Our warmest congratulations to the team at Leweston Prep School on their achievements in this year’s Independent School Parent Magazine’s Prep-Prep of the Year Award. The award was judged by a panel of leading figures from across the sector who scrutinised entries from all over the UK. The judges said ‘childhood is embraced to its […]
Welcome to the season of Advent, that time of the year that has us trying to delay the onset of Christmas by marking the measured steps towards it.
The contraction of the curriculum to the detriment of the Art and Design is clearly not an issue in CISC schools as the 2018 Christmas Card completion attests. Thank you to all schools that entered and all Art teachers who encouraged their pupils to enter. I have to say it was one of the most […]
by Cranmore School Our ‘Action Day’ is eagerly anticipated each year. Every pupil in the senior department, age 8 – 11, puts on a short performance in front of the rest of the school which is sponsored by family and friends. We have sketches, magic tricks, joke telling, dancing, singing, ensemble playing – the list […]
by Stephen Johnston, Kilgraston School Three years ago, Kilgraston embarked on an ambitious exchange programme with Unison World School, one of the India’s top all-girl boarding schools, located in Dehradun at the Himalayan foothills. The idea was to create an international ‘twinning’ programme with the mutual benefit to pupils and staff in both schools. Kilgraston […]
Leweston Prep School pupil, Jack Davis who plays rugby for Blandford RFC, is still recovering from the excitement of being the official RFU Mascot at the England vs All Black’s game at Twickenham on Saturday 10th November, over Remembrance Weekend. Jack in his England kit Both of Jack’s Great Great Grandfathers fought in WW1. His […]
Please find below, a link to the October Newsletter. CISC October Newsletter I’m delighted to also enclose information and booking details about this year’s Annual Conference 17-18 January 2019. The theme of the conference is Faith-Full Leadership and we are very pleased to have two outstanding keynote speakers who have lived and written about this at the highest levels, The […]
We are delighted to announce the launch of this year’s CISC Christmas Card competition. This year’s theme is ‘Child of Our Planet’ – plenty of scope for young artists to think ecologically and astronomically as well as theologically in their creative interpretation of the theme! Entries should be submitted by Friday 23 November. Winning artists […]
The children at Oliver House School celebrated Harvest Festival this year and donated all the food they had collected to Wandsworth Foodbank. The whole school gathered together in the playground on a beautiful autumnal day for the celebration to give thanks for the harvest and bring their gifts to be blessed by the school chaplain […]
Theology continues to flourish at New Hall School despite a drop in national trends. The number of students taking Religious Studies at A level in England and Wales has fallen by 22.8 per cent in the past year [1], yet the subject continues to grow at New Hall. Within the school, The Theology Department has […]