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On Friday, the Year 5 girls took over the top floor for their Loft Night, featuring a film with tuck and lots of laughter. Big thanks to Dr L-C and the boarding team for a brilliant evening. On Saturday, Years 6-8 descended for their activity weekend with Mr Edgar, Miss Hand and the Grads, which […]
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Year 3 have been learning about how Athena came to be the patron goddess of Athens in their classical civilisation lessons with Dr Longley-Cook. Last week, they reconstructed the pediment of the Parthenon which shows the contest of Athena and Poseidon for the city. labor magnificus, omnes!
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In the run up to Valentine’s Day earlier this month, Year 1 looked at the work of American artist, Jim Dine. Jim’s vast body of work includes painting, drawing, printmaking (including etchings, letterpress and linocuts), sculpture and photography, with ‘hearts’ featuring as a theme in many of his works. The children were inspired to explore […]
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Congratulations to our Year 7 pupils for their fantastic contributions to this year’s Public Speaking Competition. Pupils were asked to imagine that thirteen famous men and woman, whose lives have left a significant legacy, were travelling together in a hot air balloon. Only hours into the flight, a mechanical fault is detected causing the balloon […]
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We are now inviting applications for our 9+ and 11+ Scholarship Day on Thursday 3rd March. These awards are aimed at children currently in Years 4 and 6 (going into Years 5 and 7 in September) who can demonstrate significant potential in one or more areas of school life. Please contact our Admissions Assistant, Scarlett, […]
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Year 5 put their French into practice last week with Madame Brooks’ sandwich challenge! The children were given a recipe in French and had to follow the instructions (including asking for the correct ingredients) to make their sandwich. Very well done to the winners (including Evie, Saba, Tilly and Arabella in 5LC – not pictured) […]
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Well done to pupils in Year 7, who led a section assembly last week on endangered animals. Working in groups, they prepared their own PowerPoints and gave a presentation to Years 6 and 8 about an endangered animal they’d been researching. The animals included takins, giraffes, elephants, giant pandas and hedgehogs!
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Many thanks to Wells Cathedral School and Bryanston for a cracking day of sport in the sunshine on Wednedsay. The boys enjoyed some top hockey matches here at Perrott, while the girls took part in the U13 and U11 Netball Tournament at Bryanston. All eyes are now on tomorrow afternoon’s lacrosse training session with Miss […]
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We are extremely proud to introduce our Head Boy and Girl, Freddie and Eleanor, and Prefects for this term. Our Heads of School and Prefects are appointed in recognition of their personal qualities and efforts and, following their first meeting with Mr McCullough and Mr Silk, the team are raring to represent the school. As […]
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Three cheers for our amazing catering team for a delicious Christmas lunch with all the trimmings this week. We might have been depleted in numbers, but we more than made up for it in Christmas spirit: the festive jumpers were out in force! Many thanks too, to our incredible staff who have worked tirelessly to […]
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