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Over a third of all grades achieved at A Level by students at The Quest Academy in Selsdon, South Croydon, were A*, A or B. In Maths, 64% were A*, A or B and in History, 60% of all grades achieved were the top three possible. In addition to overall successes, several students obtained impressive […]

On Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th July, the year 7s got their first taste of Geography fieldwork with a trip to Brighton! The students travelled by train to Brighton where the first part of the day they  conducted fieldwork with students were investigating the positive and negative impacts of tourism in Brighton. Some of the […]

Students across the Academy went on a trip to the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden to see a version of the largely successful Tosca. Pupils really got into the spectacular performance and were blown away by the venue itself. J Russell The post Quest Students Enjoy Opera appeared first on The Quest Academy.

This week, we have been celebrating turning 60 years old. The children have participated in circus skills workshops, put together displays on the 6 decades the school has been in existence and sung on the playground to celebrate this occasion. Mr Williamson (Mrs Williamson’s husband) kindly gave up his time to record images of the […]

Year 1 had a fantastic trip to Wakehurst Place and thoroughly enjoyed making story sticks and finding out about all things natural. Please enjoy the photos. 

After winning the KICK OFF @3 regional tournament last month, The Quest Academy’s year 9 football team were invited back to the Warren on Sunday to take part in the national tournament featuring winning teams from across the country. The boys represented the Academy with distinction both on and off the pitch and managed to […]

As part of the new experiences offered to our students during enrichment week, a group of year ten students visited Tate Britain. This is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St […]

This term we were lucky enough to be able to experience a live music assembly by Rocksteady. This was very exciting for the children, who were able to experience the instruments which they see their favourite artist playing. These were played by our band leader Jack, who was representing Rocksteady in the assembly. The children […]

Thank you to all parents and carers who attended our sports days and cheered the children on during a variety of events! We were very luckily with the fabulous weather and it was great to use the school field again.  All children worked extremely hard on their sports days, many of them in very hot […]

What a fantastic week it has been for year 6 and 5. On the 9th and 10th July Year 6 performed their production of Aladdin Troubles to their family and friends. The year 6 children all worked extremely hard on the run up to the production. They learnt their lines quickly and sang the songs […]

“First, we got on the coach and it took 1hr 45min to get to Portsmouth. When we arrived at the dockyard, we sorted ourselves into groups. When we went in we were astonished of how big the ship was. The ship was called HMS Warrior. We done 5 activities. Also, we had a lady who […]

Year 5 had a great day at Riddlesdown Collegiate where we attended a day of STEM (Science, Technology, Maths and Engineering) workshops. During the day, we met ‘Jones the Bones and his Skeleton’ and had a healthy dose of horrible and gory facts all about the human body! We also experienced a science workshop in […]