The whole of Y10 were off timetable for two days for the annual Enterprise in Action conference organised through Young Enterprise.
During the course of the two days the students, working in teams of six, set up a company which has to research a market, produce a prototype product and then market it to their target consumer group. The companies are assisted by business advisors and the event is designed to give students a taste of entrepreneurship. All the companies are in competition with each other and they have to present their product to a panel of judges. The overall winner this year was Momentum with their ‘all in one kitty care’ product!

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Lower Sixth students, Amy Biggadike and Sophie Brass recently organised a coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.  Amy is well known for her baking abilities so the queue of staff and pupils waiting to buy a piece of chocolate cake or a lemon meringue muffin was not surprising.     Supported by friends Caitlin Costello,  Kirsty Edge, Jess Emmerson , Sasha Grau, Jas Hutchinson-Bazeley, Martina Short and Jenn Watts, £141 was raised, enough to:

•    Pay for a  Macmillan nurse for an hour
•    Buy a liquidiser for someone who can’t eat solid food as a result of their cancer treatment
•    Help run a typical, large Macmillan Information and Support Centre for an hour.

 Amy is pictured tempting pupils with her home-made cakes.

‘Farm Boy’ is performing at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Horncastle Wednesday 29th September, 7.30pm (provisional start time) Tickets available from QEGS School Office, priced £7 (concessions £4)

It sometimes felt as though time had stood still down on the family farm – swallows nesting in the eaves, the old Fordson tractor quietly rusting at the back of the barn, Grandpa still tending his chickens - that is, until the Summer his grandson finished school and came to stay, and the old man started telling stories of what it had been like on the farm when he was a boy.
Award-winning former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo has written a compelling sequel to his much-loved novel War Horse, a moving account of the changing face of the English countryside and a beautifully-crafted reminder that stories really can reach out across the generations.
Now this magical tale of the bonds linking grandfather to grandson and ultimately both to the land has been brought to life by critically-acclaimed New Perspectives Theatre Company and Scamp Theatre in a delightful new show combining drama, storytelling and original music.
New Perspectives, based in Nottingham, is the regional rural touring company for the East Midlands. For over 30 years, they have commissioned and produced new work that tours to rural communities in local venues and more recently, to theatres and art centres nationally. This is the second time they have adapted one of Michael Morpurgo’s books for the stage, and follows on from The Butterfly Lion (2004). For more information on New Perspectives staff, board, history and future shows visit www.newperspectives.co.uk