For the second year running, we are immensely proud of our Year 6 leavers, who have worked hard, remained composed and achieved an excellent set of 11+ results and scholarships. 21 children received 32 offers at a wide range of independent schools. Children at Banstead Prep achieved 11 scholarships at 11+ and 10+ entry for…
Congratulations Arthur, who played in the Surrey Chess Megafinals, the equivalent of the UK quarter final competition. He has now qualified to play in the UK Chess semi finals, to be held in July. Well done Arthur! Chess club is also looking forward to entering a boys and a girls team in the UKI…
We were delighted to learn this week that six of our pupils are award-winners in this year’s Banstead Arts Festival Poetry Competition. The theme for poets in Years 1 and 2 (Key Stage 1) was ‘Fun’ while for Years 3 to 6 (Key Stage 2) it was ‘Emotions’. Tom Day, in Year 1, was the…
Year 2 have visited Hever Castle. Both classes really enjoyed the guided tour of the castle and they especially loved studying the portraits of Kings and Queens hanging in the main gallery. We learnt all about King Henry 8th and his six wives and the children were keen to point out the physical features of…
Our U11 Mixed Quicksticks Hockey team had great fun at the Finals day on Friday 29 March at Haslemere Hockey Club. The weather was warm and standard of play of was extremely high. All members of the squad worked hard and despite us not reaching the semi finals stage everyone showed impressive team work and…
Last week, Reception enjoyed a different awe and wonder science experiment each day: On Monday Evil Pea had left some of his magic potion behind, which we added to soda water and it made raisins dance! On Tuesday we added bicarbonate of soda to coloured vinegar and watched it explode. The colours made a beautiful…
Book Week was launched with an assembly on our book of the week – The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Jackie Morris. This beautiful book contains ‘spells’ to bring twenty ‘lost words’ back into children’s lives. These words, which are all to do with the natural world, had been removed from the last…
On Monday afternoon, we took off, together with the actors from the Onatti French theatre company, into the far distant reaches of space, on a spaceship where everyone spoke only French and where all the instructions were exclusively in French… obviously. How were our children, some as young as 5, to interpret a play, the…
Celebrated poet Brian Moses spent the day at Banstead Prep on Tuesday, 26 February, enthralling us all with his performances and writing workshops. Not many performers could captivate such a wide age-range in their audience – but he certainly managed to delight children from Nursery to Year 6 alike, not to mention the staff. His…
What a fantastic IAPS Swimming Gala debut for BPS, at Royal Russell School, with courageous performances from all members of the U10 swim teams against swimmers from Colfe, Rowan and Royal Russell Schools. A little apprehensive at first (see ‘before’ picture below!) they channelled this tenaciously and gave 100% effort. They all swam an individual 25m race and also…
