15 June 2021

Design Museum Competition – 2nd Place!

Massive congratulations are due for our Parkside girls who came second in the Design Ventura Museum competition on Friday 11th June. Their product – The Shoe Button, a gadget that helps people learn how to tie their shoelaces! – is fantastic and something they should all be very proud of. What a brilliant achievement!

Here are some photos from the event. Photo credit for these images is © the Design Museum and Richard Heald.

26 April 2021

Parkside Debate Club

Our covid-secure Debate Club is now meeting in person! The Parkside Debate Club will now start meeting in person in the Quad (Years 7, 8, 9 and 10). The club will take place once a week alternating between Wednesdays and Thursdays so that as many people as possible get a fair chance to attend. If you would like to be added to the Debate Club Google Classroom group send an email to gdoza@cap.education.

26 April 2021

Parkside Literary Tour of Cambridge

On Monday 19th April, our Year 13 English students went on a literary tour of Cambridge learning about the many ways in which our city has influenced the great world of literature…

From ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Virginia Woolf to ‘Taking Leave of Cambridge’ by Xu Zhimo, we explored how Cambridge’s literary heritage has impacted society and culture across the globe. The Year 13 Higher Level Literature students worked together to compose a collection of texts from Cambridge to accompany the tour.

22 April 2021

Design Museum Competition

Massive congratulations to four of our Year 9 students – Anjali, Emily, Agnes and Esther – for being shortlisted for the Design Museum competition! This was open to the whole country and only 7 teams were shortlisted. Out of 15,000 students from 260 schools, our Year 9 group was shortlisted.

This is a fantastic achievement and their Technology teacher, Ms Lazenby, is very proud of them and the work they created. We will be keeping our fingers crossed for the next stage.

To read the full press release from the Design Museum, please click here.