2012 News Archive
Section Spelling Competition, 2012
Thursday 5 January 2012The Musketeers seem determined to call this competition their own! What looked, in the early stages, to be a runaway win for the Crusaders turned out to be a gripping battle between those last standing – Torben for the Crusaders and Ana and Kate for Musketeers – with the latter steadily building their points to snatch and then secure the lead…
2012 General Knowledge Quiz, Years 3 to 6
Friday 20 January 2012…
Reception and Nursery celebrate Chinese New Year
Tuesday 24 January 2012The Year of the Dragon was welcomed in style by Reception and Nursery on 23rd January 2012. …
Year 3 and Year 4 Poetry Recitation
Monday 23 January 2012Last Friday morning we held a new event during morning chapel time. All of the children in Years 3 and 4 had been challenged to find and learn a poem of their own choice over the Christmas holidays. In the first few weeks of term their English teachers checked that all was in order and then heard performances in English lessons. Twelve children (three from each Section) were then chosen to take part in the final performing their recitation in front of the whole Prep school…
St Aubyns wins Public Speaking Competition
Friday 27 January 2012On Thursday 26th January St Aubyns hosted for its third year a Public Speaking Competition for local independent schools. This is open to teams of Year 7 and 8 pupils. Illness led to a couple of schools pulling out at the last minute so that only four schools gathered to deliver their speeches - Brighton College Prep School, Roedean, Brighton and Hove High School and St Aubyns…
Jason Hughes inspires St Aubyns pupils
Wednesday 18 January 2012On Tuesday 17th January, we were lucky enough to be visited by a well known actor called Jason Hughes, who is one of the lead roles in the television series‘Midsomer Murders’ and is involved with many other theatre productions and television series. Firstly Jason talked to us about his time in school , and how he started acting , with the help of L.A.M.D.A, which was very encouraging for all the L.A.M.D.A pupils who attended the session…
French Trip 2012
Thursday 9 February 2012From Friday 3rd February until Monday 6th February thirty-three St Aubyns pupils, led by Mme Templeton in the company of Mrs Edwards and Mr Hitchings, explored the sites of Paris and put their French speaking skills to the test…
Robin Hood day for Pre-Prep pupils
Friday 10 February 2012The theme for all of our Arts Express days this year is Myths and Legends. On each of these days the children will explore this theme through the arts…
St Aubyns joins Cothill Educational Trust
Wednesday 11 April 2012The Cothill Educational Trust is a group of prep schools with a common educational vision for the development of individual children which enables parents to make the right choice for their future. Schools which are members of the Trust share a body of Trustees and share back-office bursarial administration. Each school is very much the responsibility of its own Head. The Trust provides support and expertise in the encouragement of all that is special and particular to each school…
Preparing children for the modern world
Sunday 29 April 2012At St Aubyns we recognise the importance of blending tradition with new developments in teaching and technology. Our 21-station ICT suite, refitted with new hardware in September 2011, enables us not only to teach through dedicated ICT lessons pupils from Nursery upwards the basic computer skills which they need, but also to bring a further dimension to Maths, History, Geography, French and the rest as subject specialists in those areas will use software and carefully guided research tools to enhance their teaching…
Reception places available for September 2012
Wednesday 2 May 2012St Aubyns is committed to small class sizes whch enable close attention to the individual development of each child. The class size average throughout the school is 15…
Seven academic scholarship awards to senior schools
Friday 18 May 2012The final scholarship news of the year arrived at St Aubyns on Thursday and what excellent news it was! Seven of our Year 8 pupils have won academic awards to their senior schools which is more than has ever been achieved in one year at St Aubyns before…