On Thursday 14 March we will be holding our Parents’ Evening for Years 7, 8 and 10 from 5.30pm – 8.00pm.  We invite you to come along to meet with your children’s teachers.  The evening will be based in New Road House where we will be serving light refreshments throughout. We hope that you are [...]

This term our Lower School students have been busy working with Drama teacher Deb to create some Christmas plays. The students themselves produced the ideas and the script and also made all their own props. Below are the plays that each year group put together and some pictures of the performances. Year 7 – Tomkins [...]

On Tuesday 13 November we will be holding our Parents’ Evening from 5:30pm – 8:00pm in New Road House where we will be serving refreshments throughout. We warmly invite you to come along to meet with your children’s teachers.  This year we are using an appointment system for the students to book specific time blocks with [...]

On the last day of term, Annika and our new sports teacher Jon Waite organised an activity morning for the Lower School. Unfortunately the weather didn’t quite hold out for us but they still managed to create a packed morning of activities to test our students’ puzzle solving skills and sporting prowess. Split into 4 [...]

Katharine has begun a biology project with the Year 7′s to help them understand the processes that make up the incubation cycle of chicken eggs. Her science lab is currently home to two incubators, where the students can observe the changes that they go through since they were placed there but we thought that everyone [...]

Last week Years 7 and 8 staged pantomimes in New Road House to the delight of parents and staff. Year 7′s take on Cinderella made stars of Oliver and Jude, who, as the ugly sisters, battled through petulent scenery to improvise a song-and-dance number that stole the show. The Year 8 show, which blended elements [...]

On Thursday this week, Carmel took Years 7 and 8 to London to prepare for their architecture art project in the New Year. Walking along Southbank they saw ionic Classicism, triumphant  Brutalism and the rising heights of the Shard. From the OXO building they got great views of the city and then skated in the [...]

On Thursday 3rd November Foundation students will be going with Mike Bloor to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, for a day studying the stars at the Royal Observatory. They will start in the planetarium, experiencing breathtaking views of the solar system before flying further out of the galaxy to the far reaches of the [...]

Thanks to all parents, students and staff who came to the Summer Festival last week. It is a lovely opportunity to show off the acheivements of our students and teachers – we had Media and Film presentations, the Art Exhibition, and the History department offered a fantastic programme of talks and displays.  And, of course, the diverse line [...]

We are starting to look forward to September and getting some extracurricular plans in place. I want to take this opportunity to gather interest for instrument tuition next year. It has been a successful year in this area. Encouraged by the practical, creative emphasis of Lower School music, and the opportunity to perform in the [...]