Year 1

Year 1 News – Week 1 – Autumn Term 2019

September 7, 2019

We have enjoyed a very busy time in Year 1 this first week back, learning our new classroom routines and getting to know the new adults we will be working with. We have been counting on and back and recording numerals really carefully – trying to remember the correct way to form them. Our new [...]

Harvest Time!

June 17, 2019

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 the ground in the soil. Mrs Frith’s class found rather more that Mrs Lock’s, almost double in fact and Mrs Frith won the heaviest crop [...]

Confidence – Opportunity – Potential

June 17, 2019

“Thank you for taking my daughter to Wales and giving her such an incredible opportunity. When she came home she seemed 5 years older! She had the time of her life and has not stopped talking about it since. She returned full of confidence and a belief that she can do anything.” (Year 7 mum) [...]

Wellbeing at Copthorne Prep School

May 23, 2019

“Copthorne Prep School is proud to announce that we have entered the Independent School of the Year for Wellbeing. As part of our submission, we have made this video which sums up the passion and importance we place on all our children’s mental health and wellbeing.” Mrs Lee Director of Wellbeing

Outstanding LAMDA Results

May 17, 2019

Mrs Flower and I were delighted with the LAMDA results that arrived this week for the students who sat their examinations in March, just before Easter. They achieved 100% pass rate and some extremely impressive marks including 100% for Rosie E, Matilda H and Harley B which is both rare and outstanding. We were particularly [...]

Wakehurst Place Visit

May 7, 2019

This week we had a wonderful visit to Wakehurst Place. We took part in a variety of science based activities. Firstly we learnt that we all eat an awful lot of food which comes from plants…..rice…popcorn….flour….jam … naming just a few. We then went on to use microscopes and magnifiers to look at lots of [...]

If only the Earth were a few feet in diameter …

May 7, 2019

If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it, marvelling at its big pools of water, its little pools and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps [...]

A week of achievements

May 7, 2019

This week has brought much excitement to Reception with the first of the eggs hatching and following Earth Day, there have been ongoing discussions in all sections of the school about what more we as a school can do to develop our “green and sustainable” credentials. Battery recycling is a new initiative and children should [...]

Welcome back to the Summer Term!

April 30, 2019

I hope all your children have enjoyed the first week back after the glorious weather of the Easter long weekend. We have packed a lot into the first 4 days with an Easter story assembly; early season cricket; the first block fixture of girls soccer; two wonderfully amusing and well performed Year 6 drama evenings, [...]