Dear Parents, It is always good to see the grounds team hard at work maintaining our large site, but it has been particularly good to see the Verti Drain machine encouraging drainage and to observe the huge amount of work that has gone into the woodland areas of the site, stripping them back for the…
Dear Parents, It has been great to catch up with so many people on the driveway over the last few days – and most importantly to see the children bouncing into school at the end of a long cold month. If you happen to be in the front hall outside my office, you will be…
Pre-Prep Golden Awards Reception Proud Clouds Ava P, James B and Emmy R Year 1 Golden Awards Saffiyah N and Sebastian W Year 2 Golden Awards Mollie A and Juliet C Year 3 Golden Awards Lily H, Roxy J and Hugo P Pre-Prep 5Rs Awards Resilient Rhino Hannah M, Massimo C, Luke B, Teddy T,…
Years 7 & 8 dusted off their tartan and threw themselves into a fantastic Burns Night celebration. The haggis was ‘piped’ in and toasted formally with Burns’ Address and a tipple (apple juice in shot glasses). They enjoyed a wonderful Burns Night supper and poems were recited. Ms Topliss read Tam O’Shanter and Mrs Bradbury…
Year 4 had their curiosity sparked when they studied some of Magritte’s surrealist creations. They have started to create a surrealist story and will be adding chapters throughout the term. The children were then challenged to choose one of their characters and have produced some fabulous glazed ceramic sculptures.
It was all eyes on French in Year 3! This term in languages, children in Pre-Prep have been learning French. Year 3 have been familiarising themselves with greetings and feelings and have been practising these in their lessons. They have been creating their own mini dialogues independently, with a little help from their “googly eyed”…
We’ve been very creative at Nursery this week: we’ve had sea creature craft, discovered dinosaurs and created some impressive hairstyles in our role play area. We’ve also spent time looking at healthy living and read lots of our favourite stories. Babies We have been busy enjoying activities based around our weekly themes of sea creatures…
Dear Parents, It has been great to walk around last week and see the children hard at work. I spent some time as a TA in Year 3 and enjoyed their morning skills session; this is something that I wholeheartedly approve of from the Science of Learning, the revisiting of different spellings, handwriting development and…
Year 1 had great fun exploring ice balloons in their science lesson this week. After using our senses of touch and sight, we shared our ideas about what we thought was in the balloons and how they were made. After agreeing that they were made out of ice we talked about what would happen to…
Dear Parents Two weeks in and the energy has heightened as the sun has re-emerged. Wednesday was very special in a number of ways, not least because the sun came out seemingly for the first time this term, but because we had the first upper prep football fixtures for two years. All the football matches…
