Reception

International Day of Happiness

March 21, 2019

Learning and teaching makes us happy! #internationaldayofhappiness #learningisfun #inspiredteaching

Mother’s Day Pictures

March 18, 2019

What a wet and windy week we have had, leading to two date changes for our Bockett’s Farm trip; fingers crossed for a dry day next Tuesday! Our seeds are growing really well and are ready to take home and pot up. We have discussed the country code and the children were able to talk [...]

Stars of the Week

March 18, 2019

2EPS – Sammy – Excellent Samuel Pepys diary & helping other with Shelton’s code 2DP – Rohan – Great diary writing for Samuel Pepys 1HL – Ilyes – A good, flowing Dilly comic strip story 1CF – Rian – Wonderful scientific work with plants RJD – Max – Fantastic RWI reading and writing RJB – [...]

Pelicans, Kew Gardens, Old Boys and Red Noses!

March 18, 2019

Yet more girls sporting success from the magnificent Under 11 girls netball team last Friday when they were victorious in the Brighton College Pelican Cup netball competition – seeing off all challengers with relative ease. This is good practice for the forthcoming IAPS National Netball finals next Thursday – Good luck! Katie F and Jennifer [...]

Pancake Day

March 11, 2019

This week has been a very exciting week in Reception. We have well and truly embraced book week, and had great fun designed our own aliens, making spaceship biscuits and playing a musical bumps game on lily pads. The children also wrote their own shopping lists after the tiger devoured all the food in the [...]

World Book Day

March 8, 2019

A HUGE thank you to all children and parents for the amazing costumes on World Book Day. Nursery to Year 4 welcomed author Tony Bradman in to talk about his books and both children and staff thoroughly enjoyed his visit. In the Prep School we designed some fabulous bunting for the library, using our favourite [...]

‘Transforming young lives’

March 8, 2019

I was lucky enough to attend this incredibly insightful and forward thinking conference at Christ’s Hospital. It began with a thought provoking speech from Jim Gamble (Senior British Police Officer) on the challenge of safeguarding in the digital world. He talked about the importance of teaching young children to have strong passwords – ‘stronger is [...]

A typically busy week!

March 8, 2019

This week has been another typically busy, productive and successful five days, highlighted by a wonderful World Book Day yesterday, with creative costumes in abundance from children and staff plus a visit from author Tony Bradman. You will find lots of photos in the Photo Gallery. Don’t forget to look at the video (on social [...]

Why Farmers have Scarecrows!

March 4, 2019

This week we have been looking at what farmers do, thinking in particular about planting seeds and growing crops. We talked about why farmers have scarecrows and then made our own. We’ve had our green fingers out again as we planted some vegetable seeds and some of the children have been telling us how well [...]