Family Bulletin

Message from the Headteacher, Mr Richards This month, we are commemorating LGBT+ history month at a time where it seems human rights in the free world are particularly tricky to be assured of or indeed define. We are guided by our school values of respect and equity and recognise the tenacity it takes to live…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr Richards Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrated this week. The Year of the Snake has started, and the theme is all about renewal and regeneration. Lunar New Year, which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more, begins on January 29th. The holiday, also…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr C Richards: This week, some of our year 12s started a three-week work experience placement in Spain and you can read more about this below. We held a Primary ‘Panathlon’ on site for West Acton, Hambrough, Acton Gardens, North, Laura Tiernan and St John’s Primary schools and our sixth formers…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr C Richards: As mentioned last week, we’ve had an exciting week of trips including a visit to the Design museum, the Olympic Park and a Virtual Reality experience as well as year 8 parents’ evening, the continuation of year 13 mock exams and some year 11 photography exams which had…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr C Richards: Welcome back! With the winter holidays just a distant memory now (!) we have had a great first week back with our year 13s settling well into their mock exams and some great results for our GCSE resits which were taken back in November. Next week, our first…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr C Richards: A big thank you to Mr Virdi and his team for organising and running the Christmas markets trip to Paris last week. We’ve had some fantastic feedback from the pupils about how much they learned and how much they enjoyed the experience and there are already plans afoot…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr C Richards: Whilst it’s Friday 13th, we are feeling very lucky at school today having enjoyed such a wonderful Winter Music Concert yesterday evening and with the exciting prospect of a second performance to Tudor and North Primary schools this morning. Many thanks go to the music department for preparing…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr C Richards: Thank you to everyone who attended the year 11 parents’ evening this week. Hopefully families found it useful to discuss their child’s progress towards their terminal exams and have come away with good strategies to optimise their child’s success in partnership with the school. As ever, if you…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr C Richards: This week we have had trips to the Natural History Museum in Year 8, year 12 have been to the Houses of Parliament to witness the assisted dying debate and year 13s have been to a Business and Economics Seminar. At school, students in years 9 – 11…More

Message from the Headteacher, Mr C Richards: It has been a very cold week this week but it hasn’t stopped us ploughing on with our learning and enrichment. We also had some lovely feedback from a member of the public about one of our Heads of Year, Mr V Virdi, this week: “I would just…More