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Battlefields Artwork

Battlefields Artwork

During the recent battlefields trip Third Form pupils toured the French and Belgian countryside, visiting graveyards, battlefields and memorial sites. On their return to School, the pupils were asked to compose paintings which emulated their experience, conveying the...
First Form Step into the Seventeenth Century

First Form Step into the Seventeenth Century

Last Friday, the usually tranquil grounds beside the Chapel were transformed into a bustling 17th-century encampment, as the English Civil War Society brought history to life for our First Form pupils. Beneath brilliant blue skies, pupils were invited to step back in...
Back to the Black Country Museum

Back to the Black Country Museum

At the end of April, the entire Second Form stepped back in time on the History Department’s much-anticipated annual pilgrimage to the Black Country Living Museum. Immersed in the sights, sounds, and even smells of 19th-century industrial Britain, pupils explored what...
Scholars Visit to the Ashmolean Museum

Scholars Visit to the Ashmolean Museum

On Friday, 25 April, the First and Second Form Scholars took part in a promenade seminar on Art History and Criticism at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. They were led by Ms Emmeline Hallmark of TreeArtGallery, who studied at the Courtauld Institute, specialising in...
Third Form Battlefields trip

Third Form Battlefields trip

The first stop on the Third Form Battlefields trip was in Poperinge, where pupils visited Talbot House – a ‘home from home’ for servicemen – and the Death Cell, where we learnt about the chilling consequences for soldiers who were court-martialled. Pupils then visited...
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