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Music
A busy week in the Prep Music Department. On Tuesday, the Senior Choir went to the O2 and sang in a choir of 8000 children alongside Tony Hadley (Spandeau Ballet). An experience they won’t forget for a long time. Last night, the Senior children performed in their concert. It was an amazing concert showcasing some…
New Equipment!
Thank you to Mrs Tompkins who has organised lots of fun outdoor play equipment for the Prep children. The children have loved the skipping ropes, bat and stilts to name a few! Not only have the children enjoyed playing with each other at break times, but they are also responsible for ensuring that play equipment gets…
Trip to Hurst!
Selected students from Y7 and Y8 went to Hurst this week to watch an excellent performance of Les Miserables by the senior production team at Hurst. One of our own past pupils, Natalie Harrison, performed excellently in a lead role of Fantine! We were also able to inspect the stage set after the show. All in all,…
Trip to the Globe Theatre
On Monday, Year 6 set off from Three Bridges to London Bridge. After a short walk along the Southbank, we arrived at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Here, we had a tour of the theatre itself, which included the chance to stand on the stage and say some lines from Macbeth to the captivated audience of tourists….
Charlotte the spider
This week in English the Year 4s discovered Charlotte (a spider) had been very hard at work and had performed her own miracle at Copthorne, a giant spider’s web, with the words ‘some pig’ woven into it! In groups the pupils had to interview the visitors to the web and even had a photographer to…
Year 3
Year 3 have been getting creative in maths using iPads to identify the 3 different types of angles. They have found right angles, acute angles and obtuse angles in the Year 3 classrooms. They were doing some good deeds and having great fun litter picking in Forest School this week. This has linked in well…
Year 2
We have begun our plans for writing diaries as our 1915s Shackleton crew. Lots of fun was had discovering the role we were assigned on board the Endurance from Shackleton himself! After working on constructing our own shelters, we understood just what a challenge Ernest Shackleton had in making sure everyone worked as a team!…
Year 1
Chinese New Year starts this weekend, so we read a story which told us about the Chinese calendar and now know that it is the Year of the Rat. We had a look at our dates of birth and found out that most of us were born in the year of the snake or the…
Reception
This week we have enjoyed learning about transport by rail: our favourite activity was using Duplo to make our own train paintings. We were all given a picture of a form of transport which we had to label and then write a sentence about. Some of us had cars, others had bicycles and the rest…
Nursery
Pippins & Acorns Pippins & Acorns We have been learning all about penguins this week which helpfully ties in with penguin awareness day on Monday! We used potatoes, cotton wool and tissue to make penguins; learnt that penguins don’t fly but are excellent swimmers and we also learnt about freezing water into ice! We also…