Monthly Archives: March 2017

On Sunday 5th March, Blue Coat’s Chamber Choir, Community Choir and a number of student and staff musicians, took part in the remarkable Brass for Africa charity’s fundraising “African Spectacular” concert in the LVS Ascot theatre. The concert featured mostly orchestral (including some Africa-related) pieces by the assembled Brass for Africa brass band players, which included […]

The Geology Department enjoyed their second workshop of the week on March 3rd, as Dan Finucane, Senior Biostratigrapher at BP, came in to support the Year 13 students in their ‘Natural Resources’ unit. Dan spoke about the value of biostratigraphy and how it can be used, along with lithostratigraphy and seismic profiling, to determine the location […]

Our Careers Fair in the first week of March proved to be an enormous success, with well over 300 attendees and 38 exhibitors, including a British Airways captain, accountants, architects, bankers, members of the Armed Forces, lawyers, dentists, engineers, scientific researchers, journalists, doctors, veterinarians, financial advisors, representatives from companies dealing with gap years and apprenticeships, geologists, […]

A massive thank you to Izzy Mackay, a second year PhD student in Geosciences at Imperial College, who spoke to our Year 12 geologists on Tuesday, 28th February, about life in the Geosciences at university. Izzy gave us an insight into the different courses on offer such as Geology, Geophysics and Petroleum Geosciences, and she […]