Year 8 went to the Science Museum to go on the RAF Typhoon VR Simulator to support their learning on Forces: Gravity.

We were lucky to have three fabulous artists from LEAN’s (Lewisham Education and Art Network) Creative Careers Programme come and work with our KS3/4 students.

Lily Ash Sakula ran a workshop whereby the students’ made characters from plastercine and then learnt how to animate them using Stop Motion.

Russeni Fisher is a spoken word artist who worked with the students to create lyrics based on their experience and environment

Yusuf Osman is a leather craftsman who taught the students how to safely cut and create keyrings using leather.

A truly enriching, creative and educational time was had by all.

Lily Ash Sakula

https://www.lashesofsakula.com/about

Russeni Fisher

https://www.reformthefunk.com/features/watch-poet-russeni-show-a-different-side-of-homelessness-in-short-film-sorry-fi-disturb-yuh

Yusuf Osman

https://www.yussi.co/

Big thanks to Mr Hatzidakis for organising the Secondary Cross Country event today. The pupils sprinted the track with the aim to beat their last scores and we saw some real success. Winner of the cup goes to Hannarly- well done.

A big congratulations to Ms Hutton for all her hard work . She has received a certificate form the National Teaching Awards  in recognising her Excellence in Special Needs education

We are very proud of last year’s Jack Petchey winners, Ryan Davis and Anthony Warner, who were presented with their medals at Blackheath Halls by Cllr Chris Barnham the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and School Performance.

To win this award is a huge accolade, and both Ryan and Anthony were very deserving winners, who we are incredibly proud of.

We look forward to celebrating this year’s winners, Louis Chalk and Tommy Annand’s awards at Blackheath Halls in the future.

During Science week Curie class planted cress seeds and bean seeds. We used cotton wool to grow our cress seeds. We learnt that plants need water, sunlight, CO2 and nutrients to grow.

We used jars to grow our bean seeds so that we could see the parts of the plant as it grew and which parts grew first.

We can say and label the parts of a plant.   

We also dissected a seed and learnt the parts of a seed and what they do.

We had lots of fun growing our seeds!

During Science week we tried to “grow” a rainbow through chromatography.

We also attempted to “grow” sugar crystals.

We also experimented to find whether all body parts grow as we get older.

Young Leaders activity week. Young leaders is open to anyone aged 14+.

Following a tense competition over the last two weeks the final took place this afternoon. It was a close game with some great baskets. Congratulations to the winners Chris and Liam and a big thanks to Reece for organising.