Last week saw the return of our annual Dragons’ Den challenge with Mile Cross Primary School. The event, which started in 2018, links up Year 5 pupils from Mile Cross with Norwich School’s Lower Sixth Business Enterprise A Level pupils through a series of workshops. Pupil teams work together with their mentors to develop a business idea and create a product and business plan to pitch to real life business “Dragons” from Norfolk’s business community.
During the initial workshop, pupils learnt about business operations, marketing and finance, coming up with some very inventive products such as a glow-in-the-dark ball which won’t get lost and a self-powered suitcase.
The initiative was born from a link through the Norwich Opportunity Area, whose objective was to raise aspirations for young children through exposure to careers outside school. The project has been particularly successful as it gives both the year 5 pupils an opportunity to take the curriculum further by learning in a “real world” setting, and Norwich School’s pupils have a chance to develop their mentoring and teaching skills.
Lower 6 business pupil, Finn, said:
“The best thing about working with the Mile Cross children was seeing them start to understand and succeed and believe in themselves.”
Another Norwich School pupil, Maddy, remarked:
"the children in my group felt comfortable asking me business related questions from the moment I sat down on their table. They were all confident and their ideas were very convincing and creative”.
The Year 5 pupils will now return to their school to work on their business plans and devise a pitch to deliver to the business Dragons in early November. We look forward to hearing about their inventions!
Our A Level and GCSE results for the last 5 years
27 Aug, 2024
2024 2024 A Level Results Click Here to hear from some of our 2024 A Level cohort 2024 GCSE Results Click Here to hear from some of our 2024 GCSE cohort 2023 2023 A Level Results Click Here to hear from some of our 2023 A Level cohort 2023 GCSE Results Click Here to hear from some of our 2023 GCSE cohort 2022 2022 A Level Results (Covid affected) Click Here to hear from some of our 2022 A Level cohort 2022 GCSE Results (Covid affected) Click Here to hear from some of our 2022 GCSE cohort 2021 The exams were internally assessed because of Covid 2020 The exams were internally assessed because of Covid
GCSE Results Day 2024 - We Hear From Some of our Pupils Who Received Their Results Today...
By Eleanor Lewis • 22 Aug, 2024
It was fantastic to welcome our 2024 GCSE cohort back to school today to receive their results and there were plenty of happy faces as pupils celebrated their achievements. There have been some outstanding individual performances including: 3 candidates with 11 x 9 or better; 9 candidates with 10 x 9 or better; 32 candidates with at least 9 x 8 or 9. We caught up with a few of our pupils to find out more about their individual achievements and their plans for the future. Healthcare Hopefuls A number of this year’s cohort are dreaming of going on to study medicine and have clear plans about their studies for the foreseeable future but that hasn’t stopped them throwing themselves into school life and all that has to offer…
2024 GCSE Results
By Eleanor Lewis • 22 Aug, 2024
We are pleased to announce exciting GCSE results for 2024. From the cohort of 138 candidates, overall percentages are as follows: 27% at grade 9 47% at grades 9-8 (A*) 70% at grades 9-7 (A*-A) 85% at grades 9-6 (A*-B) 99%: overall pass-rate (grades 9-4) Outstanding individual performances included: 3 candidates with 11 x 9 or better; 9 candidates with 10 x 9 or better; 32 candidates with at least 9 x 8 or 9. Steffan Griffiths, Head, commented, “Our GCSE Class of 2024 is a wonderful group of young people who have contributed a great deal to our community, particularly through performing arts and sport. I am delighted that they are now able to celebrate academic success, too, with this strong set of examination results. They are well-set for A Levels in our Sixth Form and we look forward to supporting them as they make this exciting transition.” Assistant Head (Fifth Form), Andrew Curtis, said, “I am delighted with the grades achieved by our Upper Fifth and offer heartfelt congratulations to them all. I should also like to thank their teachers for the professionalism and care they have shown to set up the pupils for these impressive results. I am sure the pupils will now enjoy celebrating with their families, noting the important support they have received at home in recent months.”
Class of 2024 Celebrate As Over 91% Are Accepted Into Their First Or Second Choice Onward Route
By Eleanor Lewis • 16 Aug, 2024
Following last week’s A Level results, we are delighted that over 91% of our 2024 cohort have received confirmation that they have been accepted for their first or second choice onward route. This year’s results have highlighted the diverse routes the STEM subjects at A Level can open up, as reflected in some of this year’s destinations, including: Civil Engineering at the University of Southampton Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford Theoretical Physics at the University of York Biology at the University of St Andrews Aerospace Engineering at the University of Liverpool Natural Sciences at the University of Durham Bio Medicine at the University of East Anglia Biomedical Science at Kings College, London MORSE (Maths, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics) at the University of Warwick In addition, four of our 2024 cohort secured places at Imperial College, London to study Maths and Computer Science, Computing, Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry and Design Engineering
WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE CLASS OF 2024?
By Eleanor Lewis • 15 Aug, 2024
A Level results day is always filled with emotions, and this year was no exception! Our Class of 2024 has finally seen the results of their two years of dedication and hard work. It’s an exciting time as they embark on the next chapter of their lives. There have been some truly remarkable individual achievements, and our 2024 cohort should be incredibly proud of what they’ve accomplished. We chatted with a few of our students to hear what today’s results mean to them… Friends Forever Dylan, Hal and Alex have known each other for over 10 years and were rarely found without each other in and around school. They even opened each other’s results at GCSE and today for their A Levels.
NORWICH SCHOOL ALEVEL RESULTS 2024
By Eleanor Lewis • 15 Aug, 2024
The school is pleased to announce a strong set of A Level results. Across the cohort of 167 candidates, the following percentages were achieved: Over 20% at A*; Over 50% at A*-A; Over 75% at A*-B; Over 90% at A*-C; Overall pass rate; 100%. Outstanding individual performances included: 6 candidates with 4 A*; 17 candidates with 3A* or more; 54 candidates with 3A or more. The Head, Steffan Griffiths, said, “The Class of 2024 have produced strong results, both individually and collectively. They are testament to a concerted spell of hard work by the pupils, supported by caring families at home and the committed expertise of their teachers at school. We are delighted by the fruits of this three-way collaboration and offer sincere good wishes for our leavers’ next steps”. Richard Peters, Head of 6th Form, commented, “We have thoroughly enjoyed having this terrific cohort in the school. They are a most exciting group of young people and I have every confidence that they will take the skills, friendships and values that they have developed here to be a force for good in the wider world. They have been great fun, too, and I wish them all the best”. NB: specific grade percentages will be published when the subject paper review process has been completed.
NEXT AT THE CRYPT - STARFIELD, STAR MAPS ALONG THE MILKY WAY
By Eleanor Lewis • 13 Aug, 2024
Next at The Crypt is Starfield, an exhibition of painted star maps across the milky way. "The painted starmaps represent the stars coloured according to their spectral class in the OBAFGKM system published by Annie Jump Cannon in 1901. Spectral class is based on an analysis of the absorption and emission lines created by gases in the star's atmosphere and revealed when the light from an individual star is focused through a prism. It is a good indication of the temperature and predominant colour of radiated light. In very hot B and O types (10,000°K to 60,000°K) the spectrum is weighted in favour of ultra-violet and blue and with little radiation in the red. In cool M and K types (2,700°K to 5,200°K) the spectrum is loaded at the red end with little radiation in the blue. From G to A (5,400°K to 9,900°K) there is significant radiation across the whole visible spectrum and while the measured radiation peaks in this or that part of the spectrum, any perceived colour can depend on colour contrast effects with neighbouring stars. Under a dark sky only a handful of the brightest stars appear coloured to the naked eye. Vision at night is mostly done by monochrome seeing rod cells, light and dark. At full stretch, night vision, they are about 16 times more sensitive to light than the colour seeing cone cells. It needs a bright source of light for the perception of colour and, in naked eye seeing, most stars are too faint to crossthe threshold of light into colour. The easiest stars to see coloured are very bright stars towards the red end of the spectrum, Betelgeuse, Arcturus, Antares. Stars appear in clumps of interstellar gas that coalesce into a clusters of stars, of which the Pleaides star cluster is a famous example. These groupings are held together by gravity attraction but drift apart. When stars are coloured up on maps according to spectral class some number of the colour groupings are real, genuine families of stars born together, while other groupings are assembled by chance. The scatter patterns remind me of wild flowers." - John Cox 16th — 22nd August Friday 16th, 11 — 4pm Saturday 17th, 11 — 4.30pm Monday 19th - Wednesday 21st, 11 — 4pm Thursday 22nd 11 — 1pm Closed Sundays. Free admission.
OUTSTANDING RESULTS AT THE ENGLND HOCKEY TALENT ACADEMY CUP
By Eleanor Lewis • 02 Aug, 2024
This week saw 11 talented Norwich School hockey players compete in the girls and boys England Hockey Talent Academy Cup. The Talent Academy forms the last pathway stage below full National Age Group (i.e. England U16, U18, U21) representation. Players are selected from both TA Cup and existing National squads for further consideration for National squads for the following year. The Tournament saw 23 Talent Academy squads, plus a Welsh Representative team, play matches over 4 days at the Beeston Hockey Centre in Nottingham. For the boys, 7 Norwich School pupils were selected for the 20 player East Talent Academy squad - Fraser Evans (GK), Lawrence Williams (Captain), George Rivett, Ralf Braybrook, Ben Griffiths, Tom Irvine, Charlie Hutchinson The team were overall winners of the cup with decisive wins in all their games: Game 1 Win 5-4 over last year's overall winners, East Grinstead TA Game 2 Win 4-0 over Durham TA Game 3 Win 4-3 over Bristol The final, against Wales, saw Norwich School’s Braybrook and Irvine score, leading to a 3-1 victory, to take the title. 11 of the 16 goals were scored by NS pupils, with Fraser Evans in goal making multiple critical saves during the tournament, including two key penalty corner saves in the Final. The girls were represented by 4 Norwich School pupils - Perdie Finch, Poppy Francis, Uma Patel and Chloe Holmes, who also gave a solid performance in their matches: Game 1 Win 1-0 over East Grinstead TA. Game 2 Win 1-0 over Durham TA Game 3 Lost 0--3 to Bristol TA Play Off Match Lost 0-2 to Cambridge TA Congratulations to all the pupils who were selected to represent their region in this prestigious tournament.
NEXT AT THE CRYPT - WHERE THE TREES MEETS THE CROSS
By Eleanor Lewis • 26 Jul, 2024
Where the Tree Meets the Cross brings the work of two artists, Androulla Michael and Iuliana Gavril together in their shared reverence for those most unnoticed - unseen - instances of everyday life. Yet, their capturing in drawing and photography exposes profound, enduring symbols: the cross and the tree. Androulla Michael’s crosses pass into and out of form through a wall or tree, in the cracks of pavements, in the overlaying of clouds on the infinite blue, in the caress of window mullion and muntin by draperies, in the markings of roads and sky, in the nudge of ordinary objects given to banal surfaces. Once noted, in the mastery of timing, the crosses celebrate light as form-giving, shadow as surreptitious texture and space as life-affirming. Part of knowing the beauty of the world, part of re-finding the salvific and affirmative self in a tumultuous time space, Androulla Michael’s evanescent crosses will inevitably and ultimately point to the biblical trees: the tree of life, the tree of knowledge, and the tree as the Christian imagery for the cross. In this specific reference, the ephemeral sighting of crosses receives their immutability. Iuliana Gavril's drawing of trees (Arborium Series) gives Androulla Michael’s Cross Series sufficient but not necessarily contextual materiality, anchoring the simple intersecting of lines, often perpendicularly, in the immutable beauty of the natural world. The trees, at once weightless and resplendent, annul the disruptive feature of crosses, repositing the beauty of the world. Only when cross-sighting is viewed in proximity of trees, its life-affirming and altogether humbling attribute is magnified. You can find the work of Androulla Michael and Iuliana Gavril in the Crypt from July 30 - August 3 from 10:00-16:00. July 30th — August 3rd, 10 — 4pm Private View - 30th July, 4 — 6pm Closed Mondays & Sundays. Free admission.
11 NORWICH SCHOOL HOCKEY PLAYERS SELECTED FOR TALENT ACADEMY FESTIVAL!
By Eleanor Lewis • 24 Jul, 2024
During the academic year, our Talent Academy hockey players have worked hard to get selected for this year's Talent Academy Cup 2024. This competition will be taking place at Nottingham Hockey Centre between 28 - 31 July. This event is the culmination of the Talent Academy's hard work throughout the 23/24 season. There will be 48 Teams with a total of 960 players competing across the four-day tournament. This event brings together all the Talent Academies across England and Wales to play against each other in the bid to win the Cup. Congratulations to 11 Norwich School pupils who have been selected to represent East TA squads; this is an excellent achievement and we look forward to tracking your progress in the coming days. Uma Patel, Chole Holmes, Perdie Finch, Poppy Francis, Lawrence Williams, Fraser Evans, George Rivett, Ben Griffiths, Tom Irvine, Charlie Hutchinson and Freddie Jupe.
