Month: April 2022

Monday, 9 May Mrs Bridges, Mrs Piercy and Mr Swann are very much looking forward to taking 6A and 6B to visit Lullingstone Roman Villa. We will arrive at the villa for 10.00am and spend approximately 2 hours there before returning to school in time for lunch. We will travel by minibus, although we will…

On Monday 9 May, Year 5 will be going to the Dry Hill Local Nature Reserve in Sevenoaks for a short Geography field trip.  The theme of this field trip is in keeping with the emphasis we have placed on map skills, geology and the local area in the curriculum for Geography. The journey: We…

23 – 27 March 2024 Please note these dates are different from those advertised last week!   Places are filling up fast for the Iceland Adventure 2024.  A reminder that you can find information about this trip on the school website. Boys who are eligible to apply to join us will be those boys who…

We would like to give you further details of our PRE PREP GRANDPARENTS’ AFTERNOON which will take place on Thursday, 16 June from 2.30pm to 3.30pm. We know that this event has not been possible for the past two years, and so we are inviting the whole Pre Prep this year.  If Grandparents are unable…

Our Chapel Choir will be singing May morning madrigals – a la Magdalen College, Oxford –  from the flat roof between the music block and junior school for about 15 minutes from 8.10am. It is always lovely to have an audience of parents and boys so please do gather on the steps down to the…

The ‘Why Modern Boarding?’ event on Monday 16 May at the In and Out Club in London. Talk Education CEO, Joanna Parry George, will interview James Priory and Samantha Price. Our hope is that the evening will help parents to understand better the ethos which allows pupils to flourish as boarders in our schools during…

We are very excited to tell you that we have arranged a trip to Romshed Farm, Underriver on Wednesday, 4 May. The farm has very high standards of safety and hygiene and we have visited there many times.  Do feel free to look at their website – Romshed Farm, if you would like to know more about…

Our last trip to Iceland was sadly cancelled due to Covid19 restrictions, but nothing was going to stop us from this adventure! 30 boys and 4 staff members travelled on board Icelandair to Keflavik. The adventure got off to a good start when the captain made a point of thanking our boys for their exemplary…

Year 7 visited Canterbury Cathedral and King’s Canterbury School on Friday, 22 April.  Year 7 have been learning all about the Normans and Angevins this year, including the quarrel between Henry II and Thomas Becket. We had a guided tour of the Cathedral and stood in the very spot of Becket’s murder in 1170, admired…

Although we have just returned from our 2022 adventure, we are now planning ahead for 2024 and will need to book soon for obvious reasons – everyone has taken a shine to Iceland! The projected dates for this new adventure will be Thursday, 25 March to Monday, 29 March 2024 The boys eligible to apply…