January 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…