Hertfordshire Road Safety Partnership want to bring to your attention their concerns over the illegal use of privately owned e-scooters. E-Scooters are readily available to purchase and sales are expected to increase over the festive period. However, it is currently against the law to ride a privately owned e-scooter on a public road, cycle path […]
On Tuesday 7th December, six Year 9 students competed in the 2021/2022 Annual Rotary Youth Speaks Competition. We are so very proud to have been able to take two teams of such a high calibre to a competition. Students were invited to audition early in the autumn term if they wanted to be part of […]
Year 7 have been busy creating fabulous cell models to help explain the differences between plant and animal cells. The students were tasked with showing as many different organelles (little organs) as possible on their model. We had a fantastic array of models submitted: 3D printed cells, carved pumpkins, clay creations, creative cakes and even […]
Following on from the last Newsletter update I managed to snap a great shot of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus on my way out of school last week. Also, thanks very much to Sam J in Year 8 for sending in his photo too. It doesn’t take an expert or an amazing camera to spot and […]
Year 9 have been busy making slime as part of their ‘Making Materials’ topic: demonstrating the process of vulcanisation – whereby crosslinks form between polymer chains (in this case in Polyvinyl Acetate- a.k.a. PVA glue!) The Science DepartmentÂ
On Saturday 20th November a team of parent and student volunteers came and spent the morning getting the school garden tidied up for Winter. After clearing all the beds of weeds (and a few stray veggies) these areas were covered up and can now have a well earned rest until next Spring. A big thank […]
All year groups are invited to submit a piece of artwork to be displayed in our upcoming art exhibition. For further information please see Miss Robinson Theme: Winter. Examples of imagery might include: lights, wintery scenes, autumn leaves, bonfires, wrapping up warm, etc Deadline: Monday 13th December at 4pm Size: No bigger than A3 You […]
Throughout Period 7 Zoology class, we have been looking at what makes animals fit into certain categories: Why are dogs mammals? How do reptiles move compared to mammals? What are owl pellets and are they unique to birds? To conclude this block of Period 7 we decided to design animals. This follows a discussion on […]
Our local Superleague Netball team is Saracens Mavericks and every school holiday they run some fun netball camps for keen ballers in Years 7-9. This Christmas holiday they are at Oaklands College in St Albans on Monday 20th and Wednesday 22nd December. Please see here for more details.
This week has been KWS Literacy Week. While our wonderful teaching team have been focusing on how we improve literacy skills in the classroom, we have also taken the opportunity to provide all students with a great short story to read in class, a word games focus in our Form Time Quiz, book reviews for […]
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