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Year 8F re-visited and re-drafted their newspaper articles about the wreck of The Demeter cargo ship in Whitby. This event was noted in Act 2 Scene 1 of Dracula: The Play. 

Students were encouraged to use a range of different language techniques to create a tabloid style news article. They also…

Year 7 students created some eye catching posters for Anti- Bullying Week in Citizenship on Monday. This year's theme is 'Power For Good'.

We started our new units of work in KS3; 7/8F looking at place value and 7/8H looking at straight line graphs. To answer a regular question, "Mr Gordon when will I ever use this when I get a job?", we started the units by discussing and researching the possibilities. Students wrote a small…

Forest School today was about Remembrance Day and bonfire night. We talked with Anna about the red and purple poppies and what they meant and some children chose to make their own out of wood slices or clay. We did a poppy themed treasure hunt but the best part was getting to make a chocolate…

Year 7 have been well and truly warming up their voices recently.  Since September we have been dedicating time to singing and there have been all kinds of requests from Chris De Burgh to Benson Boone! Well done year 7.  Keep singing with enthusiasm!

As part of an introduction to our unit of work on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist', year 8 have been learning about Victorian workhouses.  They have done a great job of reading information and generating mind maps to introduce the context.  We look forward to exploring this text this…

This week we've been looking at Family Members and Daily Routine. Students were asked to write a paragraph in French about what they do on a weekend with their family.

Just before half term we ran our Inter House Scrabble competition. We had ten students from KS3 competing, and were very impressed with the quality of the words they came up with! Well done to all who took part. Look out for more Inter House Competitions throughout the year - they're a great way…

Year 7,8 and 9 have been helping the performing Art department to make bunting for the Christmas show. They have enjoyed practising their machine skills. 

Year 10 have been studying Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth' in great detail.  As part of their learning, they have been reimagining his play in the modern day.  Think famous actors, cityscapes and even space! We look forward to seeing the final results of Macbeth reimagined.

In their Citizenship lessons this week, Year 7 to 9 students learnt more about Green Careers as part of the national Green Careers Week.

We looked at video case studies of those who worked in green technologies or as part of an environmental charity- including 'The Ocean Cleanup'. As well as…

This week is Green Careers Week. In their Citizenship lesson, Year 10 and 11 students learnt all about what a green career is and which sectors offer green opportunities. 

Green jobs can include those that: Protect plant and animal species, help us to better understand planet earth, reduce the…