Girls Enjoying Success

2025 - 2026 Highlights: Junior School History

History came vividly to life across Channing Junior School this year through immersive storytelling, performances and unforgettable trips. Pupils celebrated Black History Month, retraced the Great Fire of London and explored themes of remembrance and peace. From Street Child, Odysseus and Anglo-Saxons Got Talent to aviation pioneers and Ancient Egypt, each year group brought the past into the present. Adventures continued beyond the classroom with visits to the British Museum, Royal Mews and Ufton Court. The year concluded aboard HMS Belfast, where Year 6 discovered the ship’s role in the Second World War and experienced a powerful connection with history.

2025 - 2026 Highlights: History

From student societies and inspiring visiting speakers to international research and memorable trips, Channing historians have embraced the past with curiosity and confidence this year. Students debated the Soviet Union, explored Nazi Germany, Tudor rivalries and geopolitics, and broadened their perspectives at the Channing History Conference on Global Conflicts. The inaugural Year 9 History Journal showcased original research spanning the Crusades to Vietnam. Beyond the classroom, visits to Mountfitchet Castle, Six and the battlefields of Belgium and France brought history vividly to life, culminating in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Menin Gate.

2025 - 2026 Highlights: Junior School Geography

Junior School geographers have enjoyed a year of discovery, developing their curiosity about the world through classroom learning, trips and hands-on activities. From exploring the school grounds and investigating weather, rivers and the British Isles to studying life in Kenya and India, pupils broadened their geographical understanding. Year 5 became global detectives, mapping food miles and considering the environmental impact of transporting produce around the world. Orienteering activities and the residential at PGL brought learning to life, building fieldwork, navigation and teamwork skills. It has been a fantastic year of exploration, adventure and thinking across the Junior School.

2025 - 2026 Highlights: Geography

Geography at Channing has taken students far beyond the classroom this year, with fieldwork spanning Kew Gardens, Battersea Power Station, the Natural History Museum, Epping Forest, Brick Lane, Walton-on-the-Naze, Ipswich and Hampstead Heath. Pupils developed practical skills while exploring plant adaptations, sustainability, climate change, rivers, coastal processes, regeneration and place identity. Enrichment continued through Origins Society and Senior Geography Society, alongside inspiring visits from Professor Lewis Dartnell and geopolitical author Tim Marshall. From measuring infiltration rates to debating global challenges, students have approached the world with curiosity, critical thinking and enthusiasm, making this a memorable year of geographical discovery.

2025 - 2026 Highlights: Junior School English

From Reception to Year 6, Channing Junior School pupils have embraced writing with creativity, confidence and growing technical skill. Inspired by texts ranging from Supertato and Meerkat Mail to Street Child, The Adventures of Odysseus and The Origin of Species, the girls explored letters, diaries, reports, playscripts, journalism, myths and persuasive writing. Along the way, they developed richer vocabulary, stronger grammar and greater writing stamina, while using empathy and imagination to bring characters, events and ideas to life. We are incredibly proud of the joy, curiosity and ambition they have shown throughout a remarkable year of English across the school.