Recreating life in the 1600s
April 24, 2019 4:44 pm Leave your thoughtsToday we welcomed members of the English Civil War Society in to school to talk to Year 8 students about life in the seventeenth century. They appeared in full costume…
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Careers preparation
April 3, 2019 2:56 pm Leave your thoughtsWe have a strong commitment to preparing our students for careers and life beyond Sexey’s. Over this term we have welcomed a series of speakers to inspire and explore a…
Meeting Her Majesty The Queen
March 28, 2019 3:09 pm Leave your thoughtsWe were thrilled when students were able to meet Her Majesty The Queen during one of their regular educational art visits to Hauser & Wirth Somerset today. Students were studying…
Go Karting Success
February 28, 2019 2:41 pm Leave your thoughtsThe late great Ayrton Senna once described karting as the ‘purest driving experience‘. This was certainly the view of Sexey’s karting teams, who took part in the local semi final…
Year 7 reading challenge: accepted!
February 21, 2019 12:33 pm Leave your thoughtsOur Year 7 reading challenge has now closed and after the all-important measuring, the results are in! The final heights are as follows: Last place: Class 7A2 with 180cm Third…
Preferred school choice – lost out on National Offer Day?
February 13, 2019 1:10 pm Leave your thoughtsHelp! I haven’t got my preferred school choice – what do I do now? With National Offer Day (March 1st) on the horizon, many parents across the UK are asking…
GCHQ CyberFirst competition
February 13, 2019 10:07 am Leave your thoughtsCongratulations to eight of our Year 8 students who took part in this year’s CyberFirst competition, run by GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre. The two teams of four spent supervised…
Sixth Formers qualify for Student Investor Challenge semi-final
February 6, 2019 12:09 pm Leave your thoughtsEight of our Sixth Form students are celebrating as they have qualified for the semi-final of the prestigious Student Investor Challenge, run by the London Institute of Banking and Finance.…
Welcoming Dr Peter Vardy for Candle Conference 2019
January 31, 2019 4:40 pm Leave your thoughtsBuilding on previous successful events, today we hosted another Candle Conference with guest speaker and eminent academic, theologian and philosopher, Dr. Peter Vardy. We welcomed neighbouring schools Leweston, QEH Bristol,…
Sixth Form leads in National League Tables
January 30, 2019 11:08 am Leave your thoughtsSexey’s School is celebrating its students’ success once again as the Department for Education’s league tables ranked its Sixth Form as best in Somerset for a state academy last week,…