A group of students from The Mount School, York have been invited to attend a film premiere in Monte Carlo later this month (June 13 and 14), but it’s a film premiere with a difference. Instead of glittering Hollywood A-listers, the ‘Rivers of Hope’ documentary film charts the extraordinary life of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel who put aside a career teaching architecture to...
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CATS College have designed a new campus, described as "An all in one, modern and dynamic campus in the heart of Cambridge – a city of global academic excellence." The new CATS College Cambridge campus is located within the heart of Cambridge. For the students that will study with us this puts the inspirational, world famous colleges of the University of Cambridge, such as King’s College...
Congratulations to Iona Cowie, aged 13, who was is in the final of BBC Radio Two's 500 Words competition last Friday. "We had a lovely day at St James’ Palace. Although Iona’s story was not one of the three eventual winners in her age category, we still got to meet Chris Evans and his team and see how they put together a radio show live! The Palace was beautiful and during the radio show there...
In April and May this year, over 70 Senior and Intermediate pupils from Northbourne Park School enjoyed two special overnight leadership camps with the emphasis this year based around team building and communication. The children had great fun completing one of six challenges they were set - building their own survival shelters and then sleeping in them overnight. Other challenges included making...
All of the Year 3 pupils at Windermere Preparatory School have been awarded Green Blue Peter Environment Badges for their excellent work on the Countryside Code. In Year 3 the pupils begin the school’s very own Adventure! programme, which runs right through to Year 6. This programme consists of ten elements and the pupils have to achieve certain standards in each element in order to receive the...
LEAR Inc Plunging Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear into the digital age, Bromsgrove School’s modern adaptation charts the downfall of proud media industry giant, Regina Lear. On the brink of retirement, she foolishly lets pride blind her and anger overcome her. She divides her empire between her conniving daughters, Goneril and Regan, and neglects the true love and loyalty of her youngest daughter,...
Lea Van der Zwalmen with Clifton College Rackets Coach, Reggie Williams Clifton College sixth former Lea Van der Zwalmen is celebrating after becoming the first ever Ladies Rackets World Champion. Lea beat the top seeded Claire Fahey (also Real Tennis World Champion) in a fabulous, exciting and high standard match which lasted one and a half hours. Full report of the world challenge is...
Bromsgrove Preparatory School teacher Richard Widdop is hoping to take on the very adventurous challenge of cycling the 950 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats in just 12 days over the school summer holidays. To support him in his training Mr Widdop arranged a challenge for Bromsgrove Prep School pupils and staff to join him in undertaking a charity bike ride at School on static training bikes....
Pim Grimes, headmistress of St Swithun’s Junior School, Winchester received the keys to the impressive new junior school at a key handover ceremony in front of pupils, staff, parents, governors and contractors. The new school, built on the existing Alresford Road campus, will open this September. Having officially opened the new school’s doors for the first time, Mrs Grimes invited everyone to have...
Summer sunshine blessed Culford’s annual Speech Day on Saturday 23 May. The Guest of Honour was Old Culfordian, Mark Lowcock, Permanent Secretary at the Department for International Development. This red-letter day included tours of the new library, a £2.2million project scheduled to open in September, as well as a golf competition with PGA professional, Lawrence Dodd, a musical concert and chance...
Last week St John’s School students took an exhausting 29 hour trip to Costa Rica to take part in InterSEK – a sporting competition between all the schools in the IES/SEK network (of which St John’s is the flagship English school). After a weekend at leisure visiting the rainforest and soaking up the sights and sounds of this amazing country, the students gathered together at the International...
Abi Evans Strathallan School is delighted to announce the introduction of a Girls Rugby Camp to its Summer Camp Programme. Following the success of former pupil Abi Evans, the School initiated weekly girls rugby sessions which are enjoyed by a large number of pupils and as a result Strathallan will be hosting a three day camp in July open to girls from across Scotland. Abi started playing rugby...
The outdoor production, set in the grounds of Mayfield School, runs for three nights on June 9, 10 and 11. Drama teacher, Sally Gerstmeyer, said: “The production’s aim is to capture the attention, amuse, horrify and encourage us to suspend our disbelief of talking animals. During the final scene the audience are asked to see the animals not just as surrogate human beings but as animals in their...
On the summer’s most temperate day so far, the Dollar 1st XI took on an experienced MCC Scotland side in an extended version of the game that took place on Wednesday 20 May at Dollar Academy. A time game allows for three different results on the day; it is customary for the MCC to bat first, and then try and get the school side out in the remaining overs before play concludes at 6pm. In the first...
8 year old golfing starlet, Grace, secures place at World Championships in USA for a second time. LORETTO School’s 8 year old rising golf star, Grace Crawford stole the show at the prestigious U.S. Kids Golf European Championship which took place in East Lothian at the end of May. The championship attracted the world’s best young golfers aged 5-18 with around 550 players from 35 nations competing in...
The winning 1st XI at New Road Bromsgrove School 1st XI were crowned Chesterton Cup champions for the third consecutive year at New Road County Ground on Sunday 21st May. The finals took a T20 finals day format, our team faced Worcester’s Royal Grammar School who they defeated by 70 runs in the first semi-final with an explosive 38 from Chase Edwards setting the tone. The batting was ...
(L-R) Theodore Wiklund, Ellie Ball, Connie E, Declan McManus Bromsgrove School is delighted that four of its current Upper Sixth Form pupils have received offers of places and scholarships from prestigious North American and Canadian universities. Eleanor Ball, an IB Diploma student has been offered an International Leaders of Tomorrow (ILOT) Scholarship, a full 4 year all-inclusive scholarship at...
Alex Smith Plymouth College rugby player, Alex Smith, 14, has been selected for the Developing Players Programme at the Devon School of Rugby (SoR). Alex won his place after playing for West Devon in a county-wide tournament involving 130 boys. The Year 9 pupil, who plays in the hooker position, is one of only three boys to be chosen from the U14 West Devon squad. The SoR selects talented players...