Congratulations to Tilly in Year 8 who was invited to attend a reception at Government House for the 75th Anniversary of Liberation Fountain School Design competition. Tilly's work was chosen as one of 5 winning designs from an island-wide secondary school competition to design a new fountain! As part of the celebrations of the 75th Anniversary of Jersey's liberation, the … [Read more...]
Pride of Grainville Awards
We celebrated the Pride of Grainville Awards in May, one of our biggest events of the year, now in its 17th year. We had over 30 awards for students nominated by staff for overcoming personal barriers in their lives; a commitment to supporting the community and helping others; English as an additional language, and students that have shown great endeavour. It was a fantastic … [Read more...]
Students complete the DofE expedition
A group of students from Year 11 have successfully completed the expedition section of the Duke of Edinburgh Award (Bronze Award). This involved six hours of planned activity each day, using map skills to trek across Jersey, to and from Grainville School and their designated campsite in St. Ouens. The team walked a distance of between 24 - 32km / 15 - 20 miles. They … [Read more...]
Grainville Phase 5 Building Programme
Grainville School is about to begin an exciting and final development (Phase 5) of a 20 year phased building programme. This latest phase will see the creation of a new wrap-around building providing state-of the art classrooms for subject specialist in English, Humanities, Modern Foreign languages, a new Special Educational Needs Department and a new Music wing … [Read more...]
Running Club Grows
The Grainville Running Club, launched last year is an initiative to get students active and work alongside the school's 'daily mile'. Students turn up before school at 7.30 a.m. every Wednesday morning. Each has an individual personal best and target to reach. Some students regularly achieve the 5k distance every week. Grainville’s best attendance was 70 students which we … [Read more...]
Grainville gets swimming
Grainville school is a proud to be community-minded school and support local charities. Grainville students and staff helped to raise over £1,000 for the annual Lions Club Swimarathon on Thursday 9th March. The Lions Club have chosen the following Jersey charities to be the five principal beneficiaries of the Island’s longest running fundraising event: Brighter Futures, Caring … [Read more...]
Grainville Creative Showcase success!
Grainville students put on another outstanding performance in the second annual Grainville Creative Showcase. Students from years 7 - 11 took part in a dazzling display in 'Through the Times.' A blend of gymnastics, trampolining and dance left the audience in awe of the talent of our students and only inches away from the action! The audience were taken on a journey … [Read more...]
Grainville entrepreneurs prepare for market day
Grainville students are running their own businesses with ‘real’ money as part of the Channel Islands Student Business Challenge. January and February has been busy months of sales following the launch of the challenge. Eight teams from Grainville School are competing with five other Jersey schools. In the first 8 weeks of the challenge some students have made over £1,000 … [Read more...]
Year 8 Literacy lessons
Year 8 Literacy lessons have been working on powerful speeches this half term, culminating with a few of the best speeches from each class being delivered to their year group. Topics ranged from child poverty in the UK, to Donald Trump, to racism, to the real purpose of education. The speakers were incredibly impressive, displaying confidence and using a variety of techniques … [Read more...]
Year 10 were engrossed by ‘Blood Brothers’.
Year 10 were engrossed by 'Blood Brothers', which they are currently studying as part of their GCSE English Literature course. The Jersey Youth Service cast's performance recently won 'The Jersey Green Room Club Cup', in the Senior Category at Eistedford. Fantastic to have live theatre at Grainville! … [Read more...]