As part of our commitment to reviewing and improving our communications with parents, we have invested in the SIMS Parent App. The App enables parents to check and, crucially, to edit the various contact details that we hold on our database. Using the App will ensure that our records for addresses, medical conditions, email accounts and phone numbers are 100% up to date which is very important from a safeguarding perspective.

Five offers to study at either Cambridge or Oxford University, have been made to current Year 13 students. Students have succeeded in a rigorous entry process during an obviously difficult year in which the usual demanding tests and interviews of their College or University of choice had to take place entirely online.

Ella (8E1) set herself a challenge to run 113k for her 13th birthday with her Romanian rescue dog Roxy.

They had 4 weeks to cover the distance which meant squeezing in short runs after school and longer 10k runs at the weekends.

Ella has raised over £350.00 which will go to the charity, Saving Romanian Strays, which saved her dogs life.

Winners & Prizes!

The bookmark contest, adjudicated by the Library team, has a 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd; the other competitions, judged after much head-scratching and agonising by Mr Clayton, have just a single prize for each winner, but everyone who entered the Masked Reader competition or whose work for World Book Day was shortlisted by their teachers will receive a Kudos point.

Thank you to all who took part, it was great to see your creativity and bookish passions brought to life, and cake.

Congratulations to 7P1 for winning the World Theatre Day competition this year!!! 

10/10 correct answers with the most exciting answers from their teachers, including finding out that Miss Suggitt was once a pink lady in Grease when she was younger!

There were 50 entries from across the year groups to the whole-school poetry competition. It was fantastic to read every one, and to appreciate the emotion, imagination and craft that students put into their work. Judging was tricky but no punches were thrown, and ultimately Mr Robbins, Miss Devitt and Mr Clayton were unanimous in their choices.

The overall winner, whose poem follows below, was Clementine Barry from 9D3.

Before half term, a dozen Year 12 & 13 students participated in an online workshop to provide some perspective and help contribute to Newbury Town Centre’s Masterplan & Vision, supported by Hemingway Design. The aim was to gauge what young people would like in a newly developed Newbury Town Centre.

Two Sixth Form students, Ceri (13D5) and Lucy (12P2), have been selected as winners in the prestigious national composition competition run by ORA Singers.

They were competing against students from across the whole nation for the chance to create a piece for this renowned professional choir. For the Youth Competition, they were seeking young musicians with the potential to write a piece of new music.

Two home LFT testing kits were sent home with students last week. This will be enough for them to test at home until the end of term. Further kits will be sent home next week to cover the Easter holidays.

Please see our letter of 15 March for more information.

Privacy Notice - student LFD testing.docx

Results of all tests should be reported:

• NHS Test and Trace Reporting
• School test reporting form

During lockdown, Year 7 learnt about the life and legacy of Corrie Ten Boom as part of the Religious Studies topic The Kingdom of God. Corrie lived during WWII and put her Christian faith into action by helping countless numbers of Jews. Corrie and her family paid the price for such a risk and were arrested.

Corrie and her sister, Betsie, continued to live out their faith in Ravensbruck concentration camp but amazingly, through a clerical error, Corrie was released from the camp and continued to tell her story until her death.