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Apple Inc & Prince’s Mead Coding Challenge

1st June 19

‘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!

1st June 19

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

20th May 19

  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

17th May 19

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

14th May 19

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

10th May 19

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…

Headmaster’s Notes – the importance of resilience

3rd May 19

We could not have asked for a more enjoyable start to the Summer Term. As the sun shone on the grounds on Monday morning, the children skipped into school sharing news of their holidays be it of our highly successful Normandy trip, IAPS Chess Championship performances, tales from the ski slopes or simply enjoying that…

Headmaster’s Notes – Changing Times

5th April 19

These past twelve weeks have simply flown by with an extraordinary breadth of highlights to celebrate. It was in this term that we received the wonderful news of our children’s scholarship success with 20 awards granted across Academic, Sport and the Arts and all our Year 6 pupils gaining entry to their first choice of…

Headmaster’s Notes – The best classroom in the world

29th March 19

This week has provided yet another fantastic opportunity for our pupils to showcase their musical creativity, talents, courage and team work in so many different areas. We have been treated to a Key Stage One Inter-House Quiz, School Music Festival, Music Festival Concert and a fabulous assembly in Friday Prayers this morning from 4M. Yesterday,…

Headmaster’s Notes – Busy Bees

22nd March 19

It was wonderful to be present at the Tea Time Concert this afternoon and to witness such a large number of pupils performing so confidently in front of their audience.  It is heart-warming to witness our young musicians flourishing in this area of the curriculum through the encouragement of Miss Williams and her outstanding team…