Open Morning Helpers

It was good to meet so many new families during our Open Morning on Saturday. We’d like to acknowledge all of the pupils who helped to support this event, including our Prefect Team who worked after school on Friday to get signs up and banners ready, and were also present to welcome and assist guests during the event itself. Additional thanks to Head Girl Alix and Prefect Nathaniel for managing the Senior Music in Mrs Zurcher’s absence, and for organising a rota of pupils – themselves included – to play the piano throughout the morning. A big thank you as well to our guides from Year 10 and other who supported with Art and Science. Well done to all of the pupils who represented our school so well. 

Harvest Collection for the Food Bank

At assemblies last week Mr Fletcher encouraged all pupils to support the work of the Cambridge Food Bank by bringing non-perishable food and other household items to school. The Food Bank works to provide three days’ nutritionally balanced emergency food and support to local people who are in crisis. They are part of a nationwide network of foodbanks working to combat poverty and hunger across the UK, and have seen a huge increase in demand during the pandemic. At least 90% of the food they distribute is donated.

Thank you to our families who encouraged their children to consider the needs of others and whose generous donations of the items that the Food Bank is most in need of at this time filled up 22 large bags. It is wonderful to see the outpouring of support from the Heritage community for this important work.

Year 5 Class Assembly: Forces

As a feature of Monday morning assemblies at Heritage, each year group will put on one class assembly a year. This morning, Year 5 was featured in the first class assembly — a welcome renewal of this Heritage tradition now that pupils from different year groups are once again able to meet together.

Drawing on the knowledge that they have been learning in their Science lessons, Year 5 performed a play about physical forces. During the performance, the pupils illustrated for their schoolmates a number of different types of physical forces including gravity, up-thrust, air resistance, and friction. This was followed by a musical number in which the pupils sang
‘Forces push and forces pull/ Speed things up or make them slow/ They can change the shape of something/ And the way it wants to go.’

The production wrapped up with a retelling of the ancient tale of Icarus and his fateful encounter with gravity, ‘which illustrates how important forces are.’ Indeed; poor Icarus! An
all around impressive first class assembly of the year and a job well done to Year 5.

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Inspiring Visit with a Former Pupil

Pupils were left feeling inspired by yesterday’s visit with Heritage alumna Chloe Chapman, from the first class of Year 11 Leavers in 2016. Chloe, who is currently studying Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, shared her amazing collection of natural objects with Juniors in Year 5 and 6. The pupils were thrilled to examine her carefully curated vials of plants, insects and other items that she has collected over the years. Year 6 also took some time to sketch pieces from her collection of animal bones in their nature journals. Chloe discussed with them the idea of a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ and encouraged interested pupils to start their own collections by finding objects in nature that appeal to them, and storing them in household jars. 

Chloe also met with Year 11 pupils in the Art Loft, where she talked about her experience studying art at university and shared her portfolio of drawings and paintings. She spoke to the class about the inspiration that she receives from the objects around her, using the patterns she observes in everyday life to create the vivid graphic designs in her paintings.

A huge thank you to Chloe for energising our pupils with her work; we hope she comes back soon for another visit! 

To see some beautiful photographs of Chloe’s collections, go to her account on Instagram.

Recent Geography Fieldwork

In the Senior School, Geography fieldwork allows pupils to get hands-on experience with the curriculum in practice. The four main fieldwork opportunities – coastal, river, rural and urban development – are a highlight for all Geography students. We also run a residential, cross-curricular trip to the Bay of Naples, Italy every three years. These photos are from the most recent Year 10 river fieldwork trip as well as the Year 11 coastal fieldwork trip to Hunstanton Beach.