Events
| « | October 07, 2008 - November 06, 2008 | » |
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10 / 8
Start: 16:30
End: 18:00
U14s - A very depleted teamput out by Alton due to a number of injuries and illnesses within their usual team. This was tough for them against a fair St nics side. Even so, they worked hard to form new relationships and routines and a score line of 6 - 16 to St Nics does not do the game justice. Player of the match - Hannah. | ||
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Start: 08:40
Start: 10 Oct 2008 - 8:40am
End: 13 Oct 2008 - 4:10pm
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Start: 10 Oct 2008 - 8:40am
End: 13 Oct 2008 - 4:10pm
Start: 10:00
Start: 11 Oct 2008 - 10:00am
End: 12 Oct 2008 - 2:30pm
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Start: 10 Oct 2008 - 8:40am
End: 13 Oct 2008 - 4:10pm
End: 14:30
Start: 11 Oct 2008 - 10:00am
End: 12 Oct 2008 - 2:30pm
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10 / 13
End: 16:10
Start: 10 Oct 2008 - 8:40am
End: 13 Oct 2008 - 4:10pm
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10 / 14
Start: 09:15
End: 10:15
 The Harvest Festival was on Tuesday the 14th of October. It was great! There was loads of produce from everyone which included cakes, bread, fruit, vegetables and lots more, and it was a great success. The orchestra played and the Chanteurs sang the Clare Benediction. With Year 4’s drama and the talks from Mr Maher and Mrs Bird it was great and very tasty! The Marian Hall looked brilliant with all the harvest art work on display. Start: 11:45
End: 12:30
 Nursery and Pre-Prep had a wonderful day celebrating Harvest this year. We started the day joining the Prep School in celebrating at the Harvest service. The children delighted in seeing all the produce displayed and watching the older children perform. The highlight of our day was welcoming many of the parents to our informal Harvest lunch. There were 30 children & approximately 25 parents and siblings celebrating together and it proved to be a delightful occasion. We had perfect weather, enabling us to all share lunch together with the children on the decking. The children behaved beautifully and really enjoyed their extra special lunch consisting of a Ploughman’s, home made cakes and apples from the Sisters’ garden. Thank you for taking time to share in our special day. Start: 16:30
End: 18:00
U14s - What a game! Awesome play by both teams left it neck and neck throughout. Both teams were scoring off their centres and keeping good possession. Alton managed to get that one break to win 8 - 7 even though their centre,Rachel Hyndman is off with injury - a good result. Player of the match - Hannah. | ||
10 / 15
Start: 08:40
End: 16:10
 On the 15th October the second form visited St Lucy's Convent in Medstead on retreat. The theme for the day was "trading trainers" reflecting on how hard the peoples' lives are who make our trainers. The weather was not on our side but this did not stop many of the activities that were planned for the day going ahead although it did mean that we could not enjoy the wonderful gardens at the Convent. We started off the day with a few games to waken us up, such as: getting into groups of a given amount of people without being left out, and ordering ourselves into height order without speaking. Start: 09:00
End: 15:30
For pupils interested in joining the Senior School in September 2009 Start: 14:30
End: 16:00
Kingscourt have emerged as the "dark horse" of the Wessex League this year. We knew we could underestimate them. Well, all I can say is that they have been the most complete team we have played. In the first we have to admit Alton were asleep and they had scored 5 goals before half time.And they were well worked goals. Jack did a stirling restricting the scoreline. Josh R gave some respectability with a consolation goal, however it was a nightmare start. | ||
10 / 16
Start: 08:00
End: 14:30
The ISA Regional Swimming Championships were held at the Garrison Olympic Training Centre on Thursday 16th October. ACS sent of a team of very excited and nervous girls. Most had never experienced such a venue before and I have to admit many of us would feel as daunted as they did. The girls were magnificent both in the pool as well as out.We did not have any fantastic results however you could never tell due the noise they made when each girl finished their race. Tiana Francis gained a creditable 3rd in the Yr 5 backstroke as compared to 6th last year. Lottie Fellows won her heat in Yr 5 freestyle and we await to see if her time is good enough to get into the Nationals. The yr 6 girls worked hard in their races and a special mention needs to be to said about Grace Jenner who stepped up to swim the butterfly leg of the medley relay despite it being her weakest stroke. The ACS team were a credit to both Mrs Cowle and myself and to the parents who sat through 5hrs of races, well done all! Start: 09:00
End: 15:30
 On Thursday 16th October all Prep school pupils and staff danced their way around the new drama studio led by visiting theatre group HotBuckle Productions. Years 1,2 and 3 watched exciting performances of The Gruffalo and The Emperors New Clothes and also explored their own imagined worlds through some interactive storytelling. The children’s own ideas for a play were brought to life as the three actors from HotBuckle improvised their way through the children’s stories about a kidnapped prince and a two legged pig! Start: 16:30
End: 18:00
Well the day had arrived - thier first league match. You could feel the nerves jangling at the start,both teams were so quiet!!! The following report was written by Amy, their captain. | ||
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10 / 22
Start: 13:30
End: 15:00
 Today the early years department made the most of the Autumn sunshine and joined together for an afternoon of creativity and fun based around the theme of colours. Children from each of the three classes were encouraged to participate in a range of activities that enabled them to explore different colours and their properties, whilst investigating the effects of colour mixing. The children particularly enjoyed the outdoor activities which included welly boot painting and bottle swinging, whilst opportunities to do marble painting, make a colour wheel spinner and explore light and colour on the OHP were firm favourites amongst the indoor activities. Start: 16:30
End: 18:00
U12A - This was both teams first match since their new teams were formed. The A team started with a great deal of nervousness. They initially went 4 - 0 down! At last they started to show the talent they had in team practices and managed to get it back to finish a 6 - 6 draw. Player of the match - Tabetha and Harriet | ||
10 / 23
Start: 09:00
End: 15:30
 Upper Prep children enjoyed some exciting art and design technology workshops on Thursday, when an inventor came to share his expertise with many of our pupils. The theme for the day was working mechanisms and models, and each class learnt about different ways of making things move or come to life. Year 4 explored designing and making through electricity, and were very proud when they got the opportunity to make their own working torches. Year 5 investigated moving toys from the past, before using levers and cams to make their own snapping crocodile toys. Start: 19:00
End: 20:00
The music department closed the first half term with a concert of chamber music featuring AS and GCSE pupils as well as music scholars. Parents and staff enjoyed a varied programme with music spanning four centuries on a variety of instruments. Sarah impressed with a performance of her own composition for piano and we look forward to hearing more from Les Six – a newly formed vocal group who gave a beautiful rendition of ‘The Long and Winding Road’. | ||
10 / 24
Start: 13:30
End: 15:30
 Although the weather was not promising in the morning, the school was on fire with anticipation for the House football Gala in the afternoon. There were two pools with each House having 2 teams consisting of all of Yr 6 and guests from Yr 5. In the pool matches there were some glimpses of scintillating stuff on the pitches with some of the girls showing up the boys. One pool match had to go to golden goal between Augustine Cherries and Paul's Bananas. Excellent and brave goal keeping by Katya kept the Cherries at bay. However some excellent lead up work Rebecca and Zoe saw Josh slot the goal that mattered. In the other pool Natalia and Rebecca H of the Chantal Marshes kept all other teams at bay to reach the final; and what a final it was. | ||
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11 / 4
Start: 13:00
End: 14:00
 On Tuesday 4th November, Mrs Parratt came to talk to year six about the second World War. she explained about all of the different types of gas masks for the different ages and about all of the different clothes. She had some volunteers: Eleanor and Harry got to dress up as poor evacuees. Sara was dressed as someone from WRVS and Grace had to dress in an evening gown. Izzy dressed as a bride in a dress made of parachute silk. Matthew dressed as a warden and had to put on a big metal helmet and had a whistle for when he saw any light on at nightime and had to shout "put that light out". Mrs Parratt was great fun and told us a lot of history that we didn't know before. It helped us to imagine what it must have felt like to be a child in World War II. | ||
11 / 5
Start: 14:30
End: 16:00
These games were friendlies but they are always competitive. The “Bs” charged gung-ho into the game with many chances did not score. Daneshill made a break and shot from a long distance and the ball squirted through Ivor’s legs to bring up the first goal. This made Daneshill confident, but the duo of Gabsie and Kiara knocked them back while Oliver and Tristan in the midfield fed Ben and Matthew up front. Matthew was tireless in his endeavour. However it was Ben who secured the victory with two well taken goals with final score Daneshill1 Alton 2. | ||
11 / 6
Start: 16:00
End: 17:00
 Musicians from the Upper Prep performed to an audience of parents, siblings, friends and teachers on Thursday 6th November in the first of this year’s Prep School concerts. The programme was wonderfully varied, with an excellent selection of short pieces. We began with a performance of Les Bouffons by the recorder ensemble, with the concert closing an hour later to The Drunken Sailor by the violin group. In between we’d heard many children perform, including both Maddy and Bryony on the harp, Katya on the cornet and Rachel’s Edelweiss on the trombone. | ||
