Fire Station Trip
On Friday 29th September, Form 2 went to Purley Fire Station to see the fire engines, hear about how firefighters tackle fires, what they wear and how they know where to go in an emergency. The class heard about the variety of work firefighters do and when they are needed in other emergencies. The children […]
Archery Competition
On Thursday 12th October, we welcomed Banstead Prep School to join in with an Archery competition with our lunchtime group. The children all did brilliantly, scoring points in different target practice games. Congratulations to St David’s ‘orange’ team, who finished as overall winners with 117 points!
U11 Football
The Croydon League continued with a double-header against Kenley on Thursday 12th October, which resulted in a 1-0 win to St David’s, followed by a 0-2 loss. Well done team on your efforts so far this season!
Harvest Festival
On Thursday 12th October we celebrated our Harvest Festival. Reverend Fiona Weaver reminded us that Harvest is an excellent time for us to demonstrate our ‘gratitude attitude’ by doing something positive to make other people’s lives better. Thank you so much to all our parents for their generous donations, which will be very gratefully received by […]
Choir Festival
The Chamber Choir participated in the Woldingham Choir Festival on Tuesday 10th October. Having had an exciting afternoon of workshops, including learning about a viola, doing body percussion and singing a song all about orchestras, they had a brief play in the Year 7 playground, before tucking into their eagerly-anticipated tea of burger, chips, salad […]
Cross Country
After lots of trials and practice during Games, 13 children from Forms 5 and 6 attended the annual Croydon Schools X-Country Championships, held at Lloyd Park. With over 150 runners per age group/race, competition was fierce and the uphill course was always going to be tricky. But our St David’s team dug deep and gave […]
Great Fire of London Day
On Friday 22nd September, Form 2 held a Great Fire of London Day. This involved acting out what happened and thinking about how they might feel and react during the fire. The children baked bread whilst imagining they were working in Thomas Farriner’s bakery at the time, and created pictures of the Great Fire on […]
European Day of Languages
On 26th September, St David’s celebrated European Day of Languages with a series of French dance workshops for Forms 1 to 6, conducted by a visiting French Dance company. The children had a lovely time learning traditional dances that were performed to live accordion music! In lessons, the children spent time researching other European languages, […]