On Friday 16th July, a number of AKS CCF cadets visited Altcar Training Camp. Over the course of the day, they experienced a variety of activities ranging from a military grade obstacle course to close quarter combat, all of which helped them to learn more about life as a cadet. Here Christian, a Year 10 pupil, describes the trip: “The visit to Altcar was great. The activity I initially enjoyed the most was the obstacle course as it challenged me, but was also fun at the same time. We had the opportunity to practise our shooting using paintball guns to either shoot

On Saturday 21st August, I, along with 273 others from around the world, (six countries and 29 schools), took part in the Round Square Virtual Symposium on the subject of ‘internationalism and the ideal diversity’. The three-hour event took place between 9am and noon UK time but it was clearly afternoon, evening or late at night in the other time zones. Overall, I found the conference extremely interesting and very insightful. The symposium was hosted by the Assam Valley School in India with the special guest Ms Gitanjali, from the Himalayan Institute for Alternatives. Her talk was my favourite part

As part of our preparation for studying Medicine and Dentistry at university, we decided to prepare and teach lessons to the Year 2 children on the topics of healthy eating and living. During our first lesson, we talked to the children about the different food groups and making the right choices when it comes to their diets. We asked the children to write down what they had eaten the day before to make them aware of their current food choices. Using the healthy eating plate, we gave them different types of foods on cards, and they confidently stuck them on

On the nineth of May, the Duke of Edinburgh groups gathered, kitted out with rucksacks, walking boots, and a surplus of snacks. Boarding the bus, we travelled to Camp Waddecar, where each group met their enthusiastic instructor who helped us divvy up tents and Trangias. With favourable skies, the groups set off, following winding country lanes, muddied paths, and fields full of non-pulsed sheep. The scenery we had the joy of walking through was picturesque – bluebells and daffodils coated the fells in numbers that Wordsworth would be proud of, and light trickled through the canopy of the woods, a

First, I thought reading was OK, but then I came across a book called ‘Wizards of Once’, which was a very good book, so I read all four in the series. I liked them because they are about wizards, they have good characters with interesting names, like ‘Xar’ and ‘Wish’ (who was controlled by witch blood!). They also have great adventures and good powers, such Wish who has a magic eye which stops wizards casting spells on iron. They are the best books I’ve ever read – I didn’t want them to end! That inspired me to read lots more