Felsted School’s tennis and rugby players travelled to new climates over the summer in preparation for the new academic year. The tennis players travelled to Miami for an intense ten days of matches against local schools on clay and hard courts, helping to refine their skills. They also had time built into their tour for other activities such as canoeing, paddle-boarding, sailing, swimming and...
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Two Bedford School boys have been selected to train in the England Hockey player development programme. Joshua Addo in Y9 and Joshua Stewart in Y10 both demonstrated outstanding talent on the hockey pitch when they attended trials for the England Hockey Performance Centre back in June. Aged just 14 years old, Joshua Stewart was delighted to be selected for the U17 squad - beating off competition from...
Felsted School hosted the 33rd annual English Cricket Board U15 festival over the summer holidays. Known as the David English Bunbury Festival, the school welcomed 56 of the best young cricket players across the country. One of these talented young cricketers was Felsted sport scholar Harry Gallian, who is currently on the Essex Emerging Cricket Player Programme playing for Essex County Cricket Club...
Felsted School U18 girls’ cricket team have been crowned National Champions in the Shrewsbury School U18 National Cup after beating Millfield and Shrewsbury. Batting first against Millfield, Felsted set a score of 115-6 to beat, which looked to be an easy target after the opposition scored 102 in their first 14 overs. However some excellent bowling and fielding brought the score level, taking the team...
A Year 11 student at Plymouth College has won the national JM Rose Bowl competition. Gemma Kerr, representing Plymouth, travelled to Wellingborough for the English League Cup Finals. She was joined by her partner, Rachel Trevorrow, for the doubles competition. The duo topped their group, which put them in the running for the 1st or 2nd place playoff. They met Leicester in the final, who were the...
A team of 5 pupils from Bishop’s Stortford College Prep School were recently awarded first prize at the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Summit. Since the Autumn Term, the group of Upper Third (Year 8) pupils have been developing an app designed to solve a real-life problem in their school or local community. The project, part of the Get | IT competition in which 130 schools have taken part, was launched by...
Honey Osrin Swimmers from Plymouth College have been selected to represent Great Britain in European and World championships. Former College pupil and Plymouth Leander swimmer, Laura Stephens, has been announced as part of the World Championships GB team heading to Gwangju, South Korea in August following her performance at the British Swimming Championships last week. The 25-strong British...
Five pupils, including three from Tonbridge School, will have their experiment carried out on the International Space Station. Mission Discovery, a programme run by ISSET, the International Space School Educational Trust, gives senior school students the opportunity to spend time working with NASA astronauts and renowned scientists, creating ideas for experiments that could be carried out in...
Bedford School's 1st XI and U15Cs hockey teams have gone the whole season undefeated, winning 100% of their matches. The 1st XI went down in the school’s history books for winning all of their fixtures – the first hockey team in quite some time to end the regular season with a 100%-win record. Impressively, they have been unbeaten in block fixtures over the last two years and only lost five block...
The ‘Skirting Science’ event at Taunton School, aimed at encouraging girls to get interested in STEM, was a resounding success with over 230 Year 9 girls from local Somerset schools in attendance. The 13- and 14-year-old girls had the opportunity to take part in some fascinating workshops, including "Space Detectives" by Institute of Physics, Forensics with UWE Bristol and "Can you Build a Leg"...
NASA astronauts Dr Michael Foale CBE and Dr Steve Swanson took centre stage during the official opening of Tonbridge School’s Barton Science Centre on Saturday 23rd March. The astronauts, who had been based at the school in the week leading up to the opening as part of the Mission Discovery educational programme, unveiled the commemorative plaque at the end of the ceremony. Dr Foale and Dr Swanson,...
Bromsgrove School’s U18 Rugby 7s side have been crowned winners of the Rosslyn Park HSBC National School 7s Vase. The side played fantastic rugby throughout the tournament. In their group games, all matches were won (0-22 against Pocklington, 43-0 against King's School, Bruton, 26-10 vs Wisbech and 36-17 vs Worksop). Bromsgrove then went through to the group winners play-off against Ysgol y...
Two Felsted Prep School teams have won national recognition at the Big Bang Science and Engineering Fair in Birmingham. Year 7 girls Freya Perry, Grace Boroughs, Ava Readman and Anna White won the National Talent 2030 Engineering prize for their project the ‘Sanitary Shark’, an invention to remove waste product from the sea; helping to clean up the oceans of pollutants whilst preserving marine...
Bromsgrove School’s 1st netball team have won a bronze medal in the English Schools’ Netball Finals and are now 3rd in the country. The top eighteen schools in the country contested the titles on Saturday 16th March at Stanborough School. With winds reaching up to 50mph on the day, conditions proved challenging, but the U19 Bromsgrove team came top in their eight games. In the semi-final,...
Felsted School are celebrating their strength in rugby after their 1st XV Captain was awarded a Saracens contract. Oliver Stonham, 18, has been offered a full time Academy contract with Saracens Senior Squad, commencing in July. Since joining Saracens Academy at the beginning of the 2018 season, Ollie has represented both the U18 Academy team and the 2nd team senior squad, impressing coaching staff. He...
Haileybury U13 girls’ cricket team have been crowned county champions at the Lady Taverners Indoor Cricket competition. Nine of Haileybury’s Lower School 1 and 2 (Year 7 and 8) girls, took part in in the final, who played against The Priory School, Ralph Sadlier and John Warner. The girls won their first match by 22 runs thanks to the Captain Ruby and her teammate Tamara. Ruby continued her good...
A Sixth Former at Plymouth College has been selected to tour Ireland in April with the England Counties’ Under-18 squad. Seb Tooke was selected as part of the 23-player squad following a national development weekend at Stourbridge RFC, where players gathered together for several days of coaching and selection. The squad will meet on the 18th April at HMS Temeraire, Portsmouth, to prepare for two...
Metropolis Education has published its Leaders in… Science supplement, with the edition now available to read online. The supplement brings together a selection of partner schools that are going the extra mile and delivering a world class science education. Science is at the heart of the schools featured, with advancements in technology and science changing the world at an incredible rate....