Month: February 2020

To mark this special day in the calendar, the Pre Prep and Junior School gathered together for the annual Shrove Tuesday assembly. Mr Snowdon explained the traditions of Shrove Tuesday and retold the story and explained the importance of this day. The children then enjoyed their Pancake Races. Children from Reception up to Year Four…

Just before half term we held the biannual ‘tableathon’ where every boy from year 3 to year 8 enters a timed tables challenge. The best in each class go through to a grand finale to find the fastest most accurate ‘tablers’ in the school. Round 1 was a 50 question test and round 2 consisted…

With some trepidation and much encouragement needed our boys experienced a Bush Tucker Trial courtesy of our innovative catering company Holroyd Howe. If anyone would like the recipe for Mealworm Brownies or Cricket Flapjack please do let us know!

Another fantastic Hockey day for the Under 11 A team, making it all the way to the cup final. The boys topped their group after winning 3 games and drawing 2. They scored 6 goals and conceded none! They started to play really well together as a team producing great Hockey and scoring fabulous goals….

Take a look at what we’ve been up to in Reception this week!

Look how busy we’ve been in the Nursery this week!

The New Beacon has been contacted by Love Productions; the company behind The Great British Bake Off, The Great British Sewing Bee and The Great Pottery Throw Down, with the following message: We are delighted to say, that we have recently opened applications for the 6th series of Junior Bake Off; a Channel 4 programme…

This week your son has learnt a simple way to ask for directions and the words for left, right and straight on.  He has also begun to learn a rather “groovy” song. Follow this link, and choose Chapter 9 so your son can practise the “Wegbeschreibungslied”. Mrs Stone    

In our club this week we revised what we learnt before: –  Colour in Chinese: red, yellow and green –  Fruits in Chinese: apple, banana and cucumber We learned the new words: –  Colour in Chinese: 12 colours –  Fruits in Chinese: 9 fruits Here is the link for learning fruits. Mrs Ren

This week your son practised clothing vocabulary and colours, playing games and answering “De qué color es…? (What colour is…?). We focused on uniform items. They listened and coloured a paper puppet. Then we played a traditional Spanish  game  “Lobo está?”, which you can find by following this link. Mrs Shoobridge