Posted on: 19/01/2023Year 8 Boxwise A group of year 8 students attended Camden Boxing Club to take part in a 6 week boxing programme in order to develop their boxing skills, strength and resilience. It was week 1 and students really enjoyed themselves learning the basics and moving on to practising their skills on the punching bag. Well done to all.
Posted on: 19/01/2023Book of the Month - January Fake by Ele Fountain GENRE: Near-future dystopia; speculative fiction/science fiction In a digital world it’s hard to know what’s real. In this near-future dystopia, antibiotics no longer work, so children are educated at home until the age of 14, after which they attend boarding school. This is the fate of Jess and her friend Finn, but not Jess’s sister Chloe who is too ill to go to school and needs regular medication which her parents struggle to afford as they strive to gain credits from their meagre commercial practices, such as selling honey and produce from their garden. Jess, however, is an expert computer hacker, and with the help of her enigmatic online friend JP, she seeks to hack the pharmaceutical company that supplies Chloe’s medicine. A short, but very eventful and satisfying read if you like stories based in virtual worlds, AI, computers and dystopias. This is ideal for KS3 readers.
Posted on: 19/01/2023