Sackville School Sixth Form Presentation 2020
Sackville School 2019/20 in review
Year 11 and 12s went to Malawi over the summer holiday with World Challenge 
Another award winning year - both GCSE … 
… and A level results were fantastic 
Mac Lloyd Skinner won the Head Chef title on the CBBC ‘Step Up to the Plate’ competition 
Our new year 7s arrived … 
… as did our year 12s 
Soon it was year 7 interform. Football for the boys … 
…netball for the girls 
Luke Waddell became an Arkwright Scholar 
Head Boy Ayo Odeyinde became Young Volunteer of the Year 
Our celebration breakfasts began, and continued thick and fast under our new canopy! 
Our Crest Award winners received their certificates 
In the autumn, four of our mathematicians went to Brighton University for Maths Mastery Classes 
Whilst Mr Collins just made maths fun 
Hannah Taylor in year 8 got to meet the Princess Royal at Sandhurst 
Meanwhile Callie Devlin and Ella Brown found success with dance troupe The Division 
Sackville collected carloads of clothing for refugees on the Greek Islands 
Our debaters went to Cambridge 
Our year 10s competed at the Mid Sussex STEM Fair 
Sackville ran out winners of the Adam Dabell Memorial Game against Imberhorne 
Our Gym and Dance Display enthralled ... 
... and surprised 
Our year 13 historians re-enacted the Battle of Trafalgar with cake! 
In November, our year 13 Spanish students enjoyed a week’s international work experience in Madrid 
Callie Day-Williams continued to shine in national ballroom competitions 
Our senior students represented us impeccably on Armistice Day 
The leadership team won the Children in Need Quiz again – will it be on Zoom this winter? 
Our amazing swimmers got to the London Aquatic Centre (the guy at the front doesn’t go to Sackville!) 
Cecee Cashman continued to beat all-comers at kick-boxing 
Our food pod opened! 
Our year 9 engineers were the first school students to visit the BA engineering department at Gatwick 
Our winter concert amazed and … 
… dazzled 
Our year 11s completed their first set of mocks, and received their grades in a mock results day assembly 
Three of our students won first prize in a Business language Champions’ event 
In December we trained our first cohort of youth mental health first-aiders 
Treya Lufu won a Cadogan Award for Resilience from the British Dyslexia Association 
Sixth formers sold their Young Enterprise wares at the small business fair in Horsham 
Students took part in a mock general election 
Our year 10 sports leaders continued to inspire 
Our year 7 celebration assemblies marked a successful first term for our new cohort 
German students visited the Christmas markets in Aachen and Cologne 
Year 12 physics students collaborated with the University of Sussex in an astronomy project 
In the LRC, Stefan Doggett won the complete Harry Potter books with the nearest guess to the number of words in complete series 
Year 9 hospitality students served up some seasonal victuals … 
All the fun of Christmas at Sackville arrived 
Students in year 8 held a Christmas fair 
Our Carol Service was perhaps the best yet 
And there was time for teachers to make fools of themselves in the end of term assembly 
Our sixth formers got to experience German workplaces in Hamburg 
Tilly Vickery started making waves (and some fine dishes) in the Rotary Young Chef competition 
Bea Chappell and Emma Smyth represented East Grinstead in the U16 National Indoor Girls’ Hockey Final 
February saw Joseph – the best show Sackville has ever done? 
Well, that was the view of more than one audience member 
Three of Robyn Shenton’s photos were chosen for the regional finals of the Rotary International Young Photographer of the Year competition 
Year 10 students were given a taste of life at Cambridge University after a talk from Dr Matt Bullimore 
Year 8 students enjoyed a de-timetabled day called Your Life You Choose, looking at the criminal and legal system 
Year 10s went to Berlin for their history trip … 
… whilst in return we hosted a lightning visit from students from twin town Mindelheim in Bavaria 
English teachers dressed up for World Book Day 
Then the lockdown came, but not before we could say ‘farewell’ to year 11 with a pizza lunch 
And the strange new world of social distancing was with us 
We were left one end or the other of ‘remote learning’ and everything that came to connote 
Cooking seemed to feature highly on many household’s home curricula 
Some people’s lockdown workouts were more extreme than others … 
Our technology staff made PPE for local hospitals 
Amber Titchener’s career went from strength to strength despite the lockdown, with sister Daisy shooting a video for her single Jigsaw |