Residential study programs for 14-18 year olds in Cambridge, UK.
The British royal family has long been linked with Cambridge. Royals have founded some of Cambridge University’s colleges: Queens’ College (dually founded by two rival queens), King’s College (in honour of Henry VI), and Trinity College (after perhaps England’s most famous King, Henry VIII). Royals built the city’s most famous landmark: the construction of King’s…
Read MoreThe FA Cup: Cambridge and Football
The FA Cup is one of the biggest events in the sports calendar, but did you know that its existence is all thanks to Cambridge?! Saturday May 19this a significant date in the UK calendar for a couple of big reasons. While the upcoming events will be anticipated and watched by people across the UK…
Read MoreSpring 2018: Day 9
The students were up early again today, and after a continental breakfast they headed off to their subject-specific classes. In medicine, the students explored sensory perception with their specialist tutor. After studying the theory, students experienced ‘The Third Hand Illusion’. In this experiment, a prosthetic arm was placed next to the real right-hand arm. A…
Read MoreHow to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Like me, maybe you started the year with a clear set of goals and a lot of motivation. It's all about balance! But now it’s the middle of January and...
Read More6: TWELVE DAYS OF REACH – Six Add-Ons!
Twelve Days of Reach: From 3rd – 15th December 2017, save an extra £120 off your Reach Cambridge application! This can be used alongside other discounts to make for a...
Read More8: TWELVE DAYS OF REACH – Eight Student Perspectives
It’s Day Eight of our Twelve Days of Reach countdown. So far we’ve brought you our ‘Sounds of Twelve Summers’ playlist, 11 fun facts about Cambridge, 10 favourite photos, and a photo gallery focusing on the 9 courses available during our Spring program. Today, you’ll hear directly from students who have joined us over the years,…
Read More10: TWELVE DAYS OF REACH – Our Ten Favourite Student Photos!
We absolutely love seeing the wonderful photos that students take during their time with us. Sometimes, we love these photos so much that we repost them on our Instagram page! So here are our top ten favourite reposts. You can see more on our Instagram page. Especially over this next ten days, we want to…
Read More11: TWELVE DAYS OF REACH – 11 Facts about Cambridge (with gifs!)
It’s Day Two of our Twelve Days of Reach countdown! Yesterday we brought you our ‘Sounds of Twelve Summers’ playlist, featuring our favourite tunes from each Reach Cambridge summer program since it began in 2005. Today, we are bringing you 11 facts you may not know about Cambridge… with gifs for added fun! Twelve Days…
Read MoreTailor Made Course | SCGS 2017: ‘World Readiness’
What a fortnight! From 11th to 20th November, twenty-four students from Singapore Chinese Girls’ School (SCGS) descended on Reach Hall in Cambridge for a tailor-made academic course exploring topics within three key themes: society, culture and ethics. Through lectures, debates, group work, individual work, and fieldwork, the students expanded their understanding of the world and…
Read MoreProgram 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 18
The penultimate day of Reach was action-packed; classes in the morning included delving into the mental habits of happiness in Psychology, and questioning what freedom means in 20th-Century Britain in the Politics & International Relations class. In Life Sciences & Medicine, students got into some problem-based learning, exploring clinical scenarios, and in English Literature &…
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