Bishop’s Stortford College Prep School's fundraising efforts have exceeded all expectations. In September 2019, the School launched their fundraising initiatives for the academic year. Over the 10 months that followed, pupils spearheaded various events and activities including collecting foreign notes and coins to convert into sterling, organising a ‘Guess The Baby’ Competition, performing in...
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Haileybury has been listed as one of the leading independent schools in the country by The Sunday Times. The Sunday Times ranked schools based on GCSE and Sixth Form exam results, and ranked Haileybury: in the top six co-educational boarding schools for the International Baccalaureate in the top 20 co-educational boarding schools in London and the South East the 51st best performing...
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...
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...
Christopher Wilkin Two musicians at Bishop’s Stortford College have recently earned prestigious awards. Scott Hextall took the Associate of the Royal Schools of Music (ARSM) Performance Diploma examination, requiring him to prepare a 30 minute clarinet recital and achieved a distinction with a score of 47/50. Christopher Wilkin has earned a music scholarship at Imperial College London. He will...
Bishop's Stortford College's medicine and Oxbridge students Students from Bishop’s Stortford College have received their university offers. Many pupils were offered places at Russell Group universities including Bristol, Durham and Manchester. Eight students obtained offers for medicine and from Oxford and Cambridge to study a range of subjects including chemistry, law and maths. Every member...
Bishop’s Stortford College has been named as one of the best Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) centres in Hertfordshire. The college has the highest completion rate, number of awards and enrolments of any independent school in the Broxbourne, East Herts and Welwyn/Hatfield quadrant. This follows the news that 23 pupils from the college have been invited to Buckingham Palace to receive their Gold Awards next...
Bishop’s Stortford College’s U13 boys’ hockey team recently took top spot at the Hertfordshire County Championship. The team won all of their fixtures at the tournament hosted by Oaklands College against Haberdashers’ Aske’s, Aldenham, Watford, St Albans and Hitchin. The final against Merchant Taylor’s saw two undefeated teams face each other, with Bishop’s Stortford recording an...
A Bishop’s Stortford College pupil has been impressing coaches as part of the London Pulse U17 netball squad. Alex Povey was selected to join the team in November last year after she was put forward by her former team, Crosskeys Club. Following an intense trial, she was chosen as one of 20 players to join up with the squad and has gone from strength to strength, attending weekly training sessions...
Bishop’s Stortford College U16 boys’ hockey team has secured joint third place at the Indoor National Finals recently held at Whitgift School. This is the third time in three years the team have reached the tournament. In the group stage, the college played four competitive matches against the winners of the Midlands and West regionals, Repton School and Millfield School, plus the runners-up of...