Outdoor Classroom Day 2022We try to enjoy our outdoor space as often as possible but a special effort is made for outdoor classroom day. Today we used the space...
Exam season in full swing!This GCSE exam season at Simmons House we have 6 Year 11 students sitting 63 exams in 20 subjects offered by 4 different exam boards....
Celebrating PRIDE!! - LGBT+ History Month 2022At Simmons House we understand that our gender identity and sexuality are protected characteristics - that means it is illegal to...
Not Bronze, Not Silver, but GOLD! Our SMSC Award.Over the last few years (this pandemic slowed us down a tad) we have been working with the Young Citizen's SMSC Quality Mark Award to...
Film Pilot - The Mouse #Resilience Staff and students are contributing to piloting a film-based project tackling resilience against homelessness. A film, "The Mouse," has...
Pop! Goes the...POP! In class I get to artistically pop paint-filled balloons in order to create a canvas of abstract art. It’s pretty cool (; I think...
Crafting Christmas BaublesWe are enjoying upcycling some of our school print outs to make decoupage Christmas baubles. It has been a strange but satisfying way to...
Isolation Education & Entertainment Sadly we have several young people isolating in their bedrooms due to covid symptoms and/or positive covid tests. We don't want the young...
Christmas Jumper Day 2021!Every year the UK marks Christmas Jumper Day and we enjoyed taking the chance for a bit of fun during a quite dreary December.... But...
How does parliament work?Today we were visited by Nikki from UK Parliament who helped us understand how things work at Westminster. We learnt about the roles of...