January 2015

Jan 2015
The children in Form 4 visited Stibbington Village near Peterborough and travelled back in time to the year 1896. Dressed in Victorian skirts and mop caps, or breeches and cloth caps, the young Victorians were given identities of children who actually went to Stibbington School during Queen Victoria’s era. The visit included a taste of Victorian school life. The children discovered that Victorian teachers were very strict; every time a child answered a question they had to stand up to speak and woe betide anyone who tried to write with their left hand or ended up with ink on their
Jan 2015
Form 6 pupils were eager to get their hands dirty and wade into the river, despite the heavy rain, when they visited Epping Forest Field Centre, a Special Area of Conservation. Head of Geography, Mr David Palmer, explained “we practised working together in groups, learnt about delegation of tasks, our role of responsibility to the group as a whole and how to sustain interest and high quality work in inhospitable surroundings, whilst also learning about the changing course of rivers”. The young geographers were encouraged to get thoroughly muddy as they studied the source of Loughton
Jan 2015
Our talented artists at both Byron House and Senior House have taken up the ‘Access Art’ Drawing challenge and have used a range of media to sketch different subject matter, from feathers to fish and owls. ‘Access Art’ is running an international Drawing Challenge from November 2014 to March 2015 with the aim of widening and reinforcing the children’s drawing skills and encouraging them to experiment with drawing materials. Senior House Art Teacher, Mrs Sam Downer, explained, “The children sketched mackerel, sprats and feathers before going on to explore the qualities of the materials