St Teresa's Prep Weekly Bulletin 16 October 2023

Issue 6

Autumn Term

20th October 2023

Message from Mrs Conrad This half term has flown by and it was great to touch base with you all at the parents’ evenings over the course of this last week.

Today, we said goodbye to our wonderful librarian, Mrs Clarke, who has worked at St Teresa’s for an incredible 17 years! We thank her most sincerely for managing our library so efficiently and for helping to instil a love of reading in so many girls (and staff!) during her time with us. We will miss her wit and wisdom but wish her all the best for the future and look forward to welcoming her back for a visit during Book Week!

Have a fantastic half term break.

Key Diary Dates: Fri 20th Oct

Half Term Begins

Mon 6th Nov

School Resumes

Wed 8th Nov

Prep School, Individual and Sibling School Photographs

All day

Thu 9th Nov

5KH, Class Assembly, Henderson Hall

8.30—9.00

Fri 10th Nov

Whole School Remembrance Service

AM

Tue 14th Nov

Year 6, St Teresa’s Entrance Examinations

AM

Tue 14th Nov

Year 3, Monument Mayhem, Henderson Hall

15.15

Wed 15th Nov

Year 6, Drama Scholarships

Afternoon

Thu 16th Nov

Year 6, Art Scholarships

AM

Thu 16th Nov

Year 6, Music Scholarships

Afternoon

Fri 17th Nov

Year 6, Sports Scholarships

All day

Mon 20th Nov

Maths Week

All Week

Wed 22nd Nov

Subject Revolution Workshops for Maths week

All Day

Fri 24th Nov

Year 6, Visiting National Maritime Museum

All Day

Individual School Photographs — Wednesday 8th November Fresh School Photography will be in school on Wednesday 8th November to take individual and St Teresa’s sibling photographs. If your daughter/s have swimming or games their photograph/s will be taken before these lessons— but they will not be able to be taken before morning swim squad or sport training. If you have a child in the Senior School, we have contacted you separately about having sibling photographs with them.

5KH—Class Assembly Parents of girls in 5KH are invited to join us for their class assembly

On Thursday 9th November 2023 At 8.30am in the Henderson Hall Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am

Winter Uniform All the girls should return to school after half term in their winter uniform.

Job Opportunity—Part Time Communications Officer The Diocese is seeking to recruit an experienced Communications Professional. For more details or to apply, please visit www.abdiocese.org.uk/careers/comms

FOST Christmas Cards Due to tight deadlines and the final submission date falling during our Half Term break, FOST and St Teresa’s will not be co-ordinating the Arts Projects For School Christmas Cards this year.

Parent Volunteers Wanted - an enthusiastic volunteer to share how they use Maths in their career or daily life. Would you be able to inspire the girls at St Teresa's? We are looking for a visitor to share their use of Mathematics with the girls during Maths Week. This could be talking in assembly or to particular year groups. Please contact Mrs Ridulfa if you are interested or for further information (c.ridulfa@st-teresas.com).

Art at Dorking Halls Mrs Halliwell was at Dorking Halls this weekend exhibiting and selling her fabulous art work. Look out for her at a local art exhibition near you!

This week you should have received: Year 6

Revision reminders for half term

Whole School

Children in Distress Christmas Shoebox Appeal

Whole School

Half termly grade sheet—via the parent portal

Whole School

Gymnastics Half Term Course information

Year 3

Classes information

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

Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week: 3RN

Kitty N for excellent effort in English this week, choosing a range of descriptive vocabulary from our stone age word bank to write a wonderful poem. Well done Kitty.

Hollie G for a fantastic stone age diamante poem, using a range of descriptive vocabulary and performing it to the class! Well done Hollie.

3KC

Arabella N for planning a healthy meal in science, including all the food groups and the importance of each food group on her plate.

Ava B for a wonderful diamante poem using verbs, adjectives and nouns to describe her chosen Stone Age animal.

Emilia C for using fabulous cursive script in all her schoolwork and for working hard in maths on crossing 10s.

4LH

Eloise B-S for your wonderful story writing this week. You've used a variety of fronted adverbials to elevate your sentences and draw your reader in.

Layla B for your super addition and subtraction skills in Maths this week. You are mastering the column method!

4AB

Victoria M for trying hard this week to finish tasks independently and for her effort in Maths.

Harper A-S for always having a smile on her face and positive disposition.

4CR

Amelia H for her fantastic effort when writing her story - super choice of language.

Lucy A for her fabulous effort in Maths when carrying our addition and subtraction.

5HC

Serena O for excellent focus and contributions in RE producing super work about St Teresa of Calcutta.

Jasmine N for her well planned and written myth in English.

Calista D’C J for her wonderful description of her character for her myth in English.

5KH

Imogen S for working hard to write a detailed and descriptive myth.

Avery K for her enthusiastic approach to all lessons and areas of school life, and her willingness to always contribute to class discussions.

6MK

Lilia-Anna H for her super contribution during our RE lessons this week, researching and coming up with facts and quotes to be included in an advert about fast fashion.

Ella M for being such a conscientious and diligent member of our class; for attempting all her work with enthusiasm and great care.

6JG

Bella G for her consistently impressive hard work and perseverance in Maths lessons.

Veronika K for her increasing independence in English.

6RW

Isabella C for writing a fantastic, descriptive suspense story in English.

Catrin V for working so hard in Maths this week.

Drama Stars Olivia H

for impressive facial expressions and gestures when performing a slapstick mime.

Victoria M for her wonderfully creative ideas in our started exercise.

Poppy E for showing real maturity and confidence in rehearsals for the upcoming class assembly.

Lottie C for working positively with her group and showing increased confidence in performance.

Years 5 & 6—Art Club The girls have been busy in Y5 and 6 Art Club this half term. Firstly, the girls created two different types of bookmark - a Roald Dahl one to celebrate Roald Dahl Day and then an origami animal one.

They then created some water colour paintings of flowers in the style of Georgia O'Keefe - several of the children were inspired by the beautiful pink and purple dahlias that Mrs Hilder brought in from her garden!

Year 4—Blue Abyss To add to their work on famous diver and inventor Jacques Cousteau, Year 4 had a visit from St Teresa's very own Mr Palmer, who kindly brought in his scuba diving gear. An avid diver, Mr Palmer talked the girls through the equipment that he takes diving and then answered a multitude of questions about his experiences in the deep ocean. Mrs Baker even volunteered to model the equipment for the girls, showing just how heavy it is when on land. Thank you very much Mr Palmer, it was fascinating.

Headteacher for the Day As part of a FOST fundraiser, Amelia from Year 6 joined Dr McShane in the Senior School and became a “Little Headteacher ” for the day! Her duties included: observing lessons, a tour around the Senior School, a performance review of our therapy dog Yogi and an exclusive working lunch! Well done Amelia.

Year 3—Diamante Poems This week in Year 3 we have used our knowledge of nouns, adjectives and verbs to create a diamante poem about a stone age animal. We had to think carefully about what the animal looked like, how it moved and use a thesaurus to improve our descriptive vocabulary.

Sports News Netball U11A&B Netball vs Cobham Free School. The U11A team had a fantastic match winning 6-4.

Congratulations to Rachel H for being awarded player of the match. The U11B displayed great skill and teamwork defeating CFS 6-3. Well done to Flori H for being selected as player of the match.

The U11A-E Netball team travelled to St Catherine's on Tuesday afternoon in the sunshine! It was great to see so many girls playing netball and practising the skills they have been learning. There were some good parts of all the games, but also some areas that we can improve on in three really close games. Well done to the player of the matches: Olivia P, Sophia N and Pascale E. Well done to all the girls who played.

U10A&B vs Cobham Free School. The U10A team were fast and dynamic on court with some great drives in to space. Well done to Jenna for being nominated as player of the match. The U10B team were linking some great passes together, but unfortunately were not able to shoot any goals this time. Well done to Emily W for being awarded player of the match.

Prep Netball Shooting Club This takes place on a Tuesday lunchtime at 12:45pm and all are welcome. It was great to see so many girls attend this week!

Football U9A&B Football v St Hilary’s. Well done to the U9A football team who travelled to St Hilary's for a well battled match. All the girls played with determination and team spirit with some great shots on goal, passing and dribbling being displayed. Well done to Skye on a well deserved player of the match.

The U9 B side had a fantastic outing to St Hilary’s on the 13th October playing two matches. The first match was a tighter affair but a star-studded performance from Anna R saw the girls win 3-1. The second match was far more open and as result many of the girls managed to get on the scoresheet winning 7-1. Elizabeth L’s hat-trick resulted in a well earned player of the match award.

Fixtures (week commencing 6th November) Tuesday 7th November

U10A&B Hockey vs CLFS (H) 2:15pm. U10C&D Hockey v CLFS (A) 2.15pm

Friday 10th November

U8A&B Netball V Manor House (H) 2.30pm

Saturday 11th November

U11A Netball tournament @ Claremont 9am

Half Term Tennis Camp at ESTA ESTA is delighted to be running a tennis camp during half term at St Teresa's from 23-27th October!

Please note the timings below: 9-12pm Years 2-4 9-12pm Performance Camp (invitational) 1-4pm Years 5&6 1-4pm Years 7+ Prices are £39 per camp day with 10% discount for the full week option.

Children outside the school are very welcome to attend! We are also offering individual, joint and small group coaching during this week for adults and children.

Please contact Kirsti at esta@effinghamschools.org or on 07980 604372 to book in.

We hope to see your children on court over half term!

ESTA

Music News Musicians of the Week Year 3

Isabelle E-N for recognising, reading and playing some tricky rhythms – well done Isabelle!

Year 4

Elizabeth L for her amazing enthusiasm in music and for making such a wonderful start in Wind Band

Year 5

Khrystyna H for wonderful progress in playing her ukulele. Great work Khrystyna!

Year 6

Emily S for excellent resilience which produced some amazing work in keyboard harmony lessons

Assembly Performance Thank you to Perla who played her guitar for us this morning. Well done Perla, beautiful playing.

Rhythm To finish off our half termly look at rhythm, we have been using cups, boomwhackers and even a rubber chicken to listen, identify, play and compose! Next half term we will be looking at pitch in music.

Message from Mrs Harris: I would be very grateful if you could help your children to remember their instruments on the following days; Monday – Y3 recorders, Orchestra, Assembly Band Tuesday – Wind Ensemble Wednesday – String Group Friday – Guitar Ensemble, Assembly Band

This Week We have all been shocked and deeply saddened by the terrible news coming from Israel and Palestine. With so many conflicts in our world, particularly in Ukraine and Russia, it has been terrible to once again see violence erupt, and so many men, women and children become innocent victims of hatred and violence.

This week Pope Francis has called upon all people of goodwill to pray for peace in the Holy Land. In Chapel this week, we reflected on Jesus’ promise of peace, and we prayed that we would all work to make this a reality.

Deacon Simon shared examples of his experience of travelling to the Holy Land as a teenager. He shared his experience of visiting the very sites where Jesus himself had walked the site of his birth in Bethlehem, the sea of Galilee where he called his first disciples, the sites of his miracles like the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, the Temple where he prayed, the hill of Golgotha where he gave his life for us and his tomb where his resurrection became a reality.

And yet it is these sites, or those nearby, that have become the very centre of such violence.

As we continue to pray for peace, we remember Jesus’ words, ‘Peace I leave you, my peace I give you.

The peace that the world cannot give, that is my gift to you.

Children in Distress—Shoebox Appeal 2023 We have sent home full details of our annual shoebox appeal. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to think about others who will not otherwise receive gifts at Christmas - children, babies and the elderly.

Full details are in the letter and leaflet that we sent with the weekly mailing this week.

Please take time over the half-term break to put your shoebox together.

Please then return your completed shoebox to school by Monday, 13th November at the very latest.

Thank you for your generous support!!

E-mail equestrian@st-teresas.com Call

Visit our website www.st-teresas.com/ equestrian

01372 750257

Or find us on Facebook “St Teresa’s

Booking System st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk

We hope that you have had a good week and are looking forward to the half term.

STE will be running our usual activities during the half term, such as Pony Mornings, Intro to Dressage Afternoons, Day Camps and Private Lessons. There are still some spaces left, so have a look on our booking site or email the office to find out what availability is left.

As the weather has been very unpredictable in recent weeks, please can you make sure your child comes dressed appropriately to their lessons. Please pack a jumper and waterproof coat. Hoodies should not be worn, and if they are we will ask to tuck the hoods in before being around the horses.

And if your child cannot attend one of their lessons, then please let the office know by phone or by email, or the lesson can be cancelled on the booking site. As if you wish to cancel a lesson, we do require 48hrs notice or more in order to offer credit.

Reminder on the Autumn Term Riding Dates

Half Term – Monday 23rd October to Sunday 5th November Lessons run from: Monday 6th November to Saturday 9th December Adhoc / Catch up lessons – w/c 11th December

NSEA News This weekend is the National Schools Championships at Addington! The Effingham Schools has a selection of students who are competing in teams or individually across the four days.

We wish you all the best of luck!

If you want to find out how they got on, we will look to post their results on the St Teresa’s Equestrian Facebook page sometime next week.

Menu—w/c Monday 6th November Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Prep

Creamy chicken curry & rice

Freshly baked pizza slice

Roast turkey / chicken & Yorkshire pudding

Pasta carbonara / chicken wraps

Cod goujons / cod fishfingers

Main

Chicken tikka masala with rice & poppadum’s

Pepperoni pizza slice with chef’s salad

Chef’s carvery – Roast Turkey breast with Yorkshire pudding

Pasta carbonara

Traditional battered fish / jumbo fishfingers

Eat healthy choice

Beef meatballs in a fresh tomato sauce & wholewheat fusilli pasta

Chargrilled chicken Caesar salad

Soy & honey glazed pork loin steak with rice noodles & Asian greens

Poached salmon with nut free pesto pasta & olive salad

Vegetarian

Vegetable & chick pea curry & rice

Cheese & t omato pizza slice

Rice / pasta Broccoli

Baked wedges Carrots

Stuffed peppers filled with roasted vegetables in a tomato sauce topped with halloumi Roast potatoes Mixed vegetables

Chicken fajitas with peppers & red onions served with grated cheese & sour cream & chives & chef’s salad Roasted butternut squash & pea risotto

Roasted new potatoes Sweetcorn

Chips Peas

Additional

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Dessert

Apple pie & custard

Choc chip & coconut flapjack slice

Rice pudding with a selection of sauce

Victoria sandwich slice

Chocolate milkshakes

Sides

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

No meat meat balls in a tomato sauce