Dear Parents, Half term has arrived after a very busy first half of term. The pupils are very much deserving of their rest and recuperation. Yesterday’s tutor/tutee meetings allowed pupils the chance to share what they have been most proud of in their learning, the challenges that they have tackled and the areas that they…
Dear Parents, It has been great to enjoy our pupils’ continued successes this week. We thought the pupils could pull off a win at the Littlegarth competition against 16 other prep schools – and it was brilliant that they did so. Their problem solving was superb. Many thanks to Mrs Hayes for taking the team….
On Tuesday we took two maths teams to compete in the Littlegarth Maths Challenge. It was a fierce field comprising 16 other local prep schools, which was nearly double the number of entrants since it was last run in 2019. Our Year 5 team comprised Hannah, Huck, Oscar A and Oscar B and our Year…
“People Who Help Us” is Reception’s theme for the summer term where they will be learning about who helps us within the school community, as well as the wider local community. To start to spark their learning they will be having some very exciting visits from parents and visitors from the local community to talk…
Nĭ hăo! Children in Pre-Prep have been learning Mandarin this term, as part of their Languages carousel. The children have been learning about China, its geographical location compared to where we live and how long it takes to travel there. We have talked about the great wall of China, giant pandas and traditions, customs and…
Year One had great fun making parachutes as part of our new theme ‘Splendid Skies’. During the summer term the children will learn about weather, the seasons and summer. We will begin by asking the question ‘what is weather?’ and use the children’s own experiences as the starting point for our discussions. They will observe…
Following the tremendous fundraising efforts and success of the Bright Ideas for Tennis 24 hour marathon participants, we were delighted to welcome former Davis Cup and Wimbledon tennis stars Danny Sapsford and Luke Milligan who very kindly came to run some coaching sessions for pupils on Thursday. Danny and Luke ran three 45 minute coaching…
Years 3 and 7 are currently receiving lessons on mindfulness from Mrs Katie Seaman, a parent at Holmwood and a trained mindfulness teacher. There is a large and rapidly growing body of research to evidence the benefits mindfulness can provide. For children in particular these include improvements in wellbeing and mental health, concentration and cognition,…
We have been fascinated with wildlife this week at Nursery. The Babies have been doing some stamp painting with apples to make the very hungry caterpillar and have enjoyed watching their caterpillars grow. The Poppies have really enjoyed going on mini beast hunt and the children showed so much interest in bugs we have done…
Dear Parents This week has been mental health awareness week and today has seen an assembly and tutorial sessions on maintaining positive mental health. Over this term two year groups will have had mindfulness training and we are keen to share this further. Bellevue has made a connection with the charity Young Minds and we…
