Latest from the Music Tour
Flashmobs in Chocolate Street and a concert in Barcelona Cathedral... today has been a jam-packed musical day! Two down, one to go!
Music Tour Update
One concert down, two to go!
On Wednesday evening, our musicians performed to an appreciative audience in Girona Cathedral. The choir and orchestra feature pupils from Year 4 - 13, performing a wide variety of sacred and secular music
Music Tour Sets Off
Our musicians have set off for their tour of Barcelona and Costa Brava - three concerts and a whole new culture to explore!
Heads of School Announced
At the final assembly of the school year today, the Principal announced the Heads of House and Heads of School for the Secondary Phase for the 2019-20 academic year.
Congratulations to the new Heads of House:
| Brook’s | Matthew B |
| Butler’s | Eve W |
| Howard’s | Louise O |
| Howson’s | Ashima V |
| School | Arel A |
| Selwyn’s | Molly R |
and the Heads of School:
| Head Boy | Chinedum A |
| Head Girl | Olivia P |
The names of four new PPC Centurions will be added to the honours board for the 2018-19 academic year:
• Mikayla D-C
• Neve W
• Scarlett T
• Laurence P W
These pupils have received over 100 PPC points in the year – a PPC point is awarded by a member of staff when a pupil has been reflective, ambitious, curious, innovative, focussed or resilient in a lesson.
Mood Boosting Books
In September, we will be launching our Student Well-being Library. Inspired by the 'Books on Prescription' scheme running in local libraries around the country, we have successfully bid for a community grant from Tesco to create our own Well-being Libraries in school for staff and students. The libraries house books around mental health and well-being in order to guide and inform, in addition to works of fiction identified as 'mood lifting books'.
We hope that by creating a library for both staff and students we can foster a culture of openness and therefore help to reduce the stigma around mental health. Books will be available to all secondary phase pupils in the school library from September.
Mrs N Styles (Inclusion Mentor)
Imagineering Ideas into Successful Solutions
This has been momentous and successful term under the Imagineering roof.
Two Year 9 teams entered the Unilever Bright Futures Competition and their brief was to design and develop a product which focuses on reducing single use plastics. Over the last few weeks this has been particularly poignant as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has investigated the use and disposal of plastic in a BBC series entitled ‘War on Plastic’.
The ‘Glow-up’ team developed a plastic free hair care product and the ‘Hygienegg’ team developed an all-in-one body wash and hair product with no plastic packaging. Having won the competition, ‘Glow-up’ were invited by Unilever to spend two days with their experts, developing their products with their formulation and packaging experts.
As a result of their products, both teams were entered into the Big Bang North West regional final in the Liverpool Exhibition Centre this week. Success again! This time ‘Hygienegg’ who had listened to the advice from Unilever, and modified their design and packaging and came back with real grit and resilience were selected as 1 of 10 teams who will represent the North West in the national Big Bang Scientists and Engineering Fair in March.
Huge congratulations to both teams whose hard work and effort over 6 months paid off to enable them to win the two competitions.
The Arkwright National Engineering Scholarship is a prestigious award given to a limited number of GCSE students who have demonstrated their intellectual ability and problem solving skills through an application, an examination, group tests and interviews with academics and industrialists. Congratulations to Ruari W who has been awarded an Arkwright Scholarship for 2019. He will be sponsored by a company which will enable him to gain invaluable work experience in the field, attend courses across the country and spend his prize money!
This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the successes of our budding engineers as they have worked with the Design Technology Department and supported by the Wilton Scholars Trust.
Glow-up team: Agsith R, Amelia Y, Amelia R, Emily C and Seif Y.
Hygieneggg team: Emily T, Lucy C and Ethan F.
Mr P Cartwright
Secret Garden Mural
The final touches to the Secret Garden project were completed this week, with the installation of the art work for the wall of the garden by Year 11 pupil Sean W:
Having just completed a 60ft mural opposite Edge Lane shopping centre (as featured in the Liverpool Echo on Wednesday), I came into school to work on a mural behind the Biology building in the Secret Garden. I used 15 different colours to piece together a pair of butterfly wings that everyone can enjoy and take their pictures by. I incorporated links to school subjects such as a football, paint palette, globe etc, and finished it off with a couple of illustrated characters. It was a really fun project to work on!
Sean W (Y11)
