What's on

You are warmly invited to come along to our music and drama events.

First Days at Sevenoaks

This short video shows our Year 7 pupils in their first days at Sevenoaks, gradually getting to know each other, the campus and the facilities. It will give you an idea of the opportunities on offer here.

Recent events

2011: Sennockian State Circus comes to town

On 25 June, The Sennockian State Circus pitched up in Sevenoaks School. Top-hatted ringmasters from the English Department welcomed a record number of 66 Year 5 children from 14 local schools to participate in the annual creative writing extravaganza.

For the morning, the English department was transformed into the circus big top. The young writers were divided into four groups: elephants, seals, lions and performing dogs.

In the first session, the young writers explored the meaning of their names and as a group created some hilarious circus performers. After breaking for biscuits and squash, the writing continued in earnest with each Year 5 pupil writing a poem about their own imaginary circus performer and act.

The sequined fruits of their labour appeared in the circus programme (right) published afterwards.

Prep and Primary School Summer Masterclasses

On Tuesday 17 and Friday 20 May, Sevenoaks hosted chamber music masterclass afternoons for pupils from Hazlewood School, St Lawrence, The Granville and Sevenoaks Prep School.

There were some super performances, which ranged from a complete Telemann concerto for four violins and an extract from Bach's 4th Brandenburg concerto to Brass ensemble arrangements of Greensleeves and jazz numbers. Enthusiastically coached by Mr Toby Carden and Mr Christopher Dyer, the groups were challenged in a variety of ways which involved moving to the music and singing the music the students were playing on their instruments. The pupils and audience on the Friday were treated to a brief talk about the school's harpsichord, built for us in 2009 by Mr Malcolm Rose.

Science Week 2011 

Science Week 2011 was a success with 3776 students attending the various activities across the six days. We welcomed pupils from local prep and primary schools to the Eagle Heights falconry show, Animal Factory hands-on show, STEM challenge and the live video link with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS), as well as various events organised by the London Science Museum (Danger High Voltage, It Takes Guts, Super-Cool, Bubble and Golden Coconut shows).

Around seven other schools also entered our Science Week Poster Competition for children aged four to ten. The theme was 'What a space station should look like' and the various entries filled the display board in the Pamoja Hall. The competition was judged by visiting astronaut Dr Nicholas Patrick and the winner was presented with her prize at Sevenoaks Prep School on Monday 31 January.

Year 7 report
The whole of Sevenoaks School's Year 7 took part in a science presentation about the Digestive System, in which we saw videos of one of the helpers' organs inside her body. The presentation started with the mouth mashing up a mixture of bread, water, sweetcorn and other food, and ending coming out of a hole in a plastic bag; a few groans of displeasure at this point! We also learnt about different diseases you can get if you don’t have enough of a certain vitamin or food type. After the presentation the year split up into three separate groups to do activities throughout the day. During the activity the each group split up into groups of three and they each performed a fun experiment. It was a really enjoyable day and the whole year learned a lot about the digestive system in a very fun and exciting way! – Hannah Harrington, Year 7

Indoor Football tournament
Friday 1 October 2010. Click here for results