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16/04/24

Year 10 were making motors in physics lesson today using magnets and wire coil's, the hands-on activity deepened their learning experience and understanding of how motors work. pic.twitter.com/KTs9Lj69yv

15/04/24

To celebrate National Scrabble Day, Ms Wildsmith has made an interactive game of Scrabble featuring mystery books! Come and have a go in the Library 📚 pic.twitter.com/2J4BlZl5lZ

14/04/24

Term Date Reminder - Monday 15 April 2024 is an INSET day for staff, school will be closed to students.Tuesday 16 April - students return to school.Term dates can be found on the school website https://t.co/nCY6jzrm3K pic.twitter.com/oQnBChcPDM

13/04/24

New raised beds, just waiting for our weird and wonderful vegetable and flower seedlings to be planted! 🌱🌈🥕🍋🥒🌶️🫑 pic.twitter.com/G2f8Zr1vCU

13/04/24

Students were fantastic this morning getting packed up and out early. About to take off on our first flight to Lisbon. pic.twitter.com/vpPWqSnpbu

13/04/24

Yesterday we had a fantastic day walking around Sete Cidades crater lake, visiting coastal lava flows, lava caves and Ponte Delgada town. pic.twitter.com/Zbs5j7LeIX

10/04/24

A great day exploring today, starting with a forest trek with waterfalls and HEP dams followed by a dip in some geothermal pools! pic.twitter.com/FfOisipjph

09/04/24

Year 10 Geographers have arrived in Ponta Delgada, have had dinner and are settling into our rooms. Ready for a busy day sightseeing tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Zk5WfrmEcd

09/04/24

Eid Mubarak to all our families in the SJL community celebrating this week! pic.twitter.com/tqzErrwAe7

04/04/24

Sport Tour 2024🇳🇱🏐A fantastic week of netball for the girls!A 3rd and 1st place result at the tournament shows how hard the girls have worked and have learned a lot this week. They should be very proud🥇🥉Well done to Aida and Lily, coaches players of the tournament 🏆 pic.twitter.com/unx8bWlxUC

04/04/24

Sports Tour 24 - An amazing week of football comes to an end. The Yr9A team perform brilliantly in the tournament this afternoon - played 5, Won 3, Drew 1 and Lost 1. Crowing them ChampsThe Yr9B battled well in their games but didn’t have enough to podium. ⚽️ pic.twitter.com/e9PwDRLI05

03/04/24

Sports Tour Update 24-Time to put the skills the girls have learnt into action🏐 pic.twitter.com/CHcn2k5KX2

02/04/24

Sports Tour 2024-Netball training is underway pic.twitter.com/dGjCSdaJhy

02/04/24

Sports Tour 24 - Great first training session. Boys worked really hard and are ready for this evenings games vs Caesar FC and Rood Groen FC pic.twitter.com/Urr4YYELa4

01/04/24

A new feature, Tetrapanax Rex, will hopefully have 1.5m leaves by summer! It’s a monumental, jungle like plant and has come from a donation pic.twitter.com/rugEqIkcZ1

01/04/24

Sports Tour Update: We have arrived in Valkenburg - now for an explore in the beautiful town ⚽️🏐 pic.twitter.com/FGSYS3uJNP

01/04/24

Wishing our Year 9 football and netball squads a brilliant time on their Sports Tour to Valkenburg, Holland. The teams will enjoy training each day and compete in a tournament - have a fantastic trip and good luck! pic.twitter.com/4IArVRohKs

28/03/24

Easter Break - wishing our students, staff and SJL community a very relaxing Easter break. We look forward to welcoming students back on Tuesday 16 April 2024 – school is closed to students on Monday 15 April due to staff INSET day. pic.twitter.com/e8kleFCzSB

28/03/24

House Points - we like to take every opportunity to recognise and celebrate the effort and achievement of students at SJL. As a result of Merit Marks, ACE Cards, Faculty Commendations and Head’s Commendations awarded throughout term, the House Points tally to date is... pic.twitter.com/WpR8tdpO9q

28/03/24

Well done to everyone taking part in our Big Challenge - Ryder are in the lead, closely followed by Newton. King have some catching up to do, so make sure to keep reading over Easter!6 of our incredible students have also achieved 💎 Diamond Award 💎 (more than 52 books!) pic.twitter.com/lfyWABG9xn

28/03/24

Well done to everyone taking part in our Big Challenge - Ryder are in the lead, closely followed by Newton. King have some catching up to do, so make sure to keep reading over Easter!6 of our incredible students have also achieved 💎 Diamond Award 💎 (more than 52 books!) pic.twitter.com/lfyWABG9xn

28/03/24

Well done to our trio of year 13 A level Drama students who excelled in their text exam on World Theatre Day!#theatrematters#seizetheday pic.twitter.com/bcLn9QrKyF

28/03/24

Well done to our trio of year 13 A level Drama students who excelled in their text exam on World Theatre Day!#theatrematters#seizetheday pic.twitter.com/bcLn9QrKyF

27/03/24

Fabulous to see our ‘Have you met…?’ event so busy today, with students displaying their interests and hobbies to staff and peers and engaging in great discussion. Well done to all those who took part. pic.twitter.com/BoEULOWtqJ

27/03/24

Some of our Sixth Form students interested in studying medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry listened to the expertise of Devki Shah, a MedSoc consultant, who talked to students about how best to navigate the demanding application process. pic.twitter.com/U5rWv7cpJO

Religious Studies and Collective Worship

Religious Studies (RS) is a popular academic subject taught to all registered students. Following the Hertfordshire Agreed Syllabus ensures an academic approach in which students learn both about religion and from religion. RS contributes significantly to the school's ethos and endeavours to promote understanding and respect between all people, as well as a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Our collective worship policy reflects the values of the school, which are concerned with mutual respect, cultural diversity and social inclusion. School assemblies are theme-based and will provide the opportunity for students to:

  • Reflect and actively participate
  • Reinforce the values of the school community and its ethos
  • Celebrate success.

Thought for the Week is an additional way in which students are encouraged to engage in thinking beyond the everyday matters to ideas of local, national or global concern, and often asks students to focus on issues relating to citizenship and relationships.

Religious Education

We believe at this school that Religious Education (RE) both supports and strengthens what we aim to do in every aspect of school life. Our caring ethos and the value which we place on the development of the whole child - spiritually, morally, socially, culturally - and intellectually is reflected in the RE curriculum.

As part of the Basic Curriculum RE must be taught to all registered pupils. As RE is not nationally determined the LEA must provide an Agreed Syllabus for us to follow. The Hertfordshire Agreed Syllabus of Religious Education 2017-2022 is used as the basis of our planning and delivery of RE at Key Stage 3. At GCSE all students will study either Full Course or Short Course Religious Studies, where they are able to explore a number of philosophical and ethical topics. AS/A2-level Religious Studies is popular in the Sixth Form and General Studies provides the necessary study opportunities for those students not opting into certificated RS courses.

Collective worship

Our collective worship policy reflects the values of the school, which are concerned with mutual respect, cultural diversity and social inclusion. Collective worship is of a broadly Christian character and includes all students unless they have been withdrawn by their parents. Collective worship will provide the opportunity for students to:

  • Reflect and actively participate
  • Reinforce the values of the school community and its ethos
  • Worship a supreme being
  • Celebrate success
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