Sports

Badminton

Extra-curricular: Badminton club will be starting up again on Friday afterschool after half term and is open to all years 3.15-4pm. All students taking part require a PE kit and trainers. 

Girls indoor football

Girls indoor football will be on every Wednesday in the sports hall. All years welcome. For more information please see Miss Arrowsmith

School Newspaper

If you are interested in the school newspaper or would like to have your writing or art published, please come along to A6 on Friday lunchtimes. Feel free to bring your lunch.

Allies Club

Allies club is a place to come and explore issues around equality. If you are interested in making the school and wider community more inclusive and want to help celebrate our diverse communities, please come along to A6 on Tuesdays after school.

Mental Health Club

Our school Mental health club will now be running every Thursday until Christmas. For more information, please speak to Mrs Brooks.

Computing

GCSE Computer Science and Cambridge National revision lunchtime support

Wednesday lunchtimes in C3. Please come along for support with this weeks revision topic as per homework task.

Code club – starting Monday 21st November

We are in the motions of finalising plans for our very first code club on Monday lunchtimes. Open to all students and supported by some lovely year 12s with University Computer Science aspirations.

Why not come see what all the fuss is about?

History

Year 11 History 

 After school revision session reminders:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday after school – see Mrs Johnson / Mrs Young for details

American-West end of unit exam

Geography

All year 11 students are encouraged to join us for the following revision sessions which will be held from 3:05 – 4pm Wednesday in the Geography classrooms.

23^rd November – Economic World

MFL

MFL MUSINGS

REVISION SESSIONS

Grade 7 – 9, Wednesday after school in room A5

Grade 3 – 6, Thursday after school in room A4

A Level conversation practice, Thursday lunchtime in A4

DUOLINGO CLUB

We will be running a Duolingo club for students who want to practice any foreign language. Full details to follow ASAP.

Science

Year 11 Chemistry revision

Start next weeks. Will take place Wednesdays after school 3.10pm-4.15pm. Sessions will be split between triple science and combined science to take place fortnightly. Week 1 sessions will be Triple Science (Chemistry) and Week 2 Session will be Combined Science (Chemistry). Sessions will take place in C9.

Drama

Drama revision

Year 11- Please remember to attend Drama revision on Tuesday after school in K9 each week. You will receive coaching for the component 3 exam as well as help with the all -important written portfolio. See you there, snacks and drinks served. 

Performing Arts Club

It was great to start performing arts club again this term and fantastic to see so many of you there. We performed some improv as well as choreographing a dance to ‘Tightrope’ from The Greatest Showman. All are welcome, Wednesdays 3.15-4.15pm 

English

Stoke Young Writers’ Club

Please see this opportunity below from a local Creative Writing group

Spark Young Writer groups are held monthly for young people interested in any kind of creative writing. Groups are divided into school years 3 – 6 (junior aged), and school years 7 – 13 (secondary or high school aged), with online groups also available for both juniors and teens. The Stoke Teen group for school years 7 – 13 will take place monthly in City Central Library, Stoke. It runs for one Saturday a month and is led by a professional writer, Gabriella Gay, with an assistant writer. In the sessions, your young writers will cover a range of writing from poetry to prose to script writing. 

 Here is a link to our website for more information: https://www.sparkwriters.org/

 Here is the link for the Stoke group: https://www.sparkwriters.org/stoke-teen-22-23/