A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!!

Please come along to our Presentation Evening next Wednesday evening which is being held in the Ken Turner Suite, here at the County Ground. It starts at 7pm for an hour and celebrates the end of our PFS term and gives everyone a chance to congratulate the young people on all of their hard work over the last 10 weeks.
Please access from the Abington avenue entrance and park in the rear car park.
We look forward to seeing you there!

The year 10 girls doing  the Arts Award programme had a creative evening last week when textile artist Glenn Close came in to work with them on creating a piece of art using Batik. They made their own designs inspired by the beautiful textiles Glenn brought in to show them. Then they learned how to use the hot wax to protect areas of the fabric from the dyes which were then applied with a fine brush to create some wonderful pieces.

This term we have trialed our new software ‘I Can Animate’. In small groups the students had to create a storyboard with either a sea rescue or space theme. Then with the use of Lego characters and pieces and a bit of background scenery, they took individual shots with the animation cameras, moving each piece a small bit at a time. The results were really good and imaginative: click on the links to view some of the animations.

Our three primaries have recently completed our ‘Club challenge”! This takes place over two weeks and 2 teams from each school go head to head to win the ‘Contract’ for the billionaire’s money. Team members can ‘apply’ to become Chairperson of their team and then go through a short interview before being nominated. Each team has to think of a team sport and design, stadium’s logos, mascots, website’s, kit etc. After the first week of decision making and preparation, the second week saw the culmination of all their hard work which they had to present in the form of a poster to the ‘billionaire’s secretary’. We had some great ideas and saw a lot of good ideas and team work.