Category: School News
Announcement of our Acting Principal
Tom Arrand will not now be joining the College as Principal in September 2018. Due to a change in circumstances Tom will be staying on as Acting Head at Monmouth School for Girls. The trustees are delighted to announce that Chris Randell has been appointed as Acting Principal for the 2018/19 academic year. Chris joined…
Visiting Bletchley Park
A great time was had by all, despite the long journey there and back. We visited Bletchley Park which was the central site for British codebreakers during World War II. According to the official historian of British Intelligence, the “Ultra” intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and without it the…
Summer Concert @Padworth
On 20 June 2018 our annual summer concert took place for the third time since its creation. The concert is organised every year by the acclaimed concert pianist Ikuko Inoguchi who is not only our music teacher but the key person who launched our Padworth music programme three years ago. We enjoyed fantastic music performances from…
Collaboration Across Ages and Nationalities with the Alder Bridge School
Yesterday afternoon we welcomed 12 pupils and two teachers from Alder Bridge School which is located in very close proximity to our school. The Alder Bridge pupils taught our E2 and Year 12 students how to play two different games outside on the lawn. After playing in the sun for an hour, all the students had…
Career Day @Padworth
Our students enjoyed a day full of discovering and exploring their own abilities as well as various different career pathways: presentations were held, group discussion took place, students could do individual ability tests and much more. We are an ideal choice for students going into the Sixth Form as our Oxford University tutorial model of teaching…
Students Reading in the Orchard
Our annual summer reading event was held in the orchard this week. Students and teachers read and recommended a range of different books: including Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Diary of a Nobody BY George and Weedon Grossmith, 1984 by George Orwell, and Scythe by Neal Shusterman. Attendees enjoyed browsing through this term’s new library fiction and a magnificent afternoon…
Presentation Day 2018
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Padworth Masquerade Ball 2018
At Padworth, we organise an annual summer ball and this year’s theme was ‘Masquerade’. Our guests dressed accordingly and attended in costume wearing beautiful masks (which our students took off for the photo). The ball took place on 25 May 2018 in a nearby hotel. The Padworth community first gathered for a lavish meal and…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Theatre Trip
On 31 May 2018 my class, Year 9, and a group of EAL students went to see ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the Watermill theatre near Newbury. The play is a comedy by William Shakespeare and is about 4 lovers and is set in Athens, Greece. The play opens with Theseus (The Duke of Athens)…
Trip to Highclear Castle
Our year 9’s went on a trip to Highclere Castle where the popular television series Downton Abbey was filmed. The journey to the castle was a short one as it took about 30 minutes. When we arrived at the castle we went through the gardens and saw where the Secret Garden movie was filmed. The gardens were really nice they had a lot of flowers, mostly tulips. After having…
