Month: March 2019

29th March 2019

An amazing week of skiing took place at the IAPS Ski Championships in Passo del Tonale, Italy in March with an intrepid team of 10 Longacre pupils taking the slopes by storm. During the week the children trained extensively, perfecting their turns, picking up speed tips and adding racing technique to their skiing repertoire in…

25th March 2019

On Monday, we were very lucky to have Dr Suzie Imber, a planetary scientist and winner of the BBC 2 television show ‘Astronauts, Have you got what it takes?’ visiting us. The Pre-Prep and Prep children all enjoyed an interesting assembly when Suzie talked to them about some of the challenges she took part in on the…

15th March 2019

On Friday 15th March Longacre shunned its traditional blue uniform in favour of shades of comedic red for Red Nose Day. 270 excited children (with very bulbous noses) exchanged ever more groan worthy ‘jokes’ practising for the Longacre joke competition later that day. The heats for the competition were held by the long suffering form teachers…

11th March 2019

Special congratulations also go to the following Longacre pupils who have been awarded scholarships this year: Harry A   Academic Scholarship at Duke of Kent School Art Scholarship at Frensham Heights Inigo S Academic Scholarship at Reigate Grammar School Toby W Drama Scholarship at St Edmund’s School Sam R Sports Scholarship at Reigate Grammar School…

11th March 2019

We are extremely proud of all our Form VI pupils who are once again celebrating outstanding 11+ exam results this year. Between them they have received a record-breaking total of 63 offers of senior school places from 19 independent senior schools across Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire. Special congratulations also go to those Longacre pupils…

4th March 2019

On Thursday afternoon we went to Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham to take part in a maths challenge, representing Longacre against 37 other schools. For almost two hours there was a series of maths related questions and problem solving. My favourite part of the challenge was the tangram, pairs of numbers and the domino puzzle…