On Thursday 13th June Steyning Grammar school held its annual Summer Exhibition. KS3 students exhibited their spectacular artwork, creative technology designs and showcased their musical talents alongside KS4 and KS5 Art and Technology work. It was such an exciting evening with both parents and students being amazed at the incredible talents in our school.
35 Year 12 students enjoyed a trip to Kraków, Poland in February. The Sociology, History and RE students visited Schindler’s Museum, Auschwitz and the Salt Mine. Students were able to reflect upon the experiences of those effected by the holocaust throughout their visit.
Talented SGS student Aaron Poulter was invited to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford on Saturday 8 February as a finalist in a UK-wide competition – The UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.
Reaching the final of the Seniors (14–16) age group is an impressive achievement, as 22,722 students entered the first round for this age group. Aaron was among the top 56 highest achieving students invited to the final round in his age group, and was presented with his finalist’s certificate at a prize-giving ceremony at Hertford College.
The UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge, supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is designed to get students excited about computing and computational thinking. It is a problem-solving contest with questions inspired by topics in computer science. In the first round, held in their own schools, students have to try to solve as many problems as possible in the allotted time. There are six age categories. The highest scoring students from the four oldest age groups (Elite, Seniors, Intermediate, and Juniors) were then invited to the Department of Computer Science at Oxford for the finals over two weekends in January and February.
A great achievement and well done Aaron!
Sixth Form students have been wearing pink to raise money for breast cancer awareness. So far we have raised a huge £276. Great work by everyone!
It was wonderful to welcome our Year 10s back after their 14 day self isolation. For the students who collected the most ACE points over this time we had a special surprise – pizza party! Well done to all.
