Category: Preparatory School
April Good Reads
Are you addicted to your phone? If so, ‘How to Break Up with Your Phone’ is here to help. This book is a smart, practical and useful plan to help you conquer your mobile phone addiction in just 30 days. Award-winning science journalist Catherine Price tells us why social media is not great, the truth…
March Good Reads
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell This fantasy novel is about Christopher who visits his reclusive grandfather and witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. His grandfather is guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the…
February Good Reads
King Of Nothing – Nathanael Lessore Aimed at young adults, this book is both funny and moving. Written by a new author, Nathanael Lessore, it’s about Anton and his friends who are used to ruling the school. When Anton gets into serious trouble at school, he doesn’t really care, but his mum decides it’s time…
January Good Reads
This book is a really fun way to get a grasp of large chunks of history. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook add humour and wit to their subject and brim with a bottomless knowledge. Questions answered include ‘How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover’? And ‘What made Alfred the Great so great?’…
Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 17 December
Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was really busy with Christmas shopping, a trip to the hairdressers, finally getting our Christmas decorations up and seeing my dad. The highlight had to be though, our trip to Sherwood Forest – before you ask, no Robin Hood was spotted!…
Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 26 November
Good morning, Prep School family, I hope that this Bulletin finds you well and not too busy at this time of year. I hope you all had great weekends and no doubt many of you, like me, are already looking forward to the next one! I had a lovely weekend seeing lots of friends and…
Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 19 November
Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you are well and not too cold on this proper wintery November morning! Did you all have a good weekend? I had a busy, albeit very lovely, weekend. I spent lots of time trying to sort out the living room that has morphed into a dumping ground since…
Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 12 November
Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you are well and that you all had a super weekend. Our weekend was full of all things puppy! We spent time with Betty – taking her out and about and getting her used to new sounds, smells and places. She came to our local Remembrance Day parade…
Remembrance Day
It was an honour for us to take part in the Royal Sutton Coldfield service and parade on Sunday morning. There were also very moving assemblies last week from Y6 and in Senior School, with thanks to Mrs Quigley and Mr Smith who have beautiful renditions of The Last Post. They shall grow…
November Good Reads
The World at War was one of the greatest television series of all time on the Second World War. This book is a record of all interviews with the participants from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals and is a unique and irreplaceable oral history. Richard Holmes, the author, was one of Britain’s most…
