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06/09/2011Ru'a Fiola Expedition 2011 Between 16 to 23 August, 22 intrepid explorers from Year 5 to Year 7 went to Ru’a Fiola, a remote archipelago of islands 20 km south of Oban off the West Coast of Scotland. There we were the guests of Torquil Johnson-Ferguson and his team at the fantastic outdoor survival and activity centre called Wild Island. Whilst we were there we fished, lobster-potted, kayaked in the Atlantic, climbed and abseiled. We saw all sorts of wildlife includ… View Full Details

25/08/2011Outstanding 94.9% GCSE pass rate

Hull Collegiate School celebrated record-breaking GCSE results today. The pass rate for pupils achieving 5+ passes (… View Full Details

18/08/20112011 A Level results

Hull Collegiate School celebrated another excellent year of A level examination success. The overall pass rate was 99.34% a… View Full Details

08/07/2011Under 15 Boys cricket team reaches East Riding cricket cup final

Monday 4 July 2011 East Riding Quarter Final Cricket result: Goole High School all out for 43 off 12.1 overs HCS won by… View Full Details

08/07/2011Year 8 Indian Day

At the end of June, Year 8 pupils participated in an Indian themed Technology day. Pupils visited each of the Technology a… View Full Details

06/07/2011Hull Children's University Since the examination period, a number of our proactive Year 12 pupils have organised three full days of sporting activities for Year 6 pupils from Bude and B… View Full Details

04/07/2011Year 7 plant flowers for the community Year 7 donned gardeners' attire on the morning of Friday 24 June in readiness to plant wild flowers along Willerby Embankment. Earli… View Full Details

04/07/2011Charity begins in the Houses(s) On Friday 1 July, all the Senior School pupils participated in Hull Collegiate School's first Fun Run which was organised to raise much-needed funds for Chifc… View Full Details

29/06/2011Hull Collegiate School receives Young Enterprise Centre of Excellence award Hull Collegiate School is one of the first schools in the country to be presented with the new, national Young Enterprise Centre of Excellence award. The awar… View Full Details

28/06/2011Sixth Form Art Show The art studio housed a day’s exhibition of Sixth Form work across the disciplines of Fine Art, Creative Textiles and Photography on Monday 27 June wi… View Full Details

27/06/20112011 Fun Run An intrepid band of fun runners gathered under the famous rainbow umbrellas very early on Sunday morning for the Humber Fun Run, the fifth that we have entere… View Full Details

24/06/2011Prep School Sports Days At the end of a very unsettled week in terms of weather, the three Prep School Sports Days passed without a hitch on Tuesday, Wednesday a… View Full Details

23/06/2011Year 8 languages trip to Normandy Shortly after midnight on Saturday 28 May, a coach full of 38 excited Year 8 pupils and five bleary-eyed teachers set off for France. Our destinat… View Full Details

22/06/2011Year 7 Humanities Day The Year 7 pupils enjoyed a bespoke themed Humanities Day on Tuesday 21 June, with activities centred around Geography, History and Religious Studies.… View Full Details

17/06/2011ISA athletics success Well done to all girls who took part at North ISA Athletics Championships last week. Two girls broke the Regional Records (Phoebe Scruton in the 200m and Jess… View Full Details

14/06/2011National hockey players of the future Congratulations to the following girls who were selected to attend the Leeds Junior Regional Performance Centre after impressing when performing for the county… View Full Details

14/06/2011UK Junior Maths Challenge The whole of the Year 8 top set mathematicians took part in the Maths Challenge a few weeks ago. The results are just in and the whole group ha… View Full Details

06/06/2011Half-term trip to the Belgian battlefields The Year 9 trip to the First World War battlefields of Belgium and France took place during the summer half term. Having spent the previous term studying the… View Full Details

26/05/2011Award Winning Author Inspires our Talented Writers Last Thursday, eight gifted and talented Year 7 pupils were treated to a very entertaining and informative evening at Hull University. David Almon… View Full Details

26/05/2011Prep School Art Exhibition: your guided tour Water was definitely the theme as our parents and VIPS braved the downpour to attend the Prep School Art Exhibition on Thursday. In case you missed it,… View Full Details

24/05/2011Art Exhibition preparations underway The Prep School pupils are busily putting the final touches to their Art Exhibition. Parents, families, friends and invited guests have been invite… View Full Details

16/05/2011A Level drama performances - huge success! Last week the AS and A2 Drama pupils performed their practical work for parents and friends in preparation for the practical examination on Thursday. Th… View Full Details

04/05/2011Josef accepted into the National Youth Theatre Many congratulations to Josef Zanetti who has just been accepted into the National Youth Theatre, beating off 3,900 other hopefuls. Over 4,400 young people… View Full Details

03/05/2011Easter Trip to Spain During the Easter holidays, 30 pupils studying Spanish in Years 10 and 11 enjoyed a six day trip to Spain to experience the culture and language of the fascin… View Full Details

28/04/2011Our own Kindergarten Royal Wedding As part of the Royal Wedding celebrations, Kindergarten and First Steps children took part in their very own wedding ceremony this morning with a beautiful br… View Full Details

28/04/2011Gifted and Talented trip to Cambridge A group of the most academically able pupils in Year 10 and 11 set off for Cambridge for what would prove to be an aspiring and informative day. L… View Full Details

27/04/2011World-renowned author, GP Taylor, visits Hull Collegiate School They may be scary stories, but author GP Taylor had 250 Hull Collegiate School pupils falling out of their seats with laughter and fear on Friday 8 April.&nbs… View Full Details

08/04/2011Year 6 trip to PGL At the end of March, Y6 set off on their PGL adventure to Boreatton Park in Shropshire. Everyone was very pleased to escape from lessons for a few days and th… View Full Details

04/04/2011Year 4 Solway Bank visit This week Year 4 returned from a two-night adventurous expedition to Solway Bank, dirty, tired and just a little bit smelly. Whilst there they hunted for Big… View Full Details

04/04/2011Hull Collegiate v Hull City - in Spanish! Ms Blencoe and 14 pupils from Years 10,11 and 12 set off to interview the Hull City Peruvian player Nolberto Solano at the KC Stadium on Tuesday. The in… View Full Details

04/04/2011Year 12 placed 3rd in regional ICA BASE game Six Year 12 Business Studies and Economics pupils visted Leeds University last week to take part in the Institute of Chartered Accountants BASE game. BAS… View Full Details

25/03/2011Comic Relief donations nearly two thousand pounds! Now that the pennies and pounds have been counted, we are delighted to announce that the grand total of £1,943.21 has been raised for Comic Relie… View Full Details

22/03/2011Fame was Fantastic! For three nights, Hull Collegiate School became the New York Academy of Performing Arts for a production of the musical Fame. For those with long enough memor… View Full Details

18/03/2011Year 5 Educational Visit to The Deep Year 5 took part in an educational visit to The Deep last Wednesday and used the experience to write poems based upon the view from the fi… View Full Details

14/03/2011U11 National Mini Hockey Championships HUGE congratulations to the U11 Hockey team! On Thursday 10 March, the girls took part in the North East Semi Finals of the National Mini Hock… View Full Details

18/11/2010ISI gives Hull Collegiate School a glowing report Hull Collegiate School has been given a glowing report by the Independent Schools Inspectorate, the independent schools’ equivalent of OFSTED. In their… View Full Details