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 Witchford Village College robotics teams joined almost 500 students from across the South of England at the KingsGate Conference Centre in Peterborough to compete in the inaugural FIRST® Tech Challenge UK Championships. At stake was the opportunity to represent the UK at the FIRST® Championships held in Detroit, USA. The FIRST® competition is the world’s largest student robotics competition with 30,000 12-18 year old students competing across the globe.

A small group of students where given the exciting challenge to graffiti walls in their school last week. Students were lead through the design and planning process, then instructed in spray paint techniques by Graffiti Artist and Illustrator Si Mitchell. The workshop culminated in the spraying of two large external walls at Witchford Village College.

A group of Year 7 students took part in an Antarctic Workshop. We welcomed three scientists, two of whom were able to share their first hand experiences of life in Antarctica. They talked extensively about whaling through the years and what was happening to the environment and the steps that will be necessary to make the world sustainable. The students carried out some drama work, re-enacting what their ideas of life in the harsh conditions of the Antarctic were, as well as creative writing tasks. Students were asked to think about careers in this environment and also the wider picture of careers in Science.

Year 9 WVC students took part in a ‘So you want to be a Scientist’ workshop at Mill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. Students were really engaged exploring chromatography and carrying out experiments. Many thanks to Dr Penny Hamlyn for organising the event.  

it's #RedNoseDay2019 & we have been raising funds at Witchford VC for @comicrelief. We have had a non-uniform day & students have paid to take part in welly wanging, beat the goalie, guess how many sweets & glittery face painting. We raised £750 for a good cause & we've had fun doing it! 

14 March is Pi Day, since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of Pi. At Witchford Village College the Maths Department hold an annual Pi reciting contest to mark the day. All entrants receive a Pi cookie and those reciting Pi to at least 20 decimal place gain a much sought after Pi badge.

Our Yr 7 students (Phoebie, Alicia, Madilyn, Abigail, and Mia) performed superbly at Cambridge Corn Exchange on Wednesday 13th March as part of Sing for Your School Final celebration concert. They were a real credit to the school.

Wednesday at WVC saw a collapsed timetable for students, to enable them to take part in this term’s PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) Day. We were very fortunate to be able to enlist the help of a number of outside agencies and local employers to make it a very interactive and informative day for our pupils.

It was a week full of trips for WVC. Year 11 History students spent the day at Norwich Castle. They looked at four different time periods in medicine, with the help of brilliant actors, and then made a judgement at the end of the day about which time period saw the most progress! Year 8 students went to the Globe Theatre in two groups across two days. They visited the exhibition and then took part in some workshops to do with the Shakespeare texts they are studying. There was also a GCSE Drama trip to see The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre, London. Year 11 Geography students visited Hunstanton to assist their coursework.

  As soon as we arrived at Alpendorf, it was clear that the twenty-eight hour bus journey had been worth it. Climbing up the mountain in the gondola on the first day of skiing, the scenery just seemed to get better and better; picturesque mountaintops rising out of dense pine forests and brushing the clear, blue sky. And when we reached the top, lugging our skis and stomping across the snow in our boots, the slopes seemed to glow almost fluorescently. To me, a complete beginner, the thought of sliding down those huge hills seemed really daunting at the start of the first day, but throughout the week we negotiated first the slopes at the top of the button lifts, then the chairlifts, and eventually skiing down to take a different gondola back up the mountain. I was amazed by how much progress I had made: by the end of the week I was confident skiing down slopes that had seemed impossible on that first morning.