Author visit – Thursday 25th January

We are delighted to inform you that on Thursday 25th January we have an author visiting school to talk to our Year 7 students. The visiting author is Sophie Anderson, who created The House with Chicken Legs, which our students have been studying since October. Sophie will be giving a presentation about her inspiration for the book and her life as an author, as well as spending some time answering questions from the students. This will take place in the Main Hall, during period 4 on Thursday. Please remind students to go to their Period 4 lesson as normal, and their class teacher will walk them down to the hall.

Sophie Anderson has also very kindly offered to stay behind at lunch time to sign any copies that the students may have of any of her novels. If you do have any copies of these texts at home, please send them into school with the student, and we will ensure that these get signed by the author.

We are thrilled to be able to offer this experience to our students.

Afritwin partnership trip

We are delighted to be launching a partnership with a school in Kenya for students currently in Years 10-12. This is an exciting long-term partnership, which will involve a variety of events and activities throughout the year, learning about their school, community and culture as well as fundraising for the school itself.

As part of this we are excited to be offering the opportunity for students to join a trip to visit Kenya for 13 nights from 12th July 2025, to spend time volunteering at the school.

Please click here to read the full details, which includes an Information evening on Monday 22nd January.