Congratulations to Libby

RHS Malvern Spring Festival

I'm Libby Hudson from year 9 Caracals and I recently took part in designing a garden at a big RHS show, similar to the Chelsea flower show: the RHS Malvern spring festival. I designed, created and presented a garden for the Schools Garden Challenge. I decided to take part in this experience as I am interested in being a landscape designer when I'm older. The theme was the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death so I decided to do the Merchant of Venice after studying it last year. I wanted it to be a relaxing garden that you can imagine being in so added subtle touches of the play.

I used three props to represent the three themes - two silver rings to represent the love story between Bassanio and Portia, a money tree to represent the character Shylock and a lead casket to show the choice that Bassanio has to make for Portia's hand in marriage. The garden was a formal herb garden and everything had a meaning. I created a formal garden to represent the Italian renaissance gardens and Elizabethan knot gardens and herbs because of their importance in Shakespeare's time. It was an amazing experience. It has been a working process since last September and I have met lots of people and have been able to practice lots of useful skills for later life.

The build up started mid April (this year) and even though it was stressful it was really fun and it was worth it in the end. The show was amazing and I met Alan Titchmarsh, saw Mary Berry and became friends with TV gardener Chris Collins! Gardening isn't necessarily thought of as a 'cool' thing to do but it was really fun and I felt as if I developed as a person. I also got the chance to promote Interhigh and had lots of people ask questions.

Libby Hudson

InterHigh Running Club

  InterHigh Running Club

 We are aware that as an internet school it can be difficult to promote exercise and a healthy lifestyle. There appears to be more and more ‘virtual running clubs’ emerging and as a prominent internet presence we don’t intend on getting left behind. We have set up a group on Facebook called InterHigh Running Club which any student of InterHigh is able to join. It is a closed group and no-one outside of InterHigh can join. We will set you challenges, operate leader boards and run virtual races (excuse the pun).

The first challenge has already been set which will run throughout the month of May starting on May 1^st.  The BHF (British Heart Foundation) have set up an event to run a marathon (26.2 miles) in the month of May, we are kick starting our challenges with this one...promoting healthy hearts!

 

Conquer 26.2 miles throughout May. Whether it’s at the park, in the gym or around the streets. Over a few days, a couple of weeks or the whole month – you decide the pace and you decide the place. Simply screenshot your distance on ANY running app and send it to rhiannon@interhigh.co.uk.
Leader Boards will be updated to the Facebook group so you can all follow each other’s progress or compete against your friends.

Rhiannon Hastings

Head of Curriculum and Learning

 

I'm a little lost: Change

I'm a little lost: Change: Change is something that happens all the time and to be honest I think it's for the best. As human beings or more accurately as living b...

Student Art Club and Zentangled InterHigh

A few weeks back one of our Science teachers, Lucy Spalding, hosted an Interhigh Common Room session looking at the art of Zentangle - a yoga for the brain.
During this very well received Common Room Lucy explained that Zentangle is an easy to learn, relaxing and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Not only is it fun and relaxing but it has been shown to be a useful tool in stress control and anxiety management. Research in neuroscience shows that doodling can help people stay focused, grasp new concepts and retain information. Lucy took us through a series of steps and examples. With no right or wrong, no orientation and abstract forms we began to see how beautiful patterns could be created.

All the students enjoyed it enjoyed it and the Interhigh Art Club took on the challenge of learning a new skill based on Zentangle. After a lot of hard work  the Art Club have produced a "Zentangled InterHigh".

This is the first ever piece of work that the Art Club have produced collectively. We think you will agree that this is a beautiful pattern and has been adopted as one of the school logins. Congratulations to the Students of InterHigh Art Club.

 

New InterHigh Scholarships awarded to Student Ambassadors

InterHigh's Student Ambassadors

 

We might not be half way through September yet, but the School year is already in full swing bringing lots of bustle in all areas of the School platform and also in the InterHigh Head Office.  With a new school year comes, new students, and for five excited InterHigh pupils, new roles as student ambassadors.

 Firstly, InterHigh would like to offer congratulations to our new student ambassadors on their selection.  They have all worked very hard, and their new roles is acknowledge of this.  In recognition of all of this, the ambassadors have all been awarded a partial-scholarship for the upcoming academic year.

 The ambassadors were selected on a basis of their attendance, homework completion and high levels of activity in classes and common rooms as well as their general attitude throughout their time in InterHigh.  It was felt that the students who were selected to become ambassadors were representative of the ethos of InterHigh as a whole.  Following their selection as ambassadors it is expected that continue to display these exemplary traits.

 In their role as ambassadors, these students will share their experiences of InterHigh, be available to offer advice to their fellow pupils and continue to contribute to the InterHigh community.  Whether you’re a new student or an existing one, feel free to contact any of the ambassadors.  Our new ambassadors will be taking an active role in life at InterHigh, so keep your eyes open for them.

The student ambassadors for 2015/16

Celebrating 10 years of InterHigh School

A fun look back over the last decade.....

Tom Evans joins the InterHigh Head Office team, meet him here

Its been a very hectic but exciting time at the Interhigh Head Office this Summer. In the first week we moved to our new offices 7 miles down the road. Then Rhiannon joined us to head up the curriculum team and this week Tom has come on board to head up the development work.
We asked him to introduce himself to you.....

Having experienced several years of the world of retail management and all the challenges which it provided, it dawned on me that my real passion lay in the world of education.

Following school, I travelled to the beautiful Welsh coast to study at Swansea University for a degree in History.  After this, desperate to live like a student for one more year, I stayed on to complete a Masters in Modern History.  When real life, and the grown-up job, could not be delayed any longer, the long hours and fast-pace of retail management called. 

I have worked for the last five years as a Graduate Manager for a large supermarket.  In this time I managed eight different branches and all different types of people.  The work was fast-paced, energetic and constantly changing and whilst I found this work interesting and challenging, I realised that this was not what I wanted to do with my working life.  I’m sure some of the skills which I learnt will be useful in my new job role, but perhaps not the shelf stacking! 

Prior to joining Interhigh, I had some knowledge of the world of education having completed some work experience in local schools and a brief period of working in an outdoor education centre which catered for children with SEN on residential courses.  Both of these were experiences which I really enjoyed, benefited from and further fostered my desire to work in education.   As both of my parents are teachers, I was left in no doubt about how fulfilling a career in education could be, and when the chance came for this role with Interhigh I grabbed it with both hands.

Outside of work, lots of my free time is taken up by various sports and activities.  I am a keen squash player and enjoy kayaking but my newest hobby is road cycling, however, I’m more Christopher Biggins than Chris Hoy at the moment!

I started on Monday morning in the new offices of Interhigh, and everyone has done their best to make me feel like I’m part of the team.  I am looking forward to finding my feet, working with everyone and getting to know all of the students.  Bring on September! 

Tom Evans
Deputy Head of Development