On 1st February I took the Year 9 and 10 dancers from Thrive Dance Company, the Year 11 GCSE Dance group and the Year 12 A Level Dance group on a valuable trip. Winchester University bought their Dance students to work with a number of the Bromley Schools and it was so nice to get together bringing all of the borough's dancers together. 

At Ravensbourne, the Winchester students lead a University-level workshop and they then performed three separate pieces to us, including showing a dance for camera piece. I was very proud of the Charles Darwin students of having the confidence to mix with students from other schools and even performing in front of others watching - a massive well done. I may be biased, but I thought their technique and energy when dancing was also great! Well done to all. 

Miss Abbotts 

On Wednesday 10th November Year 9 and 10 students were lucky enough to have a visit from technology agents Brant, Aaron and Adam from Ecce, a website and app development company based in Sevenoaks. They were here to help 25 students generate ideas to demonstrate how can we use technology and digital solutions to make it easier for people to understand the true environmental footprint of products and services, allowing households, schools, universities and businesses to make choices that are good for the planet.

After getting background information and researching, students had just 2 hours to plan their digital solution, before presenting their ideas to the class and the technology agents.

“Today we have experienced the process of coming up with an idea in the digital world. Having help from professionals we were able to come to a decision as to whether we would want to pursue a career in the digital world. Despite the short amount of time that we had, it was still fun coming up with an idea as a team” Pierreice and Adrianna

Our digital partners ecce chose the winning team and had this to say:

Eco-Me was the winner "The premise is that a user sets up a profile-detailing lifestyle including travel options, recycling changes and daily challenges to help reduce this.  The app shows the current carbon footprint and suggested lifestyle changes and daily challenges to help reduce this.  Not only are users rewarded with the knowledge they are helping to save the planet, but are also awarded badges and points which are redeemable against prizes.  The inclusion of a leader board was also a nice idea. A very well organised team - great presentation".

Well done to the Eco-Me team of Grace Kelly, Eloise Butterworth, Sonny Roberts and Oliver Rogers who have been entered into the national competition.

A huge thank you to Mrs Babe, who spent the day working with students to get their creative juices flowing.

Miss Edwards