Month: April 2020

Last week the Prep School girls were given the Art topic of Land Art – using things found in nature to create beautiful pictures and patterns. We were so impressed with the quality of the girls work. They have shown real consideration for the use of texture, colour, shape and size and created some really…

Rainbows of Love and Thanks Children up and down the country have been creating rainbow pictures to put in their front windows as a way of showing appreciation to our amazing key workers at this difficult time. We would like to share with you some of the designs our girls have on display:

Our latest newsletter is now live! Welcome, I would like to start by sending you all my good wishes at this difficult time. I have spoken to many of you, either on the phone or via the internet, and can appreciate the challenges being faced. I hope that the girls have been enjoying our video assemblies. I have always…

So much has been happening in our Virtual School that we cannot keep up with all the news! We hope that you have managed to take a look at our Facebook page for updates (click here) and just yesterday we published our half-term newsletter full of stories – click here to read it. Here are just some of the highlights from the past few weeks…

Everyone at Maltman’s Green has been really getting stuck into distance learning and the girls have been creating some excellent pieces of work. We wanted to share with you this wonderful Art lesson delivered by our Head of Art, Mrs Hattam. Mrs Hattam has been focusing on Picasso with the Prep School girls and they have been…

What a busy day we had yesterday on our first day of distance learning. The teachers were so proud of the effort from all of the girls and we were delighted by the work that was sent in. Here are some highlights. In Nursery the girls were given the task to make a person (or a family) using toilet roll tubes. This helped the girls develop…

The country is currently in lockdown as the government try to halt the spread of COVID-19, and yet life still goes on and our girls have been doing some fantastic work. Beth in Year 2 wrote a wonderful adaptation of Jack and Beanstalk – Jack and the Cress Stalk – as part of her Traditional Tales topic at school. She enjoyed…

Our Spring Term newsletter is now available to read. It is full of interesting stories from a busy, exciting term. “The world is a different place now to what it was at the beginning of the term but rather than focus on the dreaded ‘c’ word I want to take this opportunity to focus on the wonderful, amazing things that your girls…

As part of our Distance Learning programme while we are closed, teachers have been sharing videos with the children. We’d like to share with you Mrs Pardon’s Thought for the Day and Mrs Gaynor’s (Deputy Head) distance assembly. We hope that these help your children to focus on positive things and to look for joy in the…

Maltman’s Green is currently closed until further notice, but we continue to provide a high quality of education to our pupils through our distance learning programme. Teachers remotely set work for the girls, run live lessons and form times, send video/audio podcasts and offer feedback on work that girls submit. I have been so impressed…

Yesterday our Early Years girls enjoyed a special St Patrick’s Day themed WOW day. The girls arrived in their rainbow outfits and teachers were waving Irish flags and wearing shamrock headdresses. Due to our current social distancing measures the activities were classroom based rather than with the whole of Early Years. Girls…

To support their topic of The Tudors this term, girls in Year 5 visited Hampton Court Palace. They explored the kitchens, Great Hall, Council Chamber, Chapel and even the tennis court. The girls also took part in a workshop where they explored what young Henry Tudor was like and how he changed from a young…