Last Friday, Photography Club had a wonderful first session in the darkroom, creating photograms. Photograms are created by placing objects on top of the light-sensitive photographic paper before exposing the paper to light from the enlarger. The pupils learned about the health and safety needed for working in the darkroom as well as learning how […]
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Gillian Arnold Workshop
On Monday 20 November the visual arts team hosted a day of workshops led by artist Gillian Arnold. Gillian’s work is inspired by natural forms and she primarily uses sublimation printing techniques to create a variety of gorgeous products that she sells to high street and online shops. See www.gillianarnold.com The pupils were most enthusiastic […]
University Offers
Congratulations to one very lucky Upper Sixth pupil who has already received her five university offers to study criminology based courses at Bristol, Exeter, Durham, Loughborough and York. She is closely followed by three other pupils who have each received four favourable replies.
PwC Workshop for Budding Accountants
35 pupils from the Fifth Year and Sixth Form attended our PwC event last Tuesday afternoon, to hear about the option open to them at this prestigious organisation. The Flying Start programme, for example, is a fantastic opportunity to gain a fully sponsored degree that allows you to complete 80% of your ICAEW Chartered Accountant […]
Chamber Music Concert
A wonderful concert of chamber music took place on Tuesday in the beautiful acoustics of the Wilberforce Hall. The senior brass ensemble opened the concert with two majestic pieces including the Charpantier Te Deum. Newly formed groups, the Piano Trio and Clarinet Trio performed excellent technical pieces by Faure and Bach whilst the choirs, ETS […]
Careers Evening: Engineering Opportunities
A huge thank you to everyone involved in the Careers in Stem evening last Monday. We were extremely lucky to welcome two young engineers, Rebecca Hogan and Matt Trayner, an Old Cat (2009) who talked about their very different roles and the routes they have taken to get there. It was shocking to hear that […]