Category: Preparatory School
January Good Reads
This book is a really fun way to get a grasp of large chunks of history. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook add humour and wit to their subject and brim with a bottomless knowledge. Questions answered include ‘How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover’? And ‘What made Alfred the Great so great?’…
Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 17 December
Good morning, Prep School family, I hope you all had a good weekend. Mine was really busy with Christmas shopping, a trip to the hairdressers, finally getting our Christmas decorations up and seeing my dad. The highlight had to be though, our trip to Sherwood Forest – before you ask, no Robin Hood was spotted!…
Mrs Bennett’s Bulletin Tuesday 26 November
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
