Central to the ethos of the school is our House System and every year fierce competition ensues between the four Houses for the Sir Michael Griffiths House Cup. Despite the disruption of the pandemic, we still managed to run a modified House Competition last year, with students earning points for th...
This is the time of year when the school normally welcomes thousands of visitors to its Year 6 into Year 7 Presentation and Open Evenings. Due to the Pandemic, we have had to rethink the 2021 plans and instead of the evenings our visitors have instead had the opportunity to visit the school in sessi...
We were delighted to welcome back Michael Ellis QC MP to the school today who has always been a great supporter of NSB. Michael was able to end a busy week for him (he was appointed HM Paymaster General yesterday in the government reshuffle) answering challenging and well thought through questions f...
We were delighted to welcome our students back to school and they have made a tremendous start to what will hopefully be much more of a normal school year. Deserved mention to the Year 7 and 12 cohorts who have settled extremely well into their respective new phases of education.
We say fond farewells next week to several staff who are mostly either retiring or moving abroad. Top of the longevity list are Martin Grisley (Economics), Robert Taylor (Chemistry) and Marcus Lyon (RE) who have served the school brilliantly for 37 years, 27 years and 13 years respectively and they...
On Wednesday, Quinton Green who works in collaboration with East Midlands writing team and Northamptonshire Police came into school to lead a workshop with a number of Year 12 students. The workshop consisted of students responding to a road traffic collision that took place last year, in which sadl...
The House Leadership Team Hustings took place this week, where the whole school voted for the leaders of the school’s Student Voice for 2021/22. The candidates were of an exceptionally high calibre, each providing outstanding video candidate presentations and all were hugely committe...
We are immensely proud of our record of supplying large numbers of newly qualified teachers to local schools every year through the Teacher Training arm of the school - the NTTP. The 2020-21 cohort enjoyed their certification day yesterday, with a large percentage of the group taking posts in Northa...
We were delighted to hear that former student and outstanding role model; Dr Joseph Manning was named on the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his work with children who have survived a critical illness. Dr Manning currently works on the paediatric wards at Nottingham General Hospital where he h...
I was delighted to receive a report from Mrs Rutherford this week that 55 boys from Year 7 / 8 have read over a million words through the Accelerated Reader programme this year. Special congratulations to Edward R. in Year 8 and Alfie Mackenzie-Watson in Year 7 who top the millionaire...
We say goodbye today to a long serving and exceptional member of staff in Mr Chew, who has taught English at the school since 1997 and who was also a very valuable and long serving member of the Senior Leadership Team for much of his time at NSB. We wish...