Artist Visit On Thursday 26th February, a local artist, Sally Miles, visited the school to lead a workshop with some of our Year 7 and Year 8 students. She taught them various techniques using conte crayons. The students enjoyed the workshop and produced some amazing artwork – some of which you can see below
Annie The principal cast for our end of year show was announced at the beginning of the week and rehearsals have started! All of years 7, 8 and 9 will have the opportunity to participate in the show if they would like to. We will be learning the songs in Performing Arts lessons, more news […]
Dr Dolittle On Tuesday afternoon the whole school was treated to a performance of Dr Dolittle by Image Musical Theatre. Our students enjoyed the different animal puppets, especially the two headed llama, and loved being able to join in with the songs that they had learnt in Performing Arts lessons. There was also the opportunity […]
Year 9 Art In their Art lessons, students in Year 9 have been learning about art in the theatre. They used their crafting skills to make dioramas of theatre stages. Here are some examples of what they achieved.
Year 7 English Year 7 demonstrated their understanding of the characters in our story “Farmer Duck” by performing a puppet show. Through these performances, they retold the key events of the story and showed thoughtful insight into each character’s role, actions, and personality.
Year 11 Leaving Arrangements 2026 Over the next two half terms, our Year 11 students will be sitting their final examinations and completing coursework to secure their qualifications. After the Easter holidays, all Year 11 students will receive a sign-off sheet to ensure that all course requirements are completed before they finish at The Valley School. Subject […]
Prizes and Awards On Thursday 20th November we held our Awards Afternoon to celebrate the achievements of our young people during the academic year of 2024-2025. Our special guest, presenting the awards was ex-student and current member of staff Martina Barber, who has recently returned from Brisbane Australia where she was flag bearer and competitor […]
Junior Football Tournament On Thursday, The Valley School hosted and took part in a Junior Football Tournament featuring teams from Brandles, St Lukes, Batchwood, and Pinewood. In a very competitive field, The Valley School’ teams performed strongly, securing 3rd and 5th place overall. Despite challenging, wet weather conditions, the boys showed excellent attitude, determination, and […]
Year 11 BTEC Art Year 11 BTEC students have been working on their ‘Tribal Art’ portfolios and part of that has been researching and creating tribal face art designs. The class had great fun face painting each other’s faces with their own original ideas. The results were fantastic and lots of fun.
Year 8 Science Year 8 have been learning about space this half term, and particularly The Space Race. This week the students worked together to make and decorate rockets and then we launched them outside. Unfortunately ours didn’t make outer space but we had lots of fun during the process!
Headteacher: David Pearce | Contact: Iona Varol (Office Manager)
The Valley School, Broadhall Way, SG2 9BN | Tel: 01438 747274 | Email: iona.varol@thevalley.herts.sch.uk
Senco: senco@thevalley.herts.sch.uk
Headteacher: David Pearce
Contact: Iona Varol (Office Manager)
The Valley School, Broadhall Way, SG2 9BN
Tel: 01438 747274
Email: admin@thevalley.herts.sch.uk
Senco: senco@thevalley.herts.sch.uk