St Martin’s Ampleforth’s new £25k science lab was opened on 18th October 2009 Sunday by Mrs Erma-Jean Tracy in memory of her husband Tom. This new fully equipped laboratory was made possible by a grant from the Tracy Family Foundation and is part of the ongoing £2m investment programme into the school.
‘We are very grateful [...]
As a Remembrance Day tribute, 24 Year 6 pupils from St Martin’s Ampleforth School were delighted to be able to entertain residents of the Alba Rose Residential Care Home on Tuesday 10th November by singing a medley of songs from the war period, including ‘White cliffs of Dover’ and ‘Two Little Boys’ as well as [...]
The Pre-prep children at St Martin’s Ampleforth School celebrated their Harvest Festival on 16th October.
The school chapel had been decorated by the children with autumn leaves and fruits gathered from the school gardens. The Nursery children had been busy that morning baking bread. Families and friends joined Fr John Fairhurst and all the pre-prep children [...]
The children in years 3, 4 and 5 of St Martin’s Ampleforth School have just put on a wonderful rendition of ‘The Victorian Historian’ as their annual school play.
The Victorian Historian is the story of a journey through time where two children find a strange machine in the house of their eccentric history teacher, [...]
June 2009
The summer term at St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School ended, as usual, with the Year 8 play – an ensemble production which every member of the year takes part in. This year, the 51 pupils were performing Burton Bumgarner’s adaptation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
This version revolutionises the study of this challenging literature [...]
May 2009
St Martin’s Ampleforth School has just completed a two day retreat and this year the theme for the retreat was ‘MISSION – being part of the Church’. The school looked at how we are all part of the Church and have a part to play in its mission, both at home and abroad. The [...]
St Martin’s Ampleforth have returned from their first combined Schola and Netball tour. Twenty five girls, between Years 6 and 8, were taken to London to play netball fixtures against St Edmund’s College, Ware; St Mary’s School, Hampstead; and St Benedict’s School, Ealing, as well as to sing in three prestigious venues – St Mary’s [...]
Twenty five girls from the Schola Sancti Martini, the girls’ choir of St Martin’s Ampleforth School, sang in Westminster Cathedral at the Vigil Mass on Saturday 21st March 2009. This sung Mass formed part of a four day netball and choir tour to London. As well as playing in a number of netball matches, the [...]
The children of St Martin’s Ampleforth School Pre-prep have been taking part in Marie Curie Cancer Care’s Mini Pots of Care. Mini Pots of Care has been a fun way for children to learn how plants grow.
Last autumn the children each planted a miniature daffodil bulb in individual pots. These bulbs have now grown [...]
St Martin’s Ampleforth cannot claim to have octuplets but we believe we have the highest ratio of twins in the school or possibly in the whole country.
St Martin’s Ampleforth currently has 206 pupils which includes an incredible seven sets of twins – is this a record? That means that one in every 14 pupils is [...]
