Deciding to take advantage of the summer sun the students in Sixth Photography and Media decided to undertake a practical filming and photo-shoot day along the South Bank of the river Thames.

This location is a tried and tested favourite of Mrs Patel and I, as you can always rely on something interesting happening on the winding three mile or so walk from the Festival Hall by Waterloo all the way to Tower Bridge.

Along the way the students worked hard to capture memorable and worthwhile footage for their coursework. The media students were keen to record enough video footage to create a three-mute long music video, whilst the photographers used the original locations along the river to perform impromptu photo-shoots.

We began at the skate park just below the Hayward Gallery – and as it was early everybody took advantage of the empty space to record lots of images without the danger of colliding with a skateboard.

Next was a brief tour of a pop-up Yves Saint-Laurent exhibition, in which the students were lucky enough to persuade the models to pose for them.

Continuing eastwards we stopped at the BFI, the beach by OXO tower and even had time to drop by the Tate Modern.

By the time we reached Borough Market it was lunch, so the only sensible thing to do was to spend time enjoying just a couple of the hundreds of amazing stalls and vendors at this very busy location.

After making sure everybody was well fed we made our way past County Hall and eventually reached Tower Bridge.

Time flew by as there is so much to see and do -which is why its something we make sure we include in our calendar every year for our sixth form groups. The work produced on this day out gives the boys a real boost and makes the portfolios and showreels much more exciting. And we’re all huge fans of the doughnuts at Borough market, so can’t wait to go back.