JAGS pupils are free spirits! Already this academic year the Geographers have explored Iceland, hockey and netball players have enjoyed a highly successful tour of Malta, Spanish students have clambered all over Barcelona and Italian students have come back smitten with Venice. If last year’s trips programme is anything to go by, the German department staff and students are gearing up to shop till they drop in the German Christmas Markets. Literally hundreds of JAGS students are preparing for Bronze, Silver or Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards, so they’ll be camping overnight and putting their best feet forward in the Chilterns and over the Sussex Downs. Others will be analysing data in East London, drawing in Kew Gardens, sketching in art galleries, visiting theatres, museums, observatories, places of worship, and pursuing the study of Latin, Greek, Philosophy, Medicine and other passions at schools and Royal Colleges.

By mid October 2010, the whole of Year 7 will have been bowled over but not out at Bowles, getting to know each other in exhilarating activities, stretching mental and physical skills they never knew they had. In the early spring 2011 (when there’s still snow on the hills) a group of Year 12 English students from JAGS and Dulwich College will stay at Rydal Mount, Wordsworth’s house in the Lake District, and study his poetry in context. During the course of the year there will be Geography trips to Hastings and South Wales, Modern Foreign Language exchange visits to Montepulciano, Montpellier, Sevres, Paris, and to Venice. There’ll be a joint Geography and French trip to the Opal Coast for the whole of Year 7. The Economics department will repeat a popular joint trip with Alleyn’s to Belgium and the History department will make the very poignant trip to the First World War Battlefields with Year 9.  In their summer holidays sixth-formers will work with abandoned children on an annual two-week residential Community Action project in Romania. The Music department are going to raise the roofs in Italy again on a Choir and Orchestral tour in July.

Then there are the one-off special trips: In October 2009 the Physics department weekended in Geneva, investigating the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) just before its trial. Who knows what else is being planned? So much to look forward to! Visit the news page for regular updates of life at JAGS. There’s Book Week, Science Week, PopFest, Jazz Night, House Music and Drama……all sorts of events.

The JAGS magazine, written and edited by the girls, will give an in-depth flavour of last year’s important trips and events.

The day's events can be found on the school calendar. 

For details of music events please click here.

For details of sports events please click here.