A special food tasting lesson brought the wonderful and vibrant flavours of Spain to delighted Year 8 students in school on Friday. Students sampled a range of specialities, including chorizo, Manchego cheese, black and green olives, salted sunflower seeds, potato tortilla, serrano ham and more. The tasting session offered students a fun, interactive way to …
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Pupils Become Word Millionaires
Bridgnorth Endowed continues its crusade to encourage students to read for pleasure through the recent library refresh, the reintroduction of daily ‘drop everything and read’ sessions and its unwavering commitment to the Accelerated Reader programme. The highly-acclaimed online reading platform is more popular than ever with many students joining the ‘Millionaire’s Club’ by clocking up …
Shrewsbury Science and Technology Challenge Day
A group of 12 BES science enthusiasts from Year 9 were given the fantastic opportunity to take part in a Science and Technology Challenge Day held at Shrewsbury College yesterday. The programme for the event was designed to raise enthusiasm for STEM subjects, with the aim of encouraging more young people to consider studying them …
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RSHE Day to Tackle Challenges and Changes
A dedicated day for RSHE was carved out of the school timetable last Thursday, to enable students from Years 7 to 9 to explore issues such as relationships, body confidence and sexual health. Research shows that pupils who are emotionally healthy do better at school and Bridgnorth Endowed fully supports RSHE, or Relationships, Sex and …
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A Christmas Carol Streamed Live to BES Students
The Old Vic’s live-stream production of A Christmas Carol brought Charles Dickens’ immortal classic to Year 7 and 8 students at a theatre event held in school today. The play follows the original story of the miserly and solitary Ebenezer Scrooge, a businessman who hates Christmas – and anyone who loves it – and does …
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National Poetry Day 2020
To mark today’s National Poetry Day, Head of English, Mr Butler, shares a reading of ‘The Road Not Taken’, a famous poem written by the American poet, Robert Frost. In school this morning, all students are looking at the poem and discussing it with their teachers to appreciate one of Frost’s best-known works and understand …
Live Online Lessons Rolled Out to All Year Groups
Bridgnorth Endowed has successfully rolled out its ambitious programme of live online lessons to all year groups across the school, following its initial launch to Year 10 students in May. When it comes to remote learning strategies, interactive live lessons are a game-changer and have led the way in terms of communication, collaboration and quality …
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A Daily Dose of Poetry
Despite the lockdown, Head of English, Mr Butler has continued with his quest to introduce poetry into the daily life of the school through video broadcasts on the English department’s blog. After finding inspiration from a book called ‘A Poem for Every Day of the Year’, he decided to adapt his plan of bringing more …
Lockdown Culture and Creativity
In these interesting and problematic times, our students have been making the most of the cultural delights that have been provided by some of the finest theatre companies in the world. To build on their study of Romeo and Juliet, Year 8 students have been treated to a mix of different performances of the infamous …
Clock Designs Go Back in Time to the 1920s
Year 7 students recently completed a DT project to design and make clocks in acrylic plastic, inspired by the minimalist Bauhaus style from the 1920s. The brief asked them to develop colourful yet balanced designs based on a painting by one of the Bauhaus masters, colour theorist Wassily Kandinsky. The first step was to create …
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