06-Sep-2010
Iona to play for Charlton F.C.
Sevenoaks Prep are proud to sponsor our very own Iona Cowie who has been selected to play for the Under 10 Charlton Womens team. To see Iona's profile on the Charlton Womens website click here.
While the first team grabs most of the headlines, there is a thriving girls academy. Girls receive guidance from experts in areas such as nutrition and health, and can use the City Learning Centre and the Greenwich Leisure gymnasium at The Valley for numerous educational and fitness programmes. There is also a series of football courses for girls, girls-only session in schools, and even a girls-only Charlton Challenge award scheme throughout the year. Good Luck for the season Iona !
05-Sep-2010
Prep teacher tells his story - Brian Morrow exposed "Inkathagate"
Many of you will know Brian Morrow who taught at the Prep for a number of years, what you might not know about our South African geography teacher is that he changed the course of South African history. Whilst working as police officer in the Durban Security Branch he secretly photocopied or stole incriminating documents that provided irrefutable evidence that the apartheid Government was funding Inkatha (the major political party in opposition to Nelson Mandela) via the Police, to fuel black on black political infighting. He and his wife Michelle fled to England in March 1991 where he passed the documents to the Guardian Newspaper making world headline news as the 'Inkathagate Scandal'
While at the Prep he was working with the British Intelligence Services MI5 and MI6 who provided protection and to whom Brian passed on accurate first hand information on the Government's covert efforts to prevent black majority rule in South Africa.
He has just published his book which is called To Protect and Serve . It is published by Unisa Press. ISBN: 9781868886050. For more information please click here.
02-Sep-2010
War Years at Sevenoaks Prep
Old boy tells of experiences at the School between 1939 - 45
We recently recieved a letter and a bundle of papers from Mr John Walters a friend of Andrew McDowall, an old boy of the school who sadly died in 2006. The papers were an account of life at Sevenoaks Prep during WW II. They tell an interesting story - see below for an excerpt or to read the whole account click here.
'The Battle of Britain took place during the Autumn of 1940 when our brave Fighter Pilots from Biggin Hill, West Malling and other Fighter Stations in Kent went up, considerably outnumbered, against the German Formations. During the summer holidays many of us were able to watch the Dog Fights over the Kent Countryside. It was great fun for us boys to collect the cannon shells and shrapnel that fell around the countryside and compare our collections with other boys when we returned to school. Our fighters were so successful that the Germans reverted to night bombing. Many people constructed dugout shelters in their gardens where they slept during the night raids. My father constructed bunks beneath the oak stairs on the ground floor where my mother, brother and I slept.
The most frightening part of the war for me was lying awake listening to the bombers circling around over Otford searching for their targets of the Railway or Fort Halstead, and then hearing the screech of bombs and the terrible explosions'