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5 Stars for the Café

Congratulations to our café team, who have once again been awarded 5 stars by the Foods Standards Agency.


Primary Music Festival

The Birchwood Music department and Bishop’s Stortford Music School, were very pleased to welcome over 30 musicians from All Saints, St Michaels, Manor Fields and Thorley Hill primary school’s for our annual primary school orchestra workshop. The students worked tirelessly alongside our Birchwood Orchestra to produce two pieces, “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Rock.com”, which were performed to parents at the end of the event. We’d like to thank all that were involved and particularly Peter Foster from Herts Music Service for helping organise such a fun event.


UK Mathematical Trust Senior Challenge

Last term, all Year 12 and 13 students, and some Year 11s, sat the UK Mathematical Trust Senior Challenge. Three students performed exceptionally well, and qualified for subsequent rounds. Lauren Gore and George Berry (both Year 12) reached the Kangaroo Round, while Gordon Chan (Year 11) qualified for the British Mathematical Olympiad, where he scored a Merit.


Virtual Valentine’s Balloon Race

The PSFA are hosting a Virtual Valentine’s Balloon Race, 12-19 February 2023.

The prizes to be won;
1st prize - £60
2nd prize - £25
3rd prize - £15

Each balloon costs £3. Please go to https://www.balloonrace.net/BirchwoodPSFA to buy your balloons.
You can buy as many balloons as you like, for friends as well as family. Entry for the balloon race is open to everyone so please share these details.


Rotary Young Engineer of the Year

We hosted the annual “rotary young engineer challenge”. This year, teams were set the challenge of creating a device to sort coins using only a limited supply of timber, card and basic fittings. They only had two hours to design and create their device. It was a packed workshop with 20 teams from across all of the six other local schools.
Our teams represented us extremely well with our foundation team securing 2nd place and our senior team securing 3rd place. Congratulations to everyone who took part in this tough competition.


French Christmas Markets

On Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 December we went to France to experience the wonderful French Christmas markets and to help develop our French speaking skills. The trip was for French GCSE students in Years 10 and 11.