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At St Edward’s, we encourage pupils to get fully involved in all aspects of School life to gain the most from all academic, extra-curricular, sporting and cultural activities on offer. Clubs and extra-curricular activities are an important aspect of school life. They give students places to tap into their creativity, pick up new skills and…

Mrs Bunting’s Year 9 Maths set took on the challenge of the topic of transformations in their lessons this week. A transformation changes the position or the size of a shape and there are four basic ways of doing it: a translation, a reflection, a rotation or an enlargement. All of these transformations, except enlargement,…

Our Pre-Prep children have continued to work incredibly hard over the past week and we have been impressed with the work that they are submitting and their participation in our zoom circle times. Activities for the past week have included: Reception Elm Children have been working on halving numbers, solving problems, including doubling, halving and…

Five whole weeks of distance learning. It’s been a learning curve for all of us and we are constantly being pleasantly surprised by the positive approach our children have- keep up the good work everyone! Some examples of what the children have been up to over the past week: Year 3 Maths saw the children…

This week our activities focused on the story of “The Three Little Pigs”! Tasks for the various age groups included: Little Acorns and Oaks: Making a pig out of craft materials. Making wind streamers for the garden. Making pig and wolf puppets out of egg boxes and houses out of old food packaging to use…

It was fantastic to see that so many students, parents and staff took the time to enter the House History Mini-Essay Competition. The History Department was delighted to receive a range of excellent entries, across all the categories. Head of History, Mr Martin, said ‘I personally learnt a huge amount reading the essays and it…

KS3 students at St Edward’s Senior & Sixth Form have been taking on the task of earning badges in the national iDEA scheme since we returned at Easter. They have been set the target of obtaining a Bronze Award by the end of Summer Term, and they have risen to the challenge in some style!…

We have had another very productive week in Prep. The effort and enthusiasm that our pupils are putting into their daily tasks has been fantastic, and everyone seems to be getting a lot out of their daily live lessons. Some examples of the what the children have been working on over the past week are…

It has been a very busy week in Pre-Prep with some lovely opportunities for the children to focus on new topics, and be creative with their Distance Learning School tasks and challenges. Activities for each of the year groups included:   Reception It was pirate week in Reception with a whole range of themed activities…

We had an exciting week in Kindergarten with the introduction of Zoom circle times, which were enjoyed by children and adults alike! This week our activities focused on the story of “The Gingerbread Man”! Tasks for the various age groups included:   Little Acorns and Oaks Sensory writing on trays in a mixture of salt,…