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To raise awareness of Safer Internet Day, pupils in Years 5, 6 and 7 have been busy producing their own posters and videos to share with the rest of the school. During Rest yesterday, Mr Andrews hosted a Kahoot! quiz designed by Henry and Ruby, while Oliver and Harry collaborated on a short video about internet safety and Caspian designed his own poster – bravo to you all!
The results are in! Congratulations to our entire school community for getting behind last week’s Prep School Strava Challenge with such trademark spirit; the final standings put us in 1st place with an incredible 37.5km per person average, followed by All Hallows with 30.24km and King’s Hall with 26.19km. Special mention to the Adams, Walsh and Wareham families for their impressive distances – and to Ms Williams for well over seven hours on her bike. Huge thanks to Mr Lewis and all at King’s College Taunton for leading the event, and to our friends at All Hallows and King’s Hall for bringing some fun and excitement to the week. We can’t wait to see you all soon.
Our informal concerts (aka Pupils’ Party Pieces) have been continuing remotely during lockdown, with Mr Shortman likening them to being sat around the piano at home, enjoying each other’s music. From Hugo’s rendition of Rigadoon on the flute to Grace’s incredible performance of Satisfied from Hamilton, it was great to see such talent, enthusiasm and camaraderie between pupils on Wednesday evening. These weekly concerts are open to any pupil in Years 3-8 who wants to perform but be quick – next week’s is booked up already!
Many thanks to old Radleian, Ben Robinson, who delivered a fascinating lecture to Years 3-8 last week about his expedition along the length of Africa from Morocco to Cape Town. Ben, an engineering graduate, covered over 50,000 kilometres in a journey that spanned no fewer than eighteen countries. Thanks, Ben, for an engaging and insightful talk!
Monday saw the launch of this week’s Inter-Prep School Fixture on Strava. Run by King’s College Taunton, the idea is to bring together the prep school sporting communities at Perrott Hill, King’s Hall and All Hallows – and it’s open to all staff, pupils and parents. All Hallows have taken an early lead averaging 8.22km per participant, we are marginally behind on 8.1km and King’s Hall are on 7.1km average. It’s all to play for though and we’re looking forward to getting some more miles on the clock!
Royalists can sleep a little easier in their beds following the outcome of last week’s inaugural virtual debate. Tommy, Florence and Fred’s proposition that the monarchy be abolished was narrowly defeated by their opponents Grace, Tin and Ben in a hotly contested debate. Many congratulations to our speakers who all spoke fluently and persuasively and to chairman George who did an excellent job of keeping the proceedings on track. Last, but by no means least, a big thank you to Mrs Byrne who helped the children prepare their speeches.
Scholarship season is in full swing and we are delighted to share the news that seven of our senior pupils – Otis, Levi, Annabel, Grace, Ashtyn, Tommy and Erica – have been awarded scholarships and awards to King’s Bruton. Very well done to you all and good luck to those pupils yet to sit their exams!
We took over the airwaves on Thursday for our very first Perrott radio show, superbly hosted by Mr Renyard and Mrs Smith from Welly Radio at Wellington School. The show opened with ‘I want to break free’ by Queen (an inspired choice from the Headmaster) and we were let into a little secret afterwards – that Mrs Smith was a dancer in the original video! That’s what we call hidden talent… The show was so popular that we couldn’t fit all the song requests and messages in, so tune in tomorrow (Tuesday) when we’ll be back from 1700-1800. All OPHs, friends and families are very welcome to join us so get in touch if you’d like the link – song requests and shout outs are very much welcomed too!
The excitement is mounting for our Virtual Open Morning on Friday and all interested friends and families are warmly invited to join us! Our new virtual tour will feature a welcome from our Headmaster alongside exclusive content from our pupils and parents. Following the tour, parents will be given the opportunity to have 1-1 calls with our Headmaster and senior staff. For further information and to register your interest, please email our Admissions Registrar, Camilla, on admissions@perrotthill.com.
Upper Prep pupils delved into the world of neuroscience last week, courtesy of OPH Harvey Walsh. Harvey, who left Perrott Hill in 2010 and went onto King’s College Taunton before undertaking a BSc and MSc at the University of Birmingham, spoke to senior pupils about his fascinating research into the human brain. Harvey is now at home in Haselbury Plucknett until he can fly out to New Zealand, where he has secured funding to complete a PhD in Neurovascular Physiology at the University of Auckland. It was a highly engaging and motivating talk which sparked lots of great questions from the floor. Thank you, Harvey – we’d love to hear more soon!
