Year 5 and 6 Football Tournaments
To kick off the football season we entered the Orchard House tournaments.
The Year 6 team were impressive throughout the whole afternoon. Despite the heavy rain, they were able to play a great brand of football which only saw them concede one goal throughout. They were deservedly crowned champions, topping the league with 12 points out of a maximum 15. Player of the tournament was Kai S who was deadly in front of goal, topping the scoring charts.
The Year 5 team followed on from the Year 6s with some excellent performances. They also only conceded one goal throughout the tournament finishing second behind Latymer Prep after 3 wins, 1 draw and a loss. Whilst our results were impressive for our first outing of the season, we were even more delighted with the camaraderie, sportsmanship and dedication of our NHP teams. The Year 5 player of the tournament was Giacomo J-K for his excellent pressing and carrying of the ball from midfield.
Well done to everyone involved, you were all great representatives of NHP.
Mr Jack and Mr Hayes
Read MoreLanguages Week at NHP
In celebration of the European Day of Languages, the MFL department were busy providing a jam- packed week full of language learning! Each day, the children began their mornings by saying “hello” to their teachers in a different language, followed by a discussion of that country’s culture and the similarities they have to ours.
Our wonderful kitchen team have been providing an array of European foods for the children to try throughout the week. Our Lower School children enjoyed a ‘secret reader’, where a ‘secret’ parent would come in to read to them all. The Middle and Upper School children enjoyed code breaking and translation activities and school assemblies.
We love to celebrate this diverse linguistic heritage each year by creating a day surrounded by assemblies for the entire school, which helps to ignite our students’ passions for languages at an early age. The children have had a week where they have embraced the culture, food and heritage of their classmates and teachers in a fun-filled, educational environment. We can’t wait to do it next year!
NHP Parent Workshop
On Wednesday evening, The Parent Team delivered a talk to parents on ‘Developing Healthy Friendships’. In this 90 minute workshop, we learned all about how boys and girls develop, how they experience friendship and ways in which we can help them navigate and maintain relationships. As teachers, dealing with friendship issues is part of the job and, through our PSHE programme, we explicitly teach the children about healthy relationships and what it means to be a good friend, as well as supporting children on a daily basis with issues which arise in the playground.
Friendships are an integral part of all our lives and learning how to model and teach healthy friendships to our children is important, but falling out is also part of growing up, so having some strategies to support children when things go wrong with friends is really useful. In the workshop, we learned not to try and always jump in and fix the problem, but to teach them to problem solve themselves. This is an approach we take with the children when they are in school. Every mistake, every falling out, is a learning opportunity, a chance to reflect and improve.
Thank you to those parents who were able to attend. The feedback I have had has been extremely positive so I hope to organise similar talks over the course of the academic year.
Mrs Harry Fryer (Deputy Head Pastoral)
Read MoreYear 7 and 8 5-a-side tournament
The Year 7 and 8 football team kicked off their season by playing in the Fulham Prep 5-a-side tournament on Saturday 17th September. They cruised through the group stages without conceding but despite dominating the semi-final they lost to a breakaway goal in the closing minutes. The boys managed to pick themselves back up to win the next game and finish third overall. An impressive achievement for their first outing of the term!
Read MoreCongratulations Ivy!
This week, we were thrilled to learn that we will soon have a published poet among us. Ivy in Year 6 submitted a poem about Egyptian gods to a ‘Young Writers’ competition earlier this year. Ivy says the poem was inspired by a school assignment responding to ancient civilisations, and that she that she spent a lot of time editing it until it was perfect.
All her hard work paid off: Ivy’s poem won a merit award and has been selected to be published in an anthology at the end of this year. We are all so proud of Ivy’s achievements and wish her our mightiest congratulations.
Read MoreTatler Schools Guide 2023
We were delighted to be featured in this years’ Tatler Schools Guide 2023, amongst the UKs top prep and public schools. And to top off a fantastic review, it was great to see NHP alumnus, Braxton, on the front cover!
“Head Sarah Knollys…is committed to the prep’s Thinking School status, believing it creates academic rigour while preserving the joy of childhood.”
“You won’t find many schools that nurture children’s minds by following the principles of Edward de Bono’s theory of Six Thinking Hats, but Notting Hill Prep likes to do things differently. Philosophy is taught from Reception; dancing, yoga and mindfulness are a part of the school day; there are woodland forest lessons and trips to hike up Pen Y Fan and Ben Nevis. It’s easy to forget you’re in London, especially when you see real reindeer at the annual Christmas Fair.
Head Sarah Knollys, described by parents as a ‘powerhouse’ and pupils as ‘very funny and kind’, is committed to the prep’s Thinking School status, believing it creates academic rigour while preserving the joy of childhood. It’s certainly no slouch on academics, with pupils leaving for the likes of Westminster, Eton and St Paul’s Girls.” Tatler Schools Guide 2023
It was also an honour to be shortlisted for the Tatler Schools Awards 2022 for their Eco-Warrior category, recognising the environmental work we do here at NHP. Lots more to come, watch this space!
Read MoreRA Young Artist Summer Show
We were extremely proud to see the work of Braxton in Year 6 displayed at the Royal Academy this summer, as part of their Young Artist’s Summer Show.
Braxton’s stop frame animation video piece, ‘Back to the beginning’, was selected amongst a huge number of entries to be shown in this prestigious annual exhibition. His concept was thoughtful, the final piece well edited and produced with accompanying music. This was a very enjoyable show to see with a huge variety of inspiring pieces, and what an excellent achievement it is to be part of it. Well done Braxton!
Unfortunately the physical display is now over but you can still view the online exhibition here: https://youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/2022/galleries
Read MoreLewisham Donation Hub
NHP were incredibly fortunate to be able to offer our old and unused school laptops to the Lewisham Donation Hub which does incredible work every single day to provide for those most vulnerable in our society…
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