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Year One and Two went to Go Ape for their ‘Give it a Go’ activity day. The girls had a wonderful time challenging themselves to cross wobbly bridges and jump across gaps in the steps – some ma...

The St Stephen’s Summer Festival of Arts and Faith, Gloucester Road, held their annual Competition this week. The work was judged by Jenny Jowett, Botanical artist. Lily-Satrina (Year 5) won a £40 b...

Today Year 6 were joined by Mrs Upadhya for a careers talk about working in medicine. She talked about the route into a career in medicine and the kind of subjects you need to study. Mrs Upadhya has been b...

  On Tuesday 22nd May 6L took part in ‘Build an App Day’. They worked in pairs, came up with an idea, chose an app name and created their app. A selection of apps was created around the topics ...

  As part of our unit “Préparez à manger”, Y3 made small sandwiches during the French lesson. Well done “petits chefs” for being able to present your ingredients so we...

Reception 1 and 2 went on a trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The children took part in a ‘Discovering Shape’ workshop. We explored 2D and 3D shapes, then went on a shape hunt around the China...

We were the only competitors from our school at the IAPS sailing competition. We went to the National Sailing Academy in Weymouth on Tuesday 15th May, the day before the race. We had a 6.15am start! We were luc...

On Wednesday 16th May Year 6 took part in their second debate with Garden House and Orchard house this year. This time it was Glendower’s turn to host! We started the day by going to Stanhope Gardens for ...

Every year, the Year 6 girls participate in the Glendower Elections. The whole year splits up into 4 groups and we create our own political party with a manifesto of three key points that aim to improve our sch...

On Monday the 14th of May 2018, the Glendower lAPS team attended a training session, with Olympic GB swimmer Craig Gibbons. He told us that it is important to make sure all your strokes are technically good, be...

On 12th May, I competed in the IAPS National Sabre Fencing Championships at Millfield School in Somerset. Sabre is one of the three fencing types, the other being foil and epee – but sabre is definitely t...

Jolnar (Y6) and Lamar (Y3) took part in the Surrey Central Megafinal chess tournament last weekend. Jolnar achieved first place in the U11 Girls category, hence, receiving a trophy for her accomplishment a...

Congratulations to Stephine (Y4) for performing beautifully in a show hosted by Les Enfants de Frankie a charity which helps children from in and around Monaco suffering from severe illnesses and various disabi...

Congratulations to Lara Devi (Y4) who won a riding cup in Dubai. Lara Devi also passed 2 sailing exams, conducted by the Royal Yachting association (RYA), sailing in the open seas around Dubai. Well Done L...

As part of the Post 11+ programme of events, Year 6 are having careers talks and on the 8th May Mrs Callanan visited us to talk about the conservation of objects. It was extremely intriguing to learn about diff...

On Saturday 5th May, a few girls from the football club went to Wembley to watch the women’s FA cup final, Arsenal vs Chelsea. The game kicked off at 5:30 and the atmosphere was electric. For a while the ...

Karl Hopwood, an online safety consultant visited Glendower on 2nd May to talk about e-safety. He spoke in an assembly and ran sessions with the girls, staff and parents. Girls in the Upper School thoroughly en...

On Wednesday 2nd May a ranger from Zoo Lab came to visit Lower School. As our science topic is ‘Habitats’ this term, he taught us all about animals and their adaptations. We looked at and were allow...

It has been a record-breaking year for Football at Glendower. There have been more than 35 girls from Year 4-6 involved in the lunchtime football club, as well as fixtures with other schools. It is amazing to s...

This year, Year 2 have been learning about habitats and on Tuesday 1st May we visited ‘The Living Rainforest’, a large indoor tropical rainforest located in Hampstead Norreys. We spent the day explo...

TreeHouse School is a happy and vibrant community where children and young people with autism learn and flourish, with almost 90 pupils aged from infants to sixth formers. On Friday 30th April (6L) and Tuesday ...

  Allegra and Olivia swam in several meets in both long course (50 metre) and short course (25 metre) pools. The girls won a combined total of 4 gold, 10 silver and 5 bronze medals, and achieved numerous n...

Thank you for your kind contributions. We raised £153 at the bake sale yesterday and used the funds to buy a Monopoly game, rounders and football equipment as well as fully filled pencil cases for the chi...

Here at Glendower, we have raised OVER £1,600!A huge thank you to all of the girls in School Council who have been busy selling the Sport Relief wristbands and who came up with the idea of a sponsored ass...

On the 21st March 2018, Y4 did a sponsored swim for two charities. We did it for Water Aid and Noah’s Ark. Y4 raised £981 in total (that’s almost £1000!). We were given 30 minutes to swi...

This term, Y1 have been learning about the traditions and festivals of the Jewish religion. This week we had a wonderful visit from Mrs Sterling-Martin who told us all about the festival of Passover. She explai...

Our Upper School Spring Music Recital was as one parent kindly wrote to tell me, ‘a triumph’ and I don’t think that I could have summed it up better myself. St Mary, the Boltons, is a very spe...

        On 21st March, Year 6 took part in a balloon debate against Garden House and Orchard House. The event, which has taken place for a few years now, was hosted at Garden House School. T...

In the morning, we attended a body building workshop, where we learnt about injured soldiers and how their missing limbs can be replaced with prosthetic ones. To understand how the prosthetic limbs work, we got...

Well done to Freya (Year 6) for coming second in the London Regional Fencing Championships! She is now through to the British Youth Championships which will take place in Sheffield in May.

Year 3 were very excited to attend the premiere showing of the Silent Movies they have been working on this term. Year 3 parents were given an exclusive opportunity to meet the stars during our annual “St...

On Friday, 16th March, Glendower participated in the semi-finals of the London League Swimming Competition. We completed against 5 other schools at Bute House. We all swam really well, winning a lot of our indi...

Earlier this month saw the return of the Glendower Inter-House Sports Competitions. With Year 3-6 competing in netball matches and the Lower School running relay races. The girls demonstrated excellent skill an...

On the 14th March, Glendower participated in The Heathfield Swim Gala. After swimming the individual races, we found out that we all made the individual race finals. We swam even quicker in the finals and all d...

Year 6 visited the Globe Theatre to take part in a ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ workshop and to see the matinee performance of the play. We started of the day with an intriguing workshop informing us of...

On Tuesday, the 13th of March, Reception 1 and 2 had a visit from Lara’s mum who is a dentist. Mrs Mirza taught us about eating and drinking healthy foods, and we also talked about the type of food that c...

‘Books are a uniquely portable magic.’ Stephen King Our Book Week topic this year was ‘Read Around the World’ so the girls spent the week exploring a range of wonderful stories from far...

On Monday 12th March the school hosted the annual Wallace Chess Girls’ Tournament. Glendower was able to enter teams in both the Seniors and the Juniors. We were joined by teams from Sarum Hall, South Ham...

  Congratulations to Aishwarya (Reception) who had a very proud moment when attending the Royal Commonwealth Service on 12th March at Westminster Abbey, as special guests from Arunima Kumar Dance, where sh...

Congratulations to Veronica Venuti who has been winning more swimming medals, this time at the Middlesex Development Meet in Enfield on the 10th and 11th of March. Veronica swam in what is considered the toughe...

Congratulations to Amelie (Year 4) who swam in the Middlesex County ASA Spring Development Meet. This event is spread over three days - 10 March, 11 March and 17 March. Her results from her three races on the 1...

   Once again, Glendower have taken part in the National Gallery’s ‘Take One Picture’ project. ‘Take One Picture’ is the National Gallery’s countrywide scheme for p...

Thank you so much for your generous book donations this week. We have collected an array of beautiful children’s books that I am sure will be much appreciated when we send them on to a school in Ecuador. ...

On Wednesday the 7th of March Glendower football club went to White City for a match against Pembridge Hall. After a quick warm up the reds and greens were on the pitch. All of the games were very close.The red...

Our Book Week project was based around the healing plants of the rainforest, so a trip to Kew Gardens was the ideal way to end the project. The girls started the day by visiting the Marianne North Gallery to vi...

A big well done to Francesca (Year 5) for having her book review of ‘The Letter for the King’ by Tonke Dragt published in the current issue of Scoop Magazine. What a great achievement! Mrs Cadenhead

  The Glendower girls were very excited to be code breakers when Bletchley Park visited Glendower. Unlike many other historical artefacts, the girls were very lucky to have had the opportunity to touch and...

Congratulations to Veronica (Year 5) who had another successful weekend of swimming, this time in the Ealing Regional Qualifier meet. Veronica won 9 medals of which 5 were gold in the 9/10age group (400m Free, ...

Congratulations to Allegra and Olivia (Year 6), who swam at Aldershot on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th February. Allegra achieved anew personal best in both the 100 freestyle and 50 fly events, and both girls h...

The Poetry Recital Competition was a huge success again this year. Every girl in the school learnt, practised and performed their chosen poem in class throughout the week and they should all be very proud of th...

Many congratulations to all our Y6 girls for another bumper set of 11+ results! This year we have won 14 Academic, Sports and Art scholarships to many different schools and I would like to say a special ‘...

Congratulations to Natalia (Year 5) who won 1st place in the downhill slalom ski race in Kitzbühel over half-term!        

During half term Maddie (Year 6) was at the London Aquatics Centre, home of the 2012 Olympic swimming competition, where she participated in the Surrey County Swimming Championships in the Girls 10-11 age group...

It gives me great pride to share that my dance institution (Arunima Kumar dance company) was selected to represent India and we performed an Indian classical dance at The Westminster Abbey altar on the 16 th of...

The Upper School had a wonderful time last week when attending our annual Shakespeare workshops! This highly anticipated event has been running for the past four years and Year 6 are our first group to have att...

  A big well done to Georgia (Year 6)  for having her book review of ‘Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus’ by Dusti Bowling published in the current issue of Scoop Magazine. ...

On Saturday 3rd February, the Glendower netball club had a training session with ex England player and head coach of The Wasps, Tamsin Greenway. We worked on centre passes, and changing directions quickly, whic...

The Big Battery Hunt is a recycling initiative run by the National Schools Partnerships and I am pleased to announce that Talia Levy (Year 3) has been selected as The Big Battery Hunt’s January Recycling ...

Year 5 squad and club participated in a netball match against Norland Place and it was an enjoyable and exciting game. The team played extremely well in both attack and defence, with our shooting being particul...

  On Sunday evening, I attended a performance of the Snow Queen at the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End which was put on by Francis Holland School, SW1. Several old ‘Glendowerites’ were perf...