A Passion for Books

  🕮🕮 Book Fair 🕮🕮

The Scholastic Book Fair was back at Winston from 22^nd Jan - 2^nd Feb and as it always does, created a real buzz in and around the Library. Students were talking about books excitedly and recommending them to their classmates and friends as they visited the fair. This year, Mrs Jones was even more excited as the Half Price fair was back, meaning that students (and staff!!) were able to get fantastic deals on books, with the cheapest being just £1!! We have also selected some of the popular books from the fair to buy for the Library.

Across the 2 weeks, Years 7-10 were invited to visit the Book Fair with their English classes and teacher, and Year 11 had the opportunity to visit with their form tutors during tutor time. The fair was also open after school one day this year, something which a lot of the students really appreciated so we will definitely do that again next year!

Make sure if you ordered a book from the Book Fair to visit Mrs Jones in the Library this week in order to collect them. 

Happy Reading!

Mrs M Jones

Discovery Space Manager

Exploring Mandala Patterns

 Mandala Patterns

In their art classes this past half term, Year 7 have been looking at the importance of art within culture, focusing on Mandala patterns and the use of colour. The class 7WT started off by blending oil pastels together to create a colourful background, which they then transferred their own Mandala design onto using the poly printing method. The students had to understand the concept of repeated pattern and how colours work together to make their own Mandalas vibrant and eye-catching.

The class then decided to develop their work further by using textiles to create a print. Each student tie dyed their own square of fabric to then print onto with the same poly printing method. This development of outcome was very successful, and each fabric Mandala will be sewn together to create a collaborative tapestry. 

Ms Pinion's classes have also been super busy this week printing their Mandala designs. It is great to see the progress that has been made from their initial research into students designing their own patterns, through to a final print.    Students have learnt about the process of printing and how to create a design using rotation. More Printing next week to look forward to in Mrs Pinions lessons and across the department.

Options Fair

 Choices, Choices!

On Thursday, Year 9 students had the opportunity to engage with the range of option subjects offered at Winston.

This is the first time that students have been able to select some of the subjects that they will study throughout Years 10 and 11.  From engineering to childcare, astronomy and business studies, as well as the arts and PE, there are so many opportunities.

The sessions were well attended by students keen to find out more from our subject leaders and prefects.  Students have been provided with really clear advice regarding identifying their preferences and the level of commitment required to achieve positive outcomes.