The Pocklington School Foundation (PSF) Careers and Business Network held its latest event in the Schools’ new Art & Design Technology Centre recently, with the focus for the evening on creative and small businesses. The guest speakers for the evening were former pupils Beth Todd, who left the School in 2014, and James Wilkinson who left in 2010.

Writer Richard Pinto – whose credits include The Kumars at No. 42 and Elvenquest – was guest speaker at this year’s James Bowman Lecture at King’s Ely.

On Friday 18 October, the MP for East Hampshire Damian Hinds came into Churcher’s College Senior School to take part in a Q&A session with pupils about Climate Change.

George Freeman MP was guest speaker at this year’s Old Eleans’ Club Dinner at King’s Ely.

Children in Year 3 at Highfield and Brookham School in Liphook were recently visited by mountaineer, explorer and adventurer, Nick Carter from London, who came to share his experiences of climbing Mount Everest with them as part of this term’s topic of Ice Worlds and Arctic Exploration.

Burgess Hill Girls hosted a seminar by leading education expert Mungo Dunnett on the skills that will best prepare teenagers to be successful in the future workplace. Top of his list was the ability to solve complex problems.