Archive for November 2007

• Art Exhibition at Sherborne House9th November 2007
  Sherborne House Art ExhibitionOur school took part in "Raise" – an art exhibition for 16 year olds at Sherborne House – alongside many other local secondary schools.  Mrs Briggs, Head of Art, selected ten pieces of GCSE art and design work from last July's examination entries.  These inc...
• Success in Waterlinks Project9th November 2007
  Park pupil floats to success in Waterlinks ProjectYear 7 pupil Jessica Wittack floats to success in Somerset's Waterlinks Project and in the process won for our school £100 of prize money.  The winning entry by Jessica WittackWaterlinks is an interconnected web of twenty one community inspire...
• National Supadance Championships16th November 2007
  The Supadance National Championships were held in North Wales today Saturday 10th November. We had three girls from the school with their partners competing ifor their Dance Club in this prestigious National Championships.  In the Tango all three danced they way through the prelimary ro...
• West Midlands Childrens' Theatre Company visit The Park16th November 2007
  This play, based on a Russian legend was performed by three actors, but in different scenes our pupils were invited to take on key roles in the plot.  The audience were delighted to see their friends taking part.  The plot centred around Prince Ivan searching for the Firebird to whom he wa...
• ISA NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPION19th November 2007
  At the ISA National Swimming Championships held in the Coventry Baths on Saturday 17th November, Emily Wilson in Year 11 swimming in her 5th National Championships took two bronze medals in both the Freestyle and Medley relays.  Then to cap her excellent day in the u20 100m backstroke Emily swa...
• School ranked highly in league tables30th November 2007
  Last weekend the Sunday Times newspaper published their 'parent power' league tables.  Whilst I am not a great fan of league tables, along with many other heads, it is good to see that we are in the top fifty schools in the country for schools with a small Sixth Form.  We were placed 48th ...
• Children in Need!30th November 2007
  Who is this studious pupil?As part of Children in Need pupils and staff came into school in their own clothes for a small fee. One member of staff came in The Park School's uniform from the 1980's!Scroll down to see the studious pupil!Mrs Briggs left The Park School as a pupil in 1987 – and it is lo...