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A Word from the Principal
Last autumn term, we began our ‘Big Conversation’, a process of listening to pupils and staff across our schools to determine our common values, ways in which we could work meaningfully together, and share the best of ourselves. It was an important development in creating the ‘best of both worlds’, which ‘Project One Campus’ enables us to pursue. More than any building, it is this which will transform education on this site.
Although complex given the Covid-19 restrictions, important progress has been made. Reassuringly and perhaps unsurprisingly, there is a huge amount of commonality: whilst celebrating the individuality of our schools, there is a shared excitement at what can be accomplished together.
The strength of our pupils working together to address an area of common concern has been evident though the cross-school ‘Equality and Diversity’ committee. Sparked by the death of George Floyd last May, our pupils have been reflecting on how we can celebrate and embrace diversity, and promote true equality in our daily lives. These are laudable aims, and are all the more powerful as they are wholly owned by our pupils. In the same way, the tragic death of Sarah Everard has
meant a renewed and vital focus on the safety of girls and women.
There is momentum and urgency in all these areas which should be grasped. For our community to make a lasting difference, we have to accept that problems in society at large are real and will not be resolved without changes of behaviour and attitude.
Here at the Foundation, we aim for our community to be empowered as upstanders not bystanders; and for our pupils and staff to be agents of change.
I hope that one positive legacy of the Covid pandemic will be a more equal, just, and safe world, and that our community will know we have played our part in this transformational journey.
Year 7 ⏐ Return to the Physics Lab
It has been absolutely fantastic to see boys back in the lab, collaborating and researching in small groups again. In Physics, Year 7 pupils conducted their own hands-on practical investigation into how light reflects and refracts.
Young Enterprise Kyoto ⏐ The Last Straw
The Warwick School Young Enterprise group ‘Kyoto’ have been busy creating a start-up business against a background of many obvious obstacles this year. Kyoto Straws is the first product that the company have created.
Company MD Sam Lester says, “Following the ban of plastic straws and the replacement paper straw not being user friendly or environmentally more viable, we decided to create our own.
Our bamboo straw is just that. Hard wearing, sustainable, home-made and homegrown, there is nothing better. The product comes with 3 straws and the packaging that doubles up as a carrying case for wherever you might need it. Our straws are now available to buy on the YE online trading station.”
Click here to purchase Kyoto Straws
The team are aiming to enter a ‘best advert’ competition soon and are currently working on this.
One of their tasks included producing Newton’s “Rainbow” (or Spectrum of light) by shining white light through a prism and then recombining that spectrum back into a single ray of white light using a second prism. This required a bit of skill, as they had to carefully align both prisms at appropriate angles with their ray boxes to get the desired result.
Many thanks to Mrs France and Form 7G for allowing us to view their work.
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