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Snippets
Congratulations to The Chamber Choir who were runners up in the finals of the VOX Festival of Song at Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington. [November 2008]
Well done to Max (Blue Class) who won a silver medal in The English Chess Challenge Finals held in September.
We are delighted to announce that Unicorn is one of just 16 junior schools to be awarded the Primary Geography Quality Mark Award. This is supported by the DCSF through the Action Plan for Geography and seen as a key strategy for raising the quality of geography in primary schools. Miss Reynolds in Orange Class achieved the award in recognition of her commitment to ensuring lively and effective learning in geography, for example through active learning linked to fieldwork, making real links with distant places, involvement in environmental stewardship and pupil enthusiasm for geography.
13 Unicorn children were entered for the Borough Gala and Jack K (Blue Class) won the
Yr 3 Freestyle and is now The Borough Champion. Ella W (Ultra Violet Class) came 3rd in Breaststroke and Isabella (Blue Class) came 4th in Yr 3 Freestyle. The Spellathon raised over £2,700 for ‘Street Child Africa‘
Mini Choir won 2nd place at the Sutton Music Festival. In the Small Schools Tournament our U9 netball team won silver.
The U10 football team were runners up in the Kingston Grammar School 5-a-side football tournament.
We now have a wonderful new music room, upstairs in the Coach House. It is state of the art and fully eqipped with keyboards, percussion and other instruments. Please feel free to come and see us in action there!
Congratulations to Old Unicorn Jack Finerty who has been awarded a prestigious
John Colet Scholarship to St. Paul’s Boys’ School. Jack gained a scholarship to
Colet Court two years ago from Unicorn.
We had great success in the Richmond Performing Arts Festival, held on February 9th. The school choir came 1st in the Junior Ensemble Competition. Ellie A came 1st in the Classical Song (age 11 and under) class and old-Unicorns Lindsay S and Emily S came 1st in the Duet (age 16 and under) class. Clemency W, Hannah B, Holly M, Julia N, Becky D, Ella D and Sophie T all received excellent marks in the solo singing competitions.  Our website received a ‘Standard of Excellence‘ award in the Web Marketing Association‘s 2006 WebAwards.Old Unicorn George Nottidge took Gold in the coxed fours at the British National Championships in July.
What others have to say
"Pupils stage panto magic" - our Christmas show received great praise in The Richmond and Twickenham Times [5 December 2008]
"Pupils give Harvest Hope to Charities" - The Richmond and Twickenham Times did a colour feature on our Harvest Assembly and the four charities that benefited from the goodies donated. [17 October 2008]
"A Kew school has set its sights on raising £6,000 to help build a playground 5,700 miles away. After seeing a film about school children in Swaziland and their lack of resources, pupils at Unicorn School decided they wanted to help.
Their project, ‘Operation Justice‘, aims to raise enough money to build them a play area, something the children in the film have never had access to. Unicorn school had a "boxing day" on Tuesday 18 March, to pack and send clothes toys and other donations to the South African school.
Headmistress of Unicorn School Roberta Linehan said: "The children were absolutely taken with the film clips they saw and wanted to be a part of this charitable endeavour"
Richmond & Twickenham Times, March 2008
"Youngsters took their first tentative steps on the boards at a borough primary this week for the opening night of their nativity play. The pupils, at
Richmond & Twickenham Times, December 2007 Earth, air, fire and water were the theme for the Unicorn School Art‘s Week and youngsters were treated to intergalatic lessons from theatre groups and a trip through the solar system." Richmond & Twickenham Times, February 2007 "School‘s biggest achievement: There are many! Our school inspection said our "social development" is outstanding". The children have tremendous social awareness and excellent academic results (in SATS and 11+)."
Interview with Mrs Linehan, Headmistress, The Green, November 2006
"Suzy Lamplugh and her two sisters were pupils at the Unicorn School, Kew and 20 years after her disappearance, Julie Bentley of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust talked to the juniors at the school about personal safety." Richmond & Twickenham Times, October 2006
"Year six children from the Unicorn School are pictured celebrating all the sports equipment which they collected through the Sainsbury‘s Active Kids voucher campaign. Their haul, which includes a gymnastics bench, agility ladder, rounders bats, badminton rackets, footballs, tennis balls, baseball caps, a ball sack, hockey sticks, frisbies and skipping ropes, will certainly keep them busy." Richmond & Twickenham Times, October 2006 "Children from the Unicorn School in Kew made origami cranes which are to be sent to the Children‘s Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan, a memeorial to children who died from the atomic bomb." Richmond & Twickenham Times, July 2006
"Ten and eleven year olds from the Unicorn School were given self-defence training and taught personal safety awareness in the session run by Premier Self-Defence which specialises in teaching children". Richmond & Twickenham Times, June 2006 “Parents remain an integral part of the school’s network, being influential right through the management system.” ‘Best Practice article’, Education Executive, January 2006 “Unicorn School provides high quality nursery education.” Ofsted Foundation Stage Inspection report, March 2005 “Happy, confident children with good social skills (as well as impressive academic results).” The Good Schools Guide, 2005 “As a past parent, I am still convinced that the Unicorn experience was the most precious gift we gave our children. Clearly the spirit is still much alive as you work together to make a difference to the lives of children who face many difficulties.” E Fergusson, Chair of Trustees, West London Action for Children (charity of the term, spring 2004) “The children in Green Class at Unicorn School have raised £36 to buy four goats for Kids for Kids, a charity set up to help village families in the Sudan. Children completed various tasks including cutting the grass, washing cars and laying the table. Others donated their pocket money and two children even organised a poetry competition in school.” Richmond & Twickenham Times, October 2004 “On behalf of the Parochial Church Council, I am writing to thank you for the very important part your school played in making last Sunday’s carol service the success it turned out to be. The participation of the children in the proceedings was a good innovation and one to be repeated in future years. They‘re such a happy contingent!” George Pole, Lay Chairman, PCC of St Augustine of Canterbury, South Kensington “Professional chefs will be visiting two borough schools next week to spend a day teaching children about food, cookery and nutrition. The tasty treat for kids will take place at Tower House School in Richmond and Unicorn School in Kew on Thursday, September 25. This is part of a national programme of food workshops at schools. The organisers, Adopt a School Trust, are hoping that eventually cookery will get on the National Curriculum. The chefs taking part in the masterclass are all from the Academy of Culinary Arts, whose members include famous names such as Brian Turner, Gary Rhodes, Albert Roux, Michael Roux, Raymond Blanc and Rick Stein. Brian Turner CBE said: "All the chefs who give their time to the programme do so out of a passionate belief that educating children in this valuable skill will benefit all involved and ensure the continued success of our industry."” Richmond & Twickenham Times, September 2003 You can also view an article about Unicorn School in the Richmond & Twickenham Times |
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