Category: Pre-Preparatory School

Highclare Home Science Experiment 6: Magic Boats

22nd June 2020

Today’s Highclare Home Science experiment is wonderfully simple but effective.  Watch your boat zoom off without a helping hand! A boat powered by soap, find the method attached here 6. Magic Boats and the method video below with science explanation, thank you Mrs Dudley, Lily and Joseph.

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin, Monday 22 June 2020

22nd June 2020

Good morning, Prep School family, Welcome to Monday! A new week and one that is hopefully going to be glorious weather wise. Don’t forget to make sure you are wearing sun cream, a hat and drinking lots of water. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. I had a lovely time. Mr Bennett and I…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin, Friday 19 June 2020

19th June 2020

Good morning, Prep School family, It is Friday! Whoop, whoop! That is another week gone by! I cannot believe how fast these weeks are going. Do you have anything exciting planned for the weekend? Don’t forget it is Father’s Day on Sunday so you need to make sure that you spoil your daddies, step-dads, grandads…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin, Thursday 18 June 2020

18th June 2020

Good morning, Prep School, It is Thursday! It’s very, very wet and the weather today is going to be wild! Rain and plenty of storms! I do love a thunderstorm though. I find nature so amazing. Have you seen some of the lightning over the past few days? It has been spectacular and the colours…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin, Wednesday 17 June 2020

17th June 2020

Good morning, Prep School family, Welcome to wonderful Wednesday! I hope you are well and enjoyed Tuesday! For me it was ‘one of those days’. It was lovely, don’t get me wrong and I had lots of fun in school but things just kept going wrong. Nothing major just lots of little things. I forgot…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin, Tuesday 16 June 2020

16th June 2020

Good morning, Prep School, It is Tuesday! Not many of you know that before I became a teacher, I was an archaeologist (for 5 months in Greece) and before that I used to work in a residential youth retreat centre in Berkshire. A little but like Edgmond Hall but with very slight focus on Christianity…

Highclare Home Science Experiment 5: Foaming Colour Change Potions

15th June 2020

Happy Monday! This week we are going to look at how we can find out if something is an acid or an alkali using red cabbage indicator. You will use your indicator and other kitchen liquids to make colourful and  foaming potions whilst learning how to neutralise an acidic solution. Take a look at the…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin, Monday 15 June 2020

15th June 2020

Good morning, Prep School family, Welcome to Monday! I hope this Bulletin finds you safe, well and rested after a lovely weekend. My weekend was fantastic – we managed to celebrate my dad’s birthday – outdoors, with a picnic as planned, and not a single drop of rain. The weather was glorious. We all had…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin, Friday 12 June 2020

12th June 2020

Good morning, Prep School, It’s Friyay!!! Can you believe another week has past us by. . .it’s been such a super week full of purpose and learning whether you have been in school or at home. Some of the examples of work that have been sent to me have been amazing and I have been…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin, Thursday 11 June 2020

11th June 2020

Good morning, Prep School, It is Thursday! Yesterday was a super day – I was very grateful and thankful for lots of little things that happened throughout my day. Nothing major happened at all, not even any bee drama to report! I like days like this! Firstly, in the morning, Mr Bennett made me a…