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Old School Education for Y5
The sun shone for Y5 Victorian Day which saw them dressing up in historically inspired outfits and receiving their lessons from from newly strict teachers! Students had already spent time…
World Book Day Dress-Up
In Lower School we delayed the dressing up part of World Book Day (which fell during lockdown) and allowed our students to let their imaginations fly on the last day…
Feeling The Rhythms With Year 5
In Year 5 our students have been using dance to express themselves. In the Y5 newsletter Mollie and Micaela explained what they’ve been up to: “In drama lessons we’ve done…
Making History With Y8
Year 8 students have been learning all about the slave trade in their History lessons this term. They were tasked with designing memorials to those whose lives were lost as…
Lockdown Portraits By Year 8
We’ve all seen a lot more of our own faces than we’re used to during lockdown (thanks Zoom!) but for our Year 8 artists this was a source of inspiration….
Pop Art Portraits – A Hit For Year 6
Walking past the Year 6 classrooms you can’t help but notice the bright and bold portraits covering one wall of Adele’s room. 6S have been busy looking at pop art…
Upper School Show Trailer is live!
Because the Upper School Show couldn’t go ahead with an audience last term – it was filmed in socially distanced bubbles and has been edited into a fabulous film. Here is a teaser ahead of (fingers crossed) an official premier screening at the beginning of May.
A level Film Students Sounding Good
Foley sound – Year 12 Film Students Foley editing is named after Jack Foley, who was working in the early days of Hollywood. Before we had technology such as boom…
Two Sides to Every Poem – Blake-Inspired Verse by Y9
English students in Year 9 have been studying Wiliam Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’. Teacher Zoe explains: “These poems are influenced by Blake’s ‘The Lamb’ from ‘Songs of…
Well Versed In History – Y8 WW1 Poems
Students in Y8 have been looking at the poetry which came out of WW1 and writing their own verses, inspired by the war poets. Here are three of their moving…
