Christmas Pop Up Shop 2025

The 2025 Pop-Up Shop was another great success and showcased our commitment to sustainability and being an Eco School. This much-loved tradition brings so much festive joy to our school community. We always love the fashion shows around the school and seeing students so proud of their new looks!

Thank you to everyone for your contributions; we couldn’t do this without you.

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Pop up Shop 2025

Mrs Foster is busy getting everything ready for our annual Pop-Up Shop, and the excitement is already starting to build! This much-loved tradition brings so much festive joy to our school community, and preparations are well underway to make this year’s shop the best one yet.

If anyone has any contributions they would like to donate, or if you would like to offer your time to help Mrs Foster organise and prepare the shop, please come and speak to her at some point this week. Every bit of support, whether items, time or helping hands makes a huge difference and is greatly appreciated.

The countdown to Christmas has officially begun! In fact, there has already been a hint of seasonal magic in the office… I may have spotted a sneaky pile of Advent calendars all lined up and ready to go, thanks to a very generous donation.

It’s definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 🎄✨

 

Polygon Platform

 Polygon Platform 4NA

4NA have been lucky enough to work in collaboration with the Saints Foundation to do work experience at Southampton Central Station.

This exciting opportunity will continue next academic year as well, with other classes being given the chance to take part. 

The boys have all really enjoyed this experience and put a lot of effort into every task they've been assigned!  

Some of the boys favorite jobs were the more hands on ones like litter picking; they'd have competitions on who could collect the most litter. 

Progress at The Polygon Patch!

Since April 2024, the Morris House team and pupils have taken on the project of bringing life back to the allotment and transforming it into a resource to be used for the whole school.

When the task was taken on, the allotment was in need of some love! We have a great space with loads of potential. As alternative avenues for learning are at the heart of what we do at Morris House we quickly integrated this into our pupil's timetables and got to work! 

The potential of this space was immediately obvious, although it was not going to be easy!  With the help of pupils during their engagement sessions, and dedication and hard work from Miss Thom and Mr Harvey, the process started and the hard work began. 

In just over a year, the Polygon Patch has transformed into a wonderful outdoor learning space. Pupils have got involved with the moving of the poly tunnel, building a new shed and a shelter. Miss Thom works hard every week during allotment sessions, regardless of weather, to ensure upkeep of the allotment. With the change in weather into the summer months, a lot of preparation has gone into what new things to grow. 

The Allotment also gives us space to have a more green approach - produce is used in seasonal cooking lessons at Morris House and in food tech on the main site, food waste from the school kitchen is used to make our own compost,  and Mr Harvey is even designing our own water catcher out of plastic bottles to collect rain water to water our own plants too! 

With the new shelter, pupils are starting to be encouraged to use the allotment for other sessions too, it's a lovely change of scenery to read a book for English lessons! 

What a great resource for the school to get involved in! 

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Avon Tyrrell Residential Trip: Day 2

Christmas Swimming Fun

We have had so much fun this morning with our Christmas themed swimming session. 

Check out the photos of pupils creating Christmas Cakes, decorating Christmas trees and the reindeers pulling Santa's sleigh delivering presents!

All the pupils have worked so hard with their swimming this term and we look forward to celebrating tomorrow in our awards assembly where pupils will receive ASA Swimming Awards for their distance Swimming. 

A BIG thank you as always to all the amazing staff at Shirley Swimming Pool who welcome us every Thursday and have even started hosting work experience for a pupil who wants to become a lifeguard. We cant wait to be back in 2024!

 A Sean Christmas sandwich!

 

Pop up Shop!

 As part of our Eco School work and Citizenship education every Christmas we run a Pop up Shop where we explain the value of recycling fast fashion and what amazing quality clothes you can get without the expensive price tag! 

Our pupils have embraced this idea yet again and have loved picking some amazing clothing and cuddly toys all ready for the Christmas break! It’s great to see the pupils expressing their unique style and individuality!  

Big thank you to Miss Yates for all her help today! 

South Western Railway Visit

Last week we welcomed staff from South Western Railway to deliver a workshop alongside the Saints Foundation around the dangers of the railway and how to use public transport appropriately.

Pupils engaged in conversations around safety, how to use crossings correctly and how to use help buttons at stations for themselves and others. 

Pupils were told about the potential risks of misuse of the railways in terms of risk to life and financial penalties. They were also shown two case study videos from the perspective of a train driver who has had a near miss and a teenager who has been electrocuted locally on a railway. 

Well done to all the pupils who took part in the session and for South Western Railway for their visit.

Visits like this are a great opportunity to enhance our cross-curricular links in PSHE, Citizenship and Wellbeing.  The school is also working towards a HH5 and Eco School framework which includes personal safety and transport. Within work skills lessons we encourage employee encounters and this was a great chance for pupils to ask questions to staff who work hands on for South Western Railway.