These fab Y9s & 10s are making final preparations for their performance of Fishville, their entry to the National Theatre Connections Festival. There is a Home Show tonight & a National Theatre director before transferring to the Trinity Theatre Tunbridge Wells next Wednesday 💜🎭

A brilliant opportunity for these Y10s last week ar the @uniofsurrey GCSE English Revision Conference. Our students worked really hard & had a great day! Thanks to all of the undergraduate students who supported our group, you were brilliant!! 💜📚✍️💜 #OrielEnglish #UniversityOutreach #HardWorkPays

Big Science’ is such an important part of our student’s GCSE Science preparation and last week saw the last session of this year for our Y11s. Miss Pooley led an absolute masterclass on Rates of Reaction. Loads of key ideas explained and crucial exam top tips given. 💜🧪💜 #OrielScience #HardWorkPays

A final beautiful sunrise pic from this weekend’s @dofeuk Silver Practice Expedition. Huge congratulations to all of our ten teams who successfully completed the expedition. Sleep well tonight, everyone. 💜⛺️🥾☀️💜 #OrielDofE #CompletedItMate

The sun has gone down on night two of our @dofeuk Silver Practice Expedition. The students absolutely smashed it today and still had the energy for a game of rounders!! 💜🥾⛺️☀️💜 #OrielDofE #NightNightCampers #ProudToBePurple

Wonderful photos coming from our @dofeuk crew on their Silver Practice Expedition. Perfect day for hiking a beautiful route through Rodmell, Kingston and Southease. 💜🥾☀️ #HappyHiking #OrielDofE #AreWeNearlyThereYet

Lovely pics from our Silver @dofeuk Practice Expedition. What a beautiful evening for camping! Get a good night’s kip everyone, there’s a weekend of walking ahead 💜🥾⛺️☀️💜#OrielDofE #HappyCampers

Year 12 Future Pathway Day today included the UCAS Discovery Day in Brighton followed by a trip to @sussexuni for a tour and chance to learn about student life #futureplans #uni #lifeaftersixthform

Brilliant work from the Y8 Challenge Medal group today! Completing an obstacle course blindfolded. Whether you were navigating the obstacles or being ‘the eyes’ guiding & encouraging, there were so many skills on show; communication, trust, resilience, positivity. Great job! 🏅💜

Y10s today visiting @UniOfSurrey for a GCSE Maths Revision Conference. The day included a whistlestop tour of key maths skills & a chance to experience a uni campus & interact with first & second year undergraduates. Thank you so much to @SurreyOutreach for the opportunity💜🙏

A great opportunity for this bunch of Y11s today visiting @UniofOxford @StJohnsOx for a small peek at what the future may hold! The facilities, the library, the grounds, the history (& the food) were amazing which our students truly appreciated, there was so much to take in, 💜🎓

Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow for the start of the summer term!!! It’s Week A by the way. 💜☀️💜🌻💜⛱️💜😎💜

Our Forest School group achieved so much last term. It was great to be able to say a big well done for all their hard work in achieving these awesome AQA Awards 💜🍂🌿🪵👏 #ForestSchool #LearningOutsideTheClassroom #Boom #Congratulations

This was great! An Economics Discovery day at @uniofsurrey trying economic experiments on how buyers & suppliers react to changes in price, how insurance would impact their decision making & how much risk they should take when interacting in a market. A really interactive day 💜 #SurreyOutreach

Inspired by Big Science, it was time for ‘Big Revise’. A focus on revision methods to head Y11 into the holidays, such as The Pomodoro Technique, Retrieval Practice, Cornell Notes Method & Revision Card top tips (& free @HariboUKI_ 😉) 💜💜 #HardWorkPays #OrielRevises #NotLongNow

Before the holiday our WILD group were making ceramic plant labels for the Oriel Garden to identify the seeds that they have been planting. They can’t wait for them to come out of the kiln! 🌱💜☀️💚🌱 #OrielGardens #Creativity #Outdoors #IdLoveSomeOfThese

Our Year 12 & 13 A Level Geographers had a brilliant day out investigating how the London Docklands transformed from industrial docks to London’s financial district. 💜🌎💜 #ALevelGeography #FieldTrip #LearningOutsideTheClassroom #TeamGeography

Wishing all our students, families and our friends in the community a very Happy Easter! 🐣💜🐣

The progress in the Oriel Garden before the Easter holiday has been just brilliant. Some super productive sessions from our WILD groups. Loads of seeds planted and watered in the poly tunnel. A great chance to enjoy the sunshine too! ☀️🌱💜💚🌱😎 #OrielGardens #PolyTunnelEnvy #GreenFingers

Huge congratulations to these lovely people, winners of our March Student of the Month Awards nominated by our Learning Community Teams for some amazingly awesome reasons 💜👏💜👏💜 #OrielRewards #CelebrateSuccess #ProudToBePurple

So much to share from a hugely busy end to term! Here we celebrate this rite of passage for our Y11 students - the eagerly awaited arrival of their Y11 hoodies. 💜😍💜 #Tradition #Landmark #ExamsAreComing #ProudToBePurple

Loved the imagination and creativity on display at Creative Club last week. The group decorated rocks inspired by their favourite things. We love these amazing outcomes!💜🎨😊💜 #OrielExtraCurricular #Creativity #Relaxation #Imagination

It was brilliant to be able to reward this great bunch of Golden Ticket winners with a p5 Pizza Party in our Youth Wing. Well done everyone 💜👏🍕🎱💜 #OrielRewards #VeryProudToBePurple

With Y11 heading towards their GCSE Science exams, there was impressive focus and engagement in the latest Big Science, which saw the legend that is Mr Swales sharing all those top tips you need to know about using equations and physics calculations. 💜➖➕➗🟰💜 #HardWorkPays

We were glad to attend the annual ‘Safer Crawley’ event which saw Y8s from the Crawley Secondary Schools heading to @thehawthcrawley to listen to an ex-gang member from @StGilesTrust Safer Crawley is about empowering students to make good decisions to keep themselves safe. 💜

The final Y8 groups have visited the @Gatwick_Airport STEM Centre for hands on Aviation & Engineering activities. This amazing facility & the expertise of the staff means that all our Y8, Y9 & Y10 had this experience during their Y8 studies. That’s over 750 students!! 💜✈️🙏💜

Last Friday this bunch had a great session at Forest School; preparing a tomato pasta on the fire as well as some great woodland crafting! Oh and hot chocolate for all! 💜🔥🪵🍅🍝💜 #ForestSchool #OutdoorLearning #TeamWork

Sunshine, books & cake! What more could anyone want!! Last week’s end of term Reward Trip to @waterstones @CrawleyMartlets was a perfect way to celebrate the reading achievements of the Top 14 Y8 readers. They were ready to shop!! 💜📚💜 #OrielReads #OrielEnglish #ReadingRewards

It’s a really important time for our Y9s. English, Maths & Science Exams after the Easter break; Preparing for Success days in June; & first of all the very important deadline for online submissions of Options choices on 27th March. 💜😀💪💜 #GatewayToYear10 #Choices #Futures

Our Y13 Law & Sociology students had a great day on Friday. Visiting @theclinkprison then enjoying the sun & food in Borough Market. They then sat in on a live murder trial at the Old Bailey!! 💜☀️💜#SocialSciences #FridayFunday #LearningOutsideTheClassroom