Eva Chadwick who has been awarded an All Rounder Scholarship to St Edward’s, Oxford.

Lola Sánchez Farmar who has been awarded an Art Exhibition, also to St Edward’s, Oxford.

This week our Year 8 children who are applying for Art and DT senior school scholarships were lucky enough to be invited on a tour of Pangolin Editions, a foundry that casts and fabricates sculpture for many of the foremost sculptors of our time, based in Stroud. The scholars were guided around and learnt all about how bronze sculptures are made. This included model making in clay, lost wax casting, 3D scanning, and 3D modelling and printing. They were even given the chance to create their own sculptures using VR!

Well done to our absolutely fantastic Year 5 children who produced an entire play in a day! Starting at 9am, the children learnt their lines, practiced songs and rehearsed scenes in quick fire sessions throughout the day before their performance to parents at 5pm. This year’s play was all about the Olympics, as different sporting teams (the synchronised swimmers, weightlifters, track and field athletes and the ‘tiddlywinkers’) had to work together to save the Olympics Games after an earthquake! The children were fantastic and hopefully understood how a production is put together in terms of directing, sound, lighting, script, imagination and performance, as well as a great deal of fun!

Our professional acoustic concert is just around the corner! Ben Cipolla and Cafe Spice will be joining us just after half term on Friday, 28th February. Please join us for a relaxing evening of music, tickets are just £10 and include a beverage, under 16s go free.

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On Monday, fifteen of our Year 6 – 8 boys and girls spent an afternoon at Ian Coley’s Shooting School near Cheltenham. They all enjoyed a few hours of tuition and an informal competition. All of the children had fun. Some of our shooters will be representing the school at a national prep school competition in May. Good luck to the team!

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for the Big Sing this afternoon! We had children from Reception all the way up to Year 8 singing songs together with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and siblings. Everyone enjoyed creating harmonies, singing in the round and working together to create some incredible music! We hope you will enjoy singing the songs at home together with your families.

It has been a great week for sport before we break for half term! On Saturday we had an epic day of sport against Pinewood, the sun was out and all children in Years 4 – 8 were involved in some super matches. This week we also hosted a Years 3  and 4 swimming gala against Wycliffe and an U9 football festival for over 150 boys on Wednesday! This was a great way to finish the football season before our boys move on to hockey after the break. Our girls had netball matches against The Downs, Clifton High, The King’s School, Gloucester and Cokethorpe on Wednesday, all of which proved to be close and competitive matches. The girls’ netball teams have come on in leaps and bounds and we look forward to seeing what the second half of term brings.

On Tuesday some of Mr Mason’s fantastic percussion students performed for parents and friends in the music room. The concert spanned all grades, year groups and music styles and Mr Mason filled the changeovers with trivia facts about learning percussion and the songs being played. We were also treated to a duet on the hang, a type of handpan. Make sure to pick up a music diary next time you are in school if you would like to attend one of our lunchtime concerts!

As we head into half term, we say farewell to a delightfully busy week that has included a bit of everything for everyone! Monday night saw the Year 4s starting off in the sports hall, running around and letting off steam as they played dodgeball. After supper, they stayed in the dining room where they covered the tables (and themselves) in flour whilst making Valentine’s Day shortbread biscuits! Unfortunately, they never made it to the intended recipients as they were all just far too tasty to resist for morning break, the following day.

On Tuesday, the Year 5 children had the most important job of all! They were set the task of providing decorations for the Spring Charity Disco and they didn’t disappoint. Aboriginal bunting was coloured in droves and thanks to them, the Performing Arts Centre looked fantastic on Thursday night!

On Wednesday Year 8s were dotted around the school, in the ICT room, the Sports Hall or at the Searsons’ supper before the Wednesday film. A popular one this week – ‘Mission Impossible Fallout’.  On Thursday, it was, of course, the Spring Charity disco!

As ever, should you wish to get in touch about boarding, please do email; houseparents@bps.school. From all of us upstairs in the boarding house, have the most fantastic half term!

During the half term spring clean we would be very appreciative if you could keep an eye out for any Beaudesert library books that might be hiding under beds or on book shelves and return them to school after the break.

Yesterday evening the children had a fantastic night at the Spring Fling Charity Disco for Australia! After a quick supper the children gathered in the Performing Arts Centre to have a boogie and raise even more money for the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Wildlife Recovery Fund. There were lots of inventive costumes and the children had some rip-roaring fun!

As Tuesday was Safer Internet Day and Form 4L led a Prep school assembly all about online identity. They spoke to the children about how important it is to express their identity online, of being kind to others on the web and gave some great tips on how to keep safe when using the internet. Thank you so much 4L.