SCHOOL NEWS
BEST OF THE REST • Artistic flair Royal Academy of Dance
The school has launched an art competition open to pupils across Wandsworth. Entrants are asked to submit a drawing or painting inspired by dance and how it makes them feel. The winning artwork will be exhibited in the new RAD HQ.
• Winning beginnings Chatsworth Schools
Chatsworth Schools won the Best Private School Operator category at the 2021 Education Investor Awards. Founder and CEO, Anita Gleave, says: “I’m beyond proud of everything we’ve achieved since our launch in September 2018.”
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• Boxing clever
Marlborough House School, Kent
Danes Hill School, Surrey
The pre-prep gardening club has been growing vegetables for the school kitchen. The pumpkin patch was a particular success for the green-fingered pupils last autumn. Proudly delivered to the school catering team, the spoils resulted in a delicious school-day menu of pumpkin soup, pumpkin and cauliflower salad, and pumpkin cake – a very popular morning break option. This term, the club will work towards their Level 4 RHS School Gardening Award. The club, part of the school’s Great Outdoors initiative, provides an alfresco classroom and learning opportunities for ages two to 13 years.
Pupils in years four and five took part in the annual Shoebox Wrap, filling festive shoeboxes.to benefit two local charities: Shooting Star Chase – a children’s hospice – and The Children’s Trust, a leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability.
• Stay tuned Forres Sandle Manor School
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Girl troop
St Swithun’s School, Hampshire
Beaudesert Park, Gloucestershire
Queen’s College Prep, London
Year six pupil Cameron Brookes has been recognised by the Stephen Spender prize for poetry translation. The 10 year old won a commendation for the translation of the German nursery rhyme Hoppe Hoppe Reiter, which she translated as Gallop Gallop Rider.
The school has launched a new house system. Named Hazel, Maple, Rowan and Willow, the four new houses reflect its rural location and focus on outdoor education. To celebrate, a fashion show was held, with pupils donning their house colours to raise money for Children in Need.
A new partnership with the Royal Marines enables years five and six to visit their south London barracks for training days. On their first visit, the girls warmed up with a military fitness session, before learning how to build a shelter, close combat skills and how to march and salute!
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• Keys to success Solihull School, West Midlands
Lower fifth pupil Yichen Pan has been awarded a Level 4 Diploma in Music Performance for Piano. In addition to these maestra skills, the 13 year old music scholar is also a post Grade 8 cellist, and is working towards her LTCL Diploma.
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The Hampshire school’s music department is excited to announce a new addition to its instruments collection: a Javanese Gamelan, which was made by hand in Indonesia for the Hampshire Music Service. It will be used for music lessons across the school, with a focus on year five.