Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

Year 2 Elstree Hour

A scorching hot Wednesday afternoon was the perfect setting for the Year 2 picnic. We stopped off at the lake to throw some sticks for Otter who loved her r...

Year 6 Visit a Mosque

M stands for most of the Muslins recite the Qur’an; the Iman recited it in 3 years. O stands for one of the teachers who was very helpful by showing us round....

Boarding Weekend and Douai Fun Day

The boarders enjoyed a relaxed weekend in the sunshine. After some entertaining fixtures against Cothill (note: the mighty 5th XI maintained their winning strea...

PALS visit on Saturday

Children from PALS visited us last Saturday. We began the morning by playing badminton in the sports hall and then we took advantage of the dry weather and prac...

Year 6 Art Trip

The Art Trip has been such fun. We visited the Geevor tin mine on the first day which was incredible, seeing how it all worked and how they found the tin. It...

Year 5 Informal Concert

The last Informal Concert of the term was presented by Year 5 and they showed themselves to be a talented and hard-working year group. We had violin, guitar, tr...

House Music Competition

The House music completion is always a great event with all the boys in the school being involved and also having a lot of fun. The overall House Music Soloist...

Nursery visit to Wellington Country Park

Nursery had a wonderful day exploring Wellington Country Park on Thursday 19th May. There was great excitement leading up to the day itself with count downs of ...

JB Beastly Barrage of Backhands wins the Battle on Bates!!!!

Nine ab fab fashionistas, shockingly stylish in their modern interpretation of lawn tennis attire, armed with racket and rosé, rocked up at Bates on Friday nig...

Year 3 Boarding Taster Session

Year 3 had a fun-packed evening with the boarders on Thursday 19th May, giving the Year 6 helpers a great run around! After designing some glorious-looking dens...