News & Events
Welcome to our new Chef
A very warm welcome to our new school chef, Simeon. Having started his career at the Frimley Hall hotel as an apprentice in the 90’s, Simeon has been in the hospitality industry for almost 25 years, the last 10 years working as a Head Chef at various conference centres and hotels and at the Chartered…
Form IV Production – Plastic Pirates
After a delay due to high winds and scurvy (aka COVID) the Plastic Pearl took to the high seas of the Palmer Hall on Wednesday and Thursday this week and Form IV delighted us with their energy, enthusiasm, characterful performances and fantastic singing. The show was full of humour, bravery and the important environmental message…
Science Week 2022
Longacre Science Week 2022 had a medicine theme and was full of many interesting talks and activities for the children. We started with the Year 6 Science Masters giving an assembly about the history of medicines and how important it is for scientists to try new things and make mistakes so that they can learn….
Christ’s Hospital Maths Challenge
On Wednesday, Reuben, Bryony, Sebastian and Amy in Form V proudly represented Longacre at the highly anticipated maths challenge at Christ’s Hospital School where 21 schools pitted their wits against each other to complete a carousel of mathematical challenges against the clock. The challenges included tangrams, broken calculators, cycling curly, make 24, ordering cards and…
King Edward’s Orchestral Day
After the disappointment of cancellations and postponements of the last few orchestral days, our more advanced instrumentalists were very happy to jump on the minibus and head off for a wonderful day of music at King Edward’s School, Witley. We joined other Prep schools with their young learners, and the KESW Orchestra. Our instrumentalists did…
U11 & U9 Girls’ Football Tournaments
The sun and football gods combined to create a glorious feast of sizzling football on Wednesday and Thursday this week when we hosted Longacre’s U11 & U9 Girls’ Football Festivals. All of our form VI ,V, IV & III girls were in action against a host of quality opposition from the surrounding prep schools. Longacre’s…
Shakespeare Schools’ Festival
Exploring Shakespeare is a difficult concept for children and tackling the ‘Scottish Play’ quite a task for 10 and 11 year olds, but Longacre’s Form VI smashed it on Tuesday! Following weeks of hard work involving workshops with professionals, line runs in the woods and Sunday rehearsals, Form VI arrived at Horsham’s wonderful Capitol Theatre…
Easter Holiday Camps
We are pleased to announce that Next Thing Education Camps are holding an Easter Technology Camp at Longacre School from Monday 28th March to Friday 1st April for children from Form I – Form VI. Next Thing Education’s Tech Camps are all about making learning fun and encouraging skill building. From programming challenges, Robot Coding,…
Platinum Jubilee Hedge Official Opening
What a glorious day we were blessed with to carry out the planting of our Jubilee Hedge to commemorate the Queen’s 70 year reign. There was not a cloud in the sky as the holes were all finished off in preparation for all the children to come out and plant a sapling. It was a…
Form III Trip to the Lookout Discovery Centre
Form III had a fantastic day out on our science trip to the Lookout Discovery Centre in Bracknell, made even more special as it was Science Week! The children spent most of the day in small groups so that they could explore the 90 different hands on exhibits spread across 4 zones (Forces and Movement,…