Science and Enterprise

It is Junior School Science Week this week and it started yesterday with a superb display of birds of prey on the school field. The children were really excited about it and, hopefully, the activities still to come will prove just as interesting. Today we have the 'Science of the Circus' show and on Friday the 'Creepy Crawly Man', will be in school again. To top it all, also on Friday, we have the visit of the rocket, 'Skybolt', which will be on show to both Junior and Senior children all day.

Meanwhile in the Senior School it is Enterprise Week and the whole of Year 9 spent Monday working with group leaders from the training company Enterprise in Action. Former international athlete and winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion, Derek Browne, CEO of the company, was a passionate and charismatic advocate of enterprise and showed this to the impressed pupils. Further activities go on today and tomorrow for other year groups.

Enterprise Week is just the beginning of a planned expansion of the School's programmes in business. We will soon be unveiling an exciting development of our Business Education programmes which will be bringing together Economics, Business Studies and entrepreneurship activities in a new department. This will have its own Advisory Board and will build on current success.

Trips and visits can make a real difference to learning and we will be taking opportunities to take the children out of school when we can over the next few weeks. The Year 7 pupils are already getting very excited about their residential trips to Glenridding, which start next Monday; hopefully the sun will keep shining.

Best wishes

Barry Hughes

PS The picture is of some Year 7 children after a post examination fun rounders match!

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Date: Tuesday 15/06/2010