Following our successful Race for Space sponsored run in September, I am delighted to say we were able to donate £550 to St. Catherine’s Hospice in Crawley. St. Catherine’s supports the families, friends and carers of people facing terminal illness in the local area. St. Catherine’s wrote to thank us saying our contribution will help them secure vital services forthese families into the future. Thank you to all the children, parents, friends, old scholars, teachers and staff who participated and sponsored others ..read more
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Advent Fair this Saturday, 26 November 11am – 4pm
Come and join us this Saturday and celebrate the beginning of the festive season at our wonderful Advent Fair.
A true family day filled with children’s activities, hand-crafted gifts, storytelling, puppet shows, music and food to tempt every palate.
The fair opens at 11am with the children leading us through to the magical Advent Spiral after which you are invited to take the Advent Trail and explore the hands-on crafts; or wander through the stalls selling dressing up clothes, Advent Wreaths, starts ..read more
Kidbrooke Revue sold out!
Friday 18 November – I am pleased to say that all tickets have now been sold for tomorrow night’s Kidbrooke Revue, which is fantastic news! Sorry if you were hoping to get tickets and will now be disappointed. It promises to be a great night and all proceeds from the evening will go to fundraising.
Sun shines on our Race for Space
We could not have asked for better weather for yesterday’s sponsored run in aid of the Clockhouse restoration fund. The sun shone, there was a light breeze and spirits were high.
Over 160 parents, children, old scholars, staff and friends took part on the day, with one old scholar even travelling all the way from Germany to support us! The atmosphere was wonderful: people arrived in all sorts from full running gear or suited and booted, to fancy dress. Some tore round at high speed, many ..read more
Race for Space – join us this Sunday 25 September
It’s not too late to join us this Sunday 25 September for our sponsored fun run – Race for Space.
We desperately need new teaching spaces to accommodate our growing student population and the Clockhouse provides ourt best solution. We need to raise money fast to support the restoration costs and what better way than to involve the whole school in a sponsored fun run in the glorious autumn sunshine! For it shall be sunny.
Over 100 participants have already signed up ..read more
Trainers on – the boot camps are here!!
Race for Space – Sunday 25 September 10.30am.
With only a few short weeks until our whole school sponsored fun run “Race for Space”, we can at last announce that our gym dept will be hosting training sessions for participants on each Tuesday and Thursday morning at 8.30 until race day, starting this Tuesday 13th September.
This will be a gentle introduction to running suitable for everyone. Please let me know if you intend to take part – call me on 01342 827925 ..read more
Students celebrate exam success
We are delighted to announce that our students taking their A2 exams this year have cause to celebrate according to results released last week. Of those students taking their A2 level exams this year, 94% achieved grades A-C, compared with a national average of 76.2%. Of these a phenomenal 47% gained A* or A grade (national average 27%) and 70% obtained A* to B grades (national average 52.6%). This is a wonderful achievement and testament to the hard work of students ..read more
“Race for Space” gathers momentum
Over 70 people have already signed up for our sponsored fun run, “Race for Space”, on Sunday September 25th here at Kidbrooke Park.
The run is being organised to help raise money for the restoration of the Clockhouse to create urgently needed teaching space. Pupil numbers are growing and we need space for them!
Teachers, parents, children, staff, old scholars - everyone with an interest in the future of Michael Hall is being asked to join the run. And when we say run ..read more
School grounds open to public as part of National Gardens Scheme
This Saturday 11th June Michael Hall will once again be opening its grounds up to the public as part of this national scheme to make otherwise private gardens accessible to the public. Kidbrooke Park is a Listed Landscape designed in the 18th century by world renown Landscape Designer Humphry Repton. The 60 acre grounds boast a wealth of notable features including waterfalls, a Doric temple, a water garden, 2 lakes and a number of unusual specimen trees.
A later addition is ..read more
Online donations facility arrives here at last!
Clockhouse appeal – Donate now
Have you made your contribution yet to the Clockhouse appeal? No? Then now is the time to act. Michael Hall has joined the 21st century and we now have a facility to make donations online via the fundraising page (under ‘School Life’). All you have to do is click on the Donate Now button and you will be directed to the Charity Choice website which hosts this facility for us. Simply enter the amount you wish ..read more