School Life
- 10/07/25
Sunshine and Spirit on Sports Day
Sports Day this week was packed with energy, teamwork, and glorious sunshine. From Ultimate Frisbee and softball tournaments to volleyball, races and the ever-popular tug of war, students from Classes 6 to 11 gave it their all. Congratulations to the Green Team for getting the most points...Read Full Story - 09/07/25
A letter arrives from Buckingham Palace
As part of their Literacy classes, 4TG drafted formal letters and sent them to the King. The children were delighted to receive a thoughtful reply from Buckingham Palace. Thomas Godber, Class TeacherRead Full Story - 04/07/25
The Olympics
Last week we welcomed over 220 children from Waldorf schools from around the UK and Cyprus. The classes camped in our beautiful grounds, which became a buzzing of energy, laughter, and a place of making new friends. The children came together in “city states”, new group...Read Full Story - 03/07/25
Class 9 CSI Event
A CSI workshop 'Dead on Time' for Class 9 facilitated by Thinkers in Education I found the CSE learning workshop a very interesting and rewarding experience. In order to solve the murder mystery case, we had to complete a series of tasks involving criminal Psychology, Maths, Biology and C...Read Full Story - 02/07/25
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Class 6RG Play 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'
Class 6RG performed The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain as their Class 6 play. It was their first time performing a class play in the theatre and they had to overcome many issues, such as no black backdrop, speaking loudly enough, costume changes and making/using props. Different p...Read Full Story - 02/07/25
Fiddler on the Roof
It's almost two weeks since the Midsummer Festival and our last performance of Fiddler on the Roof, yet the music is still playing! In my Lower School Handwork lessons I have been regaled with If I were a Rich Man, Matchmaker and To Life (L'Chiam) with extraordinary precision both in pitch a...Read Full Story - 30/06/25
The benefits of learning a musical instrument
A cello, violin or viola, or perhaps a bassoon or just a basket of firewood? I’m not talking about one of the well-known viola jokes (what is the difference between a violin and a viola -the viola burns longer), but whether or not your child picks out a couple of logs from your basket of firew...Read Full Story - 27/06/25
Midsummer Garden Tours
It was great to show old scholars and current parents around the garden. When I open the garden to visitors, I also open up myself, I hope that the garden speaks for itself and that my passion for the spiritual value of a garden is expressed in our discussions. It was interesting to hea...Read Full Story - 26/06/25
The St Johns Fire at Midsummer
By Jolene Payne, a Class 12 Parent. 15 years ago, I watched my son carry an apple with a candle in it around a spiral laid from freshly chopped pine. Alongside his peers, he chose the space in which he would place his light. He - one of the children who needed to get out of the spotligh...Read Full Story - 26/06/25
The Pageant
All the classes 1-5 together opened the Centenary pageant with a powerful recital of the poem 'White Waves on Arthur's Castle Wall', written by Cecil Harwood, one of the founding teachers of Michael Hall, who dedicated his life to teaching and establishing the school and who also met Rud...Read Full Story - 26/06/25
Alumni at Midsummer
Thank You for a Magical Midsummer Festival What a wonderful day it was! On Saturday 21st June, the grounds of Michael Hall came alive with the joy and laughter of our beloved Alumni, as we gathered to celebrate our Midsummer Festival. Thank you to all Michael Hall staff and friends who worked har...Read Full Story - 26/06/25
Crafts at the Midsummer Festival
We had a wonderful display of crafts at our Midsummer festival: handwork (Class 1-8), woodwork (Class 6-8) and from the upper school: joinery, ceramics, metalwork, copper work, bookbinding, basketwork, stone carving and pottery. In our school system, we are working with the idea that thinking dev...Read Full Story
