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Newsletter: Autumn 2022
As we approach the end of another fantastic term at Saracens High School, please find below some of the highlights.
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This term we welcomed another 20 members of staff, we had our official opening for the new building, our Year 11s sat their GCSE mock exams, we launched our new Sixth Form, and we had our first large scale school production using our new theatre. I should also mention that prior to the new term we received our first ever GCSE examination …
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Notices from the school office
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Breakfast Club Breakfast Club is on everyday and is free. Everyone is welcome from 7:45–8:10am (the school gate is open to pupils from 7.30am). There is a choice of bagels, toast, porridge, cereals, fruit and on Fridays we also have scrambled eggs. Messages for pupils Please note we are unable to pass messages to your young person after 1.30pm except …
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I would like to give a huge shout out to all of the Year 7s. Each and every pupil has settled into secondary school life well, adapted to change and are living the Saracens values daily. I am so proud of the discipline, hard work, honesty and humility shown by Year 7 as well as the academic and pastoral progress …
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Year 8 have had an excellent autumn term, making the most of the wonderful opportunities available. Many students have represented the school in sports events, The Grinch and poetry competitions to name a few. One of the highlights for the whole Year Group was the assembly with the BBC where pupils learnt about telling their own stories and asked lots of …
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On Thursday 16 December we will be celebrating the pupils who are always doing the right thing, living our values and showing kindness. These are pupils with great attendance, attitude to learning and very few, if any, incidents. Well done to all of you.
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GCSE study begins in earnest in Year 10 and our pupils have risen to the challenge brilliantly. With mock exams fast approaching we've been focusing on helping Year 10 find the right revision technique for them, including showing them how to create a revision timetable. Learning these things early will ensure our pupils get the results they deserve in Year …
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This past term, the Year 11s have been busy preparing for their GCSE examinations and deciding their curricular choices for the Sixth Form. It has been a challenging term, and I am proud to report that the pupils have risen to the occasion and embraced the task wholeheartedly. I would like to advise them to continue with the same pace …
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PSHCE has been very busy this term! Year 7 have been learning about personal safety and First Aid and created a board game in our annual House competition to learn the Saracens High values. They also met a paramedic, two magistrates, a community Police officer, an ex-offender and a representative from the Daniel Spargo Mabbs Foundation on Your Life, You …
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This month has been Disability Awareness Month. We had the privilege of hearing Chloe in Year 10 speak to the school about her autism and how she uses strategies to cope with challenges. Her speech was a great opportunity to discover more about other people’s abilities and ways of communicating and interacting. Mr Barrett received a diagnosis as an adult …
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This term has been a fantastic term for Art. A highlight was the annual Together We Create week where we created some amazing pieces linked to the 4 elements: fire, air, water and earth. There were trips into London to visit the V&A museum, walk The Line - an art public walk - as well as take a trip on …
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What an exciting half term it has been in Computer Science! Year 7 have had a great time learning all the computational thinking needed to be a successful Computer Scientist. Year 8 have been creating their first webpages using HTML and CSS. Year 9 have had a great start to their GCSE Computer Science. We have also had the Year …
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What an exciting term for Drama! During Together We Create, our Arts Week, pupils devised their own performances after participating in workshops with Chicken Shed Theatre and Synergy Theatre. Pupils learnt from Chalk Line Theatre about political theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and enjoyed a visit to the V&A Museum in central London to look at the theatre exhibition. …
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This year we welcomed Mrs Nembard to the team, teaching Food and DT. We had a very busy #TogetherWe Create in which members of other subject areas became honorary DT teachers for a week! They enabled us to make and plant garden boxes filled with plants and bulbs, wind chimes and a model of Grahame Park and Stepping Stones. It …
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The children in Key Stage 3 have had a creative time this term producing a variety of texts. These have included: leaflets about the school for the Year 6 Open Evening; scripts for a television advert; and their very own Gothic story. Pupils have studied texts from these genres and then applied what they have learned to their own piece …
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Food Preparation and Nutrition
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We have had a very busy term in Food. All year groups have continued to develop their nutritional knowledge and improve their practical skills. The Year 11s have been practising their final exam dishes for the practical exam in February. They will have to work independently to cook three high-skilled dishes in 3 hours. We have finished this term with …
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This term year 8 have been learning all about volcanoes- which has been very timely with the recent eruption of Mauna Loa in Hawaii! They have created some incredible 3D models of different volcanoes. Next term both year 10 and year 11 will be heading out to do their GCSE fieldwork. Year 10 are heading to Walton on the Naze …
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This term, the History team launched our 'Meanwhile... Elsewhere' projects for Years 7 and 8. These projects allow pupils to broaden their knowledge through researching a significant event that happened elsewhere in the world within the same time period that they are studying. Year 7 have been constructing answers to enquiries such as 'what made Baghdad and Constantinople special?' and …
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This term has been filled with hard work and great progress by all. We introduced Year 7s to Algebra and have been working on mental maths skills. Year 8s have been learning how to represent and interpret data and are growing in confidence with a Cartesian plane. Thinking abstractly about conjectures has been the focus for Year 9 as well …
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We had a great #TogetherWeCreate week where we enjoyed a lot of musical experiences such as a beatboxing workshop and a string orchestra that played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for us. What fantastic experiences! We also put together a full band to play for The Grinch the panto. A special thank you to Jairo, Nawar, Jiya, Brett and Brett’s Dad!
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Saracens sport has started with a flourish with competitions against local schools in football, basketball, rugby, netball and cross country. There has been more participation in netball this year and also some fantastic wins. The basketball season has just begun with the Year 11 pupils eager to get back to training after the mock exams. With support from Saracens Foundation, …
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Philosophy, Religion and Ethics
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In PRE we are excited about the opportunity to explore different cultures and beliefs. This term we have enjoyed developing a greater understanding of Christianity and Islam in all year groups. Year 7s, in particular, have done great work looking at belief and worship in the six major world religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism. We don't shy …
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This has been a very eventful term in the Science faculty, including welcoming new staff Mrs Clyne, Mrs Thakur, Miss Howard and Mr Lika. In Key Stage 3, Years 7 and 8 have studied forces, matter and organisms, and have conducted lots of relevant practical work to enhance their learning. In Key Stage 4, Year 9 have begun their GCSE …
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At the beginning of November all the Year 7 pupils went to watch the Mexican film 'Coco' at Everyman cinema in Barnet. The film is based on the holiday of Día de Muertos, a 12-year-old boy named Miguel, and his journey to the Land of the Dead in search of his own heritage and history. We enjoyed watching the movie …
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