This is the 24th year of our annual school survey. Through the survey we seek the views of students across all year groups, parents, support staff and teaching staff. It is conducted anonymously and collated in a form that is then published. Questions have been kept broadly the same to facilitate comparison over time. All [...]

This year’s Holocaust Memorial Day was marked in the national media with reports of increasing anti-Semitism and widespread Holocaust denial. The purpose of this commemorative day feels more pertinent than ever – how can such ignorance and prejudice be challenged? Raising awareness of the Holocaust is becoming ever challenging; with every passing year there are [...]

Vandyke Upper School Sixth Form students are once again demonstrating their caring nature and commitment to the local community by volunteering to become Dementia Befrienders in a local care home in Leighton Buzzard. Twenty-five Year 12 students received training recently from YOPEY founder and Chief Executive Tony Gearing (MBE) and will begin their work shortly, [...]

Sixth Form students were delighted recently when Elspeth Baeke, the founder of Smile Malawi, a charity that rescues vulnerable, orphaned children in Malawi and provides them with a home and education revisited Vandyke to give students an update on the work of the organisation. Vandyke students have raised well over £20,000 in recent years to [...]