Parkside

16 July 2019

United Learning Parents Meeting

Please find the presentation from the United Learning parents meeting here.

10 July 2019

IPPR Economics Prize Awarded to Former Parkside Student

Congratulations to Ben Szreter, former Parkside student, on being awarded the IPPR Economics Prize.

A ‘radical’ plan by three members of the same family to boost UK growth has been named as one of the first winners of the £100,000 Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Economics Prize.

Ben Szreter said: “Our core idea is to incentivise a move to an ethical economic system – one based on mutual support where everyone has a stake in future well-being – as a solution to the economic and democratic problems we are now facing.”

More details can be found here.

This photo is credited to Graham CopeKoga

26 June 2019

Jubilee Cup District Athletics 2019

10 May 2019

Year 7 Trip to Cambridge Consultants

A group of our lucky Year 7s were invited to visit Cambridge Consultants as part of the company’s outreach work. The students all worked hard to participate in lots of engaging activities and were fantastic ambassadors for Parkside. These activities were focused around the idea of creating a new product to help someone with the use of only one arm to be able to eat a soft boiled egg. The students did a fantastic job brainstorming some really interesting solutions to problems and identifying the problems a real user would face.

They were put into teams with students from other schools, whom they worked well with and enjoyed meeting. Our students demonstrated confidence and were able to work in teams with other students they didn’t know and were immediately discussing ideas and collaborating well.

A highlight for some of the students was writing a program for a robotic arm. One of our teams did an especially good job at writing a really efficient program. A highlight for others was the food at lunch! All the students also appeared to enjoy the opportunity to try and fool the parking cameras into thinking that they were a car taking up a space in the car park!

A couple of our students volunteered to do their group presentations at the end of the day and both did a great job. One of our team’s ‘Wolf’ project were the overall winners for the day. A congratulations to our lovely Year 7 students and a big thank you to Cambridge Consultants for supporting this great initiative.