On Monday 20 February, our Hans Woyda Maths team took the challenge to Trinity School in the semi-finals of the southern plate Hans Woyda competition. The maths was hard, the pressure was intense and the snacks were pretty good. The match was close fought from the outset with the lead going back and forward between […]
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Physics Pupils Head to Imperial College Lecture
On Tuesday evening a group of our Lower Sixth physics pupils ventured up to Imperial College in South Kensington for a lecture on neutrino physics and detection. A fantastic introductory lecture on these tiny, incredibly light and infuriatingly evasive particles began by explaining that they are produced all around us; in the atmosphere, in nuclear […]
Girls’ 1st XI National Hockey Finals
Our girls’ 1st XI travelled to Nottingham Hockey Centre just before half term to take part in the U18 Tier 4 National Finals. After an overnight stay and a delay due to frost, the girls set about trying to finish top of the group to make the final. Our first game was a tough one […]
Ella’s Marathon Effort to keep Dad walking
Huge good luck from everyone at Caterham to Lower Sixth Form pupil Ella who is training to run two half-marathons this month, all to raise funds for her father Andy, who has the rare genetic disorder hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Monies raised will go towards life-changing surgery, which could allow Andy to walk unaided and […]
ESLP Teacher Training
Fourteen teachers from the East Surrey Learning Partnership schools attended a training session with Mr Lang in the Prep Innovation Centre this week. There followed a ‘hands on’ session with robotics equipment with an emphasis on experimentation, learning from mistakes and above all – problem solving. The equipment used will be available to the local […]
French Pen Pal Project is Back
1J’s first letters to their Pen Pals from St Louis, Le Mans have now been sent! 1J enjoyed using a lot of the French they have been learning so far, to share with their “correspondants” what they like doing and what they do not like or describing their family and pets. Some wrote some very […]