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Hot on the heels of our special Advent service at St Martin’s Church in North Perrott, 44 of our pupils performed at an evening of Christmas Carols and Readings at Mapperton House. What a joyously informal evening of music making it was, concluding with a stonking rendition of ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’ with […]
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Our annual Year 7 Public Speaking Competition was a great success this month; each pupil had just two minutes to talk about the best human invention, using their powers of persuasion to convince our guest judge, Mr Giles Robinson from Sherborne School, that theirs should be chosen. Very well done to Jemima, who came 1st […]
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Earlier this month, our U9s celebrated a great morning at the Hazlegrove Hockey Tournament. They tried exceptionally hard, came second in their group to go through to the knockout stage and finished joint third place with Taunton School. Well done, girls – we are very proud of you.
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Former England and Bath prop forward and Director of Rugby at Millfield School, John Mallett, gave a brilliant coaching session to our Year 7 and 8 boys earlier in the term. One of his protégés at Millfield was Manu Tuilagi, who played for England in last Saturday’s fixture against Australia. ‘After all this time, he […]
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Years 3 to 8 benefited from a brilliant lecture by Perrott parent Peter Ginn this term, which took in his early days studying Egyptian archaeology as a student at University College London right up until his role as co-presenter of the acclaimed BBC Two ‘Historical Farm’ series. He gave a fascinating insight into what it takes […]
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Our Year 2 children took part in their first hockey match this term, alongside our friends at Sherborne Prep. What a brilliantly supportive atmosphere it was for all the children, who thoroughly enjoyed it and are now looking forward to many more matches to come!
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Years 2 to 8 enjoyed a stellar performance of French play ‘Ticket pour l’espace’ by the wonderful Onatti Productions this morning, featuring cameos by Alice and Ollie and a feature-length appearance by Eddie, who brought the house down. A career in improvisation beckons, Eddie! It was especially good to watch the play alongside our friends […]
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Our Senior Choir and Worship Band performed at the final stop of the Poppy of Honour’s tour of Somerset in Johnson Park, Yeovil, last week – and what an honour it was. The Poppy of Honour is a giant poppy made in Somerset, featuring the names of all 1,115,471 British and Commonwealth servicemen and women who died […]
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It was a pleasure to welcome our friends from local primary schools Ash, Chilthorne Domer, East Coker, Hambridge and Preston for our annual Year 6 Mock Trials, presided over by a team of real-life magistrates from the Yeovil Magistrates’ Court. This year’s defendant in the dock was the fictional Jackie Jones, who stood accused of dangerous driving, with […]
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Congratulations to our U11s, who played a blinder at the IAPS Rugby Festival at Sherborne School yesterday. The team won all seven matches, scoring over 20 tries without conceding. An incredible achievement! Many thanks to Sherborne for hosting, to the referees and other schools for providing some great competition and to Mr Sutherland for his superb […]
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