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      Last month saw 5 teams of Year 9 students complete their Bronze qualifying expedition in the Surrey Hills. The expedition started at Newlands Corner, where teams repacked rucksacks with tents, trangias and first aid kit. The next job was route planning and a team safety briefing before setting off. From Newlands corner, groups wal...

It was fantastic to see so many students represent their House and cheer each other on, in the events leading up to and including Sports Day. There were an array of events to participate in including the Swimming Gala, vortex throw, basketball free-throw, tug of war and of course the traditional track and field events. The overall winners again were Langdal...

This trophy recognises those students who have shown the most dedication in improving their reading over the last year as selected by teachers and staff. Congratulations to the trophy winner Charlie Stickland (Y8) and to the runners up Ashley Jallow (Y7) and Wai Kit Chow (Y7)            

    Congratulations to Muhammad Affan in Y8 for winning The Forest School Reading Championship 2024. Muhammad read and passed quizzes on 69 books on the Accelerated Reader programme and read an amazing 5,812,829 words and he only joined the Forest in January!     Well done to the runners up Joshua Adedayo-Benson and Harry Morgan, b...

  On Monday 8th July, the Year 10 Geography students visited Barton on Sea to undertake physical fieldwork for their coursework.             The sun didn't shine at all and it rained (not exactly ice-cream weather…) but the students did a good job of gathering data.        ...

    We gathered together at the annual Sports Dinner to celebrate the sporting successes of our students over the last academic year, in the company of Olympiacos FC and ex-Reading FC captain Nelson Abbey.             Nelson spoke about the role of a footballer both on and off the pitch and his aspiration...

Earlier this month, The Forest School held its very first hackathon coordinated by Year 10 students Koen Cheng, Georgii Tiutin, and Karim Said. The Hackathon was a huge success; bringing together Year 9 and 10 students for half a day of creativity and innovation where many brilliant and innovative minds created stunning web pages. Each and every student boas...

Earlier this month we were assessed for the EAL Quality Mark (it was like a mini Ofsted!). Thank you to everyone whole school who contributed to the success but a special and very big thank you to Mrs Ciccazzo, as without her tenacity and commitment this would not have happened. After our ‘inspection’ the Director of the EAL Academy wrote: &lsq...

1st July this year saw the return of our Fantastic Forest Shakespeare Festival. This celebration of the work of the Bard was a great success with a huge number of talented Year 7 students strutting their stuff on the stage. The individual plays were supplemented this year by the inclusion of a troupe of “Mini-Shakespeares” (complete with quills)&...