Category: School News
Storytellers at the Junior School
On Monday this week, boys in Years 3, 4 and 5 were treated to a visit from “Woman from the Past” for a great day of historical storytelling. As part of their humanities topic of the Tudors, Year 5 (joined by Year 4) were met by Sabine Johnson, a real Tudor merchant’s wife, in order […]
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Year 4 and Year 5 trip to Harry Potter World
All of Years 4 and 5 travelled down to Watford on Thursday for the first junior visit to Harry Potter Studio tour at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden. On a long coach journey, the boys entertained themselves with games of Harry Potter top trumps and Uno to pass the time before arriving in Watford for […]
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Top match for 1st XV rugby team
The 1st XV rugby team extended their unbeaten run with an excellent victory away at Giggleswick School on the Saturday before half term. They again started well and, after a period of pressure, scrum half Daniel B dived over. Outstanding hooker Oliver F crashed over for the second, with full back Sam T and flanker Ewan G completing […]
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Getting creative in Reception
After the harvest festival, Reception spent a few days making harvest soup. First, they scooped out the pumpkins before carving them. The next day, they prepared all of the vegetables to go in the soup. These included pumpkin, potatoes, butternut squash, carrots, parsnips and peppers. They made the soup and tasted it. The teachers were […]
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Junior School humanities
Last week was exciting in humanities at the Junior School. Year 6 have been looking at the social and cultural importance of Anglo-Saxon jewellery. The class watched a video about a brooch that was found in a hoard in Sutton and discovered that the woman who wore the impressive silver brooch also had a curse […]
Read More GOLD DofE Expeditions 2019
25 sixth formers set off on two four-day Gold DofE qualifying expeditions in the last fortnight before half term – 17 of them, including nine girls from Westfield School, walked 60-70 km in the Lake District with three teachers, while the remaining eight boys canoed in pairs down 70km of the River Tay in Scotland, […]
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Coast to Coast – Hadrian’s cycleway
By Ian McEwan, NSB parent The team prepared for their departure in a foggy car park with the back drop of the Solway mud flats. Once underway, the sun came out and we were set for some glorious cycling conditions. Within the first couple of hours we had successfully navigated Carlisle’s traffic, experienced a few […]
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Insult to injury
The Labour Party’s policy to abolish private schools has little to do with improving the quality of state education. In fact, in the unlikely event that the policy is ever able to be implemented, it would be more likely to damage it. The policy is driven by ideology and a profound misunderstanding of the independent sector. It derives from a campaign called ‘Abolish Eton’ which belies its ideology and a mistaken presumption of homogeneity across independent schools. It assumes that they are all awash with endowment […]
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Character run for childhood cancer charity
One of my favourite occasions in the first half of the summer term is joining the School’s boys and parents taking part in the annual local Children’s Cancer Run at Newcastle Racecourse. This year was its 37th running. At home, we have some old family photographs taken at the first one back in 1982. The […]
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ESFA Danone nations cup finals
The Under 11 football team made the journey to St Andrew’s stadium in Birmingham for the National Small Schools’ finals. The competition saw the top eight teams from the regional rounds compete to be national champions. NSB’s first group game against Newtown Primary from Shropshire got off to a good start in the first half […]
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