Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• TWBS Business Department Tower Construction Challenge – Screen Free Day 2021

  Fri 12 Feb 2021

  On Wednesday, almost 100 TWBS Business students remotely took part in a tower building competition to help promote soft skills such as critical thinking and resilience within our school.

  The task was simple – Build a tower out of nothing more than 5 sheets of A4 paper and a single 1m length of sticky tape which could support the weight of a single egg at its summit.

  After many ingenious designs, and abject failures (Special mention must go to Year 11 student Tom Coomber – who submitted an entry of 9cm after a calamitous failure), four students took the winner, or runner up, prize in their category;

  Year 10/11 Prize
  1st Place – Jacob Ingels (170cm)
  Runner Up – Daniel Drake (149cm)

  Year 12/13 Prize
  1st Place – Hasan Syed (54cm)
  Runner Up – Rory Tuomey (36cm)

  Each winner will be awarded 20 Uno Animo points for their house and will receive an Easter Egg on our return to school while the runners up will receive 10 Uno Animo points for their house.

  Well done to all for being really good eggs.

  Mr Higgs
  Head of Business

  

• No screen Wednesday in the science department

  Fri 12 Feb 2021

  Students in the micro school got stuck into some science practical work as part of ‘no screen Wednesday’.    Each group had to extract DNA from kiwi fruit.  This slightly messy but fun practical, results in you being able to pull the DNA strand out of the solution.  There were lots of excellent questions about genetics and whether we should be able to genetically engineer plants and animals.  The general consensus was that most of them would like to have a glow in the dark jelly fish gene inserted!

  If you want to have a go at this experiment at home there are Youtube videos to show you how, including many that use things you can find at home.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q7xEjfnTZg

  Miss C Hague
  Assistant Headteacher

  

• Historical Pancakes – Screen free day 2021

  Fri 12 Feb 2021

  As soon as we heard about having a ‘Screen free’ day, the History Department started coming up with reams of historical themed activities which could be completed away from a screen.

   

  Mr Fousset suggested that perhaps students could create some Historical themed pancakes seeing as pancake day is only around the corner. To that end, each year group was given a list of possible activities relevant to the time period they are currently studying. For example, Year 9 have been looking at Medicine Through Time so were encouraged to see if they could interview someone from when the NHS was first set up in 1948. Year 10 are looking at Elizabeth I so were given options of cooking some traditional Elizabethan recipes, playing Greensleeves on an instrument or making some Elizabeth I themed pancakes (a popular choice). Year 11 were also given a Cold War pancake themed activity which seemed to be a firm favourite for the majority, after all there aren’t many occasions where your teachers would set you a task for a lesson to simply make pancakes!

   

  The photos that came through on Wednesday were amazing and it was so brilliant to see the fantastic imaginations of the students come to life. It was a great opportunity for students to have some fun and it will certainly be a positive memory of Lockdown 3.0 when we all made pancakes which looked like Elizabeth I, Stalin, Castro, the Berlin Wall, the Cold War and more. I’m planning on having a go at Historical pancakes on Tuesday although looking at these ones so far I think I’m going to need some practice… and also acquire some more toppings!

  Miss F Gray
  Head of Humanities

  

• House Competition Launches – Lockdown Race around the UK

  Fri 05 Feb 2021

  Please join our House Lockdown Race around the UK. The competition will run from today (Friday 5th February) until one of the Houses completes the challenge and any form of physical activity will count, e.g. walk, (indoor or outdoor) run or cycle or ergo!!

  Uno Animo points are available to the top athletes in each House, as well as House Points towards the Cockhouse Trophy according to each House’s finishing position.

  Step 1 – Download the Strava app or go to www.strava.com and create an account or log in if you are an existing user
  
  Step 2 – In the menu bar at the top go to Explore and then Clubs

  Step 4 – Select the club with your House in brackets, for example TWBS (Warwick)

   

   

  Step 5 – Request to join
  
  Step 6 – Let your Head of House know that you have signed up
  
  Step 7 – Get out there and add some miles to the challenge

  Thank you

  Gareth Breen
  Director of Sport