FARADAY CHALLENGE

Five Year 8 pupils took part in the annual Faraday Challenge on Wednesday 25th January. Held at Cheadle Hulme School, the team competed against other schools to design and build a prototype, using their engineering skills. The task: create a landing pad for a drone delivering post to homes. The team worked fantastically together and came up with many innovations and inspired ideas throughout the day.

Congratulations to: Kaya Askander, Ceci Chan, Sadie Horwich, Monica Polisetty & Avika Rao

On the Friday 3rd February, we were paid an eagerly anticipated visit by Jeff Smith, MP for Withington and Shadow Minister for Sport, Tourism, Heritage and Music. The talk began with Mr Smith introducing himself as a Member of Parliament and briefly explaining what a week in his life tends to consist of, travelling between Manchester and Westminster. Following this, the floor was opened to an enthusiastic audience where we were given the opportunity to ask Mr Smith plenty of questions including his opinion on a codified UK constitution and an insight to his life as a former senior opposition whip in Parliament. Amidst all the questions, we learnt about Jeff Smith’s long history with his constituency as well as his double life as a Manchester DJ which was clearly a surprise to us all. Overall, his visit proved to be a great experience, with the A Level Politics students claiming it as ‘one of the highlights of our week’.