Issue 3
Autumn Term
19th Sept 2025
Dear Parents, What a great start to my week, witnessing about 40 of our Year 10 girls succeed at their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Expedition. The girls were a real testament to the resilience, humour and good-natured spirit that encapsulates St. Teresa’s. Well done everyone. Throughout the week the staff and girls have been busy completing baseline assessments for the year ahead. Conducted in this second week of term before fixtures commence enables the testing to be focused and disruption free. Now we need to strap in tight as the term starts to break into a run. Coming up next week are our first fixtures and tournaments of the season in Netball, Hockey, Swimming and an Aquathlon. Next Friday, sees the return of our FOST-organised ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ in aid of Macmillan, all are most warmly invited to attend a morning of coffee and cake. The following Monday we join Senior English Department colleagues and pupils for National Poetry Day with a visit from Kimba; we celebrate the Mass of St Therese together with Senior School (for the 1 st October – already); Year 6 parents are invited to attend the parent talk and tour of Senior School on the Thursday 2 nd October; and on the Friday we celebrate St. Francis with our Pet Blessing. Not to mention our preparations for our Harvest Celebration on October 10 th and a reminder of individual photographs the day before on Thursday 9th October – see Mrs. Johnson’s helpful ‘Diary Dates’ section below. I leave you with some reflections on resilience and being good-natured throughout: “Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” – Hugh Sidey “Since my barn burned down I now own a better view of the rising moon.” – Mizuta Masahide Best wishes, Gareth Tindall
Changes to Bus Schedules or End of Day Plans To make things smoother and safer, we've introduced the Vectare Travel App. If you haven't registered yet, please sign up at this link: Vectare Travel using your email address from iSAMS. You can make all the necessary changes on the website. If you need further help, please reach out to the transport team at effinghamschoolstrust@vectare.co.uk or transport@effinghamschools.org / 01372 750255. Any end of day changes, please email your class teacher and copy in the school office prepinfo@st-teresas.com.
Absence Notification & Evidence Form A reminder to complete this form if your child will be absent from Prep due to illness or other valid reasons. To ensure accurate attendance records, please upload evidence (e.g. appointment text, letter, or email) if the absence is due to a medical appointment. Wherever possible, appointments should be made outside school hours. A full letter will follow next week.