Entries by stmaryshigh

Y10 Girls football

Congratulations to the Y10 girls football team who won the District 6-A-side competition at Turnford school. The team beat Goffs Academy and Goffs Churchgate to win the overall competition. Well done to the team; Amy, Leah, Maisy, Rosa, Shalise, and Teegan.

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Science Week 2023

The Science department celebrated British Science week 2023 with a full week of activities that were highly participated. From Year 7 to Sixth form, a very high number of students participated in the different activities, that were delivered by our enthusiastic science teachers. Ms Mpofu-Tavugara (AKA Professor Starlight) delivered a session called Methane bubble where […]

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World Book Day

World Book Day was on March 2nd this year and it turned out to be World Book Week for us here as we had a full programme of activities for students. On the Monday of that week we were lucky enough to secure an author visit from Steve Skidmore, one of The 2 Steves writing […]

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Theatre Visits

On 2nd March, the year 11 GCSE and year 13 A Level Drama students went to see the latest production of the play Medea at the amazing new theatre, SohoPlace. Students were able to see how the professionals do it, with the great Sophie Okonedo and Ben Daniels in the main roles.  Students were impressed […]

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Drama Performance Exams

The year 11 GCSE Drama students have been busy – over two consecutive evenings on 8th and 9th of March, the visiting examiner came into school to see the students scripted performances – students had to learn two extracts from their script, learning multiple pages of dialogue, all word perfect, along with showcasing their vocal […]

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Voice in a Million – 15th March 2023

On Wednesday 15th March the ‘Phoenix Singers’ Choir performed on the main stage at Wembley Arena in front of an audience of 10 thousand. We successfully auditioned for a solo spot in January and we were only one of four choirs awarded the privilege. The song we performed was ‘Lovely Day’, which was an appropriate […]

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Paris Trip

It was good to restart our yearly trip to Paris after a couple of years’ break. Once again our students created some fantastic memories that will stay with them long after they leave St-Mary’s. From the Louvre to The Avenue des Champs-Élysées and from the Bateaux Mouches to Disney Land our students thoroughly enjoyed themselves […]

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Voice in a Million!

Congratulations to the St Mary’s School Phoenix Academy Choir who gave a standout performance at the Voice in a Million concert, Wembley on 15 March 2023.   They were one of a small number of schools invited to perform live on stage. Well done to all the students, Mr Crosby and Ms King for their […]

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Year 7 Interschool Hertfordshire Competition

A team of Year 7’s took part in an interschool maths challenge against 70 other teams throughout Hertfordshire. Tejal, Megan, Joshua, Eva and Benjamin worked well as a team and each of them played an important part in contributing to their success. The team were faced with some general maths questions, a memory and description […]

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