This was the scene on our carpark this morning when it would normally be bustling. Join me on a tour of the school to see what the promised snow delivered.
On Wednesday the Met Office forecast a heavy fall of snow for the south east and as you can see in this shot of the quiet area they certainly got it right.
This is looking out across the 1st XI cricket square. Sorry about the greyness but I was out taking these shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning.
This is further down the path in the woods looking back up towards the Science block. Notice the daffodils half hidden in the snow.
Notice how the snow has piled up on every vaguely horizontal surface. One of the reasons I was out so early was that I knew that within a few hours the woods would be a 'no go' area; unless, of course, you like having large quantities of wet snow dropping on your head.
Look at the way the snow has plastered itself on the mesh of the fencing - the sign of wet, perfect for building a snowman, snow.
This was taken from down by the cricket nets looking back up towards the main building and the science block.
And this is looking the other way from the terrace in front of the main building down towards the woods and the cricket nets.
Further along in front of the Main Building, this is the Tom Derbyshire rose garden under a good blanket of snow.
This is normally one of the main thoroughfares of the school. An hour after this was taken it started snowing again and those few tracks in the snow disappeared.
Around the corner in the Nursery's courtyard their trikes are snowbound.
This photo of the steps up to the Preprep playground gives a very good impression of how thick (by our normal London standards) the snow actually was.
Looking from the Preprep playground shelter out over a snowy roofscape.
I'm now heading back from my 'snow patrol' but paused to take this shot of the Gym and its apple trees and flowerbeds blanketed in snow.
While I was working on this story it started to snow again really quite heavily. All in all, it was most probably a good idea that we weren't all here at school on this particular Thursday.
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