Year 1

Another busy week!

March 25, 2019

We had a lovely time at the Apple Tree Hindu Temple in Crawley this week. The children did us all proud and were very good listeners during our time there. We asked many clever questions and listened to the answers with interest. We learnt the names of several Gods and joined in with some gentle [...]

Mindfulness Assembly

March 25, 2019

Years 1 & 2 enjoyed a special assembly taken by Year 7 pupils, Eva Z and Ella B, at which the older girls explained how to use the technique of PBS (pause, breathe, smile) to calm down and settle one’s mind. Eva & Ella were both very able and calm themselves, and used power point [...]

What are you reading this weekend?

March 25, 2019

What are you reading this weekend, and how important is reading to you? If you stop to think about it for a moment, it rapidly becomes clear how difficult our lives would be if we could not read. All of us read all the time, and most of the time, we are not really conscious [...]

International Day of Happiness

March 21, 2019

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

Georgia O Keeffe Art

March 18, 2019

This week we have been learning about the parts of a plant and those that we can safely eat. We have examined a variety of fruits and vegetables and realised that we eat flowers, stems, leaves, seeds and seed pods, roots and tubers! All very exciting! We have looked closely at flowers and painted them [...]

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 [...]

Forest School Fun!

March 11, 2019

The children have enjoyed an exciting Book Week…reading stories in our classroom dens, designing book covers and writing their own stories and comic strips about ‘Dilly the dinosaur’……..the naughtiest dinosaur in the world! How fantastic the costumes of both classes looked on World Book day too! In maths the children have been working on using [...]

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 [...]