School News
Pre-Prep Running Club
This week saw the start of Pre-Prep Running Club. The young, enthusiastic athletes set off during their lunch break to Mary Datchelor playing fields. The boys enjoyed improving their running technique and demonstrated our school values of self-discipline and service by running in groups that were a suitable pace for all. Over the next term the…
Success at Chess
Last Sunday saw Year 5 Amar A impressively win the Kent U11 Chess Grand Prix 4 tournament and Year 3 San San Z equally gain 1st place in the U9 section with a fantastic 6/6. With other Dulwich Prep London boys in attendance doing well too, these are brilliant individual performances and a great result for…
8L 'Love' Drama
Valentines Day was a day of romance at Dulwich Prep London, and the boys of 8L showed that the L in their name stood for Love! Turning the Concert Hall into a French bistro with couples all on first dates, the boys presented a complex patchwork quilt of work with confidence, strength and inventive collaboration….
Year 8's A Big Night Out
Here at Dulwich Prep the Year 8 boys have been organising a Big Night Out event. On 15th March 2019 we will be sleeping out in the school with cardboard boxes. This is to raise money for the End Youth Homelessness charity and to raise awareness of what it is like to be homeless. We…
Cape Town Exchange
Week two of the Cape Town Exchange was just as jam packed with activities as the first. We started the week with some zip-lining and a city tour of Cape Town. The boys were very brave while cage-diving with crocodiles and thoroughly enjoyed swimming with penguins at Boulders Beach. It was tough saying goodbye to all…
Smoothies in the Pre-Prep
As part of Children’s Mental Health week, the boys in Pre-Prep were given the opportunity to create their very own smoothies, whilst raising money for Place2Be and trying to keep their bodies as well as their minds healthy. They prepared and chopped the fruit, using children’s knives and chopping boards, before placing their ingredients into…
Philosophy for Children
On Wednesday evening a concert hall full of boys, parents, siblings and grandparents enjoyed the final Leake Lecture of the year. Sarah Stein Lubrano from The School of Life spoke about philosophy, what it is all about and how it can help us understand our lives better, complementing wonderfully Dulwich Prep London’s Philosophy for Children…
Cross Country Running is back!
The Cross Country season is well and truly underway. The term started with Tribe Cross Country events for Years 3-8 within the first two weeks. This was a great way to kick-start the season with some superb individual and team performances. It also gave the Sports Department a chance to challenge the boys and to…
Prep Bake Off
Rare are the occasions when you will see Deerfeet working closely with Ojibwa, and Chippeway so closely partnered with Mohican but, in support of Children’s Mental Health Week, even the Tribe Chiefs set aside their differences in order to compete in the latest Prep Bake Off! Mrs Steyn had created a simple, delicious recipe for the Tribe Chiefs…
Chinese New Year in the Pre-Prep
The Pre-Prep Hall was full of colour and the sound of cymbals, as we celebrated Chinese New Year. Several parents and boys told the story of the Great Race, through the use of shadow puppets, explaining the order of the animals and therefore why it is the year of the Pig. Grandparents and boys dressed…
