School News
Year 3 Roman Day
On the last Friday of half term, the mighty Year 3 Roman Army roared once more. This time the boys enjoyed using their Roman shields, marching to Mary Datchelor calling out their warrior chants. Once there they showed off the intricate Roman army formation manoeuvres. Their day then continued back at school with a carousel of activities,…
Early Years celebrate Diwali
Bright colours, joyous music, wonderful clothes and a magical story – all highlights from the Diwali celebration in that took place in Early Years just before half term. This Festival of Light is held in honour of Lakshmi, the Hindu god of wealth and prosperity. We learnt that Hindus pray to Lakshmi to bring them…
Year 7 Trip to Norway
Vi elsker Norge! During half term thirty intrepid Year 7 boys joined the first Dulwich Prep trip to Norway. The boys traversed deep fjords, snow covered mountain tops, walked ancient paths and slept where Vikings once lived. Kinsarvik on the Hardangertun Fjord served as our base for the first three nights of our stay. We…
Bedtime Story day at the Early Years
On Friday all the Nursery and Reception children arrived at the Early Years in their pajamas, dressing gowns and slippers, clutching their favorite book. They were welcomed by low lighting, fairy lights and Mrs Burtonshaw saying ‘good night’ to them all. All the classes were treated to a two special assemblies. The first with Mr…
Year 3 Trip to Lullingstone Roman Villa
All dressed up and raring to go the boys boarded their coaches last Thursday; a hoard of gladiators and emperors! On arriving the boys were introduced to the world of Roman medicine; a strange and gruesome period. They then settled into discovering how Lullingstone villa worked, taking clues from artefacts to piece together history. The…
Year 1 Fossil Work
Year 1 have been continuing to enjoy ‘brushing up’ on their palaeontology skills by exploring how fossils are formed. The boys created their own miniature fossil models, using blue tac and covered these with different layers of sand, sugar and glitter to demonstrate the levels of ‘strata’ and how layers form over thousands of years. …
Design and Technology Project
In the Design and Technology rotation this half term, Year 8 students worked on an Architecture project. They researched contemporary architects, visited the Design Museum, sketched architectural features from life and created increasingly complex, interesting models for buildings, starting with Plasticine, moving on to apples and cocktail sticks, cardboard and then balsa wood (using all the workshop…
Another Eco Win
Our Dulwich Prep Eco Warriors have been busy of late. Recently, our Pre-Prep and Lower School Eco Warriors took part in a Roots & Shoots competition to design a new character that would fit the world of Dr Seuss’ The Lorax. The Old Vic will be staging a production of The Lorax later this and into next month…
Biathlon Success
This weekend the boys from years 4-8 took part in the South East Regional Biathlon. We competed at four different age groups with U10, U11 and U12’s all having to swim for 50m and run for 800m. Whereas the U13’s swim for 100m and run for 1600m, points are awarded for each event and combined…
Early Years celebrate Harvest
The Nursery boys and girls, in their class coloured t-shirts all sat in front of an extremely proud audience and sang their well-practised Harvest songs. The Headmaster‘s visitor from Australia read the children an autumn poem and they sang about autumn leaves. The Reception classes sang songs about cauliflowers, cabbages and beans and other Harvest…
