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.

Benenden Tennis Tournament 2022

1st Jul 2022

Registration for the Benenden Tennis Tournament 2022 is now open! This is an annual event, which raises money for local charities and is run and funded by volunteers and supporters.

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STEM Experience 2022

1st Jul 2022

This week saw the return of the Prep School STEM experience at the Senior School. Our SVPS Year 5 pupils spent the day in the Physics department, led by a group of skilled and enthusiastic Lower Sixth students. The pupils undertook a practical action challenge to design and build a model wind turbine that would lift a cup of plastic cubes from the floor.

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Terrific Triangles

1st Jul 2022
Prep School

Our Year 6 pupils have been very busy learning all about triangles. In their geometry lessons, they have looked at the different types of triangles. As part of this, they learnt how to build up a fractal triangle pattern. This Sierpinski triangle activity illustrates the fundamental principles of fractals, how a pattern can repeat again and again, at different scales, and how this complex shape can be formed by simple repetition.

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Year 5 visit to ‘The Wardrobe’

1st Jul 2022
Prep School

This week, our Year 5 pupils visited SVS for the Junior production of The Wardrobe. Isla D and Eve G reflect on the experience below.

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Prefect Piece – James C

1st Jul 2022
Prep School

James C, who played the role of King Arthur in the Year 6 production of 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Camelot', talks in his prefect piece about his experience in the role below.

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Prep Sports Day 2022

1st Jul 2022
Prep School

Last Saturday, the Prep School enjoyed a wonderful morning of athletics at their annual Sports Day, which was held at the SVS track. Over 150 children took part in a number of different track and field events and, despite the wind, brief rain shower and hot sun, everyone put in so much effort to earn points for their House.

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Design Time

1st Jul 2022
Prep School

Pupils in Year 5 Art Club have had a great time designing clocks. The project was facilitated by Mr Kirk, Head of Design and Technology at the Senior School. Their brief, as product designers, was to design and make a clock which captured the style of Alessi. 

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Grand Designs

1st Jul 2022
Prep School

Design and Technology in Years 3, 4 and 5 has flourished and the children have had a lot of fun! Our Year 3 children stretched their paper folding skills to create origami monsters. They decorated them to bring to life monstrous characters that grabbed their pneumatic systems with open jaws! The children persevered with attaching syringes and tubing, controlling the air pressure to open and close their monster’s mouths and evaluating their fun, finished product.

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