School News
ISA Digital Art Competition Success!
Congratulations to Kaia in Year 2 who has been awarded Highly Commended in the Key Stage 1 ISA Digital Art Competition. Kaia created this piece in her own time using the skills learnt in class and also by discovering some of her own creative flair! She used the Seesaw app to create the image and…
Goodbye Little Chicks
We have just had to say goodbye to the little chicks that came to live us with us at Kensington Wade for a week. The pupils have loved having them with us – from seeing the eggs arrive last week and guessing which one would hatch first to looking after them and giving them lots…
ISA Art Awards Success
A huge congratulations to Penelope in Year 2 who has been awarded Highly Commended in the ISA Egyptian Art Competition 2023! Her fantastic picture is one of a selection of 25 of the most creative works to have been chosen from over 200 entries. Well done Penelope!
Year 2 become Greek Archaeologists
Year 2 have been really enjoying their topic on Ancient Greece. Last week they became archaeologists for the day and were tasked with uncovering artefacts in sand to find out more about how the Ancient Greeks once lived. Great work Year 2!
Author Camille Goodman visits Kensington Wade
Pupils were very excited to meet Camille Goodman yesterday when she came to visit Kensington Wade. Camille led a Coronation-themed workshop to different year groups and read her best-selling book ‘Mister Finch and the Queen’.
Chick ‘Eggcitement’
We took delivery of eight eggs yesterday and three of these have already hatched into adorable, very squeaky chicks! Pupils are taking it in turns to carefully look after the chicks and they are monitoring them in their incubator before they are able to go into their big cage. Their arrival is causing great egg-citement…
ISA Art Competition Win
Welcome back to all our pupils, we hope everyone had a lovely Easter break. We discovered during the Easter break that Aroa in Year 3 has won the award for the Most Creative Egg, KS2 in the ISA Easter Egg Competition 2023. Congratulations Aroa, what lovely news for the start of term!
Case Study by the Independent Schools Association
Following our success at the ISA Awards in November, when we won the ISA Award for Innovation in Independent Education, we were visited by ISA and our Head, Suzanne Haigh, was interviewed for a case study. We’re delighted that this has now been published and you can read it here: ISA Kensington Wade Case Study….
Kensington Wade is featured in Education Choices magazine
We’re delighted to be included in the Spring issue of Education Choices magazine. Please take a look at Suzanne Haigh’s piece on the benefits of a bilingual education on page 14!
We’re members of IAPS!
We are really pleased to announce that our membership of IAPS has been accepted. The Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS) is a schools’ association with over 660 of the world’s leading prep schools in membership. Schools must reach a very high standard to be eligible for membership, with strict criteria on teaching a broad…
