Planting to remember


Every year since 1984, Year 7 students have been invited to make their mark on the Sibford landscape by planting trees or hedgerow plants. But this year’s planting was especially significant as the school decided


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to coincide it with the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. The event was organised by Sibford Sixth Form students who are


studying Countryside Management. Prior to the planting they read the Laurence Binyon poem ‘For the Fallen’ following which the pupils held a short silence before picking up their spades to start planting. Countryside Management teacher, Hannah Copping, said: “Planting living species is a poignant way to remember those who have died and we therefore wanted to dedicate this year’s planting to all who lost their lives in World War 1 and other conflicts since. “It is great to be able walk around the campus and to see the trees and hedgerows that have been planted over the past 30 plus years and I hope that this tradition will continue at Sibford School for many more years to come.”


Into Film Festival 2018


Year 12/13 BTEC Media students visited the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford on 23 November to see a special screening of the 2015 film ‘Suffragette’ starring Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter. The film was shown in the ‘Year of the Woman’


category as part of the annual ‘Into Film Festival’. Launched in 2013, the festival supports the vision of putting film at the heart of children and young people’s education.


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emembrance saplings have been planted on the school campus to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice.


Pictured above Year 7 pupil Ella. Top: Countryside Management students Charlotte, Henry and Dom.


Magical art excursion


In October GCSE Art students visited the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Chinese student Nounou reports ... “We went to see the exhibition ‘Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft’ for our GCSE project. We saw many different and interesting things and there was lots to inspire us. I really liked seeing all these strange things I have never seen in my life. It was fantastic.” The exhibition runs until 6 January 2019.


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