Clubs and special events
We pride ourselves on the wide range of clubs we run during the week and our wonderful array of Library Activities. During the week children can get involved in an array of Book Clubs, Dungeons and Dragons, Creative Writing, Craft, a Film Club, Quiz Club, Coding Club, Chess Club and Comic Books and Cards.
Special events which take place during the year include the following:
Book Mastermind
Each year we team up with other schools in the Suffolk area to organise and run a county Book Mastermind competition. School heats run at the start of February each year and are open to Year 7, 8 and 9 students. The winner of the Heats goes on to compete at county level in May.
Book Week
Every October the Library and English Department join forces for a week of literary celebration.
We take a whole-school approach to book week and celebrate fiction and non-fiction books alike! Students get involved with author visits, form time literary challenges, a Book Week Bake Off, special assemblies and more! Highlights also include a Book Speed Dating event with our Year 7 Accelerated Reader Classes (to promote the importance of reading for pleasure) and a special Year 8 Book Tasting Awards. We also run a Readathon, giving our keen readers the chance to raise money for charity and celebrate reading for pleasure.
Author Visits
Children who have yearly author visits are twice as likely to read above the expected level for their age and enjoy reading for pleasure. We ensure that our Year 7 and 8 students are able to get involved in at least one in-person author visit a year in October and that all years have access to digital events and interviews to inspire them throughout the year!
Comic Convention
We run a school Comic Convention each year in order to celebrate everything Graphic Novel, Computer Game, Comic Book and Anime based. Typically, students get to meet experts working in gaming or computer studies, try video gaming devices from the past and present and Cosplay their favourite characters.
We also have several Sixth Form-run stalls which aim to raise money for local charities (or charities that our students feel strongly about). Last year we raised an impressive £860 over two dates; charities we donated to included Outreach Youth (supported by BBC Children in Need), Suffolk Mind, Switchboard and UNICEF (towards projects to help Pakistan, Afghanistan and Ukraine).
Thank you to BLOC (Suffolk Libraries) for loaning us equipment for the event and to our Sixth Form and Year 11 Library event teams for helping to organise.
Book Fair Take Over
Our Sixth Formers are given the opportunity to run a Scholastic Book Fair for the Library each December in order to get more experience for their CVs and UCAS applications.
We offer training and experience in roles such as customer service, marketing, advertising and finance. Positions are advertised in late September and we start training and planning in late October.
