Denstone Preparatory School Newsletter
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Headmaster's Blog
Living Through Isolation
With one of our Critical Workers’ children confirmed as positive for Covid last Monday, a number of us have found ourselves isolating at home until midnight tonight (1/2/21). I feel that I am incredibly lucky, because my method of dealing with the stress and pressure...
You Are Never Too Old To Learn!
You Are Never Too Old To Learn! I took my grade one saxophone exam this week. Apart from Merlin’s bronze dog training award (which I might add he passed with flying colours!), this was the first exam I have taken since I took my finals in 1989. I was inspired to take...
Children and young people’s engagement with podcasts before and during lockdown
A survey by the National Literacy Trust has found that listening to podcasts can help children discover an interest in a range of topics and encourage them to engage in further reading. Listening during lockdown Nearly 1 in 4 (23.7%) children and young people said...
School News & PTFA
Meet the Head
Meet the Head Some of our pupils have been busy asking questions to the new head at Denstone College, Miss Lotte Tulloch. To watch the video click the link below. https://vimeo.com/525478921
Red Nose Day – Friday 19th March
Dear Parents, As a school community we will be joining in with Red Nose Day on Friday 19 March. This year the noses have been made from a product called 'bagasse' which comes from sugar cane so are plastic free and therefore much more environmentally friendly. To...
PTFA Egg Decorating Competition
PTFA Egg Decorating Competition Get your Easter Thinking Bonnets on! Our Fabulous PTFA would like you to get creative and enter the DCPS Egg Decorating Competition. Using hard-boiled egg/s, you can decorate your egg/s with pen or paint; you could stick things onto...
Pre-Prep Blog
The Great Fire of London
It has been a very busy few weeks down in PP2 this term, with the children developing their historical knowledge. We have investigated Queen Elizabeth’s rise to the throne and have now moved on in time to find out all about the Great Fire of London and the people who...
PP2 – Outdoor Learning
PP2 have been working on shelter building skills over the last few weeks. They started by building a new home for the Elves. They had to make sure the new home had a bedroom with beds, a kitchen with pots and pans, a garage big enough to fit a snail car inside and a...
PP1 – Maths & Geography
PP1 have been busy measuring in Maths this week. They were finding different ways of measuring including using their hands and feet, strides, cubes and rulers. The children have also been estimating and are now really good at making sensible guesses. The children...
Year 3 Blog
Magnetic Madness!
What is attracted to a magnet? Metal? Is all metal attracted to a magnet? These are some of the questions that Year 3 have been investigating in their science lessons. We’ve had lots of fun starting to learn about our new topic of magnetism this week. The children...
Year 3 Poetry Festival
Year 3 have been busy this week practising their poem for the Poetry Festival. This is a big thing for Year 3, they are performing as individuals in front of the class whilst being assessed so there are quite a few nervous children. They have been brilliant whilst...
Year 3 Midnight Man
Year 3 have been working on their letters to the Midnight Man (an imaginary mysterious character who “visited” the classroom leaving a box containing stars, a horse shoe, a cloak and an explanatory letter.) They have been considering how to improve their letter...
Year 4 Blog
Science – Owl Pellets
In Science Year 4 are learning about the jobs that the skeleton does, how it is structured and how it moves. We studied some fascinating skeletons in miniature that we found inside an owl pellet. Owl pellets are the regurgitated remains of mice, voles and shrews. They...
Climate Change Assembly
Year 4 Climate Change Assembly ‘No one is too small to make a difference’ was the message we were conveying during our year 4 assembly last Wednesday. We hope it gave everyone something to think about and ideas about how they can act to make a difference to climate...
Diwali
This term Year 4 have been finding out about winter festivals in R.E.. We have been looking at the Hindu celebration -Diwali and the story behind it. Diva lamps are used to guide Rama and Sita home. We enjoyed making our own lamps out of clay and then painting...
Year 5 Blog
Prince and the Pauper – Review
Our school went to the New Vic theatre to see our yearly play. We enjoyed it deeply. Here are our thoughts: We adored the maypole dancing and were pleased to see their inclusion of young actors and actresses. The thing we weren’t expecting from the play was...
Dramatic Language!
The Year 5 community was in awe this week when they learnt how to use dramatic language in their newspaper reports. It is alleged that all children have made great steps of progress and are now using fantastic journalistic descriptions in their writing. According to...
Denstone Drama Workshop
A huge thank you to Mrs. Abson, who ran an amazing drama workshop at Denstone College for the children in 5Mc on Monday. The children enjoyed doing a variety of activities which included: body as prop, freeze frames, miming, slow motion, and improvisation. The...
Year 6 Blog
Levers and Pulleys
As well as exciting excursions outside school, Y6 have been busy building levers and pulleys in science using K'Nex. The science behind it is all to do with forces and how simple machines can multiply forces to make shifting a load easier. Next week we are looking...
Year 6 Lifesaving
As part of our work on the School Swimming and Water Safety Charter, we had a clothes/pyjama session. The children were split into three groups and completed three different activities. All the activities were designed with falling into open water in mind. After a...
Year 6 Round Up
Year 6 Round Up Mr. Bettaney, Mrs. Wilson and I would like to say thank you and well done to each and every pupil in Year six for a fantastic term of learning and, to those who took the entrance exam, congratulations on all securing a well earned place at Denstone...