Category: News
Nativity: Everyone Loves a Baby
At a Bethlehem Inn, six children live with their parents – a kind innkeeper and his wife, who have just had a new baby. But the children aren’t too keen on the new addition. They’d rather have a dog, a donkey, or even a camel! In an effort to escape all the baby talk, the…
The Duke Awards
Children from Years 1 – 6 are now in possession of their Duke Award books. Further to my assembly earlier in the year, the Duke Awards are a scheme of 10 components designed to foster resilience and independence in children. This programme is voluntary and runs independently to the school curriculum, although the skills developed…
Green Power Car
Greenpower Education Trust is a UK based charity which gets young people enthusiastic about science and engineering by challenging groups of children to design, build and race an electric car. At Prince’s Mead we started a Greenpower club which has been running every Monday after school. Currently there are 6 members consisting of Theo, Oliver,…
Year 5 Visit to the Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth
On Tuesday 19th November Year 5 enjoyed a fantastic day at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth. We took part in a hands-on classroom session, where we got to meet the ship’s crew through replica artefacts and costumes and we were all captivated by the salvaged shipwreck itself, the thousands of genuine artefacts found on…
Year 5 Helvellyn Climb, Lake District
Helvellyn Climb Here are a few photos from our October adventure in the Lake District with Year 5 children and Mr. Thacker, Mr Greenaway, Mrs Windrum, Miss Williams, Mr Thomas, Mrs Jones and Mr Stuckey. We travelled up to the Lake District on Thursday 17th October, camped overnight near Thirlmere, before climbing the 950m mountain…
In The Press: New School Review from Muddy Stilettos
“The academics here are really very good, and definitely match up to (and even beat) some of the more known name schools in the area. Add to that the school also offers the 13+ pretesting for those who wish to have it”. Muddy Stilettos, Oct 2019 https://hants.muddystilettos.co.uk/kids/school-reviews/princes-mead/
Harvest Festival & Winchester Basics Bank Support Fund
This year our Harvest collection will be for the Winchester Basics Bank. They provide emergency food and clothes to individuals and families in need and aims to make appropriate resources available to the maximum number of people at their point of greatest need. We are asking all parents to bring along a contribution to our…
Breakfast For A Breakfast
The Breakfast for a Breakfast was initiated by our charity relationship with The Timothy Pruss School in Inungur, Tamil Nadu, India. Set up by a Prince’s Mead pupil a few years ago, we aim to raise money to provide extra breakast food for our sister school. On Tuesday 9th October we are inviting our years…
Cancelled: Stay and Play Event 4th October
*Sadly this event has had to be cancelled* 2/10/19 We warmly invite our current children and parents for a Stay and Play on a Friday afternoon after school. This is so we can have time to chat with other parents, the children can play without any timetable and see in the weekend after a…
Monty, Our Pastoral School Dog
We are very proud to introduce Monty. Our extremely popular new school dog. Monty our school dog comes to school every Tuesday and Thursday with his owner and Head of Pastoral Care, Mrs Jones, to play with as select group of children at playtimes. By having a dog in school, we want to encourage those…
