Winter Concert

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Winter Concert. It was a very enjoyable evening with a series of superb performances.

The photos below were taken by Upper Sixth students Hannah Fletcher and Sasha Sokolova.

The photos below were taken by Upper Sixth student, Sasha Sokolova.



Pirates for Pudsey

Many thanks to the swashbuckling staff and students across the College who dressed up as pirates, walked the plank and flew the Jolly Roger . Their fund raising efforts raised nearly £400 for Children in Need.

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Young Enterprise

This year's Young Enterprise team (featured above in a meeting) is now up and running and many thanks to our business advisers Clara Lasala and David Compte. The company has decided to sell hand-made bracelets as one of the team has some experience of producing this type of product already. Thinking globally the team are importing materials from China and Vietnam to keep costs down and assembling and selling locally. The team include: Malika- Managing Director Miri- Financial Director Chris, Anh and Alice- Marketing and Sales Charley- Human Resources Lily, Sai and Xiaoli - Operations We wish them all the best in the busy selling period before Christmas.

Crossing the river

Many thanks to Robin Tucker who came in recently to talk to our Sixth Form Business Studies students about marketing strategy. Robin is presently working with New World consultants after 19 years prior experience in senior strategy, commercial and marketing roles including 9 years at Vodafone.

Robin discussed a number of important aspects of strategic marketing not least the importance of "crossing the river" to see and understand how your customers perceive what you are doing. He also showed the importance of research and the need to identify the segments that generate the most value for the business.  He highlighted some key concepts with reference to his time at Vodafone and some more recent projects in the equine and payroll sectors.

This talk was one of series of workshops organised by the Business Studies department involving parents to help students apply their understanding of business to real life situations.

Photography by Sasha Sokolova

We thought you might like to see some of the work of Sasha Soklova, one of our Upper Sixth Photography students: