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It is my great pleasure to announce that Mr Andrew Hammond MA, BA (Hons) QTS has been appointed Headmaster of Daneshill School from September 2012.
Mr Hammond has worked at a number of Preparatory…
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Our December newsletter is now available to download or view online. Highlights include a visit to Westminster Abbey, Year 5’s experience of a Victorian classroom, inspiration from Roche Court,…
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Our October newsletter is now available to download or view online. Highlights include the acquisition of a former England netballer to the Daneshill staff, a report on Year 4’s visit…
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On 1st October the nation’s finest veteran gymnasts (veteran being the cruel description of 30-40 years old in the sport) gathered in Leicester to compete.
Taking part was Daneshill’s…
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On Thursday 22nd September Mr Spencer attended the GSA President’s Dinner at the famous educational establishment that is the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. As a guest of Dr Helen…
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Daneshill has been recognised in Tatler's latest schools guide. At the awards on Monday evening, Tatler were proud to announce their latest publication, "full of indispensible, insider knowledge…
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Our July newsletter is now available to download or view online. Highlights include a report on Year 8's final challenge of their Adventure and Leadership Programme, Year 6's summer production, Year…
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Year 5 spent the day following the River Lemon. Amazingly all of the children managed to stay dry and were rewarded for their efforts with ice cream at Teignmouth. In the evening they all joined in…
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Our May newsletter is available now to download or view online. Highlights include Year 8’s preparations for the 3 Peaks Challenge, Year 7’s prize-giving ceremony at Blenheim Palace, Year…
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Who would have thought that a week away with twenty-six children could be such fun?
Being a “newbie” in the prep school teaching scene, I felt that the call-up to help…
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Our April newsletter is available now to download or view online. Highlights include all the excitement of Creative Writing Week, Year 4’s encounter with wolves, the Year 5 production, Year…
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On returning from half-term, the Daneshill pupils found themselves immersed in a week of creative writing and literature. Pupils in years 5 – 8 kicked off the week with an energising and…
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Our February newsletter is available now to download or view online. Highlights include the Year 3 production, Year 4’s visit to Hampton Court, scuba diving with Year 7, and a full sports…
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On Friday 21st January all of the pupils in Years 3 – 8 enjoyed an extended sports programme that was led by the sports staff at Wellington College. The Director of sport at the college was…
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On Wednesday 12th January the school welcomed one of London Irish’s coaches to lead an afternoon games session with all of the boys from Year 3 – 8. The boys immersed themselves in a…
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Our December newsletter is available now to download or view online. Highlights include the Pre-Prep Christmas production, Year 5’s Victorian classroom experience, a visit by a polar explorer,…
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On Sunday, twenty two Daneshill pupils headed to Mountbatten Leisure Centre in Portsmouth for the Hampshire Schools qualifying Biathlon. The conditions were testing and all of our boys and girls…
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On Wednesday 10th November the U.10s set off to St Francis and their first tournament of the year with an air of expectancy and anticipation. The hour long journey did nothing to dampen their…
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At the start of term, Years 7 and 8 visited Roche Court Sculpture Park as an introduction to the Annual Schools Competition. The brief was to design a chair, sofa, bench or stool that had been…
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Our October newsletter is available now to download or view online. Highlights include Daneshill’s recommendation by Tatler, our exciting new music technology suite, news on all our exciting…
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On Wednesday 22nd September an excited group of Year 1 children set off on a scientific adventure to the ‘Look Out’ Centre near Bracknell. The trip was designed to introduce the…
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Daneshill School has been recognised by Tatler as one of the Top 230 Prep and Public Schools in the UK.
The newly published 'Tatler Schools Guide 2011' features Daneshill for the first time and has…
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Following the success of last year's entry to the annual Roche Court Art competition, our current Year 7 and 8 pupils returned to the New Art centre on Monday determined to repeat history.
We were…
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Our July newsletter is available now to download or view online. Highlights include the Year 8 Three Peaks Challenge, the Charity Football Fun Day, the Year 6 production, a visit to Wimbledon, and an…
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Our May newsletter is out now and available to download or view online. Highlights include details of our Year 7, Year 6 and Year 5 residential trips, a visit to the Wolf Sanctuary, and a …
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The U13 Gym Team put in a memorable performance at the National Gym Championships on Sunday 9th May. With the whole of the South of England cheering them on they were up against some tough…
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The first of many swimming fixtures took place on Thursday 6th May as boys and girls from Years 5 and 6 competed against the Dolphin School.
To start off the children competed individually across…
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Our March newsletter is now out and available to download or view online. Highlights include a full listing of our latest scholarship successes, photos from Year 5's outstanding production, a…
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Following on from the success of Year 6 we are pleased to announce that four pupils from Year 8 have also gained Scholarship awards to their Senior Schools.
The list is as follows:
Frederik…
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Ahead of the half term break, news reached us of yet another successful year of 11+ common entrance results to senior schools.
All of the pupils sitting their entrance examinations performed well…
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Our February newsletter is now out and available to download or view online. Highlights include photos from our recent Year 3 production, an update on Year 7's scuba diving course, and a look ahead…
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After two gruelling trials at Bradfield College; Adam Knowles, Frederik Bloem and Kiearn Robinson have been picked to represent the South Central Districts at the IAPS Repton Football Festival in…
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On Sunday 31st January, the Daneshill U11 and U13 gym teams competed at the Southern Regional Championships in Beaconsfield.
The teams consisted of:
U11:
Sophie Goucher
Amelia Gullett
Amy…
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On Monday 1st February twenty four boys and girls turned out from Years 1 and 2 to play Thorngrove at football. The eighteen boys from Year 2 were split into two mixed ability teams and put in…
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Daneshill re-opened after the extended Christmas holidays today (Friday 8th January) and welcomed back 51 pupils and 24 members of staff. Academic lessons were combined with outdoor activities and…
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On Sunday 13th December, members of the yr 2-5 gym squad took part in the Bracknell Open Gymnastics Championships. For many, this was their first gymnastics competition and they had trained…
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Our December newsletter is now available to be downloaded, which we hope will provide some good reading over the Christmas break.
We would also like to take this opportunity to wish everyone…
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We are pleased to announce that Charlie’s Day Unit (CDU) has been chosen as one of the School’s official charities for the remainder of the academic year.
Based at the Basingstoke and…
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Our November newsletter is now available to be downloaded.
We hope you enjoy it!
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The Under 13s were invited to their third tournament of the term as they looked to finally pick up some silverware at St. Neot’s 6-aside.
The first match was against the unknown Bearwood …
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Our October newsletter should hopefully have reached you via e-mail by now. If not then it can be downloaded by clicking on the link on the first page of the 'latest news' section.
The aim of the…
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The Daneshill under 11s had their first football tournament of the season at Leighton Park on Saturday 3rd October. The boys started very well and managed to progress at the top of their group after…
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This week brought good news for all Year 7 pupils who have been pursuing the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Level 1 sailing course. All pupils successfully completed the course and gained…
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