After a good journey, 32 Year 11 students and staff arrived at the Avon Tyrell Centre in the middle of the New Forest, Hampshire. The first job was to make the beds and have an orientation walk around the grounds, which have stunning views over the heathland of the New Forest. After dinner, we headed [...]

24 A level Media Studies students met around 10 other schools at the Bfi in Southbank on Thursday 11th November to listen to experts teach them about the inner workings of the newspaper industry. After an early morning coach journey into the heart of London, we arrived at the south bank of the Thames, just [...]

To kick-start and help review their A-Level Tudors unit, 35 History students travelled to Bosworth Heritage centre to discover the details of the victory obtained by Henry Tudor in the fateful, final battle of the War of the Roses. Splitting into Year 12 and Year 13 groups, students undertook a tour of the battle site [...]

On the final day of the Autumn term, 60 students and 6 staff set out to Edinburgh on a double decker coach. The anticipated negativity of a 5am start was quickly replaced by enthusiasm and excitement for all on board and, after a traffic free journey, we arrived and settled in our hostel in central [...]

The Senior Student Team led a brilliant awareness raising campaign for the charity Young Minds. This organisation is a mental health charity for children, young people and their parents/carers making sure all young people can get the mental health support they need. It has been well publicised how the national lockdowns have impacted young people's [...]

Now that I am 17 I have moved in the 17-21 age category. This means the level of difficulty has become greater in order for me to be in the top three spots. I competed in my first competition post-Covid in September 2021 and this was the Trial in order to qualify as a possible [...]

Over 100 Year 10 students undertook their training/practice expedition over the weekend of the 9th/10th October 2021. The students were exceptionally polite, enthusiastic and a real credit to themselves, their parents/carers and Vandyke Upper School. The training was on Saturday and involved moving around eight stations which included the following: setting up tents, cooking on [...]