• Ayla had her first gym competition in the summer with Infinity Gymnastics. She overcame her nerves and did amazingly and was presented with 3 medals!
  • Billy has been playing in the British Junior Golf Tour over the 2024 season. During the Summer, Billy took part in the U7 European Open at Le Touquet, France, over the course of 3 days, ending up tied 6th. He has continued to play in the British Junior Golf Tour, coming 1st at Wyke Green (+7) and 2nd at both Hampton Court (+10) and Sunningdale Heath (+12). Billy has recently been accepted onto the U7 Daily Mail World Championships taking place in February 2025 at Villa Padierna, Malaga.
  • Elodie won 1st place week weekend in the under 12s category (Elodie is 4!) for the best junior dog handler under 12 at the village dog show. She won a rosette and trophy.
  • Zhenya has been a member of an online coding club for over a year where he has been learning Python coding from STEM certified mentors. This is where he really gets creative by coding race tracks with obstacles for Race Games, adding destructive barriers for Alien Invasions, creating ghost chases in the Maze, coding to help dinosaurs survive Meteor Mayhem etc.. He is also learning to ”debug” – fix problems through code and ”hack” other members’ codes.
  • Zhenya has also been learning to drum since Year 4. He was awarded Grade 4 with Merit from Trinity College of London last year which is a big achievement for him! Being a passionate drummer he has been working really hard to get to this point. The instrument requires great amount of focus and energy, and Zhenya has been giving both to his drumming
  • Horsham Hockey and some of our Year 5 girls – Arabella, Elise and Phoebe – did really well in their first season festival. Scoring 3 goals they drew as a top scoring team. Great attack and defence from our girls and teamwork to start a successful season.
  • Harriet played all week in Sweden at Gothia2024 Youth Football Tournament .  Her U12 England lions girls team got to the semi finals before being knocked out by USA team. But what a week!!! Such an amazing experience for Harriet who stayed on a campus all week in Gothenburg with her team and coaches. Mum, Dad, Archie and Delilah watched a lot of football!
  • Yefim has joined Cranleigh RFC Under 8s team at the start of Year 3 and is really enjoying playing rugby. He is making good progress, really diving into the tactics of the sport and starting to score his first tries. He performed really well at Haslemere Tri-County Festival this October. He also loves getting muddy!

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