18-May-2012

Prep Idol 2012

Capacity audience wowed by amazing performers!

This year's Prep Idol was a resounding success. Not only were there more performers than ever before, but the audience was the biggest we've ever had. Twelve bands / performers wowed the crowd with some exceptional performances and a great deal of fun was had by all. Members of Form 8 launched their S.E.P businesses and did fantastically well by selling drinks, sweets, pizza and all manner of glow-in-the-dark trinkets. More details regarding how much money was raised and photos of the night will follow soon. We are thoroughly proud of everyone involved in the event, and would like thank all those who helped make Prep Idol 2012 the best one yet!
Mr Collings and Mr Pears

17-May-2012

Let's All Ride The Eye

Junior School Day Out In London

On Wednesday 16th May all of Reception, Form 1 and Form 2 went on a trip to London to ride the London Eye. We have been learning all about London as part of the Queen's Jubilee Year and this was a fantastic opportunity for the children to visit some of the attractions we have talked about.  As well as a ride on The Eye, we also walked along the Embankment and across Hungerford Bridge taking in the sights and some very welcome sunshine. It was a tremendous day and everyone throughly enjoyed the experience. We returned to school in a double-decker bus, tired but happy.

17-May-2012

Drum Concert

Monday 21st May, 4.15pm

The Drum Concert will be held on Monday 21st May at 4.15pm in The Studio. Refreshments will be available in The Oakery from 4.00pm. I hope that you will be able to come along and support the children. I look forward to seeing you.

Mr Kotz

16-May-2012

Ride Steady Cycling

Sky Ride Local Events come to Kent

There will be two Sky Ride Local events on Sunday 27th May in Farningham. These are both 'Ride Steady' short cycle rides for families and beginners and are a fantastic way to enjoy cycling, get some exercise and meet other members of the community. If you are interested in taking part please visit www.sevenoaks-cycleforum.org.uk/diary for more details.

15-May-2012

7Oaks Junior Aquathlon

Sunday 8th July

The 7Oaks Junior Aquathlon will be held on the afternoon of Sunday 8th July 2012 at Tonbridge School Sports Centre. An Aquathlon is a swim / run event. The competitor is continuously timed from the start of their swim, during the ‘transition’ (changeover) and until the end of the run. Entries are open to anyone born between January 1st 1996 and December 31st 2004. More information on the event can be seen on the 7Oaks Tri Club website (www.7oakstriclub.co.uk) including an FAQ which is very comprehensive and a link to online entry which is open now.

10-May-2012

The Big Dribble

Prep hockey players wish Team GB luck!

Last week a group of Sevenoaks Prep hockey players took part in 'The nPower Big Dribble' event held at The Vine Gardens in Sevenoaks.  Starting in Edinburgh, the Great Britain Hockey roadshow toured the country for 18 days and gave people of all ages and abilities the chance to pick up a stick and take part in the dribble.  Our girls also had the opportunity to wish Great Britain’s hockey teams ‘good luck’ ahead of the Olympic Games by writing a message on the giant inflatable hockey ball, which also travelled around Britain before it was presented to the GB teams at the end of the event.  Our girls had a great time and judging by the pictures, certainly demonstrated better hockey skills than Miss Lovegrove and Mr Oatley!!

09-May-2012

School Ski Trip

Plans are underway!

We are currently beginning to make preliminary plans for the Ski Trip which will be next Easter. All parents of pupils in Form 3 - 7 will have received an email about the trip today. If you are interested please let Mrs Jeremy know (via the office) as soon as possible as we currently have flights and hotel deals on hold. Many thanks.

04-May-2012

Start The Week With A Song

New time for choir!

It’s summer time and the children want to be outside at break times so I have decided to move choir rehearsals to Mondays from 8.25am - 8.55am. Singing is a great way to put yourself in a good mood and to feel energised for the week ahead, so please encourage your children to keep coming to choir. We are a team like any other and we depend on loyalty and commitment. Plus we are singing some great songs and there’s no chance of getting wet! The first rehearsal at the new time will be on Monday May 14th. Mr Kotz.

03-May-2012

Science is "Flying" at Sevenoaks Prep

Design An Aircraft Prizewinners

Sevenoaks School recently held a week-long programme of activities to celebrate Science and Technology Week. Their theme was 'Our World in Motion' and you may have noticed the fantastic aerobatic displays by the vintage aircraft over the school playing fields a few months ago. Sevenoaks Prep Year 6 pupils entered the Science poster competition which challenged them to 'Design an aircraft of the Future'. 3000 entries were received and from this, 10 prizes were awarded.

Sasha Cannon received first prize for her fabulous horse-themed poster and Peter Westbrooke was awarded a runners-up prize for his futuristic circular design. They both received some fantastic 'motion themed' prizes. Well done to you both!

30-Apr-2012

'SEP' Launch Evening

Form 8 are inspired!

Form 8 pupils, their parents and members of Amherst Rotary Club were addressed by Mr Pears (Headmaster Junior School), Tobias McBride (Tonbridge School pupil), Owen Hunnan (VINE Publishing) and Malcolm Elvines (President of Amherst Rotary). The evening was both thought-provoking and hugely inspirational as the audience heard stories of the incredible work of HOPEHIV (www.hopehiv.org) and the tremendous entrepreneurial success of Tobias McBride, who was part of the SEP at Tonbridge School and has gone on to make over £6800 for charity through his small business - and he’s still only 16 years of age!  Local businessman Owen Hunnan delighted the crowd with stories of his entrepreneurial exploits selling Mars bars from his school locker as a teenager and how it led to him setting up his own publishing business, which only five years on boasts the area’s number one lifestyle magazine and business directory. 

10-Apr-2012

Save the Date for Summer Fun

Don't forget to hand in your forms!

Are you in Form 3, 4, 5 or 6? Do you like fun? Do you like sun?
Come and join Miss Ablett and Mr Collings for a week of Fun In The Sun from Monday 13th August to Friday 17th August.

Please hand in your completed forms to Miss Ablett as soon as possible.
If you need another form there are spares in the office.

28-Mar-2012

Children Go Bowling For Charity

SPS Pupils join in with Sport Relief

On Thursday 22nd March after school, Miss Lovegrove, Mr Oatley and Mr Smith took twelve Prep children to Hollybush Lane to have a go at Indoor Bowls. We started with a bit of practice and we were kindly coached by a few members of the Club. Then it was on to the competition! With rings drawn around the jack, worth 30, 20 and 10 points, we tried our best to get as close as possible. The children got the hang of it pretty quickly and some of them started to pick up big points! And those who found it harder weren't a million miles away. The winning score was 80 points from 16 bowls.

Well done to all the children who took part: from Form 8 Sam; from Form 7 Francis and Harry T; from Form 6 Tabby, Will, Celine, Edsard, Jasper, Luke, Tim, Anne-Marie and Myfi. And thank you to all the other senior Prep children and parents whose £1 went towards sponsoring us for Sport Relief. Not only did we get to meet some new people in our community and try a new sport, we also raised money for the very worthy Charity of Sport Relief. If you click on the link, you can see which two children won the competition and which lucky children sponsored them to win a small prize of their own. A big thank you to everyone involved. We had fun!

28-Mar-2012

Year 7 and 8 Battlefields Trip

On Friday 16th March, Years 7 and 8 visited The Somme battlefields. Highlights of the trip included Sunken Lane, Beaumont Hamel, Ulster Tower, Lochnagar Crater and Vimy Ridge. Prior to the visit, the pupils had researched some of the soldiers whose names appear on their local war memorials in Kent. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the trip was at the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, where each pupil located the name of their soldier amongst the 73,000 names that adorn the monument and laid a wooden cross at the foot of the relevant pier. Two of our students located their great grandfather on the memorial. Poetry was read in several of the locations and our guide, Colin, helped the pupils to try and understand the full horror of what happened in the area nearly one hundred years ago. An educational, sobering and, in many ways, uplifting experience.

22-Mar-2012

Spanish Armada Day

Form 4 visit Penshurst Place

On Tuesday Form 4 visited Penshurst Place for a 'Living History’ morning based on the Spanish Armada. They experienced everyday life in an Elizabethan household and took part in lots of fun activities including dancing, learning about punishments given for crime and trying on Elizabethan clothes. Fun was had by all and there were only a few heads chopped off by the end of the morning!

07-Mar-2012

IAPS Netball Success!

Under 11 Netball Team in Action!

Last week an excited U11 A netball team travelled to a very sunny Brighton to take part in the Annual IAPS Netball Regional tournament at Roedean School. A record number of teams took part this year - 64 Prep Schools in total! Our girls played fantastically well and missed out on automatic qualification to the National Finals by just one point. To achieve 2nd place in our group was simply outstanding. This took us through to the play off stages where we just lost out after a very tiring day. We were positioned somewhere between 13th and 16th out of the 64 schools- a fantastic achievement. We are extremely proud of all our girls. The effort, determination and standard of play they demonstrated throughout the tournament was a pleasure to watch. They were truly brilliant and the whole day is certainly something that we will never forget.

Miss Lovegrove

U11A Netball Squad:  Ella Hughes, Ellie Burke, Holly Keeling, Zoe Eifion-Jones, Annabel Richards, Myfanwy Smetham, Emily Rigney, Annelise Lemonius and Chloe Burdon.

Group Stages

SPS vs Farlington - 2-0 W                                                      
SPS vs St Georges - 0-5  L
SPS vs Hurst - 4-0 W
SPS vs JAPS - 6-1 W  
SPS vs Cowarth - 9-1   W
SPS vs Micklefield - 6-2   W
SPS vs Russell House - 9-1 W 

Play-offs

SPS vs Vinehall - 7-2 W

SPS vs Broadwater - 1-3  L

01-Mar-2012

The Vet comes to visit . . .

KGH and Nursery learn about caring for animals.

Today, KGH and Nursery had a special visit from the vet Anna Brunner. She showed the children a soft toy dog that had a tummy ache. We could see on an X-ray that it had swallowed a spoon! The children helped with the anaesthetic, opening up its (zip) tummy, finding the spoon, removing it, bandaging it and then waking it up. She gave the children bandages, syringes and stethoscopes to try out. We then went out in the garden and met some special visitors – Ben the Shetland pony, Margot the hen (who had laid an egg on the way) and Molly the black labrador.   

19-Jan-2012

Here is one we prepared earlier . . .

Year 6 Cell-Builders

The Science lab took on a distinctly 'Blue Peter' feel to it this week as both Year 6 classes rose to the challenge of designing and building 3-D models of plant and animal cells. Lots of shredded paper, shoe-boxes and tennis balls were transformed into cytoplasm, cell walls and nuclei, which really helped all the Year 6 pupils to learn their new cell structure vocabulary.

Now, where is that sticky back plastic . . . ?

11-Jan-2012

To The Trees . . .

Our new treehouse is officially opened!

This year we are fortunate enough to have a brand new treehouse on the old 'climbing' tree, and on Wednesday morning a large group of excited children (and one or two excited teachers . . .) watched in wonder as it was officially opened. A huge thank you to the S.E.C. for funding the build - we are very grateful. We are all looking forward to many hours of tree-based fun in the future!

In the words of Sam in Form 3: 'That is one awesome treehouse!'

21-Nov-2011

A New Adventure Playground for the Junior School

An amazing amount of fun.

After watching from the sidelines for a week whilst the building took place, the children in the Junior School finally had the chance to play on their lovely new adventure playground equipment.  Following a ribbon cutting ceremony performed by Mr Pears, each class had two specially chosen representatives to be part of the first group of children on the 'big tower'. Then it was the turn for all the children and one very eager and excited teacher - Mrs Clark!  A huge THANK YOU to the SEC for funding this fantastic outdoor play area.

13-Oct-2011

Wonderful World

An assembly presentation

After many requests for another opportunity to see today's Senior Prep assembly, here is the Wonderful World presentation. All the photographs are School pictures. They range from our partner school in Mdengerekeni to John R. sent out to roll the cricket pitch (such things were occasionally done in the 1990s!). The sheep is not part of the Prep - she just wanted to get in on the action. Click the link and enjoy watching!

10-Oct-2011

Year 8 enjoy habitat studies at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve

16-Sep-2011

Junior School Top Tables