From dusk ‘til dawn across two weekends in May, senior and intermediate pupils at Northbourne Park School took part in the annual overnight camps. This event is a real highlight every year for the children as it allows them to put all the skills they have learnt from leadership lessons to the test. The challenge is to build a shelter from natural resources and spend the night in it.

Gregg Davies, Headmaster of Shiplake College, describes what happened next after the school took the decision to ban mobile phones – and how the technology ban has enabled students to properly connect with the world around them.

​Year 7 pupil Eliana Brealey has recently toured with the Welsh National Opera in their production of Puccini’s La Boheme. Eliana is a highly talented singer and was delighted to seize the opportunity to perform in one of opera’s most popular and unforgettable stories of the love affair between young poet Rodolfo and seamstress Mimi.

Senior pupils of Northbourne Park School completed their annual 14.7 mile walk to Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday, May 13.

The Royal National Children’s Foundation (RNCF) and The SpringBoard Bursary Foundation (SpringBoard) hosted an event in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal, to announce plans to merge and form the UK’s leading boarding school bursary charity.

Angela Drew, Headmistress of Bromley High School GDST, says that a modern independent school 'equips its pupils to be flexible team players prepared for the less hierarchal, more collaborative 21st century workplace'.