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Becky Jago - ITV News Presenter
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Andy Cubin - Red Arrows Pilot
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John Rednall - England Bowls Team
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Fiona Hammacott - Soprano
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Kerry Ellis - Actress
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Diamaid MacCulloch - Prof, Author, TV Presenter
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Simon Christey-French - Head Chef at the Pearl Restaurant, London
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Sophie Stanton - Actress
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Tom Monger - Musician Florence and the Machine
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Murray Clayson - Taxation Specialist
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Mark Oldfield - Baritone Singer
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Dominic Tweddle - Director General of the National Museum of the Royal Navy
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Robin Youngs - Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon
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AJ Brewster - Author
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Mark Royal - England Bowls Team
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News Archive | Design Exhibition The Design and Technology Department came up trumps, yet again, with a wonderful display of A Level work by students taking A2 and AS Design. There was also a selection of work by GCSE candidates in Textiles, Graphics, Resistant Materials, Construction and our CBE Diploma. Awards were given by Vinci plc, Stowmarket Rotary Club, Bennett Homes, Suffolk County Council, John Skinner and our Headteacher Mr Penn. | | |
Tunstall Forest A group of the school’s pupils were lucky enough to enjoy the experience of going back in time at a Heritage site run by SCC Outreach activities dept. Given a group challenge on the day to build prehistoric shelters – they needed to light a fire and use axes and knives properly to be able to create utensils for eating & building. Having their meals prepared in an authentic roman way in a roman kitchen, they were able to do away with 20thcentury tools & implements of our day – to enjoy going back to the old days. Having a great day’s weather was a bonus – but everybody in all of the groups pulled their weight and were a credit to the school. . | | |
Angel Visits SHS A group of students at Stowmarket High School recently had a visit from a distinctive character to aid their learning – Angel, the duck.
Angel is the five year old pet of Y9 student Eden Rednall whose family rescued Angel when he was a duckling.
Eden brought Angel into his science class. The brief visit helped his group look at the bone structure of the bird – a topic the class have been covering in Biology. . | | |
Barcelona Trip Mr West organised a football tour to Barcelona in the Easter holidays. A great time was had by all which included sight seeing trips, a visit to a theme park which houses Euorope's fastest roller coaster and lots of football training and matches.
Matches were won and lost with a variety of scorers from both the girls' and boys' teams.
The group are pictured right in Barcelona's Nou Camp Stadium. | | |
| Funny For Money Stowmarket High School loves to get involved in Charity Fund Raising days and Comic relief is one of our favourite opportunities to raise cash for good causes. Mrs Green and her team of Student Leaders organised a whole host of events during the day. There was a staff v’s student volleyball match (the staff won … of course), a fabulous cake sale, sponsored silences, pupils being tied together for the day, quizzes and assemblies throughout the week with a fab finale event on Friday lunchtime—Staff Karaoke!
Pupils were all asked to donate £1 where possible to access non school uniform for the day. In total we raised over £1000. Well done to everyone who did their bit! . | | |
| Italy Trip A group of 6th form students journeyed to Italy to see exciting historical landmarks and travel the country’s most famous cities. The group started in Montecatini, from which medieval towns Lucca, Pisa and Florence were an hour’s bus ride away. They got the opportunity to climb the Duomo in Florence and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, where students could conquer their fear of heights and see Italy from a new angle. Then it was off to Siena – another spectacular medieval town – en route to the capital, Rome, where the group spent three days touring the city’s most famous sights such as the Colosseum, the Vatican and the ancient Roman Forum. “This was one of the best school trips I have ever been on,” said Ryan Duce. “The amount of history crammed into these little towns was incredible and the trip allowed us to see most of Rome, one of the most historical cities in Europe.” | | |
Team Maths Challenge Four of our most able Year 10 mathematicians contested the Team Mathematics challenge at Kesgrave High School. The competition tested curriculum based skills, team work and a one off
A-level topic question learnt specifically for the challenge. The team which consisted of (left to right) Joshua Fisher, Martin Pryke, Ellena Skoulding and Sally Halls finished the competition in an excellent 4th position. | | |
| Football Match For Lily The staff of Stowmarket High School triumphed over their teaching counterparts from Stowupland in a charity encounter, with all money raised going to the Lily Webster Memorial Fund. Maths teachers Mr Flack and Mr Jacobs netted either side of a screamer from an opposition midfielder. The match raised £800.
A minute’s applause was scheduled before kick-off at Stowmarket Town Football Club.
Lily’s mum, Melanie, said: “It was good; we had a nice mix of people. People interested in football and people interested in supporting the teachers. We are hoping to hold the football match as an annual event.”
For Joe Wilson's full match report CLICK HERE . | | |
| CERN Trip to Geneva The Physics Department organised a visit to CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland. Fifteen A-level Physics students spent a day at CERN, taking part in lectures given by CERN physicists, visiting the magnet testing facility, and seeing the control room of the mighty ATLAS experiment, who are currently working on the search for the Higgs boson. There was also time to see two particle physics exhibitions, as well as visit Geneva’s Natural History museum and History of Science museum. | | |
New Books For Library SHS’s library proudly received a full volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica kindly donated by the Rotary Club of Stowmarket. Phillip Jefferies, President Elect of the Rotary Club visited the school to officially hand them over.
Librarian Natalie Woodrow was delighted with the gift. She said ‘I’m certain that the students in our school will enjoy looking for information within the books as an alternative to searching the internet’. | |
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Battle of the Bands Y11 students Tammy Wilsher and Paige Howick represented SHS in the regional Battle of the Bands at the Apex centre in Bury.
The girls performed ‘Futility’ a love song written by Paige for her GCSE composition. Regarding the final the students said ‘we were really nervous but excited and glad we performed well with each other because we are good friends and didn’t want to let anyone down’.
The girls said they were relieved after the performance but wished they could do it all over again. Their performance was Highly Commended by the judges. | | |
Leon Visits Again Leon Baptiste once again inspired our students during a recent trip. Pupils from the school were selected to attend a Q and A session and a physical workshop with him.
Leon introduced the six keys to success which have been developed in partnership with the British Athletes Commission (mental toughness; hunger to achieve; people skills; sports and life knowledge; breaking barriers; planning for success).
Leon’s greatest achievement was winning gold in the 200m at the Commonwealth Games 2010, claiming England’s first Commonwealth sprint gold since 1998. Injury shattered his Olympic dreams of representing Team GB at London 2012. | |
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Y9 Visit BT Adastral Park Stowmarket High School attended BT’s Work Inspiration event at Adastral Park in Ipswich.
The event gave students a useful insight into many careers, not just those in the ICT and communications sectors. The day was split into short workshops which covered, among many others, essential skills such as team building, communication, cooperation, presenting and preparing bids. | | |
Badminton Team Excel Having won the Western Area tournament in December the Stowmarket High School girls U16 badminton team went to Suffolk One to represent the Western area in the County final. The team felt daunted at the task of playing the opposition mainly due to the fact that they were a year younger than the vast majority of the other teams. Despite this the girls won their group finishing above Northgate, County Upper and Bungay. This resulted in progression to the final where they unfortunately lost out to Sir John Leman. This was a great achievement for the girls, way beyond their expectations. They will all still be eligible for this competition next year and will be hoping to go one better. | | |
Olympic Athlete Visit To help publicise the launch of the new Sunday volleyball sessions at Mid Suffolk Leisure Centre and as part of the Sporting Champions Olympic legacy programme, GB Beach Volleyball Player Lucy Boulton of Southend visited Stowmarket High School. During her visit she met students, gave a presentation covering the highs and lows of life as a professional athlete, took part in a Q&A session and led volleyball sessions along with coaches from Stowmarket Volleyball Club for some of the students. | | |
Student Leaders Ready For Action A team of twenty two Y10 pupils from Stowmarket High School spent the day at Endeavour House training for their role as a future Student Leader. The pupils were able to congregate and work together in Endeavour House and morning activities such as team building exercises were delivered. Pupils discussed the characteristics and expectations of a good leader, including looking at examples of past and present leaders in our society. After lunch the pupils were fortunate enough to access the Council Chambers. An agenda, previously agreed by the pupils, was set and a debate took place. | | |
Austria Ski Trip The school ski trip left on Boxing Day with all feeling excited about the nine days in store. As well as skiing on the blue, red and black slopes there was ice skating and bowling. As always, a great time was had by all.
Students improved on their skiing and met loads of new people during the days and evening activities.
Photos of the trip can be seen on the gallery page of this website. Students interested in going on the next ski trip should see Mr Wright. | | |
Trip To Cambridge Uni Year 9 students took a trip to Cambridge University for an archaeology and physics day.
The students were treated to a lecture on the subject of dating wood, pottery and bones and were taught about how physics plays a major part in the study of archaeology.
They then worked as a team to draw a test pit which told them, layer by layer, what an archaeologist finds in a 1m2 dig. After lunch our students were given a tour around Pembroke College. | | |
Winter Wonderland Visit A group of Y11 students gathered at the end of last term to enjoy a day out at Winter Wonderland in London's Hyde Park. The day was a thank you for all the hard work the students have put in over the past academic year in ther role as Student Leaders. They have been great ambassadors for the school. Interviews are now currently underway to appoint the next group of leaders. | | |
9TN Win Hamper Competition During the month of December students at Stowmarket High School were involved in a Christmas Hamper competition. Every tutor group was tasked with making and filling a hamper which would be donated to the Stowmarket Food Bank once completed. 9TN were the overall winnes with this magnificent gingerbread house. Other winners included 9WN/EE, 10GG, 11HH and 6CG All hampers were donated to the Stowmarket Food Bank. Click here for 'Thank You' letter. | | |
Senior Maths Challenge Success
Pupils at Stowmarket High School achieved 2 golds, 5 silvers and 11 bronzes in this year’s UKMT Senior Maths Challenge. Over 98,000 pupils from across the UK entered the Senior Maths Challenge with the top 10% receiving a gold certificate, the next 20% silver and the next 30% bronze. Approximately 2,000 of the top students are invited to sit the follow-on competition, the Senior Kangeroo – one of whom is Joe Smith in Year 13. The certificate winners were:
Gold – Joe Smith, Mujammil Sofique
Silver – Ryan Duce, Robbie Gawne, Charlotte Duningham, Ashley Page, Patrick Hall
Bronze – Mark Trussell, Daniel Voysey, Jamie Westgate, Danny Heron, Darren Scott, Benjamin Parrish, Liam Cochrane, Lauren Stephens, Sarah Rodwell, Tom Smith | | |
Radiographer Visit
Nic Bretherton, a Radiographer and former pupil came to speak to the Year 13 Physicists in relation to their Medical Physics topic. The visit gave an overview of the many methods of radiotherapy from every aspect. From the Science behind the workings and design of the devices, to the impact and effectiveness with respect to patient outcomes. The event was an extremely worthwhile exercise. | | |
SHS Decorate Community Tree This year the Stowmarket High School tree at St Peter and St Mary's Church was decorated by Year 9 textiles students. Using a variety of fabrics, buttons, sequins and threads students created angels, bells, trees, hearts and even a baby Jesus and a star to depict the theme of Christmas Joy. The tree lights were turned on by comedian, actor and author Gryff Rhys Jones. | | |
Athlete Inspires Students The Gipping Valley and Thurston School Sport Partnership arranged for athlete Leon Baptiste to visit and inspire students from Stowmarket High School. Leon’s greatest achievement was winning gold in the 200m at the Commonwealth Games 2010, claiming England’s first Commonwealth sprint gold since 1998. Currently recuperating and preparing to return to the track for the World Championships, Leon has been focusing on making a real difference to students’ participation in, and access to, sport. | | |
Badminton Success The U16 girls won the Western Area tournament in December winning 13 out of 15 matches. There were some excellent performances, particularly taking into account that our team are all in Year 10 and competed predominantly against Year 11 students. They will now go on to the county final after Christmas. | | |
Children In Need Stowmarket High School did its bit for the charity by holding a ‘Great Stowmarket Bake Off’ competition. Charlotte Coles-Morris in Y11 was the eventual winner. The Sixth Form students also challenged the staff to a basketball game with all spectators being asked to donate a small amount to Children In Need by way of an admission fee to the match. Grant Gerrard’s last minute basket saw the Sixth Formers come out top in a tight game. | | |
Flexi Day Success Our Autumn Term Flexi Day once again proved a big hit. The ‘collapsed’ timetable day allowed for learning to still take place albeit in a different guise. Students chose from a wide range of activities which broadened and deepened our school curriculum. Pictured is a Y9 student who chose to take part in the college experience which involved a day at West Suffolk College participating in potential courses available at the college in Y10. | | |
Bravery Award for Rhys Y11 student Rhys Joseland has received a police bravery award for rescuing a woman who was being attacked in her home. He was walking to school when he heard a girl screaming for help. Rhys ran into the home and came across a man who was assaulting a woman. “Her daughter was shouting ‘can you help please’,” Rhys said. “I was in shock, I did not know what to do, so I ran over and I went for it. He was on the floor, behind her, with his hands around her neck and I got him away. I told him to stop it and to let go and he did. I took her downstairs. Everyone was crying – her daughter was crying and her mother was crying as well. She was shocked and worried, and she could not really understand what was going on.” Chief Constable Simon Ash praised his actions, saying: “Rhys was presented with a certificate of appreciation in recognition of his heroic and brave actions. Without his actions the woman could well have been subject to further assault and more severe injury.” | | |
Theatre Royal Visit On November 12th, three year 13 A level English students visited the Theatre Royal at Bury St. Edmunds for an evening performance of the stand-up comedian Shappi Khorsandi as part of their spoken language course work. Khorsandi is a noted female comedian of Iranian origin who has appeared in many BBC Radio 4 programmes, such as Just A Minute, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow as well as BBC TV’s Have I got News for You and QI. Known for her satirical and observational comedy, the show was irreverent and in places “laugh out loud” hilarious! Not only did the students immensely enjoy her original routines, but they gleaned many linguistic techniques for their “A” level course work. | | |
'Movember' During the course of Movember over 20 male staff from Stowmarket High School took the plunge and decided to commit to growing a moustache for the month of November and in doing so, raise awareness and funds for men's health including prostate and testicular cancer. They have raised £1,105 for their efforts – a tremendous achievement. Organiser Andrew Kirk gave a sincere thank you to all staff who have supported the campaign by growing (or in some cases ‘attempting’ to grow!) a moustache or donating to Movember. He said ‘it’s been great to see so many staff participating to support such a worthwhile cause. It was excellent also to see students supporting the cause by donning their own makeshift tashes on our ‘Movember’ non-school uniform day’. All the total proceeds will go to the charity to help it continue it’s funding of cancer research programmes. The school Movember 2012 Award Winners were: Best Movember Tash: Mr Rogers Worst Movember Tash: Mr Bloom Life Time Achievement Award: Mr Gallagher | | |
Comenius Anglo-German Project Stowmarket High School students are taking it in turns with students from a school in Germany to write chapters of a novel set in World War II. The German students, from Eckenberg-Gymnasium, will be researching and writing about the experiences of a family in the Blitz, whilst our students will write about a family in the bombing of Dresden. To read the story so far please visit the Languages page of our website (accessed via the Subjects tab). | | |
Paul Myers - Best Cadet The Suffolk Annual Cadet Force held it's annual camp in Strensall, North Yorkshire and Y9 SHS student Paul Myers excelled himself. The nine day venture was packed with wide ranging and exciting activities and Paul came away with the accolade of 'Best Cadet'. Companies from all over Suffolk attended. | | |
Open Evening Success Earlier in the month we held a very successful and vibrant Open Evening, attended by hundreds of prospective pupils. A jounalism team marshalled by Ms Kerslake and Mr Vaughan produced and printed a newspaper on the night. Click here to read it. Congratulations to Christopher from Stowmarket Middle School who was the winner of the Open Evening quiz. | | |
Chris Runs For Glory The English Schools Athletics Association (ESAA) Schools Cup Cross Country (round 1) was hosted by SHS. Y10 student Chris Morton was the success of the day winning the Intermediate Boys Race, beating the other 70 competitors in the field. Congratulations Chris! | | |
Macmillan Coffee Morning Success On Friday 28th September SHS held a Macmillan Coffee Morning. The number of people with cancer is growing every day and Macmillan want to reach and improve the lives of every one of those people. The effort made by students and carers to provide cakes for the day was extremely heart warming. We raised £540. | | |
Judo Lessons in School Some lucky Y9 and Y10 students have had the opportunity to try out Judo in PE lessons during the past few weeks. Lead coach David Oates, brother of Olympian Colin, has been working on behalf of British Judo to try and raise its profile in schools. | | |
UCS Bus In Town 6th form students welcomed a visit from the UCS tour bus to find out more about university life. Subject talks enabled our students to discover more about courses they are interested in. Finance issues were also discussed as well as student life | | |
On The Crest Of A Wave Year 10 student Adam Fuller in action (left) at the National Championships in Wales. As a result of this event Adam gained a place in the Royal Yachting Association Topper national squad. Congratulations Adam! | | |
Tennis Success at Stowmarket 6th form students Alex Holmes and brother Liam Holmes recently tasted success on the tennis court. Alex won the U16 singles competition as well as the family doubles. More impressively he also won the men’s singles. Brother Liam also brought home a trophy by landing the U18 title. Well done! | | |
6th Form Students Care in Russia A group of six 6th Form students flew out to St Petersburg in Russia during the school holidays and embarked on a two week trip to help improve facilities in a school for disabled children. On behalf of the charity ‘Caring Hands Russia’, Maison Wilsher, Rob Cox, Oli Garner, Tia Jade Webb, Zoe Freeman and Anthony Long accompanied school caretaker David Read to Volkhov, a small town 70 miles east of St Petersburg. | | |
Art Exhibition A vast range of artwork was displayed in school showing off some truly inspirational pieces of work by GCSE, AS and A2 students. The school was open for parents and the local community to see the work. Since the exhibition, major refurbishment work has taken place in the Art Corridor and some of the pieces in the Art Exhibition have once again been displayed. . | | |
Paralympics Visit
A group of pupils experienced a fantastic day at the Paralympics in London. Together with day passes for football, goalball, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis, students were also able to see action in the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre. In the stadium students saw Team GB athlete Josie Pearson break three world records in the discus on her way to gold. Thanks to Ms Whitfield for organising. | | |
Megan And Fabio Compete at Hickstead A Y9 student, Megan Smith, qualified to compete with her horse, Fabio, in the Royal International Horse Show at Hickstead. Megan and Fabio qualified for the event in Cambridge and did themselves proud coming in 8th out of a field of 28 in the flat ridden section. | | |
'Back 2 Skool' Day Success A group of adults signed up to spend a morning in school, being taught a range of subjects by high school staff.
It was an excellent opportunity to understand more about how a child spends their day; to get a feel for the atmosphere in school; become aware in more detail of the reality of modern day teaching and of course, learn something new. . | | |
Harry Is National School Champion Congratulations to Y9 student Harry Hughes. On Friday 6th July Harry competed in the national English Schools Athletics Championships at Gateshead Stadium. His winning javelin throw of 57.59m meant a comfortable victory by 4m 18cm. Well done Harry on such a fantastic achievement! | | |
Abi Carries Olympic Torch On Friday 6th July a group of SHS students set off to watch our very own Y11 student Abi Whitefield carry the Olympic Torch through the streets of Colchester. Abi was chosen for this honour following hours of volunteering at MEAL as well as officiating for the sport of volleyball. SHS will display the torch in school for the next two years whilst Abi is in the 6th form. . | | |
Sports Day Record Breakers
Congratulations to Y9 students Emily Moyes and Harry Hughes. Emily broke the Y9 girls 800m record which had stood since 1976. Harry smashed no fewer than three field event records, setting new distances in the javelin, shot and discus. | | |
SHS Supports Armed Forces Day Students from SHS represented the school in the town centre during the Armed Forces Day celebrations. Troops from Wattisham Flying Station paraded down Ipswich Street to the Market Place where a ceremony of thanks was held shortly before 11am to mark the start of Armed Forces Week. | | |
Saxophone Group 'Wow' Schools The SHS Sax group has recently completed a mini tour of our local feeder middle schools. The group played in assemblies to inspire young musicians of the future. The quartet wanted to encourage future SHS pupils to take up the host of musical opportunities made available by the Music Department when they come to SHS. | | |
Physics G&T Team In Competition SHS Y9 Physics students took part in a G&T competition held at a high school in Ipswich. There were 21 schools involved, all from the East of England. The four pupils selected for the trip were Sally Halls, Ellena Skoulding, Josh Fisher and Joe Bradley.
The competition involved a number of experiments and investigations based on forces and energy transfers and finished with a poster competition (based on one of the experiments carried out during the day). The theme was 'The Physics Paralympian 2012'.
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Abi To Carry Olympic Torch
Y11 student Abi Whitefield is all set to carry the Olympic Torch in Colchester on Friday 6th July. Abi, who has overcome adversity, and gives up much of her free time volunteering, is currently finishing her GCSE exams at school. SHS has arranged for two buses of students, many of whom are Abi's closest friends, to cheer her on on the day. We are also looking forward to displaying the torch in school in the future. | | |
England Number One Y9 student Harry Hughes has much to be proud of and will be watching the Olympics in earnest this summer. He is currently ranked as the best javelin thrower in the country for his age group and has every chance at competing on the world senior stage in years to come. Harry recently threw a PB of 59.97m at the Suffolk County Championships. SHS students and staff are looking forward to seeing him in action on Sports Day. | | |
Charlie's Dreams Come True With some schools deciding to axe Work Experience (WE), this won't be happening at SHS. You need only look at the success of Charlie Gooderham to see what a valuable experience this can be. As a result of his Y10 WE Charlie made such an impression on Taylor Made Joinery that he has been sponsored by the firm through his 6th Form education at SHS as well as employment before and during university. | | |
School Band Win Title A Stowmarket High School student band has won a prestigious prize at a competition in the Corn Exchange in Ipswich. Luke Drew, Chris Das, Sam Betts-Davies and Liam Kerry’s band Overload were named as the Best Overall Act at the Love Music Live event. They performed The Blackout's The Storm to win over the judges’ vote. The group beat nine other bands to win the title. | | |
Katherine is Champion of Champions At just 16 Katherine won the Champion of Champions Ladies Singles Bowls title. The England U18 player also captured four county titles. We wonder just how far Katherine can progress in her sport. A very gifted young lady! | | |
Get Set for Olympics The PE department received the good news that their application to join the Get Set Network was successful. By creating opportunities for pupils to get involved in the excitement of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, SHS will gain access to exclusive rewards, including an allocation of tickets. | | |
Top Chef Returns to School Head Chef at the Pearl Restaurant in London and ex SHS pupil Simon Christey-French came back to school to inspire pupils. Simon opened the school's new £25,000 refurbished dining room and ran a 'masterclass' for some lucky students. | | |
Dining Room Revamp Recently our dining room has had a £25,000 refurbishment and now boasts itself as a fresh, clean and trendy place to eat. Pupils can choose to watch and listen to music videos during lunchtime via the huge screen and projector. | | |
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