Durrington Newsletter 12 January 2024

National CyberFirst Girls Competition 2023 

The National CyberFirst Girls Competition is run by National Cyber Security Centre which is part of GCHQ, the Governments Communications Headquarters. This week we entered 6 teams from Year 8 into the competition. This national competition aims to inspire girls interested in technology to pursue a career in cyber security while breaking barriers in the male-dominated […]

TeenTech Sussex Festival 2023

The Computer Science department took 24 year 9 students to the TeenTech Festival 2023 at the AMEX Stadium in Brighton. Following up from their virtual event two weeks ago, this gave students the opportunity to try their hand at immersive challenges and experiments, to handle cutting edge technology and, most importantly, to spend time with […]

GCSE Certificate Collection 2023

Dear Year 11 Leaver  It gives me great pleasure to be able to invite you to Durrington High School on Thursday 23rd November to collect your GCSE certificates and celebrate the successes of our ex-students. The event will be held in the main hall and will run from 5:30pm – 6:30pm. The event will include […]

Duke of Edinburgh Bronze day hike in half term

Over 50 of the Year 10 students who have started working towards their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award spent a morning hiking during half term. They hiked a 9km route on the South Downs in preparation for their Expedition part of the award. Despite the rainy weather on the previous days and earlier that morning, the […]

TeenTech Festival 2023

This virtual event was attended by over 30 Year 9 students who took part in the interactive live event hosted by Maggie Philbin. The aim of the event was to change the students’ perspectives of technology jobs and break down stereotypes as well as opening their eyes to realise that tech jobs are everywhere and […]