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For their first practical science lesson since returning to the school site, our Year 11 IGCSE Chemists thoroughly embraced the opportunity to don their safety specs and get stuck into an experiment. Their task was to carry out chemical testing on unknown substances, specifically looking for the presence of negatively charged carbonate ions. To identify…

Our School Caterers, Holroyd Howe, threw down the gauntlet for a ‘Ready Steady Cook’ style challenge last week, involving both our Senior and Prep School Chefs, along with our Senior School Headmaster Mr Burke. Each contestant was presented with a mystery bag of ingredients and asked to produce a “fine dining” style dish. As well…

St Edward’s Senior & Sixth Form is proud to be part of the Cheltenham Education Partnership (CEP) an equal partnership of secondary schools (from both the maintained and Independent sectors) and local organisations and charities. The driving ambition of the Partnership is to expand the horizons of young people in Cheltenham and to help them…

Year 9 have been looking at ‘Don’t Ask Jack’ by Neil Gaiman in their recent Drama lessons. The short horror story tells the tale of a group of children growing up in a large house and their relationship with an unusual toy they find in the attic. The students have mind mapped the story, dissecting…

Megan S (Year 10 ) talks us through her lockdown PE challenge I have always been ‘into’ running, but I have never found the time to get past running 5k. Since lockdown started, I have had more time to focus on my running and I saw that Sport St Edward’s had uploaded a 10-week training…

This week, our A Level Business and Economics students joined a virtual tour of three Amazon Fulfilment Centres in the UK.  Mrs Cole was delighted to get a ‘shout out’ to St Edward’s in Cheltenham, and the tour was conducted live, through masks and with machines whirring in the background, making it engaging, if a…

Lower School students have been testing their vocabulary in their Spanish lessons this week. Their recent topic has been ‘pets’, so as a creative cross-curricular task, the students were asked to create a strange animal by combining different body parts from a variety of animals! Incorporating several HPL Behaviours for Learning, the task challenged the…

Lockdown restrictions have challenged our ways of teaching and learning, particularly on those projects that involve more than one ‘bubble’ working in collaboration with each other. To mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on our usual team projects, Year 6 and Year 9 have been using ‘Teams’ to work together this term. 12 Year 9 students…

There is sometimes nothing better than sitting down to enjoy a good story, immersing yourself in the lives of the characters and being whisked away into another world. This is particularly true at the moment, when books can provide us all with a good opportunity to escape from everything else that is going on in…

Year 9 have been exploring the perceptions of homelessness in their English lessons, delving into the novel ‘Stone Cold’ by Robert Swindells. They have explored the characters, and completed activities to reinforce their comprehension. As their homework task last week, the students designed alternative front covers for the book, using whatever medium they like. Here…