Our pupil librarians are very hard working, they give up their break and lunch times to help out in the library as well as help out with primary school visits and activities such as our Chatterbooks sessions and our Spelling Bee competitions. 

We have a group of wonderful Sixth Formers who have helped us every year since Year 7 and they will be leaving us in the summer, after their exams.  We didn’t want them to miss out on the reward trip for this year and so we decided to take them all on a special day out to the Harry Potter Studios for the ‘Hogwarts At Christmas’ event. 

The trip not only acts as a reward but as a team building session for our newer students to get to know our team better and see just how helpful and friendly the older students are.

During our trip, students were able to learn about the hundreds of different careers that are involved in the making of a film.  A lot of people only think of acting as a career when talking about the film industry but there are so many others such as directors, casting crews, hairdressers, costume designers, prop designers, make-up artists, choreographers, music composers, caterers and more! 

Students also had a chemistry lesson by learning how they made different types of snow for different scenarios when filming, for example paper snow for the ground and polymer snow for the actors.  It was quite amazing watching the snow come to life in front of us.

We hope that students were inspired by the different careers and hope they enjoyed the day as much as we enjoyed taking them.

“Everyone had an amazing time at the Harry Potter sets, seeing the winter themed castle was especially magical and I learnt so much about the reality behind the filming process. It definitely made me want to rewatch the films! Thank you to everyone who organised the trip!” – Grace, Year 13