Credit: Kelvin Trautman Swimmers from Taunton School recently joined ocean campaigner Lewis Pugh on his epic The Long Swim of the English Channel Emma Hounslow, Emily Lawton, and Skyla Coate, from Nether Stowey, all aged 15, supported the United Nations Ocean Advocate and swimmer in his quest to rid the oceans of plastics as he swam his longest leg of the English Channel offshore across Lyme...
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Students from The Royal Hospital School recently won one of the top trophies at a Royal Navy field gun competition. Pupils from the school returned home with the Endeavour Trophy for the fastest run by a non-military team at the Junior Leaders Field Gun competition. The team finished third overall in the competition held at Royal Navy base HMS Collingwood in Hampshire, but were the best team from a...
Pupils at Sibford School have recently taken part in a project organised as part of the 2018 European Year of Culture Heritage. The boundary between Oxfordshire and Warwickshire is home to a group of prehistoric rocks known collectively as The Rollright Stones, These are called the Whispering Knights (circa 3,800-3,500 BC), the King’s Men stone circle (circa 2,500 BC) and the King Stone (circa 1,500...
A group of students from Felsted School recently travelled to New York to showcase their acting and musical theatre talents in live outdoor performances. Twenty performing arts students showcased their skills at the 'Intrepid' Battleship, outside 'Ripley’s Believe It Or Not' in Times Square and at Pearl Studios. They received positive feedback from the crowds that stopped to watch their...
A swimmer from Bishop’s Stortford College has been awarded the ‘Wilkinson Sword’ for her swimming achievements. Elinah Philip received the accolade at the recent Hertfordshire Swimming Association Annual Awards. This is the first time the sword has been awarded to a Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club member for 25 years. The Wilkinson Sword is kept in its presentation case on permanent...
Roald Dahl Day More than £2,000 was raised from a series of charitable events at Rydal Penrhos Preparatory School throughout the academic year. The school continued its work for regional and national causes thanks to the hard work of both staff and pupils at the site, in addition to receiving support from the Friends of Rydal Penrhos committee. The fundraising began with a Roald Dahl Day, before...
Year 7 pupils at the Royal Hospital School have reached the national finals of the STEM competition 'Race for the Line', which has been pioneered and sponsored by the Bloodhound Project. The Bloodhound Project is a global Engineering Adventure using a 1000mph World Land Speed Record attempt to inspire the next generation to enjoy, explore and get involved in science, technology, engineering and...
Connor Roe (R) A former Gordonstoun pupil recently assisted with the rescue of 12 footballers and their coach. Connor Roe, who left the school in 2008, was called to help with the final phase of the rescue operation as a cave diver by the British Cave Rescue Council. He was one of eleven cave divers working alongside the Thai Navy SEALs. He said: "We entered into the more remote parts of the...
Repton School has announced the appointment of Mr Mark Semmence as the school’s 36th Headmaster. Mark Semmence succeeds Mr Alastair Land, who leaves Repton in March 2019 to take up the headship of Harrow School. He is currently the headmaster of Mount Kelly, a position he has held since September 2014. Creating a single, strong Foundation from three former schools, he has led an academic reform...
A group of pupils from the Royal Hospital School recently covered a collective total of 10,500 miles, the approximate mileage from Holbrook, Suffolk to Sydney, Australia, to raise funds for the Suffolk Community Foundation and the local charities it supports. The distance marked the journey made by the school’s most eminent alumnus, Admiral Arthur Phillip, who founded the British penal colony at Port...
Windermere School has finished the academic year with another exceptional set of International Baccalaureate (IB) results. In total, 35 students took the IB, 27 of whom took the IB Diploma, averaging 33.4 points. The mean world average in 2017 was 29.95 points. Just under half of the cohort obtained 34 points or more, with Kacper Micek scoring 43 points, Ella Handy and Daniel Heidland achieving 41...
Imogen Gander Felsted School has announced its best ever IB Diploma results. Students achieved a 100% pass rate and improved the school’s average point score to 35.5 out of a possible 45, 5.5 points above the world average. In all subjects, over 85% of results were graded at 5 points or above and 61% of all results were graded at 6 points or above. Five students achieved scores of over 40 points,...
Students at King Edward’s Witley have exceeded the worldwide average score with their International Baccalaureate Diploma results. The Diploma programme is followed by the majority of the school's Sixth Form pupils. Ching Ya Ho achieved a 44 points out of 45 and now intends to take a gap year before going to university in 2019. Remi Trovo achieved 43 points to earn him a place at Warwick University...
From left: Nina Porter, Josephine Taylor, Emily Cossins-Price, Callum Macintyre Taunton School students are celebrating their International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme results, with nine students achieving scores equivalent to four A* grades at A Level or more. Top achievers Callum Macintyre and Max Kharchenko got the highest diploma score this year of 41 points out of 45. This puts them well...
Oswestry School welcomed back former pupil Col. Patrick ‘Patch’ S Reehal MBE as part of the school’s Speech Day and to celebrate Armed Forces Day. Patch earned his MBE in 2010 having been the force behind 10 dangerous missions in Helmand Province. One of the 200-vehicle convoys led by the Royal Logistic Corps soldier saw the patrol survive five roadside bombs and an enemy ambush. The citation for...
Rydal Penrhos hosted a Prep and Primary Schools’ Lego Challenge yesterday, which was held in partnership with STEM Cymru and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Five pupils from the Prep School, along with their local counterparts at Ysgol Pen y Bryn, took part in a series of different activities based on the theme of water, where they were tasked with working as a team to solve the challenges put in...
Clevedon Long Swim 2018 Members of staff and students from Taunton School participated in The Henley Swim and Clevedon Long Swim events this weekend. At Henley, 13 pupils from Year 9 -13 and four staff raced on the course of the Henley Royal Regatta on Sunday morning. Ollie Heard was the fastest swimmer from Taunton School, coming 2nd in the Henley Classic adult category. Skye McLaughlin finished...
Bishop’s Stortford College’s Duke of Edinburgh achievement rate has exceeded the regional average. The college’s rate of 88% is higher than the regional rate of 57%, with 120 pupils having earned Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards in 17/18, 21 more than the previous year. Peter Singleton, the director of the South East region, wrote to the school to congratulate the college on its DofE...