Month: February 2018

9th February 18

Every Friday lunch time, a group of talented writers from Years 7 – 11 meet together.  This is a student-led time when the girls can spend time sharing and exploring ideas for their next writing or just use the time to write freely. It’s lovely to see the younger girls discussing their ideas and taking…

9th February 18

By Amelie L and Lilly P Year 4 travelled to The National Portrait Gallery this week to get our ‘heads stuck into the Tudors’, our favourite subject!  The Gallery has over 200,000 portraits from the Tudors to the present day. We had an extraordinary guide called Marc who showed us some wonderfully old Hans Holbein…

1st February 18

Year 11 have made the English Department very proud indeed this week with their fantastic speeches as part of their English Language GCSE. In the new GCSE, Speaking and Listening is now an Endorsement rather than a percentage of their final grade, yet all of the girls still rose to the challenge of public speaking…

1st February 18

Girls in Year 8 visited Downsend School to take part in The Rotary Club of Dorking’s Youth Speaks Competition.  Our pupils did amazingly well against tough competition and represented Manor House with confidence and maturity. The girls in Year 8 who took part  were Alicia P, Chloe M, Sofia M-T, Savannah P, Olivia C and…

1st February 18

‘Romeo and Juliet’ was brilliantly brought to life by Eli from the Guildford Shakespeare Company who engaged our Year 9 girls in our recent English Workshop with her explanations and insight into the play’s characters. By focusing on the dispute between the families and conflict between Juliet and her parents, Eli tapped in to some…