Education | ED05 | Summer 2018

Education Magazine
Good sport
Hurstpierpoint College is proud of its sporting achievements this year in netball.
Five teams qualified for national finals, the under 13s team won the Independent
Assosiation of Prep Schools National Netball finals and the school earned triple
wins in the Sussex Cup and Sussex Independent School’s Netball Association
tournament. Head of Netball, Rebecca Jutson, has said “the girls are committed,
train hard and demonstrate positive teamwork. The future is bright!” hppc.co.uk
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Special delivery
Manor House School in Bookham
has sent their old uniforms to Kenya.
In a drive by Headteacher Tracey
Fantham to re-energise the school,
its uniform was given an update in
September, leaving the question of
what to do with the great quantity of
very usable old uniform. A biology
teacher, Mrs. Felicity Charles, got in
touch with Kenyan St. Martin’s Oluti
Mixed Secondary School’s Principal
Mark Origa and with the help of
a parent with friends in bordering
Uganda, a plan was hatched to send the
uniforms to the very grateful students
of St. Martin’s. Fast forward a lot of
donating, sorting, bagging, and one
very long journey, and Mr Oreiga was
given nearly half a tonne of uniforms
to his students and bragging that “our
students look so smart now. They
brought the local market to a standstill
when they were going home as all
the people left the market to come
out to see them... I have no words to
express the happiness in the whole
school now.” manorhouseschool.org
Read and right
Frewen College, near Rye, has
been recognised for its best
teaching practice of dyslexic
students by the British Dyslexia
Association (or BDA) and as
a result, students and teachers
were recently chosen to take part
in a series of short films about
how dyslexic students learn and
progress. The films are being
used by the BDA to support other
teachers wishing to teach students
in a more dyslexia-friendly style.
Frewen is one of the first schools
in the country to adopt Microsoft’s
cutting edge Assistive Technology
and one of the films focussed
on how the dyslexia-friendly
software (including dictation and
read-aloud features) has helped
students overcome reading and
writing barriers. frewencollege.co.uk
New school
On Tuesday 24 April, Reigate Grammar
School expressed its gratitude to Peter
Harrison and The Peter Harrison
Foundation at the grand opening
ceremony of the Harrison Centre.
This new learning and community
resource includes a new Sixth Form
Centre complete with café and social
facilities, a High Performance Learning
and Innovation room, a library and
learning resource centre, dedicated
library classrooms and a series of
private study areas. Peter Harriso,n
whose generous gift made the building
possible, said that he felt it would be
“a massive addition to the school’s
established reputation for delivering
a powerful education, together with
student happiness.” reigategrammar.org
Odd Socks
Children at Banstead Prep School were thrilled to be one of only ten
schools chosen for Andy and the Odd Socks band to visit, following
participation in the Odd Socks campaign to raise awareness and funds
for the Anti-Bully Alliance. Headteacher Miss Vicky Ellis explaines
that the school has embraced Odd Socks, to illustrate the school
ethos of “celebrating diversity and allowing everyone the freedom
to be themselves and express their individuality.” The visit took
place during the school’s Kindness Week. bansteadprep.com
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