Category: Trips, Academic, General
The inaugural HATA (History and the Arts) Trip took place on Monday 7th December with a trip to Littlecote House.Head of History, Mr Moule, led a small group of pupils from the Hundred, Lower Sixth & Upper Sixth around Littlecote House as part of this exciting new society. More »
Category: Speakers, General, Trips
Alex Hibbert, the world record-holding polar traveller, visited the College on Tuesday evening.He gave a talk to pupils and beaks in a packed Ellis Theatre, discussing his successful world record unsupported polar journey on skis across Greenland and his 2,000 miles with dog teams on another visit... More »
Category: Academic, General, Trips
From Monday 2nd to Wednesday 11th November, 12 Spanish exchange students from the city of Santiago in Galicia visited Marlborough College. The pupils experienced typical Marlburian life courtesy of their English partners, attending lessons, playing fives and rackets, learning to march with the CCF... More »
Category: Trips, General, Sport
October Half-Term 2015 - SwimTrek Who would want to meet at Gatwick at 5.30 in the morning to catch a flight? Who would want to go swimming three times a week as training for a school trip? Eleven Marlburian open water pioneers of course, who went on a long distance sea SwimTrek in... More »
Category: Community, General, Trips
Lower Sixth pupils who took part in the post-GCSE Battlefields Trip were delighted to be reunited with their battlefields guide, Robin Brodhurst (PR 1965-70), on Club Day, Sunday 11th October. Good memories of the tour to France and Belgium were shared over coffee, before moving on to the Club Day... More »
Category: Academic, General, Trips
As part of the Chemistry Department extension programme, the U6 Chemists visited the undergraduate teaching labs at the University of Bristol on Wednesday 7th October. Working under the watchful eyes of a team of postgraduates and their own beaks, they worked in pairs on the Synthesis and analysis... More »
Ai Weiwei and William Kentridge are both politically active, international artists from the East and West, so it was fortunate that we were able to visit their highly regarded exhibitions in London, during the Upper Sixth trip in September.The Royal Academy’s galleries elegantly supported Ai... More »
Category: Trips
On 22nd June, as part of the Skill-Up provision for the Hundreds, a group of 12 pupils set off for France for a tour of the Ypres and Somme battlefields. Within the broad scope of an understanding of these huge and terrible killing fields of the Great War, there was the chance to focus on the... More »
The post GCSE trip run by the OA department was an amazing experience and a great way for the feeling of your exams being over to sink in. It was excellently led by the OA staff whom I cannot thank enough. The week consisted of a series of activities chosen by the people going on it rather than the... More »
Category: Academic, General, Trips
On Tuesday 30th June, Tina Rainer (Modern Languages), Virginia Jhakal (Religious Studies) and Matt Blosson (History) took Lower Sixth pupils Jemima Jones (NC), Willow Cunningham (EL) and Marcus Miller (C3) to visit Dr Jim Leary’s Archaeology Field School at the University of Reading.This offered an... More »