Sts Peter and Paul Catholic College: Arvon Creative Writing

Life is richer at Sts Peter and Paul!

Life is richer at Sts Peter and Paul!

Welcome to the official blog created by students to chronicle their experiences during Enrichment Weeks.

On these pages you’ll find personal accounts from our students discussing the wide range of activities they enjoyed both in college and off site.

Visits included residential trips to Iceland with the Geography department, France with the History department and Barcelona with the Maths department. Year 10 and 11 students will visited New York with the Business Studies teachers, while English staff and students explored creative writing skills in locations as diverse as Florida and Yorkshire, where students worked alongside a poet, a novelist and a playwright to set their imaginations on fire.

Back at College, students will take part in retreats to explore and deepen their faith. They will hear from inspirational speakers, attended careers workshops and take part in a host of music, dance and drama activities.

Our College Principal, Wendy White, said, “Enrichment Week is a fantastic opportunity for students to broaden their horizons and learn outside the classroom. It is experiences like these which testify to the diverse, exciting and challenging curriculum at Sts Peter and Paul Catholic College, and how we focus on the development of the whole child.”

Daily updates from home and abroad will allow students to record and share their memorable learning experiences with family and friends.

We hope that you enjoy reading about our experiences on these pages as much as we have enjoyed putting them together.

Look out for the next instalment of the blog following Enrichment Week in July 2015….

Monday, 10 February 2014

Arvon Creative Writing - Day 1

This is Reuben Austin feeding you an on the spot top notch account of the first day at Lumb Bank, Yorkshire, with the English Department.

Naturally, the writing began before we even set foot on the coach, and has continued up to a few minutes ago when guest writers Tiffany Murray and Nick Stimson asked us to write a piece on the pupil next to us. We received a very warm welcome (there was a fire) with tea and cake, which certainly went down better than the fruit. Nick himself had commented that our writing is "highly sophisticated" and is looking forward to tomorrow almost as much as I'm like forward to Breakfast With Tiffany!

We're having a great time and we'll have a sonnet for you tomorrow!