As The Manor Prep School opens its doors to a new school year, we also welcome two new Harrisons! Harrison Read joins The Manor as a Year 5 Form Teacher and will teach English and Maths to the older children. Harrison is a keen footballer and will also share his great skills on the…
The Manor children were given a real treat on the second day of Pre-Season hockey with the visit of Olympic Gold Medallist, Crista Cullen. As well as having the opportunity to pose for photos wearing an authentic Olympic Gold Medal, the children received an entire day of coaching from the Olympian. After learning lots of…
The 3-day competition had finally arrived. IAPS U11 Tennis Championships 2017, held at the amazing Millfield School. The Manor tennis team were raring to go! Lots of preparation has taken place for the girls to play their best tennis and have the time of their tennis lives! See the photos here The first day,…
There’s no rest at The Manor Preparatory School in Abingdon during the Summer Holidays this year – as soon as the school broke up at the end of term, the diggers moved in to start building our brand new Sports Hall! To mark the occasion, staff and the pupils attending Manor Fun gathered together on…
Erin in Year 6 travelled to Birmingham during the last week of term to compete in the National Finals 1500m U12 athletics competition after coming 2nd in the area championships. She warmed up, and was feeling calm and collected and ready to run against girls a whole year older than her! The starting gun fired…
Great Performances at Mercia Area Athletics Championships 2017 On 22 June, The Manor took an Athletics team to compete in the Mercia Athletics Championships at Tilsley Park in Abingdon. Our team of 6 girls performed brilliantly and with the determination that we have come to expect of our Manor children. Huge congratulations to Erin F…
This week, we held the finals of the Year 3 to 6 Inter-House Bake-off 2017. The Bake-off this year started with a cookie round which attracted 96 entries – can you even imagine what my tummy felt like after tasting all those cookies! 32 children progressed into the 2nd round which was bread – based…
We are thrilled to announce that Year 6 pupil Ohemaa, is the Regional Winner of the National Young Writers’ Awards 2017. Ohemaa wrote an exhilarating story about what it might be like to live in the year 3017 read it here. Ohemaa’s English Teacher, Mrs Anike Chuard, encouraged her class to enter the…
We arrived at the museum and had a quick run around the garden and spotted the great glass elevator. We enjoyed our packed lunches before heading into the museum. We were then greeted by Maddy and Julie who were impressed that we knew lots of the answers to their questions about Roald Dahl. We explored…
The Year 3 trip to the Cotswold Wildlife Park was a great success! The giraffes were incredibly friendly and we had an amazing Habitats and Adaptations talk with the zoo keepers on otters, penguins, hornbill birds and a female sloth. The children had a lot of fun and will never forget this wonderful trip. See…
