Little Heath School

Dr Sean Elias from the Culham Innovation Centre spent the afternoon with our year 10 and year 12 biologists delivering a workshop on the development of vaccines.

Students received an informative outline of how the immune system works with real life case studies as examples of the issues involved.

Students were then presented with choosing a pathogen and developing a vaccine for it. Along the way, students had to consider which scientific techniques to use, cost factors, time factors, uptake, demand for and social reactions.

🚲 After some recent safety concerns with students cycling to and from school, we want to remind students of how to stay safe, and keep other road users and pedestrians safe too:

🚵 Wear a bike helmet
🔆 Use reflectors and bike lights to be seen
⛔️ Follow the rules of the road - always ride safely and sensibly
🧍 Never ride with more than one person on your bike
🔧 Ensure your bike is in good condition and safe to ride
🚳 Dismount and walk your bike across the school site
❗️ Always obey staff instructions, including stopping and dismounting immediately when instructed to do so

Open Morning Tours for June and July are now available to book online here:
🔗 https://littleheathschool.applicaa.com/events/019e4a08-20e6-78ef-8672-b07f677baf8d

🎟 Places are limited to 40 people per tour - two tickets per family.

📆 Don't forget to save the date for our Open Evening on Thursday 17 September! It is a really enjoyable evening, showcasing Little Heath School. It provides an excellent opportunity to experience everything our school has to offer you and your child during their secondary education journey.

As well as hearing from our Headteacher, you will be able to:
👥 Meet a wide range of senior leaders, teaching staff and support staff from all departments
🙂 Meet the Key Stage 3 Team
📚 Explore our facilities and specialist learning areas
🗣 Speak with current students about their experiences
📕 Learn more about our curriculum, enrichment opportunities, and pastoral support
🧪 Take part in fun activities in each subject area
❓ Ask questions and gain a full understanding of life at our school

Many families find that attending our evening event allows them to take their time exploring the school together, without needing to take time away from work or primary school commitments. Hope to see you there! 🏫

Targeted Year 9 students took part in a fantastic pilot project called ExperienceX last week.

Huge local employer , including Little Heath alumni, Ben and Evan, came into school for a morning and delivered a very engaging, fast paced, interactive workshop based on employability skills.

Students were put into teams and took part in a number of activities to help develop soft skills such as communication, team work, problem solving. They were also challenged with the task of constructing a catapult on a budget.

The following day students spent the day at the AWE head office and constructed the catapult, tested it and were scored against a number of set criteria. Each group was supported by an AWE apprentice.

Students learnt about AWE, the huge amount of job roles they offer, the application process and heard about the career paths of eight different professionals who work there. AWE put an incredible amount of work and support into our two days, a huge thank you to them!

Thank you also to our wonderful Year 9s who were a credit to themselves and the school.

Thanks for your patience - the phone issues have now been resolved.

We are experiencing issues with our phones this morning and have limited access to incoming calls. Please bear with us while we work to resolve this.

In the meantime, please email [email protected] with any important messages for today. Please report absence in the usual way via the Arbor app or by emailing [email protected] or [email protected].

Thank you.

🇫🇷 The music department are delighted to announce our Music Tour to Paris taking place in July 2027.

🎼 This is a fantastic opportunity for students with an interest in music and the performing arts to broaden their performance experiences by participating in three concerts in different locations across Paris. The tour will also include excursions to some of Paris' most iconic landmarks.

📆 This trip is available to all students currently in Years 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12. Letters have been sent home with more information and you can secure your place with a deposit on ParentMail by this Friday, 12 June.

Well done to all our Year 8 students who have worked hard on their 'Make a Mark' week activities this week.

A huge well done to 8SMA and 8NHA who both held a tuck shop and bake sale this week in aid of charity.

🧁 8SMA raised an amazing £243.20 for Cancer Research UK 👏👏👏

🍰 8NHA raised an incredible £316.95 for The Willows Support Group 😮👏👏

All the efforts of Year 8 will be celebrated in their Year 8 Graduation event in a few weeks. Incredible work Year 8...you have certainly made a mark!!

Congratulations to our Year 10 students who achieved a Gold, Silver or Bronze award in the International Biology Olympiad Competition recently 🥇🥈🥉

Over 42,000 students took part internationally. The top 5% are awarded Gold, the next 15% silver and then Bronze. The competition consists of two, twenty-five-minute multiple choice papers to be taken online under staff supervised exam conditions.

Questions are set on the school curriculum, but the competition also rewards those students whose knowledge of the subject has been increased by reading books and magazines, watching natural history programmes, taking notice of the news media for items of biological interest, and are generally aware of our natural flora and fauna. The competitions are intended to support enrichment of the biology curriculum in schools and colleges. 🌱🫁🐸

Well done to these students who achieved a fantastic result! 👏

Today, all year 8 students took part in a cross-curriculum day looking at the legacies of the Second World War. It has been 81 years since the end of the War, and the aim of the day was to enable students to consider the relevance and importance of the legacies of the war still today.

Students spent the day in sessions with English, RE, History and Citizenship teachers learning about how different aspects of the legacies of the Second World War connect to the different subject areas.

Year 8 engaged well with the sessions and had some fabulous, thoughtful reflections on the importance of the Second World War, and what we can and should know about it today.

Following todays sessions, the students are invited to enter a House Competition to create something to demonstrate what they have learned from today - this could be a poster, a written article, a video - they can be as creative as they like! Entries to Mrs Canning or their History teacher by Friday 3 July.