Sts Peter and Paul Catholic College: Year 9

Life is richer at Sts Peter and Paul!

Life is richer at Sts Peter and Paul!

Welcome to the official blog created by students to chronicle their experiences during Enrichment Weeks.

On these pages you’ll find personal accounts from our students discussing the wide range of activities they enjoyed both in college and off site.

Visits included residential trips to Iceland with the Geography department, France with the History department and Barcelona with the Maths department. Year 10 and 11 students will visited New York with the Business Studies teachers, while English staff and students explored creative writing skills in locations as diverse as Florida and Yorkshire, where students worked alongside a poet, a novelist and a playwright to set their imaginations on fire.

Back at College, students will take part in retreats to explore and deepen their faith. They will hear from inspirational speakers, attended careers workshops and take part in a host of music, dance and drama activities.

Our College Principal, Wendy White, said, “Enrichment Week is a fantastic opportunity for students to broaden their horizons and learn outside the classroom. It is experiences like these which testify to the diverse, exciting and challenging curriculum at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic College, and how we focus on the development of the whole child.”

Daily updates from home and abroad will allow students to record and share their memorable learning experiences with family and friends.

We hope that you enjoy reading about our experiences on these pages as much as we have enjoyed putting them together.

Look out for the next instalment of the blog following Enrichment Week in July 2015….

Thursday 12 February 2015

Year 9 - RE

Year 9 have enjoyed an RE focused enrichment day. We began with a trip to the Reel Cinema in Widnes today where the year group behaved really well and did us and Mr Sharp proud. There they watched the Ridley Scott film 'Exodus -Gods and Kings' which is an interpretation of the Old Testament story of Moses and his call to lead the Hebrews out of slavery into the freedom of the Promised Land.

The film was enjoyed by us all - some liked the action aspects of the film, whilst others enjoyed the portrayal of the conflict between Moses and Rameses. Sean Monaghan said 'It was a bit slow at the start but then I really got into it. There were a lot more action scenes than I expected'. Sam Walters said ' I was surprised because Ridley Scott didn't show the parting of the Red Sea as I thought and God was represented as a boy, showing that God doesn't always have toi be big and powerful to be omnipotent'.

After lunch back at school students enjoyed a carousel of activities which included writing a review of the film for the College magazine, developing their More Able skills by writing opinion pieces and the day ended with our very own Oscars ceremony!. Amongst the winners were our very own Queen of Comedy Paige Topping and Best Dancer Leah Moore.