NHP was delighted to host our first Metacognition event on Wednesday 9th November in partnership with Thinking Matters. Over 30 Heads and teachers from schools all over London and beyond came to NHP to see what being a Thinking School looked like, as they embark on their own thinking school journey. After a brilliant tour…
We’d like to wish all of our pupils, parents and staff a happy Halloween and a big welcome back after half-term! In true NHP style, all of the buildings were fully transformed with spectacularly spooky decorations, from eyeballs hanging from the trees to a ginormous ghost in front of our Upper School entrance. We would…
This morning, British designer, Priya Ahluwalia, came into school to speak to the children in Middle and Upper School in assembly. She spoke about how she started her career in the fashion industry, her studies, setting up her own business and the process of designing clothes. She told the children what inspired her designs: her…
As part of Black History Month, Year 2 have been learning about the quilters of Gee Bend in Alabama, USA. The ladies here are from a long line of quilters who, for generations, have been coming together to sew and make quilts. Year 2 learnt how, over a hundred years ago, they did this from…
On Monday morning, the thinking skills of Years 7 and 8 were put to the test. Sharky and George and NHP’s Thinking School worked together to create a unique morning of fast, fun and curious challenges to test the brains. Using Edward de Bono’s thinking hats, the children were split into groups of 6. They…
Poetry in schools suffers from a bad reputation: often thought of as stuffy and dryly taught, it is not unusual to hear groans of dread from children and adults alike when poetry raises its head. A Punch cartoon, supposedly written by A. E. Housman, perfectly skewers the popular opinion of poetry teaching: Two English teachers…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
