This week, we held the finals of the Year 3 to 6 Inter-House Bake-off 2017. The Bake-off this year started with a cookie round which attracted 96 entries – can you even imagine what my tummy felt like after tasting all those cookies! 32 children progressed into the 2nd round which was bread – based…
We are thrilled to announce that Year 6 pupil Ohemaa, is the Regional Winner of the National Young Writers’ Awards 2017. Ohemaa wrote an exhilarating story about what it might be like to live in the year 3017 read it here. Ohemaa’s English Teacher, Mrs Anike Chuard, encouraged her class to enter the…
The Year 3 trip to the Cotswold Wildlife Park was a great success! The giraffes were incredibly friendly and we had an amazing Habitats and Adaptations talk with the zoo keepers on otters, penguins, hornbill birds and a female sloth. The children had a lot of fun and will never forget this wonderful trip. See…
Year 5 recently had the opportunity to visit Roche Court near Salisbury. This wonderful sculpture park is positioned on the side of a gentle valley in the middle of rolling countryside. Not only did the children have around 60 amazing sculptures to contemplate but the curation of these works also drew their eye to the…
We arrived at the museum and had a quick run around the garden and spotted the great glass elevator. We enjoyed our packed lunches before heading into the museum. We were then greeted by Maddy and Julie who were impressed that we knew lots of the answers to their questions about Roald Dahl. We explored…
Our Manor Arts Council were extremely lucky today to spend an hour with Julia Roderick. Not only is she The Director of Participation at The City of London Sinfonia but also a Manor Prep old girl! Julia clearly loves her job, which involves working in The Arts, promoting the CLS, and quickly enthused our pupils…
On Wednesday 7 June, it was Year 2’s turn to discover a snack with a difference: the French ‘Goûter’ (or French Tea)! Mrs Bicarregui had prepared small sections of baguettes filled with squares of chocolate, a traditional French snack young children have in France for their afternoon tea when they come home from school. This…
On Wednesday 24 May, Year 1 children discovered a snack with a difference: the French ‘Goûter’ (or French Tea)! Mrs Bicarregui had prepared small sections of baguettes filled with squares of chocolate, a traditional French snack young children have in France for their afternoon tea when they come home from school. This was of course…
The children are in groups in maths lessons and are designing cookies to package, cost and sell. They started by choosing a section of the school as their target audience: EYFS, Years 1 and 2, Years 3 and 4, Years 5 and 6 or staff. They then designed and carried out a questionnaire to find…
On Saturday 20th May, the double county champion swimmers travelled to Guildford to compete in the ESSA Regional finals – the day they returned from their Year 6 residential trip to France! Our team competed in two races; the medley and freestyle relay. Getting the medley out of the way, they came 4th in their…
