10th February 2020 — Last month the children in Nursery at Warwick Preparatory School, thoroughly enjoyed their 'Winter' topic.

The children particularly enjoyed playing on the sledge and the Winter Wonderland role play! They have been creating some beautiful frosty winter paintings and drawing snowmen.

The children have also enjoyed getting messy whilst making marks and writing their names in some 'snow'!

10th February 2020 — This term the children in Reception at Warwick Preparatory School have been focusing on a Skill for Life during show and tell.

Leo proudly presented his chosen skill ‘kindness’ to Headmistress, Mrs Dodsworth. Leo has demonstrated this particular skill in so many different ways. He has donated his toys to a nursery, visited the charity shop with clothes and contributed daily to the food bank collection in school.

Well done for your hard work Leo!

10th February 2020 — The Nursery children at Warwick Preparatory School have been brushing up on their fine motor skills by cleaning their shoes!

This Montessori practical life activity helps the children to develop their concentration in a fun way and their independence skills. As well as leaving them with beautifully polished shoes!

24th May 2019 — In the morning, the girls looked at dinosaur models and high-grade, genuine fossil specimens. They interspersed interactive work with discussions on sub-topics including the Earth’s formation, timelines, rocks and dinosaurs. The girls worked in groups on investigations where they explored numerous informative displays and wonderful scale models of the world in various stages of evolution.

The afternoon included a hands-on examination of some exceptional fossil specimens and the opportunity for Year 3 to select and draw fossils including sea urchins, sand dollars and ammonites. They enjoyed an interactive group discussion about the Earth’s spectacular fossil treasures including what fossils are, how they are made and fossil hunting.

They finished the day with a special visit from Mary Anning (Sue Woollard) who talked to the girls. Mary was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis.

8th March 2019 — The workshop took place on Thursday in Warwick Hall and began with a Wiz Bang Science Show from Wonderstruck. The girls and boys then worked in groups and completed a number of exciting science-related activities:

Building a fan powered car – the pupils worked in groups to design and build a small fan powered racing car. The focus was on force, the nature and role of friction in machines and simple electrical circuits. Once the teams had built and tested their cars, a competition was held to decide the overall winners and the Junior School boys came 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Designing a compressed rocket – working in pairs, pupils designed, built and launched a compressed rocket. Once the rocket was built, they went on the field and tested their rockets and based on the distance travelled the Prep girls came 1st, 2nd and 3rd! This activity focused on force and aerodynamics.

A fantastic collaborative Science day!

24th January 2019 — In 1958 Bobby Fischer exploded onto the world chess scene when he became the youngest international grand master in history at the age of 15. He was later to become World Chess Champion and is still considered by some to be the greatest player who ever lived.In 1958 Bobby Fischer exploded onto the world chess scene when he became the youngest international grand master in history at the age of 15. He was later to become World Chess Champion and is still considered by some to be the greatest player who ever lived.

Sixty years later a 7 year old from Stratford-upon-Avon, who is in Year 2 at Warwick Prep, is beginning to make waves of his own. Billy Fellowes has recently returned from a two day tournament at Westminster University where he took on 90 of England’s elite Under 8 players, most of them in year 3, and many of them England Internationals. Billy finished the tournament undefeated and no one could remember a year 2 player becoming the under 8 champion before.

Billy was delighted: “Every game was really tough and it’s amazing to win such a big tournament with so many good players”. Billy is coached at school by a former British Under 21 champion, FIDE Master Nick Thomas: “I advised him to enjoy the experience and that he would be a top contender next year when he had more experience and was a fully-fledged Under 8 player. His win is truly amazing”.

Billy also attends the elite Coventry Chess Academy on Saturdays which is run by one of Nick Thomas’s former pupils Paul Lam. Paul is also Billy’s one-to-one coach: “Billy is a fantastic player who loves chess, works hard and deserves his victory”.

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