News Archive
Street Art Project
One of the things we encourage at Acton High School is cross-curricular links between departments to show our students the breadth of possibilities available to them if they think laterally.
16/07/2010
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
Getting Down to Business – Year 9 Enterprise
On Monday 17th May 2010 Year 9 students participated in an enterprise day with the Ealing and Hillingdon Education Business Partnership. The day consisted of the students having to organise themselves into groups of 5 or 6 members, coming up with a company name, logo and hosting an under 18s club night event.
20/05/2010
Surfing in Portugal
On the 12th of May 2010, 22 Year 9 students, along with Mr Trefz, Mr Halsey and Ms West, headed off for a 5 day surfing trip to Peniche Surf Camp in Portugal. We stayed in self-catering apartments and had to look after everything ourselves (including cooking our own meals so, armed with our shopping lists, we filled our trolleys up at the local supermarket with enough food to feed the whole of our year group!)
12/05/2010
Acton - A Sense of Place
Exhibition and Celebration, Thursday 29th April 2010
Over the last term we have been working on four projects with London Transport Museum and A New Direction as part of our Change School programme of creative learning.
The unifying theme of the projects is Acton – a sense of place. We have explored what Acton means to us through the eyes of young people, teachers, artists and parents. We have been helped to express what we discovered by staff at the Museum, artists and film makers. We have learned new skills, made new relationships and uncovered a sense of the place in which we live and work.
30/04/2010
Revision
With Year 11 final exams upon us shortly, we have put together some details on resources for revision. Please access the Revision page at any time through the link in the students menu on the right.
28/04/2010
Year 9 Maths Flexiday for Parents
Some Year 9 parents came in on our March Flexiday to learn more about the Maths curriculum, about preparation for GCSE Maths and how they could support their sons and daughters at home. They also did some Maths themselves! Here are some of their comments:
- Thank you for the session. I found it very useful and it is certainly going to be of much help in my trying to help my son with his schoolwork. I had a very good day.
- Really enjoyed the session. Time flew by! A longer session would be even better.
- Need more sessions in the future.
- Very informative.
- Would like this again at the beginning of next year.
22/04/2010