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Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 10

♫ Sun is shinin’ in the sky There ain’t a cloud in sight It’s stopped rainin’ everybody’s in a play And don’t you know It’s a beautiful new day, hey hey… ♫ The sun is back here in Cambridge, bringing the return of a blue-sky backdrop to our usual myriad of activities. The afternoon…

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 9

‘It’s raining, it’s pouring, Cambridge is snoring…” As one can expect in a traditional English city like Cambridge, the summer season is often interspersed with cold and wet weather. As a result, the Reach students were off to a slower start today. However, the Reach Cambridge team are adamant that a rainy day will never…

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 8

Cambridge experienced some very ‘British’ weather today: blue skies followed downpours, downpours followed blue skies, in a never-ending cycle of meteorological confusion. However, lessons went on as usual, and the English Literature students in particular were treated to an exciting educational excursion. They sought poetic inspiration on their journey around Cambridge’s most wistful sites, stopping…

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Weekend Round-Up!

What a weekend! The first weekend of Program 1 meant it was the first time the students got to experience Reach Cambridge excursions. Here’s a little flavour of what they got up to… Saturday: LONDON On Saturday, some of the students chose to visit both the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre. At the Tate,…

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 5

You’d be forgiven for thinking the Reach Cambridge team looked a little bit smarter than usual today… Normally we are used to pulling off a mixture of sports kits, loose summer trousers and orange T-shirts in the knowledge that we will be on our feet for most of the day. Today, however, there was lipstick…

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 4

After the slightly worrying rumbling of thunder, day four of Reach blessed us with another beautiful day! With the summer school now getting into the swing of things, students enjoyed a multitude of intriguing subjects – everything from modernism and its difficulties in English Literature & Performance to the intricacies of legislation & litigation in…

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 3

After another large breakfast to fuel the day, the students confidently made their own way to class, having familiarised themselves with the streets of Cambridge. A range of exciting lessons awaited them, including special relativity in Physics and mindfulness in Psychology. In English Literature, the class acted out a scene from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, in…