Year 9 Netball Tournament CANCELLED tonight due to the weather conditions. Training will be on instead.

Miss Carro

Warwickshire Police cadets is for young people who wish to engage in a programme that offers them an opportunity to gain a practical understanding of policing, develop their spirit of adventure and good citizenship, while supporting their local policing priorities through volunteering, working with partner agencies and positive participation in their communities.

https://www.warwickshire.police.uk/police-forces/warwickshire-police/areas/warwickshire-police/ca/careers/volunteers/police-cadets/

Dear Year 9

Happy New Year and I hope that you have all had a good break.
All the best of luck for the Yr 9 Exams this week.
Please make sure that you know what equipment you need and where you need to be before the exam.

Read the questions carefully and try to answer all the questions.

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
Mr MacGibbon, Head of Year 9

Christmas has well and truly arrived in the Food Department. We have had lots of festive fun making Chocolate logs – home-made swiss rolls skilfully crafted, rolled and decorated accompanied by Christmas songs along the way. Ho Ho Ho.. Look out for our gingerbread houses next week to end the festive fun!

The first Out and About Personal Development Trip took place on Wednesday afternoon when a group of Year 9 students visited Ryton Pools Country Park for a country ramble and some fresh air, while braving the freezing temperatures and enjoying the beautiful winter sunshine

Dear all,

Many thanks for all those who came a long this evening and for the help moving the chairs!!! For you all, and those who were not able to attend, please see the attached powerpoint. The link for the £150 deposit will be open on Parentpay soon, and the deadline is 21^st Jan 2023

Year 9 Food students have continued to develop their knowledge of the working properties of eggs by looking at Coagulation and Aeration when making a Lemon Meringue Pie. It was fascinating to watch the effect of the acid in the lemon juice on the filling. Science at its Best.

Well done Year 9. Chocolate logs next.

Mrs James

Year 9 History students / WWI Battlefields trip – thank you to those who have paid the deposit for this special trip, we are so pleased at the response!  We have a final few places available so have extended the deadline for the deposit on Parent Pay. 

If you are interested in securing a place but need a replacement letter, please come to the History department or see your History teacher.  

The Amnesty Society are really looking forward to educating their peers about human rights this week. Check out the calendar and come along and visit our campaign stalls during lunch. We look forward to seeing you get involved in Human Rights education.

Year 9 Geography students had a wonderful time today learning about wildlife and animal adaptations in tropical rainforests and the threats they face. They saw a scorpion and tarantula and were able to handle the stick insects and snake. They asked brilliant questions throughout the day.
Well done Year 9!

The launch meeting for the 2024 Ski trip will be in the Hall next week on Wed 7^th December from 6pm – 7pm.

If you are interested in sending a student on the trip please make sure that you attend.

Many thanks,

Mr. MacGibbon

Head of Year 9

Year 9 netball is cancelled tonight due to staff absence. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Bella B. and Rosa W. competed for the Warwickshire Junior Girls Team at the Inter Counties Champs against the best cross-country runners from counties ranging from Surrey to Cheshire.

On an undulating and testing Himley Hall course, bathed in warm autumn sunshine, both girls ran with their usual courage and determination. Bella running against Yr 9 girls ran fantically and was the 5^th Warwickshire runner home in 38^th overall, and Rosa battled to the finish, when feel less than 100%, to come home as the 11^th Warwickshire athlete in 59^th. The Junior Girls Team finished 4^th, but contributed vital points to the Overall Trophy that Warwickshire won.

The next schools race with be on 21^st Jan and runners will be selected from there for the National Schools Championships in March.

Hopefully, we’ll be able to send a good cohort from Southam to represent Warwickshire again this year.

Well done again Girls, and lets hope you have some company next time.

Mr MacGibbon

You will never reach higher ground if you keep pushing others down.

The current topic that Year 9 Food are studying is the most eggcellenty versatile, yet humble egg. From the simple boiled egg to its’ more diverse uses such as binding, coating, thickening, these nutrient packed meal-in-ones, have many functions. To begin this topic, Year 9 investigated cooking eggs in 5 different ways: poached, boiled, scrambled, fried and finally made into an omelette, to demonstrate how the various methods affect the white and yolk. Once students had washed up, they were able to eat what they had produced. Some eggceptional, eggsamples of the properties of eggs.

Well done Year 9.

Mrs James/ Miss Sinden/ Miss Dicken.

Dear Parents/ Guardians. 

We are very mindful of the rising costs of ingredients (we all have to cook and provide for ourselves/our families too).  Whilst we are trying to deliver our Curriculums as normal, we can help students should they be unable to source ingredients (currently eggs), by selling them the amount required, from our store cupboard.  We encourage all students to bring in their ingredients ALREADY WEIGHED out, to save time.  If they haven’t weighed out their ingredients, we have scales in school and request that students come to T2/T3 before school or at break time, to do this.  We also HATE WASTE, now more than ever, so please remind students to take ALL food and any leftover ingredients home with them.  Every week we have to throw food away that has not been collected – we just don’t have the storage space to freeze it all etc. 

Thank you. Mrs James.