On Saturday 14 April, four pupils and two members of staff attended a one-day Blood Bowl tournament hosted by the Swindon and Wiltshire Blood Bowl League (SAWBBL). This was the first tournament for most of the team, all of whom did fantastically. Finn was placed 29th, Aaron – 46th, Xav – 48th and Graham was […]
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Geography Field Trip to the Brecon Beacons
During the Easter holidays, 17 pupils and six staff ventured into the Brecon Beacons to enrich the study of rivers, urban environments, mass movements, industrial redevelopment and, for the first time for many, geology. The trip began with possibly the wettest day ever encountered by a team of geographers, with horizontal rain cutting short the […]
United Access Easter Residential Programme
Seventeen Year 10 pupils attended an Easter residential at Caterham School last week as part of the AAAF and United Learning’s four-year university access programme United Access. United Access was launched in summer 2017 to help academically gifted and ambitious young people access top universities in the UK. The programme consists of a series of […]
CCF Exercise, Summer Lightning
The final weekend of the Easter holidays saw a platoon of the CCF’s Army Section deploy to Bramley Training Areas in Hampshire. After a morning’s fieldcraft training under their Sixth Form NCOs, the 30 cadets marched out for a 24-hour battle exercise. Their mission: to drive an insurgent enemy from the vicinity. Having establish a […]
First Years Visit Paris
We had to be at school for a quarter past six, so many of us had to get up at five o’clock in the morning; we were all very tired. We took the coach that we booked for the weekend to Dover, and got the ferry to Calais, only to get back on the coach […]
Parents Attend Coaching Skills Seminar
On Thursday evening 20 parents and teachers attended the first of three seminars on coaching skills. They learned about deep listening and put into practice a variety of psychological models in mini coaching sessions with each other. The evening was led by Mr. Kim Wells, Director of Learning & Teaching and ILM qualified Coach, and […]
