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September Good Reads – KS3 – Death Sets Sail – Robin Hood
Starting off this academic year with a literary bang! Below are our Good Reads for September from our school librarian Mrs Daniels and they are fantastic Death sets sail We find ourselves on the River Nile in Egypt in this final novel from her award winning murder mystery series. Our two protagonists, Daisy Wells…
Highclare School GCSE Results Day 2022
Year 11 students receive well-earned GCSE results today. The School continues to build on an already impressive exam result reputation with a 97% overall pass rate (pupils achieving grades 9 – 4) and 40% in the 9 – 7 range. Among the Highclare students celebrating this morning are Julian Hau, with 10 grade 9s…
Highclare School: outstanding A-level results
The latest cohort of highly successful sixth formers returned to school today to receive their A Level results. Among the Highclare students celebrating this morning were Talal Baldwin, who achieved 4 A*s, Waaris Bilal, who achieved 1 A* and 3 As, Andrew Evans, who achieved 4 As, Lizzie Pulley, who achieved 2 As and 2…
Sports Day Success!!
Last Wednesday saw the senior school’s annual sports day competitions where students competed in a variety of sports. The event was held at Windley athletics track and it was a perfect way to wind down to the end of term. Congratulations to all of the children to who participated on the day!
Sixth Form BAFTAs
This week our sixth form held their own version of the BAFTAs to celebrate the end of exams and the end of the year as well as to enjoy the gorgeous weather we had been blessed with over the past few days. The event was mostly held outside in our stunning gardens that have been…
Pilgrimage to Lichfield
The Summer term often brings plenty of opportunities for our students to break free from the shackles of the classroom and explore the world in which we live. Our extracurricular and afterschool groups often see our pupils taken across the West Midlands. However sometimes our teachers get the opportunity to combine excursions and trips with…
Journey Day, 17 June 2022
Last week, Friday 17 June we held a day dedicated to ‘Journey’. We asked all of our pupils and staff to spend some time thinking about what the word meant to them and how it might differ for all of us. Many of our teachers used this opportunity to design specific lessons structured around their…
Photography Club
One of the excellent subjects we offer at Highclare is Photography. One of our teachers Mrs Stott has been helping our students to discover a love for the perfect picture and our grounds at Highclare Senior School make for excellent photo subjects. U4 students were able to take advantage of the beautiful weather, our lovely…
June 2022 – Good Reads – KS3
Each month we put out a list of books we think would be great reads for our students. This month’s good reads go out to KS3 (years 7,8 and 9). This months good reads for Ks3 are Gregor The Overlander by Suzanne Collins and Love and Kisses by Jean Ure. See the descriptions below:
Mrs Bennetts Bulletin, Tuesday 21 June 2022
Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you are all well and enjoyed the weekend? I cannot believe how different two days can be. Friday was the hottest day of the year so far, we were all scorching in school and then Saturday was like we had been cast back into the depths of…
