Category: Pre-Preparatory School

Highclare Preparatory School Advent Calendar 2019

10th December 2019

Highclare Preparatory School pupils from Cygents to Yr6 and staff are thoroughly enjoying the Highclare Christmas Advent Calendar Challenge this year. Don’t forget to tag @Highclare_Prep in any photo’s of you taking part in the activities.

Pre-Prep Christmas Workshop

10th December 2019

Cygnets at Highclare Preparatory School: Woodfield thoroughly enjoyed their Christmas workshop last week.  An opportunity to share their pre-prep with family and friends, the room was filled with music, singing, laughter, crafts, glitter, friends and family! What a perfect way to spend the afternoon.  

Yr5 and Yr6 Arts Recital Evening 2019

26th November 2019

Last week Highclare Preparatory School musicians and LAMDA pupils took part in the Yr5 and Yr6 Arts Recital Evening. The standard of the performances throughout the events was outstanding.  Family and friends enjoyed a wide variety of instruments, diverse styles of music and vocal performances.  As always the LAMDA performances complemented the musical performances with…

Preparatory School Watercolour Club

26th November 2019

Highclare Preparatory School pupils have been working hard perfecting their watercolour painting skills during their weekly watercolour club. Pupils have been using a template to create the watercolour image on Christmas cards, then decorated them. Pupils are now creating intricate Christmas pictures with fine brushes to hone their skills. This term they have also painted…

Prep Pupils Qualify For Next Stage Of uTalk’s Junior Language Challenge

20th November 2019

Pupils in Years 4-6 at Highclare Preparatory School have made a fantastic start to competing in uTalk’s Junior Language Challenge, a national app based language learning competition. Many have already scored high enough to qualify for the next round which will take place after Christmas. Children are introduced to new vocabulary on different topics in…

Highclare Preparatory School Pupils Scoop National Art Prize

20th November 2019

Highclare Preparatory School is delighted to be celebrating national success at the recent prestigious ISA National Art Competition. The ISA National Art Competition is an annual competition and provides a wonderful opportunity for Highclare pupils of all ages to showcase their art at regional and national events. With over 2000 entries, covering different age groups…

Pre-Prep Learn About Christingle

20th November 2019

Pre-Prep pupils enjoyed a visit from Rev Cath recently who spoke to the children about the meaning of a Christingle. Dressed as an orange, Swans helped Rev Cath attach different parts as they learnt the meaning of each. The orange is the world, the red ribbon represents Jesus, the fruit represents our needs being met…

Yr4 Focus On Buddhism

13th November 2019

To mark the end of their fascinating ‘Buddhism’ topic in RE, Yr4P welcomed Mr Whitham, our peripatetic guitar teacher to talk about his Buddhist faith. The class were interested to find out about the reasons why Mr Whitham chose to become a Buddhist, how he worships at home and at the temple, and were very…

Highclare Highlights: Gymnastics #OneToWatch

13th November 2019

Congratulations Highclare Preparatory School pupil Lily Dudley on her fantastic gymnastic achievements.  On Sunday Lily came 5th at the British Gymnastics National Voluntary Finals for Level 4 and now has an official GB ranking of 8th for this year.  As well as impressive individual achievements Lily qualified to represent the West Midlands with the team…