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The children are given time to talk with the elderly residents of the care home and to discuss experiences that they have had.  Last week the pupils chatted about their Christmas and the residents were able to give their own accounts and views.

During the next visit, the children will be helping out with the residents Tea Dance, with future visits including 'comparison between and past and present', 'sharing favourite books' and the pupils will be showing pieces of their own work.

The club is a great opportunity for the pupils and we hope that it continues to be a success.

The two forms explored a number of different rooms exhibiting a variety of masks from across the world and throughout history.

The opportunity to try some of the masks on produced some particularly memorable pictures.  Pupils also saw displays exhibiting musical instruments as well as a quite staggering array of Victorian taxidermy, meticulously catalogued and beautifully presented in a very traditional style.

The children explored the point where the Cuckmere River meets the sea where they were able to identify erosion that was happening along the riverbank and coast.  The pupils studied the manmade defences that have been built to protect the land. 

On Friday 11th November 2011, all pupils from Nursery to Year 8 held a two minute silence at 11 o'clock whilst Head Boy, Stephen Laurent, played The Last Post and The Reveille.  Guy Bryman placed a poppy wreath on the war memorial whilst the school listened to the famous words of the Remembrance Prayer.

We believe that it is a very important thing for today's generation to be made aware of the sacrifices of previous generations.  We hope that they will never forget the debt we owe to the brave men and women of our recent past.

Our Head of French, Mrs Misra, organised a fun and exciting day full of activities from pupil and parent talks to Indonesian puppets and a Dutch art lesson.  Our Chef, Andy, produced a wonderful Chinese lunch and a great and informative day was had by all!

By having this whole school approach, we are able to offer pupils a smooth and steady progression throughout the school, with the aim being to help each child to become the strongest readers and writers they can be. 

Where the younger children will benefit from learning their sounds and developing into strong readers and writers, the older pupils will gain from this scheme through revision and reinforcement of prior learning.  Older pupils may find some of the learning activities a surprise, but with accurate spelling and grammar increasingly at a premium, we feel that rigour in this area is to be welcomed.  The workk they do will support their ability to access texts, an important and vital skill for all of their exams.

This scheme is an exciting progression within the teaching of English at Lancing College Preparatory School.

Dr Preston was very informative about the Scientific evidence that shows the age of our universe and just how big it is.

The morning was very enriching and has given the pupils a greater insight into the Scientific evidence of creation.  The information discussed will be used by pupils in Science and Religious Studies and will be a vital source when writing their exams. 

We were invited to submit a maximum of 8 pieces of art work which included individual pieces from Year 4, Year 7 and Year 8, and group work from Years 5 and 6 enabling us to include as many pupils as possible.  Well done to all the pupils who exhibited.  The work at the exhibition was outstanding and it really was a great opportunity to see such a wide range of work including painting, sculpture, printmaking, felt making and ceramics.  We hope that we can participate in this event regularly now and keep Lancing Prep on the National map of Prep School art.

The children were shown around the castle and were told about the people who would have lived there during medieval times.  They learnt all about the different jobs that would have been done and then had the opportunity to try on some of the armour and look at a selection of weapons.  This was followed by a picnic lunch and the children then explored the spiral staircases and towers.

The Woodard Young Musician of the Year Competition finals were held in London on Saturday 7th May.  The standard was extremely high and the adjudicator, the chief examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, was very impressed.  Our performers were fantastic with their singing, trumpet and oboe and the children did incredibly well.  We are particularly proud of our Year 7 trumpeter who was the only brass player in his age group to reach the finals and was runner-up.  Mr Farley was delighted.  Lancing Prep had more entrants, and a wider variety of entrants, than any of the othe Woodard schools.

Our U11 boys became Champions of England at the English Schools FA 7-a-side tournament for small schools.  The finals were held in Watford earlier this month.  Having already won District, County and Regional tournaments, the boys beat teams from Liverpool, Nottingham and Berkshire to take he National title. Many congratulations to the squad and to their coaches. “The Best Little Team in England!”