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Distinguished Visitors |
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| There’s never a dull moment at Great Barr School! And the past few weeks have been no exception as we’ve played host to three people who are at the very top of their professions.
On 1 March 2010, Alan Gibbons, author of 55 bestselling children’s... |
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Don´t Smile ´til Easter |
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| Mrs Abbott now has a regular column in our favourite local newspaper, the Great Barr Observer. Her first column was published on Friday 5 March and the next is due in another 6 weeks´´ time. We hope you enjoy them!
As a trainee teacher back in t... |
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Nobel Prize Winner Inspires Young Scientists |
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| It’s not every day that school children get to meet a Nobel Prize Winner, least of all one of the world’s most famous and successful Scientists. But, on Tuesday 9th February 2010, a group of our Year 9 pupils did just that.
We were invited by ... |
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Funky Junk Day |
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| On Thursday 4 February 2010, we ran another of our brilliant cross curricular ‘enrichment days’. This time, it was the turn of Year 8 and the issue they were looking into was ‘Sustainability’.
The normal timetable was suspended and the whole year... |
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The Common Lunch break is Coming! |
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| Given our size and the fact that we have only two dining halls, we have always had a continuous lunch. This means that there are three lunch periods and at any one time, a third of the School is eating lunch while the remaining two thirds are in les... |
