News & Events
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…
Form IV Residential Trip to Lodge Hill
Form IV were very excited for their first residential trip. On Wednesday 9th February we arrived in school with large bags packed and ready to go, not forgetting all of our teddies! When we arrived at Lodge Hill we had a quick lunch and then it was straight into our first activity. After that, we…
Form III Empty Classroom Day
It was a lovely surprise to have such glorious weather on Wednesday for our first Empty Classroom Day of 2022. Form III started off the day with their English lesson. They were using their imagination to write creative descriptions of objects to put into a magic box, in preparation for writing their own poems after half…
Reception Trip to the Planetarium
What a super day Reception had at the South Downs Planetarium on Wednesday. Our day started with a long but lively coach trip. When we arrived, we went straight to the Dome ready for our talk about the night sky. The children listened beautifully and we learned lots of new information about the stars, planets…
Longacre hosts Wellbeing Forum
We were proud to host our first ‘Wellbeing Forum’ on Wednesday with wellbeing leaders from schools far and wide attending Longacre to talk all things wellbeing and mental health. Ideas were passionately discussed, our Bear Hut was greatly admired and we felt very proud of the pastoral work we do with our children. The forum…