Year 10 Take Derbyshire for Silver DofE
Last weekend, Year 10 students dusted off their hiking boots and gathered their camping supplies in a bid to complete their Silver DofE qualifier.
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Last weekend, Year 10 students dusted off their hiking boots and gathered their camping supplies in a bid to complete their Silver DofE qualifier.
Last week Anya, Year 2, headed to Southview Equestrian for the Pony Winter Finals. Anya is no stranger to these competitions with many fantastic successes already. However, with it being such an esteemed competition, Anya was just delighted to have qualified.
The Y13 girls enjoyed an academic trip to the Little Brunette Bakery in Southwell, designed and run by Amelia and Jessica Wells, who are both Old Worksopians. Amelia gave our students a tour of the bakery, and explained how the food safety is managed from deliveries and storage to preparation, cooking and serving.
St Cuthbert's Way is a 100km cross-border route, linking the English and Scottish boarders. This is one of the most beautiful and enjoyable long distance routes in Britain. With this in mind, a dedicated group of staff and students from Worksop College decided to take on this glorious route.
The MT13 hockey camp proved to be a big hit with nearly 50 young players who at times braved some pretty challenging weather, rain, hail, wind sleet but which did not dent their enthusiasm and fortunately there were some lovely sunny periods.
First stop, Ranby House PAC, Retford. Next, the Royal Opera House, London. The whole country needs to see Ranby House’s latest arrr-mazing performance, Pirates Versus Mermaids. This show is jam-packed with piratical puns and mermaid merrymaking, all artfully pulled off by our Year 3 and 4 pupils.
As part of the co-curricular programme at Worksop College, a group of dedicated students have been heading down to Manton Garden, with the aim of creating a beautiful community garden.
The theme for this year’s British Science Week was Growth. Science is an integral part of the curriculum at Ranby, but for this special week, Mrs Sullivan wanted the children to experience something a little different, so chose two activities that would promote curiosity, develop collaborative skills and encourage some cross curricular learning.
This week our Hockey team competed in the England Hockey Schools Championships, playing Altrincham school in a very close game.
With interest across both Worksop College and Ranby House growing rapidly, we are thrilled to have Sophie Parnell join our fantastic EYFS team in the Nursery! At the end of her first week at Ranby House, we caught up with Miss Parnell to find out how she was feeling about her new start.
Worksop and Ranby swimmers took to the Nottinghamshire ASA County Championship Finals 2022, which wrapped up on Sunday evening. The swimming team made the school immensely proud, not just with their outstanding results, but their sheer effort and determination. Their hard work has clearly paid off.
It has been busy at Worksop College on the Cross-Country front over the last 2 weeks with some big events and notable performances. The ISA regional championships at Bedstone, Shropshire saw a number of runners qualify for the National Finals which will be held at Worksop College on March 19th.