News & Events
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,…
Form I & II Tea-Time Concert
The Forms I and II treated us to a wonderful and busy, Tea-time Concert this week. There were 40 children in the concert, dazzling us with performances on the piano, recorder, drums, violin and cello. Our ‘Make Music Day’ event last term inspired so many of the children to start their instrumental learning and it…
Lisa Thompson Author Visit
Yesterday Forms IV – VI had an inspiring virtual author visit from Lisa Thompson, writer of The Goldfish Boy, The Light Jar, The Day I was Erased and many more! The children learnt about Lisa’s journey as a writer and how she realised she loved making stories in her English lessons at school and shared…
Form II Inter School Maths Challenge
On Tuesday 8th March, Longacre hosted our second Longacre Maths challenge. There were five schools in attendance, forty children and lots of parents in attendance. They faced three rounds starting with sudoku, then working through some code breakers and finishing with a mathematical relay. Collaboration was aplenty and the children proved themselves to be fantastic…
World Book Day
On the 4th March, Longacre celebrated World Book Day in style. We had a day fully booked with novel activities to promote a love of reading. Longacre staff showed no shelf-control in going all out to create inspiring sessions, which also raised awareness of fantastic female authors: recognising the upcoming International Women’s day. The day…
Year 4 Spell It! Challenge
On Tuesday, Longacre hosted our very first ‘Spell It!’ Competition with guest host, Douglas Buchanan. Battling three visiting schools, the children had to solve anagrams, find the hidden words, correct spelling mistakes and then finally face the ‘fierce five’. This was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the joys and challenges of the English language and,…
VR Headset Demo for Parents
This morning parents came in to school to experience the VR headsets that have been kindly donated by the PTA. They did a quick world tour taking in the Taj Mahal and Rio de Janiero before visiting the Savannah in Africa and getting up close and personal with some big and dangerous animals. We finished…