As part of our Incredible Islands topic PP2 went on a trip to Whitby to compare life on the island of Coll with the coastal town of Whitby. We looked at land use in the town and compared facilities for …
The whole school enjoyed a lively demonstration, by peripatetic music teacher Mr Ball, of the wonderful array of instruments available to learn at school. Mr Ball started with the smallest instrument of the family, the trumpet, before working through the …
The boarding house welcomed a day of international flavours on Sunday! First we were treated to an authentic Spanish lunch of Plato Tortilla Tapa (tapas and Spanish omelette) prepared, cooked and served by Uxua and Iranzu. Everyone agreed it was …
Three teams of Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award candidates set off into the Yorkshire Dales for their practice expedition. Starting at Semer Water they camped overnight at Thoralby, before moving on to their final destination of Wensley. The groups all …
Following the success for Form 1’s trip to the White Rose Book Shop, Forms 2, 3 and 4 have taken up Mrs Lake’s kind invitation to stock up with new books for their class libraries. The children in each form …
Pupils in Form 1 were set the novel challenge last week of negotiating the play park area whilst blindfolded. Poppy and Amy helped to guide the children by giving verbal instructions. This was an eventful challenge that had the children …
Pre-Prep couldn’t believe their eyes when they returned after the holidays to see how much their sunflowers had shot up. The children in Gardening Club estimated their height but the flowers had grown so tall that they couldn’t reach to …
On Saturday mums, dads and children armed with pallets, tubes, planks and power tools came along to build dens in the Pre-Prep playground. The den soon started taking shape under the direction of some very enthusiastic dads and before long …
What a great start to our concert series this year. Many congratulations to all of our musicians who performed on Friday. It was very early in the term to ask people to perform, but we were treated to a wonderful …
Hot on the heals of celebrating the fantastic success of this year’s GCSE French students with them (every single pupil achieved an A or A*!), Mme Hunzinger treated a group of current Upper School pupils to a week’s excursion in France as …