What’s on @ Monkton Summer Term 2024
Summer Upcoming Events
Please come and join us this Summer term
ABOUT US
MPC aims to bring together the parent community across the school in order to enhance the parent and pupil experience at Monkton. We also create events that bring the community together whilst raising money to enhance the school, and to support outward facing charitable interests. If you would like to get involved, please email mpc@monkton.org.uk
What’s On – Summer Term
24th April: Prep School Coffee Morning
PREP SCHOOL
15th May: Prep School Coffee Morning
17th May: Outdoor Cinema - Wonka
19th June: Prep School Coffee Morning
2nd July: Second Hand Uniform Sale
SENIOR SCHOOL
7th May: Senior School Coffee Morning
3rd June: Senior School Coffee Morning
WELCOME
Welcome to the Summer Term Monkton Community events programme 2024
It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Summer term What’s On Guide. The Summer is always a packed term full of a whole host of activities and events for our Monkton Community to look forward to and culminating with our fantastic End of Year Celebrations.
The beautiful Monkton Valley will once again set the backdrop for our ‘Wild Shakespeare’ day, with a special outdoor performance of ‘The Tempest’ from our Senior School students. We also look forward to The Open, our Year 8 Play, and performances at the Bath Festival ‘Party in the City.’
To close out the year, pupils from the Prep and Senior School, together with All Hallows, will come together for one of the highlights of the summer calendar, The Longmead Music Festival. Prize Giving celebrations and leavers’ ceremonies for Nursery to Year 13, will follow, along with other creative end of year exhibitions taking place across both sites, including an Expressive Arts week at the Prep and annual Art Show at the Senior.
The sports calendar is packed with rowing, cricket, athletics, swimming and tennis. Our boat crews will be on the water hoping for success at the National Schools Regatta and to qualify once again for the Henley Royal Regatta. We are delighted to host the IAPS National Triathlon for the second year, as well as our own ‘Try-athlon’ for the whole Prep School. Our Senior Sports Day will take place at Bath University for the first time,
with all parents invited to watch what is always a fun but competitive event.
It is the term for residential trips with many in the Prep Upper School getting the opportunity to embark on adventures and make lasting memories. And after months of preparation, our Senior School students will be heading off on their Mountain Challenge and DofE expeditions to Dartmoor, Snowdonia and the Cotswolds.
Alongside events for our current pupils, there are a number of gatherings for our wider community too. We look forward to welcoming a brilliant panel for April’s Knight Lecture on Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. It’s always a pleasure welcoming our Alumni back to the School and this year will see the return of our OM Cricket and Monkton Cavaliers matches vs our current school team, along with a ‘Thirty Years On’ reunion.
As always, we wish our Year 11 and 13 pupils the very best with their GCSE and A Level exams, and I look forward to meeting many of you and celebrating the past year at these upcoming events.
Chris Wheeler Principal, Monkton Combe School
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What’s on @ Monkton Summer Term 2024
KEY
MSS - Senior School
MPS - Prep School
OMs - Old Monktonians
MPC - Monkton Parent Community
Events and details are correct at the time of printing, but could remain subject to change.
SATURDAY 13TH APRIL
MSS | 08.30 | Dartmoor Gold Duke of Edinburgh
Training Expedition
Students due to return to Monkton on Tuesday 16th April at 17.00
MONDAY 15TH APRIL
MSS | 10.00-15.00 | TBC Tennis Pre-Season
MPS | MSS Boarders Return
TUESDAY 16TH APRIL
MPS | MSS Term Begins
WEDNESDAY 17TH APRIL
MPS | MSS House Photos
SUNDAY 14TH APRIL
MSS | 08.00 | Dartmoor
Monkton Mountain Challenge
Students due to return to Monkton on Tuesday 16th April at 17.00
THURSDAY 18TH APRIL
MPS | All Day | MPS Library Scholastic Book Fair
Until Tuesday 23rd April
MSS | 09.30-15.00 | Bristol Year 10 Photography Trip
MPS | 09.30-15.00 | Kingswood School Bath Voices Songwriting Workshop
MSS | 14.00 | Longmead Cricket Boys U18A vs Monkton Cavaliers
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THURSDAY 18TH APRIL
MSS | 20.30-21.30 | Chapel Crossfire - The Genesis 1 Debate
FRIDAY 19TH APRIL
MPS | 08.30 | MPS Dining Hall Parents’ Prayer Meeting (every Friday)
MSS | 14.45-16.00 | Chapel Monkton Leadership Award
MPS | 16.00 | Prep School Bath Schools Cross Country: Year 5 & 6
SATURDAY 20TH APRIL
MSS | 07.00 | Holme Pierrepont Rowing: Junior Inter-Regional Regatta
MSS | 19.00-21.00 Year 9 & 10 Games Night
MSS | 19.30-21.30 Year 11 Pearce Centre Social
MSS | 19.30-22.30 Sixth Form Spring Ball
SUNDAY 21ST APRIL
MSS | 10.00-16.00 Longleat Trip
MONDAY 22ND APRIL
MSS | 19.45-20.30 | Croft House Year 9 Bible Study
MSS | 20.30-21.30 | Library & Croft House Year 10-13 Bible Studies
TUESDAY 23RD APRIL
MSS | 18.00-18.45 | Old Hall Year 13 Supper - Introduction to OM Club
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WEDNESDAY 24TH APRIL
MPS | 08.15 | Hodges Hall
MPC Prep School Coffee Morning
MPS | 09.30-10.55 | MPS Gym UKMT Maths Challenge for Years 7 & 8
THURSDAY 25TH APRIL
MSS | 18.30-21.00 | Music Studios The Scott and Lynn Rhythm Thing
FRIDAY 26TH APRIL
MPS | MSS | 14.00-16.00 | Prep School Whole School Photo
MPS | 17.30 | Hodges Hall Year 3 Camp In
Until 08.30 on Saturday 27th April
MSS | 18.45 | Chapel Knight Lecture
SATURDAY 27TH APRIL
MSS | 19.00-22.00 Nutfield Formal Dinner
MSS | 19.00-22.00 School House Informal Dinner
SUNDAY 28TH APRIL
MSS | 09.00-18.00 Thorpe Park Trip
MSS | 10.00-16.00 | Longmead
OM Cricket: Boys U18A vs Old Monktonians
MONDAY 29TH APRIL
MPS | 11.30-12.50 | Law Building Year 5 & 6 Poetry Slam
MPS | 16.00-19.00 | The Forum, Bath Great Big Dance Off
TUESDAY 30TH APRIL
MPS | 18.00 | Law Building Stage @ 6
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What’s on @ Monkton Summer Term 2024
KEY
MSS - Senior School
MPS - Prep School
OMs - Old Monktonians
MPC - Monkton Parent Community
Events and details are correct at the time of printing, but could remain subject to change.
WEDNESDAY 1ST MAY
MSS | 08.30-17.00 | Bath Year 10 Geography Fieldwork Trip
MSS | 20.15-21.15 | Croft House University Challenge
THURSDAY 2ND MAY
MPS | 17.15 | Monkton Leisure Bath Schools’ U9 - U11 Swimming Gala
MSS | 19.30-22.00 | Old Hall The Lt Col West Memorial Dinner
FRIDAY 3RD MAY
MSS | 14.00-15.30 | Assembly Hall
Year 12 Devised Drama Exam Performance
MSS | 14.30-15.30 | Chapel
Kathryn Burn Lecture and Q&A
MPS | MSS | 16.15 Exeat Weekend Commences
MSS | 16.30-19.30 | Maths & Science
Year 10 Parents’ Evening (Hybrid)
MONDAY 6TH MAY
MPS | 10.00 | Normandy Year 7 French Trip
Pupils return at 23.45 on Friday 10th May
MPS | MSS | 17.30 Boarders Return
TUESDAY 7TH MAY
MSS | 08.15 | Senior Cafe MPC Senior School Coffee Morning
MSS | 19.00-21.00 | Bowerman Hall Soirée of Song
WEDNESDAY 8TH MAY
MSS | All Day Year 11 Study Leave Begins
MPS | 13.00 | Mill on the Brue
Year 4 Trip to Mill on the Brue
Pupils return at 15.00 on Friday 10th May
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WEDNESDAY 8TH MAY
MSS | 13.30-15.30 | University of Bath Year 12 Chemistry Spectroscopy Workshop
MSS | 20.15-21.15 | Croft House University Challenge
THURSDAY 9TH MAY
MPS | 09.00-13.00 | Bristol Year 6 PSHE Trip to Lifeskills Centre
MSS | 18.00-23.00 | Bristol Old Vic Drama Trip to Bristol Old Vic
FRIDAY 10TH MAY
MSS | 18.30-21.30 | Bowerman The EMART Awards
SATURDAY 11TH MAY
MSS | All Day Year 13 Study Leave Begins
MSS | 06.00-18.00 | Saltford Rowing: Bristol Avon Regatta
MSS | 10.00-12.00 | Senior School Senior School Open Morning
An opportunity for prospective families to take a look around the school.
MSS | 18.30-22.00 | Dining Hall Thirty Years On (1990-1994) OM Reunion
MSS | 19.00-21.00
Whole School BBQ hosted by Eddystone House
MONDAY 13TH MAY
MPS | 08.00 | Herefordshire Year 6 ‘Way Ahead’ Trip to Wye Valley Pupils return at 15.00 on Wednesday 15th May
MSS | 13.15-13.50 | Music Centre Songwriting Expo
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TUESDAY 14TH MAY
MSS | 09.00-13.00 | Assembly Hall
Edward Bennett
Shakespeare Workshop
MPS | 12.30-16.45 | University of Bath
Athletics: Year 8-13 BaNES
Championships
WEDNESDAY 15TH MAY
MPS | 08.15 | Hodges Hall
MPC Prep School Coffee Morning
MSS | 14.00-16.15 | Assembly Hall
Year 10 Devised Drama
Exam Performance
THURSDAY 16TH MAY
MSS | 16.30-17.15 | Old Hall
Careers Workshop: Starting Your Own Business
FRIDAY 17TH MAY
MPC | 17.30-20.00 | Prep School
MPC Outdoor Cinema - Wonka
MPS | 18.30 | Bath Abbey Bath School Voices Performance @ Party in the City
MSS | 17.00-19.00 | Guildhall, Bath Bath Festival Party in the City
SATURDAY 18TH MAY
MSS | 07.30 | South Cotswolds Bronze Duke of Edinburgh
Assessed Expedition
Pupils return at 17.00 on Sunday 19th May
MPS | 09.30-11.30 | Prep School Prep School Open Morning
An opportunity for prospective families to take a look around the school.
FRIDAY 17TH MAY
MSS | 11.00 | Snowdonia Monkton Mountain Challenge
Pupils return at 20.00 on Monday 20th May
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SATURDAY 18TH MAY
MPS | 17.30-20.30 | The Forum, Bath Bath School Voices Performance @ Concert for the People of Bath
MSS | 19.00-21.30 | Four Acres Whole School ‘Ultimate Tournament’ hosted by School House
SUNDAY 19TH MAY
MPS | MSS | All Day | Prep School IAPS National Triathlon
MONDAY 20TH MAY
MSS | 08.30-16.00 | University of Bath Year 10 PE Trip
MPS | 17.45-19.45 | Chapel Year 8 Visit to Senior School Houses
TUESDAY 21ST MAY
MPS | All Day Year 6 & 7 Exam Week
MPS | 11.30-12.50 | Monkton Leisure Swimming: Year 5 & 6 Inter-House Gala
WEDNESDAY 22ND MAY
MPS | 16.00-18.00 | Hodges Hall Year 2 ‘Book at Bedtime’
MSS | 16.30-17.30 | Bowerman LAMDA Live!
THURSDAY 23RD MAY
MPS | 08.30-16.30 | Wild Place, Bristol Year 4 Trip to Wild Place
FRIDAY 24TH MAY
MSS | 06.00-18.00 | Dorney Lake Rowing National Schools Regatta Until Sunday 26th May
MSS | 08.30-13.00 | Bristol Year 12 PE Trip
MPS | 12.00-14.00 | Prep School MPS Try-Athlon for Nursery & Kindergarten
MPS | 14.00-16.00 | Prep School MPS Triathlon for Reception to Year 8
MPS | MSS | 16.15 Half Term Commences
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What’s on @ Monkton Summer Term 2024
KEY
MSS - Senior School
MPS - Prep School
OMs - Old Monktonians
MPC - Monkton Parent Community
Events and details are correct at the time of printing, but could remain subject to change.
SATURDAY 1ST JUNE
MSS | 06.00-18.00 | Dorney Lake Rowing Met Regatta
Until Sunday 2nd June
SUNDAY 2ND JUNE
MPS | MSS Boarders Return
MSS | 18.30-19.30 | Chapel Baptism and Confirmation Service
MONDAY 3RD JUNE
MSS | All Day
Year 12 End of Year Exams
Until Saturday 8th June
MSS | 08.15 | Senior Cafe
MPC Senior School Coffee Morning
MPS | Y3 - King Edward’s, Y4 - Monkton Prep Bath Schools’ Year 3 & 4 Athletics
TUESDAY 4TH JUNE
MPS | 09.00-13.00 | Avon Valley Reception Trip to Avon
Valley Country Park
WEDNESDAY 5TH JUNE
MPS | 14.00 | Boys - Kingswood, Girls - Prior Park
Bath Schools’ Year 5 & 6 Athletics
THURSDAY 6TH JUNE
MPS | All Day | Bowood
Year 1 & 2 Trip to Bowood
FRIDAY 7TH JUNE
MPS | 09.00-11.30 | Prep School Nursery - Year 3 Sports Day
MPS | MPS | 17.30
Year 5 - 7 Wild Monkton Camp Out
Until 9.00 on Saturday 8th June
MSS | 19.00-22.30
Senior Sports Awards Dinner
SATURDAY 8TH JUNE
MPS | All Day | TBC
Avon Schools’ Athletics Championships For BaNES qualifiers
MPS | All Day | London Aquatic Centre Swimming: IAPS National Championships
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MSS | 19.00-21.30 | Four Acres Mixed House Rounders Tournament
SUNDAY 9TH JUNE
MSS | 11.00-12.00 | St Michaels, Bath Year 13 Service at St Michaels
MSS | 12.30-14.30 | Croft House CU Committee Leavers Lunch
MSS | 17.30-19.30 ICOM Leavers’ BBQ
MONDAY 10TH JUNE
MPS | All Week Lower School Expeditions Week
MPS | All Week Nursery & Kindergarten Key Worker Consultations
MPS | All Week Year 8 Exam Week
MSS | All Week Year 9 & 10 End of Year Exam Week
TUESDAY 11TH JUNE
MSS | 08.30-16.30 | Dorset Year 12 Biology Field Trip to Studland
MPS | 11.10-12.30 | Monkton Leisure Swimming: Year 3 & 4 Inter-House Gala
MSS | 18.30-19.30 | Chapel Year 12 Talk on ‘Applying to University (UCAS 2025)’
WEDNESDAY 12TH JUNE
MPS | 14.00 | Senior School Bath Schools’ U11 & U10 Tennis
MPS | 15.45-19.00 Reception - Year 4 Parent Consultations
THURSDAY 13TH JUNE
MPS | 08.30-17.00 Years 5 - 7 Expeditions Day
MSS | 18.00-21.00 Sixth Form Careers Fair and Networking Event
FRIDAY 14TH JUNE
MPS | MSS | 16.15 Exeat Commences
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FRIDAY 14TH JUNE
MPS | All Day | Millfield Athletics: South West Prep Schools’ Championships
MONDAY 17TH JUNE
MPS | All Week
Nursery & Kindergarten Key Worker Consultations
MPS | All Week
RLSS Drowning Prevention Week
MPS | All Day | Alexander Stadium, Birmingham Athletics: ISA National Finals
MPS | 13.00 | Dartmoor Year 8 Leavers’ Trip
Pupils return at 16.00 on Friday 21st June
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MSS | 18.30-19.30 | Assembly Hall
‘Pieces of 9’ Performance
TUESDAY 18TH JUNE
MSS | 18.30-19.30 | Assembly Hall
‘Pieces of 9’ Performance
WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE
MPS | 08.15 | Hodges Hall
MPC Prep School Coffee Morning
MPS | 14.00-16.00 | Law
Year 3 & 4 Creative Arts Afternoon
THURSDAY 20TH JUNE
MSS | 10.15-15.30 |
Nutfield Lawn & Assembly Hall
Wild Shakespeare Day
MPS | 17.15 | Monkton Leisure
Bath Schools’ Year 3 & 4
Swimming Gala
FRIDAY 21ST JUNE
MPS | MSS | All Day | Bowerman Trinity Music Exams
MSS | 19.00-22.00 Junior Sports Dinner
SATURDAY 22ND JUNE
MSS | All Day | Dauntsey’s Athletics: Year 10 & 12 Quadrathlon
MPS | 09.30-14.00 Year 4 - 8 Sports Day
MSS | 12.00-16.00 | St Stephen’s Church, Bath Sponsored Abseil for Genesis Trust
MSS | 19.00-20.30 | Nutfield Lawn Wild Shakespeare Performance‘The Tempest’
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SATURDAY 22ND JUNE
MSS | 21.00-22.30 | Pearce Centre Year 12 Pearce Centre Social
SUNDAY 23RD JUNE
MSS | 14.00-15.30 | Nutfield Lawn Wild Shakespeare Matinee Performance - ‘The Tempest’
MSS | 21.00
Latest time by which Year 11 Boarders return from Exam Leave
MONDAY 24TH JUNE
MPS | All Week Prep School Expressive Arts Week
MSS | 08.15 Year 11 Pre A-Level Programme Begins
MSS | 08.30-17.00 | Chalke Valley Chalke Valley History Festival Trip
TUESDAY 25TH JUNE
MSS | 13.30-17.00 | University of Bath Senior School Sports Day
MPS | 14.00 Magpies v Swifts
MPS | 18.00 | Law Celebration @ 6
WEDNESDAY 26TH JUNE
MSS | 08.25-16.00 Year 13 Post-Monkton Preparation Day
MPS | 16.00 | Prep School Cricket: Monkton All Stars v Cornwall Hill, SA
MSS | 20.00-22.00 | Headmaster’s House Outgoing Prefects’ Dinner
THURSDAY 27TH JUNE
MSS | All Day Paediatric First Aid Course for Year 13 Leavers
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MPS | 08.30-17.30 | Thorpe Park
Year 8 Trip to Thorpe Park
MSS | 17.00-18.30
House BBQs
MSS | 19.00-21.00 | Assembly Hall
‘The Open’ Expressive Arts Evening
FRIDAY 28TH JUNE
MSS | 06.00-18.00 | Leander Club
Rowing: Henley Regatta Qualifying
MSS | 17.00-18.45 | Basson Art & Design Centre
Art & Design Summer Show & Drinks Reception
MPS | MSS | 18.00-21.30 | Longmead
Longmead Festival
SATURDAY 29TH JUNE
MSS | 08.45-09.45 | Chapel
The Monkton Prayer Breakfast
MSS | 10.00-12.45 | Longmead
Senior Prize Giving Celebration
MSS | 10.30-11.20 | Longmead
Senior House Awards
MSS | 13.00-14.30 | Bowerman
Buffet Lunch for Parents
MSS | 13.00 | France
Battlefields History Trip
Pupils return at 21.00 on Wednesday 3rd July
MSS | 13.00 | TBC
Year 10 CCF Summer Camp
Pupils return at 17.00 on Thursday 4th July
MSS | 19.00-23.00 | Longmead
Year 13 Leavers’ Ball
SUNDAY 30TH JUNE
MSS | 08.30 | Snowdonia
Gold Duke of Edinburgh
Assessed Expedition
Pupils return at 15.00 on Friday 5th July
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What’s on @ Monkton Summer Term 2024
KEY
MSS - Senior School
MPS - Prep School
OMs - Old Monktonians
MPC - Monkton Parent Community
Events and details are correct at the time of printing, but could remain subject to change.
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TUESDAY 2ND JULY
MSS | 06.00-18.00 | Leander Club
Rowing: Henley Royal Regatta
MPS | 09.00 Move Up & New Pupils’ Morning for Nursery - Year 7
MPS | Hodges Hall MPC Second Hand Uniform Sale
WEDNESDAY 3RD JULY
MPS | All Day | Birmingham Athletics: National Prep Schools’ Finals
THURSDAY 4TH JULY
MPS | 19.00 | Law Building
Year 8 Play Performance
FRIDAY 5TH JULY
MPS | 13.30-14.00
Year 8 Leavers’ Service
MPS | 14.00-15.15
Years 5-8 Celebration Afternoon
MPS | 15.30
Prep School End of Term
MPS | 16.00-18.30
Year 8 Party & BBQ
MSS | 16.15
Senior School End of Term
FRIDAY 5TH JULY
MPS | 09.00-10.00
Lower School End of Year Celebration
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Prep School
Combe Down, Bath BA2 7ET
E: mpsoffice@monkton.org.uk
Tel: 01225 831200
Senior School
Monkton Combe, Bath BA2 7HG
E: reception@monkton.org.uk
Tel: 01225 721100
www.monktoncombeschool.com