Year: 2017
Longacre Listed in the Sunday Times Top 100 Independent Preparatory Schools
Longacre School has been listed in the Sunday Times table of the Top 100 Independent Preparatory Schools in England published on Sunday 19th November. Longacre is the only co-educational prep school in the Guildford area to make the list. The ranking is based on scores in reading, grammar and maths from the SATS examinations taken in…
U9 Girls Netball Masterclass at Worth School
Some of the U9 girls were lucky enough to be invited to attend a netball coaching masterclass at Worth School on Thursday. These enthusiastic young netballers visited the school along with Mrs Hall-Palmer and were put through their paces by Miss Jo Barnes, Head of Netball as well as Worth’s Netball Captain and Vice Captain….
Remembrance Service
As quiet as church mice, the Longacre school community gathered together on Thursday morning to mark our annual Service of Remembrance with the Rev Sally officiating. The service began in rather murky light but as we listened spell bound to the six poems read to us by Finn, Jasmine, Aurelia, Caspar, Izzy and Henry, and sang our traditional…
Form II Parents’ Taster Day
The Form II “Woodland Warriors” were joined by a bunch of parental new recruits at the Taster Day Forest School session.
Guildford Book Festival
As part of the Guildford Book Festival, we welcomed two authors into school to talk about their books, careers and their crazy characters.
King Edward’s Orchestral Day
Some of our Longacre music students enjoyed a thoroughly intensive musical day at King Edwards Witley on Thursday
Form V Trip to Portsmouth Dockyard
Our trip to Portsmouth was brilliant! We started in our classroom that we would have for the day. The other class went into the Mary Rose Museum.
Drama Masters Visit The Globe
The day dawned fair as our band of travelling thespians verily sallied forth to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on Bankside.
Form II Trip to St Paul’s Cathedral
The Fire of London has ignited the imagination of the boys and girls in Form II. They visited St Paul’s Cathedral this week to learn more about the historic event of 1666.
Form I Trip to Brooklands Museum
On Friday 29th September the Form I children visited Brooklands Transport Museum as part of their topic “Wings and Wheels”.