Assembly: Safe Online
This week our assembly theme has been how to remain safe online. Students have been shown some very powerful films showing how easy it is to be taken in by devious older men, posing as teenagers and pretending to care. The images show how conversations start and how young people are drawn in. It then concludes with a real life tragedy, Kayleigh's Love Story, a film produced by Leicestershire Police, which can be found on You Tube.
Individual Success
Aaryan (9JKI) has engineered this robotic
arm featuring colour sensors, phone mount and connectivity and infrared sensors
which is capable of gripping and lifting objects. It fits over the arm simply
and is adjustable to the user. Having won and come second in his age groups in
2015/16 respectively at lego robotics conventions, Aaryan is hoping to further
develop this and take the top spot this year!
Year 10 Success
Mr Fisher has put together another issue of Top 10. This has also been emailed home.
District Swimming Gala 2017
In 2016 we were able to finish 4th overall at the
District Swimming Gala at Woking’s Pool in The Park which was a great
achievement from our students, and although this year we finished 5th
it was still a superb effort from all the students involved. The 5th
placed finish owed a lot to the fact that unfortunately we were unable to field
a full squad and as a consequence missed out on competing in five events which
potentially could’ve seen us finish slightly higher up that 5th. That
being said all students who did compete represented the school with great
commitment and pride for the department and school. Highlights from the event
included finishing 2nd in the points for Year 11 overall and 4th
in points for Year 7 in their first year which is an amazing achievement. It is
clear to see that we have some very talented young swimmers coming through the
school and this is exemplified by Kiera Heney in Year 7 who won both her
individual events in Backstroke and Fly. Another stand out for KS3 was Ewan
Howell who won is 50 metre front crawl race in what turned out to be an
extremely fast heat, impressive stuff. Along with Ben Howell and Oliver West
being very good for the Year 7, Oliver was able to pick up a 3rd
place finish in the 50 metre breast stroke. Our year 10 team of Megan Wallis,
Sam Bishop, Hannah Robinson (who was swimming up a year) and Henry Herring (who
came in at the last minute) were very unlucky to pick up a number of 4 place
finishes but very impressively picked up points in every race. The last word
has to be on the Year 11 team, which included David Bindschedler who was
swimming up a year from Year 10 (and, who are were competing for the last time
having competed for the school since Year 7! Maya Hartwell (who gained a 1st
and 2nd place in Fly and Backstroke), Synead Van Heerden and Ben
Bishop (who took 2nd and 3rd place in the backstroke and
fly respectively) have been great ambassadors for the school over the last 5
years and I has been a pleasure to take them along every year. Thank you to all
students who competed on the day and did the school proud, onto next year!
