A ‘Dream’ of a Day for Year 4
Year 4 are very excited to be performing Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in June. As a lively kick-off to preparations, pupils enjoyed a day of workshops in which they learned about Shakespeare and explored the storyline and characters of the comedy. – We hunted down and recorded biographical information about William Shakespeare. – We learned about […]
Deconstruction in ICT Club
Screwdrivers at the ready! ICT Club have been dismantling and re-building their computers. This week pupils cracked open a PC to familiarise themselves with its inner workings. After opening the case, pupils explored the various elements that appear inside, including the motherboard, RAM, hard drive (SSD in this scenario), CPU, PSU, heat sinks and fans. […]
Charity Concert – Total Raised!
To my utter joy and delight, I can now share with you the amount raised for our chosen local charity of the year, Farms for City Children, from our Charity Concert in March… a whopping £3764.52! Every penny will go to support the enriching, and often life changing work of Farms for City Children. I’d like […]
FECS Letter 3rd May
Trinity term is by far FECS’ busiest time of the year which commenced with our first general meeting of the term this Wednesday and coffee morning which took place this morning. Hopefully you’ve all spotted the posters that have been going up over the course of this week and seen the portal notices advertising […]
Headmaster’s Blog
Many of you will have seen our recent ‘What’s behind the Wall?’ campaign, a short film put together by our Marketing Director, where in just a few minutes, a snapshot of Hall House is captured. It is with much pleasure that I have been invited to write the guest blog this week and I would […]
Artist of the Week
Another excellent Antoni Gaudi inspired mask, expertly crafted by our Artist of the Week. Well done to Emily J – Year 7
Data Handling in Year 4
Pupils have been taking an outdoor approach to understand data handling. Maths is always interesting in Year 4! Pupils were making human bar charts and line graphs in the playground. They chalked the results in, making an enormous line graph which stimulated some interesting discussion among the other pupils at break time!
BBC Young Reporters: News update 5
Getting to know the Teacher Amy W This week we are delighted to interview Mrs Stallard. Here are some of the questions we asked her: Why did you become a teacher? I became a teacher because I wanted to do something interesting and not just sit behind a desk all day! When I was at […]
Chaplain’s Corner
This morning Years 2-8 met together for our usual Eucharist, to mark the start of the Trinity term and to celebrate the joyful message of Easter. During the service we reflected on the challenge Christ sets his Disciples; to go out into the world and spread His message of unconditional love, facing what ever challenges […]
Art News: The Rubbish Show!
There has been a lot in the news recently about the importance of recycling, reducing and reusing our resources. Pupils in Years 6 – 8 have been putting this into practice by hosting their own Recycled Costume Show – with a bit of help from Mrs Reavill. Throughout the evening, the audience were treated to […]