Month: January 2021

Lego is a firm favourite with many children and has now been in our world for nearly 70 years. In school, we use Lego not only for the pure enjoyment it brings to the children but for the endless educational opportunities it provides. From tower building to storytelling, Lego’s only limit is your imagination! Although…

Are you a keen walker, runner or cyclist? Will you help your form lift the title? February is the month to show us how many miles you can rack up! Monday 1st February sees the start of the PE department’s Form Challenge. Throughout the month of February we would like to see which form can…

During this period of remote learning, we have had to adapt to a virtual classroom and sourcing unlikely art materials. Materials such as brown paper, kitchen foil and old ball point pens. Being resourceful with materials is something the Art department strives to achieve. Whether pupils are physically in school or whether they are at…

Year 6 were tasked with thinking about the theme of “fear” when towards the end of our class reader, ‘The Borrowers’, the ceiling is unceremoniously lifted off to reveal the little people’s home beneath the floorboards.  They were asked to write a poem in the shape of something fearful and there were many imaginative contributions. …

Another week of home PE and another fantastic effort from everyone to keep their fitness and skills levels up! This week’s workouts were more cardio based and it was so pleasing to see all the pupils pushing themselves during the different exercises. On the skills front, indoor golf was the game of the week. Fear…

Henry and Charlie C have written the following about their experience: Two metal detectorists come to our farm sometimes and on Sunday they called Mum to say they thought that they had found an unexploded bomb in one of our fields. We went to have a look and it definitely looked like one to us!…

Here are two iconic moments in history, captured beautifully by Elizabeth O, (one of which which may not have actually happened!) The death of a friend, a plague-struck village and now being almost frazzled by lightening during a violent storm convinced Martin Luther to seek solace by becoming a monk. However he published his Nine-Five…

We certainly had fun in the De Beer Block this morning as we had Silly Hat day. Practising our spellings has never been so enjoyable! We are already wondering what the theme of next Friday will be?

In French, Years 3 and 4 have been learning the vocabulary for different animals, playing games such as bingo, guess my animal and using linguascope online. We have been thinking about what colours the animals are and have found out that the endings of most colours change if the animal is feminine. Everyone has joined…

Many of our Prep School pupils have recently produced fantastic book reviews, some of which will be going up on display in our Library.  Here is a small selection for you to peruse. Clemmie D (8DB) reviewed “I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith, Francesca F (8PB) reviewed “Me before You” by Jojo Moyes, Seren…