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CREATIVITY and passion have resulted in a King’s Ely Sixth Form student snapping her way to victory in a prestigious photography competition. Jessica Harding, 18, has been crowned the International Winner of the ‘2023 ILFORD PHOTO Student Photographer of the Year Competition’, beating hundreds of young photographers from across the world with her poignant black and white image, pictured. Chosen...

King William’s College and The Buchan School are delighted to announce there will be a new Principal in office from September this year. Damian Henderson MA (Cantab.) will be taking up the reins in September, relocating to the Isle of Man with his wife Caroline and their three children, Chloe, Theodore and Madeleine. Chairman of Governors Peter Clucas said: “The recruitment process has been...

It’s not every day you can write: Zombies took over Scarborough College! A story of acceptance told through the eyes of a whacky 1950s B movie style musical took to the stage of Scarborough College under the guidance of local theatre professional Alex Weatherhill. “I wanted to bring something completely different to the school.” Says Weatherhill, most recently associated with Scarborough...

A spectacular performance took place at Wellington School last night. Over 450 children from 19 schools around the region turned out to take part in the 12th “Come and Sing” spectacular! They arrived for an afternoon of workshops and rehearsals, before performing a dazzling array of Abba classics to a thrilled audience of over 1000! Pupils came for rehearsals and a sing-off to find our star...

Students from Ellesmere College are heading off to sing in iconic and world-class Spanish venues this week.   The Chapel Choir and other musicians at the prestigious school will sing in the recognisable La Familia Sagrada, Barcelona Cathedral and The Basilica of the Montserrat Monastery during their trip to Barcelona.   When at the UNESCO World Heritage site La Familia Sagrada, one of the most...

Old Tauntonian Tom Wyatt was part of the Exeter Chiefs’ team that clinched the 2023 Premiership Rugby Cup. Wyatt joined Exeter Chiefs in 2019. Since then, he has made appearances in three Premiership Cup matches and five Premiership games. As a dual-registered player he also plays with Championship side, the Cornish Pirates. Attending Taunton School from the age of nine to 18, Tommy completed a...

This week, our Year 7 pupil, Freya, will be walking for two hours to and from school every day for a week to raise money for African Promise. Freya discovered that many children in rural Kenya need to walk over 10 kilometres every day to get to school and find that sometimes there may not be a teacher on that day. African Promise are a charity working to improve the quality of education in primary schools...

Stonyhurst’s senior tennis teams were named the LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) North of England champions yesterday at a fiercely contested tournament following their victories in the knockout stages at the Northwest events in February. Just four schools qualified from the North of England, including the whole of Scotland, for the championship, which took place on Thursday 16th March at the Sunderland...

Thirty-seven Taunton students qualified for the 2023 event in Redditch last weekend – amongst the highest number of pupils entered by any school in the UK. Both Under-9 and Under-10 boys along with the Under-9 girls were crowned winners in the team events while three pupils picked up national titles in the individual competitions: Bella O’D and Harry F in the in the Under-9s, and JJ Wells in the...

Will Heaps is one of 78 JCB apprentices and graduates who recently returned to their old school, Scarborough College, to plant a commemorative oak tree and talk to pupils about their education pathway to a prestigious role with JBC. Will travelled from the JCB World Headquarters at Rocester, Staffordshire to visit Scarborough College and plant the tree which was grown on JCB’s own farming Estate at...

Dozens of talented school children from a leading Harrogate school took part in the musical ‘Annie’ this week. Pupils from Harrogate Ladies’ College took to the boards in the school’s first major production since they performed Fantastic Mr Fox last year. More than 50 pupils were on stage along with musicians in the band. Pupils in the stage crew also performed key backstage roles in...

Eighteen students – some as young as 12 – swam the English Channel over two days last August raising money for a local pool which was under threat of closure due to spiralling energy costs. Now the extraordinary effort by the youngsters has received national recognition by the Channel Swimming and Pilots Federation at their annual dinner in Folkestone. Taunton School’s Long Distance Swimming...

Current and former Ellesmere College students struck the right chord with judges in another strong showing at Oswestry Youth Music Festival. The festival, which has been running for more than 40 years, saw Ellesmere College collect  20 first places and a total of 40 seconds and thirds - making them the most successful school at this year’s festival It was held at three venues in the town between...

Last weekend marked a significant milestone in Stonyhurst’s already rich sporting history with one of its pupils playing for the U18 England Women’s rugby team, leading the team to victory against Wales. The match was the first international fixture for the 2023 season which took place on Sunday 5th March at Rugby School, the birthplace of rugby union 200 years ago, as part of the bicentennial...

Black belt karate kids, George and Lucie Tarr, have been selected for the JKS (Japan Karate Shotorenmei) National Kata Team after taking part in competitive trials in Harrogate. This is the second year that 15-year-old George has qualified at the Japan Karate Shotokan Trials. Now his 12-year-old sister is set to join him in national competitions in 2023. It was watching the film ‘Karate Kid’ that...

Felsted’s Director of Sport, Charlie Knightley, has been selected for the England Over 50’s Cricket Squad for the upcoming World Cup, hosted by South Africa, in Cape Town. The 2023 Over 50’s World Cup will be the largest ever international over 50’s tournament, with 14 teams participating. All 56 matches will be live-streamed. The tournament started on 6 March and England will play six pool games...

On 8 February Ryde School U15 rugby team played against The Westgate School, Winchester, in the final of the Hampshire Cup. On Wednesday Ryde School U15 rugby team traveled to Romsey to play against The Westgate School, Winchester, in the final of the Hampshire Cup. Some early possession for Ryde School players led to two tries, one from a rampaging Freddie and the other from talismanic No.8 Fergus....

Two cricketers from Taunton School have taken part in an international tour to Sri Lanka with Somerset County Cricket Club. Year 10 students Oscar Coleman and Ben Church, who are both sports scholars at Taunton School, visited the country over half term as part of their commitments with the professional cricket club’s U15 Academy. The two-week Si Lankan tour included visiting professional national...