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Year 8 Geography
What a relief! Year 8 are relieved to be back at school and were brushing up their OS Map skills looking at Relief this week!
Year 7 & 8 Drama
Drama Y7+8 Drama activity got off to an exciting start, playing Pop-Up Storybook. Several budding thespians arrived ready to make a scene!
Year 6 History
Year 6 have been learning about the Maya people this week. Their task in class was to draw out where the Maya civilisation was… as well as find out where the other central American countries are situated!
Year 4 Science
Year 4 have been learning about the different parts of the digestive system. Emily did a great job of modelling the digestive system for everyone!
Year 4 PSHE
PSHE In PSHE this week Year 4 learnt that there are chemicals in our brains that make us feel happy. The fantastic news is that there are things we can do to trigger our brains to release these ‘feel-good’ chemicals! The children listed the things that bring them happiness!
Year 3 Science!
Science This week in Science Year 3 have been learning about some of the organs in the body and where they are located. We had great fun creating some life-size diagrams.
Success Story
Caelan has won the Cottesmore Nett Junior Club Championship (27 Holes) with scores of: Gross 83 (Griffin Course) + Gross 36 (Phoenix Course) = 119 Gross Nett 66 (Griffin Course) + Nett 27 (Phoenix Course) = 93 Nett He was 12 under par Nett versus his handicap and his handicap now moves to 14.7. Well…
Boarding is back!
Boarding Fun first weekend in boarding by the lovely sea at Lancing!
Use of face masks by parents
Given the increased numbers testing positive for Covid and the additional restrictions on social gatherings the Government have announced this week, I now think it is prudent for the school to enforce a “face masks for all parents” policy, if they exit their cars for any reason, at drop off or collection. We have a…
Year 8 Science
The Year 8’s had an exciting Science lesson today experimenting on plants for their current topic: photosynthesis. Their task was to check if the plants contained starch, a substance produced during the process. They did this by boiling the plants in alcohol, breaking down the chlorophyll and covering them with iodine. Iodine is an indicator…