It has been a while since we have had good news to tweet, but our two Envision teams campaigning for teenage mental health and tackling climate change have just been awarded 'Best Team' and overall competition winner. Huge congratulations to...
Just fantastic school production of Hairspray last night. Outstanding costumes, staging, choreography and production values, some truly amazing voices and a really powerful and relevant message on race, gender, parenting and body confidence. Just loved it!
Great day at the Cambridge University HE+ programme yesterday. Lots of year 12 students getting the opportunity to talk about research they are doing and listen to academics talk about theirs.
Congratulations to Kevin Masih who has just been offered a place to major in mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University USA with a full scholarship. Really competitive so a great achievement.
18 of our students met with local councillors and the Mayor this week to kick off the City of Sanctuary Ambassadors project, as many as the rest of the cities schools and colleges put together!
RAG week starts tomorrow with an obstacle sack race in the common room followed by the chilli challenge and more. Bring lots of loose change for Aidbox and Water Aid.
Very pleased to welcome Professor Bruce Hood from Bristol University Psychology School to give a fantastic talk to Year 13 on "The Science of Happiness" - a really distinctive addition to our work on student mental health.
90 Oxbridge applicants from 10 Bristol state schools came through our doors tonight to meet with 45 top notch mock interviewers. Probably a unique collaborative project and one which shows why Bristol is very special.
A great new partnership kicked off today with the centre for modelling studies coming in to teach some of our top maths and computing students how to use their skills to solve complex problems, like stress-testing the wings of a...
Good luck to Travis Alabanza as they start their run of Burgerz at Bristol Old Vic tonight. Once a Redclffe Senior Student always a Redclffe Senior Student.
Session one of the HE+ programme yesterday for 38 of our most able students to support them in making strong applications to top universities. A great scheme working alongside all the state schools in Bristol and staff from Cambridge University.
Fourteen Year 13 students off to Oxford for the weekend at their Global Model United Nations conference. Posh lunch today at Hertford College and tomorrow at Exeter College. Not too shabby!
A group of our students are out today at the Amnesty International Youth Conference today. A good example of student driven social awareness and concern for the wider world.
That was quite something. About 1000 people through the door for the 6th Form open evening, miraculously filling the hall exactly three times! The key message - apply on time. On 3rd December we will be full.
The Future Quest programme started today for a cohort of year 12 students targeted for additional support and encouragement towards making aspirational University applications. A really positive city wide project.
Following the student vote our two RAG charities for this year are Bristol based Aid Box and internationally focused Water Aid. Bost excellent choices.
50 of our year 13 students took advantage of the Extended Project mentoring fair at Bristol University, learning how to do research from proper academics. Really proud of setting this up with Bristol Uni eight years ago, seeing it grow...
The Gabblers Club after dinner speaking competition starts tonight. Seven rather nice meals in six months. Good luck to our two participants. As they say - it's a journey...
