During the Autumn Term, we launched a whole-school strategy to improve literacy skills by encouraging our students to rediscover reading for pleasure as well as for education. Our library programme, Reading Rewards has proved extremely popular and now our new library is a hub for keen readers.

In Film-based Media, Year 13s have produced a range of creative music videos using combinations of carefully edited bespoke and existing footage.

This month, we celebrated World Book Day with a variety of reading and creative writing projects in school including an exciting writing competition, which was launched in assemblies by Mr Grieveson.

As part of our STEM activities, over 100 students in Key Stage 3 have been considering the vast size of the universe and the Milky Way thanks to a portable planetarium on loan from Durham University.

Our 2015 Glastonbury Festival Volunteer Team are busy planning and fundraising for the event in June. This is the second year we have offered this exciting opportunity to Sixth Form students.

Enterprising Year 8 students have been busy running their own mini-enterprise as part of The Tenner Challenge, a national competiton for young people.

As part of their BTEC studies, Sixth Form Music student have been collaborating with 11 Media students to produce a music video for a reworked version of the hugely popular Bruno Mars hit, Uptown Funk.

In support of Red Nose Day 2015, a number of events will be taking place on Friday 13th March to help raise funds for the cause.

Following the Easter holiday, our Library will be launching a series of special events for comic book fans to celebrate International Free Comic Book Day, which takes place on Saturday 2nd May 2015.

A garden bench and plaque has been installed in our new central space in memory of Lucy Smith thanks to a number of fundraising activities organised by her devoted friends.