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John Muir Award February Update

John Muir Award February Update

The John Muir Award is still running strong at Spring Brook Upper School even through the winter months. This is due mainly to the fact that Gift Your Gear were so kind to us in donating a huge amount of outdoor clothing and boots for our pupils and staff to wear on...
John Muir Award February Update

John Muir Award Update

At the beginning of the year we introduced the John Muir Award into Spring Brook Upper School which involves exploring wild places in our local area. This has been a great success so far and the pupils in Key Stage 3 explored the wind on a hill top with a quarry in...
John Muir Award February Update

John Muir Award

This academic year sees Spring Brook Academy Upper School Key Stage 3 begin their outdoor education curriculum offer. With the success of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award that was introduced 2 years ago in Key Stage 4 Mr Hopkins has been eager to give the Key Stage...
John Muir Award February Update

National Teaching Assistants’ Day!

Today is National Teaching Assistants’ Day. At Spring Brook we have celebrated all of the positive contributions that our teaching assistants make daily to our school. We value the work that they do, they work hard and are important people in our Spring Brook...
John Muir Award February Update

Mrs Tootill’s blog

I am writing this penultimate blog looking at packing boxes as we prepare to leave Dean Street. It has been a brilliant journey and one that has had a massive impact upon me – both professionally and personally. However, more about that next week. My week began with...
John Muir Award February Update

Mrs Tootill’s blog

It’s all about the ‘O’ word. Over the past 2 weeks I have had the privilege of meeting Ofsted – not once but twice!!!!!The first meeting centred on our readiness to open Springboard Project. The inspector was keen to see how we, as a new school, were going to teach...