Book Week/Literary Festival

It’s been a great week celebrating all things literature at Duke’s with the Aldridge literary festival in full swing. We’ve had book quizzes, write-athons and group reading sessions taking place along with assemblies delivered by the English department celebrating everything to do with books and literature. The week culminated with our World Book Day celebration. Lots of students took the opportunity to dress up as characters from books and celebrate everything literary!

LAET Trip to Bletchley Park 

This week a group of students from year 10 attended a trip to Bletchley Park, once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers. The park is now a vibrant heritage attraction in Milton Keynes and our students had an adventure getting there by train and tube. The students were able to experience first hand some of the code breaking secrets of World War Two. The trip was organised in conjunction with local college LAET who partner with us on a number of initiatives. The students had a fantastic time.