A Magical Time of Year. It is that glorious night called Christmas Eve, a time when you really do need to believe. Children everywhere are full of excitement and glee, hoping that some magic they will see. The white snow crashes gracefully onto the Earth’s crust, it looks like it’s been covered over […]
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Jack Pacey (Y11) blogs – in Spanish – on the importance of learning languages.
La importancia de aprender lenguas y por qué las estudiamos (English version below) Las lenguas hacen que el mundo funcione. Han desarrollado y cambiado con el tiempo. Al principio sólo había una lengua; el idioma del cuerpo. La gente tenía que mostrarlo que quería usando sus manos (para demostrar) en vez de sus palabras. Nadie […]
A wonderful collection of Freedom poems by Emily, India, Jess, Ben, Brooke, Seb, Mila, Sophia, Amba, Maddy & Elise.
Emily Morris Free Leaves To me, the cars are bears People are giants And houses are planets The other oak trees are my neighbours And I am one of many leaves. Gushing winds blow us around most of the time And some of my family and friends Fly off and land […]
Elise (Y12) reflects on her ‘language journey’ – from counting to ten at 18 months old to writing for ‘Stamford Living’ at 16.
I was born in the North West of England on the Wirral where I lived until I was seven. My close family are from the Wirral, Liverpool, Wales and Bangladesh so I grew up hearing a range of different accents. Therefore, with my mixed blood and all my family’s different accents I always had quite […]
Finn Corbett (Y12) reports and reflects on a series of debates at the Cambridge Union on 9th November.
On Thursday the 9th of November at 5:45, our small group of debating enthusiasts departed for Cambridge. We were lucky enough to hear two debates that day, one emergency debate and then the full debate, which ran from about 8.00 to 9:30. The motion of the emergency debate was “This house believes that if you […]
Nanotechnology, amino acids…and a genie emerging from a tea pot. Rohan Anand and Will Smith (Year 13) blog on Chemistry in Action at Warwick University
On Wednesday 8th November, 86 students from across the SES Chemistry Departments ventured out to the University of Warwick to attend the Chemistry in Action day. The day was packed full of inspiring talks from speakers from universities across the country. The day started with a Nanotechnology talk by Jamie Gallagher from the University of […]
German Exchange student Lena Schemmann visited England and wrote (in English) about her home city, Bonn.
Visit Bonn! Bonn is a very beautiful, pretty City by the river Rhine. It is near the big city Cologne but Bonn is smaller, more quiet and has a nice atmosphere. In summer you can relax, enjoy the sun and have a picknick or something like that with your friends, because the landscape is very […]
German Exchange visitor Hannah Sauerborn writes about the differences she observed between German and English schools.
Deutsche Schulen vs. Englische Schulen Zwei verschiedene Welten. Als ich am Mittwoch das Schulgelände betreten habe, habe ich mich gefühlt, als wäre ich in einer anderen Welt. Viele enge und verzweigte Flure, in denen Mädchen in ihren Schuluniformen ihren richtigen Raum suchen. Lange Röcke, eine schicke Bluse, darüber ein Blazer und schicke schwarze Schuhe […]
Sam Hilder begins a series of blogs chronicling his studio tech group’s reproduction of Motorhead’s ‘A Line in the Sand’
Studio Technology: A Line in the Sand by Motörhead Recently in Studio Tech we began the production of Motörhead’s A Line in the Sand. The first week of production was the plan. Here we listed the number and type of instruments required and listened carefully to the smallest detail on the original track so we […]
Charles Morrison (Y9) reviews Andrew Bovell’s play ‘Things I Know To Be True’
Things I Know To Be True – Theatre Review On the 10th of October Drama scholars from SES Y9-Y13 took a trip to the Curve Theatre in Leicester to see Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell. The play is mainly focused on a family consisting of a wife, husband and four children […]