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Great fun at lunch today as we celebrated the French tradition of marking the end of the festive season by eating the Galette des Rois (King’s cake). Each cake has a charm hidden inside it and the youngest pupil on each table had to hide under the table and call out to the person cutting the cake who should receive which piece (all in French, of course!). Whoever found the charm in their piece of cake named their king or queen, who in turn wore a crown for the rest of the day. Everyone had great fun, even though some of the youngest pupils were a little surprised to be hanging out under the dining room tables!

In English Year 2 are learning about commands and instructions. The children wrote commands for each other today, which resulted in some rather interesting actions around the classroom! What fun!

Year 5 spent their first Computing lesson of the term learning how to use our fabulous new Chromebooks. Thank you so much to FOSI (our parent body) for raising the funds to buy them - they’ll be invaluable for the children’s learning in all subjects.

The term ended with a Christmas run in aid of Phyllis Tuckwell in which the whole school participated, bringing in their own Christmas headgear to be more environmentally friendly. We managed to capture this shot of our Pre-Prep angels . Have a wonderful Christmas everyone and a well-deserved break. We can’t wait to see you in 2023!

Miss Green has treated Year 1 to a wonderful book advent calendar. Every day throughout December the children have taken it in turns to unwrap a present from around their little Christmas tree. Each present contains a book, which is then read out to the class as a special treat. Thank you Miss Green for this lovely idea!

Year 5 have enjoyed learning a new technique with chalks this week and created their own Northern Lights creations. They have been learning about saturated colour inspired by the light up trails at Cowdray and taken inspiration from Jules de Balincourt’s work on his trees and branches. The colours they have created just ‘pop’ and they have produced some stunning work! Well done Year 5!

Year 6 explored how to change the density of water by adding salt to make a saturated solution. They investigated making a coloured tower of water from salt and fresh water to show the different densities.

We’re all feeling so Christmassy now, having worn our Christmas jumpers all day, sung carols around the tree and enjoyed our Christmas lunch. Thank you so much to Chef Fernando and the team - it was delicious! Two more days to go, with a lot more Christmas fun to come!

Our Nursery children had a wonderful Christmas Party this morning, playing lots of traditional games, such as pass the parcel, musical bumps and musical statues. Their firm favourite, however, was making balloons jump on the parachute. Their laughter and screams could be heard over the valley!

Fabulous Christmas parties on Friday for the whole school organised by our brilliant parent body (FOSI). Thank you so much for all your hard work - the children loved it!