From 28th March to 14th April in the Easter holidays, Oundle School hosted the Oxford International British English Olympics (BEO), involving over 560 students and staff from South America. The BEO is a high profile, prestigious academic and cultural event. Participating teams of 12-16 year olds from international schools from around the world travel to the UK to put their English to the test. They...
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As has been the tradition in recent years, last week, the Loretto School Pipe Band accompanied The Royal Company of Archers (Her Majesty, The Queen's Bodyguard in Scotland) on their march to Musselburgh Racecourse where The Royal Company of Archers compete for the oldest sporting trophy in the world - 'The Musselburgh Silver Arrow'. Jonathan Hewat, Director of External Affairs at Loretto School said,...
At 10am on 12th May, just minutes before Charles Bush, Headmaster of Oundle School, broke the ground to mark the start of construction work for the new SciTec Campus, the roof of the old workshops came tumbling down in one of the final stages of the demolition process. It was a touching moment for all watching and marked a symbolic step towards the next phase of the School’s workshop tradition, which was...
5th May 2015 - ISFA U11 National Finals - Photo: Simon Stacpoole. Whitgift’s young footballers have had an unprecedented winning streak, with recent county and national competition success. Whitgift dominated the County Cup scene this season with the U11, U12, U13 and U14 teams each bringing home the silverware in their respective Surrey age-group categories. The U11 squad, having won the Investec...
Plymouth College Preparatory School pupil, Abagael Black, 11, has won the national U11 girls’ IAPS Fencing Championships for the second year running. Competing against some of the top young fencers in the country, Abagael took the title in a convincing 10-0 win in the final. Abagael’s IAPS success comes close on the heels of claiming 3rd place in the U12 British Youth Fencing Championships. The...
Exchange Students leave their ‘Wellington School family’ to return home Our Australian exchange students leave the UK next week after six weeks studying at Wellington School. Our four delightful girls came from St Hilda’s College, Southport on the Australian Gold Coast, and have spent weeks living with the families of Year 10 girls Olivia Weatherlake, Lucy Hemming, Hannah King and Maddie...
In memory of former pupil, Eric Fernandez Yarrow (5 January 1895 – 8 May 1915) ’No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.’ From L to R: Piper Morgan Ball (18), Chairman of Governors, Julian Tregoning, The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor Alan Yarrow, Headmaster Charles Bush and The Master of the Grocers’ Company, James Roundel On Friday 8th May, a service of...
Photograph taken by Jim Keogh for Gerry McManus Photography Trent College First XV rugby captain Will Allman has taken another step towards a career in the professional game after being confirmed as one of four players invited to join Northampton Saints Senior Academy for 2015-16. Will, from Diseworth near Castle Donington, has been part of the Junior Academy at 2013-14 English Premiership-winning...
“Today, Year 7, you are going to build a Tractor…out of Cardboard” This year in Art, all Year 7 students at Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire, were given the task of recreating a life-sized replica of one of the school's tractors, out of cardboard. Inspired by artist Chris Gilmour, who makes life-sized cardboard replicas of all sorts of everyday items, the students spent time drawing from,...
Over Easter, twenty-three Oundle pupils and staff travelled France to explore Paris while speaking French as much as possible. Pupil, Lily Tyler (17) commented, “From the moment we arrived, anyone caught speaking English was asked to repeat themselves and pretty soon we all got the message. Our first adventure was seeing the Eiffel Tower - luckily Paris is just as beautiful in the rain so we walked...
St John’s on-the-Hill school held a Charity Day to raise money for JDRF, a charity that is dedicated to finding a cure for type 1 diabetes. For the event, children got to dress up as anything beginning with the letters J, D, R or F. The pupils and staff displayed a wide range of costumes from ‘Frenchie’ off Grease, James Bond, Dinosaurs and Farmers. It was fantastic to see the...
Two all-girl teams from Godolphin School’s Combined Cadet Force completed the arduous Ten Tors Challenge recently. The 12 intrepid girls marched across Dartmoor loaded with rucksacks weighing in excess of 20 lbs including camping equipment, emergency gear, rations and water. Rain, fog, wind and sunshine accompanied the girls as they navigated their way around their designated Ten Tors. Inevitably...
Creating a global perspective John Attwater Much has been made recently by Ofsted and the Government of the requirement for all schools, state maintained and independent, to promote fundamental British values, capturing that elusive sense of what it is to be British while including the diversity of cultures and faiths which make up Britain today, and the global perspective to recognise our nation’s...
During the Easter holidays, twelve Oundle pupils headed off to the picturesque French town of Orléans for a French exchange with the pupils at Saint-Charles School. Pupil, George Brettle (14) commented, “We spent the first weekend with our French families who treated us to a variety of trips including visits to Disneyland, cycling or in some cases visiting the famous Orléans Zoo.” Meeting up on...
Pupils from Year 1 at Bellan House, Oswestry School’s Prep Department made an exciting discovery in their weekly Forest School lesson, finding a fossil which the Natural History Museum has now suggested is likely to be 300-500 million years old. The children were busy looking for stones to edge a new wildlife pond they are creating, when one of them found a limestone rock covered in coral fossils. ...
Idris Caldora and St Swithun’s Junior pupils Idris Caldora, chef from the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts in London, visited St Swithun’s Junior School, Winchester this week. Mr Caldora was teaching Year 4 about the importance of healthy balanced diets. He brought with him a selection of foods which the children enjoyed smelling, touching and of course tasting. They made distinctions between...
The annual inter-house Masterchef competition at King’s College, Taunton was once again hotly contested this year. With starters ranging from seared scallops to pea soup, mains as diverse as Moroccan lamb to venison steaks, the judges had a tough, but mouth-watering range of dishes to taste. Unanimously voted as the winning team of chefs were Angus Crouch and TJ Haller from King Alfred House, with...
Eighteen King’s College pupils set out in driving rain to take part in the Ten Tors Challenge on Dartmoor last weekend. Despite the atrocious conditions at the start, the weather was kind for the most part, even proving a little too hot at times. Such dramatic changes in weather only add to the complexities of undertaking a challenge of this nature. All three teams (35-mile, 45-mile and 55-mile)...