Curriculum

After the pupils performed The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Neil Clark and Jonathan Furness took the opportunity to celebrate some of the achievements that the pupils had made over the course of a year.

Jonathan and the pupils began recalling some very recent experiences, the adventures of camping overnight at a site in Farnham.

Jonathan then presented the swimming certificates to each pupil for their achievements earlier this year.

Neil talked about the academic achievements made throughout the past year and summarised, in general terms, what he is expecting from the pupils next year.

Watch the full video to find out more about what was said and presented to the pupils.

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We are delighted to announce that today marks the last day of examinations for all our candidates. Every student was involved in examinations this year, from Entry Level courses in Childcare, Mathematics, English, and ICT through to a GCSE ICT examination for some students.

Each pupil worked incredibly hard to meet some tough deadlines for handing in coursework and revising towards examinations. Congratulations and well done!

We should know how the students did in their Entry Level courses at the end of this month, with results released on the 28th June.

GCSE results will become available on 23rd August.

All students will continue to study other subjects, some, to a higher level for completion in 2008.

Pupils continued working through their training programme in both the Adventure Service Challenge Award and Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme today.

You might say the excitement was in-tents (!) as pupils learnt how to pitch a 2 / 3 man dome tent in the garden of Stepping Stones School. Pupils split into two teams, one group pitching a reasonably robust expedition tent compared to a freebie tent that came as part of an offer. The pupils used this to compare the features of both, judging the quality of each and the suitability for purpose.

Claire Greenwood supported this activity with her many years experience in hiking and camping in the outdoors, running events for organisations such as the CARE Challenges. Jonathan's extensive scouting experience as a Scout Leader, gave pupils insight into some of the issues relating to youngsters sleeping outdoors.

Pupils were keen to spend an evening camping outdoors in the school garden as a way of getting used to being outside and sleeping in a tent.

Jessica opens up the front door.

Jessica discovers toilets aren't one of the features!

Dominic and Jessica feel 'at home' quite quickly.

Written and performed by Amy, Jessica, Amie, Daniel and Dominic at Stepping Stones School. These students were studying similes in Literacy, and took photographs from around the school site, and used descriptive language to describe what they saw. This video was produced using iMovie.

This video has been uploaded to YouTube.

Here are some photographs of the pupils at Frensham Ponds. This was the pupils last session on the water before we break for the Summer holiday. Just like the horseriding on Tuesday, and the Music performances, we invited parents along to watch the pupils sail.

The sailing sessions are part of the Physical Education curriculum and we recognise that our pupils are fortunate to have this opportunity to experience something different and learn new skills. Well done Amy, Dom, Dan and Jess.

We must also say a big thank you to the Sailability team who give of their time freely and without whom, this activity wouldn't be possible. Thank you.

Photographs supplied by Jessica's grandfather.

Four talented young musicians played to an audience of parents and members of staff, showing the work they have achieved in music.

Their work is impressive, especially the compositions created using the PrintMusic software. Having that capability allowed them to unleash their understanding of music without having the concern of being able to play it.

The individual pieces were also very notable examples of how the pupils' skills have progressed in only a year. We will soon be editing the footage from the afternoon's performance and joining that with some footage shot a year or so ago.

Congratulations to the pupils and to Linda, our music specialist for her commitment to giving the pupils the best possible experiences.