Month: June 2019
Year 8 Enrichment Programme
Following their final examinations which took place before half term, Year 8 have begun their Enrichment Programme. It is designed specifically to enrich their learning, free from the constraints of…
Geography Field Trip for Year 7
The Year 7 pupils fresh from getting rained on in Snowdonia, set off to Birling Gap in East Sussex hoping for better weather on Monday to collect data for their…
Forest School in Year 3
Year 3 have been having some great sessions in forest schools over the past couple of weeks. Their problem solving skills were put to the test as they had to…
Boarding News
This week the boarders had a fantastic opportunity to undertake an activity they haven’t done before. We welcomed Craig Burgess (Head of Sport at Cumnor House), to deliver some forest…
Making Puppets
Sadly the unprecedented weather meant our trip to the RNLI and Rottingdean had to be postponed. (We are hoping to reinstate this trip in the penultimate week of term). Instead…
Harvest Time!
We have had a very exciting time this week as it was time to harvest our potatoes! Both classes were rather flabbergasted at the number of potatoes we found under…
Wow … what a result!
Very many congratulations to the latest group of Copthorne Chess Champions! For the first time in the cup’s history, our U7 team won the Sussex Junior Chess Cup, AND a…
Preparing for the Sun!
Although the weather has been atrocious, the children helped to set up the ice cream parlour ready for summer role play. In literacy we have all worked very hard to…