Boarding Update

Autumn Term Activities

The boarders have been undertaking numerous sporting activities including ten-pin bowling and archery. They also participated in the boarders’ weekend badminton and basketball sessions, with many playing in the Sixth Form Basketball Team. In addition, seventeen boarders joined the school ski trip to Italy in December.

A cultural visit included a trip to The Fitzwilliam Museum with one of our graduate assistants, who is an art historian, as well as cinema trips to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Thor: Love and Thunder. Boarders also went to the bonfire night on Midsummer Common to see the firework display.

In-house activities have included karaoke evenings, board games nights and a table football tournament.

Spring Term Activities

Chinese New Year Celebration - Boarders gathered at Kirby’s Dining Room on Chinese New Year Eve to celebrate the festival over some delicious Asian snacks. Whilst some played Mahjong and others watched a Chinese film together, there was also the writing of good wishes for the New Year in Chinese calligraphy.

Concert at Clare Hall – On 4 March some boarders attended a classical music concert at Clare Hall College accompanied by one of the graduate assistants. The main feature was Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, written when he was a prisoner of war in Germany and first performed by himself and fellow inmates.