Wednesday 19th February 2025 saw CLV host its annual careers fair whereby students in years 8, 9, 10, 11 and sixth form were all invited to attend at various points throughout the day. The fair gave students an opportunity to engage with a range of organisations from across the region who had given up their time to speak to students… Read more »
On Tuesday, February 18th, 2025, students in years 7 and 8 were given the opportunity to take part in the BBC Bitesize Career Tour , a dynamic and engaging event designed to help young learners explore various career paths and understand the importance of education and skills in shaping their futures. The event provided a unique chance for students… Read more »
Our year 9 Music students have recently had the opportunity to work with Helix Arts on a project called Real Voice. Visiting artist Becky Owen worked with our year 9 music classes to create a collaborative song. From this we selected to of our students; Verity and Billie, who showed a talent for song writing.… Read more »
Year 7 Art & year 12 Media students were lucky enough to have a live Q & A session with Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker (and former schoolmate of Mr Paterson) James Reed. This was an amazing opportunity for our students to find out about the filmmaking process, from the initial idea, planning, and production through to… Read more »
We were delighted to welcome the author Sibeal Pounder to the JLV to talk to students about her exciting new novel, Beyond Platform 13. This is a very special book for lots of reasons – not least because it is believed to be the inspiration behind the Harry Potter novels by J K Rowling. It… Read more »
We recently invited the Marine Society to CLV to deliver an interactive workshop about buoyancy. Our students gained an insight into the basic principles of marine engineering and were given the challenge to produce a boat to hold as many marbles as possible, using only the resources of paper, wire, foil and sellotape! The winning… Read more »
We would like to say a huge well done to Katie-Jane H and Josh M for being accepted onto the Royal Institute of Mathematics Masterclass Program. They have been nominated for their hard work in Year 8 and now have an excellent opportunity to complete project work based around exciting and innovative areas of Maths,… Read more »