Category: News

13th June 2019

Longacre’s Gifted & Talented Sports Club went on another incredible trip to Reed’s School this week. The pupils were quickly greeted and led to their first session with Mr Garrard (Hockey Professional and two times GB Olympian). This was the first time the group have had a session with Mr Garrard. He led the pupils through…

11th June 2019

It’s hard to believe that our last visit to Birtley House was a year ago! Following the Junior Choir’s debut at the Shamley Green Village Fête last weekend, the children were full of confidence to perform to the residents of Birtley House Nursing Home. We were also delighted to have one of our Longacre Governors,…

10th June 2019

On such a dismal, rainy Saturday, it was as if the rain stopped just for our Junior Choir and our Grade 1 dancers! The Junior Choir had been preparing their repertoire for some time and we were really excited to perform to our community of Shamley Green. The Junior Choir pulled in a big crowd…

7th June 2019

What a wonderful Form VI trip to the rather beautiful Chateau de Warsy we had!  Once we arrived after our long journey (full of the usual songs, cries of ‘are we there yet?’ and ‘I’m hungry’) we checked out our accommodation at La Grange; a step up from last year’s ‘Pig Pods’ to be sure! …

7th June 2019

The Form V children spent an amazing week in Swanage leading up to half term on their Land and Wave residential and what a week it was! Every pupil fully embraced all the opportunities, learning new skills such as fire lighting, navigation, guiding each other while blindfolded as well as trying all the activities on…

14th May 2019

A group of lucky Under 9 & 10 boys got to experience a cricket masterclass delivered by Mark Ramprakash, the former Surrey & England legend and England Batting Coach.  Mark, alongside Martin Bicknell (Director of Cricket, Charterhouse), delivered some exciting batting and fielding drills to the boys, before putting them through their paces in the nets. …

2nd May 2019

Monday 29th April saw the opening of the newly located Prep School Library. Based on an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theme, parents were invited to come and view the wonderful pictures, created by Miss Butler as well as to see the new Accelerated Reading Scheme, which is currently operating for pupils in both Forms II and…

2nd May 2019

On Tuesday four of our Year IV children travelled to Greenfield School to take part in their annual English Competition.  Amelia B, Sam F, Jasmine C and Thomas W were selected to represent the school and gave a fantastic account of themselves coming third overall! Some of the rounds were very difficult, the Cockney Rhyming…

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…