National Rocket Challenge
I was delighted to share breaktime with the team of students who took part in the National Physics laboratory Water Rocket Challenge. As can be seen in the photograph, the team won the Flight Duration Award. The students were very animated as they described how they developed their rocket before the competition and then how they set about the new challenges they faced on the day.
Catering at Winston
I thought that you would enjoy seeing pictures of the servery today – celebrating armed forces weekend. Catering Academy have won the contract to provide the food service at Winston for the next three years and are planning to invest a considerable sum of money to develop the servery area in the hall and to create a second service point on the patio. More details will follow soon.
Geography in the Field
I came across two Geography groups on Wednesday, making excellent use of the fine weather to complete some sketching work and to investigate micro-climates.
Sporting Stars
Oscar Ricketts
Oscar is a National BMX performer who is currently representing
Great Britain, Oscar is ranked at 14th in England in his age group
at the moment.
He will be competing in the World Championships for GB at the end
of July.
Molly Robinson
Molly is very talented and hardworking swimmer who has been
representing the county and has just recently qualified for the British
Championships to be held next month. This is an outstanding achievement by
Molly and we wish were the best of luck.
Aimee Mattingley
Aimee is a national athlete who in September competed for Great
Britain at Under 13 level. Aimee represented GB in the 4x100m relay alongside 3
other girls. As well as competing in this event Aimee is also a member of the
Surreny County Atletics team, running the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the
4x200.
Year 7 Food Technology
Year 7 had the opportunity to make an item of their choice on Friday. As you can see from the images below, the outcomes look delicious. Mrs Vadi said
'Their enthusiasm to present food that displayed their skills was
lovely to see. We had rich decadent brownies, falafels, lemon drizzle cake,
raspberry trifle, pistachio flapjack, banana & chocolate chunk
cookies, oatmeal cookies and freshly made short crust pastry for the
jam tarts.'
Well done Year 7!
The students below were making shortbread.
