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Pupils across Key Stage 3 have been working on a variety of Art projects during the first week of Distance Learning. Year 7 have been using insects as their source of inspiration to create some beautiful depictions of a selection of creatures. Pupils in Year 8 have been experimenting with continuous line drawing. They were…

For their Distance Learning PSHE lesson today, Year 7 were asked to watch some videos on basic first aid and then either: Create a poster explaining how to treat one of the injuries they saw. Try out the methods shown in the videos on a willing volunteer at home and send a picture of your…

Last week, following an excellent assembly about unnecessary waste, delivered by Ben R and Olivia I, our Head Boy and Head Girl, Mrs Chatburn’s Year 8C PSHE Class spent a lesson researching the topic of food waste. The students were tasked with creating fact files in which they had to communicate advice to people in…

The annual Modern Languages House Recitation Competition took place in the Main Hall on Thursday. This annual event sees students challenged to recite a piece of French or Spanish poetry with a particular focus on pronunciation, accent and diction. Amongst the French offerings this year were poems by Carême, Prévert, Valery and Verlaine, whilst in…

Last week the Year 12 Geographers visited Bideford, North Devon. During the three-day field trip the students learnt a range of fieldwork techniques, spending time studying the town of Westward Ho! and the pebble ridge along the beach. Challenged by appalling weather, the students acquitted themselves admirably, collecting a range of data which enabled them…

Last weekend, St Edward’s students enjoyed a three-day camp as part of their CCF (Combined Cadet Force) training. 57 Staff and Cadets travelled to the Nesscliff training area in Shrewsbury for a packed weekend of activities. Fieldcraft, building a two-man shelter, using Operational Ration Packs (ORP) and learning how to cook, skill at arms, preparing…

St Edward’s Senior & Sixth Form Science and Maths staff organised some wonderful activities, both in and out of the classroom in celebration of British Science Week (BSW). British Science Week (BSW) is an annual event, run over 10 days throughout the whole of the UK. Thousands of events take place to celebrate science, engineering,…

Rock climbing, horse riding and musicals were the order of the day at Tuesday afternoon’s meeting of the Junior Stride Darnley Society. The Society, which has been in existence for well over ten years, is a meeting of students, and some teachers, who come together each term to listen to, and discuss, presentations from other…

The House Icing competition returned this year in a new ‘Spring Term Slot’. The theme was Roald Dahl and there were many imaginative entries as students were challenged to design and make a themed decoration out of icing. All of the entries had clearly been planned thoroughly, right down to the smallest of details. In…

Senior School students made a marvellous job of transforming themselves into their favourite characters from plays, poems and novels they have studied in class, to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday. A special assembly, followed by a literary themed Scavenger Hunt during morning break, got the day off to a great start. To complete the…