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Headmaster’s Notes – Teamwork makes the dream work
We witnessed a wonderful celebration of sporting talent with our Sports Awards assembly in Friday Prayers this morning, recognising the very best of discipline, resilience, respect, leadership and, of course, teamwork that we have had the pleasure to observe throughout the academic year. Steve Jobs declared that “Great things in business are never done by…
Hampshire Life Magazine
Headmaster, Mr Thacker was recently featured in Hampshire Life Magazine as one of Hampshire’s Leading Men in a series that celebrate both forward thinking Women and Men of Hampshire. View the feature here
Headmaster’s Notes – The Power of Community
It never ceases to amaze me what is achieved in one week at Prince’s Mead. On the musical front, thank you to our choir who entertained guests at the Bishop’s Tea Party at Wolvesey Palace. We have received so many positive comments from the Bishop and guests alike. Our Digital Leaders enjoyed a fantastic afternoon…
Headmaster’s Notes – Life is an adventure, not a package tour
A very warm welcome back from the half-term break. It has been an incredible week for our older children. Year 6 have enjoyed a week of water-based activities at Rockley and Year 5 have been deep in the forests of Oxfordshire; living off the land. Witnessing pupils around the campfire yesterday on their Bushcraft adventure…
Apple Inc & Prince’s Mead Coding Challenge
‘On Tuesday the whole of year six went to Apple in West Quay for a fun day of coding. We were lucky enough to trial the latest version of Swift Playground, a game building app. The aim of the app is to understand and build your coding skills by making you go through a series…
National Sailing Regatta School Win!
Congratulations must go to our fifteen Sailing Club sailors who achieved podium positions in the annual IAPS U11s National Sailing Regatta at the Andrew Simpson Watersports Centre. Huge congratulations to the Zest team and Mr White! An excellent all-round sailing performance on a beautiful afternoon.
Runners Up! Prep School Choir of the Year 2019
On Wednesday, we had the privilege to compete in the Prep Schools’ Choir of the Year Competition. Set in Cadogan Hall in the heart of Chelsea and home of the Royal Philharmonic orchestra, pupils sung to a sell-out audience who enjoyed a spectacular choral celebration. The standard was high as over 300 choristers from…
Headmaster’s Notes – Good food is wise medicine
We know that food is the ingredient that binds us together and this last week I had the pleasure of witnessing our Food Committee doing exactly that and enjoying a veritable feast as they put their taste buds to the test sampling the quality and range of fresh food on offer from all three of…
Artist of the Month
Congratulations to our Artist of the Month, William Shepherd in Year 3. The children have looked at the work of the illustrator Catherine Rayner particularly her book called “Posy”. William tried very hard to draw different cats in the style of Catherine Rayner. A lot of time was spend rubbing out and re-working cats in…
Headmaster’s Notes – A Note-worthy Success
On Wednesday, we had the privilege to compete in the Prep Schools’ Choir of the Year competition. Set in Cadogan Hall in the heart of Chelsea and home of the Royal Philharmonic orchestra, pupils sung to a sell-out audience who enjoyed a spectacular choral celebration. The standard was high as over 300 choristers from a…
