Coverage of the Alaska Airlines crash in the Pacific competed with political updates throughout the day.

The school also holds an annual sports day at the Mayfield playing grounds in June where the four school houses compete against each other throughout the day.

Forty-three teams of students between the ages of 9 and 14 competed in a set of challenges throughout the day, which included using robots that each team had constructed out of Legos to complete various tasks.

Now in its tenth incarnation, the event attracts hundreds of past and present alumni of the University of Gloucestershire, who compete in a variety of team tasks and challenges throughout the day, with a different one staged at each locale.

Easily the most significant extracurricular event at Wentworth is the annual Dragon Day, in which each of the companies compete against one another in a series of events throughout the day.