Year 3′s week ended on a high with ‘Fairy Day’ which is part of their topic on Fairy Tales in English. The girls started off with an independent learning activity where the girls had to design and make their own crow; this was followed by ‘Dress a Fairy’ which involved … Read more
Last term, the Year 12 IB girls took part in the IB World Entrepreneurs Breakfast Club. The club runs for ten weeks between September and December during which the participants take part in the ‘10x10x10 CHALLENGE’, where participants are given 10 weeks to turn £10 into £100 using any means … Read more
On Thursday 27th January, St. Helen’s Sixth Form Drama students were treated to a Prosthetics and Special Effects Make-Up workshop. The workshop examined creating parts of the face using prosthetics, as well as creating ageing effects to the face and hair, bruising and cuts, amongst various other techniques. The workshop was invaluable to … Read more
On 20th October 2010, a classmate and I had the opportunity to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland with the Lessons from Auschwitz Project. I had wanted to go on the visit to provide a new dimension to what I had already learnt about the Holocaust in the classroom … Read more
On Saturday 15th January, 7 Sixth Form Royal Navy Cadets from Merchant Taylors’ School and St. Helen’s School travelled down to Devonport, Plymouth for the weekend to stay on board HMS Chatham, Merchant Taylors’ CCF affiliated ship. She is the last of the four Type 22 frigates. Upon arrival and … Read more