Morpeth is a mixed school for pupils aged 11 to 18 that reflects its wider Tower Hamlets community. We value diversity and strive to ensure inclusivity.
Great fundraising efforts during
#ClimateEmergency
Week. Well done to pupils for selling travel mugs to discourage single use plastic water bottles, they raised nearly £500.
Thanks to our Head of History, Mr Urtone, who’ll be leaving us after 10 yrs of dedicated service. To mark this momentous event, he took colleagues on a walking tour to some of his favourite historical sites in Tower Hamlets. Thanks for a truly interesting and enjoyable time.
Morpeth pupils set off on a fact finding mission to Carr Manor Community School in Leeds, to find out how their Coaching programme and House system work.
@carr_manor
Focusing on construction in conjunction with Youth Construction Trust
@ConstructionYT
, Year 10s visit the Robert McAlpine
@WeAreMcAlpine
site in Broadgate to find out about careers, and ways into employment in the construction industry .
Magnificent performance from Yrs 7&8 boys who took part in
@FlyerzHockey
tournament. Having never practiced as a team, they came back with silver. Special mention to Patrick who won the Individual Sportsman Award. Well done!🏑🏑
Great fun, excellent team work – playing dodgeball & being part of
@mencap_charity
All Move programme, bringing together young people with and without learning disabilities through sport & physical activity.
An excellent achievement by our pupils who came third in the SEN Winter Games, sponsored by
#JackPethchey
as part of the Tower Hamlets Panathlon Challenge. A big well done to you all. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Showing the Christmas spirit, class 7E have put a fantastic effort into collecting food donations which will be shared between the Bethnal Green and Bow Food Banks. 🎅🏾🎅🏾🎅🏾🎄🎄🎄✨✨✨
It’s the final day of what has been a wonderful
#CulturesWeek
. We’ve shared a lot and learned a lot, and today we’re dressing up in style to show off our diverse Morpeth community and our many 🌍🌏🌎national costumes.
Well done to our Year 11 students who’ve made it through to the end of their exams and their time in secondary school, which they commemorated with the long standing ritual of shirt signing.
Year 13's Murhad has been chosen to play for the England Table Tennis Team in the Individual Event at the Six Nations Tournament 2018 in June. Congratulations.
#tabletennis
@MorpethSport
Huge thanks to former Essex CCC cricketer, Jahid Ahmed, who spoke to our Year 7s about bullying and racism, and how we can all play a part in stopping it. Pupils asked some fantastically insightful questions and were keen to get his autograph afterwards.
@jahid52443
Today our year 7s heard about exciting careers in the construction sector from Dr Alex Opoku, Associate Professor in Project Management & Quantity Surveying at UCL
@UCL_CPM
@CareersWeek
@ConstructionYT
#NCW2019
We’re delighted to welcome all the new Year 7s joining Morpeth School today. We look forward to getting to know you better and making your time in Morpeth the best that it can be!
🥇🥈A champion result for Morpeth student Marco Roberts who took part in the London Regional Summer Championships
@LondonSwimming
and won GOLD in the 200m butterfly plus SILVER in the 200m breast stroke, and achieved a number of personal bests. A huge congratulations!🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️
Can’t wait to see critically acclaimed film Rocks, by director
@SarahGavron
& writers
@TheresaIkoko
& Claire Wilson, out on Friday 18 Sept. School location scenes filmed in
@MorpethSch
, using staff & pupils as extras. Wonderful to see our grounds and buildings on film.
Our Girls Rugby team have been spreading the word about benefits of the game & are planning a road show to promote girls’ rugby to other school. See their JustGiving page. Inspirational words of support are particularly welcome:
Big thanks to staff at the Kinetic Advertising Agency
@kineticwwUK
, for welcoming our Sixth Form Media students as part of national
#AdvertisingUnlocked
Day.
Morpeth’s playground fair makes a comeback; Year 8s enjoying a morning of Gladiators, Wipeout, Bucking Broncho, obstacle course, helter skelter, go karting, giant board games and more.
Well done to Year 7s for their positive start to the new year. They’ve found their way around very quickly, performed brilliantly in team building challenges and perfected their tie-tying skills!👔
🌍🌍Wearing something green in support of Morpeth School’s climate emergency declaration and the Global Climate Strike, Ms Boyson, Head of RS. We’ve declared our own Climate Emergency and will go off-timetable this afternoon. 🗺️🗺️🗺️
Best of luck to all former Morpeth students starting university this term. We’re proud of your achievements. See where they’ve gone to and what they’re studying:
Thank you to our gardener, Jocelyn, who has been busy this morning making sure the school gardens look immaculate, ready for tomorrow’s Year 11 Graduation ceremony.🌼🌼🌼🌼
Praise from Ms Marx to Rosa in Year 7 for the amazing piece of homework she produced in response to the task: ‘Draw a self portrait of you wearing/holding 5 things that symbolise something important to you.’
Celebrating
#EmbraceYourGeeknessDay
: staff dress up as alter egos of famous superheroes & villains. Pupils compete to win prizes by uncovering as many Supers as possible. A Geekdom quiz takes place later today, in the Library.
So proud of our 6th Formers. Raised nearly £800 for Winter Ball,
@DepaulUK
; OAP
#Christmaslunch
; gloves, hats and socks for
@Secondshotcafe
Christmas Dinner for homeless people (pictured Julius, café owner) & collected lots of food for
@firstlovefdn
.
For their CPHSE reward trip, Yr 7 & 8 pupils went to see the art installation My Bari, part of Bangladesh independence celerations
#Bangladesh50
and had a go at some weaving.
㊗️Congratulations to our senior Maths team who came 6th in the regional final of the prestigious
@UKMathsTrust
competition. Couldn’t wish for a more dedicated group of students who organised themselves for practice. A well-deserved achievement!🙌🏽🙌🏽
World of Work in CPSHE: Listening to the career stories of support staff; pupils hear what workers from Premises, Finance, Reprographics, Counselling and other areas of work in the school, did before coming to Morpeth and what their jobs entail now
Thank you to the performers
@read_through
for taking us through crucial scenes in Macbeth today, by reading them out loud and discussing their meaning; also for answering Dean’s question: “Do you think there are any social problems in Macbeth still relevant to today?”
Our superb cast continue to perform in front of packed out audiences, in the Morpeth production of
#SchoolofRock
- The Musical. Final performance on Thursday 13th July, tickets £2.00.
The Girls Rugby Team road trip to the Champions Cup Rugby game between London Irish and the South African Stormers. The Team also got to meet Steven Kitshoff, the World Cup Winning Prop for South Africa.
@londonirish
@THESTORMERS
@StevenKitshoff
🏉
We're pleased to announce the winners of our Art Challenge. Pupils recreated an image of their choice. The range and quality of submissions was fantastic. Congratulations Juliet Sanders-Moira (1st/pictured), 2nd Ruben Wadsworth (2nd), Leila Wilkinson (3rd).
Yr 12 students
@The_Globe
🎭. Exploring the theatre and taking part in a workshop on their play
#TwelfthNight
. Great day as always at the Globe Theatre.
It was Altab Ali Day on Monday 4th, so some of Ms Fletcher's Year 7 team did an online form time activity where they reflected on why it's important to remember this local history. Here are some of their responses.
Exhibiting work by Yr 11 GCSE Photography students. Head of Art Ms Wren says “It has been a pleasure working with our students & I Iook forward to showcasing their work in full, in our end of year exhibition.”
So good to see our Yr 11 & 13s coming in for their Covid tests today. A huge thank you to Amanda and her brilliant team for setting up and running the test centre so efficiently. Looking forward to seeing Yr 9 & 10s for their tests on Monday 8th.
Thank you to our Somali families and the wider Morpeth community for raising a spectacular £1,405.50 which will go to
#SomalilandActionAid
, who are helping people facing famine and drought. More:
#RemembranceDay
Pupils gather in front of the Cyprus Street memorial in Bethnal Green, with History teacher Mr Smith, to pay their respect to soldiers killed in battle during the two World Wars.
Years 8s alternative sports day: Pupils test their strength, coordination, speed and agility while having fun at the fair in the school playground and winning prizes along the way.