Ardingly students achieve ‘best ever’ IB results
Forty-one of the Upper Sixth (Year 13) have been awarded the world-renowned International Baccalaureate Diploma. Jamie Large, the Deputy Head Academic, said: “With 37% of our students attaining 40 or...
View ArticleScientists Lead Record-Breaking Results at Ardingly College
Ardingly College is celebrating an outstanding set of A Level results with star scientists leading the way to Cambridge and other top universities.With 12 A*s and two A grades between them, Benedict...
View ArticleSummer Trip to India
In the first two weeks of July, 23 students and three teachers travelled to India to volunteer within the Tibetan refugee communities of Mcleod Ganj and Dharamsala. Organized by Daniel Mclean, the trip...
View ArticleSummer trip to Greece to help the sea turtles
Due to the ‘Ardingly In Africa’ projects being postponed for a year, this summer marked the first year the college took students on a trip to mainland Greece. The main aim was to help at a rescue...
View ArticleSummer 2015 - Ecuador and the Galapagos
Thanks to the centrifugal force from the rotation of our planet spinning the equator outwards to pull what would otherwise be a perfectly spherical world into something like the shape of a satsuma,...
View ArticleArdingly College’s New Solar-Powered Observatory Captures the Lunar Eclipse
The astronomers used a new 14" Meade telescope on a EQ8 Pro equatorial mount. The images were acquired with 2 Canon 500 and 700D DSLR cameras. One of them was attached to a 4" apochromatic refractor...
View ArticleAndrew Telford commended at Foyle Young Poets of the Year Awards
Andrew attended the awards ceremony on National Poetry Day, 8 October, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. He was selected by judges Liz Berry and Michael Symmons Roberts, two award-winning poets.All...
View ArticleArt trips Galore!
The 5th visited London on 29th September, going into the excellent 'World goes Pop' show at Tate Modern then hopping on the Thames Clipper boat up river to Tate Britain where we studied the range of...
View Article1st XI Hockey Girls qualify for Regional Finals
Congratulations to the 1st XI girls who successfully qualified for the South Pool Stages of the National Under 18 Cup by finishing runners up in the Sussex tournament on Thursday 15th October.The girls...
View Article2015 Whole School Art Exhibition - MOVEMENT
Thursday 12th November brought the private view of this exciting event, merging creative work from across the full age range of the college together in a fantastic show of art. Pieces were submitted...
View ArticleEconomics and Politics trip to Brussels
We started our first full day in Brussels by making the short walk to the Bank of Belgium Museum, where we learned about the history of money, seeing examples of currency from different times in...
View ArticleInto the Woods - December 2015
Into the Woods, The Under, 1st - 4th December 2015The Music Theatre creations of Stephen Sondheim are notoriously difficult to present in the world of the commercial theatre. The challenges they...
View ArticleBoys Hockey Barcelona Tour 2016
For the second consecutive year, the First XI boys hockey squad flew to Barcelona in the early hours of the morning on the 2nd January for a packed 3 day pre season tour. Escaping the cold, rainy...
View Article1st XI Football reach Elgin Southern League Cup final for second year running!
Ardingly's 1st XI footballers will have a chance to win the Elgin Southern Cup for the second year running, after beating Bradfield College away in the semi final.Having gone 1-0 down after ten...
View ArticleArdingly psychology students' arachnophobia cured through hypnosis!
The Psychology students visited London Zoo to attend a phobia workshop. They learnt about the 'who', 'what' and 'whys' of developing phobias before taking part in a shortened version of the zoo's...
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