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The Manor Bake-off 2018

8th June 2018

The culmination of The Manor Bake-off 2018 was on show for all to see in the Dining Room. There had been two previous rounds where sweet and savoury scones were baked and tartlets were created with flair – not a single ‘soggy bottom’ in sight! 16 children made it through to the final where their…

Year 6 in France

8th June 2018

Reaching the pinnacle of their time at The Manor, the Year 6 pupils have had their last residential visit: a fabulous trip to France.  To see a montage of the photos click here Bleary-eyed but brimming with excitement, we set off very early on the Monday morning (4.30am!) to get to Portsmouth and catch our…

IAPS Tennis Championships 2018

5th June 2018

2018 saw a significant change to the format of this prestigious tournament as it is now a mixed gender competition. As The Manor embarks upon becoming co-educational, on this occasion we teamed up with Abingdon Prep. Manor pupils Poppy D and Flo S were delighted to be joined by Sam W and Max VP from…

Abingdon Music Festival

5th June 2018

Very many congratulations to Bella K, Domino B, Tawana M, Lucinda S, Zoe H, Caitlin L, Essi O and Mariella H for performing vocal solos (and also piano for Domino) in the Abingdon Music Festival held at The School of St Helen’s and St Katharine’s on 5th May.  They all performed to an experienced adjudicator…

Den Building Day

29th May 2018

The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 enjoyed an action packed day in the sunshine when we were joined by Chris from The Den Experience.   See the photos here  The children were split into small teams of mixed ages and tasked with building a den out of canes, tubing and sheets –…

Year 5 Trip to Osmington Bay

25th May 2018

Take a look at the photo gallery HERE    Osmington Bay Our time at PGL in Osmington was amazing this year. We went on giant swings, crawled through tunnels; made fires and dens in Survival; climbed climbing walls and had very competitive dragon boat races! In the evening we travelled around the world finding countries…

The Manor Arts Festival 2018

24th May 2018

What a fantastic week of Arts we have had. This year’s festival was based around Anthony Browne’s book “Voices in the Park” and everyone threw themselves into creative responses to his story and illustrations.  See the photos here The week started with a wonderful teachers’ reading of the book to the whole school before children…

Manor Ted’s Extreme Adventure

21st May 2018

The father of two Manor pupils, recently went on a flying adventure and took our very own Manor Ted along for the ride! Mr Woodeson restored a DC3 Dakota and flew it from UK to India to return it to the Indian Airforce. Along the journey, Manor Ted and his aircrew visited France, Italy, Greece,…

Reception at Forest School

3rd May 2018

Miss Evans’ class had a great adventure at Forest School this week. It was a stormy day and whilst dodging the showers we were able to enjoy our hot chocolate under the shelter. We discovered lots of interesting slugs, snails and even a frog! We made bridges over the mud and found different ways to…

Easter Netball and Lacrosse Fun

26th April 2018

At the end of the Easter break and in the glorious April heat wave, nine Year 5 children attended Wycombe Abbey’s exciting morning of competitive netball and inspirational lacrosse coaching led by England’s Lacrosse’s co-captain, Laura Merrifield. The day started with the netball tournament  with 10 teams all playing each other. Our Manor children improved…

Where Next

We are delighted to see our Year 6 pupils moving on to a fantastic variety of outstanding Senior Schools and, this year, we are also celebrating an astonishing number of scholarships.  Our year group of 53 children has gained an impressive total of 28 awards between them across a variety of disciplines, ranging from Academic to Sport, Art and Music. Well done Year 6!