Entries by stmaryshigh

Year 9 Geography Field work

On 2 days at the start of November, Year 9 took to the local streets to investigate a range of factors in their local area. They completed data collection for their geography fieldwork ready to come back into school and carry out analysis and present their data using GIS. The students investigated accessibility in 4 […]

Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Club

STEM club is back! We have a group of enthusiastic students participating in STEM activities every Thursday after school and some of the activities the students have participated in include “Iodine clock”, “using chromatography” and “building a glider”. You can see our STEM ambassadors proudly showing their models!  

Year 9 and Year 10 Food Technology

Year 10s have been focusing on methods of cooking this half term and this week they are looking at moist methods of cooking. They made duchess potatoes using the boiling cooking method which also incorporated some piping skills. Year 9s have started their Street Food lessons. This week they made spicy chicken and vegetarian samosas […]

Year 12 University Experience

Year 12 students engaged in an online outreach presentation from the team at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. The presentation began with a general discussion about competitive courses and universities, before delving a little deeper into the opportunities available at the University of Cambridge. During the presentation, students heard from current students and […]

St Mary’s is a GOOD School

We are today able to share with you the wonderful news that Ofsted has rated our school as Good across all five areas of review (Quality of Education, Behaviour, Personal Development, Sixth Form and Leadership & Management). The Lead Inspector who visited the school with three fellow inspectors made many very positive comments about the […]

Liberator Flight Memorial Service

It was a privilege to attend the Liberator Memorial Service on 4 November. Students Bradley, Lewis, Peter and Senel laid a wreath on behalf of the young people of Broxbourne, in memory of the American crew of the B-24 Liberator USAAF plane that crashed outside the town on 12 August 1944. The article on the […]

Year 8 Pop Art lessons.

Our Year 8 artists have been studying all about the 1950s and 1960s Pop Art movement this term. They are focussing on drawing and colour shading skills to elevate and inspire their own responses to Andy Warhol’s can prints and more. Here is Hannah’s beautiful sketchbook of work.

Financial Times Student Advocate Programme

Two of our year 12 students Imogen and Jada have successfully been selected to join the Financial Times Advocate Programme representing St Mary’s as one of 250 schools globally. The programme itself provides the students with work experience where they will complete tasks set by the FT in order to raise awareness of the FT […]

Year 7 Football team victory

On 1 November our Year 7 boys team played their first St Mary’s game as a team and played fantastically.   They won 1-0 against a Year 8 team from Latymer School and all contributed in a really positive way. They behaved impeccably and represented the school extremely well. Thanks to Mr Bradbury for managing […]