Pre-Prep Life

Nursery discover Forest School

Mrs Mikail-Jones introduced the children to the delights of a Forest School Lesson. The adventure clothes were donned and some of the exciting learning experiences were discussed, including toasting marshmallows. The important rules were chatted about to keep everybody safe and the children listened intently. The Early Years Forest School area was explored and investigated by all of the children, and they all had a super inaugural experience.

Nursery experiment in chemistry

Boys and girls in nursery played together with all sorts of soft and squishy, hard and cold materials as they were introduced to science from Senior School chemistry teachers Dr Brogden and Mrs Chanter. Usually the teachers would come to the nursery to show them all the materials in person, but this year the children watched a pre-recorded video of them opening the boxes. The children then got to see what objects were in the boxes and had a play and feel of the textures. It’s safe to say it got very messy when the cornflour and water mix came out. They scraped through the mixture to watch it magically reassemble itself. The slime was also a highlight, mixing the red and blue colours to make a purple goo.

Pre-Prep Life

Year 1 Victorian Day

There were chimney sweeps and maids everywhere in the Pre-Prep playground on one December day. On Victorian Day, Year 1 dressed up in Victorian outfits and learned what life was like for children and families during that era.

They had a traditional tea party, eating cucumber sandwiches they had made earlier in the day, and tasty cupcakes and gingerbread biscuits that they had also baked for dessert.

Year 2 Virtual Carol Concert

Towards the end of term, Year 2 pupils were very excited to virtually welcome their loved ones into the classroom, who watched them perform their carol concert over Teams.

Pre-Prep parties

The entire Pre-Prep enjoyed a week of Christmas parties in their grouped bubbles. The children played Pass the Parcel, donned their Christmas cracker hats, ate tasty snacks and tried their best to ‘freeze’ in musical statues, a little difficult with all the excitement in the air…

Premiere DVD night

Year 2 were treated to an extra special ‘premiere’ DVD night in, where they enjoyed pizza, snacks and hot chocolates whilst watching the much-anticipated launch of the Pre-Prep Nativity.

Film Director Mr Caddis joined in on the blue carpet, and was thanked by the staff and children for all his amazing help in filming and editing the production.

The children enjoyed watching, laughing and singing along to all their Nativity songs.