On a very windy Saturday in June, which was not conducive to improving personal best times, Izzy Mannion in Year12, competed in the county finals of the 1500m at Palmer Park in Reading. Izzy gained first place in the final with a time of 4.58, although slightly slower than her personal best, it...
Year 12 student Izzi has achieved a place in the Team GB Equestrian, U18 Junior Nations Cup Team. After trials in Chepstow, Izzi had to perform well to impress the selectors who were there to check progress across three days of competition, over the jumps. On the first two days she competed over 1.3...
Debating clubs for all year groups are co-ordinated by Mrs Archer. This week marked the end of a particularly successful year for Year 13 and in particular for Rowan in her role as Debating Prefect. As part of a farewell party for our Y13 debaters, Rowan was presented with an inscribed gavel, t...
Our Year 12 Young Enterprise team Fizz 'n' Mix participated in the West Berkshire Area Showcase Final on Tuesday 7 May where they competed against 7 teams from Downe House, Pangbourne College and St Bartholomew's School. Fizz 'n' Mix's environmentally friendly, no plasti...
On a sunny Friday morning, both Year 12 tutor groups organised an Easter egg hunt for Year 7 – Year 9 to help raise money for the Cyclone Idai Emergency Fund. We were delighted to raise in excess of £50.00 for this worthy cause. All the participants spent the mornin...
Fizz 'n' Mix is a bath bomb company created by our Year 12 Young Enterprise team. Over the course of their first year of sixth form, the team have been meeting weekly, initially to generate ideas and plan but thereafter to sell and look at ways to grow their business. The team have...
As part of their studies of material culture, Year 10 and 13 classicists recently took a trip to London to visit some ancient artefacts. Year 13 began the day at the reconstructed temple to Mithras, a Roman shrine which was discovered in London after the second world war. The museum is designed t...
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Senior Spring Concert.
On Tuesday 20 November, girls attending Maryam Khorassani's talk on her journey to becoming a barrister, benefited not only by gleaning an understanding of the routes into the legal profession but also learning from Maryam's resilience along the way. Several maj...
On Monday 19 November, we were delighted to welcome Dr Richard Penny, from the University of Southampton, to work with Year 12 students on research skills for their Extended Project Qualification(EPQ). The University of Southampton are keen supporters of the EPQ and Dr Penny shared evidence of...
On Monday 12 November, 4 Sixth form students went to Highdown School, Reading to take part in this year's UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT) Senior Maths Challenge. This encourages reasoning, logic, deduction and the use of basic techniques to solve a variety of problems. The teams...
Our annual celebration of Harvest Festival took place in assembly on Monday 8 October and Reverend Joy Mawdesley from St Nicolas' Church, Newbury led the celebration with an inspiring talk on the mustard seed, linking its growth from small beginnings with faith. As always our children took pa...