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Fleur Adcock visits Channing

“Having a sense of wonder”This is what poetry is all about in the view of Fleur Adcock, one of Britain’s finest poets, who visited Channing School on 9 November for a Literary Society lunch and reading to all year groups in the...

Victorious Venice Music trip

By Olivia Burns, Year 11

At the beginning of half term, a group of 39 girls from Years 9 to 13, forming a choir, a chamber orchestra and a  string quartet, set out for the first  Channing Music Tour, accompanied by Mr...

Damian Hirst at the Wallace Collection

By Olivia Burns, Year 11

In October, the year 11 GCSE students went on two trips, split into two groups. Half went on a trip to the Saatchi gallery, the others to the Wallace Collection. Mrs Walker and Miss Archer accompanied my...

Channing 'Old Skool' celebrates in style

Channing school last week held an ‘Old Skool’ style day as part of its 125th anniversary. Pupils and staff from the school, which was founded in 1885 by sisters Emily and Matilda Sharpe, spent the day in Victorian dress, sampling...

Poetry and Buttered Toast

Runner-up of 2009 John Betjeman Poetry Competition: Olivia RoxboroughUnder the shadow of the statue of John Betjeman on the Upper concourse of St Pancras Station a large group met for the award ceremony of this year’s John...