News & Events The Big Draw Festival This year, Pre-Prep and Prep took part in a worldwide drawing festival called “The Big Draw Festival” It is a charity event that supports professional and emerging artists. The festival encourages millions of people all over the world to get creative and to make marks of meaning. The Big Draw theme for 2020 is “It’s time to go green”. Through drawing, we encouraged pupils to make positive changes to save our planet by using outdoor green spaces to live and work alongside nature. To celebrate the festival, we decorated all the windows in our school. Here are a few examples of the girls’ work. Well done to all who took part!
Pupils take on Little Inventor Challenges The Year 5 – 6 Science and Tech Club took part in a series of Little Inventor activities. Using recycled materials the pupils completed lots of tasks, using their creativity and science thinking hats! You can see some of the challenges here. Elena and Caitlin invented a ‘Horse that does your chores’, complete with a sweeping tail. Erin created a friendly faced robot. Tasked with creating a toy suitable for a small child, Emilia came up with a toy with lots of buttons and things to press, turn and twist Marphary made a colourful box on wheels. Annabel and Eva worked together to create a lift to help Annabel’s dog get upstairs, they came up with a chair lift with a pulley system
International Women’s Day Celebrating International Women’s Day with the Prefect’s Challenge, to celebrate this year’s theme; Choose to Challenge. The prefects set a series of challenges for which the girls accrue points which will be combined for clan totals. “A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let’s all choose to challenge.” International Women’s Day, 2021 We were overwhelmed with the number of entries and eagerness from pupils who completely threw themselves into competing, with many pupils learning new skills or showcasing existing talents. Overall points totals 1st Macdonald – 2865, 2nd Macneil – 2440, 3rd Cameron – 1985
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