The BTEC Talent Show Concert was an amazing experience. The audience was very lively, regardless of who was on stage, people cheered and clapped for all the performers. A magic showcase was the most memorable act of that day – I remember the disbelief on people’s faces and how in…

Just after the Talent Show last Thursday, I had another singing performance with Kenneth, Jason and Jack. In order to share music to the school and help with Jason’s BTEC work, we sang ‘Hey Jude’, a well-known song by the Beatles in front of teachers and classmates. As the Open-mic…

On a slightly rainy evening, all Form 5 students set out to Theatre Severn to watch “An Inspector Calls”, JB Priestley’s classic thriller, directed by Stephen Daldry. Here are comments of two ‘English as a second language’ students who thoroughly enjoyed the play: It was very useful, and we had…

It was after Saturday tests when we were waiting patiently for our long-awaited departure to the Field Study centre: Rhyd-y-creuau, located in North Wales. We arrived at the centre at about 12 pm when we had our lunch followed by our first lesson on rivers. As we arrived at Migneint,…

Team List: Karina (Captain), Carissa,  Eve,  Mimi,  Aimee, Flori, Izzy, Georgia. In our first game we were playing Thomas Telford. We were doing quite well in the first half so by half time the score was already 3-1 to us. In the second half we managed to get into space…

Concord College 16 & under Girls vs. Tettenhall College – Score: 30-14 Loss Team List: Karina (Captain), Carissa,  Eve,  Mimi,  Jennifer, Aimee, Flori, Joanne. On 25th September, we took our u16 netball team to Tettenhall College. It was our first match of the season, so we wanted to get off to…

Last weekend, the Silver Duke of Edinburgh group went on an assessed expedition to Mangrovery. Day 1 The first day of our expedition was long and hard and somewhat miserable. But this gave us the chance of improvement for the next few days… The expedition started off bitterly. We struggled…

This year’s first big house event was House Cross-country, on Wednesday October 2nd, and as always it didn’t disappoint. This year there was a record number of 502 finishers, 178 of whom were in the Lower school race – this was quite a feat, despite the downpour of rain during…

On Saturday morning, 21st September 2019, all the Form 5 students travelled offsite to experience canoeing on the River Severn, heading towards Shrewsbury. Most of the students stayed in their tutor groups, while a few groups were divided into different segments. Although we knew that the trip could be tiring…