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MUDDY KNEES AND PRE PREP BLOG: WEEK 5
In Pre Prep this week the children have been learning all about measure. Having received a letter from a Princess who was stranded on the climbing frame the children set to work making a ladder which was long enough to cross the moat. Each child made a ladder measuring one metre long and then had…
A VIEW FROM THE CLOSE NO 163
Dear Parents and Guardians, I am very grateful to all the parents who completed the ISI Parent Survey last week. The feedback has been extremely helpful, and although we did not receive the comments, we have been given the data, which I will share with everyone in due course after the management team have drilled…
PREP SCHOOL SPORTS ROUND UP: WEEK 5
U11 Rugby Festival at Junior Kings On Wednesday 5th February Dover Prep School played a rugby festival at Junior Kings. We played 7 matches. In first game we played well but did not quite hit our tackles but that improved through the matches. We completed some great runs and scored 2 brilliant tries. We all…
DESIGN TECHNOLOGY BLOG: 5,4,3,2,1 BLAST OFF!
The Prep 1 pupils had a rocketing visit to the Design Technology Workshop in the Senior School this week! The aim of their visit was to make rockets and launch them across the flower beds of middle ground. With the help of Mr Irwin and Mrs Gardner, the pupils drew their rocket designs before getting…
MUDDY KNEES & PRE PREP BLOG: WEEK 4
There has been great excitement in the Pre Prep this week after a magical egg appeared! Over the course of the week the children deligently looked after the egg, keeping it warm and even making a bed for it. After all their fantastic nurturing, the excitement reached fever pitch as a dragon hatched out of…
“Mary Poppins” Returns!
Our very own “Mary Poppins” – Malandra Rogers – returned to Dover College to give a presentation to some of our senior pupils on the life of a Norland Nanny and Malandra’s own experiences at Norland College. After her studies here in the Sixth Form, Malandra joined the Prep School as a young apprentice to…
PREP SCHOOL SPORTS ROUND UP: WEEK 4
U11 Netball v Northbourne Park On Wednesday 29th of January the U11 girls played against Northbourne Park, they had an A and B team. First we played against the A team, We started first and moved quickly and did some amazing passes. The whistle blew at half time we had a switch up in possessions…
PREP SCHOOL SPORTS ROUND UP: WEEK 3
U11 Rugby A Team v Wellesley House On Wednesday 22nd January the U11 rugby team played our first match of the season against Wellesley House. In the first half Wellesley started with the ball and passed it to there flank and scored. It was then our ball now and it was passed to Sascha who…
MUDDY KNEES & PRE PREP BLOG: WEEK 3
The pupils in Muddy Knees and Pre Prep have enjoyed an extremely colourful week as they discover, explore and learn all about Chinese New Year. In Pre Prep the children began the week by making their own colourful Chinese dragons out of paper, card and egg boxes stuck together with an abundance of glue and…
A VIEW FROM THE CLOSE NO 162
Dear Parents and Guardians, As we head towards half term, and we continue to monitor our pupils’ work and progress, please could I ask that day parents are checking and signing-off their son/daughter’s Prep Diaries on a regular basis? This helps teachers and house staff in the Senior School enormously, and provides us with very…
