Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends At last, the frost has arrived on Monday prompting a discussion in the bike sheds with hardy students about the quality of gloves as we lock up our bikes in the shed at school!  More hardy girls took to the racecourse in Newbury on...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends With PPEs still in full swing, the school is very quiet at the moment at least for the students……. however, for staff, last Thursday evening we held a really helpful and productive training “twilight” inset evening. The theme was on...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Happy New Year! We welcomed back our students on Monday.  Year 11 have gone straight into sitting their PPEs – good luck!  I hope that revision over the break will have helped them feel calm for the exams as well as prepared them...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends As our last week of term is now in full swing, we have certainly turned even more Christmassy! The results of the House Christmas tree competition during the Christmas Fair are now in and I am delighted to announce a joint victory...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Two more weeks of such a long 16 week term!  Festive celebrations began in earnest last week with the arrival of the beautiful tree in the school hall and the school Christmas Fair on Friday. At least the students are getting more...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends The end of last week was something of an assemblies’ marathon, as alongside our weekly schedule of teaching staff leading assemblies to all groups, we also had some external speakers. Mrs Dakovic presented a very useful and...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends, Year 11 have had an intense two weeks with three maths PPE (mock) exams and one English Literature exam. They coped really well with the relentless nature of one after the other and seemed in good spirits. Our dedicated English and...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends This week’s blog is an extracurricular extravaganza…..there has been so much going on here in the last week that I am not sure where to start……. Last Wednesday, Mrs McCarville in the technology department led a really exciting heat...

Dear Parent, Guardians and Friends On Monday, we welcomed Father Richard from St Pauls Church, John Cornish, Chair of Arborfield British Legion and Chris Hall their poppy appeal organiser to our Remembrance Day service. Father Richard led the congregation in an...

Dear Parents, Guardians and Friends Welcome back to a new half term. I hope you all had a lovely break and managed to get in some rest and relaxation to set you up for the next seven weeks of term. This is always a very busy half term, with PPEs for Year 13 and maths...