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A New Location for Forest School

Heritage Forest School has moved location from Abington Woods to Clare Wood, (down Hobson’s Conduit, to the South of Brooklands Avenue). We are enormously grateful to Clare College for this provision, which hugely reduces the time it now takes to get to the woods and get things started!  This term Upper Prep and Year 5 […]

The Screen Free Challenge

Screen Free Week has become a firm fixture in the school diary. It is a time when, for one week only, Heritage challenges families (parents as well as pupils) not to use screens during leisure time. Instead, we hope families will find and enjoy other forms of recreation together, whether organised or spontaneous. Examples might […]

Gower Magic

The Gower Peninsular is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where for 51 weeks of the year, wildlife and locals can enjoy a peaceful existence. Then every so often we hold the Heritage Senior Camp there and this sleepy corner of South Wales becomes much noisier as the children invade and explore it from all […]

STEM for Seniors

Alan Denton (Science trainer, Physics specialist, Regional Representative for the Science Learning Network and Regional Leader for STEM learning) delivered some brilliant, informative and exciting STEM talks (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) to the Senior School. He explained how STEM can be applied in the real world, the skills we learn from these subjects, and […]

Junior Camp in the Peak District

Last week Year 5 and Year 6 set off to the Peak District for their annual camp. The weather was challenging at times, even fierce – but the pupils showed enormous strength of character and perseverance. They enjoyed a rotation of activities including high ropes, weaseling (climbing through small tunnels and gaps made by boulders) […]