Stony Dean School

Last Friday we had our annual Christmas dinner. The hall was adorned with fairy lights, the tables laid with crackers and the students enjoyed a delicious meal cooked by our wonderful kitchen!

Our latest house competition saw the Green House victorious in making the longest paper chain 💚🎄☘️

A big shout out to Year 9 for organising a successful Movember fundraiser yesterday. All proceeds are going to Men’s Health charities via Mr McDonagh’s campaign. Show your support and donate using the link below: movember.com/m/13371494?mc=1

Last week we hosted our annual cultural day. Students stayed with their form tutors and learnt lots about a country of their choice. Here is just a snippet of the activities student’s took part in…

Yesterday evening, we hosted our first Qualifications & Curriculum Evening for KS4. Families attended to find out more about the wide range of qualifications we offer higher up the school. Thank you to those who joined us!

The green enrichment group have made products to sell for Halloween 💀👻🎃

We had our very first house competition at break time today in line with #worldspaceweek Students made paper aeroplanes in their house colours and competed for whose went the furthest!

One of our amazing Year 13 students taking part in weekly work experience @waitrose The headset shows how students are trusted and supported to communicate confidently with colleagues. Empowering employability is at the heart of the SDS ethos. #EmployabilitySkills #Communication

We had MILK in for #WorldMentalHealthDay to support pupils with mental health strategies throughout the day. A 6th Former even completed an ice bath during assembly - talking about the health benefits of this and cold showers.

Some “horrible science” experiments were going on in STEM last week. Check out these lava lamps KS3 made in their lessons!

Mrs King and some of our KS3 students took part in the soapbox challenge at @KopHillClimb this weekend. We were awarded Spirit of the Event!!! Take a look at us in action

An emotional and poignant final assembly for Mr Strain and other staff leaving, filled with wise words, advice and touching tributes, concluded by Mrs Scott. Here’s to Stony Dean’s next chapter! #changeisgood #summerholidays #newbeginnings

Year 7s helped plant a ‘goodbye’ plum tree from Mr A this week! They will see it grow like they will for years to come! #growth #development #environment

Year 9 enjoyed their trip to Hughenden last week, using nets to investigate & discover what lives in a chalk stream ecosystem! #biodiversity #worldaroundus #community

Spot of Tennis anyone? @Wimbledon

Our school pond finally has Newts! @AmershamTownCo1

Little spot of Bee Keeping on a Friday!

We welcome our new Year 7s today for their first transition day. They explored different activities from water beads to shaving foam, team work challenges to sandpits!

Another amazing residential this week with the Year 11,12&13s. Awesome activities, team building and exploration! #independence #teambuilding @PGLTravel

What will we catch?