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Archive for May 2007
Student gains Royal Air Force Scholarship
4th May 2007
Year 12 student Matthew Lusted has been awarded a Sixth Form Scholarship by the Royal Air Force, and has been selected for the Flying Branch (Pilot). These scholarships are highly prized, being awarded to only a small number of the 600 or so applicants. As a Scholar, when Matthew finis...
Park School students take part in D of E exercise
11th May 2007
11 students from years 10 and 11 have recently undertaken their silver Duke of Edinburgh's Award practice expedition and training. They joined students from Bruton School for Girls and Sexey's School, Bruton.After a full day in school the students gathered on the Friday night at Bruton School ...
Students go on multi-activity weekend
11th May 2007
At the end of April ten students from year 10 and their tutors, Mrs Shillito and Mr Newbery, went on a multi-activity weekend in Snowdonia.The long journey was broken by a lunchtime stop at Ironbridge Outdoor Museum where there is a reconstructed Victorian town and various remains from the industry ...
Students collect data in the wild
11th May 2007
At the beginning of May Year 10 visited the Kingcombe Centre to experience data collection in the fresh water!Pupils used 'Kick Sampling' to collect organisms from the River Hooke. They then identified and counted the creatures.In the afternoon, despite the rain, the pupils pursued data collection...
Hannah Forrest takes County Title
12th May 2007
At the Somerset County AAA Athletics Championships today Saturday 12th May Hannah Forrest stormed to victory in the u17 womens 300 metres. Less than an hour later she took the silver medal in the 100m, giving yet another fine display of her vast range of ability over varying distances. The...
Park School Sports Day
18th May 2007
Our annual Sports Day was held at the Yeovil Arena on Tuesday 15th May. Despite the rain there was fierce competition between the four houses. By lunchtime even Livingstone had a hope of victory!Competitors at the start of the Year 9 & 10 Girls 200m race.During the afternoon the sun came out, ...
Young Enterprise project raises £500
18th May 2007
One of The Park School's Young Enterprise companies, "Bigfoot Lodge", has recently donated its profits of £500 to the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children). A team of pupils from Year 11 ran the company for one year, selling healthy food to fellow pupils during breaks &a...
Park School students mix art with agriculture
25th May 2007
Park School pupils from years 7 & 8 have created designs for two wooden sheep to become part of an installation of sheep from local schools. The sheep will be going to Stoberry Park, Wells, and will be part of a three day music and arts event called "Art in the Garden" which is to be documented ...
