It was a pleasure to welcome Mark Alderman, Chef and Lecturer from Bournemouth & Poole College, to Food Preparation and Nutrition this week. Mark demoed Risotto and Tuille biscuits to our Year 10's, who really enjoyed all his tips on portion control, presentation and flavouring.
Last week Year 10 got creative with pasta! They made fresh egg pasta and pasta using lots of puréed vegetables in different colours to make a range of patterned lasagne sheets and other shapes, of course!
Last week, as part of our Year 10 GCSE Citizenship course, students had a visit from Tom Hayes, Labour MP for Bournemouth East. He talked so openly and honestly to the class.
Drama-based training specialists, ENACT Theatre Company, were in school today to perform their ‘Choose Options’ education show to our Year 8 students.
We are very excited to announce that the secondary library now has a brand new fiction area in addition to our existing section, doubling the space for the fantastic new books available to borrow!
We had an exciting visit from Royal Navy Chefs, Sam and Dell, this week. The chefs worked with our Year 9 and Year 11 Food Tech students.
Congratulations to the winners of the library design a Christmas card competition.
Massive well done to Nell, Maeve and Astrid in Year 7 for taking the initiative to organise and run a cake sale at the Christmas Concert. They raised a grand total of £114.49, all of which will go to Reaching the Unreached.
On Monday afternoon, 240 students from Years 7-10 were taken off timetable to attend a celebration movie afternoon in the Theatre.
Our Year 7 girls football team are smashing it. Their first away fixture was earlier this month and they played brilliantly, winning 4-0 against The Grange School in the Town Football Cup. Well done girls! Chloe was player of the match.
The library are running a Christmas competition which is open to all in Years 7-11.
Our twelve reads of Christmas challenge is back! Starting this week at Southbourne, pick up a Christmas caught reading bookmark from the library and any readers who are caught reading twelve times can then claim a Christmas treat.