Ripon students join lifesaving blood cancer campaign
Students at Ripon Grammar School have recently been informed about the opportunity to register as bone marrow, blood, and organ donors as part as a national campaign to educate 16-18 year old students about the importance of donation. Steve Silver, a volunteer from blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan, was invited to deliver presentations to Ripon [...]
6th Form students listen intently to Dr Peter Matanle at Saint John Fisher Catholic School in Harrogate. Saint John Fisher Catholic School hosted a talk from Dr Peter Matanle of University of Sheffield School of East Asian Studies, titled ‘Post-Disaster Community Recovery in an Ageing & Shrinking Region’. The talk covered how to rebuild and [...]
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An entire reception class became chefs for the day with a visit to an award-winning restaurant in Masham. The reception class at Masham CE Primary School went to Vennell’s restaurant in the North Yorkshire town on Wednesday [15], where chef patron Jon Vennell showed the 17 four and five-year-olds how to make fresh ravioli as [...]
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Year 6 pupils at Brackenfield School have recenlty improved their cycle skills through the nationally accredited “Bikeability” programme provided by North Yorkshire County Council. Each course lasts two days. Bikes are checked by the instructor with necessary repairs made before training starts. Sessions start in the playground so that the instructor can assess the groups’ [...]
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Pupils from a Harrogate school are helping to raise awareness of world hunger. The Ashville College students are taking part in the national Enough Food For Everyone IF campaign, which will culminate in a petition made of paper plates being presented to the Prime Minister at Downing Street. The school’s Green Committee, along with the [...]
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Rossett Acre Primary School in Harrogate are currently looking to recruit individuals to join their board of governors. The school recently asked the pupils to design a poster to raise awareness of the role and the need of the of governors. The aim is to reach a wider community than just the parents – currently [...]
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It may not be April, but there are still plenty of showers around to keep Belmont Grosvenor schoolboy George Huber in business! The 10-year-old, a pupil at the ‘outstanding’ co-educational prep school on the edge of Harrogate, came up with a business idea even Sir Alan Sugar would be proud of when he decided to [...]
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On Friday, students from Harrogate Grammar School were congratulated by the local MP, Andrew Jones, for their success, this year, in representing the school in two prestigious mock trial competitions both at regional and national levels. The regional round of the Magistrates Mock Trial Competition was held at the Leeds Magistrates Court on Saturday 2nd [...]
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Ten boys from Harrogate have just walked the Yorkshire 3 Peaks in a very impressive time of under 10 hours, raising £2,260 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. The walk was the brain child of Year 10 student, Patrick Mayhew from Harrogate Grammar School, whose idea it was to gather his friends together to “do something [...]
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There were doctors, nurses, policemen, chefs, ballerinas and firefighters – even a pop star and a lifeguard – when pupils at Belmont Grosvenor School dressed up to raise cash for national charity Save the Children. Youngsters at the ‘outstanding’ independent prep school, on the outskirts of Harrogate, threw themselves into the charity’s ‘What I Would [...]
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