The brilliant cast of Blue Stockings stunned in a wonderful and thought-provoking performance of the play by Jessica Swale.
The play, performed by our Upper School actors, is about the quest to secure equality for female undergraduates at Cambridge University in the late 1800s and to be allowed to receive a formal degree qualification at the end of their studies, like their male colleagues.
To wish our pupils good luck ahead of their performance, former pupil and US-based actor Dominic Burgess sent over his very kind words of encouragement for the cast – watch here
Newcastle under Lyme School’s youngest pupils have raised over £5000 for Cancer Research UK by completing a sponsored walk ‘from’ Newcastle-under-Lyme to Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.
Louis Bond: “The site of the camp was much larger than I had ever expected. Much of the camp was destroyed, but there were the cabin like structures at the front of the complex which were tiny in comparison to the number of people who were forced to stay in them. At the rear of the
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