New Year Poem By Sean Jennings – Y8 The soft snow melts under foot A major transition takes place The sun shines through the parting clouds Comes a new year to embrace The birds start to spread their wings And dart across the skies While soft crunches in the snow are heard As animals open their eyes The trees […]
Month: January 2021
Rory blogs his poem: 2021 – A fresh start
2021 – A fresh new start By Rory Cullen – Y8 C for close contacts of COVID 19, O is for Outbreak, because that’s what we’ve seen, V is for virus, a tiny living thing, I for immunity, which 2021 will bring, D for disease, no more ‘19’ for us, We’ve all had enough, […]
Rufus Bennett writes a poem about 2020 and 2021!
2021 Poem By Rufus Bennett – Y8 2020 was a miserable year, Controlled by a pandemic that goes by the name of a beer. Lockdown here, lockdown there, It really was a year we could not bear. Conflict over Biden or Trump, It got me in a bit of a grump. Despite all of […]
Kitty Henderson blogs on whether horse owners understand the impact of horse’s oral health
Do horse owners appreciate the impact of lifestyle changes to their horse’s oral health? Horse owners have always had to be extremely careful when introducing new foods, routines and medication into their horse’s life. This is usually to prevent digestion problems or behavioural issues but there is less known about the impact of changes […]
Chloe reflects on 2020, the year of Covid-19.
What has 2020 taught me? For one thing it has taught me that nothing is predictable alongside the importance of face to face human contact. But the most striking element is power of resilience and the strength of the human mind. Wuhan, China. The epicentre of the virus ignited a global panic as plague like […]
Kitty Hawthorne blogs about a global water shortage
Global Water Shortage As the world faces more and more environmental problems, one essential, and often forgotten about problem is water. With an ever-growing population, an increased demand for agriculture, climate change and overuse of the finite resource, the lack of clean, fresh water becoming available should be more of a concern. Globally there […]
Ella Spradbury discusses whether freedom of the media impedes our basic human rights?
Has the freedom of the media impeded our basic human rights? Freedom of the media is the fundamental right of various forms of media (including print, radio, television and online) to operate freely in society without government control, restriction or censorship. It bears constitutional importance, with regards to its feature in the Bill of Rights […]
Nicole Villani blogs on Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’
Sun Tzu ‘The Art of War’ ‘The art of war is vital to the state, erode either to safety or to ruin’ taken from one of the greatest works on strategy, especially military strategy written 2,500 years ago in China. Sun Tzu was a General near the start of the 300 years’ war. He was […]
Liliana Patterson remembers the December 2019 Russian Trip…
Societal and Cultural Differences in Russia This time last year, in December 2019, I was lucky enough to go on the Russian exchange with school. The Russian students had already stayed with us for a week in June 2019. During the amazing trip, I noticed how different life there was, in lots of ways: The […]
Rhiannon Timson blogs on the Insanity Defence.
Insanity Defence: What it is and how it is used in practice. In criminal defence, the defences can be made on justification or by excuse, insanity is by excuse highlighting the idea that the defendant cannot be held criminally responsible for their conduct under the circumstances. It is one of the most controversial defences as […]