🔥 TERM 1 HOUSE CUP UPDATE 🔥 After an INCREDIBLE start to the year with over 200 students taking part in House competitions, positive points totalling over 80,000 and attendance rates staying sky high, we have a tie at the top! Who will take the lead next?

Our Assistant Principal, Mrs Stewart has been talking to students about one of our HEART values: Excellence. When you choose to face the challenge, you are unlocking your potential. At Latimer, we support excellence together, no one has to face a challenge alone.

We can safely say that Japan has to be one of the most friendly, warm and welcoming countries in the world and we have had an experience that would be hard to repeat. We return as better people due to their hospitality.

We then left the school and learnt the art of the ancient Japanese Noh. Before finally heading to our original hotel for a farewell party with the range of people we have been with.

Today we experienced school life in Japan attending lessons and with our staff and student interacting and displaying our talents to our Japanese hosts.

On Thursday afternoon we travelled to a senior high school to met our school buddies and experience our second home stay of the trip. The staff then ensured full cultural buckets list were ticked with some karaoke. However, unfortunately the camera stopped working !

The Japan trip are heading to the airport for our long trip home. Over the last two days we have continued with wonderful experiences. On Thursday we experienced Kendo at a Dojo in a Japanese police station

The team put on a fantastic performance at the Kettering and Corby District Finals, narrowly missing out on the title after a tense 0-0 draw with KBA that ended in a nail-biting penalty shootout.

Y9 Food & Nutrition students had their first GCSE practical assessment lesson today. The effort demonstrated by all students today was exceptional. Well done Y9 - keep this up!!!

We then moved on to a slightly more relaxing experience of making our own lunch. We were taught too make speciality Hiroshima pancakes - a mixture of batter, cabbage, noodles, egg, spring onions and then our own choice of toppings. Some of them were very, very edible....

Today was a challenging day as we were shocked and horrified at the horrors of the Hiroshima bomb museum and then inspired by the courageous story of an 88 year old survivor. We left our peace cranes that we made last night at the memorial to the thousands of children who died

The winner of our Year 7 Team Building Day is 7G1! Well done to 7A1 and 7G2 in 2nd and 3rd place and all our students for working together to solve some very challenging activities.

So as we draw to the end of the day in Japan we have been making a selection of peace cranes to leave at the memorial to the thousands on young school children who were killed in the Hiroshima A bomb. A small act of remembrance by our students.

So we spent the afternoon and this evening in Japan on the beautiful island of Miyajumi visiting a Shinto temple and staying in a traditional Japanese inn.

Our Year 7 students have shown some impressive skills during Team Building Day so far. Who will be our winning form this year?

We have had lots of fun on the trip so far. However today's visit to the peace park at Hiroshima was a more sobering experience. Tomorrow we get to hear from a survivor.

On our way to Hiroshima. With packed lunch provided

So yesterday students on the Japan visit enjoyed a mindful peaceful experience at one of Japan's most spiritual temples. Today is an entirely different experience as we take the bullet train to Hiroshima.

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They then went to a Buddhist temple where we were enlightened and given VIP treatment with a behind the scenes tour by an excellent Monk. It was so Zen and such an uplifting experience that Mr H is going to convert!