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The weather during the Spring Term might have been somewhat grey and damp but life at Lancing Prep Hove was anything but dreary!
School was a busy and purposeful place, with workshops, trips and activities to enrich the curriculum. There was a real focus on the Able, Gifted & Talented programme with opportunities in all areas, not just academia, for pupils to flourish, and to nurture emerging talents. Weekly AGT challenge clubs included, amongst other activities, a talk by Dr Kerney, Head of History at Lancing College, on life at the College during WWI who gave fascinating insights into how the school community contributed to the war effort.
Six children entered this year’s Townsend Warner History competition, including several Year 6 children, one of whom made it through to Paper 2, finishing with marks in the top 250 in the country. We can’t wait to hear the outcome! Four Year 4 children took part in the Christ’s Hospital Mathematics Challenge; they were fabulous ambassadors for LPH and enjoyed the thrill of solving a variety of puzzles and problems. They did incredibly well, placing 11th and 14th out of a field of 57 pairs, from 30 different schools. Well done, too, to our Year 6 pupils who took part in the Primary Maths Challenge earlier in the year, one of whom qualified for the bonus round, achieving a very creditable Silver award.
Our youngest children in Reception had a super evening camp at school with cosy tents indoors, marshmallow roasting in Forest School and trying their hand at charcoal drawings.
British Science Week was packed with experiments and investigations, from the Pre-Prep exploring cause and effect by designing and testing domino runs to the younger Prep years where pupils found out about the properties of friction and determined which of our teeth are used for each process in eating (accompanied by a practical exercise in class). The senior pupils were based in the science lab, discovering just what is contained in owl pellets, carrying out a dissection of a heart and extracting DNA from fruit.
World Book Day brought forward its usual cast of colourful characters, including a small army of oompa loompas and the book swap was very popular with every child taking away a book to read. The children threw themselves into the annual pancake day races to mark the start of Lent and we held the Spring term Mowden Cup match, this time for co-ed U13 netball, with the U11s joining in as well.
The children had worked hard on their pieces for the Drama Evenings towards the end of terms and Laurent Hall was packed with appreciative and proud parents!
Term ended with great excitement for those pupils in Years 6 to 8 who headed off to Bormio in Italy on the annual ski trip during the Easter break.