Our pupil school council took a trip to meet the Mayor of Greenwich, Cllr Dominic Mbang at the Town Hall in Woolwich this week. They toured the grand building, marveled at the 18 carat gold ceremonial chains, and even got to sit in the debating chamber and ask the Mayor questions about his role in office. Thank you @dominicmbang and @royal_greenwich for a wonderful experience!
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#BeBlackheathPrep #Greenwich
Inspired by the work of artist, Louise Bourgeois, Year 5 have created some wonderful studies of insects
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Year 3 were taken back in time to the land of the Pharaohs to discover what every day life was like in Ancient Egypt. A great time was had making engraved cartouche necklaces, weaving reed mats, grinding buckwheat and playing traditional board games.
#Curiosity #BeBlackheathPrep
An amazing £521 was raised at Year 2`s charity cake and book sale today, the last of our Charity Tuesday fundraisers for our bicentenary year. Thank you to all our families who supported the event, and well done Year 2 for an amazing effort!
We will be revealing the total amount raised across the year for our chosen bicentenary charities soon!
@999clubdeptford @ageexchange @creeksidediscoverycentre @marysmealsukcharity
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Kindness is one our 7 school values and to mark World Kindness Day we`ve set our pupils their penultimate Challenge 200 task for our bicentenary year. Across the school, each year group will be carrying out 200 acts of kindness and helping to make a difference to those around them, in the classroom, on the playground or at home. We`re looking forward to sharing some of their kind deeds over the next few weeks!
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From our youngest Nursery pupils to our eldest in Year 6, our whole school came together for a special service of remembrance today with music and poetry performed by pupils to mark the occasion #lestweforget
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Year One have been learning about Diwali in class this week and in celebration they have been making edible sparklers with chocolate and sprinkles to celebrate the festival of light.
#Curiosity #Community
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Year 5 having lots of fun learning the art of puppetry, and creating characters and voices for their hand and rod puppets at a workshop with @parkerpuppetry.
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School was filled with fun Halloween activities yesterday as pupils decorated pumpkins, made potions and visited the pumpkin patch on our allotment 🎃
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Well done to Roc who out-did Pegasus, Dragon and Phoenix to achieve the highest number of House points last half-term. They celebrated today with a mini disco and biscuits!
#Joy #Community
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JOIN THE PREP - YEAR 4 PLACES AVAILABLE.
Just a few days left to apply for a Year 4 place at Blackheath Prep (January 2024 entry). We offer a rich and broad education, superb pastoral care and excellent preparation for the senior school process. As part of the Eltham College family of schools, we also offer a priority application process for pupils selecting Eltham College as their senior school of choice. Discover the many benefits of a Blackheath Prep education by following the link in our bio.
The closing date for applications is 2 November 2023, 12 noon #BeBlackheathPrep
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Only one week left to apply for a limited number of Year 4 places available for families wishing to join our Prep in January 2024. We offer a rich and broad education, excellent preparation for the senior school process, and superb pastoral care. As part of the Eltham College family of schools, our pupils also benefit from a priority entry process for those selecting Eltham College as their choice of senior school. Find out more about the outstanding education we offer and register online via the link in our bio. Closing date for applications is 2 November 2023.
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Inspired by our School and House crests featuring mythical creatures, our pupils have collaborated with sculptor @james.ort to create a wonderful new art installation to celebrate our school`s bicentenary.
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NURSERY PLACES 2024
Applications are open for September 2024 places in our Nursery, the usual entry point for children wishing to join Blackheath Prep. Children join us in the intake following their third birthday,
Closing date to register for a place is 1 November 2023, 12 noon. Find out more about the outstanding education we offer at Blackheath Prep and how to apply for a place online via the link in our bio.
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Pupils have been celebrating Black History Month, with a focus on this year`s theme, We Salute Our Sisters. Katherine Johnson, Wangari Maathai, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mary Seacole, Maya Angelou, Shirley Bassey and Lubaina Himid - just some of the many inspirational women our pupils have been learning about this week.
#Curiosity #Blackhistorymonth
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It`s been a busy couple of days for our Year 3 who have been raising money for our bicentenary charities. Yesterday they went to @ageexchange in #Blackheath to deliver boxes of book donations for the Centre`s library and secondhand book sales, and today they organised a Charity Tuesday event with a Halloween themed bric-a brac sale! Well done Year 3!
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#Kindness
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Year 1 have been using colour to describe feelings and emotions in their mood monster drawings!
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#Wellbeing
A great turnout for our first Charity Tuesday event of the term, a sweet sale organised by our Year 4 pupils and parents! All monies raised from our fundraising events across our bicentenary year will be donated to 4 chosen charities @ageexchange @999clubdeptford @creeksidediscoverycentre @marysmealsukcharity
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If you are interested in a place in our Nursery for your child (the usual entry point for pupils joining Blackheath Prep), we are currently taking applications for September 2024 places. The closing date to register is Wednesday 1 November 2023.
Why not come along to our next Family Open Day on Saturday 30 September, a great opportunity to visit our nursery in person and meet the Early Years team. Click on the link in our bio for more details.
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Wonderful to have the lively chatter of excited pupils filling the classrooms and playgrounds today as we welcomed everyone back for the start of the new academic year. An especially warm welcome to our new families who are joining Blackheath Prep this term
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Some of the wonderful artwork created by our talented pupils, on display at the end of year art exhibition.
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We had a party and what a day we had! Special guest Michael Rosen, our families and 3,500 people from our local community joined us to commemorate 200 years of educating children in the local area, with a day of family fun, entertainers and children`s authors. Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us and made it such a special day in our school`s history!
#Joy #Community
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So much fun had at the Year 6 leavers disco! Thank you to our PTFA for organising a great party #Joy #Freedom
A surprise school flash mob dance for our end of term Challenge 200, one of our monthly events celebrating 200 years of our school! #Joy #BlackheathPrep200
Today we said farewell to our wonderful Year 6 pupils, most of whom have been with us since they were 3 years old. Over the years we have watched them grow into the wonderfully talented, capable and well rounded young people that they are. And even though they are now moving on to their senior schools, they will always be part of the Blackheath Prep community! We wish them well in the next exciting chapter of their lives.
#Joy #Community #Courage #BeBlackheathPrep
Superb performances delivered by our Year 6 in their musical adaptation of Terry Pratchett`s The Amazing Maurice & His Educated Rodents. Well done to all the townsfolk and rat performers who entertained parents and pupils this week.
#Joy #Courage #Community
#BeBlackheathPrep
We`re celebrating 200 years of our school on Saturday 1 July! FREE family entertainment across the day, click on our bio link for details.
In the Marquee...
Poet and rapper Christian Foley (11.30am), internationally renowned children`s poet Michael Rosen (12.45pm & 1.45pm), Professor Strange and his curious magic from ITVs Britain`s Got Talent (2.30pm), stories and songs from author Gareth P Jones and his famous ukelele (3.15pm) and dance from Blackheath School of Dance (4pm)
Plus Wiggly Wild Show, Jambs Owls, Solo Craft Fair, arts & crafts activities, author workshops, pupil performances, PTFA games stalls, bouncy castles, face painting, food & licensed bar and more!
Stage events & author workshops are free. Charges apply for some optional activities
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Plenty of courage, joy, team spirit and community on display at our Sports Day. Great to see our new House T-shirts being proudly worn too! #BeBlackheathPrep
Shiver me timbers, it was Pirate Day for our Year 1 pupils today. They made parrots, buried treasure, ate cupcakes and practised their best pirate ooh arrrs ☠
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For one of our special projects commemorating 200 years of our school, we invited ceramic and wire sculptor @james.ort to come into school to work with our pupils to create a new work of art for our school grounds. Inspired by our school crest, pupils have been creating mythical creatures and working with James to create the final designs. All will be unveiled in the autumn when the new sculpture is installed in its new home!
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Listen to our Head, Alex Matthews, and members of the senior teaching staff, talk about our school and the many benefits of a Blackheath Prep education.
Take a virtual tour of Blackheath Prep on the interactive map below and discover our superb facilities and extensive grounds.
Click on the + signs on each area of the map to view photographs, including 360 degree photographs of the main areas of the school.
Nursery and Reception pupils share a playground designed to provide our younger pupils with a fun and colourful area in which to play and learn.
Digital learning is at the heart of our curriculum and our fully equipped IT classroom offers state-of-the-art facilities.
Our Grade II Georgian building houses our visitor Reception and administration offices.
5 well-equipped music rooms offer our pupils dedicated spaces for tuition by specialist music teachers.
Pupils eat lunch in the dining hall and enjoy a tasty, nutritious menu from our in-house caterers, Holroyd Howe.
Our Nursery has two large and well-equipped classrooms with a wide range of activities and toys designed to entertain and interest our youngest children.
Housed in the old chapel, our beautiful Library has a well-stocked range of fiction and non-fiction titles, and cosy reading corners for pupils.
Our light and airy art studio, and well-equipped Design & Technology classrooms offer a great space for our pupils to be creative.
These bright and colourful classrooms provide a welcoming and stimulating space for our younger pupils after they transition from Nursery.
Located on the playing field, the Pavilion houses the changing rooms for team sports. The Treehouse on the first floor is a welcoming space for our pupils who benefit from additional learning support.
A well-equipped large hall where our school assemblies, and drama, dance and music productions take place.
Our three Forest school areas provide a dedicated outdoor space for children to participate in a range of activities which encourage curiosity and interest in the natural world.
