News Archive
Acton High School Blastbeat 2010
The finals of the Blastbeat 2010 programme took place at the O2 Arena on 13th July 2010 as part of the Transformation Trust's 1st Birthday Party. Eight of our Year 11 students were involved in the competition with 65 other London Schools to be the best Social Enterprise Multimedia Company and had to set up a stall in the main entrance of the O2 Arena promoting their company for the final round of judging worth 25% of the marks.
15/07/2010
Acton Carnival
This Saturday 10th July 2010 saw the return of the infamous Acton Carnival. This year’s theme was ‘we are family’ and many different community groups took part in the music and dancing in the procession.
13/07/2010
Talk from Head of Software Solutions at IBM
Chris Bray, Head of Software Solutions at IBM gave a talk to selected Year 10 students on 6th July 2010. There were some fascinating insights into the history of computers and Chris demonstrated how much smaller and faster and more powerful they had become since the days when a single computer filled a large room.
12/07/2010
Bronze Art Award
16 students from Years 7,8 and 9 have recently passed their Bronze Art Award.
The Arts Award is an accredited framework for young people to develop as artists and art leaders. The students have participated in a range of creative activities, set themselves challenges and developed and shared their chosen art form.
08/07/2010
Year 9 Team Manage the Berrymede World Cup Football Competition
Some of our students from the year 9 girls/boys football team were invited to Berrymede Junior School in Acton to help teachers ‘Team Manage’ their annual football competition.
07/07/2010
Year 9 Flexiday
On Flexiday, our Knights and Ladies girded their loins, polished their chain mail and saddled their mighty steeds to do battle, mediaeval style. The Year 9s were given a brief to construct the mightiest siege weapons and castles they could, using paper, string and their own ingenuity. They also had to design a heraldic banner and flag for their class groups to march under.
26/06/2010
MFL Update
Since September, the MFL department has taken part in a number of events for the pupils at Acton High.
In October 2009 a group of 45 pupils went to France, and in January 2010, 24 pupils went to Germany. We also took part in two integrations where Italian and Spanish pupils visited the school to see life in the British School system. So far, this has helped to promote our department and its profile in the School and Community.
24/06/2010
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - University of London
SOAS ambassadors came into Acton High School to deliver a ‘ Presenting for Radio’ Higher Education Workshop to 30 of our Year 9 Students.
The Students learnt about higher education in an exciting new way and interviewed SOAS ambassadors to find out more about higher education.
This was followed by exercises in how to interview for radio and culminated in recording their interviews on MP3 recording equipment.
24/05/2010