Our History Department is finalising plans for a visit to New York for around 40 pupils during October half-term.
The trip will take in visits to Ellis Island, Liberty Island, a wide range of museums and cheesecake shops! During the visit, pupils will maintain image and video blogs to keep parents updated throughout the trip.
You can follow the build-up on our website as the event gets nearer.
The ICT Department will be holding a 2-hour session on Saturday morning to help our GCSE students, as the coursework deadline approaches.
The session will run from 10am-12pm, so pupils will be home in time for the rugby!
The GCSE Art and Design trip to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford will now be leaving school Monday 1st February 2010 at 8am, not 7am as previously documented.
The pupils are to bring their Art Exam sketchbook and equipment, a packed lunch, a camera and £2 for postcards (if possible).
It is a non uniform event, please advise pupils to wear sensible footwear and warm clothes.
With our impending half-term coursework deadline for ICT and the recent weather disruption, pupils are really taking advantage of the extra ICT lessons on offer.
Up until half term, pupils will be able to stay and put in extra time on their coursework for up to two hours per night. Head of Department, Mr. C. Thomas said: "Normally, pupils in a GCSE class would get 150 minutes with a specialist ICT teacher per week. In this run-up to our coursework deadline, we are giving away a massive 480 minutes of contact time per week. This will have an enormous impact on the result for any pupil smart enough to take advantage of it."
Congratulations to Year 11 pupil Daniel Thomas on gaining a place on the 2010 National Youth Brass Band of Wales!
Daniel has been playing the Euphonium for two years and has won one of only 4 euphonium places in the band which is regarded as the pinnacle of youth brass music in Wales and as one of the finest National youth ensembles in the world.
Whilst I hope you are having enjoyable snow days, for those of you that are beginning to be concerned about the time missed with examinations looming these are a few things you can be working on
All those students taking unit 2 in March please refer to you homework booklets/revision guides for the list of topics that need to be covered. In particular, ensure that you able to competently complete all fractions calculations using the questions in the booklet or using sites such as www.mymaths.co.uk to aide revision and practice.
Mother nature closing the school doesn't mean that you should miss out on some ICT theory!
For your examination in the summer, you will be asked detailed questions in the following areas. We will be concentrating on theory when your coursework is finally completed, but all revision is good and any extra time you can put in will be beneficial. The areas are:
Robotic & Embedded Control
Click here for information to help you with the GCSE Art and Design paper.
The guidlines are to help you while you are off school due to the poor weather.
After some heroic work by our caretaking staff, we are pleased to announce that we will be open as normal tomorrow (Friday, 14th January).
We would like to thank parents for their patience during this difficult period of poor weather. With a thaw predicted for the weekend, the present cold snap appears to be coming to an end. As always, any further developents will be posted on our website first.
Due to the continuing poor weather, the school will be closed to pupils. Staff will be required to attend for a 10.am start.
Staff are working hard to clear the premises of ice and we are hoping to open as normal on Tuesday.
Should this situation change, this our website will be updated by 7.30am. tomorrow morning.
