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Month: February 2017

South East London Indoor Athletics Championships

South East London Indoor Athletics Championships

Following our success at the Bromley Schools Indoor Athletics Championships, the Year 7 and 8 girls’ teams went on to represent Bromley at the South East London Championships, at the Westcroft Leisure centre, Carshalton. All athletes showed commitment and excellent team work throughout the day participating in numerous events and the final results were: Year 7 Girls finished 6th out of the 8 boroughs and Year 8 Girls finished 2nd out of the 8 boroughs. Year 8 Girls have now…

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Chemical Engineer visits Darrick Wood School

Chemical Engineer visits Darrick Wood School

Former pupil Alex Tait took time out of his busy schedule to talk to Year 10 Triple Scientists and A level Scientists about his work and life as a chemical engineer working for the oil giant BP. Alex who is currently based in Baku, Azerbaijan works as a process engineer on one of the largest oil production projects in the world. He talked about his experiences at Darrick Wood and how he was inspired to take up Chemical Engineering because…

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Darrick Wood School visits the Saxon Day Care Centre

Darrick Wood School visits the Saxon Day Care Centre

Darrick Wood School pupils have been very fortunate to have visited the Saxon Day Care Centre, located just by the Walnuts Centre in Orpington. Here they support many elderly people form the local community and we are delighted that throughout the year we will be visiting the centre. So far we have taken two groups of pupils to visit. Pupils from Year 7 to 13 were selected to recognise the excellent efforts that they have made both inside and outside…

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