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The whole school celebrated their love of reading by dressing up as their favourite character for World Book Day. Each class (and many of the staff) had a chance to show off their fabulous costumes and share their favourite books on our WBD catwalk. It was clear from the excitement in the hall that everyone at the Ursuline Prep is as passionate as ever about reading and gains a great deal of pleasure from the daily reading opportunities that take place. A huge thank you to the parents for providing the costumes and continuing to support events such as these, [...]

The children braved the cold and windy airfield of Duxford to learn about the History of Flight as part of their History topic. They went to British Airspace and explored Concorde, walked through the Comet and found out about passenger planes. We saw a piece of cloth which was taken from the Wright flier and sequenced the ages of different planes. They also went to the American Hanger and found out about planes such as the B52 Bomber and the Blackbird spy plane. The children were complimented on their excellent behaviour and organisational skills! [...]

Lower One visited The Ragged School Museum on Tuesday as part of their history work on The Victorians. They experienced what it would have been like to be living in poor London and attending the first free school for ‘ragged’ children. They were shown some of the punishments such as the back straightener and the finger stokes, as well as practicing their arithmetic, poems, money, alphabet and vocal drills. In the afternoon, they then went into a ‘Victorian home’ experience where they got to look at everyday items such as water bottles, mangles, dollies (the Victorian washing machine), irons, hairbrushes and lots more. They had a great [...]

On Friday 27th February 2026, our netball team travelled to the regional tournament held at New Hall School. The girls performed exceptionally well throughout the day, demonstrating excellent teamwork, determination and resilience. After winning their pool matches, they progressed confidently to the semi-finals. A strong and composed performance secured their place in the final against Copthill School. The final was a closely contested and exciting match. Despite a tremendous effort from the team, they narrowly missed out on first place, losing by just one goal. Finishing second overall at the regional tournament is a fantastic achievement. We are extremely proud of the [...]

We took a boys and girls team across to Brentwood School for the District Swimming Gala on Wednesday 25th February. The Children had a wonderful time and swam exceptionally well. The boys and girl’s teams managing to finish in first place and were crowned small schools district champions.

On Tuesday 23rd February, we held our annual Pancake races. The children had a great time racing in the sunshine! Who would have thought it. The final placings between the houses being St. David’s 1st, St Andrew’s 2nd, St. Patrick’s 3rd and St. George’s 4th.

E-Safety week kicked off with a whole school assembly where the children at UPS were treated to an unseen poster of Bluey’s latest film, which was the next instalment of the Star Wars franchise, the new Iron Man 5 film with cameo appearances from the DC universe and our one and only Mrs. Wilson showing off her snowboarding skills and her gold medal achieved in Beijing at the Winter Olympics in 2022. Amazing you might say, but these were all generated using the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which was the theme for this years Internet Safety Day (Tuesday 10th [...]

Kindergarten worked hard this half term as they designed and built superhero vehicles. Each child thought carefully about the joining techniques they would use and the tools they needed to construct their vehicle. There was lots of discussion, sharing ideas and fabulous praise of each other’s work. The end results were fabulous!

Thursday 5th February, we took 12 girls to the national dance finals after getting through the semi-finals of over 120 applicants. We successfully achieved the performance award obtaining 3rd position.

On Saturday 31st January, six children from Lower One, Upper One and Lower Two were invited to take part in Brentwood School’s first art exhibition. Congratulations to Isabella, Henry, Annie, Freya, Jessica, Maya and Oscar for being shortlisted to display their incredible work. Their pieces, which were all based on the environment and how to help our planet, were amazing with some very imaginative ideas. They represented our school beautifully with their impeccable manners and had great speaking skills when talking to the adults throughout the morning. Well done – we were very proud to have you as part of [...]