We had a fantastic response to our recent Foodbank collection. This was organised to support the Hertford/Ware Foodbank with their harvest appeal. Students clearly stepped up and should be proud of their contributions. In total 1238 items were donated – this is just over one item per student at the school. Their donations will be […]

House Debating – Years 9, 10 and 12  On Wednesday students in years 9, 10 and 12 took part in a house debating competition. This year’s scenario asked students to research and come up with a project that would reduce the carbon footprint of the local area. One student in each house presented the idea, […]

Celebrating Creativity: Highlights from Our House Poetry Competition   Last month, our Library Learning Support Officer, the ever-enthusiastic Ms. Butler-Lewis, organized an exciting house poetry competition for students in years 7-10. The event encouraged students to explore their creativity through poetry, with each year group given a unique theme to inspire their writing.   The […]

On Wednesday after school it was Year 9 and 10’s turn to take on their first house maths competition. They took part in three rounds of increasing difficulty, consisting of logic puzzles without any words, group problem solving questions and even some A Level further maths. All the students seemed to enjoy the challenge and […]

Year 7 House Tennis 2024 Over the course of the week of 3rd June, year 7 students took part in their first house tennis tournament. They played in a round robin doubles tournament across the week consisting of 1 set per game. To keep tensions high and avoid matches spilling into lesson time a sudden […]

Closing out the spring term was the inaugural House Maths challenge which saw teams of 4 year 7s and 8s battle it out in a series of problems designed to test their logic, memory, and ability to apply curriculum content to trickier problem solving questions. The students competed in the following three rounds: Problem Solving […]

Last week saw the return of the house badminton events for students in years 7 through 10. Team consisted of 5 students in each house who played a round robin doubles tournament against each of the other houses. Each game lasted 8 minutes or until one of the teams had reached 21 points, whichever came […]

Last Monday saw the annual house football event for Year 9. Each of the houses competed in a mini round robin tournament of ten minute games. All students showed great tenacity and were determined to perform as well as possible for their house. The boys’ sportsmanship was exemplary and they made sure that everyone (including […]