by Kelly Earls | Mar 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
On Friday, students and staff celebrated Wear a Hat Day in order to raise money for Brain Tumour Research. A wide variety of headwear was on display, which created lots of smiles and a real buzz around school. Over £500 was raised through generous donations to our JustGiving page and contributions on the day. Thank you to everyone for getting involved and supporting such a great cause, which is a very personal one to many people in our school community.
Pictured below are just some of the staff who joined in.
by Kelly Earls | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday 26 March, 50 Year 10 and 9 Art students visited both Tate Modern and Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
From Bankside students walked along and across the Thames then travelled via the underground to South Kensington. Art students conducted themselves in a mature manner during the excursion.
Students enjoyed seeing a diverse range of work from international pioneering contemporary pieces of the recently expanded Tate, through to the Raphaels and Gainsborough at the V&A, providing a great deal of inspiration for their own studies. The students even got to see Big Ben, London Eye, St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey along the way.
A huge thank you goes to Mr Finch, Mrs Evans, Ms Kearns and Mrs Narrowmore for all their help and support to make such an inspiring day possible.
by Kelly Earls | Mar 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Alex Ballinger MP came to visit The Earls today to commend students for their work out in The Gambia and the fundraising that had taken place prior to their visit. He awarded them his Community Champion Award for outstanding service to the local community. He also took the time to chat to students about their trip and his work as an MP.
We are very proud that he raised an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons to highlight our longstanding support for Project Gambia. Bev Hodt, the founder of the Project Gambia charity, has also written to us to praise the fantastic commitment and compassion shown by our students. It is wonderful that this has been recognised so widely.
by Nic Earls | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Well, all good things must come to end and our trip to Gambia is no exception.
This morning, the students packed up and had a rather casual morning. We did manage a quick walk on the beach, a short awards ceremony and some final games of table tennis and pool.
Students received their batik work back too, so they will be able to share their afternoon of creativity with you when they return home!
We are at the gate, the plane is visible, and we are looking good for a punctual take off, I have a sneaky suspicion that the return journey may be slightly quieter than the outbound one!
A final thanks from the staff to students for such an amazing trip! I personally feel very privileged to have shared this trip with the students and I continue to be immensely proud of the students I get to work with at The Earls High School!
Mrs Sevier
by Nic Earls | Mar 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
The last full day is always an emotional one and today was no exception! After the excitement of last night’s meal students were a little slow stirring this morning, but once they were in the land of the living, they were certainly busy bees!!
At 9am we left the hotel; we had a squad of 6 artists who returned to Bright Minds to do the very final little bits of art before playing balloons and bubbles with the children, 5 students went to omega nursery and the rest returned to The Spring of Life School.
The students engaged in an array of craft activities as they did this afternoon when we returned to omega school. It was lovely to start and end the week working with the children from The Omega school. After the session this afternoon, Famous, the headteacher of Omega took us to the site where the new school is being built. It was a hugely powerful moment for our students to see the construction of a school which is being funded with the money they worked hard to raise.
They hope that the school will open in September when our students return as year 11 students in their final year of secondary schooling, what an immense legacy they are now a part of!
We popped to the supermarket and had a final detour to the ice cream parlour. A delicious end to the afternoon. This evening, Mr Butler organised a quiz for the students and ‘The Table’ were victorious in winning the competition with 59 points.
The students are watching the live band and relishing the final evening of being in a country which I truly believe has had a profound impact on many of them.
It was definitely a thrilling Thursday!
Mrs Sevier
The incredible paintings:
Morning school activities:
Afternoon fun:
Videos from the day:
by Nic Earls | Mar 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
The students and staff have all had a wonderful evening meal, please enjoy the pictures that were sent through late last night!
