During February Half Term (9-12th April) the RS department took 32 students to the Italian city of Rome. The trip was organised to study the concept of ‘pilgrimage’, a topic Year 7 will study asContinue reading
Category: Trips
Holland Hockey Tour
At the start of the Easter break the Year 9 & Year 10 hockey teams, accompanied by Dr Roberts, Mrs Hardicre, Mr Murray & Ms Egan, ventured to Holland on a sports tour. All ofContinue reading
Year 10 trip to the Town Hall
Year 10 GCSE Citizenship group were hosted by the Local Mayor Tom Ross last Friday at Trafford Town Hall. Students went on a tour of the building and learnt about the role of the localContinue reading
SQ051 from Houston
Everything has gone to plan. We will shortly be boarding the aircraft at Gate D1. ETA Manchester is 9.30am but that may change.
Japan Trip returns
We have returned safely from a fantastic trip to Japan. The students have been a real pleasure to accompany and were a credit to themselves and the school. See the trip blog here Mrs. EdmundsonContinue reading
Arrangements for the return flight………
We check out of the hotel at 11am. We have a wait for our coach to take us to the airport at 2.30pm so we have decided to return to the cinema to take inContinue reading
Day 5…..afternoon and evening
After a final couple of hours going round the exhibits and visiting the NASA shop we departed for Kemah Boardwalk and the amusement park right next to the water. Wethen went on to our finalContinue reading
Day 5 continued…….
The After a guided tour of some of the exhibits we had the graduation ceremony for all our students. Just a couple of pictures from that ceremony……… The winning team.
Day 5……..final day at JSC NASA
An early morning tour of the Space Shuttle on display attached to a 747 aircraft. Following a brunch we had a talk and Q+A session with Astronaut Mike Foreman.
Day 4 …….evening activity
Bowling and yet more food! Check the score Eat food Strike
Day 4……Mars habitat cont.
Presenting to the judges
Day 4 pm…….the final competition
Having done some research on Mars design a habitat suitable for a group of Astronauts for 500days. Build a model of the habitat and present it to a panel of NASA staff justifying your designContinue reading
Day 4………the competition continues
Part 2 – Collecting rock samples using a radio controlled rover built by the students. Is this the winning team with 4 rocks collected???
Day 4………the competition continues
Part 1 ………driving a coded buggy on a course.
Day 3 …….evening
After a really challenging afternoons work what do we need? Answer……..Apparently retail therapy and a visit to the Baybrook Mall Shopping Centre (the Texas Trafford Centre – it’s big, but then everything is big inContinue reading
Day 3pm…part 2
The teams are now coding a buggy to drive a course. Tomorrow they compete against each other.
Day 3 pm part 1……..Mars Rover Challenge
The challenge is to build a robotic rock collector that will work on Mars. Tomorrow is testing!
Day 3…….a visit to the rocket park
The huge Saturn 5 rocket used to take astronauts to the Moon was most impressive.
Day 3…..launching our 2 stage rockets
The launch crew The observers with clinometer altimeter measuring instruments. The rockets also carried electronic altimeters. Blast off………sorry I’m unable to upload the video but look carefully and you might spot the rocket motor working.Continue reading
Day 3……an 8am start with a presentation.
The presentation this morning was from Andrzej Stewart, an engineer who spent some time living in a space environment on Earth. He was isolated on one of his two missions for 1 year which wasContinue reading
History First World War Battlefields Trip
The History department has returned home from another successful and very enjoyable First World War battlefields trip. Everyone had a great time and valued the opportunity to visit sites such as the Thiepval Memorial, VimyContinue reading
History First World War Battlefields Trip
The History department has returned home from another successful and very enjoyable First World War battlefields trip. Everyone had a great time and valued the opportunity to visit sites such as the Thiepval Memorial, VimyContinue reading
Art Trip to Rome
The Art trip group made it back safely from Rome despite the airport fire delaying their departure by 8 hours! Who knew a day in an airport car park could be such fun? TheContinue reading
Art Trip to Rome
The Art trip group made it back safely from Rome despite the airport fire delaying their departure by 8 hours! Who knew a day in an airport car park could be such fun? TheContinue reading
…..and again
At the dive training pool…………. Winner of the spiro challenge – the students will explain!!!
Day 2…….another busy day
The morning started with a visit to the Neutral Bouyancy Lab. where we saw divers preparing the pool and ISS mock up for 2 Astronauts in training. It was then back to the JohnsonContinue reading
Day 1…….afternoon activity.
This afternoon we’ve been learning about materials and their ability to prevent heat being transferred. Each team has had to buy samples of these materials to build a heat shield and a container to stopContinue reading
Still Day 1………
……….Model rocket building. All groups are set the challenge of working as engineers and scientists to build a rocket within a budget. Hopefully we will be launching these later in the week.