Category: News

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 3 December

3rd December 2024

Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you are all well and truly ready for a few weeks of Christmas (very, very organised) chaos/fun in the Prep Schools between now and the end of term! 11.5 working days for those of you who are counting. Where has this term gone? I hope you all had…

December Good Reads

3rd December 2024

This is a thrilling, wintry adventure, set in the frozen north and perpetual Winter.  Mila and her sisters live with their brother Oskar in a small forest cabin in the snow. One night, a fur-clad stranger arrives seeking shelter for himself and his men. But by the next morning, they’ve gone – taking Oskar with…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 26 November

26th November 2024

Good morning, Prep School family, I hope that this Bulletin finds you well and not too busy at this time of year. I hope you all had great weekends and no doubt many of you, like me, are already looking forward to the next one! I had a lovely weekend seeing lots of friends and…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 19 November

19th November 2024

Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you are well and not too cold on this proper wintery November morning! Did you all have a good weekend? I had a busy, albeit very lovely, weekend. I spent lots of time trying to sort out the living room that has morphed into a dumping ground since…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 12 November

12th November 2024

Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you are well and that you all had a super weekend. Our weekend was full of all things puppy! We spent time with Betty – taking her out and about and getting her used to new sounds, smells and places. She came to our local Remembrance Day parade…

Remembrance Day

11th November 2024

It was an honour for us to take part in the Royal Sutton Coldfield service and parade on Sunday morning. There were also very moving assemblies last week from Y6 and in Senior School, with thanks to Mrs Quigley and Mr Smith who have beautiful renditions of The Last Post.     They shall grow…

November Good Reads

6th November 2024

The World at War was one of the greatest television series of all time on the Second World War. This book is a record of all interviews with the participants from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals and is a unique and irreplaceable oral history. Richard Holmes, the author, was one of Britain’s most…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 5 November

5th November 2024

Good morning, Prep School family, I hope the Bulletin finds you well this week and that you all had a wonderful half term. For me, it has seemed like a really long break with lots of time to rest and recharge. We had a week in Turkey with some friends which was amazing – it…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 15 October

15th October 2024

Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you are all well and looking forward to the week ahead and then to half term. Only 4 more get ups before 2 weeks of lie-ins! I hope you all had wonderful weekends doing whatever made happy. My weekend was relatively quiet – Mr Bennett was poorly, so…

Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 8 October

8th October 2024

Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you are all well and well-rested after the weekend. I had a busy weekend of visiting Mr Bennett’s grandparents for his grandad’s 92nd birthday, seeing my brother and his family and delivering ‘meals on wheels’ for my dad who seems to have caught an awful cold – I…