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As Michaelmas term draws to a close, it brings with it the excitement of Christmas. The birth of Jesus sparks in the hearts of young and old a wonderful feeling of togetherness and anticipation of gladness. At St Edward’s College, the various age groups are well into preparations, particularly since the children leave school before

Christmas is a lovely time but it can also be Merry Christmas! very lonely. Thinking of Christmas in the bosom of the family and surrounded by friends is great but, what if you have no friends? What if you have no family? Hard to imagine? Perhaps, but it is a reality, particularly for those who

Sensory perception is one of the most important aspects of development. The development of touch and feel works in sync with sight and sound to give the human body an experience that is stored in memory. Such experiences can be informal, learnt through random play, semi-formal or learnt through guided play or formal and learnt

As part of the emergent curriculum development, every class kicked off its topic with a ‘web’. This holds ideas the children share about the topic itself and any questions they wish to learn about. This is a living document that carries on evolving throughout the topic development. Our nursery Y class chose their topic following

This edition of Dwardu’s Scoops has again increased its page count. A great thank you to all contributors and, I must say, it is quite a feat to keep up with the amount of work and activities carried out at the College. Remembrance day struck a reflective chord among the students, enabling these young people to

KG2x students have chosen the topic on the farm to explore together. This got them discussing a variety of animals and their habitats. Needless to say, it was a great opportunity to get messy as they created their own mud in class to give their craft pig a better home. The boys loved digging into

Nursery Z students started their day calling out jungle animals and learning about their features. This then led to a spontaneous matching activity where the students matched pairs and extended this into an “acting out” session, prompted by their teachers. The children also used finger puppets and magnifying glasses to look closely at the animals

On the 11th day of the 11th month 103 years ago, what was then called ‘The Great War’ ended. Millions died, many of them slow and cruel deaths. It was the war that put paid to what the poet Wilfred Owen, himself killed a few days before the armistice, was to call “that old lie:

It makes sense to say that children of various ages make sense of life in different ways. Any student of psychology will tell you that in the first years of life, the child’s knowledge of the world is accrued through the senses. This is why, at an early age, at St Edward’s College, we try