School News
Swimming News
Wow what a busy couple of weeks for the boys in the pool! Fresh from the successes at the IAPS National Finals the boys in Years 5 and 6 took part in the English Schools Primary Team Qualifying round at Whitgift School. In a very competitive field both the Freestyle and Medley teams have once…
Scholarship Questions
Scholarship Questions to try Eton General Paper Write a response of no more than 700 words, in whatever style seems appropriate, to ONE of the following: What, if anything, is wrong with swearing? ‘Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing’ Discuss Vanity KCS Wimbledon Maths: Prove that 7 to the power of 40 has 34…
Reception Open Mornings
The Reception classes each held Open Mornings last week, inviting their parents to come into School and look at their year’s work and classroom activities. They started by showing off their football skills in Mr Jones’ PE lesson. Then the boys proudly showed their parents all the work they had done since September and reflected on…
Nursery Open Mornings
Last week parents of children in Yellow, Red and Orange Class were invited to see a snapshot of the Nursery children’s day. In the class rooms they saw the children working alone and in small groups across all areas of the curriculum including writing, maths, art and design, science interpretation, IPads and Lego modelling. The…
The Derek Abrahams Piano Competition 2017
This year has seen another successful running of this annual competition with internationally renowned concert pianist, Luis Parès, as our adjudicator. The morning saw over 80 boys, in the early stage of learning participating in two non-competitive Festival elements of the day. There is so much promise for the future on display and, as well…
Powwow Paper Chain Challenge
Tuesday 16th May marked the inaugural Powwow Paper Chain Challenge -what an event! As part of our Tribe Centenary celebrations we are running Tribe competitions throughout School and the results from the Powwow Challenge this morning will be added into the final scores. With only 30 strips of paper and ten minutes sticking time, the…
Year 4 Fun on the Farm
Feeding the chickens, walking the goats, making organic pizza, collecting and sorting the eggs, making a mud bath, watering the crops, den building, the campfire, playing games, singing, the food miles game, having a sleep over, feeding the pigs… The list of highlights recalled by the boys on their return to school after their residential…
Exchange visit from Cape Town
The return leg of our Year 7 Exchange to Cape Town, South Africa took place at the start of this term. On a cold Thursday morning a group of very excited Year 7 boys from Bishop’s arrived at Dulwich Prep and immediately set off into London on an Open Top bus tour! 7 hours later,…
Swimmers take Bronze in IAPS National Finals
On Saturday 6th May our swim squad made their way to the IAPS National Finals to compete against 150 boys’ schools from across England. Going in as reigning champions the boys felt confident that they would be extremely competitive and would be right up there pushing for top honours once again. Over the course of…
Early Years visited by the Animal Man
Yesterday the Early Years was visited by Bearded Dragons, tarantulas, stick insects and snakes. An expert from a local school told the children all about the insects’ origins and let the children hold them if they wanted. SOME ANIMAL FACTOIDS… 48… The number of babies Chloe the tarantula had last year! 10……
