It has been a most unusual week at Lockers, due to the snowfall last weekend. While we remained open, a large number of pupils didn’t make it into school on Monday. More managed the journey on Tuesday, when we were...
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Carols around the tree
Today is rather a special day at Lockers – the day of “The Feast”. This is where all sorts of games and activities take place up at the Prep School and in the middle of all the fun, the participants...
Christmas Lunch
Our catering department really pulled out all the stops today as they put on a fantastic Christmas lunch for three consecutive sittings. The whole school really got into the Christmas spirit as carols and Christmas songs rang out. For those...
School Christmas Card
Each year the school runs a competition to design the Lockers Park official Christmas card. This year the theme was based on the work of Alfred Wallis – a self taught primitive artist. The boys looked at The Mousehole Cat...
Science in Action : Marble Runs
One of the things you really have to be if you are a teacher is to be flexible. Today, due to the snow our year groups have been combined. Our Year 6 cohort were due to do Science, but half...
Fun in the snow
As one event was cancelled (Milton Keynes Pantomime) due to poor road conditions another magically materialised. It is four years since the last significant snow fall in Hemel Hempstead, so the boarders made the most of it. On the front...
Snow!
It’s been a few years since we have had any significant snowfall at Lockers so you can imagine the delight of the boarders as they woke up this morning to find the ground covered. Unfortunately it did mean the plans...
FoLP Christmas Fayre
The end of the Autumn Term is always very busy. Today, as well as having a rehearsal for The Carol Service, the Friends of Lockers Park have put on a Christmas Fayre. There is something for everyone. The Jazzy Jars...
An Inspector Calls
By a sheer coincidence(!) the ISI Inspectors actually did call this term and rather like the Lockers Park portrayed in the Junior Play, “An Inspector Calls”, we are waiting with bated breathe for our Inspection Report. Of course the real...
Baubles
“Baubles” was a wonderful way for our Pre Prep pupils to tell the story of The Nativity. The story went from present to past and told the story of a school caretaker who was so disappointed with the bare tree...
