Prep & Senior

Bassett House

In the summer term of 2022, Bassett House School very proudly launched the latest and most exciting edition to their curriculum: horse riding. In partnership with Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre, we have carefully curated lessons to form part of the children’s ‘living curriculum’, which allows pupils to ride both real and mechanical horses, learn about all aspects of horsemanship, as well as groom and care for the horses. For our older pupils, this is also an opportunity to take their learning outside of the classroom and discover more about animal science and physiology.

The launch has been a huge success with both pupils and parents alike, and we feel incredibly fortunate to be able to offer this rare and invaluable opportunity for our children.

Broomfield House

Lola, Naomi and Leila visited Dukes Education HQ after Lola won the opportunity to be ‘Chairman for the Day’ at our PTA Fair. Mr Hassan welcomed them saying how delighted he was to step aside for the day and tasked them with a full day’s work of thorny issues and tricky decisions to consider. The girls took over the main boardroom, together with the Dukes marketing team, and got down to business thrashing out recommendations they recorded in a video report for the Board. The day included an intense working lunch with the Chairman at the Rainforest Cafe, before being chauffeur-driven back to school.

Broomfield Hall Lower

Year 1 travelled to Egypt as part of their thematic topic. The school was full of explorers, archaeologists, mummies, Egyptian queens and even Howard Carter, who discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb. Thanks to all the teachers and teaching assistants who made it such a fantastic day.

Chiswick & Bedford Park

With almost too many events to choose between, a highlight from the CBPPS calendar for 2022 has to be our Diversity Week celebrations. Taking place in the autumn term, it was a fun-filled week of workshops, assemblies, talks and more. The children took part in global dance workshops where they learnt some moves from a variety of traditional dances including the Hula, Viennese Waltz, Irish dancing and the Haka. We created a school cook book containing recipes from around the world with over 20 countries represented. We thoroughly enjoyed hosting our guest parent speakers who gave highly informative talks about different countries and cities from around the world. Our parent reps worked with every pupil to take a photograph of their eyes, which will be used in a giant collage soon to be on display in the school, to celebrate the uniqueness of each child. Each pupil enthusiastically took part in our dressing up day, wearing either the traditional dress or the colours of their families’ national flags to celebrate the rich diversity of our CBPPS community. We rounded off the week with a fantastic food fair which saw the hall filled with delicious global dishes made by parents and pupils. A big ‘thank you’ to all who took part.

Devonshire House

Devonshire House School’s Festival Choir took part in an exciting trip to Prague, Czech Republic in October 2022. They spent four days in Prague, performing in various emblematic venues of the city such as St Nicholas Church, St Salvatore’s Church, St Martin-in-the Wall Church and Czech Museum of Music.

After practising for weeks, they landed in Prague and went straight to their first performance venue: the Czech Museum of Music. After a quick tour when pupils discovered lots of old instruments, Marley, Year 8, said: “We got into our performance outfits and it was show time!” After each song, the audience burst into a massive field of clapping.

The performances included the choir singing in harmony, a violin solo, some brilliant duets and musical interludes. The pupils’ favourite venue was St Martin-in-thewall, which “had the most beautiful crown chandelier”, according to Sophia in Year 6.

The trip also included some cultural visits to The Old Town including the Jewish quarter, The Old Town Square with the famous Prague clock tower, Prague Castle, St Vitus Cathedral and a boat tour on the river.

Devonshire House School’s Festival Choir is continuously performing for different audiences! Recently, they sang at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.