Since lockdown began, we sadly had to cancel three of our major house competitions: House Drama, House Debating and Sports Day. We are really looking forward to returning to school next academic year and being able to run some of our fantastic competitions again. During the summer term, we’ve definitely missed the full programme of interim house competitions we would usually have running at school each week. However, staff have continued to run online competitions, which students have submitted entries for online.
The PE department’s “Lockdown Games” in the Summer 2 term saw students completing home sports challenges and submitting their scores on the tracker. Franklin stormed into a first place finish in this competition. Franklin also managed to take first place in the RE competition this term. The drama department challenged students to create a 2 minute video of extracts from their favourite films and compiling them together to create a video called “Lockdown Pictures presents…”. The winning entry was by Gabriel (8 Pinter) in Pankhurst house. Last but not least, the maths cipher competition saw a joint win with tied highest scores from Franklin & Angelou house. Franklin topped the tables for overall points collected from House Competitions in the summer term. Students also had an opportunity to continue collecting merits for their accomplishments on KAA@Home in the summer term. Again, Franklin smashed this and collected more points than any other house. However, it was Honeyball who topped the table for house points earned for Gold and Silver Merits! The winners of this year’s House Cup were announced in our virtual End of Year assembly on Friday 17th July. A huge congratulations to FRANKLIN house for absolutely dominating this year’s competition and beating second placed Honeyball by a margin of 41,150 points. This year Franklin collected an incredible 318,375 house points. Well done to Franklin staff and students, and of course Head of Franklin House, Miss Cockell.
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We can’t wait to start next year’s competition back at school in September!
