This week, as part of National Careers Week, we were delighted to welcome a range of guest speakers to our school, including ex-students. Our visitors included Peter Russell (Project Engineer), Flo Whiting (Upcoming Stonemason Apprentice), Abi Parker (Marine Microbiologist), Emily Watt (Planning Consultant), Max Burridge (Royal Marine Reservist), and representatives from Bath University.

Students had the opportunity to hear about the speaker’s journey from their time at school to their current career. Student’s learned that it’s perfectly normal if you do not have a clear plan for the future and that many career pathways include twists and turns. The key messages shared were to dream big, develop strong values, put yourself forward for opportunities and pursue your interests with confidence.

We are very thankful for the support given by the wider community, to make this an engaging and motivating week, helping students to explore the wide range of opportunities available to them in the future.

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What a tournament these girls had. Their first game was against Allenbourne, a team full of tall girls, with good shooters, the girls started off behind and were a couple of goals down, but once they got into their flow, they took the lead, and continued to hold that lead winning by two goals. Their next game was against Broadstone, the girls were up for it from the off, Natasha and Neveah’s shooting was spot-on, and the girls won this comfortably 8V1. Game number three was against Cranbourne, this was a scrappy game, and the girls at halftime were only one goal up. However, the constant interceptions from Abby and Eva meant more goalscoring opportunities, and the girls won this again by two goals. Game number four was against Castle Court. Their opposition played some nice flowing netball, and it was pretty even, however the girls had a spell of not scoring, and sadly lost by three goals. In their final game, they were four goals down by halftime against Lytchett. They asked the question if we won this would we go through to the semi-finals, the reply was yes having only lost one game, so they came out fighting. Georgina made some beautiful interceptions, stopping that ball into the shooter, Eva got her centres out, and Natasha and Neveah continued to score, they are starting to work well together in the shooting circle. The comeback was immense, and by the end the girls had won by a goal, lots of excitement.