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Here is a round up of our blog posts, keeping you informed about the life and times of Pinner High School.

 

February 2022

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  • Physics Gold winners!

    Published 24/02/22, by Admin

    Just before the half term break, our year 12 physics students took part in the British Physics Olympiad Online Competition, run by the University of Oxford.  I am delighted to say that they did incredibly well! 50% of the students were awarded gold certificates, compared to 18% nationally. All of our Year 12 physicists achieved either gold, silver or bronze awards which is a fantastic achievement. The gold award winners are featured in the photo this week.

    This half term started with a Deep Learning Day, enabling Years 7-11 to engage with important age appropriate topics from the Personal, Social, Citizenship and Health Education curriculum.It was great to have guest speakers back in school, and we welcomed visitors from 'Stand Up to Discrimination', Brook, and motivational speaker Mr. Beezy. My thanks to everyone involved in the day.

    Year 12 students had a positive trip to the University of Oxford today, and I had a very enjoyable day on Wednesday interviewing candidates to be our very first Head Student. Mr. Flitcroft, one of our community governors, joined Mr. Stump and me for the interviews, and we were all so impressed at the eloquence of the applicants. The next step in the process is for the candidates to share a video with the school community, enabing all students to hear directly from their potential leaders, before a school wide vote. Exciting times!

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  • @pinnerstagram

    Published 11/02/22, by Admin

    Our CCF students spent last weekend at John Lyon School completing aspects of their Army qualifications under close supervision. All of them passed their assessments, which is really very impressive indeed. CCF is going from strength to strength and I am very grateful to my colleagues for giving up their weekend to lead this event.

    The image this week is of our A Level lino tech art work in a new display in one of the art studios. There is more art to see on our art and design Instagram page @pinnerstagram

    The Key Stage 3 Science Club was a great success this half term at Pinner High School. The club is run by the Head of Science, Mr.Clarke. The students witnessed demonstrations of methane bubbles, blue bottle magic, crushing cans, fitting an egg into a flask, writing with invisible ink and turning water into wine. The students conducted practicals based on their personal interests in science. The practicals they participated in were making a hologram projector for their mobile phone, making lip balm, making a bath bomb and the GCSE chemistry flame test practical.

    Year 9 mid term exams come to a conclusion today. The students have been absolutely brilliant in their first formal set of examinations. The assessments help them to see how they are progressing in their GCSE subjects with plenty of time to build further on the strong foundations they have created.

    There are a few posts available around the school at the moment, as we are looking for a Geography teacher, a PRE teacher and an Economics or Business teacher for September. We are also looking for more members of our site team, to help us with weekend and out of hours lettings now that we have the full building available to us. This is a link for details of the advertisements. If you know anyone who might make our first class team even stronger, please do ask them to apply. We are Investors in People Gold award holders for Health and Wellbeing and would love to hear from you.

    Today is the last day of the half term. I hope you have a restful week.

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  • Planting

    Published 04/02/22, by Admin

    Our Geography A level students have been busy this week planting fruit trees. The 'Orchard for Schools' programme has entrusted the school with growing five different fruit trees. Mr Smith , Head of Geography commented that "I think it is important in urban areas that we try to be as environmentally friendly as possible, the trees help reduce the schools carbon footprint and make it more sustainable." You will know that the school were Climate Kick-start prize winners from the Mayor of London in November. These plans are developing well and I look forward to showing you photos of our progress soon.

    More sporting success this week, with our Year 7 boys and girls winning the local indoor athletics competition and progressing to represent the whole of Harrow. Many congratulations to all involved.

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