Archive for the ‘Extra Curricular’ Category

Year 8 Big Weekend

The hotly anticipated Year 8 Big Weekend began with a bang on Saturday evening. Delicious DIY burgers were to be the fuel before the main event: The Downe Hous...

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Pre-Prep Outdoor Learning Day

What an adventure! Pre-Prep were split into groups across different year groups and spent the morning exploring, discovering, building dens, doing wax crayon le...

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Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week

This year, we celebrated Children’s Mental Health week with Place2Be across the school in February, during the week leading up to half term.  The theme t...

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Year 3 Portals to the Past

Year 3 had an exciting trip back in time to the Second World War, courtesy of Carl Mitchley from the company Portals to the Past. After a brief history of the w...

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Community Walk

To kick-start Place2B’s Children’s Mental Health Week, the whole Elstree Community enjoyed a walk around our stunning grounds this morning. It was a lovely ...

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Visit from RAP poet Karl Nova

All pupils from Years 3-8 enjoyed a dynamic and interactive performance from the multi-talented, award-winning rap (rhythm and poetry) and hip-hop performance p...

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Round the House Games

In keeping with Elstree Christmas tradition, the boys and girls were so excited to take part in ‘Round the House Games’ last night. With every corridor, dor...

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Cultural Heritage Week

We recently celebrated Cultural Heritage Week at Elstree Pre-Prep and Prep School. Our theme was, Celebrating, Respecting and Learning from our Heritage. Kweji,...

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Year 3 Hindu Temple Trip

We were welcomed to Reading’s Hindu Temple by Dr Ashok Khare who is Chairman of the Temple (and also Head of Chemistry at Shiplake College). On entering t...

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Elstree Book Week Parade

Fabulous fun was had earlier this week with our sunny Elstree Book Week Parade, a highlight of the school calendar. We kicked the celebration off with a whole s...

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