Category: News
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Update: Monday 24 Feb
Dear Parents I write to update and reassure you about the precautions our school community is taking to guard against the Novel Coronavirus outbreak. This advice is a further update to that issued by the School on 10th February. The welfare and wellbeing of our whole school community remain our priority. We are monitoring the…
Audience Tickets for BBC Songs of Praise Junior Choir of the Year 2020
General tickets for Song of Praise for Saturday 21st March at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry If you would like free audience tickets for the event, please follow the instructions below. The parents of the choir have already been allocated tickets. It’s one of our biggest events of the year! Come and support our Young Choirs…
What do our Teachers love to read?
We asked all our teachers and staff about the books that they loved reading when they were in school. They also told us about the latest books they love to read to children. What is your favourite book for children? Mrs Jones My favourite books as a child were Beatrix Potter books with…
BBC Songs of Praise Junior Choir of the Year 2020 Semi Finalists!
We are thrilled to announce that the Prince’s Mead Concert Choir has reached the semi-final of the BBC Songs of Praise Junior Choir of the Year 2020 Competition! Following the excitement of last year’s Prep School Choir of the Year competition in London where we were overjoyed with our runners-up position, the competitive bug…
Regional Finalists for the Great Big Dance Off Competition
The Prince’s Mead Dance Squad have secured a place in the regional finals of the Great Big Dance Off Competition!. The competition will be held in Oxford on Tuesday 17th March at New Theatre, Oxford. The dance squad train every Monday lunchtime. We are made up of children from years 2-5. We have spent…
Latest Press: WinchestHer Magazine
We are delighted that WinchestHer Magazine talked to us about what Winchester parents should consider when applying for a Nursery or School for their young children. They spoke to Head of Pre-Prep, Mrs Fecher, Head of EYFS, Mrs O’Siochain and Marketing Manager, Mrs Bennett in December. For the full article: http://bit.ly/2RMTu2m
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…
