Parent Zone|Latest News|Useful Links|Contact Us|HOME   
   Foundation Stage|Junior School|Senior School

Staff and Trustees FAQ Policies Inspection Report Pandemic Flu Plan Job Vacancies Links Assocation



End of Summer Term Activities

You will see from the pictures below that we have enjoyed the excellent weather to the full this year with a range of activities throughout the School. The girls excelled at Sports Day with some very close results across the School, from Foundation Stage to Seniors. The new addition to our calendar, The Summer Fayre, was very well attended and much fun was had by all.

Our end of term performance of ‘Alice’ in the Junior School was outstanding and very much appreciated by all who saw it. The Speech and Drama staff presented two very entertaining evenings of plays and sketches with a vast range of topics.

Girls get behind their World Cup Teams

Each Tutor Group in the Senior School has been given four teams to support for the World Cup. As part of their support they were invited to decorate the classroom door. Mrs Clarke and Miss Wilson judged the displays on Friday and have selected 9SC as the winning Tutor Group. The girls must now continue to follow their teams and will be awarded a prize if one of their teams makes it to the Semi-Final.

Left, the stunning door display from 9SC who were judged to be the best by Mrs Clarke and Miss Wilson. Well done 9SC.

Wykeham House Head Girl and her Deputies

Congratulations to Katie Wilson who has been selected to be Wykeham House Head Girl. Katie will be supported in this role by two Deputy Head Girls, Jessica Rush and Olivia Morris-Soper.

Help for Heroes

We were delighted that Mr Rogers came to assembly to accept a cheque for £3618.21 from Jessica Rush and Penny Bielckus. Mr Rogers told all the girls where the money be spent.

Wykeham’s Got Talent!

Congratulations to Alice and Ella in Year 4. They won both the semi-final and the final of Wykeham’s Got Talent which was presented by the Business Studies Enterprise “7th Heaven”. They danced to their own interpretation of the hit “Everybody in Love” by JLS.
Well done to Alice and Ella!

Speech and Drama Festival

The girls so enjoyed what was sadly to be the last Fareham Drama Festival after 42 years of competition. They did exceedingly well winning a total of 27 cups in a variety of disciplines from solo verse, mime, duologues and prose reading.
The festival has provided an opportunity for the girls to perform, often as a solo entry, to an audience with helpful comments from the adjudicator at the end of each session.

It is to be hoped an alternative can be found to keep alive the spirit of the festival.

Barcelona Trip

On the 7th April 38 pupils and 5 members of staff set off for five days in sunny Barcelona. The trip was packed with sightseeing, shopping, singing and a flavour of Spanish life was evident throughout our time there. This was especially true of the artistic life of Barcelona as we visited the Picasso museum and both the Sagrada Familia and Parc Guell which were designed by Gaudi.

The choir also sang at Poble Espanyol on the second day of the trip. This is a fascinating place which is essentially a museum of Spanish architecture, style and culture of various location all in one place. The choir beautifully sang in the Central Plaza enhanced by some wonderful accoustics and were very much a credit to the school.

For many the highlight of our five days may have been our visit to Port Aventura. This is a huge rollercoaster park approximately 60 miles south of Barcelona with some of the rides achieving speeds of over 80mph and one ride in particular, dropping 330 feet in less than 3 seconds!
The girls had a fantastic time and arrived home happy, if a little footsore!
Please click here to view/download a short video of the visit. The file size is 170mb and download time will depend on the speed of your internet connection.

Help for Heroes Charity Evening

Everyone at Wykeham House is very proud of the achievements of two of our Year 10 pupils, Penelope Bielckus and Jessica Rush. They have organised, co-ordinated and prepared a fund raising event for the ‘Help for Heroes’ Charity. Inspired by family members currently serving in Afghanistan the whole school took the event to heart and helped the girls make it a great success.

A wonderful concert, fabulous raffle and many individual and company donations have meant that the girls initial target of £1,000 has been well and truly broken. The total raised is now more than £2,000.

A huge thank you goes to everyone involved and to Malcolm Rogers for coming to speak about the charity during the evening.

Careers Conference

Wykeham House hosted our first Careers Conference on the 10th March 2010. We had a vibrant and inspiring afternoon thanks to a variety of presenters, drawn from the School community, who talked about their daily careers.

The afternoon was launched by Mrs Heaysman, a Director from IBM, who spoke to all the girls about the huge range of opportunties now available to them. The girls then moved between presentations of their choice selected from Medical, Legal, Business, Sport and Media. It was lovely to welcome over 60 girls from Lavant House School to the event.

I thank everyone who gave of their time to make the afternoon a success for the girls.
Mrs L Clarke

Art Exhibition by Mr Robertson

Just in case you haven’t seen the posters in school I do recommend a visit to Bedales Gallery between now and 24th March to view the exhibition of Mr Robertson’s work. ‘The Net Mender’ is an exhibition of box constructions and drawings; opening times are Monday – Friday 2.00-5.00pm and Saturday 10.00am-1.00pm. I know many of you will be familiar with the nature of Mr Robertson’s work, inspired by Scotland’s landscapes, writing and history. We are very proud to have such an eminent artist working on our staff to inspire the girls in the field of creative art.

Douglas Robertson is an artist who divides his time between living and working with us in Hampshire and collecting and researching in his native Scotland. More details will be found on his website; www.douglasrobertson.co.uk

   © 2007 Wykeham House SchoolTelephone: 01329 280178Fax: 01329 823964