Month: January 2020
Year 2
Year 2 The children were intrigued when they returned to school and their classrooms looked like they had been frozen with icicles and even some snow flakes. A lost, lonely penguin was found by each class so we wrote a ‘Found’ poster describing where we thought the penguin lived. They have been captivated by our…
Year 1
The children have returned to school very happy and they were very pleased to see their friends. We have been talking about our New Year’s resolutions, many of which have included helping around the house, recycling more, tidying up and helping with the washing up. We look forward to hearing if the children have kept…
Reception
Welcome back to all Reception children. There has been a constant chorus of chatter filled with excitement since we came back. The children have shared fantastic stories about their wonderful Christmas holiday and Santa seems to have spoiled everyone thoroughly this year! We have written our first holiday news this week and we all tried…
Nursery
Nursery Acorns and Pippins class have all settled back into school beautifully. We are pleased to welcome Suraya, Lola and Ebba to our happy classes and look forward to welcoming some others in the coming weeks. This week in Forest Fun we made some really beautiful pictures using sticks and spray paint which looked good enough…
Drama
Year 5 were practising their expressions in the mirror in Drama today. They practised sorrow, guilt, joy, disgust, love, anger and pity. Their peers then had to guess what expression they were showing and they had such fun whilst doing so!
In History this week year 4 have been learning about Roman gladiators. They were amazed that people enjoyed watching gladiators fight to the death and even against lions! They learnt interesting facts by playing board games! Learning with board games is fun, engaging and helps develop social and communication skills!
Abseiling
Last night the boarding pupils had a blast abseiling together!
New sculptures at Copthorne Prep
Welcome back! We hope you had a fantastic Christmas and a great start to the New Year! You may have noticed the amazing bumblebee willow sculptures by the pavilion this morning … our Prep pupils made these during Arts Week with the help of Tim Norris, an outdoor sculptural artist. Members of the general public…