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Charity Day for Mane Chance Sanctuary
For our Hastings Charity Day in February the children came to school dressed as cowboys, cowgirls, jockeys, horses, donkeys and even a llama (!) to raise money for our chosen charity, The Mane Chance Sanctuary. After an assembly about the charity’s work, the children all took part in a hobby horse derby in the Palmer…
Author Sophy Henn visits Longacre
Author and illustrator Sophy Henn visited us on Tuesday and did a series of excellent presentations to the children up to Form IV. Nursery joined in with her when reading her ‘Ted’ stories, whilst Kindergarten & Reception were treated to her wonderful ‘Where Bear’ & ‘Super Duper You’ books. Both groups were then shown how…
Longacre Pupil Wins English Heritage Short Story Competition
Huge congratulations to Rupert B in Year 5 who has been chosen as the overall winner of the English Heritage ‘Tell Us A Story’ short story writing competition. Rupert has won some amazing prizes including a three night stay in an English Heritage cottage for his family, an annual family membership, an illustration of his short…
National Schools Indoor Series
The ski-season has started! On Monday, Longacre took part in the first ski race of the National Schools Indoor Series at Hemel Hempstead. Will P, Dexter R, Joe S and Thomas S represented Longacre along with 210 other children from junior schools from around the country. The race is run over two legs using the…
Tom Palmer Author Visit
On Wednesday the children in Forms III-VI enjoyed a visit from the author Tom Palmer. Tom answered some very sensible questions about his books, which centre around his own interests; football, rugby and history. He spoke about how long it takes him to write his books and where he gains his inspiration. His book ‘Armistice…
Whacky Hair Day for Cancer Research
What a fantastic, whacky, colourful day we had on Thursday for Waterloo’s Charity Day raising money for Cancer Research UK. The children came into school fashioning the whackiest hairstyles going. We had coca cola bottles in hair, mermaids, butterflies, all the hair dye you can imagine and a crazy amount of glitter! After lunch we were treated…
Elmbridge Retirement Village
On Monday the children from Form IIL spent the afternoon at Elmbridge Retirement Village in Cranleigh. The children (and teachers) thoroughly enjoyed their first visit to Elmbridge. They had a carousel of different activities to complete with the residents, focusing on our ‘Kings and Queens’ topic. They made crowns, wrote about what they would do…
Community Service Club Visit
This week saw the first session of the new Community Service Club which is linked to leadership development at Longacre. Following a link provided by one of our governors to a club for the elderly that meets each Wednesday at Blunden Court in Bramley, some of our Year 6 pupils headed off with Mrs Hall-Palmer to do…
‘Bear Hut’ opens at Longacre
Longacre has opened a new wellbeing space for pupils and staff as part of the school’s focus on mindfulness and mental health. The ‘Bear Hut’, so called after the bear that features in the school’s logo, opened at the start of the term and is already proving popular with Longacre pupils. Funded by the Longacre…
Charity Day for WaterAid
On Monday we hosted our Agincourt Charity Day in support of WaterAid. We were delighted to welcome our guest speaker, Barrie Lawrence to talk to children in Reception to Year V about the plight of those in many parts of the developing world who still do not have access to clean water. The children also…
