Tag: senior school preparation

We are very excited to launch a new project with our Year Librarian team: Best Books of the Week. This is a way for the girls to share their favourite books and spread their love of reading. Each week our Librarian, Mrs Ellis, and the Year 6 librarian team will choose a theme and the girls will select one Pre-Prep and one Prep appropriate book…

We are very excited to be launching new positions of responsibility in the school. This term, we selected a Head Girl from Year 6 to lead the pupils. Maltman’s hasn’t seen a head girl for many years and it’s great to be re-instating this special role. The Head Girl will be supported by her two Deputies and a team of Year 6 Prefects…

The Prep girls had a great time competing in their House Netball tournaments on Wednesday. We had postponed these event before half-term due to rain, but on Wednesday the sun was shining and so the girls donned their House colours and took to the courts. Congratulations goes to Johnson, who took first place in the…

Each term our Early Years girls come together to enjoy a special themed WOW morning. This term, though the coronavirus has caused us to change the way we run the WOW morning, it didn’t hold us back from giving the girls a fun, educational and vibrant celebration of this year’s theme – you guessed it,…

Thank you to the amazing Maltman’s community for the wonderful harvest festival donations. This morning the girls have enjoyed an excellent assembly by Mrs Walker and Mr Johnson from the London and Slough Run. Mrs Walker told a fun, interactive story about stone soup, which had the girls giggling, and Mr Johnson told us about…

We’re going on a bug hunt….we’re going to catch a big one! In Year 6 Science, the girls have been learning about classification. This week the girls focused on invertebrates and learnt about the sub groups that invertebrates belong to such as the Arthropods (insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods), Molluscs (slugs and snails) and…

The girls are back in school and making the most of our fantastic facilities – including our wonderful Art room, stacked to the brim with paint, clay, crayons, coloured paper, chalk, ink pens, tissue paper…and so much more! Year 5 and Year 6 have been exploring the innovative and very colourful work of Paul Klee….

In line with the most recent guidance for schools we welcome all of our girls back to school in small ‘bubbles’ for the Autumn Term. We have invested in facilities, installed over the summer, that allow for easier social distancing and improved hygiene. This includes extra toilets, hand washing stations, upgraded IT hardware, additional furniture…

September 2020 marks the start of Mrs Walker’s headship at Maltman’s Green as she picks up the baton from Mrs Joanna Pardon who retires after fifteen years in post. Mrs Walker joins Maltman’s from the headship of St Nicholas Prep School in South Kensington, and before that she was Deputy Head at Glendower Prep. Mrs…

We are tremendously proud that 68% of Maltman’s girls passed the 2020 Buckinghamshire Secondary Transfer Test (11+) out of the those who sat the exam. This is against a Buckinghamshire County average of 30%. Once again, our girls also achieved a high number of scholarships to independent schools including…

Many thanks to our amazing Maltman’s families for helping us raise an incredible £8023 for charity this year. We have been able to support lots of worthwhile causes including Edirisa UK (www.edirisa.org.uk), our chosen charity for the year, the NSPCC, The London and Slough Run, Alzheimer Research UK, The Poppy Appeal…

We have reached the end of the Summer Term and Mrs Pardon’s final one at Maltman’s Green. Mrs Pardon is still in post until the end of August, but as the girls leave for the summer holidays, her time with them has come to an end. We would like to take a moment to recognise…