St Teresa's Prep Bulletin 11 December 2020

14th December 2020

Message from Mrs Conrad Thank you all for your support throughout this term and your thoughtful and generous Christmas gifts and cards. Mrs Conrad and the Prep School Staff would like to wish you all a very happy and holy Christmas and a restful break.

Happy Hanukkah We would like to wish our Jewish families a very Happy Hanukkah—Hanukkah Sameach!

Key Dates Monday 4th Jan

INSET Day

Tuesday 5th Jan

School Resumes

Wednesday 6th Jan

Year 6 Entrance Examinations

This Week You Should Have Received: Whole School

End of Term letter from Mrs Conrad

Years 3 to 6

LAMDA letter

Whole School

RSE letter

Year 6

Entrance examination date change information

Whole School

Extra curricular information for Spring 2021

Whole School

Message from PHE

Whole School

School report

Please contact prepinfo@st-teresas.com if you need copies of any of this information.

Swimming Lessons Mrs Farrier will be running swimming lessons over the Christmas holidays on 14/15/16th December between 9-12.

All lessons are 1 to 1 or 1 to 2. Please email Mrs Farrier for booking or details—making.waves@hotmail.co.uk

Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week:

1BB

Lucy A for her brilliant focussed learning all about the meaning of the Christingle and remembering what each component symbolises.

2EB

Zara O for always being kind and caring towards others, encouraging people to do their best.

3DI

Jessika R for her fabulous attitude and progress this term.

3KC

Scarlett M for a wonderful Iron Man menu using amazing alliteration and adjectives.

Scarlett C for fantastic enthusiasm when creating Christmas crafts.

4RN

Isola R for her excellent retelling of the story of The Three Wise Men in RE. Isola used the scripture to help her and could remember the meaning of the special gifts.

Florence B for an excellent narrative about Mog the Cat and the Christmas Calamity. Flo wrote using verbs, adverbs and with fantastic description.

4CR

Olivia K for her improvement in focus which is reflected in both the quantity and quality of her work.

Saskia D for her positivity and for her hard work in Maths.

Harriet P for taking responsibility for her learning in Maths this half term.

5MK

Eloise S for her excellent travel brochure in Science.

Ella J B for working with such focus and care to design and make her space rocket as part of our Space Day. Rosie H and Lilia N for working collaboratively together to produce a stunning poem about travelling through space, using a wide variety of figurative language.

5HC

Evangelina P for her excellent poster advertising a trip to Venus in Science.

Laiya A for her excellent written work in English recently, she has been listening to feedback and striving to improve her work.

Tamara B for showing real enthusiasm and creativity when making her moon buggy in DT. Amy D for her super free verse poem about Space that included many examples of figurative language.

6KH

Ava S for her fabulous poster advertising the Titanic, which she created using the computer whilst home learning.

Katie D for her continued hard work in maths, which has resulted in great progress this term.

6JG

Pippa T for working so hard this term and also being so kind and helpful.

Anna H for being so sensible and reliable.

1BB St Dominic - Sophia C St Ignatius - Sophia D St Benedict - Mariella D St Francis - Maggie M

2EB

3KC

St Dominic - Arabella H St Ignatius - Natalia T St Benedict - Ruby S St Francis - Poppy E

St Ignatius - Sophia N St Dominic - Lyla S St Benedict - Tabitha P St Francis - Scarlett M

Autumn Term 2020

3DI St Dominic - Perla L St Ignatius - Séarlait W St Benedict - Clemmie H St Francis - Stef v E

4RN

Merits Awarded to the girls with the highest merit total in each class.

St Dominic - Ella J St Ignatius - Elin S St Benedict - Evie B St Francis - Tabitha D

4CR

5MK

St Dominic—Kaiah C St Ignatius—Peyton S St Benedict—India Rose C St Francis—Alex v E

St Dominic - Bella S St Ignatius - Ruby A St Benedict - Beth B St Francis - Lilia N

6KH

6JG

St Dominic - Xanthe L-S St Ignatius - Cáitlin W St Benedict - Catherine L St Francis - Penelope B

St Dominic - Freya C St Ignatius - Sofia C St Benedict - Emma J St Francis - Ava H

5HC St Dominic - Frankie B St Ignatius - Emily K St Benedict - Phoebe R St Francis - Eliza B

This Week in the Prep School Year 5—Stargazers To celebrate the end of their ‘Stargazers’ topic, Year 5 girls have used their creativity and imaginative skills to make their very own space rocket, lunar module or moon buggy. Is this the next generation of woman space engineers?

Year 5—Figurative Language Year 5 have been experimenting with a range of figurative language and this week they have composed free verse poems about space. Here is one that we wrote together, each pair volunteering a line.

Staring into a Midnight World by 5MK Free-falling through space The black sky is a fluffy, blanket covering me Ten thousand galaxies in darkening space Stars like fairy lights Twinkling and winking cheekily at me, in joyous delight Meteors whizzing around speedily like giant meatballs Picture-perfect planets glisten in the corner of my eye Saturn dashing around the sun like a lightning bolt The moon a glistening glitter ball hanging silently in space Whoosh!

The world that we knew was gone in the blink of an eye.

This Week in the Prep School Year 1—Christingles This week in Year 1, the girls have really enjoyed rounding off our Advent topic in RE by making their very own Christingles. The girls worked so hard to learn the different meaning for each component within the Christingle and carefully assemble them. They weren't best pleased when I explained that the sweets were not for eating!

Once assembled, we began to feel very festive!

Cards for Cherry Trees Care Homes In school this week, the girls have enjoyed putting love and care into cards for the children of Cherry Trees and residents of local care homes. These cards reminded our girls of the joy of spreading happiness to others.

Upper Prep Carols Upper Prep Carols by Candlelight reminded us of the true meaning of Christmas.

The girls sang and read beautifully. Well done and thank you to everyone involved.

Lower Prep Nativity Lower Prep delighted the whole school with their Nativity performance on Thursday morning. The singing was beautiful and the performances were brilliant from all the girls.

This Week in the Prep School Year 2 Computing This half term, the girls in Year 2 have worked hard to write code for a grid dance, debugging as they went. This week, we tested out the codes as a whole class. It was lots of fun as well as a learning experience!

Science Experiment The Year 6 classes have been looking at the problem of plastic usage and have been looking at the matra reuse reduce and recycle. Here is a way for making plastic at home so please feel free to have a go.

Year 5 Year 5 made some beautiful stained glass windows depicting scenes from the Nativity story.

This Week in the Prep School We had a very special visitor to the Prep School today!! Thank you to FOST for all the gifts that he brought the girls (which have been quarantined for 72 hours).

Music News Musicians of the Week Mrs Yalden would like to congratulate all the girls who took part in the Nativity Play and Carol Service this week.

They really did produce some wonderful singing for both events and she is really proud of the work they have put in this term to achieve this.

Music Activities Next Term All activities will remain as they have been this term. We hope to be able to add a few more and make some adjustments during the course of the Spring Term.

Year 6 Music Theory – please note there will be NO music theory on the first day of next term.

Girls learning Instruments A gentle reminder to girls to keep playing instruments over the holidays, especially those girls who have exam recordings to make at the beginning of next term. Learning to play Christmas carols on your instrument is a great way to keep playing at this time of year.

Sports News •

Merry Christmas everyone from the Prep PE Department. Keep active and safe.

Pupils’ news Sofie (Year 5) had a very successful day at the NSEA championships at the weekend despite the cold weather! Sofie’s team came 4th and there were some very excited horses! The horses haven't been out for a month but due to lockdown are incredibly fit! Well done!

Evangelina (Year 5) has been nominated for a 2020 Junior Tennis Award for players aged 10 years and under who have established themselves as a good role model to other younger juniors through coaching and competition experience. Evangelina will find out the results just before Christmas– fingers crossed!

Inspirational sports person of the week by Tabby H Lee Childs is an English tennis player who has now retired and is the Head of Queens tennis club.

Lee has played Global competitions and at the one and only Wimbledon! He famously defeated Nikolay Davydnko in the 2003 Wimbledon Championship. He also has played Rafael Nadal. One of his quotes is: “Don’t practise for the sake of practising. Practise with a purpose. Every time you go on court you should always be trying to improve a particular aspect of your game which could be tactical, technical or physical”

The Year 3 Splash and Dash results are in….

It was a very foggy dash for the girls on Monday but they all did it with smiles on their faces. Well done to everyone in Year 3! St Ignatius were the winning team with Pascale, Isabella, Sophia, Emilia and Séarlait.

Santa Run 2020 What a great week we have had completing all the Santa Runs. The girls especially enjoyed the hot chocolate and gingerbread man at the end—special thanks to our catering team for providing this!

The word was made flesh and lived among us.

John 1:14

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We hope that you are all staying safe and that you have enjoyed your riding lessons with us despite the lockdown and restrictions.

We want to thank you all for your patience and cooperation and we will be continuing with our guidelines, covid procedures and staggered lessons when we are back in January.

Have a lovely Christmas break and we will see you next year!

Reminder on dates!

Adhoc lessons: w/c Monday 7th December Adhoc lessons: w/c Tuesday 5th January Spring Term Riding starts on: Monday 11th January

NSEA Grassroots Regionals Show Jumping Championships On Saturday 5th December, a group of our NSEA riders went to Felbridge to compete in the Show Jumping Grassroots Championship.

Jackson, our individual rider in the earlier classes, came 1st in the 40cm and 4th in the 50cm.

In the 60cm class, we had two teams entered. One team - Antonia, Inde and Sofie - came 4th, the second team - Antonia, Chloe and Lottie - came 5th. Antonia placed 1st individually.

In the 70cm class, we also had two teams entered. The Green team - Antonia, Inde and Lulu came 7th overall, while the Pink team - Chloe, Lottie, Mia and Sofie - placed 4th.

Congratulations everyone for such a brilliant result!

**Christmas Fair Round up** 2020 has been an interesting year to say the least…so coming together as a community during the Christmas Fair Week was perhaps more important than ever… We set out to hold an event that would create some Christmas fun for the school and support our local small businesses through the online marketplace (still open at www.sttsfair.co.uk until end December), but what we didn’t expect was that we’d make more money this year than we did in 2018 or 2019! The community spirit is alive and well in the Effingham Trust!

We’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to all the parents for your support, both by visiting the site and for getting on board with the plethora of activities on offer. We hoped the ‘bake off’ competition would go down well in the Prep School but we were overwhelmed by the number of entries we received, from Reception to the 6 th Form and from Cranmore boys and girls too!

A huge THANK YOU as well to the staff who helped FOST with printing, spreading the word and getting prizes to winners. And a special shout out to the Prep School Staff who really made the Advent Calendar activities come to life for the children.

Along with local businesses we also hosted two local charities on our site, The Grange and Cherry Trees. We had some great feedback from The Grange that we would like to share with you.

The Grange is a centre in Bookham that supports people with learning difficulties to lead independent and fulfilling lives. They make chutneys, jams, embroidered items, artwork, and much more at their centre, which they sell at a dedicated shop in Bookham.

The Grange told us they have received a huge number of online orders and are sold out of certain items during our fair! They said that residents have really enjoyed taking online orders and are learning new skills in the process. They are feeling very valued and less pressurised completing these than when dealing with customers face to face.

THANK YOU for supporting them. To find out more click on link. https://www.grangecentre.org.uk

**CHRISTMAS MARKET THIS WEEKEND ** Cherry Trees have a Christmas market happening this weekend 12th December. You can book your ticket here https://www.cherrytrees.org.uk/event/cherry-trees-christmas-market What’s next?

What’s next for FOST in 2021…We’ve raised a fantastic amount of money towards our 2nd hand uniform cabin but we’re still some work to do to make it a reality…We’d love to hear your ideas so please do get in touch and get involved – we’re always recruiting new members! Fostst2020@gmail.com On behalf of everyone at FOST have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Menu—w/c Tuesday 5th January Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

The girls will still need to bring a healthy snack/s into school for break time/s.

Monday

Main

Chef’s Trolley

Vegetarian

Sides

Additional

Desert

Inset Day

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Mild beef chilli served with rice & nacho’s

Pasta carbonara

Chicken tikka masala

Traditional battered cod & cod fish fingers

Sliced iceberg lettuce & sliced beef tomatoes

Chef’s salad

Tomato & cucumber salad

Chef’s salad

Fresh vegetable & Spaghetti bean chilli with Neapolitan rice & nacho’s

Vegetable & chick No meat pea tikka masala meatballs in a fresh tomato sauce with rice

Sweetcorn

Green beans & carrots

Rice Broccoli

Fries Peas

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Carrot cake

Lemon & blueberry slice

Sticky toffee traybake

Fresh fruit salad

Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher