Posted on: 1/04/2022Vidyuth Sudhakar - Year 7Vidyuth has recently received a couple of community awards, these include: Surrey Recognising You Award for being a committed and valued member of the Surrey Youth Cabinet together with a Spelthorne Youth Award in recognition for Community Spirit; he also won the Star Award under this category. As well as being a Member of the Youth Cabinet for Surrey County Council, Vidyuth is also a Surrey Young Inspector. Please read Vidyuth’s personal profile below: I’m Vidyuth Sudhakar, Member of Youth Cabinet – Surrey County Council, voicing out on behalf of our community on various social concerns and bring changes to our community that does not just impact myself but is something lots of people can benefit from. It all started when I was 7 years old and wrote a letter to our former Prime Minster Mrs Theresa May about deforestation and ban smoking. I was surprised to receive a response from Mrs May, which encouraged me to voice out and express my concerns to bring change. In 2020, I became a Member of Youth Cabinet, Surrey County Council with an aim to tackle issues and improve services that are important to young people, engage with young people in my borough and get their feedback on services, run successful campaigns which raise awareness and highlight issues which are important to young people, raise awareness of the group with young people and most importantly to make a real difference to young people and instigate change. In the same year, I wrote to Surrey and Spelthorne Councillors to put a stop to speeders in Alexandra Road. The Councillors were very kind to meet me in person at my home and agreed with my concerns. I’m currently awaiting to meet the Surrey Highways Department to bring down the speed to 20MPH speed in Alexandra Road. I was invited by Cllr Alison Griffiths, Deputy Cabinet Member to visit the Surrey Council Office and introduced me to other councillors. In 2021, I became one of the 6 Surrey Youth Inspectors and my role would involve in testing products and services all over Surrey to ensure they are young person friendly. My ambition is to become The Prime Minister of United Kingdom, lead this Country in the future to bring changes to many lives.
Posted on: 1/04/2022Thea & Lexie Mears - Year 7On 20th March, both Thea and Lexie entered competitions in their sporting field of Cheerleading and Gymnastics. Their hard work training certainly paid with both achieving excellent results. Thea performed at the Birmingham NEC for her team 'Unicorns' who represent Royals Allstars Cheerleading Club. They put on an amazing performance and came in with a silver medal - second place out of 5 teams who competed in her category. On the same day, Lexie represented Spelthorne Gymnastics club at the national qualifiers in Kent where she and her partner came 3rd and received a bronze medal. There were 17 partnerships in their category, so they did exceptionally well. Congratulations to you both.
Posted on: 1/04/2022Harlequins Developing Player ProgrammeJack Crampton, Year 9 Congratulations to Jack for successfully earning his place in the under 14s Harlequins Developing Player Programme. We wish him the best of luck with his future training. A huge congratulations from everyone at the PE department, keep up the great work!
Posted on: 1/04/2022Clover Group - Business PresentationOn Wednesday 2nd March, The Global Sales Director of Clover Group visited school to deliver a talk on business to students in Year 7-10. Oliver spoke to students about how he left school and started an apprenticeship within the business and gradually worked his way up to become the Director he is today. The students gained an insight into what the company does (a shipping company working for clients in aerospace, defence and the automotive industry) and shared some really interesting images and videos of some of the cargo the company transports e.g. helicopters, rally cars etc. This talk was particularly useful for Year 10 students currently studying business at GCSE level and for Year 9 students about to select business as one of their options. They received useful advice from Oliver about working within business that will benefit them in the future. Thank you to Oliver for taking the time to visit!
Posted on: 1/04/2022Duke of EdinburghThis term, the Year 9 students have been taking part in weekly training in their teams in preparation for their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh expedition, which will be taking place in early May. This will include hiking, using a map, cooking their own dinner and overnight camping! A big thank you in advance to all staff who are assisting with all stages of this adventure for the students. Throughout the entire experience, our students have shown great respect to the volunteers and trainers provided by the Phoenix Project, a lot of whom are students from local schools or colleges who are completing their silver and gold Duke of Edinburgh awards. It has been really lovely to see them in this environment, and all the teams should be very proud of the skills they have learnt, and their representation of the school in the community.
Posted on: 1/04/2022KS4 Drama - Life of PiOn the 16th March, Year 10 and Year 11 Drama students went on a brilliant trip to watch Life of Pi at The Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End. The show portrayed the mastery of puppeteering, astonishing lighting and projection and, of course, absolutely outstanding acting. My favourite moment was when Pi was saved from the Hyena by the Tiger, called Richard Parker, at the end of the first act. The tiger let out a deafening roar, shocking the entire theatre! By Harmony Murray
