Month: October 2018

Within the month of February our students took part in the following activities:- 50 of our Year 10 students took part internally in the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge Round 1 Prevent Talks were presented to Year 12 & Year 9 We hosted our Year 9 Curriculum Evening which gave the parents the opportunity to…

Year 12s visited the Houses of Parliament on the 12th of March 2019. This was a big day in politics due to the Brexit vote taking place, where Theresa May was defeated! The Year 12s had a tour of Parliament, including the House of Commons, House of Lords, Public galleries and the office rooms. The…

Year 9 & Y10 pupils were invited to Barking & Dagenham for their ‘Inspiration Event’. It was truly that! First our group had a talk by Amazon Web on careers in ICT and learnt about Cyber Security from Bluescreen BIT. Following this they had a session on programming the ‘obot’. This proved to be the…

On Thursday 14th February 2019, ten girls from years 7,8 and 9 went to Fullwell Cross Leisure Centre to participate in the girls borough swimming gala competition. Pupils participated in individual races consisting of backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and butterfly. Pupils were also given the opportunity to work as a team competing in a freestyle relay.…

On Thursday 7th March, 11 students (from across year 7, 8 and 9) were selected to take part in the Redbridge Borough Swimming Gala. This was held at Fullwell Cross Swimming Pool and events were competed for by 9 schools. Loxford students were entered individually into the backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle and butterfly races.  Each year…

On Wednesday 6th March, ten year 9 pupils took part in a Dragon’s Den event where they presented to members of the council and TfL staff their ideas of how to tackle transport issues at Loxford. Pupils have been working together and have gathered information as to how we, as a school, can tackle overcrowding…