Vandyke Upper School hosted an exhibition from the Anne Frank Trust with student ambassadors trained as “experts” to show visitors around the exhibition. This was a big success and was followed up last week by a visit from Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke. The evening event was planned to mark Bedfordshire Police’s Hate Crime Awareness Week and was sponsored by […]

As part of the new Geography GCSE all students must complete 2 days of fieldwork. This year we used a field studies centre to complete a day of  rivers fieldwork in July to test the hypothesis “The discharge, velocity, depth, width and bedload roundness will increase downstream from source  to confluence”. We then travelled to […]

The Vandyke golf team consisting of Andreas Valentine, Edward Stephenson and Brandon Waddington raced to victory in the County tournament that this year was held at Leighton Buzzard Golf Club. The boys all produced excellent rounds with Edward taking the runners up position that qualifies him for the South East England Championships to be held in […]

Henry VIII was arguably England’s most notorious monarch, and Vandyke’s A Level historians recently followed in the king’s girthy steps by visiting his favourite residence, Hampton Court Palace. The trip was run by the History department as part of the Sixth Form programme of study, which encompasses the entire Tudor reign; covering topics such as the establishment […]