In the Press

A school trip with a difference!  On Monday, Years 4 and 5 visited Colourscape Music Festival on Clapham Common.  Colourscape is a very large labyrinth of colour and light, a sculpture of pure colour that the children walk around inside.  We all put on a coloured cape to become part of the colour experience to explore the incredible changes.  The visit was divided into two parts - the first was a talk from an Artist about the illusions and mixing of colours and the second was a composer and musician demonstrating sound using Tibetan Singing Bowls with interactive demonstrations.  The children threw themselves into everything with gusto, which made for a really memorable trip!

The children in Reception have loved showing us their "All About Me" boxes which they collated over the Summer holidays.  They've shared information on their families, their pets, their holidays, their toys and their favourite animals.  It has been a wonderful way for us all get to know each other quickly and has helped the children settle in so easily.  Well done Reception!

We're delighted to have received our Eco Schools Green Flag Award with Distinction once again! The judges praised our Eco Strategy in many ways, noting 'Pupils in your school are clearly very passionate about environmental issues & willing to go above & beyond to create positive impacts in their local community & beyond'. Thank you so much to last year's Eco Committee for working so hard throughout the year to ensure the Eco strategy was upheld & involved all of our pupils. We will be selecting our new Eco Committee in the next couple of weeks & look forward to maintaining the high standards this committee has set.

We're celebrating the most incredible set of results from the Speech and Drama exams which took place in the Summer term.  Pupils took 53 exams in total (Verse & Prose, Musical Theatre and Acting) and they received Distinction in every single one!  This is an extraordinary achievement, especially when you consider that 75% of our pupils from Year 2 upwards take Speech and Drama.  These results bode extremely well for the end of year production, although how anything can match last year's Shrek is beyond us!

Wonderful to see so many of our pupils in today for Pre-season Football and Netball training!  Bodes well for a wonderful term of sport, teamwork and friendly competition.  We can't wait to welcome the rest of you back in tomorrow.  Here's to a very exciting Autumn Term!

As we look forward to welcoming the children back tomorrow, we are thrilled to announce we've been shortlisted at The Independent School of the Years Awards once again for Small Independent School of the Year.  Having won it in 2022 and 2019, we are delighted to be considered for this prestigious award once again, alongside a host of other outstanding independent schools across the country.  A great start to the 2024/2025 academic year!  We have been planning a very exciting term and can't wait to welcome the children back tomorrow.

Thank you to everyone who donated their shoes this morning.  We've gathered well over 50 pairs with more to come! These will be winging their way over to Sal's Shoes in the holidays where they'll be distributed to new, happy feet!

We finished the year with a spectacular Speech Day this morning.  Thank you to our guest speaker, David Harkins, 8billionideas for his inspiring words which left us all feeling empowered that we have brilliant ideas inside us.  Best of luck to our Year 6 leavers.  We're so sad to see you go, but we know you're so ready for the opportunities waiting for you at your new schools.  Wishing our entire community a very happy Summer holidays!

An incredible day for Year 6 and their families at the Gathering of Goblins 2024 at Goodwood on Saturday, where the children were able to showcase and race the two fantastic cars they've been buildingand designing over this academic year.  In amongst over 30 other schools, the children had to arrive early in the morning for scrutineering of their cars, then had a briefing of the races before taking part in races such as slalom, drag and a lap of champions.  A fantastic demonstration of teamwork and problem solving amongst the children and so much fun.  A day they'll all cherish.  Thank you the Greenpower Trust and to Goodwood for this fabulous event.

What a treat to have two nights of the most outstanding performances of Shrek!  The standard of acting, singing, dancing and comic timing was so high, it was hard to believe we were watching a prep school production!  Thank you so much to The Royal School for allowing us to borrow their wonderful theatre.  The children loved performing in such a professional environment.  Thank you so much also to Helen Maxwell, Katie Nicholls and Rachel Parker for producing such magic in our pupils and for the rest of the team for their support.  However, our biggest thanks, as ever, goes to our super children for working so hard in the run up to show nights and for giving it their absolute all exactly when it counted!  You are all super stars!