Year 7 Author Visit Year 7 enjoyed a wonderful talk from children’s author Alice Hemming on the morning of Friday 13 March. Alice spoke about her life as an author, covering how she became a writer, what inspired her as a child, how she moved from picture books to full length novels and her dreams […]
Last Wednesday we took our Year 12 students to the annual UCAS exhibition at Brunel University. On the trip, students had the opportunity to speak to a large number of university representatives and other post-18 options, including Degree Apprenticeship Co-ordinators, and the Army and Navy. Students spent a few hours walking around the exhibition gathering […]
For the past few months I have been ringing with Presdales handchime team for about half an hour a week. I have just joined the year 11s on Fridays, which means I can play then as well as on Tuesday, so now I play for about an hour each week. Miss teaches us a lot […]
UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge The UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge took place on Thursday 6th February. 174 girls from Year 9,10 and 11 entered the 1 hour long challenging pencil and paper competition, with problems requiring significant out-of-the-box thinking. Certificates were awarded to the following 75 students: Year 11 Hester Peart GOLD Yuxi Chen GOLD Elisenda […]
Hockey The U13 hockey team competed in the County Hockey Finals at Queenswood this evening. They qualified after winning all 4 of their group matches, and continued that good form in this tournament. Their first match was against Queenswood ‘A’ and the girls fought back from 0-2 down to draw 2-2. In their next matches […]
Once again we owe a big thank you to EdufundUK Ltd. This Hertfordshire-based charity offers ‘small awards’ in three categories and this academic year we have been fortunate enough to benefit from all three. Firstly, support was received by way of a full £1,000 Small PE Award to assist Presdales School with a larger PE […]
Our Lingofest – the Languages Faculty House Competition – was a Speaking Competition which saw over 120 students from Years 7-9 represent their Houses in the finals of a foreign language reading competition. They read aloud songs and poems in 5 languages and were given points for pronunciation, intonation and dramatic effect. All of the […]
All members of Hertfordshire Libraries can download a free app to borrow free e-books on phones, tablets and computers. To use the app, you will need your library card number and a PIN. Ask at your local library for a PIN. Step 1 – get started Install the BorrowBox app on your devices or visit […]
World Book Day 2020 Students and staff enjoyed World Book Day at Presdales on Thursday 5 March, with some of the teachers dressing as book characters. Pictured are Mrs Teal as Little Red Riding Hood, Mr Samways as George from “Of Mice and Men” and Miss Turner as Matilda. Miss Jennings also joined in as […]
Exam Success Congratulations to the following students on their recent examinations: Trinity Music Exam Results: Marnie Whitaker – Grade 5 Flute (Merit) Jessica Argent – Grade 1 Piano (Distinction) Sophie Pratt – Grade 8 Violin (Distinction) Charlotte Waring – Grade 5 Singing (Distinction) Isabelle Sansford – Grade 1 Singing (Merit) Katie Wells – Grade 5 […]
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