Year 5

Visitors from Tanzanian

February 15, 2019

We welcomed students from Tanzania this week! Year 7 and Year 4 were able to learn a lot about their country! Our visitors had fun teaching some of the Year 7’s a dance. Thank you for visiting us and sharing your country and culture with us..

House Matches

February 15, 2019

In positively spring like weather this week, the Year 3 to 6 boys were all involved in Rugby House Matches. The competition was fierce whether the version of the game was Tag or Contact, but played in excellent spirit throughout and good sportsmanship demonstrated both in victory and defeat. There was some fine handling on [...]

Sussex Butler Cup (U14) Chess

February 15, 2019

Our intrepid young chess players battled bravely against much older players as we managed to come second in our group that contained winners Cottesmore (all Year 8 players), Downland’s and St Richard’s (both with Year 8 and 9 players). Amelie, Rafe and Arun all scored 2 out of 3 points, with Taran 1 from 3. [...]

Reading Challenge

February 15, 2019

Excitement was off the scale in the Hunt household this week when Fleur (Year 1) really had to read five books so she could get onto 80, and her next Reading Challenge sticker! She is loving the challenge, and when her father pointed out that one book was quite a short book, Fleur said ‘Daddy, [...]

High Aspirations!

February 15, 2019

Year 7 & 8 exams, chess, swimming, Tom’s Talking Reptiles, police visit, Year 6 trip to the Europa Centre; five prospective parent tours following up from Open Morning and a ski trip information meeting on Valentine’s Day! Formal mid-year exams for our oldest pupils this week will show how they are progressing (and how effective [...]

This week in Art

February 8, 2019

It’s been another busy week in the Art Room. Year 3 have been looking at Henri Matisse’s cut outs. Year 6 have been busy painting their own Hockney landscapes. Year 8 Textiles group had a fab time tie dying their t-shirts!

Lifecoach News

February 8, 2019

I am not sure of the source for this, but read it and thought it appropriate …what with Valentine’s Day just around the corner. I heard someone on Radio 4 say this week “having kids is easy….loving them forever is the hardest part!” Parenting is a challenging job. It isn’t neat and tidy and child [...]

Open Morning

February 8, 2019

Thank you to everyone who came to our busy Open Morning and an especially huge thank you to the parents and children who helped as Guides and Ambassadors. Your support is very much appreciated! Also well done to all the children who performed their impressive LAMDA or music pieces. You were all a credit to [...]

A week in the life of a Headmaster!

February 8, 2019

Meetings, more meetings and First Aid! I seem to have been out of school more than I have been in school this week, with a trip to Chichester on Tuesday for an IAPS District 3 Head’s meeting, with sessions on Inspections, teacher recruitment, teachers pensions, ISEB pre-testing, the rise of girls’ cricket versus rounders and [...]