Last term six students from Churston entered a national poetry competition led by ‘Young Writers’. ‘Poetry Escape’ was created to encourage students to get lost in creativity by writing about a ‘pathway’ such as: a writing constraint; a theme; current affairs; the future or inner feelings.

Year 7 Self Esteem Day In November the Year 7 students took part in a PSHE Enrichment Day entitled ‘Self Esteem ’. The entire year group came off timetable and followed a carousel of workshops relating to the theme of Self Esteem. The aim was to provide students with an…

The U18 netball girls competed in the National Schools tournament on the 13th of November at Exeter University. A very positive day ending third in Devon, and narrowly missing out on qualification by one point!

On the 12th and 13th December, Year 11 student, Adrienne Knight was the guest solo clarinettist at the Quay Harmony Christmas concert.

The Churston Ferrers Grammar School production of ‘Elf’ had a hugely successful run of three nights. Enjoy some photos here.

A number of events to promote careers and aspirations have taken place at Churston over the last half term. Take a look at what Careers Events have been going on and see what is coming up…

This new club has begun this autumn term with the purchase of four Rover Robots. As these arrive as kits, we have been busy building them – three are completed and the fourth just requires its cable connections completing. Each Rover needs a Raspberry Pi computer which we will be able to program using Python. We had several Raspberry Pi computers, but unfortunately these were quite old models, so we have purchased new ones for the Rovers.

It was the Year 7 girls’ netball team’s first chance to play together competitively for the school at the Central Venue Tournament. The team was selected by Mrs Haigh from those that regularly attend netball practice.

Did you hear about the new restaurant on the moon? The food is excellent, but there’s no atmosphere! One solution to the diners’ predicament would be to extract oxygen from moon rock (FeTiO3) and this was one of the chemical problems that our Year 12 Chemists tackled on their way to success in the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge.