All News for Pre-Preparatory
22.06.17
The Ladies’ College has a long tradition, dating from 1872, to provide education to girls. As such, it is one of the oldest girls' schools where the benefits of single sex provision are provided to ensure that the advantages afforded to boys are also afforded to girls. Indeed, there is significant …
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16.06.17
Pre-Preparatory Week Eight: 12th - 16th June
Wow what a fantastic Forest Friday in the sun. The girls had a wonderful time den building with the old branches, they managed to create a den to hide inside!! They also went bug hunting in the bug hotel and found an amazingly cute ladybird. Then we …
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FOREST SCHOOL
16.06.17
Pre-Preparatory Week Seven: 5th - 9th June
What an adventurous week!! We starting the week with our sponsored swim. the rest of the school had done theirs and it was our turn...the girls did an amazing job and had a wonderful time. Tuesday we celebrated a very special birthday! Wednesday the Be…
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05.06.17
Pre-Preparatory Week Six: 29th May - 2nd June
Pre-Prep have had a wonderful week, working together and creating true master pieces. The beans designed and created a HUGE tower with all sorts of blocks and even used problem solving to get the building as high as they could. More excitement wh…
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PRE-PREPARATORY
01.06.17
Pre-Preparatory Week Five: 22nd - 26th May
We have loved having the sun shining and lovely warm weather this week. The girls have been out constantly this week, which you might think is nothing unusual, however having the sun shining makes everything even more exciting!! They have had a wonderf…
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22.05.17
Pre-Preparatory Week Four: 15th - 19th May
Pre-Prep were joined by Form 2 on a fantastic beach trip, each group had a Pea, a Bean and two Form 2's. It started a little wet as we had a small shower of rain, however this didn't dampen the excitement, and soon the sun came out. The girls loved roc…
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15.05.17
Pre-Preparatory Week Three: 8th - 12th May
The girls were excited to see this week that our potatoes and lettuce plants have both grown. Some of our friends are becoming incredibly adventurous with some block creations. However on Friday we had some slippery guests in to play, we had snails ev…
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08.05.17
Pre-Preparatory Week Two: 1st - 5th May
Pre-prep were lucky to have been invited by Vice Admiral and Lady Corder to visit the bee hives at Government House. On Friday we all set off very excitedly suited and booted and ready to learn about bees. We were welcomed by Lady Corder and Mr Gary. Mr G…
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PRE-PREPARATORY
02.05.17
Pre-Preparatory Week One: 24th - 28th April
Everyone was very excited to be back this week. We had a lot of fun, music playing, playing on and with the new additions to the garden, lots of creativity happening indoors and out and rounded off the week hunting for bumble bees during Forests sc…
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PRE-PREPARATORY ,
FOREST SCHOOL
07.04.17
Final week of Lent Term
We have had a fun filled week this week. We started the week with a play swim followed by the afternoon watching the Junior production of Alice in Wonderland - which was fantastic and the girls loved it.
On Tuesday we celebrated a VERY special birthday and celebr…
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PRE-PREPARATORY
03.04.17
Week 12 in Pre-Prep - Yippee Sunshine!
Pre-Prep have made the most of the dry weather this week, and even managed some of the days without coats outside! Summer must be coming.
The beans have been thinking about the sound 'j' and so we enjoyed some tasty toast and jam, kindly prov…
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28.03.17
Week 11
Pre-Prep have been feeling positive that the weather is turning a little brighter and spring may be attempting to appear!
So out came the trowels and soil and Pre-Prep planted peas and beans in bags so they could watch them grow, as well as planting some of our wonderful coop vegetab…
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24.03.17
Everyone dressed in mufti and bought red noses.
Form III led a whole school assembly which involved a game requiring lots of skill as
Mrs Cave and Mrs Beebee are demonstrating!
We learnt about the history of Red Nose Day and where all the money goes to.
Everyone had lots of fun and ove…
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22.03.17
Pre-Preparatory Week 10
On Wednesday our 'Beans' took part in the Eisteddfod in the group poem section. They spoke absolutely fantastically, and loved having mud on their clothes, faces and hands and leaves in their hair all adding to the poem entitled 'Dirt on My Shirt'.
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14.03.17
This week has been undoubtedly wet, however when there is rain and ground there is MUD!!! Pre-Prep have loved playing in the mud cooking, painting and creating this week. By the end of the week it was time to wash everything down. We are also hopeful that spring is on the way as we spotted our fro…
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08.03.17
We hope you are having a good International Women’s Day!
The Ladies’ College has International Women’s Day as our assembly theme this week. In our whole school assembly on Monday we learned, heard and watched Maya Angelou, a truly inspirational women, whose poetry explored the challenges of her…
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06.03.17
The first week back after half term has been incredibly busy for Pre-Prep. On Tuesday we individually made and of course had to taste our pancakes, which were very yummy with our choice of toppings. We met the Lieutenant Governor and Lady Corder on Wednesday who visited the school, and joined …
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PRE-PREPARATORY ,
FOREST SCHOOL
01.03.17
by His Excellency Sir Ian Corder, Lady Corder and Major Marco Ciotti
Today we welcomed the Lieutenant Governor and Lady Corder to College, accompanied by Major Ciotti. Their visit started in our outside classroom at Melrose where our visitors met a group of our youngest pupils (aged 2-3 years)…
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27.02.17
13th - 16th February
Pre-Prep have had a wonderful time learning all about fire safety and cooking on open fires. We initially played a lot of safety games, so that everyone knew exactly how to stay safe and move around an open fire. Then on Wednesday we laid and lit a real fire in our 'Forest…
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FOREST SCHOOL
13.02.17
The girls in Pre-Prep love having tea parties. So they invited their Daddies or Granddads in for 'Afternoon Tea'. We had a busy time preparing, each of the girls made, cooked and decorated a heart shaped cake for their guest. The guests arrived and the girls were so excited, they took their guests…
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