Pre-Prep’s We Love Books Week
What an incredible and exciting week it has been in Pre-Prep. The children didn’t just celebrate World Book Day, they spent the whole week immersed in books to help them to love reading and to inspire them to be authors and illustrators. The week has been jam packed with fun activities. Each morning and some afternoons mums came in and read their favourite stories. Thanks to Mrs Mahan, Mrs Blair, Mrs Sturdy, Mrs Wilkinson, Mrs Collier and Mrs Aston who all entertained all the children What great storytellers! Former pupil Jake Grafton Telfer also came in to read the story The Book With No Pictures and had the children from Nursery to PP2 and the teachers in stitches. (Click here to watch the video.) Just before World Book Day, PP1 had great fun recreating and acting out the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. In small groups the children took on the role of a character and one person became the narrator. It was wonderful to watch each play and see how the children told it in a slightly different way. We even filmed the plays and all the children became film stars for 5 minutes. Well done everybody.
World Book Day
On World Book Day itself the Pre-Prep pupils and staff arrived at school in some fabulous costumes from dragons to dinosaurs and princesses to pirates. Nursery described their characters to each other and Reception brought in their favourite story and read it to the class. PP1 explored the story of the Three Bears and made delicious porridge. PP2 read four books which included Tabby McTat and wrote adverts for homeless animals. PP2 also wrote their own stories this week using George’s Marvellous Medicine as inspiration. They read their versions entitled George’s Marvellous Machine to the rest of Pre-Prep in assembly. Well done to PP2 for some amazing writing. It was lovely to see so many novel and inspirational costumes throughout the whole of Main and Upper School too. The whole of Pre-Prep also had a ‘draw a book cover’ competition in which the children had to design a new cover for their favourite book and write an explanation of why they particularly liked their chosen book. Congratulations to everyone for their fabulous drawings and explanations, but particularly to our winners: Saskia Simpson-Daniel (Reception), Emilia Sample (PP1) and Gus Living (PP2):
Boarding House News
The boarders had yet another fun filled weekend with a trip to the bowling alley in York on Saturday night. Victory went to Tim with Uxua following very closely in second. Sunday was a trip to the Kayll household for an absolutely splendid Sunday lunch. Beef and Yorkshire puddings to die for were followed by scrumptious desserts and rounded off with fun parlour games. All the boarders and the Houseparents would like to extend a huge thank-you to Sally and her lovely family for being so hospitable. We will be back!