Girls Enjoying Success

2025 - 2026 Highlights: Classics

It has been a brilliant year for Classics at Channing! Highlights included student-led Classics Society talks and quizzes, our January symposium with partner schools, British Museum visits, and theatre trips to Hadestown, Hercules and Warwick’s Ancient Drama Festival. Year 7 pupils impressed in the national Ovid Competition and explored Roman Britain at Verulamium. Our outreach programme also continued to grow, with Minimus sessions for local primary schools and Latin Club pupils completing OCR’s Entry Level Latin qualification. From ancient art and drama to mythology and languages, pupils embraced every opportunity with curiosity and enthusiasm. We are already looking forward to Rome in 2027!

2025 - 2026 Highlights: Junior School Art and DT

It has been a vibrant year of creativity and discovery in Channing Junior School’s Art and Design Technology department. Pupils explored inspiring artists including Yayoi Kusama, Antoni Gaudí and Henri Matisse, while developing skills in painting, printmaking, ceramics, textiles, coding and construction. Highlights included Marimekko-inspired prints, programmable night lights, marble runs, sewn souvenirs and plush toys made from recycled school uniform. Food Technology brought further hands-on learning, from fruity cheesecakes to colourful poke bowls. We also celebrated 5 pupils whose artwork was selected for exhibition at Christie’s. We are incredibly proud of every pupil’s imagination, confidence and achievement.

2025 - 2026 Highlights: Art

Art at Channing has enjoyed another vibrant year of exhibitions, gallery visits and success. GCSE pupils and A Level students presented ambitious, individual work in the annual summer art exhibitions, creating a professional gallery experience across several spaces at Channing. Sixth Form students explored thought-provoking exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection, the British Museum and the Royal Academy, gaining new ideas and creative inspiration. Channing pupils also achieved excellent results in the Young Art competition, with 6 works selected for the Here and Now exhibition at Christie’s and Izzy winning the prestigious Rector’s Prize. Together, these experiences celebrated creativity, originality and artistic development.

Year 10 students had a marvellous time exploring the once divided city of Berlin. The varied programme included not only key historical monuments such as the Brandenburg Gate, but also a close encounter with the Stasi (at the Museum) and a flak tower, the Topography of Terror, the remains of the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial, the DDR Museum and a visit to the Staatsoper to see Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Our Germaniists also heard the fascinating insights of Channing contacts from East and West Berlin who lived through divided Germany.
Congratulations to Year 10 for their interest and ambition - they were an excellent group to travel with.