As well as it being non-uniform day, some of our yr 8 drama students had the opportunity to use the Trestle Masks from the Trestle Theatre company to enhance their drama lesson today. They had great fun using these masks within their lesson, thank you Mrs Coates for the opportunity!
On Thursday evening, a group of yr9 to yr12 Townsend students and staff went to see ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ at the Noel Coward Theatre. The staff and students had a lovely evening out, enjoying the unique and unusual theatre production. The production was about a young boy’s journey through a series of […]
The Harpenden Christmas Carnival will lake place on Sunday 26th November. This magical event is always a fantastic celebration just in time for Christmas!
Christmas Tree fund raising scheme- Please see the below message from Christmas Treeasy For every tree sold through your school, to staff, parents, relatives, friends, and work colleagues, the school PTA raises donations between £3.50 and £6.50 (size of tree dependant). Christmas Treeasy specialise in only the very best top-grade trees available, the non-drop Nordmann Fir […]
This week Helena from Step started mentoring a small group of year 9 students. To help them increase their confidence and self esteem. The mentoring course runs for 6 weeks and will consist of lots of well-being tools for the students to have ready to use to help build their confidence up. Thank you Helena! […]
Some of our yr12 psychology students have been using Skittles to understand ‘sampling’. The purpose of this activity is to dive deeper into the five sampling methods used within psychology which are: random, opportunity, volunteer, systematic and stratified. Our yr12 psychology students are also looking after ‘baby’ eggs currently, to also look into attachment theory! […]
We are looking for volunteers to serve refreshments and sell Festive Hamper Raffle Tickets at various evenings before the end of the autumn term. Anyone volunteering will be needed to help on any of the following dates: Wednesday 8th November – 5pm- 8pm- Year 11 Parent Carer Evening Monday 4th December – (Timings to follow)- […]
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On Thursday afternoon we had our first enrichment afternoon! All students completed a wide range of activities in their year groups. The themes from the afternoon are below: Year 7 – Spiritual Reflection (Step workshop) Year 8 – Relationships and Sex Education Year 9 – Careers Year 10 – Spiritual Reflection Year 11 – Relationships […]
Some of our Sixth Form drama students had the opportunity to experience a live opera show on Tuesday 7th November at the English National Opera, London. Our drama students had the chance to see ‘La Traviata’ in the beautiful venue. They had a lovely time and also had the chance after the performance to see the […]
