St Lucia- getting in the mood...!

To get you in the mood to learn about St Lucia, here are some photos taken by Mr Noble in 2006. There are rather a lot, so if you wish to see a selection, use the link on the right hand side of this page under the 'St Lucia' heading.



Here are some other photos from the Flickr website about St Lucia...

Sulgrave Manor Tudor Day

The Juniors travelled back in time to 16th Century England to spend time in the company of Sir Lawrence Washington, an ancestor of the first president of the USA at his home, Sulgrave Manor. They saw the simple house of his blacksmith and some of the fine rooms in his Manor House. They also reenacted the story of the whole Tudor Dynasty.

Oh... and they looked the part as well!!!



(You can link to the Photo Album here)

Ryton Organic Gardens

We visited Ryton Organic Gardens this afternoon, on the eve of the official opening of the Bilton Grange Organic Garden. As well as finding out exactly what 'organic' means, the children saw, smelt, touched, listened, and tasted their way through the different gardens, including the herbs, the fruit garden and the vegetable garden, coming away with lots of ideas for the BG garden. There was time to explore a special children's garden as well, hidden away in part of the centre.

Skern Lodge 2009 Slideshow

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Come back soon as we will be adding more pictures over the coming days.

Sunday at Skern Lodge

Some pictures from our Sunday activities- plenty more to follow when we get back to school!

Saturday at Skern Lodge

Disco Divas!

Jolly boating weather!

Leap of faith!

Daring young man on the flying trapeze!

Some pictures from Saturday at Skern Lodge:

Winter Slideshow

Winter Wonderland(HD) from Bilton Grange on Vimeo.

February 2009- a slide show of photos sent in to the Bilton Grange website from pupils and staff who couldn't make it into school on 5th February, stuck in the heavy snow. They were challenged to build a snowman, take a photo and send it in- they responded magnificently!

Timelapse of the Severn Bridges

Enjoy this example of Timelapse photography as day turns to night by the Severn bridges.


Panning timelapse, Severn Estuary from Lobster Pictures on Vimeo.

First snowfall...

The first snow of the winter has fallen very early this year, before the end of October. This morning made for some fine views...


Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

A very heavy Pumpkin!

The Juniors brought back an enormous and very heavy pumpkin from the school organic garden a couple of weeks ago, and it has been the subject of a 'guess the weight' competition in the Junior foyer. The winners are shown above with the mighty trophy, which weighed in at 9.75kg! Congratulations to Juliet, who was the closest pupil guess at 10kg (though rumour has it that Mr Kirk guessed it exactly!).

Autumn on the BG golf course.

Some wonderful autumnal colours just at the moment, and a lovely afternoon on which to enjoy them!

Up up and away...

This hot-air balloon was spotted from the Junior classrooms' windows early this morning- we thought Sir Richard Branson might be dropping in, but it appeared to be landing somewhere towards Grandborough!

In the service of Sir Christopher Hatton...

We all became time travellers to spend a day at the Elizabethan Holdenby House in Northamptonshire, learning those skills that would allow us to blend in well in Tudor times, including cookery, using herbs and medicines, archery and pike drill.

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.


Holdenby House 2008 from Bilton Grange on Vimeo.

Swan Lake

The boating pond was graced with a visit from a pair of swans. Intrepid photographer Michael managed to snap this photo.

From Bilton Grange Juniors

The Stig revealed...

In a rare unguarded moment, the Stig has been photographed with the visor of his helmet open...

From Bilton Grange Juniors

A good first week...

It has been good to see the Juniors settle so quickly to the prep school routine, and at the end of the first week, they have experienced most of their timetable and activities. 

From Bilton Grange Juniors

The weather hasn't always been kind, so boilersuits have seen plenty of use at playtime, but the children have also had time to experience a concert given by some of the visiting music staff, learn some music for the upcoming harvest service and even an early look at the songs for the Christmas production!

From Bilton Grange Juniors

They have also been out on the games field for netball and rugby, and in the swimming pool.

Our Tudor visit to Holdenby House is fast approaching, and you should have received a letter via the children's book bags with a permission slip to return. 

The music timetable for the coming week has also been published, and can be seen here. 

An Olympics Slide Show

The Olympics may be over, but there are plenty of performances of which the competitors can be proud. Continuing a tradition I started at Sydney 2000, when we at BG could of course celebrate the achievement of Katharine Merry winning Bronze, of making a slide show with the best images of the Olympic Games, here is this year's offering...


Olympics 2008 Slide Show from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

And below, out of retirement for nostalgia's sake, is the Sydney 2000 slide show.

Sydney Olympic Games Slideshow from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

Finally, the Athens 2004 slideshow.

Athens Olympics 2004 Slide Show from rogbi200 on Vimeo.

BG from the Air

Have you spotted the "Bird's Eye" views of BG that can be seen in Live Search Maps. What's more, you can view the school and its grounds from different directions. Can you work out when the pictures were taken?

Geotagged...

All the photos in the BG Juniors Gallery have now been geotagged, so that you can see the exact location where they were taken in Google Maps or Google Earth. Click on this link to see them.

Caught on Camera...!

Some of the 2008 Under Nine cricket team have been mixing with the stars or appearing on TV during the holidays...

TJ, Rian and William managed to get the autograph of Makhaya Ntini at Edgbaston...

...whilst another familiar face or two were spotted by the Sky Sports cameras (see video clip here) in the crowd at Grace Road, Leicester...

We didn't however become quite as famous as this young man who was caught on camera at the Rose Bowl on Twenty20 finals day!