Over the last 2 days our students have gone from knitting novices to knitting dojos.
They have worked on creating their stuffed knitted rabbit, embellished it with features, scarves, bows and flowers. They have learnt the importance of resilience by the bucket load. We now have a ‘warren’ of knitted rabbits. Not only have they knitted for themselves, but have taught several members of staff too – even Mr Deighan! Today saw the arrival of 3 beautiful wooden spinning wheels. All the girls had a go and produced their own spun yarn with sheep fleece. Tomorrow sees the girls learning the art of crochet and creating their own personalised knitted badges. The girls take their knitting home each evening to carry on – it’s great for occupying some time, doing whilst the TV is on or just as a way of relaxing. There are rumours of a new after school club for September – now they have started they don’t want to stop – keep calm and knit!
Fantastic to welcome @EllaDaish into school today to talk with students about her #EndPeriodPlastic campaign. It was lovely to hear our students speak so passionately about this issue - more news to follow! #ecofriendly
Massive thanks @alfiejukes_ for coming in to talk all things #songwriting to our Year 11 GCSE #music class recently & for performing one of his songs live! The Q&A afterwards on composition & life in the world of musical theatre went down very well #inspirational @VarndeanMusic https://t.co/Qjfb2eApca
Our Student Librarian badges have finally arrived! Our Student Librarians are wearing them with pride #librarytwitter https://t.co/EMZYTYuPRK
Well done to our students recognised for winning a dance competition, excellent work on #LED an enthusiastic first half term, coming up with the kindness calendar idea and 3 lots of 2 #GoldenTicket award winners in one week! #HotChocFri #ChallengeandPride https://t.co/BmtsRtBznE
Lovely to welcome our Year 11 students and families to our Well-being and Progress Evening where we discuss next steps, revising for PPE2 and managing stressful situations #challenge #pride https://t.co/SyKSY4N5Kz