Ms Wharton (Head of Geography) has been selected as a member of the GB Team for the Sprint Age Group Triathlon which will take place in Geneva, Switzerland in July. We wish her all the very best as she continues to train hard.

The word of the week commencing 4th May 2015 is: Patience.

This means the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.

“you can find bargains if you have the patience to sift through the rubbish”

The display is produced by the student librarians.

This display can be found in our Library.

The majority of Year 7 pupils will be attending the Whitemoor Lakes residential from Monday 11^th May to Wednesday 13^th May. Pupils have been provided with a kit list for the visit, a copy of which is attached below.

Pupils should arrive for school in non-uniform and take their suitcases to the Main Hall. We will depart for Whitemoor Lakes at 10.00am, looking to arrive by 11.00am. Pupils should remember to bring along with them a packed lunch for the first day (pupils on free school meals will have a packed lunch provided), as our first meal at the centre will be at approximately 6.00 pm.

Please also be aware that any electronic gadgets e.g. mobiles phones, iPod etc. are brought to the visit at their own risk, the school cannot take any liability for these items. Pupils may want to bring along some spending money we suggest no more than between £5 – £10 in change for the pool table and vending machines.

We aim to return to school on Wednesday 13^th May at 2.30 pm and arrangements need to be made for the pupils to take their luggage home.

Kit List

Site Rules & Conditions of use

Mr M Mohsin

Corporate Session | Competency Reference

On Monday 27^th April 2015, a number of our year 12 students, who participate in the ENVISION programme, attended a Competency Reference session lead by Tim Knappett and Charles Lea from ENVISION. The session was centred round the efforts of the volunteering staff from Interserve, who continue to work with the school to help develop our students’ personal skills.

Interserve is one of the world’s foremost support services and construction companies. They are listed in the FTSE 250 index and have gross revenues of £3.3 billion and a workforce of circa 80,000 people worldwide

As part of the corporate session, which took place in our new £1.6 million Sixth Form Centre, the coaches from Interserve circulated round the teams and took turns sharing their personal success stories; as well as the best advice they were given to help overcome their challenges. The next phase of the session involved the Interserve coaches acting as Personal Skills Advisors, during which they engaged the students in a conversation about the work they did in order to deliver their projects.

The information gathered from each student will then be used to write a Personal Competency Reference that will serve to showcase the skills developed whilst carrying out their projects. This will then be presented to the students in the form of a Competency Reference Certificate, which they can use when applying for jobs and University places in the future.

On Saturday 25 April 2015 a group of Year 7 students headed to the National Space Centre in Leicester. This was a visit organised for the people that had attended the extra-curricular Science Club. We left school at about 10am on Saturday and we had arrived by 11am. We checked in and received our tickets. Mr Jones then announced that we had free time, which meant that we could explore for ourselves in groups. We had about an hour to look around the exhibits before meeting again near the globe (a very big model of the planet Earth) so that we could all go into the Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium to see a film called ‘We are aliens’.  After lunch we made our way to the 3d Simulator where, after having a ‘mission briefing’, enjoyed a ride during which we saw and felt all the crashes and the movements that happen in space travel. When the ride was over Mr Mohsin told us it was time to go, after a great day out.

Yashryan Singh Mahi 7W