Great to see the Oriel choir back in style taking part in the Crawley Sings Live vocal workshop. They learned a variety of warm ups & confidence boosting techniques, while working with other local schools. 💜🎶💜🎼💜🎤💜🎹💜 #OrielPerforms #OrielMusic #CrawleySings

Last week saw these Y8s to visiting University of Surrey for a CSI Maths day. They needed to solve the crime & find the suspect who killed professor Fred, all done by using lots of maths!! Thanks to Surrey WP & Outreach for the opportunity! 🙏💜➖➗💜 #OrielMaths #LearningOutsideTheClassroom

Our Y11 & 12 Food & Nutrition students baked croissants like professionals yesterday Bread Ahead before exploring the sites and flavours of Borough Market. Both the students and their culinary skills were amazing and did themselves proud. A brilliant day!! 💜🥐💜🥐💜 #OrielDT

Great Oriel DT trip to IKEA UK & the Design Nation Exhibition ‘Materialised’ before the half term break - lots of inspiration and design ideas on show. Fun in the sun by the beach too! 💜☀️💜 #OrielDT #DesignIdeas #Inspiration #Creativity #BrightonBeach

Yesterday it was the turn of 8a/Ma2 to visit the brilliant STEM Centre at Gatwick Airport for a morning of Engineering. We are so grateful to the staff Keir McConomy for providing these great opportunities for our students #EmployerEngagement #Community #ThankYou💜🙏✈️💜

Brilliant experience for this bunch visiting beautiful Glyndebourne Opera House to see The Railway Children. They managed to grab some photos with the cast too! Stunning performance & production. We can’t wait for next year! 🎭💜🎼 #OrielPerformingArts #Enrichment #Opportunities

Before Half Term these Y9s attended a Computer Science Day University of Surrey involving workshops on AI, Cybersecurity and Programming. There was a chance to reflect on routes into computer science careers too. 💜💻💜⌨️💜 #Opportunities #Inspiration #Aspiration #ThankYou

A wet and wonderful day at Forest School today. Team games, campfire bannocks and some fabulous mallets made. A great days work!! 💜🔥🌳🪵💜 #LearmingOutsideTheClassroom #Skills #WhateverTheWeather

Year 11 Big Science last week was BIG!! Mr Bayle was in the hot seat delivering a great masterclass on Enzymes with such awesome work and engagement from our Y11 students! 💜👏💜 #OrielScience #HardWorkPays #WhenScienceGetsBigger

We will remember them 🙏 #RemembranceSunday2025 #LestWeForget

Life Drawing was the choice this week at the ‘Creative Hub’ in the Youth Wing. Lots of mixed media collage and looking at space and tone. 💜🎨✏️💜 #OrielExtraCurricular #AfterSchoolAndRelax #CreativeClubs

Thank to @plumptoncollege for welcoming some of our Y11s for a visit. Our students were given information & ideas to help them to decide whether a future pathway such as Animal Management, Equine Studies or Agriculture might be for them. 💜🐄🐏🌾💜 #Inspiration #Aspiration

‘Girls in Aviation’ hosted by Boeing UK This lucky bunch got to learn about roles within aviation; from cabin crew & pilot, to engineering, marketing, & sales. Taking off in a 737 simulator was amazing!. Thank you so much for the opportunity! 🙏✈️💜 #OrielCareers #GirlsInSTEM

What an awesome session yesterday working with @animationnationuk This great group created stop animation movies building their creativity, resilience, team work and perseverance skills! The results were fantastic!!💜💜 #OrielsGotTalent #Enrichment #Engagement #Creativity #Fun

Loved this hands on learning last week! Our Y7 Geographers learning about contour lines by making mountains out of play-doh! 💜🌎💜 #OrielGeography #ModellingIdeas #WhoDoesntLovePlayDoh

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So, on Friday we said big congratulations to our October Students of the Month!! All nominated by their Learning Communities for a bunch of brilliant reasons!! 💜🎉💜 #OrielRewards #ProudToBePurple #SotM

Our Y11s enjoyed a trip to the London School and College Leavers Festival Excel London Our students enjoyed learning about potential pathways post 16 and 18 in work and study and took part in lots of fun & engaging activities on the stands including auditioning for a podcast! 💜

Thanks to Love Local Jobs Foundation these Y9s had a workplace visit on Monday, hosted by the 1st Central insurance HQ to complete a team building escape room & have a chance to write their own personal statements with their brilliant Dare to Dream mentors. 💜🙏💜 #BusinessMentoring

It was a beautiful but cold day for our Forest Schoolers. The fire definitely worked hard for this group today. Look at their awesome makes!!Paracord people and whittled rings were the order of the day. 🔥🪵🌳💜 #ForestSchool #Skills #LearningOutsideTheClassroom m