The start of October brought a busy weekend for our newest Duke of Edinburgh participants; 92 students from Year 10 took part in two days of activities. On Saturday, teams were introduced to key campcraft and expedition skills as they made their way around an 8-station training carousel within school. The training sessions included putting [...]

160 Year 11s and 28 Year 13 Geography students descended on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park over 3 days to investigate regeneration successes within London. The park is now one of the most researched locations in Europe and was extremely popular with other schools there during our visit. This has meant we have adapted our [...]

On Tuesday 4th October, Mrs Lord, Mr Hogan and I, accompanied fifty students from Years 12 and 13 to a creative arts event hosted by UCAS at the ExCel centre, London. The exhibition provided students with the opportunity to explore apprenticeship and degree options for their future, through discussions at each stall. Our students were [...]

The Army Outreach team came into school to educate students about the careers in the Army and to allow students the opportunity to take part in team building tasks. Students worked well together and managed to accomplish the tasks in a timely manner. The outreach team fed back and said “all the students were fantastic, [...]

A delayed Geography trip from the summer finally took place in the second week of term. Thankfully a little bit of rain over the weekend meant we had some water in the brook to measure; although this was considerably lower than previous years. As part of their GCSE, students must complete 2 days of fieldwork, [...]

Friday 27th May saw 47 excited Year 9 students plus one of our French A level students and five staff set off on a four day trip to the beautiful city of Paris. There were a few delays in Dover due to extra passenger numbers caused by lots of Liverpool fans travelling across the channel [...]

Year 9 Humanities students finished last term looking at 'The Caribbean Windrush Generation', then on to discovering important facts about the country of India, in particular their social, economic, environmental and historical context. We looked at the reasons why sons and daughters, fathers and mothers left their various countries of origin such as Jamaica, Haiti, [...]

Sixth Form students were delighted when Elspeth Baecke, the founder of Smile Malawi, a Charity that rescues vulnerable, orphaned children in Malawi and provides them with a home and education, revisited Vandyke School to give students an update on the work of the organisation. Vandyke students have raised thousands of pounds in the last 15 [...]

Newport Pagnell Town 3 - 0 Littlehampton FC Congratulations to Vandyke’s PE teacher Mr Conway, who played at Wembley on Sunday 22nd May in front of large and noisy crowd in the FA Vase Final. As the goalkeeper, Mr Conway had already produced some heroics to help his Newport Pagnell Town team reach this stage. [...]

In May, 15 Year 10 students travelled to Wadham College at Oxford University to experience a taste of university life. The trip gave students the opportunity to see the university, explore what life as a student is like, experience the academic environment, and  consider what they could do to put themselves  in  the  best position [...]