Author: alice

Preparing for animal care

As part of our animal care course, year 11 students have an opportunity to design and put together a vivarium for some of our school reptiles: a bearded dragon, a crested gecko and a leopard gecko. In preparation for this, …
11th May 2021

The ‘Beech Hut’ is open!

Beech Hut is a business enterprise of the post-16 department led by Amanda Skidmore. Students are running a restaurant, enabling them to practise customer service by welcoming customers in the room, taking their order, communicating the information back to the …
10th May 2021

A new minibus!

St Philip’s is delighted to announce that international charity, Toc H, has kindly donated a minibus to the school.  The Ford Transit is a seventeen seater that comes with a very handy roof rack. We plan to put the bus …
7th May 2021

Creating a mentally healthy environment for all

We are pleased to announce that our Student Support team has received the Committed Accreditation from Edupod! Edupod is a project from Innovating Minds, focusing on creating mentally healthy environments in schools for both students and staff. We have now …
30th March 2021

Path building: part 1

Students in year 11 are putting their horticulture skills to great use repairing a path. The path has become a muddy track as it is very well used.  After collecting tools and reviewing safety rules we started digging. We need …
29th March 2021

What’s happening in horticulture

As the weather has started to warm up this week, Year 10 has spent their horticulture lessons to great use.  The group has been repairing our field and replanting a bare patch where a skip had been. To start with …
25th March 2021

Eco Ed update

Our Eco Education scheme (click here to read about it) has gone from strength to strength. Each week, a small cohort from each year explores the benefits of connecting with nature. This is generally offsite in the many beautiful environments …
24th March 2021

A new home for our animals

Animal care is a popular subject at school, and we’ve recently made some upgrades to our animals’ homes. The animals have all settled in and are now sharing their new space together. This makes the cleaning and maintenance far easier …
19th March 2021

Supporting our community

As part of an enterprise project, Post-16 students have been selling delicious freshly cooked meals to the staff team. This term, they made a profit of £110! The group even adapted their business model to fit with current restrictions, offering …
15th December 2020

Give a Little Love scheme rewards our staff team

Staff at St Philip’s received a welcome boost to morale when mince pies and biscuits arrived at school. The gifts were a thank you to our team members for their hard work over the past year. Waitrose in Surbiton chose …
11th December 2020

Make it snappy!

Students in Key Stage 4M (KS4M) have been visiting Richmond Park over the past 9 weeks, learning to take a range of photographs. After a lot of deliberating, we have decided on a final twelve to be displayed at school. …
10th December 2020

At one with nature

Eco Education is being developed in school due to our growing understanding of the importance of contact and connection with nature for students’ healthy development. As Sean Henn from our Student Support Team says; “We are hoping to share our …
12th October 2020