March 2018 - Perrott Hill

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Scholarship success

Hot on the heels of our art, sport, drama and all-rounder scholarships to Blundell’s, Harrow, Taunton, King’s Bruton and Sherborne Girls, we are delighted to announce even more scholarship success, with academic and sports scholarships to King’s College, Taunton and academic, art and drama scholarships to Queen’s College, Taunton. Not only that, but one of […]

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21st March 2018

Year 3 open the House Poetry

Our Year 3s opened last week’s House Poetry competition with a fantastic rendition of French rhyme La Grenouille, which they had been practising in class with Mademoiselle Robillard. Félicitations à tout le monde, une belle représentation!

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21st March 2018

World Book Day

Our rescheduled World Book Day celebrations got off to a flying start, with our bus drivers being greeted by a vast array of fictional characters in the morning! There were all sorts of activities throughout the school but our favourite photo has to be this one – the Nursery children all dressed up and on […]

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15th March 2018

Perrott U13s at Clayesmore

Well done to our U13s who made it to the Plate final at the Rugby 7s tournament at Clayesmore. Some excellent rugby all round, with all the teams playing well – great work, boys.

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15th March 2018

Dr Martin Young visit

Year 6 have been learning about the skeleton and muscles in Science, and were lucky to have practising chiropractor Dr Martin Young, of the Yeovil Chiropractic Clinic, come in to talk to them about it. Thank you Martin, it was very well received by all – and well done to Sebastian, who created and ran […]

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15th March 2018

Crazy Tuesdays

Tuesday nights are great fun for our boarders, courtesy of the ‘Crazy Tuesdays’ implemented by Mr Hodgin. Who knew you could play so many games with an orange? The children had a great evening, and it was all topped off with hot chocolate around the fire.

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15th March 2018

Year 6 History Project

Year 6 have started their major project work on life on the Home Front in Britain this week, with each class being split into three and assigned one of the three topics: the Blitz, Evacuation or Rationing. Their task is to research their topic using the resource boxes provided and then prepare and teach a […]

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7th March 2018

Hollywood comes to Perrott!

Many thanks to the wonderful Friends of Perrott Hill for a dazzling Hollywood Disco last night for Years 5-8. From the Spice Girls to vintage Hollwood actresses, it’s safe to say the Grundy Hall has never looked so glamorous.

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7th March 2018

Year 2 Swimming Gala

Our Pre-Prep pupils enjoyed a great Year 2 Swimming Gala this morning with Sherborne Preparatory School – with some excellent swimming and displays of sportsmanship on both sides. Many thanks to our hosts, we look forward to seeing you again soon!

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7th March 2018

Mental Health Awareness Week

What a wonderful and unifying message in these works of art, created by our pupils during Mental Health Awareness Week and hanging proudly in the Dining Hall: “We are each unique and beautiful, but together we are a masterpiece.” It makes us very proud to be Perrott.

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7th March 2018