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Top of the Bench – Chemistry Competition

The ‘Top of the Bench’ chemistry competition will be held at Brighton College on 14th November 2023. Run from October to January, regional heats are organised and funded by Royal Society of Chemistry. The heats are set up to have broad appeal and are fully accessible. Past challenges have included practical tasks, written theory tests,… Read more

CCF Newsletter- Autumn 2023

The main event this term was our October Camp at Pippingford Park Training Areas in Ashdown Forest. It was a hugely successful camp with a vast amount of work and effort put in by all the cadets and the staff. For a few of our cadets it was their first camp and all learnt a… Read more

GCSE Fine Art Exhibition 2023

On the evening of Wednesday 18th October 2023, the Creativity and Enterprise department put on a Graduate Fine Art Exhibition in our Main School Hall. This is a special event as it open to current and former students, parents, and the general public to attend. Due to GCSE Examinations, Prom and the Leavers BBQ, the… Read more

GCSE Fine Art Exhibition – Wednesday 18th October

We will be hosting an Art Exhibition of the students that graduated last year. It will be in our Main Hall (access via the patio), on Wednesday 18th October, 6-8pm. Everyone is welcome to attend, current students, ex-students, parents and the general public.

Amazon Web Services – GetIt – Educational Program

AWS GetIT is a fully-funded education program and competition designed to inspire all 12-14-year old students, especially girls and other young people from underrepresented communities, to consider a future in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). Schools and educators get access to curriculum designed for students to learn foundational cloud tech skills and design app ideas… Read more

Poetry Reading – Kemptown Bookshop – Little Green Pig

This year Little Green Pig are working with our Poetry Club students, to perform at the Kemptown Book Shop, on Thursday 19th October at 6pm. Little Green Pig is a charity based in Brighton and Hove working in partnership with education providers, to provide highly personalised in-depth coaching on creative writing techniques. The club invites… Read more

ITV News – Challenges in Music Education

Posted in: Education, In the Press

On the Friday 6th October 2023, ITV News visited the school to record a piece about the challenges schools are currently facing when it comes to offering music lessons. A lack of funding for music education in schools means learning an instrument is becoming something that is only affordable for those that can afford private… Read more

100 Talks for Change – Mental Health

On Thursday 05th of October, we hosted 2 talks for our Year 10 and 11 students in the main hall. The Talk has been supported by Hays and titled ‘100 Talks for Change’. Two Mental Health speakers are touring the country speak to 50 schools across 20 academic days aiming to impact 10,000 lives. It’s… Read more

Blood Brothers – Theatre Trip

As part of the BTEC Performing Arts and BTEC Music courses, students are required to see Live Theatre Productions. We chosen to take them to see ‘Blood Brothers’ by Willy Russell performed at The Theatre Royal Brighton on Wednesday 4th October.  Blood Brothers revolves around twin boys (Mickey and Edward) who were separated at birth… Read more

Modern Foreign Languages – Lessons

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At Longhill we like to promote diversity and introduce French and Spanish to new students entering in Year 7. When then reach Year 9, they can choose if they would like to continue their studies at GCSE level. On the 25th of September 2023, two of our Year 7 classes were learning how to write,… Read more