Latest School News
At Hendon Prep we are so proud of our children’s achievements and also of the many wonderful activities that our teachers plan for them. Our news features will give you a fabulous insight into our busy school life. Make sure you check back regularly.
RP & the butterfly!
June 22, 2017
The Reception class have been learning all about the life-cycle of a butterfly. They looked after the tiny caterpillars until they cocooned themselves and then eventually emerged as beautiful butterflies. They have now let all of the wonderful butterflies go however one of them seemed rather reluctant to leave the children. Eventually it flew up into the trees and the children all waived it good bye.
Greenwich Royal Observatory
June 21, 2017
Year 6 went on a fascinating trip to the Greenwich Royal Observatory where they visited the museum and the planetarium. The children were so excited to share their experience when they returned to school and Sachin wrote this wonderful review: “I enjoyed the trip to the Greenwich Observatory, it was so fascinating; we got to see how the clocks were designed to tell the time
Rotten Romans?
June 15, 2017
Year 6 enjoyed a fascinating trip to the Roman Verulamium in St Albans to gain an understanding of everyday life in Roman Britain. Verulamium was the third largest city of Roman Britain and the museum, stands on the site of the Roman town. The children learnt how to build an arch like the Roman builders, investigated Roman artefacts, explored Roman food and saw some of
Gill Lewis Visit
June 12, 2017
The wonderful children’s author, Gill Lewis recently visited Hendon to talk about her work as a writer, vet, wildlife enthusiast and sometime tree dweller! At school Gill was disappointed that teachers never taught the really important things, like ‘how to avoid a herd of charging elephants’ or, ‘what to do if your canoe hits a rock in rapids, splits in two and sinks into the Zambezi
Awful Egyptians
June 6, 2017
Year 2 spent the first half of the Summer Term learning about life in Ancient Egypt. They had a fabulous visit to the British Museum to explore the Ancient Egyptian galleries and observe the wonderful sculptures and then finished off the term by presenting everything they had learnt about the ‘Awful Egyptians’ in a school assembly. During the assembly the children talked about the significance
Mr Lloyd-Williams in print
June 6, 2017
If you haven’t already received your print copy of the Primary Times you can view Mr Loyd-Williams’ short piece for them on the power of teaching philosophy to Junior School pupils online by clicking on the image below and flicking through to page 20.
Bude Review
May 18, 2017
The children have not stopped talking about their fabulous week in Bude and even shared their experiences with the rest of the school during assembly this morning. From Mr Shaw: Our trip to Bude once again proved to be a fantastic experience for all the children. They faced some challenges, and learnt how to deal with excitement and uncertainty. As with last year, I was especially
Nursery enjoy the outside classroom
May 15, 2017
The Nursery children recently enjoyed an afternoon in our fabulous outside classroom. Whilst the older children ‘painted’ their names using water and used whatever they could find laying around to make their initials the younger children thoroughly enjoyed themselves making ‘delicious’ mud pies using the outside kitchen. Yum!
Goodbye to the Chicks
May 11, 2017
Today we all said goodbye to the six chicks which hatched in school. Four of the fluffy little bundles are going to Miss Ramdel’s father to join his current flock and the two cockerels will be going to their new home on a free range farm. Our pupils have been studying the 6 chickens from the very first moment they arrived in school when they were
Trip to Bude
May 11, 2017
Out Year 5 & 6 children are having a fabulous time in Bude this week. They have tried so many exciting activities including; kayaking, caving, surfing, mountain biking and so much more! We cannot wait to hear about all of their adventures when they return and will update you as soon as we do. For now, here are just a couple of the wonderful pictures
