Our Secondary News

Let the Eco Schools’ committee commence!

The new Eco Committee held its first meeting at the start of term. They are now in the process of completing an environmental review of the school, where they will be asking staff and students important questions about what good practice we already have in school, and areas we need to improve.

In pairs, they each have a different topic e.g. biodiversity, waste, energy etc. and they need to come to the next meeting with their answers on the topic they had. From there, we'll be making an action plan.

30 students have been accepted onto the committee after submitting applications to express their interest and the first meeting was well attended. There are representatives from each year group to ensure all ages have a voice and input.

The aim is to attain green flag status for the school.

National Book Tokens

Winners!

We were one of five schools to win book tokens to the value of £1,000 and a membership to the School Library Association for a year. A fabulous prize, which meant we were able to replenish our library.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to nominate our school, but a special thank you to the student whose nomination was responsible for us winning the book tokens (pictured). National Book Tokens also awarded the student £100 of book tokens and, as a thank you from the school, we gifted a tub of chocolates - a nice treat when you’re immersed in a good book!

Some of the tokens will also top up the Reading for Learning programme texts across the academic year as part of the constant review of the programme and new book releases.

The money has also helped us to spread the joy and love of reading through the 'Golden Tickets' which were randomly distributed in Y7-11 assemblies where students were able to choose a book they wanted to read and we purchased it for them.

Please attend our first Careers Information Event for parents/ carers on Thursday 2 February!