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On behalf of the production team and cast, I would like to invite staff, students, their friends and family to come and watch this year's school production 'School of Rock'. Students from year 7 - 13 are involved and would love to see you there supporting them. Tickets can be purchased on parent mail or at the door.
Show dates are Monday 25, Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 March at 7pm.
Thank you,
Mrs Lake, Curriculum Leader of Performing Arts
Sevenoaks Sound & Vision ran an art competition for students with some exciting prizes.
A year 10 student report of the Reading Youth cabinet trip.
Highdown Celebrates World Book Day
The theme for World Book Day this year was 'favourite book'. Teaching staff were encouraged to share their favourite book with each of their classes during the day and students spoke about their favourite books in lessons and mentor time.
The BNC is an Economist Educational Foundation (https://www.burnetnewsclub.com/) run digital news club which focuses on KS2 and KS3 engagement with wider world issues.
Please see details of community support meetings that maybe of interest which aim to improve wellbeing, relationships and behaviour.
During the Chinese festive period, the new cohort of Highdown MEP members in Year 7 participated in their first MEP Intensive Learning Day on Thursday 14 February 2019.
GLF Schools and Highdown School & Sixth Form Centre are delighted to announce that their application to open Highdown Riverside, a new secondary school in Reading, has been shortlisted for interview by the Department for Education (DfE).
Thames Water visited Highdown on Tuesday to discuss their efforts in the workplace to help support staff mental health and well being.
Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 5th February with the slogan 'Together for a better Internet.'
We are really proud of our 2019 PGCE cohort from Oxford, Reading, Brighton and UCL Universities. Great teachers in the making, learning from the inspirational teachers at Highdown.
Before Christmas the annual Certificate Presentation Evening took place. Congratulations to all the students who collected their GCSE and A Level certificates.