Prize Giving 2025
We are delighted Bishop Bosco was able to join us for our annual Prize Giving as our guest speaker.
We are delighted Bishop Bosco was able to join us for our annual Prize Giving as our guest speaker.
At the end of March, we took eighty students from eight schools across Bristol for a two-day visit to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The trips are designed to encourage applications to prestigious universities from students that otherwise may not have considered that option for several reasons. The students were offered subject lectures and took part in workshops designed to hone critical thinking and improve interview performance.
The students were able to get a taste of life at Cambridge, with tours of the library, chapel and other facilities as well as the opportunity to visit other colleges. Staying in the halls gave a chance to relax with students from other schools, great preparation for the real thing at the end of Sixth Form.
We are grateful to all the staff at Trinity Hall, especially Xanthé Robertson, for making us so welcome and giving students such a valuable experience.
We were delighted last week to hear that our excellent outcomes have been recognised by SSAT (The Schools, Students and Teachers Network) in this year’s Educational Outcomes Awards.
Areté students had the great privilege to be invited to a CAFOD reception at Speakers House within the grounds of the Houses of Parliament at the end of March, where they met MP’s and other CAFOD supporters and donors during this Jubilee Year.
In March, UWE hosted the first Girls in Tech workshop event which was designed to encourage girls to consider a future career in one of the technology industries. Mr Bogle (ICT) and Mrs Barlett-Cosway (Careers) accompanied a combination of Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11 iMedia and Computer Science students to the event.
On 11th March we were fortunate enough to host a visit from Professor Deborah Prentice, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. She was interested to learn how we delivered the University’s HE+ programme across sixth forms in Bristol.
Year 10 Art students were given the opportunity last week to work with the professional 3D sculpture artist, James Lake. Under his instruction, they had the whole day to create a cardboard-constructed head in the style of his work.
Last week, a team of Year 7 students competed at the South West Region First Lego League competition.
Wow! What a SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC performance!
This week, over 80 students participated in a “practically perfect” performance of Mary Poppins Jr.
Year 12 students Freya and Ruth share their experience:
On Tuesday 25th February, 30 Sixth Form students from year 12 took part in the annual London Law and Politics Trip.
At the end of January, we held our annual launch conference of Cambridge University’s HE+ programme for the Bristol hub of schools, with over 160 students from the area attending.