We love our smart uniform, and we work with our supplier, Stevensons, to review the quality of the clothing, considering both comfort and function for the children and value for money for parents. As a result, the following will change over the next academic year. Blazers Blazers won’t be part of our school uniform for…
Children at Banstead Prep had a fantastic day last week exploring, observing, and testing biscuits as part of British Science Week 2022. The theme this year is growth and the concept of growing our skills and knowledge was certainly seen throughout the day. Children across the year groups investigated dunking biscuits with children in Year…
Year 2 recently had the opportunity to get a taste of the inter-school competitive sport that they will play in Year 3, playing internal matches against our current Year 3 teams that included all the bells and whistles of a real fixture with match teas and invited spectators. Afterwards, we asked the children about their…
Mrs Lane was delighted to be able to take some of our young musicians to Woldingham School on Tuesday 1 March. They played alongside the prestigious London Mozart Players in an incredible, uplifting performance and really did us proud. It was so wonderful for the children to experience music in this way, to develop their ensemble…
This week, our Head Boy and Head Girl team joined together with children from primary schools across United Learning to celebrate their success in this year’s Student Leadership Programme. On Tuesday, children who have been taking part in a social action initiative enjoyed a special ‘Graduation Day’, held at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford….
Some of our prep school musicians had the opportunity to attend the Epsom College Wind and Brass Festival this week. This was a fantastic experience for the children, an chance for them to immerse themselves in a large ensemble and share their music making with children from a number of different schools. They embraced the…
Six of our Year 6 children travelled to Coworth-Flexlands school to take part in the StorySLAM today. They took part in a range of writing activities before gathering for the StorySLAM southern final in the afternoon. We are all very proud of Diya, who performed in the competition and the other BPS finalists who demonstrated…
Congratulations to Peter, who entered Dunottar School‘s Baking Competition for students in Year 5 and was highly commended for his Snowman Cake entry! Peter’s family found out about the competition having subscribed to the termly Dunottar Newsletter, and Peter was inspired to have a go. He learned a lot from the experience, with support from…
In November, Year 4, 5 and 6 took part in the BEBRAS Computational Thinking Challenge. Over 300,000 children took part across the UK and Miss Perry was very proud of the determination and tenacity shown by BPS children when faced with some quite tricky challenges! The Bebras Computing Challenge introduces computational thinking to students. Taking…
Mr Jeens and Dr Baines are proud to announce the results of the Primary Maths Challenge sat by selected children in Year 5 and 6 this half term. The Challenge was made up of 25 brilliantly tricky problem solving questions with a selection of multiple choice and written answers. We are really pleased to see…
