Glebelands Year 11 Dinner Dance 

Glebelands School held their annual Presentation Evening on Thursday 16th November to celebrate the achievements of the Year 11 leavers.

The evening started with an address from Glebelands former Head Teacher, Mrs Hutchinson and then the new Head of School Mr Mitchell. 

Guest speaker, Mr Andy Smith talked to the students about his community work with disadvantaged young people in Roehampton and other estates across London with Regenerate UK.  He spoke about believing in the potential that lies within every individual to change their lives and in doing so the lives of those around them.  By giving encouragement and practical support to young people they are able to achieve their goals and transform their lives beyond their circumstance.  Positive, personal transformation brings hope to all those around you, which as a result builds communities from the inside out.

Mr Mitchell and Mr Smith then presented every student with their GCSE certificates and awarded prizes for service to the school and community as well as for each subject area. Donations for these came from our community sponsors who include: The Rotary Club of Cranleigh, Roger N Coupe Estate Agents, David Mann and Sons Ltd, Cranleigh Freight Services, The Cranleigh and District Lions, Dataforms Chartered Press, Oakwood Business Consultants, OneForty and Cranleigh Parish Council.

Fourteen students were also awarded additional prizes for gaining eight or more A/A* grades in their GCSEs, which is a fantastic achievement.

Thanks were also given to the parents and teachers who had supported students throughout their time at Glebelands. Head of Achievement, Miss Treverton Jones, shared her memories and reflections of what will be a warmly remembered year group.

The evening ended with a collection for Regenerate UK and £180 was raised for this charity.

The evening was followed by refreshments and an opportunity for students and staff to catch up on the last few months. This was the last time that the year group would meet together as a whole and it was a wonderful evening of celebration.

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Glebelands School Community Science Show with ‘Gastronaut!’

On Thursday 1^st February 2018 Glebelands School hosted its Community Science Show, ‘The Utterly Revolting Science Show by Gastonaut, ‘Stefan Gates’. Stefan started out as a food writer but is now also an internationally recognised science communicator, being on a number of BBC channels with shows such as Gastronauts and Incredible Edibles. Stefan is a prominent author producing a number of books on food related matters, as well as some very different cookbooks.

His talk at Glebelands was a journey through the digestive system, starting with bogies and it continued in this vane throughout. The talk lived up to its name, looking at the chemical reactions that occur throughout the body. Experiments included exploding milk powder to show energy in food and using vomit to cook an egg to show what happens in the stomach. The show ended with the process of excretion at the end live on stage – much to the audiences delight. We were also shown what it takes to be a super taster and how eating insects could be one future sustainable food source. Stefan managed to get three volunteers from the crowd to sample dried locusts, crickets and fat-ass-ants (real name).

The talk was highly engaging and helped to highlight some of the incredible tasks that the body carries out to keep us alive - and why some of the “not so incredible” are also key to our survival.

As Glebelands School is a Science and Mathematics specialist school we pride ourselves on the promotion of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics to our students and wider community. Our Science events allow everyone to see the opportunities available through these areas and why they are so important.

It was a very enjoyable evening and a great end to a fantastic Community Science Week at Glebelands School.