Vandyke excel in Code Quest Competition Last month, six Vandyke students spent a Saturday morning competing in the Lockheed Martin Code Quest Competition.  Each year, Lockheed Martin hosts this special computer programming competition where teams of two to three students work together to solve problems using Java, Python, C#, and/or C++ programming to complete the […]

OAA Interhouse Competition During the last week of term, all year groups participated in the OAA (Outdoor Adventurous Activities) Interhouse competition within their PE lessons. This task however, wasn’t your average orienteering mission… Instead of a compass and a map, students were armed with phones and cameras, given locations outside, and tasked with recreating scenes […]

STEMx by Oracle Red Bull Racing visit Vandyke Last month, 35 Year 9 students had the opportunity to work with members of the STEMx by Oracle Red Bull Racing team here at Vandyke. The students were put through their pit crew paces, literally – F1 style post-race interviews, coding remote control cars round famous F1 […]