Our School Newsletter - Milbourne News
Our School Newsletter is published twice per half term. It covers a wide variety of items including: latest news, notifications, reminders, reviews, sporting results and triumphs; extra-curricular activities and much more. We use the Newsletter to keep our parents informed of what is happening at school – from menu changes to music lessons and match reports. If something is happening at Milbourne, parents always get to hear about it.
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Latest News
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Tatler School Awards select Milbourne Lodge for their 2020 Schools Guide
10th September 2019We are delighted to have been selected by the Team at Tatler Schools Guide to appear in the 2020 issue. The Schools Guide was launched last night at a reception in London when the top Prep and Public schools in the UK were unveiled.
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The sky is the limit in National Physics Rocket Challenge
30th April 2019In celebration of British Science Week, Milbourne Lodge launched its very own Water Rocket Challenge Event which was held on the morning of Monday 29th April.
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Just announced - More Scholarship Awards for Milbourne Lodge pupils
15th March 2019We are delighted to announce that six Scholarship Awards have been offered to Milbourne pupils in Year 8.
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The Week - Best of the Best Prep School for Art and Creativity
5th March 2019The Week - Independent Schools Guide has selected Mibourne Lodge as their 'Best of the Best Prep' for Art and Creativity.
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Outstanding Results in UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge
1st March 2019Years 6 to 8 sat the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge earlier this term and yet again the children have done remarkably well, given that the competition is designed for pupils in Years 9 – 11. To put it in context some of our 10 year old pupils were pitted against 16 year olds! We are very proud of all the pupils who took part.
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First set of 2019 Scholarships are announced
14th February 2019We are delighted to announce that the first set of 2019 Scholarship awards have been made. Two of our Year 6 pupils have been rewarded for all their hard work and commitment
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Teatime Music Recital
12th February 2019Musical talent from across the school was showcased with pupils singing, playing the piano, violin and cello. Our Teatime Recitals aim to offer all pupils learning music, the opportunity to perform in front of a small audience within a safe, nurturing environment.
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Vashti Hardy - author of Brightstorm visits Milbourne
26th January 2019The pupils loved meeting author Ashti Vardy on Friday 25th January. They learnt all about her novel titled ‘Brightstorm’ and took part in creative writing workshops. Her novel ‘Brightstorm’ has been nominated for the Cranleigh School Awesome Book Awards. www.awesomebookawards.com
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Digital Wellbeing - Digital Sisters Workshop
15th January 2019Emma and Charlotte Robertson are jointly known as the Digital Sisters and co-founded Digital Awareness UK (https://www.digitalawarenessuk.com/) which is an award winning digital wellbeing agency. Emma is constantly campaigning in the media about digital safety,
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Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge 2018
26th November 2018This is the first time Milbourne Lodge has entered the competition. All pupils in the Prep School tackled the 40 minute online challenge during their IT lessons.
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Senior UKMT Maths Challenge 2018
21st November 2018We have a long tradition of entering the UKMT Maths Challenges and always enter the Intermediate (Years 9-11) and Junior (Years 7 + 8) Challenges. This year we took the plunge and entered 10 pupils for the Senior Challenge. The Senior Challenge is designed for pupils in Years 12 & 13, i.e. pupils studying for their A-Levels. Despite the fact the ages of the pupils
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Outstanding Primary Maths Challenge Results
21st November 2018All the pupils from Year 3 to 6 sat the Primary Maths Challenge last week and we were delighted to be able to award certificates to 71 pupils in assembly this week. We are waiting to hear which pupils have made it through to the Follow-On Round. The PMC is designed for pupils in Years 5 & 6, so for so many pupils in Years
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Milbourne Choir records 'WW1 Song' for BBC Radio Surrey
13th November 2018Milbourne Lodge has been selected by BBC Surrey to help produce a special performance of the World War 1 marching song ‘"Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile".
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Milbourne raises over £500 for NSPCC
23rd October 2018The NSPCC joined us in school today to deliver their #speakoutstaysafe to the children programme. We held a special assembly and then each year group enjoyed workshops delivered by the NSPCC team.
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Celebrating National Poetry Day 2018
4th October 2018We celebrated National Poetry Day on 4th October 2018 by reading, listening to and studying a number of poems. 3B treated us to a performance in assembly of some of the poems they had written, using the poem Russian Doll by Rachel Rooney as inspiration. Pupils in other classes wrote some extremely powerful poetry and we would like to share the following delightful examples of pupils' writing with you.
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Old Milbournian Captains University Challenge Team
3rd October 2018Good Luck to Old Milbournian Anthony Chater who captained the Kings College London University Challenge Team.
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Senior Prefects are announced
19th September 2018The beginning of a new academic year sees the appointment of a new team of Senior Prefects.
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Best Ever UKMT Maths Challenge Results
21st May 2018Whilst Milbourne has had a long history of success in the Maths Challenges 2017/18 has been our most successful year to date.
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Pre-Prep challenge the Prep children to design a Maths game
1st May 2018THE MISSION, IF YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT…. … DESIGN AN ORIGINAL, EXCITING AND ENGAGING GAME TO MEET SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THE PRE-PREP TO USE ON THEIR MATHS FOCUS DAY.
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Epsom College Public Speaking Competition
27th April 2018Congratulations to Hattie, Marcus and Lucas who represented Milbourne in the Epsom College Public Speaking competition on Thursday 26th April.
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Promoting Healthy Eating
26th April 2018As part of our ever-expanding PSHE curriculum both the Pre-Prep and Prep school listened to talks about nutrition, diet, health and exercise.
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Milbourne Spring Concert 2018 - A musical extravaganza
21st March 2018Congratulations to everyone who took part in last night’s Spring Concert for a fantastic evening of musical entertainment, showcasing the array of musical talent to be found at Milbourne.
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Winners of the Michael O'Mara Books Personal Choice Award at the Global Canvas Schools Art Competition Finals
16th March 2018The finals of the David Shepherd Global Schools Art Competition – ‘Into The Wild’ were held at the Natural History Museum on Thursday March 15th. 4,500 entries were received from 13 countries. Of this total, 15 schools were then shortlisted for the final exhibition.
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Primary Maths Challenge Bonus Round Results are published
13th March 201810 pupils from Year 6 scored highly enough in PMC last term to be invited to sit the Bonus Round this term. The top 4.7% of entrants were chosen to enter the Bonus round, so even being selected was a huge achievement.
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Celebrating World Book Day in Pre-Prep
9th March 2018World Book Day celebrations were in full flow on Wednesday, in our Pre-Prep. Due to the snow last week, we rescheduled out dress-up day and book swap to this week.
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Spring Term Sports Colours
9th March 2018As is customary we award Sports Colours during the school year.
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Pre-Prep Literacy Week - The Beauty of Poetry
9th March 2018Adjectives, alliteration, similes and metaphors were tripping off the children’s tongues (and the end of their sharpened pencils) when PP1 and PP2 set about writing their own poems about one of their favourite topics: animals
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Milbourne Lodge selected for David Shepherd Schools' Art Competition Final
27th February 2018We are delighted to announce that Milbourne Lodge has been selected as one of the fifteen schools selected to take part in the final and will showcase their Art and IT work at the Natural History Museum in March.
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UKMT Maths Challenge Success
20th February 2018We like to enter the pupils at Milbourne for a variety of challenging competitions, including the UKMT Maths Challenges. We enter pupils in Years 4-6 in the Primary Maths Challenge (designed for pupils in Years 5-6), pupils in Years 5-8 for the Junior Maths Challenge (designed for pupils in Years 7-8) and pupils in Years 6-9 the Intermediate Maths Challenge (designed for pupils in Years 9-11).
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Old Milbournian publishes her first novel
2nd February 2018We are delighted to be able to bring you news of ex-milbournian Ariane Van Hoof, who has just had her first novel published by Olympia Publishers - "The Four Flames".
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Debate Team win top prizes at Rotary Club National Youth Speaks Competition
17th January 2018Milbourne Lodge senior debate team: Zooey Child, Chair; Thomas Masefield, Main Speaker; William Enskat, Vote of Thanks, represented the school at the Rotary Club's National Youth Speaks competition on Tuesday evening, 16th January
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Milbourne Lodge Wins Cognita Way Award
17th January 2018We are delighted to announce that Milbourne Lodge was awarded the Cognita Way Award at the recent Global Education Conference.
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Milbourne Carol Service
14th December 2017Our Carol Concert took place in the Holy Trinity Church, Claygate on Wednesday 12th December. The whole of the Prep School took part in the service and the Senior, Junior and Chamber choir sang some wonderful arrangements.
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2017 Poetry Recitation Competition
12th December 2017The Poetry Recitation Competition is an annual event and the final is the culmination of much hard work and reciting by the pupils. The best performers from each Form are selected for the final.
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A King Is Born - Pre-Prep Nativity 2017
8th December 2017We have just finished watching a wonderful Pre-Prep Nativity at the Church of the Holy Name. The children performed beautifully and were so clear as they sang and spoke their lines.
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An Evening of Dickensian Christmas Cheer
8th December 2017On Thursday 7th December the Centenary Garden was transformed into a Christmas Grotto, ready for our Dickensian Evening. Pupils, staff and families braved the elements and enjoyed a feast of festive performances
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Milbourne Win Epsom College Prep Challenge for third year
20th November 2017On Friday 17th November our Year 6 Quiz team went to Epsom for a General Knowledge Quiz and for the third year in succession they won!
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Pre-Prep Children in Need 'Spotacular'
17th November 2017On Friday 17th November, Pre-Prep hosted a fabulous fundraiser for Children in Need. The children came to school dressed in an assortment of spots and enjoyed making cakes throughout the day for this wonderful cause.
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Ella is finalist in Young Cartoonist of the Year competition
10th November 2017Congratulations to Ella Mackinnon who has had her ‘Ark of Fun’ illustration selected as a finalist in the Young Cartoonists of the Year competition in the Evening Stardard.
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Year 1 release their butterflies
6th November 2017Year 1 have been learning about animals in their science lessons. This was brought to life by observing the life cycle of a butterfly and recording their observations at each stage.
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The Seniors visit the Thames Flood Barrier
10th October 2017Last Friday Upper and Middle Sixth boys enjoyed an informative trip to the Thames Barrier at Greenwich. We were lucky to have the run of the visitor centre to ourselves in the morning and were greeted by our guide, Neil who gave us some of the history and future plans for the barrier.
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A seasonal walk with our Reception Classes
9th October 2017On Thursday, our Reception children went on the first of their Seasonal Walks to Arbrook Woods.
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The Great Balloon Debate
6th October 2017Form 4A held their first ever Balloon Debate yesterday. They had all picked a historical figure to research, focusing on that person’s achievements and the impact they had made on their country or other countries.
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Announcing our new Head of School and Prefects
22nd September 2017In Assembly on Monday, Mrs Waite announced that Kit in Year 8 has been appointed as Head of School and Zooey as Deputy Head of School for this academic year
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L6 visit to the Bank of England and St Paul’s Cathedral
18th September 2017The new Senior pupils in Lower 6th (Year 7) visited London last Friday. They travelled up by train and then walked to St. Paul's Cathedral along the South Bank.
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Happy Birthday Theo from 'First News'
12th September 2017The children love reading First News which we have delivered to school and Mrs Waite often refers to the child-friendly articles in Assembly.
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Lower 6 pupils win Alfred Huberman national writing competition
7th September 2017Congratulations to Two of our Lower Sixth pupils; Thomas (1st Prize) and Theodore (Highly Commended), who have today been announced as winners of the national Alfred Huberman writing project. Pupils entered the competition as part of their work on the Arthur Ransome Theme in IT & Art.
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Milbourne Lodge is judged 'Outstanding in All Areas'
6th September 2017We are delighted to announce that following the recent visit by the SIS Inspectors, Milbourne Lodge was judged 'Outstanding in All Areas' during their Inspection in June 2017.
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Form 1 Perform 'Parent's Evening' by Alan Ahlberg
29th June 2017On Tuesday, Form 1 were proud to perform Alan Ahlberg's poem, Parents' Evening
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Halfords Gear-Up! Workshop with Form 3
22nd June 2017We were fortunate enough to have Alan and Sam from the Byfleet Halfords store visit Milbourne Lodge this week to give a practical bike maintenance workshop to Form 3 (Year 5) pupils.
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U6 Scholars Review ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Globe Theatre
9th June 2017On Thursday 24th May our U6 scholars travelled to the Globe Theatre in London to see Romeo and Juliet. The theatre was built to look as close to the original Globe theatre as possible so we were interested to see what it would have looked like when William Shakespeare was writing and working there.
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Milbourne Lodge Parent Feedback Programme wins award for innovation and excellence
6th June 2017Our ‘Voice of the Parent’ programme has won a 2017 Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Award. This is the second year that this programme, implemented by Cognita across all their schools, has been commended, with the ongoing feedback received from parents directly inputting into the continuous improvement at the school.
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House Music Competition 2017
31st May 2017The Church of the Holy Name in Claygate was the stage for the finals of the Milbourne Lodge House Music Competition 2017. It was a wonderful evening of musical entertainment with a range of ages and abilities taking part.
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100% Scholarship Success for our 2017 U6 Scholars
24th May 2017We are delighted to announce that all of our U6 Scholars have been awarded places on scholarship to their future schools.
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Assembly Skype with The Rainbow House in Kenya
18th May 2017During assembly on 17th May we welcomed Mr Jonathan Cowan – Head Trustee of The Rainbow House Charity. He talked to us about Rainbow House in Malindi
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Olivia wins Best Book Review at the Cranleigh Book Awards
5th May 2017Congratulations to Olivia in Year 5, who won first prize at the Cranleigh Book Awards for her book Review of 'The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow' by Katharine Woodfine.
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Year 6 pupil - Henry Franke top of UKMT Grey Kangaroo Maths Competition
2nd May 2017Huge congratulations to Henry Franke in 4A (Year 6) for achieving a Merit Award (the highest award) in the Grey Kangaroo, designed for pupils in Year 9.
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The Arthur Ransome Society publishes Milbourne Lodge article
2nd May 2017The Arthur Ransome Society recently invited Milbourne Lodge to submit an article detailing the projects on which we have been working in Art and IT, for their publication ‘Signals’.
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Form 3 enjoy an interactive Science Workshop run by Epsom College
22nd March 2017On Wednesday 22nd March members of 3A and 3B were treated to a Science Workshop organised and run by Mr Styles and Mr Telfer, the Heads of Chemistry and Physics at Epsom College.
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Old Milbournians return to Milbourne Lodge for Reunion
21st March 2017On March 17th we were delighted to welcome back to school a group of 12 Old Milbournians who had spent time at the school in the mid 1950’s.
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Congratulations to our Public Speaking Team in the Epsom College Public Speaking Competition
7th March 2017Are you an embarrassing parent? Perhaps you are a pupil who has an embarrassing parent? Amel, Rowan and Alexandra from Form 3 presented a lively and entertaining speech on this topic at the Epsom Public Speaking Competition.
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Celebrating the '20th' World Book Day
2nd March 2017Fantastic fun was had by the children and teachers in Pre-Prep today as we celebrated the '20th' World Book Day.
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UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge Results
24th February 2017Congratulations to the following pupils for achieving certificates in the UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge this term. This competition is designed for pupils in Years 9 to 11, so to get a certificate early is a huge personal achievement.
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U9 and U10 Rugby Teams win place at National School Finals
12th February 2017On Sunday 5th February, our U8, U9, U10 and U13 Rugby teams competed in the Snowstyle National Schools Rugby Tournament at Epsom College. Despite a very chilly morning, the teams got off to a great start and were soon putting points on the scoreboard. Our U9 team finished top of [...]
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Swallows and Amazons Private Screening
10th February 2017Two screenings of Swallows & Amazons were followed by lively Question and Answer sessions with Jethro Ensor the film’s location manager, and Andrea Gibb, the screenwriter. Questions included how long it had taken to bring the film to our screens (eight years), how much the film had cost (estimated at £5m) [...]
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Swallows and Amazons private screening - 9th February 2017
6th February 2017On Thursday 9th February we shall be showing the film version of Swallows & Amazons 2016. This will be a family event and we look forward to welcoming our families to this special Milbourne screening. Pupils in the Prep school will finally be able to compare the book, which they have [...]
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A Surprise Visitor in Pre-Prep
26th January 2017Chinese New Year celebrations begin on Saturday 28th January. However in Pre-Prep we welcomed in the Year of the Rooster early. We saw a spectacular Lion Dance performance which was so exciting and energetic. The children loved it. The Lion Dance is an important part of the Chinese New Year celebrations. Enormous [...]
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Dickensian Evening 2016
6th December 2016It was lovely to see so many of our families at the Dickensian Evening last night. The garden looked magical and the children performed with such energy and enthusiasm that they could not have failed to fill us all with festive cheer. It was an eclectic mix of drama, music [...]
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Animals galore as the Travelling Zoo makes a visit
25th November 2016Following a week of school exams, Years 5 and 6 enjoyed a visit from the Travelling Zoo. They came face to face with a range of reptiles, mammals, insects and rodents - all of the children were given the opportunity to hold and touch the various animals. It was a [...]
