To come inside with National Non-Smoking Day and Substance Abuse Awareness Week, Assistant Headteacher, Mrs Woods, based her assembly on Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Children have the right to good quality health care, to clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment, so that they will [...]
Students from Icknield School, a special school based in Andover, have been baking this week with our Year 7 students. The two schools partnered up and baked cookies, which were then decorated and sold at break time to all staff and students in the Auditorium.
The Year 8 Netball team played Rookwood school on Tuesday evening and unfortunately were defeated 5-12. Team: Izzy Kirby, Amber Cherrington, Izzy White, Liberty Southgate, Agata Smigla, Caitlyn Wiseman, Grace Farrelly. Players' player of the match - Izzy Kirby. Coaches player of the match - Agata Smigla
This week Mrs Pearce, Deputy Head, presented a half year update in assemblies. It is important on any journey to take stock of progress made and consider any changes which need to be made to improve the final result. This week at the half way point through the academic year we have been reflecting on [...]
Following the teams tense win on penalties in their last game, this week they travelled to Wellington Academy for an Andover and District League fixture. The team started brightly and did not look back eventually winning 10-1. Aston Mussell, Dylan Willard , David Chubinidze and Finn Belbin all scored 2 goals each. Scott Walker was [...]
Since 1995, the Shakespeare Project has set the same challenge to our Year 11 students: can you take a full Shakespearean production from page to stage in just two weeks? During the February half-term week, Year 11 Drama students, with the support of professional actor, Louise Kempton (Warhorse, Dorian Grey & Doctors), rose to that [...]
The 3v3 District Basketball Competition was held at Test Valley School . We entered two teams and both teams played very well with some excellent skills shown. Alex Enright was top scorer with 4 baskets scored in just one game. Although we did not qualify for the regional competition is was excellent to see the [...]
Year 11 drama students have given up their half-term break to work with professional actor Louise Kempton (Warhorse, Casualty, The Bill) on a production of 'Love, Shakespeare'. The play is a compilation of Shakespeare's most powerful writing on the subject of love, in all its guises: romantic, witty, dark & violent. In just two weeks [...]
After a well deserved rest, we were more then prepared for another day of adventure so we headed for Capri. We met our guide for the day, Laura, outside the ferry port. It wasn't soon after boarding the ferry a couple of us turned green and the disastrous symptoms of sea sickness occurred, while others [...]
After our memorable hike up mount Vesuvius we began to venture down to the busy city below the summit, the ash stricken town of Pompei, filled with curious tourists we were soon to join. The more we learned about the city the more we felt like we were the locals many years ago, completely shocked [...]