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As a Senior School pupil tomorrow
you could be...
Honing your foreignBringing the house downlanguage skills
With so many productions, everybody gets a chance to perform on the
Our Modern Languages Department
stage of our multi-media theatre. Each year there is a major school
boasts a state-of-the-art language
production, a drama festival for boys and girls in Years 7 and 8 and an
laboratory where pupils can practise
inter-house drama competition.
their French, German, Spanish and
Doing a Black Run
Italian, using the latest technology.
There are frequent expeditions and cultural visits abroad. Holiday
activities, like our annual school skiing trip, are open to all.
Learning a new
instrument Learning to lead
With two full-time music
teachers and a large team of
During Year 9 you will have the
Climbing a
peripatetic specialists, you will
chance to join the CCF (Combined
mountain
have the opportunity to learn
Cadet Force). Through its
any orchestral instrument you
connections with the three services,
Find out just what you’re made
want and play it in any format
it offers adventure training, sailing
of by taking part in the Duke of
you like: orchestra, large
and flying, orienteering, canoeing,
Edinburgh Award Scheme or by
concert band or jazz band,
fell-walking and a lot more. There is
joining one of our regular
string quartet or trio and
an annual summer camp and
walking tours in some of
many more.
Adventurous Training in Scotland
Britain’s most rugged and
every Easter.
spectacular regions.
www.durhamschool.co.uk
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