Vocational Studies Fishing Trip

As part of the Vocational studies qualification, some of our year 11s had to demonstrate their new skills of being able to assemble fishing equipment safely, cast correctly & land a fish. This was our second visit to Derwent Reservoir and just like last week, we all had a reel-y good time. All of the…

Pizza Oven in the making.

The pupils have been working extremely hard designing and creating a pizza oven this term for the whole school to use, the vision being to start a small enterprise in the vocational department. Pupils have used their knowledge and applied their new skills acquired from their bricklaying course and applying them into constructing and making…

Reflection patterns.

Year 10 art students used online software ‘Photopea’ to create reflection patterns as a response to the famous artist and pattern designer William Morris. Each pattern is based on a natural image, see if you can spot the animal, bird or plant. They are absolutely amazing!

Land Art

7V have been learning about different types of sculpture including abstract, figurative, relief, kinetic and today land art. They learned about the artist Andy Goldsworthy and created their own circular responses using found materials in our outdoor area. It was fantastic to see their designs evolving and growing as they made their own creative decisions…

Friday enrichment

I Class 9R, enjoyed learning some new life skills during Friday enrichment. We have been learning how to fold clothes  properly and sort them into whites, darks and colours.  We have learned how to work the washing machine and where to put the washing powder and fabric softener ready for a 40 degrees wash. Great…