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Arts Award
Year 9 students visit Waterstones
In February twelve year 9 students took part in a
literacy visit to Waterstones Bookshop in Exeter.
Staff at Waterstones had taken time to choose a
range of new and diverse texts to present to the
students at the start of the visit with the aim of
prompting students to try a different author or a
different style of book.
Our year 9s spent the morning exploring the
bookshelves and, before returning to College,
were able to choose, individually, a book or
revision guide to support their own study
programme and a second book to read for
pleasure.
A big thank you to staff at Waterstones for
the care they took to find texts of interest to
our visiting year 9 students and for the warm
welcome we all received.
Teresa Lakeman
Year 8 student Louise Teague conduted this interview as part of
her Arts Award work during Challenge Pathways on Wednesdays.
What is Room 13?
Room 13 is an organisation that students run and it's outside of
the National Curriculum
What are they doing at the moment?
They are preparing for other students to come in and work in
'Room 13'.
Who are they?
Year 8 students Jordan, Izzy, Elise, Angel, Nadine and Faith and it
is run by Artist Sara Downham-Lotto
Twenty-five students were delighted to receive
certificates for Arts Award at Bronze and Silver
level when their projects were completed.
Learning Partners
World Book Day
Year 12 Learning Coach working with a year
11 English student in the run-up to exams
Students spent lunchtime in the Library on World
Book Day ~ here playing a game of giant Scrabble!
