Month: January 2022

Year 7 Parents’ Evenings in The Studio: Tuesday, 1 February From  5.30pm – 7.0opm All 7A and 7B with surnames A-G Thursday, 3 February From  5.30pm – 7.0opm 7B only with surnames M-W and All 7C Mr Piercy and Mrs Dunlop will not be available on Thursday evening due to prior arrangements. Mrs Dunlop will…

The Science Department is excited to announce a number of bespoke workshops at Tonbridge School Barton Science Centre. This is an excellent opportunity for the boys to spend time in one of the best and most modern school laboratories in the country and can only enhance the boys’ understanding of key syllabus topics and enthuse…

10 February 2022 On Thursday, 10 February, The Pre-Prep are lucky enough to be having a visit from the best selling author Philip Ardagh. He has written many fiction and non-fiction children’s books for a range of ages. Some of his best known are the The Grunts series and The Eddie Dickens series.  There will…

To raise awareness for the NSPCC, ‘speak out, stay safe’ campaign, we are participating in Number Day 2022 on Friday, 4 February. Please see poster for more details.

This week we have had seven of our Year 8 boys competing for Scholarships at Tonbridge School. Sport: William S; George S; Joshua D; Huw T (well done to Huw for participating on the day with a knee injury sustained at the Tonbridge Rugby Festival) Drama: Toby S; Huw T DT: Guy G Art: James D…

There is a wonderful tradition of chapel choir tours with our boys having sung in St. Peter’s The Vatican, St. Mark’s Venice, and Dubrovnik Cathedral.  With the world seemingly opening again for school trips we are optimistic that we might return to Dubrovnik in October.  This opportunity (with limited places) will be open to current…

On Sunday, our New Beacon squad of 16 rugby players gathered to play in the annual Tonbridge Rugby Festival. The 3 matches in which we played were keenly contested and all of the squad got a fair amount of game time, some, however, slightly less than others due to injuries. We competed against Yardley Court,…

On Thursday the Year 8 librarians, along with Mrs Piercy and Mrs Yeats-Brown, visited the Sevenoaks bookshop to restock the library and ensure we have books based on all the new curriculum for CPSHE.  The boys had a great time helping to choose books and were rewarded with hot chocolate and cake!  Mrs Yeats-Brown was…

This week your son has been learning the days of the week and some hobbies in German.  Ask him to show you the timetable he has made. Encourage him to share with you the new questions he has learnt as well as his answers. He can practise the days of the week by watching this video:…

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