News Archive
We are very proud of all our Year 6 girls who worked so hard to achieve their very best in the senior school entrance examinations. Look at our Year 6 Destinations page to see the many and varied prestigious schools that the girls will be moving onto in September.
This academic year also sees a record number of scholarships and prizes offered. An amazing twelve scholarships and prizes were offered: four music scholarships, three academic scholarships, two art scholarships, one sports scholarship, one maths prize and one all round scholarship.
To celebrate World Book Day Study girls came to school with a 'clue' to the identity of a well known book character. Among the many 'clues' were marmalade sandwiches, honey, wands and a scar, bottles saying 'Drink Me', golden tickets, long noses, Turkish Delight and even a collar and lead (but no dog)! Guess the following characters:
Wilberforce House girls held a Book and Cake Sale to raise money for this term's charity, St Raphael's Hospice. They raised the fantastic amount of £437.07.
Inspired by their studies of Charles Darwin during Science Week, the girls took part in a competition to design an imaginary plant or animal which had adapted to its environment. Everyone made the most of their creative skills and scientific and geographical knowledge to create some amazing plants and animals. Here are the deserving winners with their intriguing designs.
For one full week, from Monday 8 February, Study girls will come off their normal timetable to learn about science in the most stimulating and creative ways! 'We are looking forward to a week full of fun, experiments and hands on learning. Science is all around us and we want our girls to be inspired and curious about the world, to ask questions and to enjoy finding the answers!' says Miss Bishti, Head of Science.
Click here to see just a little of what the girls got up to…
Everyone was really looking forward to the Public Speaking Competition Final, especially the finalists! It took place on the afternoon of Friday 5 February, so it made a perfect start to the weekend. First were the Year 4 and 5 finalists who had prepared talks on all sorts of subjects like The Dogs Trust, Table Manners, Schools around the World, Life in Nelson's Navy and Strictly Come Dancing. Then it was the turn of Year 6. They had had only a short time to prepare a talk on 'If I were Prime Minister' – they all did brilliantly! Our adjudicator was Mr Tully who is Head of Drama at Arts Educational School. Before he announced the winners, he said how impressed he was by all the finalists. The audience clapped wildly as he announced the winners and runners up. I think everyone thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.
Jessica Price, Year 5
Mr Tully with the Winners
Congratulations to our Year 6 Cross Country Team who came first in the recent 4km Schools' Cross Country Meeting at Barn Elms. The Year 5 team did extremely well too, taking third place. All our competitors finished in the top half, and we are particularly proud of the following girls: Charlotte Clover, Olivia George, and Millie Horner who came first, second and fourth, out of 44 girls taking part!
After hearing about the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Study girls, staff and parents decided to respond as a community. We held a 'giving' day, Years 3 and 6 held cake sales and some Year 5 girls made thread bracelets and bookmarks to sell. Altogether we raised £1,866 for the DEC Haiti Earthquake Appeal. Thank you to everyone who contributed their time and effort for this most worthy cause.
Reception girls have been learning all about people in the community whose job it is to help us. So far this term they have had visits from a doctor, a nurse, a postman, two policewomen and, as you can see here, the local fire brigade.
While it was snowing outside Reception had fun creating their own snowmen.
