Our Key Stage 4 students rounded off the term with their residential to PGL Marchants Hill where they took part in a wide range of exciting and challenging activities, including climbing, abseiling, trapeze, giant swing, problem-solving tasks, and Ambush (a giant game of hide and seek in the woods after dark!)
This term, our Year 11 students took part in a highly successful Market Stall Enterprise Project as part of their Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) curriculum.
This term, our Year 7 students have been enjoying an exciting and meaningful addition to their PSHE curriculum: Animal Care. This topic has given students the opportunity to learn about responsibility, empathy, and the importance of looking after living creatures.
Since January, Year 9 and 10 students have been working with visiting poet Des'ree to create their own spoken word poems. This term, the project culminated in the first-ever SMBS Poetry Slam, where our brave students shared their final pieces.
The annual - highly competitive - Staff Pancake race took place this week.
Four of our Year 11 students have been working hard over Term 2 and 3 with Ms Fusella as part of their Options programme to set up and run their very own student café.
Two members of staff at SMBS, Mr A (Humanities) and Ms Mumbi (RS), have been involved in an exciting national project in partnership with Historic Royal Palaces, as part of the development of a new educational resource called Wordless Stories.
Year 11 pupils tried their hands at making pizza in a restaurant last week. They headed over to Pizza Express and were shown the ropes. Student, Tim has written about the experience.
On Wednesday the 10th of December it was Winter Jumper day at SMBS. Year 11 student, Tom wrote about it.
In November, the whole school took part in Enterprise Week, during which students had the exciting opportunity to meet professionals and learn about a wide range of jobs and career pathways.
Over the past two terms, our Year 11 pupils have been working hard to create the very first SMBS podcast, and we are delighted to share that their debut episode was released last week.
Key Stage 4 pupils had the opportunity to visit Mercedez Benz earlier this term and find out the story of the Formula 1 Team and what goes into building a racing car. F1 enthusiast Micah wrote about the trip.