We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2021/22 academic year. The School Games Mark is a Government led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into [...]
On 28th April, the Year 12 students involved in the Girls Active Enrichment programme travelled to Flitwick Football Centre to participate in the Bedfordshire and Luton Girls into Coaching Workshop. This was the final face to face County wide event, which followed a series of online sessions delivered by Team Beds&Luton tutor, Stuart Hunt, designed [...]
On Thursday 5th May, the Music Department held a screening to broadcast the live stream of the Bedfordshire Battle of the Bands competition that took place on the 23rd March this year. Our Sixth Form band consisting of Madi Bishop, Toby Arnold, Ellen Baxter, Theo Quick and Ben Lucas, took part in the event, where [...]
During the Easter break, 40 of our Year 9 and 10 students had the opportunity to take their netball skills international! The journey to Disney was a quick crossing with luckily no delays, although lots of questions about how the train goes underwater. Some were very disappointed that they could not see fish out of [...]
The Easter holidays saw the first overseas trip take place for three years when 45 Year 9 students set off on a five-day trip to the beautiful Rhine valley in Germany. Once over the shock of a 3.30am start, the students and staff settled down for the 500 mile journey. We already knew that the [...]
We had a number of Year 10 students compete in the Intermediate Mathematical Challenge. This is a national competition open to Year 11 students and below, it is a 60 minute, multiple-choice Challenge. It is designed to encourage mathematical reasoning, precision of thought, and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems. The problems on the [...]
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