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20th January 23

13th June 18

Girls in the Preparatory School enjoyed not one but two celebration assemblies this week under the heading of three of our core values:  Academic Excellent, A Love of Learning and Happy and Healthy; there was so much to applaud we needed two days! Academic  Excellence. Certificates were awarded for Matheletics, the online maths application that…

20th April 18

A mother, teacher, science lover and advocate of animal welfare, fitness, environmental issues and nutrition, meet Suzanna Lopez and her passion for exciting, challenging and adaptable curriculums… Miss Suzanna Lopez has been appointed the new Head of the Preparatory School at Manor House, the selective independent day school for girls in Bookham, Surrey. Miss Lopez…

22nd March 18

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…

12th January 18

11th January 18

Girls in the Prep School are benefiting from taking part in various challenges – from testing their quick-fire Maths ability to their depth of general knowledge. They started the new term with a variety of Maths certificates being awarded in assembly. Many girls, across the whole of the Prep School, have been playing Mathletics – an…

15th December 17

This half term continued in earnest with Netball and Hockey matches and coaching. The U10 Netball team took part in their first tournament at Aberdour where they came third. The U11A team have won all but one of their matches this half term and the B team has won all of theirs. The U13A team…