As part of the House competition week, Year 7 pupils designed a poster around the theme of ‘growth’. Some pupils opted for life cycles e.g. butterfly or frog, others looked at the growth of space. House points and chocolate prizes were awarded.
The best 5 will be entered into the STEM national competition.
Earlier this month, Year 7 student Victor F took part in a Taekwondo competition in Coventry, representing Redditch TKD.
Victor had to complete patterns and then went on to sparring. He won double GOLD in both patterns and sparring.
Congratulations Victor!
Yesterday, after school, 60 parents and Year 7 pupils took part in a ‘CSI Mystery at the Manor’.
Using the wonders of science they had to carry out a series of chemical flame tests using a range of chemicals in order to rule out suspects and identify the criminal!
This weekend, Erin A in Year 11 competed in the British Riding Club Winter Dressage Championships at Arena UK. She came 3rd on her lovely horse ” Mr Finntastic.”
Next weekend Erin and Finn will be competing in the Pony Club Intermediate Championships.
With Erin working hard for her GCSE’s this is a brilliant accomplishment as she spends hours caring for her horse. Watch this space and congratulations Erin!
Last week, we dropped off all donations from pupils, parents and staff to Steam Detailing and Valeting, Redditch run by Andrzej Zysk and Katarzyna Tuchowska-Zysk who organised collection as the members of Midlands Polish Community.
They would like to thank for all the donations on behalf of the refugees, people who had to leave their homes and all their possessions.
At the moment Andrzej and Katarzyna are arranging all donations to be transported to the people who need this help. It is really hard as the cost of transport needs to be covered as well.
Yesterday they received another great news – another three vans full of boxes arrived in Lviv, Ukraine.
And there is still plenty waiting to be delivered.
If you would like to help with the cost of transport – please visit https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/midlandspolishcommunity?utm_term=zqn46549a
Every £1 matters. Thank you to everyone who has donated items to date.
Next week, across most subjects and a variety of year groups, we are having lots of house competitions/activities during lessons. These activities will be completed in house teams, with 20 points given to the winning team in that activity, then 15, then 10, then 5. All the points from all the activities will be tracked and added up to reveal the winning house at the end of the week. There will be a prize for the winning house!
We also have “the hopscotch challenge” happening during assembly time; each form will give 5 volunteers and they will compete against other forms in their house. Then at the end of the week, the winning forms from each house will compete against each other.
Good luck everyone!
We are delighted to report that Bethany H in Year 9 raised £190 this week, swimming miles.
She is supporting Diabetes UK.
Well done Bethany! If you want to take part: Swim22 2022 | Diabetes UK it is running until 22nd June.
This week, the Senior Prefect Team organised an inter house assembly ‘Name the Category’, for Year 7.
Year 7 pupils from each of the four houses had to stand up in front of their peers and guess how many items they could name in the category in 10 seconds.
In the first round Abbey beat Castle and Manor beat Priory.
In the final it was very close, but Abbey were victorious over Manor.
All of Year 7 supported their House with great enthusiasm accompanied by SYD.
Well done Year 7!
Year 7 Historians have been working extremely hard this term on creating castles. In lessons we have studied the changing shape, design and features of castles, including ways in which castles were made more defensive. We then practiced attacking castles using a variety of methods introduced over the Medieval period.
Students were set the task of creating their own castle, using whatever means, methods and materials they wanted to use. The only limit was that the castle designed must be historically accurate, and show their understanding of castle shapes.
The variety and effort we saw from students was AMAZING – ranging from wooden castles to cake castles, all the way through to lego, clay and Minecraft castles!
Our overall winners were Jacob L (Best Baked Castles), Sophie J (Best Drawn Castle), Evan S (Best Computer Castle) and Lucie T (Best Constructed Castle).
Our Overall Winner for Best Castle in any category was Will S, who made an impressive Pez and icing sugar castle using 3372 pez sweets!
Many of the castles are on display in the main corridor.
News on our students who have all been representing their swimming club (Redditch Swimming Club) at this year’s Worcester County Championships:
Over the course of 5 days, they have each competed to an extremely high level, coming away with new PBs (Personal Bests) in the majority of their races, regional qualification times and medals.
In order to compete at these championships, the swimmers had to qualify during the qualification window last year. We are extremely proud of their achievements.
Grace B and Lacey P – both competing at their first County Championships in the 13 years age group. PBs across all of their races. Lacey has now also qualified in both the 100 freestyle and 100 breaststroke events for the upcoming regional championships later this year.
Evie P-C, competed in the 14 years age group. She achieved PBs in all of her races.
Bradley S competed in the age 15 category. He qualified for 13 events and chose to compete in 9 of them. With a 41s PB he won his first ever County Championship medal in the 800 freestyle event. He also PB’s in 7 of his other events!
Ashleigh G and Abi S competed for the 16 years age group. They both did extremely well. Ash is this years age group champion in all three of the backstroke events and she also medalled in the 50 breast, 100IM and 1500 freestyle.
Abi is age group champion in the 100IM, 100 free, 200 breast and 200IM. She came second in the 200 free. Abi also came away as the overall Senior Champion in the 200IM, senior second place in the 100IM and 200 breast and senior third place in the 200 freestyle.
Finally, Orla P competed in the 14 years age group. She competed in 16 events. She came third in the 400 and 100 freestyle events and the 50 fly. She came second in the 100 Individual Medley and she is the age group champion for 50, 100 & 200 backstroke, 200 free, 400 IM, 100 & 200 fly events.
Orla, Abi and Ash all have regional time ahead of this years West Midlands championships later in the year.
Rachel Power (RSC team manager and committee member)
Well done everyone, some fantastic results and achievements!
