6 of Itchen’s AS and A2 French and Spanish language students recently spent the day at Redbridge School, working with groups from years 7 to 11 including Gifted & Talented. It was a busy day – focussing on pronunciation, accuracy & vocabulary plus script writing for their GCSE speaking assessment.

Our students also got a chance to speak about life at College and the differences compared to school.

Redbridge kindly told us they ‘were impressed and very grateful for the support’.

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Second-year Itchen Student Matt Cull organised, and went through with, a sponsored head shave this week - raising over £1270 for Cancer Research UK. In turn, he managed to smash his original goal of £500!

Matt, who has fundraised for Sports Relief and Children in Need in the past, has a very personal reason for choosing CRUK as his latest beneficiary - as he told us;

“I had my head shaved because I wanted to raise as much money and awareness for Cancer Research UK. My Mum has been diagnosed with Cancer for the second time in 11 years. I just wanted to make my Family proud and to make sure my Mum knows that we will always be there for her.

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Ofsted visited Itchen in October and we are very pleased to reveal that their inspection team described Itchen as ‘Good’ overall - the second highest grade possible. Principal Barry Hicks said ‘I’m particularly pleased to note Ofsted reports students enjoy College both in and out of lessons.

'The College has a strong community feel, with staff and students working purposefully together to build an ethos where students feel safe and valued. They benefit from a wide range of extra curricular provision; the highlight being the prestigious and highly successful Academy of Sport – which continues to attract students from far away. Itchen is well on its way to becoming an Outstanding College’.

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Itchen’s second-year Childcare Students are helping to collect unloved and unwanted items from staff and students across College in the run-up to December 25th, as they support local charity S.C.R.A.T.C.H with their 18th annual toy project.

The charity (Southampton City and Region Action to Combat Hardship) seeks to ensure that disadvantaged local children and young people have presents to open on Christmas Day. Out of the Christmas season, the Charity manages various social action projects that currently operate in Southampton and the surrounding area;

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