On Wednesday 26th June, Year 7 students enjoyed a fun packed visit to Conkers in Derbyshire.

The purpose of the visit was to develop an understanding of the regeneration of the former mining area. The students listened to a talk on ‘Coal to Conkers’ led by a ranger and participated in a Bare foot Walk where they developed their understanding of the history of the site while experiencing different textures underfoot!

On Monday 17th June, the GCSE Geography students enjoyed a visit to Birmingham where they collected primary data to help them to investigate the task question ‘How does the quality of life vary in Birmingham?

They collected data across four different sites and worked very well in their group. Mrs Longmore was very impressed with the student's approach to the investigation and enthusiasm for asking people to answer their questions.

As part of our topic ‘Splash’, the children are learning about Canals this week. We had a lovely walk along the canal today and saw a narrow boat passing through the lock as well as five signets with their parents. ‘What an adventure’, said Sophie!

Our Prep Sports Day took place on Friday and, as always, the children had lots of fun.

Children from Pre-school to Y6 participated in a number of events. They had lots of fun completing the obstacle course, long jump, javelin, hurdles and many other activity stations. 

The challenge for our KS3 students this year was to design, build and market a working wind turbine.

The brief for the teams of 5 was to produce a turbine with the highest voltage output, be stable and aesthetically pleasing, and at minimal cost.

The Priory Hall was a buzz of activity throughout the day, with team members adopting a variety of roles – design, construction, testing and marketing.

Mums and Dads joined our Pre-school for their last Stay and Play session of the year yesterday, where the topic for the week has been trees.

The children followed the normal morning routine which started with name recognition on the self-registration board and also completing the date board. They then looked into the learning suitcase and found out what they would be learning about

Our Year 10 students faced some different challenges this weekend on their Duke of Edinburgh expedition due to the rain and muddy conditions they had to endure.

They all worked together to keep spirits high and help each other through the challenges they all faced.

Navigation skills improved and all students passed the Expedition section of their DofE Bronze – A BIG well done to them ALL!

Year 9 students have been studying the characteristics of the tropical rainforest biome in their Geography lessons.

They were set a homework project to study a specific rainforest such as The Amazon Rainforest; they focussed on the adaptations of plant and animal species to the rainforest climate.

The Y9 class enjoyed exploring the rainforest topic and chose to present their work in different forms, such as; fact files, wall displays, paintings, and even a cake model! Shauney created a cake model of the rainforest and shared the cake with the class.

Primary 2 & 4 joined forces and had lots of fun coding their new robotic friend today, using Lego Boost! 

Reception shared their wonderful stories about Tiddler the Fish with Primary 4, who were very impressed with the detail in their stories, their expression and super spellings!

Following an audition, Matthew (pupil of Helena Cox Dance) has gained a place on the Associate programme at Elmhurst Ballet School. He will travel to Birmingham every week for classes with top class professional ballet teachers.
He has been invited to a couple of taster sessions this term but will start in September.

One of our Prep students Matthew, has just completed a 14 show run of Oliver! at China Hall in Spode by Stage Productions where he played Nipper in Fagin’s gang and was also a Workhouse Child and Book Seller’s Boy. He has had a marvellous experience performing to audiences of up to 400 people each show. He had a singing solo and played an important role as the comic value in Fagin’s Gang, pulling out Fagin’s underwear, flossing and being dragged off stage by his collar amongst other things, much to the enjoyment of the audiences.