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For Red Nose Day 2019, a few of us from Elm House decided to bake as many cupcakes and cakes as we possibly could. We had Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to bake and we came out of it with just over 100 cupcakes! We then went on to sell these...

Congratulations to Kirwan 7A and Rafe 7C as they are through to the final of the Foreign Language Spelling Bee. This will be held on 28 June 2019 in Cambridge. Kirwan won the Regional Final for German and came back with a Trophy and Rafe came third for German! Holly N worked...

A huge well done to all the primary schools that took part in the Sports Leaders Tag Rugby competition today at CGS and a massive thank you to our Sport Leader helpers seen here with the winning team. IMG 7948

After half term Year 8 History students were treated to a day off timetable to visit the Bovington Tank Museum in Dorset. Mrs Bauer and her team of staff had an amazing day with the group and would like to thank them for being a pleasure to take out. 0ACDBD8B...

Sixth Former Receives Praise in Oxford Scientist Essay Competition. Max P. in Year 13 has had an essay that he wrote for ‘The Oxford Scientist’ highly commended by the University of Oxford’s online journal. Max’s essay ‘Treasure Islets: A Revolution in Diabetes Therapy’ was targeted at sixth form students studying in the...

We have been lucky to receive a British Science Association award to support our activities and we are very grateful for their generous contribution. This year's theme is ‘Journeys’ and we are approaching this in different ways. Throughout the week all year 7 students are completing the James Dyson engineering challenge...

As part of Science Week all of Year 8 were treated to a day off timetable to take part in a number of presentations by two pilots and a member of the engineering crew from RNAS Yeovilton. The day ended with a tour of the wildcat helicopter which had landed...

Below is Mr Giraudon's fourth day report from France. "This morning, we went to three primary schools in Quimper to visit our students. First, we visited Nicola who had spent the morning with little ones and was about to do some maths in French with older students. She introduced herself to...

Here is the third report from Mr Giraudon in Quimper: "Today we went to Lycée Ste Thérèse in the morning so our students could experience some lessons in a French secondary school. We arrived at our meeting point in the foyer to find our students playing table football or babyfoot as...

See below the second report by Mr Giraudon, from the Work experience trip to Quimper in France. "Today, we went to visit two of our students at their primary school placement in Fouesnant and La Fôret Fouesnant. Lily was supervising playtime and all students were dressed up as it was "mardi...