Every year the New Art Centre designs a competition linked with current exhibitions and events at Roche Court in order to foster collaboration between different school departments.  Their fifth competition Look Up was inspired by the work of the artist Peter Newman and was launched by Peter and the writer Gavin [...]

The images that can be viewed by following this link show Mrs Collins’ new year 10 GCSE students taking part in a ‘Body as drawing machine’ workshop.  […]

We are delighted with this year’s GCSE results which are the best in the history of the school.  54% of our students gained 5 or more good GCSEs and this represents an 18% improvement on last year’s results.  I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our students and their teachers on their outstanding [...]

Over the last few weeks Year 8 students in Mrs Collins’ art class have been working with children from Harrow Way Pre-school helping them to make and paint clay sunflowers and pea-pods. […]

I recall in my last Head’s corner my optimistic comments about looking forward to warm sunshine for a few months.  How wrong can one be?  Perhaps we should be optimistic now about the possibility of some seasonal weather during the summer break and maybe even an Indian Summer later on! [...]

The Year 10 Scientists were recently given an insight into the nature of radiation and radioactivity, highlighting the need for safety, monitoring and shielding by Mr Williams and Mr Manello, who work in the Radiology Safety and Monitoring unit of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Aldermaston.  Seen in the picture are two volunteer radiation workers [...]

Last week in science, some year 9 classes had to test different samples of dog poo with various chemicals to tell us what disease the dog had!!!  I enjoyed the experiment because it was disgusting.  Robert Simmons Please use this link to view Robert's table of results.