Our new chicken house
Our Y10 a Foundation Learning group has been building a new chicken house for the last few weeks! The roof went on today thanks to some Paulet muscle. Well …
Year 7 Accelerated Reader winners
7KB celebrated their victory in the Accelerated Reader summer term competition. They were the year 7 form who earned the most points from their reading and were rewarded with a …
Celebrating our 100% attendance
Great article in the Burton Mail today of our students with 100% attendance this year! Well done to all!
Our prom in the Burton Mail
Check out the Burton Mail 2014 Prom supplement today! Some lovely photos of our brilliant students on their special evening!!
3D Printing
Our 3D printer has arrived. We’ve printed an egg cup as our first attempt. This picture shows an egg from one of our hens in our designed and …
Science and cakes..?
Masie Atkins’ (7SR) science homework project. She had to design a hippo enclosure based on a hippo’s adaptations and she did it in cake form! Not only accurate but …
Homework heroes
The DT department’s first homework heroes – piloting a new scheme ready for September. Congratulations to Shavani, Hannah, Charlie and Edward, receiving certificates in food technology for their effort, presentation …
Testing our structures
Today was testing day for Year 8 and their structures. First we tested, using a desk fan, which wind turbine generate the most electricity. Here are the winners… …
The garden group
The garden group spent their lunchtime today cooking Spanish omelettes. The eggs were from our chickens, the potatoes and lettuce from our allotment and the chive and mint garnish from …
On a field…
…somewhere in Burton; 1066 (or actually 1.50pm); two sides assemble to decide the fate of a nation. One side was victorious and one side left defeated!
Actually both sides had …
Sports Day
What a lovely day for sports day!! Well done to everyone who took part and thanks to the PE staff for organising it. Our Year 10 Sports Leaders did …
Market garden update…
Garden update – lots of potatoes dug up and collected by the garden group today. Along with this weeks chicken eggs they will be using them to cook Spanish omelettes …
Young Teen Fiction Awards
Mrs Howard and Mrs Dolman took a group of 8 students along to JCB Lakeside Club to take part in a day of celebrating books for teens.
Students enjoyed drama presentations …
Rockets…
As part of our work on forces, year 10 were set the challenge of building a rocket that would travel the furthest. Here you can see Georgie and Lauren with …
Year 10 Food Technology
Creative ideas made by Y10 food group for their controlled assessment task on celebrations. They really are working well and I wanted to celebrate their success.
Mrs Cooper