Head's Newsletter 1 April 2022

HISTORY NEWS

Visit by Krishnan Guru - Murthy The celebrated journalist and broadcaster Krishnan Guru - Murthy visited school in March to give a talk t the Politics Society on the UK media, journalism and politics. Krishnan recounted how he first became a TV presenter while still a teenager and explained how a modern newsroom works. Krishnan also answered many questions from a packed audience in the JLT, and offered insight into how traditional news operates in the social media age.

Year 12 Trip to Bosworth Field Recently, fifty A level historians took a day trip to Leicester in connection with their study of the Wars of the Roses. First they viewed Richard III's grave (previously under a car park) in the Visitor Centre and also learnt about the archaeological techniques involved in its rediscovered in 2012. Then they travelled out to Bosworth for a tour and reenactment of the battle in 1485 that took Richard's life and marked the dawn of the Tudor Age.