The Sugar Plum Fairy visits NHP

Month: December 2022

The Sugar Plum Fairy visits NHP

The children in the Lower School enjoyed a visit from the Sugar Plum Fairy on Monday. They watched quite entranced as she danced a ballet solo up on her pointe shoes. Then, she taught them a dance from The Land of Sweets, which they performed with great confidence. Wonderful dancing, Lower School!

Christmas Book Drive for Oxford Gardens Primary

In true NHP style, our parents came out in full force to support our annual Christmas Book Drive as part of the NHP Foundation’s Radius Programme. This year, we were collecting books for the children at Oxford Gardens Primary School. Thanks to the generosity of our parents, each one of their 302 pupils from Nursery…

Spreading Literary Christmas Cheer!

Inspired by the holiday-themed towns in Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’, 7KP have been writing richly descriptive pieces of work on the theme of ‘Christmas Town’. Their stories were written to interest and delight Year 3 pupils, and on Tuesday they had the opportunity to share their stories with 3K and 3E. They had…

NHP Christmas Fair!

On Saturday, our wonderful Parents’ Association transformed NHP into a Winter Wonderland for our first Christmas fair since the pandemic! All items from the stalls and activities went directly to the NHP Foundation, raising a huge £9,070. The organising team of Evie B, Lisette VP, Clodagh B, Lauren J, Susie C, Elizabeth C, Delphine R,…

NHCCC debut performance!

The Notting Hill Children’s Community Choir (NHCCC), the NHP Foundation’s choir, made their debut public performance on Sunday 27th November at the Music House for Children Carols by Candlelight concert at Bush Hall. It was a fantastically festive evening full of carols, Christmas cheer and a special appearance from Santa himself. The choir, made up…

Tommy’s Carol Concert

Our senior choir were amazing at Tommy’s Carol Concert on Tuesday night! They performed two pieces Jubilate Deo by Jay Althouse and Cantamos by James Desjardins.  They sang beautifully, from the heart, with passion and joy and big smiles on their faces.  It was impossible not to be utterly charmed by them! The concert was…

Year 3’s Pantomime

On Wednesday, we kicked off our in-house Christmas performances in style with Y3’s Pantoland – a mash-up of different pantos and eclectic music choices.  The children rapped and danced with rhythm to ‘Ice, Ice Baby’ – from memory, a first at NHP – and sang Christmas hits from years gone by with style and panache….