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Stars in their Eyes Our annual Stars in their Eyes competition took place on Friday evening 28th January. Amazingly the standard was even higher than last year with so many children aged 7 to 11 performing with immense confidence and showing great star quality. It was a superb evening's entertainment which started at 7.00 and did not finish until 10.00pm! So I suspect there were a few very tired children on Saturday morning!Read more...
Brilliant start to term for Prep School Sport Last week our pupils played their first matches of the term. Our Under 11 girls demonstrated the strength in depth of Netball at KHPS. Our Under 11 A, B, C and D teams all played away at Fairfield (the prep school to Loughborough Grammar) and won all four matches, with the A team 14-1!Read more...
Visit of the Coventry Blaze On Friday 13th January we started our rota of Friday morning speakers in assembly. This week, our pupils heard all about Ice Hockey from members of Coventry Blaze. The main speaker was Ricky Bryniaski, one of our ex pupils. Perhaps this will be the start of a lifelong interest or even, just like Ricky, some will be inspired to play the sport at a high level.Read more...
Open Morning 21st January 2012 King Henry VIII Preparatory School's Open Morning 9.30 am - 1.00 pmRead more...
Reception Results in top 10 of the country! At KHPS the progress of each child is very carefully assessed. One of the assessment tools used by the School is called PIPS - Performance Indicators for Primary Schools. With these tests children's underlying academic ability is assessed alongside their performance in Reading and Mathematics. The School receives data from these tests which shows how much progress each child has made each year as well as how well the school's pupils have performed in comparison to other independent and maintained schools.Read more...
My Perfect School There was a film shown outside the transport museum on a massive screen and they will be showing it at the Belgrade theatre. It is called My Perfect School. They will be showing it on the big screen with the film on for 9 minutes and at the Belgrade Theatre they will be showing the film for 30 minutes .Read more...
Review of Coventry School Orchestra at Butterworth Hall. On Saturday 14th May, some of the year 4 to 6 children from our Chamber Choir and King Hal’s singers, sang with the Coventry Schools Choir, at the Butterworth Hall, Warwick University. The Choir for this concert was drawn from a cross section of the city’s primary schools.Read more...
Spring Concert On Wednesday the 6th of April the Year 3 to Year 6 children all took part in a spring concert. The children put on an amazing performance at 7:00pm. There were lots of fantastic songs but the children's favourite song was the leaving song for Mrs Wilson called Never Forget.Read more...
Tortoise On the 27 of April our new Hermann tortoises, William and Kate, arrived at King Henry the Eighth School. They arrived by package from a shop in their cage. They are only one year old, so they are very small. Miss Wood is taking care of the tortoises because she is the head of them.Read more...
Hadrian's Wall Year 3 went to Hadrian’s Wall and everyone enjoyed themselves, so did teachers. When the big day came and we all boarded the coach, it took one minute and away we went! Some people played on their DS games and others talked or looked out the window..Read more...
KHPS Golf Tournament The School Golf Tournament was played at the Windmill Village Golf Course on Wednesday 4th May.Read more...
Act of Bravery Harrison Waugh-Smith (a Year Four boy at Hales) recently went on holiday to Mallorca. When he was there he saved a seven year old girl from drowning in a swimming pool!Read more...
'Stars in Their Eyes' The recent 'Stars in Their Eyes' event was a great success with lots of talented children presenting fantastic performances. Debbie Kavanagh, Swallows Catering Manager, made a 'guest' appearance as Rod Stewart, which was a particular highlight of the night!Read more...
Hales Garden The project at Hales to create a new garden at the front of the school as an addition to the playground has progressed well. The children are already enjoying the new space and an extra £1000 for plants, kindly donated by the Parents' Association, will help to enhance this new area further.Read more...
Infants' Christmas at KHPS The Nursery and Reception children worked very hard to put on their Christmas performance of 'A Little Nativity'. The show was thoroughly enjoyed by all the parents and visitors who came to watch. Unfortunately, Father Christmas couldn't make it but managed to find time to visit the children, with his helper, during the last week of term.Read more...
Year 5 Panto a Hit! This year's Christmas play perfomed by Year 5 was Panto Panedemonium, produced by the School's Head of Performing Arts, Mr Julian Brown. It proved a hit this week with the two audiences fortunate enough to see it. In the production, three children are tricked by an evil supply teacher into a world of panto which they must rescue from the cunning plans of the Wicked Witch. Various stock characters such as the Ugly Sisters, Jack and Aladdin appear pitted against a host of baddies.Read more...
Early Years Foundation Stage Centre Officially Opened On the 11th November our new Early Years Foundation Stage Centre was officially opened by Professor Mark Smith, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Warwick.Read more...
King Henry VIII Preparatory School in Sunday Times Top 50 Again! Parents will be pleased to learn that once again the School has appeared in the Sunday Times list of the top 100 preparatory schools in country. In the Sunday Times Parentpower section, published on the 14th November, King Henry VIII Preparatory School appeared as number 44 on the list.Read more...
Work Continues on the Swallows Garden With the coming of spring our parents have been out in the Swallows Garden once again; this time to encourage wildlife into the garden. In the past week they have put up bird boxes, a ladybird hotel and a hogitat for a hedgehog. On Saturday an Insect tower black was built, with slide out drawers, to attract lots of creep crawlies for close examination!Read more...
Year 4 Play: Jungle Book On Wednesday 17th March our Year 4 pupils performed their annual production. This year it was Jungle Book, an adaptation of Kipling's famous story. The production itself was a super piece of cross-curricular work on the part of the teachers, having links with the study of India in Geography also Art, English and Music. Four long poems about the animals, which were performed in the play, were written by the children themselves and the background music was composed by other children in Year 4. The result was a swirling mixture of music, dance, singing, acting and movement. It was absolutely fantastic!All costumes and props were made by the staff.Read more...
Art Exhibition March 2010 On the 16th March the KHPS Annual Art Exhibition opened, featuring work from the school itelf and 11 other schools in the area. The Exhibition was opened at 7.00 p.m. by Mr Richard Atkins, Vice Chair of the Governors of the Coventry School Foundation, who praised the 'brilliant' work on display. Parents and children from a variety of schools, including KHPS and the Senior School, then browsed the exhibition and discussed the Art over a glass of wine. Children were given lollipops!Read more...
Photos Discovered in Secret Attic At the Swallows Campus there is a secret attic! What looks like a cupboard door in Mrs Higginson's office actually leads into a vast attic with its own window. In there are all kinds of treasures from the past. The most fascinating are boxes of documents and photos left behind by the school's founder, Reverend Kenelm Swallow M.C.Read more...
£2500 Raised for Haiti The children at King Henry VIII Preparatory School have kind hearts! The School Council has spent some time this year considering which charity should receive the School's major charitable effort. However, as soon as they heard of the plight of the poor people of Haiti their minds were made up and in the space of less than two weeks over £2500 was raised!Read more...
Garden project completed! Every Saturday morning since half term a number of of our parents have been helping to build a garden in the area around the new Early Years Centre. The project is now finished for this year. In spring there will be more planting, stepping stones will go down and bird boxes will be put up. Look at the photographs below to view the wonderful garden our children at Swallows now have.Read more...
KHPS British Primary School Orienteering Champions On the weekend of the 21st - 22nd November some of our keenest orienteers travelled to Northumberland to represent the School in the British Schools' Orienteering Championships. Our Under 10 girls' team scooped silver medals and Jamie Nicolson won an individual gold in the boys' Under 10 race. However, the combined strength of the whole team led to the School winning gold for the entire primary school category, thus making KHPS the National Champions.Read more...
Early Years Nativity Play This was brilliant and I must pay tribute to my staff: to achieve a performance of this quality with 90 children aged mainly 3 and 4 years of age (with a few mature 5 years olds!) was extraordinary. The Sleepy Shepherd was not only charming in the way all infant nativities are, it was also great entertainment. I think a few stars have been born because the acting this year was particularly good and I must pay tribute to Austin who played the sleepy shepherd and was on stage throughout the show.Read more...
School Appears in Sunday Times Top 200 Schools We were delighted to read in this week's Sunday Times that KHPS has been placed on the list of the top 200 schools in the country. In the space of a year the School has moved from number 51 to number 38 in the list of the top 50 prep schools and is the only school in Coventry to appear in the top 200.Read more...
Visit of Graphic Artist This week our Year 3 pupils were very lucky to all spend some time with Linda Murray, a visiting graphic artist who came into School. The idea was for the pupils to create picture books to tie in with their topic theme on the Egyptians. The children had a wonderful time.Read more...
Parents' Association Gardening Project On Saturday 7th November a band of very enthusiastic parents and one headmaster began the Early Years Gardening Project. Armed with £1500 from the P.A. and under the leadership of Mr Nick Smith and Mrs Karen Francisco, a small group of parents spent several happy hours beginning to create a garden which will give generatiions of children at Swallows a great deal of pleasure and the opportunity to explore the outdoor world. A fantastic start was made and we should like to thank all parents who attended. However, there is still much left to do in the next few weeks and any parents who feel they can give up a couple hours on a Saturday morning would be very much welcomed next week and in the weeks to follow.Read more...
A Great Start to Sport The Under 11 Girls' Netball A Team made a superb start to the year by playing five matches at the Bablake Netball Tournament. They won 4 matches and drew 4 - 4 with the hosts, Bablake Junior. Very unusually, the honours were therefore shared between Bablake Junior and KHPS as both girls' teams had won 4 and drawn 1.Read more...
Cooking Club Begins! As part of our Early Years Development we built a fully equipped kitchen that can be used as a food technology room for children aged 3 to 8. It's a super facility with both adult height and child height units, cooker and hob, dishwasher and washing machine. The first children to use the kitchen have been a group of keen Year 3 cooks. So far they have made jam tarts, toasted sandwiches and fairy cakes with chocolate buttons! Next week it will be French bread pizzas! MmmmRead more...
A Successful Start to Saturday Sports On Saturday 5th September this year's voluntary Saturday Sports training began for children aged 4 - 7 at Swallows and on Saturday 12th September our Sports Academy for Years 4, 5 and 6 opened.Read more...
First Day of Term We hope that all our pupils are looking forward to the first day of term on Thursday 3rd September. Starting times will be as normal.Read more...
New Early Years Centre Completed! We are delighted to inform parents that our new Early Years Centre for children aged 3 - 5 has now been completed and is ready for our pupils on the first day of term, Thursday 3rd September. Accommodation comprises two large Nursery studios, a cloakroom, toilets, a kitchen where children can be taught to cook and prepare food, a tutorial room and two new Reception classrooms. Each of the new Reception classrooms opens on its own covered play area and the Nursery has its own covered playground. Our third Reception classroom has been created by converting the oldest part of the Main Building, which is thought to date back to the 16th century.Read more...
11+ Results 2009 We are delighted to be able to release to parents our figures for 11+ passes into the Coventry School Foundation's selective senior schools (King Henry VIII School and Bablake School), as well as our 11+ scholarship results.Read more...
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