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King’s is delighted to be holding the inaugural Run/Shoot competition on Tuesday 23 June. Introduced by British Shooting, in partnership with Pentathlon GB and England Athletics, the event mirrors the final discipline in the Modern Pentathlon and will enable participants to learn and develop their air/laser pistol target shooting with the added twist of running. After a recent visit from former GB...

What happens when you ask Year 5 pupils to come up with an idea for their own short film? Be afraid, be very afraid! Hotly anticipated and well-publicised with Year 5’s poster campaign, Northbourne Pinewood Studio’s blockbuster did not disappoint at its premiere on Wednesday 10th June. Enter the mind of a Northbourne Park Year 5/6 child .… think aliens and custard pies and some truly wonderful...

The Wellington School sailing team had a tremendously successful day at the Wimbleball Sailing Regatta. Representatives from Wellington School, Blundell’s and Courtfields took part and a fleet of 17 boats of various classes competed. There were three races and Wellington School won the team event, Wellington School pupil Tom Hollingsworth won the best sailor award, with Mallory Millington taking...

Rydal Penrhos Pre-Prep pupils enjoyed an exciting afternoon reliving the age of chivalry as medieval knights from The Knight Shop in Conwy visited the pupils to bring to life the tales of historic battles. Equipped with armour and weaponry from the early medieval up to Tudor times, the ‘knights’ showed them how helmets developed over the years to protect more and more of the head and how the various...

A chess superstar from Rydal Penrhos School was delighted to learn that she is one of only two girls in her age group in Wales to be selected to represent the country at the FIDE World Youth Chess Championships in Greece. Imogen Camp will join twenty-five other Welsh chess players between the ages of eight and eighteen travelling to Halkidiki for the World Youth Championships in October, but is one of...

A Rydal Penrhos Sixth former is heading for the seat of Government next week as she embarks on an exciting week of work experience at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. Upper Sixth pupil, Hannah Patrick, will be travelling to London to spend four days immersed in governmental and constituency business where she will be shadowing Mr David Jones, MP for Clwyd West, and Ms Carys Taylor, his senior...

Farlington School’s Gemma Cumber swam in an open water race on Saturday 13th June in the River Arun in Littlehampton.  The race was over the Iron Man distance of 3.8km.  Gemma, 14, was the youngest swimmer in the event of over 400 competitors. Gemma won the Youth Section in a time of 43.2 minutes, came 5th overall in the Ladies Section and 15th overall for the entire race including the...

30 historians from Farlington School took a three-day trip to Berlin, accompanied by Mrs Boyce, Mrs Ravenscroft and Mr Cronin. The purpose of the trip was to investigate the element of the GCSE History syllabus on life in Nazi Germany. The first outing was an historical sight-seeing tour of central Berlin. The tour guide, Brian, was not only a German speaker, but he had also lived in East Berlin during...

In late May, a group of twenty Fourth Form pupils from Oundle School spent eight days in Tarifa, Spain improving their language skills and acquiring a greater knowledge and appreciation for Spanish culture. For four mornings, pupils had Spanish lessons at the villa they were staying in, which focussed on conversation and were provided by the La Janda Institute. In the afternoons, the pupils enjoyed...

King’s cricket continues to lead the way in the South West and at a national level. The 1st XI have been top of the Wisden School “successful season” stats for the last six years and have done very well in the national schools T20 cup year in year out. They have lost a mere five school matches in those six years and continue to achieve some very impressive results. The team have strengthened their...

Year 2 at St. Johns-on-the-Hill spent an eventful day learning more about Isambard Kingdom Brunel on a visit to the SS Great Britain. The class has been researching travel and transport, specifically different modes of motion. The students have taken great interest in the successes of Bristol born Brunel, particularly in the Great Western Railway, SS Great Britain and the Clifton...

This year has been one of celebration for Leighton Park School with birthday parties, special performances and events all to commemorate its 125 anniversary. In planning the celebrations Nigel Williams, Head, always had in mind the creation of a more permanent reminder of the school’s birthday. “I wanted Leighton Park to have a lasting reminder of our 125th anniversary, something that reflected our...

Sarah Roger-Lund, a Year 12 student at The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, has been awarded 1st prize in the prestigious Engineering Essay Competition 2015 run by Newnham College, Cambridge whilst fellow student Helen Griffiths took 3rd prize in the very competitive Law Essay Competition. The Cambridge University competitions are open to all girls currently in Year 12 attending a UK...

Abie Alexander-Ikwue and Safia Williamson, both Year 9 students at The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, have won the prestigious 2015 Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication. Their video ‘What are the Odds?’ won best overall entry in the competition, beating over 500 entries to impress the final judging panel consisting of Bill Bryson, Robert Parker (CEO of the Royal Society of...

Oundle School Boat Club marked an excellent performance at the recent Star Regatta in Bedford, with four wins and five boats in the finals. Anna Van de Braak (17) was dominant in both of her singles events - the Women’s Junior 17 category and the Intermediate 3 - with wins in both. Anna beat off strong opposition from Kings Ely and Bedford Girls School. Coach Jeffrey Roache commented, “Despite...

Farlington has received it latest LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) examination results and they are outstanding. 36 girls in Years 7–13 took an acting examination with 27 girls gaining a Distinction and nine gaining a Merit.  Congratulations to all the candidates. To achieve a Distinction requires 80 marks and three girls, Chloe Mariani and Lily Wolstenholme taking Grade 6, Bronze...

For the first time in Ratcliffe College’s history, the Independent Schools’ Inspectorate (ISI) has rated the School to be excellent across all nine categories.  The Leicestershire school, a day and boarding school for children aged 3-18, was visited by a team of inspectors at the beginning of March and its report has just become available: “The quality of academic and other achievements is...

More than 400 York residents have attended a lecture at St Peter’s School (Tuesday 9 June 2015) exploring the counter-intuitive rules of quantum particles and how they impact on the world around us. Delivered by Professor Jeff Forshaw, ‘The Quantum Universe’ was part of the York Festival of Ideas. Based on Professor Forshaw’s book of the same name which he co-authored with Professor Brian Cox,...