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The Newbury & District Agricultural Society

In our topic of Farming Year 1 enjoyed a thoroughly busy and fun-filled morning in a Breakfast Workshop with Jan Murray from The Newbury & District Agricult...

House Cross Country

Bleak and bitter were the weather conditions for this year’s annual House Cross-Country Competition but this didn’t stop the boys rallying round and running...

House Global Competition

All of the boys in years 3-8 took part in this year’s House Global Location Quiz. They had to learn the locations of various countries, cities and oceans on ...

Berkshire 1st XI cricketers running the Wokingham Half Marathon

On 12th February, a group of Berkshire 1st XI cricketers (myself included) are running the Wokingham Half Marathon dressed up as superheroes in support of Build...

General Knowledge Quiz

Before Christmas every boy sat a rather difficult and seemingly rather random General Knowledge test. Out of 100 the highest score in the entire school was only...

Performing Arts Soirée

With the shutters closed and the lights dimmed on Friday evening, the Long Room seemed to return to its days as the salon of a country house, with music to matc...

Boarders Celebrate Burns Night and hit the slopes!

The boarders enjoyed a truly Scottish feast on Saturday evening. Mr Smith taught us all a bit about the haggis and then toasted it in true Burns night style. Af...

Saturday Lectures

The first Saturday of the term started with a series of lectures. Mr Reavill did a lecture on ‘Ten Books you have never heard of’ to Year 6, and Mrs Tille...

Open Boarding Weekend

The first weekend of the term saw extraordinary scenes at the Esltree Races saw big “money” being placed, won and lost (!) on Saturday evening. Ther...

Greek Handwriting Competition Winners

At the end of the Autumn term, the boys in 8SEW, 7ADL and 7ACM took part in a Greek Handwriting Competition. They copied out three and a half lines of poetry, ...