During lock down in their Product Design lessons year 9 students entered a national STEM competition delivered by the IET and Network Rail. 

The brief was to design an innovative product that would help Network Rail with their waste management.

We were delighted to receive the news that Jasper was chosen as a winner for his invention. Well done Jasper!

"My product is a small box that is handed to you at the doors of the station. All litter collected from purchases are to be scrunched up and put in the correct compartments. When it’s time to get on the train, there will be large bins at each doors for the boxes to be scrunched up and disposed of.

A QR code will be on each of these bins for you to scan along with the code located on the side of the box, to activate reward points in the Network Rail app for discounts off of future purchases in the station."

Due to restrictions on  performances this year, the Performing Arts team have put a short film together with all their Sixth Form students. They have missed performing so very much and we have really missed seeing them all, but this was an uplifting, generous and inspiring way to start the day - 'Feel Good Friday' - thank you all! Keep on smiling!

So nice to see the children joining in with the before and after school PE clubs again after a long break during lock down. Even on a rainy Friday night!

Thanks to the great PE team and to our wonderful Greenhouse basketball coaches who start their sessions every day early in the morning at 7am and then again at the end of the busy day. 

We have come to the end of our onsite mass testing for Covid 19. 

CHEER UP LUV

^{As part of our International Women's Day Celebrations, Ms Goodwin and Ms Bouchaib organised a Photography workshop and talk with feminist photographer Eliza Hatch. Her work is based on young women around the world who have been victim to everyday sexual harassment. Her project Cheer Up Luv has won several awards and is currently exhibiting.}

Students took part in an online discussion with Eliza and then undertook a practical workshop.

Cheer Up Luv is an internationally recognised photo and interview series, retelling accounts of street harassment. The project combines photography with journalism, activism and social media, and has gained interest from all over the world. Subjects are photographed in public places related to their experience of harassment, then the stories are featured on @cheerupluv and cheerupluv.com.

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