Love Your School: Idsall in Shifnal.

Shropshire Star

We travel to Shifnal to visit Idsall School, for our Love Your School festure.

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00:00We're here for our Love Your School and this week it's Idsall School and we're with Headteacher.

00:05Introduce yourself, Madam.

00:06Thank you. I'm Michelle King. I'm the very proud Headteacher of Idsall School here in Chiffnall,

00:12in Shropshire.

00:13And how long have you been here?

00:14This is my fifth year as the Head in Shropshire.

00:17Yeah. And so what's so special then? People that don't know Idsall School, what's going on here?

00:23This is a unique place. It's a place that builds more than just knowledge.

00:27It grounds our whole young person into a young adult.

00:33We have a seven-year journey from Year 7 all the way through to Year 13 with some fantastic results

00:40and a million fantastic young people that work across our school.

00:46And we're going to be checking out the Yule Road Quad area. What is the Yule Road Quad area?

00:51Yeah, that's a designated base for Year 7. We call it the shore.

00:54It's where Year 7 have their own classrooms, their own toilet block, their own social space

01:00where the rest of the school don't go.

01:03So they can come out into the rest of the school if they so wish

01:06or they can use their own designated space where most of their lessons are taught there.

01:11They have the same tutor.

01:12So we've reduced the number of teachers they have.

01:16Therefore, a bit primary model really as we make that transition to ease that transition through

01:21to coming into a big secondary school with 15 teachers every week

01:26to shortening that to six or seven teachers across the week and a designated area for them to relax in.

01:33We're with some pupils at IDSL and we're with Olivia and Andrew and Sam.

01:41Cool.

01:41And what's the school like then, guys?

01:43What's kind of some of the highlights for you?

01:46You know, favourite lessons and so on.

01:47Well, IDSL is amazing.

01:50I loved it ever since I came in September.

01:53I was going to go to a private school, Birchfield School,

01:56but I chose to come in and I'm really thankful to come because the sport here is amazing.

02:01Yeah, yeah.

02:02What sort of sport is it you're into yourself then?

02:04Football, golf and a bit of mountain biking.

02:08Okay, good stuff.

02:09Yeah, yeah.

02:10What's your team then, buddy?

02:11Who do you support?

02:12I support United.

02:13Ah, well, we'll move on then.

02:15And what about you?

02:16Any favourite lessons or things that stand out?

02:19I really like PE and maths and the sport here is, like, really good.

02:23Yeah?

02:24I'm really into netball and football.

02:26Okay.

02:26And you like maths.

02:28I don't know how many people say that.

02:29There wasn't many people when I was at school saying that.

02:31So what would you like to do when you leave school?

02:33Is it something involving maths or...?

02:35I'd like to be a secondary PE teacher.

02:38Would you?

02:38Yeah.

02:38Cool.

02:39What about you, boss?

02:40I like history, PE.

02:46Yeah, yeah.

02:46Because history's really interesting and you're going back from the past and it's, like, really good.

02:53And PE is very interesting as well.

02:58And I'm really liking sport, like football, basketball, tennis, golf.

03:04Golf?

03:05They do golf?

03:06Wow.

03:06Oh, okay.

03:07We never did that at my school.

03:08That's great.

03:09And come on, Olivia.

03:10What are you liking being here as a pupil?

03:12Like, I like English and art because art, like, I get to make, like, different stuff.

03:19And, like, English, I'm really good at that.

03:21Okay.

03:21Well, in English, what sort of stuff do you like to do?

03:24Is it kind of, you know, is it writing stories, poems?

03:26Or is it the reading side of it?

03:28Yeah, it's, like, poems.

03:29Okay.

03:30Interesting.

03:30Great stuff.

03:31And what would you like to do when you leave school?

03:32I'd like to be a therapist.

03:34A therapist.

03:35Great.

03:35What about you, buddy?

03:36What would you like to do?

03:37I'd like to be a professional footballer or just be, like, a counsellor.

03:43Yeah?

03:44Good stuff.

03:45And, Seb, did we ask you what you'd like to do when you leave?

03:47Go on.

03:47No, but I would like to stay in sports or, like, be a physio or something.

03:52Okay.

03:52But if that doesn't happen, I'd like to go and finance while my mum works.

03:56Yeah?

03:56Well, when you grow up and you know what's going on, you'll become a Wolves fan.

04:02No.

04:03I'm really joking.

04:04Well, thank you, guys, and thank you for telling us about your lovely school.

04:09How many pupils do you have here, then?

04:11We are just short of 1,300 students in the school, so it's a large secondary school.

04:15Yeah.

04:16And sports, you're quite keen on.

04:18Any particular types of sports that you're kind of doing well in?

04:21Yeah, we excel in lots of sports, to be honest.

04:24Even today, they're off to the athletics track to bring home some medals there across the school.

04:30We do extremely well in football, basketball, netball.

04:35We do the full range of sports.

04:37We have some really nice facilities that you'll see in a little while,

04:41which are permanently used in school and outside of school.

04:45We run lots of camps here outside of school as well, so our extracurricular is actually vibrant.

04:51We have over 103 clubs a week running across the school for students to access from reading,

04:59from homework clubs to chess to just social games or breakout in terms of a well-being social area.

05:08And then, well, the trips and the quality of the sports is endless.

05:14And it's your prom night tonight, isn't it?

05:16It is, it is.

05:17We have 160 year 11s hitting the Swapshire Golf Club tonight.

05:24That will be a special event.

05:26It's always well-celebrated and well-received.

05:29They really enjoy that time.

05:31And it's really good to see them grow into those young people that they are.

05:35Great stuff.

05:36Well, thank you for inviting us to your school.

05:38And we'll take a look around.

05:40Well, it looks good, lads, but what is it?

05:44What are you making?

05:45Swiss roll.

05:46Swiss roll?

05:47Yeah.

05:47Ah, so what flavour jam's going in it?

05:50Strawberry.

05:51Sorry.

05:51Oh, you didn't contemplate sticking a raspberry in, going a bit side-swiping?

05:57No.

05:58Plenty of jam, though, yeah?

05:59Yes.

06:00So who's going to be eating this?

06:01You guys or mum and dad?

06:04Me, the whole pan.

06:05Yeah, yeah.

06:06Now, I know you're saying that, but I know by the time you get home, Martha, it'll be gone.

06:11If you're anything like my boys.

06:13Do you enjoy your cooking, then?

06:14Yeah.

06:15Yeah, yeah.

06:16I like the cooking.

06:17Oh, yeah.

06:19It's quite relaxing, isn't it, really, once you get settled into it.

06:22So is there any particular dishes that you think you're not too bad at doing or help mum and dad with?

06:30I mean, you do the packing.

06:32Do you?

06:34Oh, wow.

06:34Great stuff.

06:35Fair play to you.

06:37What about you, bud?

06:39Well, just mainly do the eating.

06:42And what, do you fancy being a chef, then, potentially, when you're older?

06:46No, but it's a good school to have, so you don't have to buy back in.

06:49Yeah, yeah, very true.

06:50Very true, young one.

06:52Cool.

06:52Well, we'll let you carry on, lads.

06:55So we'll be Freddie Dixon.

06:56Hello, Freddie.

06:57Hiya.

06:58And some of your artwork here, Freddie.

07:00Just talk us through on what you've done and what the inspiration is for it.

07:03Um, so I chose three artists.

07:07Um, these are all combining one of them or two of them together.

07:12Yeah.

07:13So it's a different, like, replicate their style sort of thing.

07:16Yeah.

07:16Ah, so go on then.

07:18So for example, this one with the bike, who's this influenced by?

07:20This is influenced by Garth Bailey, who's done a lot of horse racing, bike racing, especially

07:28the Tour de France and those main ones.

07:30And that's a big passion of yours, isn't it, cycling?

07:32Yeah, definitely.

07:33Cool.

07:34And this red car here, what's going on here?

07:36So this is based off Mark Sutton's work.

07:40Um, he focuses a lot on motorsport and track cars and sort of that stuff.

07:45Yeah.

07:46So I thought I'd base that piece off his work because it's a picture of my own.

07:50Um, that one combines Garth Bailey and Mark Sutton together.

07:57Got it, yeah.

07:57So the car's done as Mark Sutton and the background's all Garth Bailey's loose.

08:02Ah, I can see, yeah, now you're pointing it out, yeah.

08:04There's two different styles, you know, yeah.

08:06And then this is a combination of Garth Bailey and a second artist, Mia Fulan, who does motorsport

08:15art, it's a lot of motorsport art with lines in the background to create the feeling and

08:20movement.

08:21Well, you're obviously very much into your sport and you're obviously a very creative

08:24person, so any ideas what you'd like to go on to do when you leave school?

08:28Um, probably something maybe in the design industry, maybe architecture or maybe even

08:35automotive design.

08:36Yeah.

08:37Something like that.

08:37I'm not 100% sure yet though, so.

08:40Well, great stuff, mate.

08:41Well, if the standard of your artwork here is anything to go by, you'll do well going forwards.

08:45Thank you for sharing it too, it's Freddy.

08:46Thank you very much.

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