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The physical theatre skills of Lower School and GCSE Drama students were elevated this week when Year 9 and 10 embarked on learning about several key elements of this area of study and the work of Theatre Company, Frantic Assembly. Frantic Assembly create non-naturalistic pieces through the use of movement and music which is embedded…

On Monday, students from Year 8 and 9 embarked on an exciting new task, the 10X Challenge run by Young Enterprise. Sixth Form students are also involved as group leaders and business advisors, sharing their knowledge to aid our budding entrepreneurs. The aim of the challenge is to help our students to develop their employability…

The 10X Challenge (previously, ‘The Tenner Challenge’) is an annual enterprise competition for young people aged between 11 and 18 years old. The Challenge is run by Young Enterprise, the UK’s leading enterprise and financial education charity. Each team of budding entrepreneurs are given £10 to get their business idea off the ground and are…

On Thursday, all our Year 9 pupils were treated to a STEM challenge. They were ‘off-timetable’ for the entire day and challenged to enter an ‘Alternative Car Show’. The group were split into teams and tasked with designing, making and racing solar powered cars. Each team was then divided into different sections, all with a…

In Year 9 Science, our students have been carrying out a required curriculum practical lesson to make soluble salts. Soluble salts can be made by creating a reaction between an acid and a soluble, or insoluble reactant. For example, in this lesson, the students used sulphuric acid to react with copper(II) oxide powder, producing copper(II)…

Students at St Edward’s spend their Year 9 Geography lessons following the GCSE syllabus, in preparation for moving into Upper School. This is a fantastic way to get a taste of the type of concepts that will be covered in depth should they opt to take the subject for GCSE. This year’s cohort are currently…

Year 9 Latin students have been trying out a new ‘EdTech’ application called Blooket. Booklet gamifies knowledge acquisition – fantastic for our digital natives! The students have enjoyed using this app in class to consolidate their learning of Latin vocabulary and agreed to take part in a small experiment to see if it this method…

We are all familiar with manipulated imagery – whether we are aware of it or not. With the advancement of photo editing technology, everyone has access to the tools needed to manipulate an image, be it to make minor adjustments to your complexion for a social media post, or to completely alter the way an…

It’s the season for cricket! We are huge fans of the game here at St Edward’s and this term has seen our co-curricular Cricket Clubs attract excellent numbers of both boys and girls of all year groups at the Senior School. With no cricket played last summer due to the pandemic, finally hearing the sound…

Elephant’s toothpaste – so called for its resemblance to toothpaste being squeezed from a tube, on a giant scale, is a fun and showy Chemistry experiment to aid the teaching of ‘catalysts’ and ‘decomposition’. Hydrogen peroxide breaks down slowly into water and oxygen. Adding a catalyst (in this case, potassium iodide) speeds up this decomposition….