On Tuesday 13th December A small group of Year 8 pupils were invited to spend the day at Southampton University to experience parts of life as a university student. The day started off with a taster lecture on Animation where the pupils enjoyed watching clips from Disney classics and thinking about anthropomorphism in the film…
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Prior to Christmas Lola P from year 10 painted 3 beautiful cards. A local printing company generously assisted her, having them printed into actual Christmas cards. As well as selling these to friends and family, Lola sold her designs to local groups at craft fairs and raised an amazing £53.00 for her chosen charity: Care4Calais.…
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Over the last term pupils in our brush lettering charity Christmas cards enrichment have been learning the skills of brush and hand lettering. Later in the term pupils applied these skills to create beautiful Christmas cards to sell for their chosen charity. The children chose to donate funds raised to Alzheimer’s UK, as some pupils…
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On Thursday 8th December, as a reward for their exemplary attendance and behaviour, selected pupils from Year 7 – 10 were awarded with an ethos trip to Winter Wonderland. During the day, pupils entered the Magical Ice Kingdom and were transported into an immersive, ice-covered land created from tonnes of beautiful sculptured and crafted ice…
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Tuesday 6th December saw the TIFS Winter Concert and Art Exhibition take place, featuring over 100 of our musicians, artists, and creative writers. The evening began with a stylish bagpipe and snare drum performance by brothers Kit and Freddie H. Taking place at the entrance to the school, their playing ensured a memorable welcome for…
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As part of our enrichment programme pupils can choose to take a Trinity Drama Award. This is an opportunity for pupils to work in pairs or on their own to learn short duologues or monologues for examination. We are delighted to share the success of our pupils in gaining their gradings. Zzhahra G and Ellen…
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Last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday saw the school theatre transported back to Dickensian London as pupils from Year 8 -11 took to the stage to perform ‘A Chrsitmas Carol’. They perfectly captured the changing atmospheres through their ensemble work as Scrooge was confronted with his past, present and future self in an attempt to get…
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Last week the MFL and Latin department held their Autumn Term MFL Continental Breakfast. Twenty pupils were invited from across both Key Stage 3 and 4 and enjoyed various different breakfast items from countries such as Spain, France and Italy. Harry M in year 11 particularly enjoyed the pancakes with Nutella and Ace J in…
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To finish this term’s hockey fixtures a number of Year 7 girls travelled to Portsmouth to play a couple of friendly training matches with the Year 7 girls from PGS. Despite the loss of a couple of players on the day, the girls still managed to play two matches, winning one and losing the other.…
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As part of our Inspire Careers programme, Year 7 were given a presentation by Isle of Wight Author and Illustrator Megan Hewison on what it is like to work in a creative industry. Megan recently won the children’s book award at the Isle of Wight Book Awards for her book “My Friends by the Beach”.…
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