Posted on: 19/09/2017Holly Bourne talk with Year 9 - Monday 25th September We are excited to announce that author Holly Bourne will be talking to Year 9 students on Monday 25th September about her 'Spinster Club' series of books, and why we need feminism. At the beginning of P3, Year 9 students will go to Cockcroft Hall, instead of their usual lesson, where they will enjoy this fantastic talk from Holly. Holly will also be signing books in...
Posted on: 07/07/2017Year 12 students take part in Psychology competition at Royal Holloway UniversityOn Friday 30th June a group of Year 12 psychologists visited the Royal Holloway University of London to take part in a competition against other schools in the country. The posed question was: ‘How can you use psychology in your everyday life?’, and to answer this we had to send in a 3 minute video and prepare a display board for the day of the competition. One of ...
Posted on: 19/06/2017Year 9 Geographers visit Westmill Solar and Wind FarmOn Thursday 15th June a group of Year 9 Geographers visited Westmill solar and wind farm outside Swindon for a 'Clean Energy Futures' event. They spent the day finding out about cutting edge renewable energy technology and were given fieldwork experience where they examined biodiversity and land use change in the area surrounding the wind turbines. The gi...
Posted on: 15/06/2017DGS and SBS Students Join Together for Energy QuestOn 9th June, Year 7 and 8 students met with their peers at St Birinus School to focus on engineering; working in teams to build and improve devices using sustainable energy sources. Alexis Hunter Craig from Energy Quest workshops along with staff from SBS, supported the teams as they evaluated different renewable energy sources, built an electric car an...
