Month: October 2017

20th October 17

Don’t forget to buy your tickets direct from the theatre Box Office. Click here for further details. There will be a compulsory dress rehearsal for the whole cast on Sunday 5 November – 9.30am-2.30pm

20th October 17

Last week Mrs N Roberts launched our new ‘Talented Writers’ Club’ for invited Seniors and it has been very well attended.  Girls arrived eagerly to their first session which entailed writing freely without constraint for set amounts of time and this certainly produced some interesting ideas. Last week Mrs Roberts gave them pictures from a…

20th October 17

The English Department have been busy this week encouraging girls to write creatively.  Following the strange, dark and dusty weather and bright red sun on Monday afternoon, girls in Year 8 wrote about their experiences. Read more of their amazing work here …

11th October 17

BookBuzz is a reading programme from BookTrust that aims to support schools in promoting and inspiring a love of reading in senior school pupils, namely Years 7 and 8. We have adopted the scheme at Manor House School and it has given Manor House girls the opportunity to choose their own books to keep from…

11th October 17

The recent Year 9 Art Trip to The Royal Academy of Arts presented an exciting opportunity for girls to view an exhibition of the work of Jasper Johns. Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker associated with Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop art and referred to as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time.  The exhibition…

6th October 17

Last week the Year 10 Geographers benefitted from a field trip to the Sussex coast. They visited a coastal realignment project – this is where the sea has been allowed to break the coastal defences at Medmerry, allowing a salt marsh to develop behind to absorb rising sea levels and storms in the future. Essential…

6th October 17

On Tuesday, Year 3 went on their very first class outing to Fishbourne Roman Palace.  Read their account of their trip below: “Our first activity was a workshop where we were able to do various activities and using our knowledge of Romans and Celts we were able to find out who they were and what…

6th October 17

Last Thursday, all of Key Stage 2 went to Marwell Zoo, we were all feeling very excited and couldn’t wait to see the different animals.  Some of us were desperate to see the pygmy hippos, whereas others wanted to see the prowling tigers or the slithering snakes.  We loved it when the monkeys swung from…

6th October 17

We were lucky enough to get five tickets for the ‘GSA Girls Go For Gold Conference’ held at Wimbledon High School on Thursday 28 September. Four hundred female students from Years 10-13 took part from a variety of Girls Schools Association Schools.  Five of our Sports Scholars and GCSE pupils were very excited to attend;…

6th October 17

In the seven years since our ‘Birthday Book Library Scheme’ started in September 2010 supported by the Friends of MHS, over 400 books have been donated to the library by pupils to celebrate their birthdays. Girls can donate a favourite book and receive a special book plate to go inside it.  The named plates are…