Swanbourne House

Manor House pupils were fortunate enough to get a visit from Father Christmas today during their Christmas parties! 🎅

Swanbourne House in the snow! ❄️

Well done to everyone who took part in last night's Christmas Concert, It was a brilliant evening full of talent and terrible jokes! 🎙️🎄

The children at Swanbourne House have enjoyed coming into school wearing their Christmas jumpers today, helping to raise funds for Save The Children🎅

A massive well done to all pupils who took part in The Stowe Group Carol Service alongside & in Stowe Chapel yesterday evening. It was a brilliant success and a wonderful display of festivity for all to enjoy!🎶🎄

Our year 3 pupils enjoyed a story by the fire in reception this afternoon 📖

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Congratulations to all of our pupils who took part in the Beachborough Cross-Country Run yesterday. A special well done to our U13 boys who won the Senior Boys’ team event: a fantastic achievement as we have not won this since 1998!!

We will be posting a web story with more photos of the successful pupils with their medals soon. 🏃‍♀️

We were fortunate enough to have Rhian Tracey visit our Year 7&8 pupils this morning, for a writing workshop on 3D characters. They discovered how characters from her book "the boy who drew the future" came to life and what went into the creation of them. 📖

We are delighted to invite all members of the Swanbourne House Community to attend a Service of lessons and carols to be held on Thursday 8 December at 5pm in Stowe Chapel. The Service brings together Stowe, Wi******er House and Swanbourne with choirs from all three schools and a Brass Quintet from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. We very much hope that you will be able join us to celebrate the Advent season with this special service. Refreshments will be served after the Carol service in the Sixth Form Centre.

To reserve a space, please follow the link in Friday’s edition of the Cygnet.

Well done to all our year 3&4 pupils who took part in last week's production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! Click on the link below to see some more pictures from the production 🎭

https://www.swanbourne.org/news/shs-chitty-chitty-bang-bang-2022/

Yesterday afternoon some of our pupils took part in our annual Steeplechase during their PE lessons. Well done to all pupils who braved the murky water and a big thank you to Mr Poulton who designed our unique steeplechase water obstacle! 🏃

Christmas has arrived at SHS!🎄

A massive well done to all our pupils who entered Swanbourne House's 2022 Online Art Exhibition, on the theme of 'Nature Knows Only Colour' 🖼️

Artwork can be purchased using the link:
https://virtualgallery.imagesart.co.uk/17912/109325/

All profits will go towards the school charity.

One of our popular enrichment activities is Karate Lessons that are taught by Sensei Peter. In these lessons important emphasis is on traditional karate skills, including blocks, punches strikes and kicks performed while in various karate stances.🥋

Our year 2 pupils recently had the opportunity to visit Holdenby House, to support some of their learning this term 🧹

One of the Saturday enrichment options that we offer, is the Sports Scholarship and Sports Mentoring session which is led by our Director of Sport Miss Levermore. Aimed at pupils who have been awarded a sports scholarship or aspire to secure a sports scholarship at their desired senior school. These sessions support the advancement of many key components of fitness necessary to excel in sport through conditioning and exercising the body in order to increase their own personal health related and skill related elements of fitness. Pupils also have fun exploring a sport that is not currently delivered in the Physical Education Curriculum, with this term being Volleyball.🏋️

Yesterday during afternoon sport, our Year 5 to 8 pupils took part in house hockey matches! 🏑

There is currently a selection of books from our library on display, for our pupils to explore the theme of 'Reaching Out'.

Our Wellbeing prefects have been collecting donations today in aid of odd socks day as part of Anti Bullying Week. There have been some amazing combinations on display, and it is amazing to see all the support from both staff and pupils!🧦

Yesterday our year 7 pupils got the opportunity to visit Bletchley park, to learn more about the allied code breaking that took place during the Second World War

Click on the link to view the full gallery
https://www.swanbourne.org/news/year-7-visit-bletchley-park/

Lest we forget

📸The new Lounge in our Boarding House

➡️Read more about the enhancements to our Boarding House on our website https://www.swanbourne.org/news/boarding-blog-3-boarding-house-enhancements/

We are delighted to share the news that Swanbourne House has appointed Mr Nick Holloway as Head.

Mr Holloway will begin his role at the School on September 2023.

Follow the link for the full story

https://www.swanbourne.org/news/mr-nick-holloway-appointed-as-new-head/

This afternoon our Year 3 & 4 pupils competed in house hockey and rugby matches!!🏑🏉

On Friday saw the return of House drama and music. A massive congratulations to all pupils who took part!!🎭🎵

Well done to our Year 2&3 pupils for their performance to parents this morning! 🗣️

Our Year 8 students have been learning about James I and the witch trials during their history lessons. They have been involved in their own adaptation of the witch trials, investigating whether some members of staff are guilty or not guilty!! 🧙‍♀️

Our year 8 PSB students have been enjoying their time in Stratford-Upon-Avon and Pendle over the past few days!! 🧙‍♀️

Year 2 have been attempting team building exercises in todays outdoor learning lesson 🌲

As part of our Saturday Enrichment programme some of our students have been visiting the local rifle range to discover shooting techniques, whilst also developing their aim. Alongside this they have also been learning the appropriate gun safety and handling techniques. 🎯

We recently had a visit from Barry as a part of The Punctuation Show. It was a very enjoyable and interactive way for our students to learn all about punctuation!





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Year 8 have been enjoying their music lesson outside in the sunshine this afternoon!! ☀️

We are thrilled to welcome Mr Turner from Northampton Saints who is working as part of the Community Partnership Programme this term. He has been playing rugby locally since the age of 5 including for Towcester for 14 Years. We are very lucky to have him supporting the development of Rugby alongside Mr Henderson here at SHS!!🏉







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Our Year 5 students have been enjoying their visit to Dorset, swipe to see some pictures!! ⛰️

Wonderful to see SHS students back into action after our summer break!! ✍️

Wonderful to see last year's Year 8 starting their senior schools this month. Good luck everyone for the term ahead!!