Residential study programs for 14-18 year olds in Cambridge, UK.
It is hard to imagine a day with more fun things packed into it! Friday began with final classes of the course – for the law students, this meant the mock trial they had been busy preparing. But this was no ordinary trial – Severus Snape was being tried for the murder of Albus Dumbledore,…
Read MoreDay 16: students vs. supervisors football
Following their classes, the students headed to Downing College paddock to watch the highly anticipated supervisors vs students football match. Everyone gathered around the pitch as supervisors and students stretched and prepared for the game ahead. Rivalry and competition was in the air, as supervisors donned their orange t-shirts and both teams striped their faces…
Read MoreDay 9: Fête of Fun!
Monday brought sunshine, bicycles, a field of fun and a miniature world cup tournament. The day started off with the tour de France zooming through Cambridge, the cyclists passing through...
Read MoreDay 5: Community Outreach
Every year at the Reach Cambridge international summer school a number of students signup to participate in a Community Outreach program (this year a huge 20!), which is a chance for those students to do some charitable work within their time in Cambridge. This year, and for a number of past years, the charity which…
Read MoreDay One: Reach Cambridge gets off to a flying start
Today was the first day of the Reach Cambridge Summer School and it set the tone for what looks set to be a fantastic 3 weeks! It began with battling through the jet lag (and sadly disappointment too for many of the Greek football fans!) to make it to breakfast, before the students headed to…
Read MoreReach Cambridge and the Sabre Charitable Trust
For five years Reach Cambridge students have been working with the Sabre Trust, a charity which does amazing work improving education in rural Ghana. It has been wonderful to see our students, in both July and August, really get behind this cause. Here is a little bit about what our August group have been doing…
Read MoreCharity Football Tournament
On another sweltering Monday afternoon, the annual charity 5-a-side football tournament took place on Downing Paddock. Featuring squads of 7 players with a mix of boys and girls, a round robin competition drew a large crowd of fellow Reach students looking to support their friends and also the Sabre Trust. 5 teams entered consisting of…
Read MoreReach Cambridge students to work with the Sabre Trust
Education is a huge part of Reach Cambridge summer school. Of course, there are plenty of opportunities to take part in a range of fun activities, as well as excursions to lots of exciting places! But education is really important to us, and that’s one of the reasons why, over the last five years, we…
Read MoreSabre Auction
On August the 13th 2012, a group of eight deeply motivated students participating in the Reach Cambridge Summer course organised an auction. The aim of this event was to fundraise for the SABRE community which plans to offer new educational facilities and materials for kindergarten children in Ghana. Overall £800 was raised, making the auction…
Read MoreSabre Charity Update!
On Tuesday we, the community outreach team students, met in the lecture theatre for our first meeting, the aim of which was to introduce ourselves and come up with some...
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