SHS Sustainability Update

This year has been incredibly busy – sustainability has spread like wildfire. With the recent stretch of extreme hot weather, it’s even more important to focus on sustainable practices.  Recently, all students in Year 9 reconnected with nature and participated in the 30 Hours Wild, a GDST initiative where students at Sutton gained the most ‘wild acts’.  Inspired by David Attenborough, who said, “No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced”, all students went outside and observed insects, collected colours to create a natural rainbow, laid down on the grass, watching clouds overhead and counted the butterflies in a small area. Next year we’re excited to host the GDST Symposium on Sustainability.

Wimbledon English Symposium

On 4^th June, 10 Year 10 students participated in the English Symposium at Wimbledon High. A variety of sessions were held, including

• “A word after a word after a word is power – Margaret Atwood”: why we teach Creative Writing
• Shakespeare’s sisters: were there any Renaissance women critics and why it matters
• Literary Theory and transcending the limits of A Level literary criticism
• How cinema reimaged Shakespeare across the Globe
• Sweet Science: Blake and Newton’s Sleep

Students engaged, debated, listened and were inspired by the sessions.  It was a great event, and a taster for the students of what A Level Literature is like.