Young Historians survive a trip to the Tower of London

February 8, 2016

At the beginning of February, 59 Year 7 pupils braved the storms to travel to the Tower of London in order to further their study of Norman England and castles.

Particular highlights included seeing the Crown Jewels, getting a special talk by ‘a Norman Baron’ and seeing the medieval torture exhibition which saw a lot of interesting ideas being floated around by the curious pupils. The weather was not kind to us but a excellent time was had by all.

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MAR 16, 2017

Art Auction raises funds for Ripple Africa

Abi Smuts, Marco Nicholas and Phoebe Altman held an art auction as part of ASPA’s Quiz Night to raise money for Ripple Africa. The trio are travelling to Malawi this summer to help with the charity there on the School’s annual trip. Each student needs to raise £1,000 for the charity. The majority of the […]

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SEP 22, 2016

Science Masterclass for visiting Year 5s and 6s

The first Science Masterclass hosted by Aldenham was attended by 24 enthusiastic Year 5 and 6 students from Courtlands School, St Hilda’s and Aldenham Prep school. They thoroughly enjoyed working with new friends and being challenged to form hypotheses at the same time as revelling in the practical experiments in one of the School’s Chemistry […]

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SEP 6, 2019

Tenth Visit to Malawi

This year marked the 10th annual trip for Year 12 students to help at the charity Ripple Africa in Malawi which was founded by Old Aldenhamian Geoff Furber and his wife Liz some 16 years ago. Accompanied by four staff members, 20 students travelled to Ripple Africa’s base camp in Lowani where they joined in […]