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SWIM GALA Once every year, the senior school PE department hosts a swim gala. This is where the 4 houses (Falcon, Osprey, Kestrel and Merlin) have representatives who swim competitively against the other houses to collect as many points as possible for their house. In the end, the house with the most points wins a trophy.  The events in the swim gala consist of: 50m Freestyle 25m Freestyle 25m Butterfly 50m Backstroke 25m Backstroke 50m Breaststroke  25m Breaststroke  Only 2 boys and 2 girls from each house in year 7 can compete in each event, but you can be a reserve: if a person doesn't show up, you will compete for them.  House relays also are events that you can sign up for. The best boy and girl from each year group get together with the swimmers from the other year groups and compete with the other 3 houses. At the end of each event, medals are given out to 3rd, 2nd and 1st.

Timetable First, registration. The school day starts at 7:50 AM and ends at 2:40 PM. Although, from 7:10 AM to 7:50 AM there is early morning french (which is optional) , each period lasts forty minutes. First break starts at 10:55 AM (which lasts fifty minutes) and second break starts at 1:05 PM (which lasts fifteen minutes) After period 2 there is a five minute lesson changeover, after periods 3 and 4 first break starts. Then there is periods 5 and 6, then after there is second break. After that, there is periods 7 and 8. Then, home time. Every week there is an enrichment day, enrichment is after registration. Every period on an enrichment day is five minutes shorter. Although this doesn't affect lesson changeover, first break or second break. Andrew Monkhouse.

                                                        What to do at break time Some options for break time are... Stay in form class depending on weather conditions  . Use the playground to play games or walk around . Buy food and eat your food in the tuck shop if you want.  Play games on your device in the phone zone or your form room.  Hang out with your friends around school.  Hope this will help you! We hope to see you around during break time! Zarey and Mariam

Hello new starters This video was made for us by last year's Year 7 to give us some advice on how to make the most of our time at the Senior School. You might find some of the advice useful for when you join us in September. 7B

Here is a video that Mr O'Dowd made of us to show some of the events we have been involved in so far. I hope you like it.

YEAR Group CHALLENGE DAY Year Group challenge day is when your head of year gives you and your group a challenge. The challenge for year 7s in 2016-2017 was to make a drink or dish from the country we were assigned to and create packagaing and an advert themed on that country. The main point of Challenge Day is to work in a team and create amazing products. Later, at the end of the day, judges such as Mr Williams, Mr Wilson and your head of year, alongside other visitors, will formally evaluate and judge your products. In the end, there will be a winning group who have won the Challenge day for your year group. When you come to school on Challenge Day, you will have already been told your group name which you will have to be part of during the day. This year, year 7s were assigned to country names and had to create products from the countries. 2 representatives from each group had 10 BD and went to Lulu supermarket to buy ingredients or things for the products they were going to ma...