Here are a few ideas for how you can help your child’s learning and development at home! Let your child build things with old cardboard boxes and (safe) recycling items. Talk together about what your child is building and why. Give your child old clothes to dress up in, give them objects to encourage role…
Here are a few ideas for how you can help your child’s learning and development at home! Let your child build things with old cardboard boxes and (safe) recycling items. Talk together about what your child is building and why. Give your child old clothes to dress up in, give them objects to encourage role…
From one side of the road to the other, I conversed with a friend who lives opposite the other day as we both stepped outside to feel the sun on our faces. He looked visibly drained and, on asking how he was, he replied that he was truly struggling to manage his children, their school…
An excellent way to keep your children busy over the isolation period is to get engaged with cooking! The Nutrition and Sustainability Team from Holroyd Howe have designed a new concept called “The Home School Bistro” aimed to be a fun and interactive one stop shop for ideas involving food. The concept includes: A 2-week…
On Wednesday 11th September we threw open the doors to our new buildings on Eccleston Square. From 8am families arrived and waited excitedly outside the three entrances to the new school buildings, the crowds grew until we were filling the whole pavement! Just before 8.30am the Chairman of Dukes Education, Aatif Hassan, along with the…
Year 4 had an incredible time at Hampton Court Palace. They spent their day looking around the different rooms and studying the ornate ceilings. They were given audio guides to understand how the kitchens worked in Hampton Court and were fascinated at the thought that King Henry VIII himself roamed the very rooms that they…
The art room was briefly turned into an art gallery, displaying the pupil’s work from Year 7 to Year 10’s GCSE coursework for parents, teachers and fellow pupils to admire!
All three of our Nursery Schools received a special visit from author and illustrastor of “Poppy’s Tail”, Cate Douglas. Cate read her fantastic story to the children, they also learnt what an author and an illustrator do for a job. Afterwards, there was a big suitcase opened filled with tails so all the children could…
Year 6 has had an incredibly busy week, they visited the RAF Museum on Wednesday. The pupils took part in a workshop with an air raid warden and dressed up in real RAF uniforms. They then explored the newly renovated museum to find out about military aircraft from across the world, both old and new. In…
