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Sheffield-born shining star company Twinkl visits Year 6
Twinkl, a company which is home to thousands of teacher-created resources and assessment materials on its online platform, brought their latest AR projects and cutting-edge technology to the Junior School yesterday for an exclusive chan…

Careers Forum: broadening horizons for primary school children
We were really excited to hold Sheffield’s first Primary Schools Careers Forum this Wednesday - we hosted a plethora of professionals from a variety of industries, to give the brightest young minds from nine Sheffield primary schools a …

Women of Sheffield Awards
Last Thursday, the search for Sheffield’s stand-out women came to a close with the first ever Women of Sheffield awards. Launched by The Star newspaper in a bid to ‘shine a light on some of the many thousands of Sheffield women who have…

An intrepid trip to India
Over half term 42 pupils from our Senior School's Years 11 to 13 were lucky enough to go on the residential trip of a lifetime to India. They had 10 days to see some of India’s most famous landmarks, volunteer in local communities, and …

Diversity and Dessert
The Social Justice Society took a tasty stand for diversity before half term with their Rainbow Cake Competition, aiming to raise awareness for people who face discrimination worldwide due to gender or sexuality. The competitors also ha…

Robin Hood: finding the fact in the fiction
Yesterday, author and alumna K C Murdarasi posed the question ‘How much do we really know about Robin Hood?’ to Sixth Form pupils, at an assembly diving into her brand new book on the legend. K C Murdarasi spent much of her childhood in…

A visit from spellbinding storyteller Katy Cawkwell
Storyteller Katy Cawkwell brought myths and legends to life last Friday, telling traditional ‘Dragon Tales’ to captivated pupils before teaching them how to tell their own spellbinding stories. Katy has been working as a professional st…

Sakshi shines at the Chrystall Prize Semi-Finals
Year 11 pupil Sakshi has come out on top in the Chrystall Prize for Public Speaking Semi-Finals, winning with a moving performance of her speech titled ‘Generation Snowflake’. The esteemed Chrystall Prize is a yearly GDST competition, b…

Behind the scenes of business: Denby Pottery
Sixteen sixth form Business pupils with an eye for art took a trip to Denby Pottery this Monday, seeing firsthand how their studies can apply to real-life businesses. Denby Pottery is marked as one of Britain’s oldest pottery manufactur…