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Book Fair in school this week
Our Librarian, Mrs Wood, has organised for an independent book company to trade at school over the next couple of days in a change from the usual company; we hope this will offer a much broader, inspiring and exciting range of books. Please see https://bookwagon.co.uk/categories/ All the books have been especially selected for our school…
Learning Outside the Classroom
Last Friday both our Year One Classes had a wonderful visit to Kew Gardens. They were blessed with beautiful weather and were able to explore the grounds, the recently renovated and reopened Princess of Wales Conservatory and the ‘Hive’ installation; all of which extended their science classroom-based learning. They witnessed and experienced the changes occurring…
The Zambians Arrive!
You would be forgiven for thinking the usually calm and studious air around school was instead loud, boisterous and excitable on Thursday, as indeed it was; we had the pleasure of an extra 60 pupils and four accompanying staff! We were delighted to welcome pupils from the Holy Cross school in Chalala, Zambia for the…
Harvest Mass
Do come and celebrate the Harvest with us, this Wednesday, 8:45am.in the Hall. Father Michael will lead us in worship alongside the girls in Y6P. All parents, extended family and friends are warmly welcomed to come and share the Harvest celebration with us regardless of their faith. It is at this time of year when…
Singing at Epsom College
Mrs Petersons, our Music Director was delighted to be out of school on Tuesday; she was still working though because she accompanied a group of our young Junior pupils at a musical workshop at the prestigious Epsom College. She gives us her feedback below. “On Tuesday 2nd October, 9 girls from Year 3 who have…
‘The Lady with the Lamp’
On Thursday, Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed meeting Florence Nightingale. Miss Nightingale entertained the classes with stories from her childhood, her adventures in Scutari and her inspirational life after her return from the Crimean War. The girls enjoyed dressing up as one of Florence’s nurses and looking at the selection of real and replica objects which…
Fundraising
A marvellously green and HUGE MacMillan ‘Thank You’ to everyone who supported this event in school on Friday. There was a super spread of treats and goodies for the girls to enjoy at break time and our parents, staff and the extended school community appreciated all that was on offer. This event is always something…
Author Visit
Award winning author and illustrator Peter Brown stopped off at Holy Cross on Tuesday morning whilst on his UK and Ireland tour to tell our Junior girls, and the Year 5 children from Coombe Hill Junior school, all about his latest chapter books, The Wild Robot and The Wild Robot Escapes. We were the first…
Year 5 Service
This week our Year 5 girls led our collective worship on the theme of ‘community’. We heard how they had explored in class how we are all part of, and shaped by the community around us; for example, family, friends, teachers, doctors, priests. They related this interaction to the experience of a jagged rock which,…
Wisley Trip!
On Wednesday both our Reception classes went on a very special nature adventure to RHS Wisley; Ms Smith our Head of Pre-Prep details what happened below. “The Reception girls were excited to be going on their very first school trip and even more so, that we were being accompanied by our ‘big girls’ for lots…
