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  • 14 June 2023

    Published 16/06/23, by Julia Byrne
    Attendance I am absolutely delighted to report that we have received a National School Attendance Award for being in the top 25% of all FFT Secondary Schools in England.  This is a tremendous achievement by the attendance team and all staff w
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  • 24 May 2023

    Published 25/05/23, by Julia Byrne
    No Learning Wasted This week Year Managers are speaking to their year group about making every lesson count and for all students to be ‘ready to learn’ and organised.  This means being prompt to lessons with their Super 7 (equipme
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  • 17 May 2023

    Published 18/05/23, by Julia Byrne
    Examination Season This week marks the start of the summer programme of GCSE and A level public examinations.  I would like to wish all our students the very best for their forthcoming examinations and to remember to embrace the College motto
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  • 10 May 2023

    Published 11/05/23, by Julia Byrne
    Red Carpet Event One of my highlights last week has been to celebrate the achievements and successes of our students at the Red Carpet event. The achievements included students giving Citizenship presentations to Mr Gove, winning the KS3 Photograp
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  • 26 April

    Published 11/05/23, by Julia Byrne
    Eid Eid Mubarak to everyone who was celebrating this special festival last week and I hope everyone had a wonderful celebration. Industrial Action A final reminder following our communications over the last week that the College is partially
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  • 19 April 2023

    Published 11/05/23, by Julia Byrne
    Industrial Action There are two further days of Industrial Action on Thursday 27 April and Tuesday 2 May and I have been consulting with our staff union representatives about this.  There is no requirement for staff members to inform me in ad
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  • 29 March 2023

    Published 11/05/23, by Julia Byrne
    Year 11 Assembly Yesterday, I led the Year 11 assembly and encouraged Year 11 to reflect on their two PPE performances by opening their second envelope.  The students were encouraged to reflect on their subjects and to analyse what subjects h
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  • 22 March 2023

    Published 22/03/23, by Julia Byrne
    Production Six After a record number of fantastic shows last week, I felt that the phenomenal cast and brilliant staff involved in the outstanding show should be mentioned again. The feedback has been simply wonderful and such an event really has
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  • 15 March 2023

    Published 15/03/23, by Julia Byrne
    Citizenship Students Last week our local MP Mr Michael Gove visited the College in response to our Citizenship students communicating with him about their GCSE coursework.  Our brilliant students presented their work to him on the voting age,
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  • 8 March 2023

    Published 15/03/23, by Julia Byrne
    Snow Closure Following heavy snow yesterday morning we unfortunately had to make the difficult decision on health and safety grounds to close the College.  However, I am pleased to say that work by the site team throughout the day and rising
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