Senior School 14 Jan 22

Headmaster’s Headlines – 14.01.22

It is a stunning afternoon here at School. The School site looks beautiful today, bathed in sunshine with hardly a cloud in the sky. Sunrises and sunsets have also been breath taking; I wonder how many more days we can have like this as the winter progresses.

Sixth Form 14 Jan 22

Head of School Speech

During the Headmaster's Assembly today, Katherine Sawyer (Upper Sixth) delivered her Head of School speech, which you can read below.

Sixth Form 7 Jan 22

Head of School Speech

During the Headmaster's Assembly today Theodore Dransfield (Upper Sixth) delivered his Head of School speech, which you can read below.

Senior School 7 Jan 22

Indoor Hockey Success

Over the Christmas break, several of our pupils competed at the Indoor Hockey UK Championships. This is a tournament ran independently of England Hockey, aiming to give more athletes a taste of Indoor Hockey, in a highly competitive environment.

Greek Vase Visuals

2nd Dec 2022
Prep School

Inspired by Greek vases, children in Year 3 have created visually pleasing and informative sketchbook pages. The artistic historians used their Super Power of Looking to inform their drawings and reflect the style of the amazing ancient vases. Greek vases came in many shapes and sizes, from enormous water and wine mixing Kraters to tall, tiny oil holding Lekythos.

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Prefect Piece: Avia E

25th Nov 2022
Prep School

Avia E (Year 6) talks in her prefect piece about her passion for Hockey and the variety of sport at the School.

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Astounding Action Teams

25th Nov 2022
Prep School

As part of pupil voice, students are encouraged to set up an Action Team if they have an idea to make a difference to the School community. This could be an idea to change something in School for the better or to share a passion. They give students the power to make decisions and become leaders of change.

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Marvellous Mandarin Course

25th Nov 2022
Prep School

Following last year’s successful and popular Mandarin course, we once again put our Year 6 students up for this fascinating language challenge. This term, they swapped one of their weekly French lessons for a Friday afternoon of Mandarin. The sessions have been partly a live lesson with an online teacher, and partly a digital programme of interesting language and cultural activities and games. 

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Magnificent Mark Making

25th Nov 2022
Prep School

In Art, our Year 5 children have been experimenting and taking creative risks with mark making. Spoilt for choice, they were given a variety of different materials to create their own drawing tools.  

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Grow Stronger Together

25th Nov 2022
Prep School

This week, children in Years 3 to Year 6 celebrated both Artsmark Week and belonging to their castles, Bodiam, Hever, Leeds and Rochester, by creating castle community trees.   They discussed how the tree is a symbol of their castle community and how it is strengthened by everyone helping, supporting and being kind to each other.

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Excelling at Equestrianism

18th Nov 2022
Prep School

Over Half Term, there were a lot of successes within the SVPS Equestrian community. Well done to Amelia P (Year 5), Isla D and Charlotte L ( both Year 6) on some brilliant performances.

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Wonders of Wax

18th Nov 2022
Prep School

Our Year 3 children have been using white wax crayons and watercolours to create secret landscapes. Secret because they first drew their ‘invisible’ landscape with a white Crayola Crayon. They used mark making to create textural effects and then the magic began!

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