University to enjoy, firstly, a tour of the Campus and, secondly, to hear the annual Institute of Physics Lecture. This year’s offering, ‘Defying Gravity’, was delivered by Laura Thomas and covered how Physics has allowed us to travel into space, how scientists create materials to withstand the extreme conditions above the Earth’s atmosphere, and how entrepreneurs are opening up space to new generations through space tourism.
Congratulations to Year 12 student Gulfraz Ahmed who, on Thursday 20 June, received an award as our ‘Physics Student of the Year’ for Birmingham and Solihull Schools at a ceremony held at Birmingham University’s Physics Department. The certificates were presented by the Head of School (of Physics and Astronomy) Professor Andy Schofield and Wendy Cox, representing The Ogden Trust, who sponsor the prizes. Gulfraz, together with other award winners and invited guests, also enjoyed a tour of the Department and heard a lecture by Professor David Evans, Particle Physics Researcher at Birmingham, about Birmingham’s work at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Mr P Jones
On Citizenship Day the year 10 students had a presentation by the police terrorism squad who explained to the students what to look for and the processes followed by the Police. They gave some scenarios and the students had to role play certain situations. An informative presentation.
The year 8 students had a World Cup day. They had to research a country from the 2012 World Cup and throughout the day present information they had gathered. The groups were awarded points for the tasks they did, they also had a 7 aside football tournament. It was a fun day and some really interesting work was produced
