Merci beaucoup for making this first workshop of the new academic year so much fun!

An important part of this term’s work focused on learning about the organisation Peace One Day. Founded by Jeremy Gilley in 1999, Peace One Day worked with the UN to establish an international day of peace.

In July Jaimee Luscombe (10T) attended the British Transplant Games in Newport and represented Bristol Children’s Hospital, Jaimee won a Gold medal in her 3km Cycling Time Trial and Bronze Medals in Ball Throw, Long Jump and Table Tennis.

Tom Nuttall has returned from the World Age Group Underwater Hockey Championships with a Silver Medal!

Over the last few months year 8 students Maliha Khan, Nina Keen and India Wyman along with the Art department have been working during lunchtimes on this piece of art to be exhibited in the Paignton Zoo exhibition ‘Making The Right Choices’.

Well done to our year 7 gardening club for producing some fantastic crops.

Congratulations to the following students from Year 9D and 9C Food and Nutrition classes for winning ‘ The Food from Around the World Competition’

This year Emma Hutchins (Yr8) and Hollie Pugh (Yr11) competed in the Dance World Cup Finals again and were delighted to receive a gold medal in the senior song and dance section.

2019 is the international year of the periodic table, celebrating 150 years since the publication of Dmitri Mendeleev’s ground breaking work. To mark the occasion, Cambridge University set a challenge to Year 12 students to decipher the Chemistry of some unusual elements, including indium which is used to manufacture touch screens for computers and smartphones.

Dr Ben King, a Geography teacher here at Churston for 19 years, is the first teacher in Devon to become a United Nations accredited Climate Change Teacher and one of 80 initially trained in the UK.