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Open Mornings 7 October & 17 November 9:15 am -11:30 am (Headmaster’s Talk at 9:30 am) T:01372 372311 www.downsend.co.uk • 100% success rate at Common Entrance • 80% A*- B grades • 190 senior school scholarships awarded since 2014 We never hold our children back (Unless we have to) At Downsend when our pupils are actively involved in their learning, they fly. We find sitting still in a classroom, is no way to investigate the nature of forces and their effects. It’s much more exciting and memorable to get the parachutes out and experience air resistance in action for yourself. Kinesthetic learning is effective because the children are highly engaged and they remember what they are learning. Fosse Generic Postcard Rev2 13/9/16 1:30 pm Page 1 Leatherhead • Ashtead • Epsom An independent prep school for boys and girls aged 2-13 DownsendSchoolED04.indd 1 12/06/2017 15:14 Fosse Bank is a small independent school in a stunning building set in 26 acres of beautiful grounds. Fosse Bank is for children aged 2-11 years who enjoy an extensive curriculum and the individual care that being in a small class allows. Fosse Bank School, Mountains, Noble Tree Road, Hildenborough TN11 8ND www.fossebankschool.co.uk • Tel: 01732 834212 • E-mail: admissions@fossebankschool.co.uk wealdentimes.co.uk 24 FosseBankSchool-ED04.indd 1 02/06/2017 12:36
Education Magazine Ian Thorpe Headmaster of Downsend School Favourite subject when you were at school? Games (outside the classroom) and French (inside it). Favourite teacher when you were at school? Mr Knight, our Director of Sport, who had been a British Lion rugby player. Favourite children’s character from a book or film I loved Danny, from Danny the Champion of the World, as he encouraged me to believe in myself, whatever the odds. Best school memory Winning the International Schools Sports Tournament at Tennis, aged 16. Is there anything you wish you’d studied at school that you didn’t? I wish I’d known more about metacognition then: learning how to learn. All too often education is about forcing square pegs through round holes, and I would have loved to know more about how I, as an individual, learned back then. What’s your proudest achievement at your current school? Watching our children represent their school with such pride. Whether singing as a Choir in places like Belgium, winning Surrey Cups and National Swimming Titles or guiding parents at Open Mornings, they are the perfect ambassadors for Downsend, the stars of the show, certainly! What are you looking forward to this coming year? I want to complete a project which will deliver a new multi-million pound Creative Arts Centre to Downsend. Downsend School is a co-educational independent school for pupils aged between two and thirteen in Leatherhead, Ashtead and Epsom. downsend.co.uk Alison Cordingley Headmistress at Fosse Bank School Favourite Subject when you were at school As now, I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time. Had I to choose a favourite, then probably sport. I was no great athlete, but through encouragement to practise and improve, I relished playing in hockey and netball teams. Favourite teacher when you were at school I loved each teacher in turn at primary school but at senior school my biology teacher was a favourite. She was the first teacher to suggest that we pupils were part of the learning process and that we had some control over what and how we learned. Favourite children’s character from a book or film At primary school my favourite character was Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. To me she seemed a very exotic person. Having lived in India with servants she was transported to a different life in England where she had to be independent. And it has a happy ending. Best school memory One of my best school memories is when I was aged five and in the Reception class. One of the other girls in the class was absent on the day we had to cut out our selfportraits. I was asked to finish her work because “You are so good at cutting out.” It reminds me as an adult, how easy it is to make a child feel proud with a kind comment. Anything you wish you had studied at school that you didn’t? Technically I did study Latin but failed to understand its relevance and by my second year at senior school I was relegated to the class which read Winnie the Pooh in Latin rather than grasping the grammar. I wish I had persevered at the time but I enjoyed learning Latin properly much later, after I had left school. What is your proudest achievement at your current school? I am proud of our eleven year olds who are going to the best senior schools this September. It is pleasing that our pupils will be going to their new schools as confident, independent people, ready to embrace change and challenge and that these traits are a result of their experience at Fosse Bank. What are you looking forward to this coming year? We began taking two year olds this year and their presence really focused my mind on the many benefits of children learning in the open air. Following our official affiliation to the Forest School Association we are rolling out provision for Forest School sessions to all our children as part of the curriculum. I intend to join in on occasion! Fosse Bank School in Hildenborough, Kent, is an independent school for children aged two to eleven. fossebankschool.co.uk 25 wealdentimes.co.uk
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