During my numerous years at this school (14 in fact – I’m a wimby lifer), I have had the pleasure of being taught by many teachers. Spending so much of my life here, I’ve had a lot of time to think about all the subjects that I was forced to take, and I think that it is only right to give my opinions on a very important topic…. Who would win in the Hunger Games? Ok, probably not the kind of question you were expecting but I was thinking about what article I would like to write and the Hunger Games just sprang to mind.

After another wildly successful off-timetable day run by the amazing SLT, we thought we’d leave you with one final parting gift. Here’s a recap of this year’s Off-Timetable Day and House Music events, presented in the most chronically online way possible and summarised into 10 images you’ve probably already seen in a TikTok comment section.

We’ve all been there: speaking confidently mid-conversation, making perfect sense… and suddenly your mouth hits a pothole. A word trips, your tongue scrambles, and you produce a sound that can only be described as verbal static. You don’t have a stutter, you’re not panicking, and yet somehow, you’ve just forgotten how to speak like a functioning human being. It’s almost like a broken record, glitching and repeating the same three words ‘you can’t speak’, forcing you to just stand up and simply just walk away from the conversation.
So why does this happen?

For some people, the slightest noise awakens them at night like the creak of a floorboard. But for others, the wailing siren of a fire truck doesn’t disturb their slumber. Just why, though, remains a bit of a mystery.

Viruses are feared for a reason – they hijack our cells, copy themselves using our host cell machinery, and then destroy the cells in a process called lysis. Basically, they’re the unwanted guests that trash the house before leaving. Not ideal for staying healthy… unless you’re a virus, of course. Then it’s party time. All viruses are bad for our health, right?
Wrong.