This week sees the culmination of hours of rehearsals and line learning as the children in Upper School put on their production of ‘Grease’. All nights are now sold out so please don’t turn up without a ticket…you won’t be let in. The gym will be very busy and very hot! Judging by the matinee

Oh dear. I think I must have been one of the few who was not too disappointed when England finally succumbed to reality on the football field. Having chosen Germany in our little competition at school Iavoided the ’strikethrough’ on the Upper School information board. Unfortunately many of the children did not. I have to say though

Well done to everyone who helped make Saturday’s Open Day a lovely experience once again. A special thank-you to those who came in early to set up everything and also stayed late to tidy away. A mammoth effort, very much appreciated. The school doesn’t stand still however, and this week we have our Lower School

This Saturday is our annual Open Day when we get the opportunity to all come together as one large family and share some of the work and successes of the year. It is also a day when the ESA organise a bit of fun for everyone. This year the Pre-Prep singing will be under the

Yesterday the school was rubbish! In fact it was full of rubbish! The children brought in cardboard, plastic, tin foil paper and all sorts of bits and pieces that they would normally throw out as waste. However their task was to use it all to build something of interest to promote recycling. This was their

The second half of the summer term is always busy with many events and activities taking place. This year to help with your organisation we have published a Summer Events booklet which will help you through each week. It includes further details to the headings on your calendar and includes helpful instructions to allow you

This Friday we hold our annual Upper School Sports Day. Hopefully this year the rain will stay away and allow us to have a splendid day’s fun and competition. The field events have already taken place and some of the results have been entered on the ‘master scorecard’. I am under strict secrecy orders not to reveal which House is currently

…but a danger too!I think the sun is magnificent and is a delight to us all. However it does bring its dangers especially to the unwise. I am sure some of you, unlucky enough like me, can remember being told to harden your skin to the sun only to spend the next week slapping camomile lotion,

Yesterday we turned French! In order to support our French language programme at school, Madame Hall prepared a ‘French Day’ dedicated to aspects of French life. The usual curriculum was abandoned and lessons were replaced with boules, flag making, Eiffel Tower construction, French geography and other topical work. Even lunchtime was transformed into cuisine fit for Michel

It appears the field trip is going extremely well and the children from F5 are having a great time. They have been pond dipping and studying invertebrates, as well as orienteering and investigating soils.  Mr Sliney has been unable to send us images to upload to a web page so I have been confined to