Habs Girls Weekly Bulletin Junior School - 8 March 2024

Head of Junior School’s message

It was incredible to see your amazing support on Tuesday for the MiniDash If you haven’t already, please take 3 minutes to watch the Habs Community Partnerships video, one of three videos on the website’s carousel. It is wonderful: https://habs.givingday.co.uk/

Head of Junior School’s continue…

On Thursday, we celebrated World Book Day; it was a joy to see the diverse array of book characters, each one reflecting the unique personalities and interests of the girls. The day was further enriched by an inspirational visit from author Holly Webb, who shared many intriguing, animal-related and often humorous sources of the ideas on which some of her books were based. She read several extracts from a range of her texts demonstrating a range of story elements to the pupils. The girls also enjoyed a very special story read by the teaching team in assembly.

Thank you once again for your participation and support

Mrs Claire Brown Head of Junior School

Giving Day Update THANK YOU!

A remarkable 340 Junior and Prep parents turned out on Tuesday 5 March for the third annual MiniDash in support of Habs Giving Day 2024. In total, 1,733 students, parents and staff participated in either the MiniDash or GivingDash that day. That is significantly more than last year and nearly double the turnout for the inaugural Giving Day in 2021.

A one-minute video of the morning and a selection of photos are available here. Please take a moment to watch these Habs Community Partnerships and Bursary Fund videos, they are both three minutes long.

Parents who ran in the MiniDash will be sent a link to a portfolio containing dozens more images.

Gifts are continuing to come in; so far, the total contribution currently stands at £220,000 from 556 donors. Thank you to all those who made a gift and/or took part in the MiniDash!

Cornflower Assembly

Friday 1 March

Friday afternoon assemblies are always a time of joy and celebration in the Junior School. Our weekly Cornflower Assembly celebrates individuals who have particularly demonstrated ways in which they have embodied our school values: Courage Curiosity Community and Ambition. We cherish our Cornflower Assemblies and hope that you enjoy celebrating with us too.

Ambition

Aleeza (1 Purple)

Anaya (2 Ansuz)

Moksha (3A)

Avni (3 Alpha)

Evie (4 Aesc)

Livi (5 Aleph)

Sasha (6 Aesc)

Sienna (6 Aleph)

Community

Rhyah (5 Aleph)

Isabel (6 Aesc)

Courage

Audrey (1 Orange)

Sanam (2 Alpha)

Amy (3 Alpha)

Amyra (4 Aesc)

Taneya (4 Aleph)

Athena (4 Aleph)

Niamh (5 Aesc)

Annika (5 Aesc)

Charlotte (6 Aleph)

Curiosity

Alana (Rainbow Blue)

Luna (Rainbow Blue)

Victoria (Rainbow Red)

Lara (1 Purple)

Moon (2 Ansuz)

Talia (3A)

Rainbow to Year 6 Information

Lunch Menu

WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 11 MARCH

Please click here to view our Rainbow and KS1 lunch menu.

Please click here to view our KS2 lunch menu.

IMPORTANT REMINDER

Please take some time to look at the menu with your child, in advance. If your child has any food intolerances, please ensure they understand the food choices for each day. Pupils have been reminded that there are always Allergy Champions in the serveries who they can speak to if they are unsure about appropriate food choices for them.

Snacks

IMPORTANT REMINDER

Please kindly remember that, in line with government guidance, grapes or olives should be cut in half and cherries should be de-stoned if these foods are brought in for snacks. A full list of permitted breaktime snacks can be found in the Parent Information Booklet.

Outgrown Uniform Sale

THURSDAY 14 MARCH

Please click here to view the flyer.

RoyalAcademy YoungArtists’Summer Show 2024

COMPETITION DEADLINE WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH

Please click here to view the letter.

Wet Weather - Uniform Reminder

REMINDER

With the wetter weather now upon us, please may we remind all families that all pupils will be outside before school and for breaktimes and lunchtimes and as such, need to wrap up warmly with their waterproof school coat, remembering that long socks or tights should be worn with winter uniform. Only school uniform colour (matching the version of uniform your child is wearing) hats, scarves and gloves should be worn; all items must be clearly named. Please click here to review the information about the new uniform phasing in plans.

Relationships and Sex Education

SPRING 2 TO SUMMER TERM

Please click here to view an explanatory letter.

RAINBOW TO YEAR 6 INFORMATION

Design a Bookmark Competition!

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES MONDAY 18 MARCH

The Junior Library are launching a voluntary competition to coincide World Book Day, inviting pupils to design a bookmark celebrating our enjoyment of reading. Pupils wishing to enter should use our entry form, which contains all the instructions and a space to design their bookmark. Entries should be returned to the Junior Library.

The entry form can be downloaded here, or hard copies are available from Junior Library during lunchtimes and library lessons.

Winners will be selected from across the year groups, and the winning designs will be professionally printed as bookmarks. These will be available for all our Junior School pupils from the Junior Library once printed.

The closing date for entries is Monday 18 March.

We look forward to seeing all the students’ ideas and sharing the winners’ designs with you all.

RAINBOW TO YEAR 6 INFORMATION CONTINUED

Comic Relief

FRIDAY 15 MARCH

We will be raising awareness for Comic Relief. We would like the children to learn a joke that they can share on the playground stage during morning break and lunchtime. Some of the best jokes will be shared during our Cornflower Assembly on Friday afternoon. We can't wait to raise a smile and a laugh!

Family Friday

We look forward to our next Spring Term Family Friday event on 22 March, giving an opportunity for your daughters in Rainbow and Years 2, 4 and 6 to share their work and learning environment with you.

An additional date for Rainbow only is detailed in the Rainbow section– page 12

Key date:

Friday 22 March 2024 (8am to 8.30am)

Rainbow, Years 2, Year 4 and Year 6, followed by Parent Talks

Classrooms will be open from 8am, please enter the school via the double doors between reception and Rainbow garden, and you are welcome to pop in any time up until 8.30am, when we will revert to normal registration and lessons. In line with our safeguarding policy, no taking of photos or filming is permitted during the Family Friday sessions.

On arrival at school, please use the car park, as opposed to the drop off lanes, and walk to the Junior School. The middle doors will be open from 8am and, from there, you will head to your child’s classroom, where you will sign in. If you have more than one child involved in the event, older siblings will collect their work and meet you in the classroom of the younger sibling.

Should you be unable to join your child, they will have the opportunity to bring home some of the work to share with you the evening before. If you would like your child to bring work home because you are unable to attend, please contact their class teacher.

Family Friday teacher-led workshops

We are continuing to offer a range of short teacher-led workshops . These will take place between 8.30am and 9am, straight after Family Friday class-based time; these will consist of a short talk followed by an opportunity to ask related questions. The workshops will be repeated in both halves of the term, and you are welcome to attend even if your daughter’s year group do not have Family Friday on that date. The programme for this half term is:

Spring Term (Friday 22 March 2024)

• Using Devices to Complement Learning

• Developing a Curious Mind

• Negotiating Friendships

If you have not yet indicated your intention to attend a workshop, please use this form to do so.

RAINBOW TO YEAR 6 INFORMATION CONTINUED

Off Timetable Week

MONDAY 25 TO WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH

Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 March is our off- timetable week. This year we have chosen to celebrate diversity and inclusion, with a focus on valuing and respecting differences in gender, race, culture, religion and the ways in which we learn. The activities we have chosen will promote the value of our individual differences in creating strong teams and communities. There will be drama and dance workshops as well as age-appropriate information sessions about different disabilities highlighting the importance of representing everyone in society. On the final day, the children will be working in houses to create performances for the rest of the school. As many of the sessions will be quite active, they will be allowed to wear their PE tracksuits for this week.

As part of this week, we would like to put together a Diversity and Inclusion online booklet to share with parents, children and staff. This will include pictures of the activities that have taken place during the week, but we’d like to extend it further to invite you to submit anything that reflects your family and community: this could be a family recipe, information about a local charity that does amazing work in your local area, photographs of one of your family/religious celebrations, a poem that you or your child loves with a theme of inclusion, a picture your child has drawn to represent the things that are important to her. You may also have other ideas that we haven’t thought of that would also be perfect for our Diversity and Inclusion booklet, so please do email over anything that you think is appropriate. Please email any contributions or questions to js-dot3d@habsgirls.org.uk by Monday 25 March

Wraparound Care & Coach Service -Wednesday 27 March

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

On Wednesday 27 March, the last day of the Spring Term, After School Care will run from 3.30 to 4pm only

All students must either be collected from school at 4pm or use the 4.15pm coach service. There will be no 5.30pm coach service running on this day.

Wraparound Care BOOKING

LINK

Please click here to book your daughter into Wraparound Care.

Parent Handbook

REMINDER

Please click here to review the Parent Information Booklet for 2023/24.

Tooled Up

REMINDER

Following Dr. Kathy Weston’s visit to school earlier this term, please once again be reminded that all families have free access to Tooled Up Education, which is packed full of evidencebased resources, for parents on all aspects of parenting, education and family life. The School PIN for logging in is HGJ2009. We would ask that parents do not share this log-in outside of the Habs Junior School community.

Year 1 toYear 6

Spring TermACE - Lunch Time and Wraparound

REMINDER

All Spring Term ACE activities will end on Friday 22 March. There will be no ACE on the final three days of term.

ACE Karate

SUNDAY 17 MARCH

Please click here to view a letter from Mr Patel regarding upcoming Karate grading on Sunday 17 March, deadline Monday 11 March.

Rainbow

Rainbow Parents Evenings

TUESDAY 12 & MONDAY 18 MARCH 2024

We are looking forward to welcoming Rainbow parents into school on Tuesday 12 March and Monday 18 March from 4pm to 6pm on both afternoons, for the appointments with your daughter's class teacher to discuss their progress this term. Each appointment will be 10 minutes long and these will take place in Year 1 classrooms; your child's Rainbow classroom will also be open for you to view.

Please arrive via the Junior School reception, where you will be signed in by a member of staff. We kindly ask you to make childcare arrangements so that you can attend without your children. There will be no supervision of pupils outside After School Care.

If you wish to use After School Care for supervision, you must book through the normal channels even if you are only using part of a session, remembering that this is chargeable after 4pm. We have a limit to the number of children that can be accommodated, so booking a place is essential. Please click here to book your daughter into After School Care.

The online booking system for Parents’ Evening appointments is now closed. If for any reason you need to amend your booking, please contact Mrs Karaolou directly on 0208 266 2425 before Tuesday 12 March.

Year 1

ACE KS1 Ballet Performance

TUESDAY 12 MARCH

Parents of children in KS1 Ballet are invited to attend their performance during their session on Tuesday 12 March from 3.30pm to 4.15pm in the Performance Space. If you would like to attend, please come to Junior School reception at 3:25pm, where you will be signed in and escorted to the Performance Space.

ACE Year 1 & Year 2 Joint Performing Arts Performance

FRIDAY 22 MARCH

Parents of children in the joint Year 1 and Year 2 Performing Arts ACE are invited to attend their performance during their session on Friday 22 March from 4.15pm to 4.30pm in the PrePrep Hall. If you would like to attend, please come to Habs’ Boys’ Pre-Prep Reception at 4.15pm, where you will be signed in and escorted to the Pre-Prep Hall .

Year 2

Year 2 Playstrings Performance

TUESDAY 12 MARCH

Parents of pupils currently involved in the Playstrings violin scheme, led by Mrs Boyle, are warmly invited to sit in on their daughter’s last session this term. This will take the form of an informal performance on Tuesday 12 March at the following times:

2 A 9.15 am to 10.15am

2 Ansuz 11 05am to 12 10pm

2 Alpha 2.25pm to 3.25pm

If you would like to attend the performance for your daughter’s class and see what the girls have been getting up to on the Playstrings course, please park in the visitors' car park and follow the signage straight to the Sime Hall, where you will be asked to sign in. We look forward to welcoming you

ACE KS1 Ballet Performance

TUESDAY 12 MARCH

Parents of children in KS1 Ballet are invited to attend their performance during their session on Tuesday 12 March from 3.30pm to 4.15pm in the Performance Space. If you would like to attend, please come to Junior School reception at 3:25pm, where you will be signed in and escorted to the Performance Space.

ACE Year 1 & Year 2 Joint Performing Arts Performance

FRIDAY 22 MARCH

Parents of children in the joint Year 1 and Year 2 Performing Arts ACE are invited to attend their performance during their session on Friday 22 March from 4.15pm to 4.30pm in the PrePrep Hall. If you would like to attend, please come to Habs’ Boys’ Pre-Prep Reception at 4.15pm, where you will be signed in and escorted to the Pre-Prep Hall .

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note Morning Club (8.10am) will not be running on the following dates:

Tuesday 19 March

Monday 25 March

Tuesday 26 March

Wednesday 27 March

Tuesday 16 April

Wednesday 17 April

Thursday 25 April

Friday 26 April

Year 3

KS2ACE Ballet Performance

TUESDAY 12 MARCH

Parents of children in KS2 Ballet are invited to attend their performance during their session on Tuesday 12 March from 4.20pm to 5pm in the Prevett Hall. If you would like to attend, please come to Junior School reception at 4.15pm, where you will be signed in and escorted to the Performance Space.

ACE-Joint Junior Orchestra

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Girls attending Joint Junior Orchestra are invited to two additional rehearsals. These will take place at lunch time on Monday 11 March and Monday 18 March in Classroom C in the Seldon Music Building at the Boys’ School. Please remind them to bring in their instrument on these days.

Morning Club (Mathletics, Word Shark and Touch Typing)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note Morning Club (8.10am) will not be running on the following dates:

Tuesday 19 March

Monday 25 March

Tuesday 26 March

Wednesday 27 March

Tuesday 16 April

Wednesday 17 April

Thursday 25 April

Friday 26 April

Year 4

Year 4 Production 'Peter Pan' photographs and recording

PHOTOGRAPH DEADLINE 8PM THIS SATURDAY 9 MARCH

Photographs taken at the dress rehearsal of 'Peter Pan' are available to view and purchase. Please use this link to view a slideshow of all the images available to purchase..

Please use this form to order photographs no later than Saturday 9 March by 8pm.

All proceeds from photograph sales will be donated to the St Catherine Parents' Guild. A recording of the production is available for you to view here

KS2ACE Ballet Performance

TUESDAY 12 MARCH

Parents of children in KS2 Ballet are invited to attend their performance during their session on Tuesday 12 March from 4.20pm to 5pm in the Prevett Hall. If you would like to attend, please come to Junior School reception at 4.15pm, where you will be signed in and escorted to the Performance Space.

ACE-Joint Junior Orchestra

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Girls attending Joint Junior Orchestra are invited to two additional rehearsals. These will take place at lunch time on Monday 11 March and Monday 18 March in Classroom C in the Seldon Music Building at the Boys’ School. Please remind them to bring in their instrument on these days.

Morning Club (Mathletics, Word Shark and Touch Typing)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note Morning Club (8.10am) will not be running on the following dates:

Tuesday 19 March

Monday 25 March

Tuesday 26 March

Wednesday 27 March

Tuesday 16 April

Wednesday 17 April

Thursday 25 April

Friday 26 April

Year 5

KS2ACE Ballet Performance

TUESDAY 12 MARCH

Parents of children in KS2 Ballet are invited to attend their performance during their session on Tuesday 12 March from 4.20pm to 5pm in the Prevett Hall. If you would like to attend, please come to Junior School reception at 4.15pm, where you will be signed in and escorted to the Performance Space.

ACE-Joint Junior Orchestra

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Girls attending Joint Junior Orchestra are invited to two additional rehearsals. These will take place at lunch time on Monday 11 March and Monday 18 March in Classroom C in the Seldon Music Building at the Boys’ School. Please remind them to bring in their instrument on these days.

Morning Club (Mathletics, Word Shark and Touch Typing)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note Morning Club (8.10am) will not be running on the following dates:

Tuesday 19 March

Monday 25 March

Tuesday 26 March

Wednesday 27 March

Tuesday 16 April

Wednesday 17 April

Thursday 25 April

Friday 26 April

Jazz Summer School 2024

Please click here for more information.

Habs Indian Music Course 2024

Please click here for more information.

Year 6

KS2ACE Ballet Performance

TUESDAY 12 MARCH

Parents of children in KS2 Ballet are invited to attend their performance during their session on Tuesday 12 March from 4.20pm to 5pm in the Prevett Hall. If you would like to attend, please come to Junior School reception at 4.15pm, where you will be signed in and escorted to the Performance Space.

ACE-Joint Junior Orchestra

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Girls attending Joint Junior Orchestra are invited to two additional rehearsals. These will take place at lunch time on Monday 11 March and Monday 18 March in Classroom C in the Seldon Music Building at the Boys’ School. Please remind them to bring in their instrument on these days.

Morning Club (Mathletics, Word Shark and Touch Typing)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please note Morning Club (8.10am) will not be running on the following dates:

Tuesday 19 March

Monday 25 March

Tuesday 26 March

Wednesday 27 March

Tuesday 16 April

Wednesday 17 April

Thursday 25 April

Friday 26 April

Year 6 Play Rehearsal

SUNDAY 9 JUNE

Thank you to those of you who completed the form confirming your daughter's availability to attend a planned rehearsal on Sunday 9 June. We have decided to schedule a full day rehearsal, which will run from 10am to 3pm with a break for lunch. Girls who can attend only a morning or an afternoon rehearsal will be able to join when they can. More information will follow next term.

Jazz Summer School 2024

Please click here for more information.

Habs Indian Music Course 2024

Please click here for more information.

Tuesday 19 March, 8am to 9am Boys’Prep Hall

Neurodiversity Parent GroupCoffee Morning

Rainbow to Year 6

On Tuesday 19 March, the Individual Needs teams across the Girls’ Junior and Boys’ Prep schools will be hosting a coffee morning from 8am to 9am in the Boys’ Prep Hall. This is the first of a series of coffee mornings that we will be running that aim to share good ideas and strategies for supporting children with learning differences. Anyone who has an interest in neurodiversity is welcome to come along. In this initial meeting we will be telling you a little bit more about how we support pupils through our departments, as well as sharing the resources we use and directing you to the website Tooled Up via a video that Dr. Kathy Weston has prepared for us, signposting useful materials Home - Tooled Up Education. We also hope that this will be an opportunity for you to meet other parents. If you would like to attend this meeting, please register using the link below.

Year 3 to Year 6 Tuesday 19 March, 7pm Prevett Hall

Junior PerformingArts Evening

You are warmly invited to our Junior Performing Arts Evening, which will take place on Tuesday 19 March at 7pm in the Prevett Hall The evening is entitled 'A Celebration of Music, Dance and Drama through the Ages', and will feature the following:

KS2 Chorus - this involves every pupil from Year 3 to Year 6

Junior Orchestra

Junior Choir

Senior Choir

Brass Ensemble

Guitar Ensemble

Super Saxes

Recorder Consort (formerly Descant Recorders)

Year 3 Recorders

Golden Bones

Junior Chamber Strings

Fabulous Four-Stringers

KS2 Performing Arts Club

Joint Year 5 Performance Squad

Flamenco Dance

There will also be solo and small group items interspersed in the programme, provided by performers from Year 5 and Year 6

Please note that girls in the ensembles and the Year 5 and Year 6 solo/group performers will need to bring their instruments into school for a rehearsal on the day of the concert

For the concert itself, the Joint Year 5 Performance Squad should arrive at the Prevett Hall at 6pm and instrumentalists no later than 6.15pm, and the rest of the pupils who are taking part should arrive by 6.30pm. Pre-concert refreshments will be available for the audience in the Prevett Hall foyer. We expect the concert to end by 8.20pm.

Tickets for the evening can be reserved online using the box office from Friday 15 March at 9pm.

The box office booking link can be access via this link

There will be a limit of two tickets per family, priced at £5 each Students taking part in the concert do not need tickets. The booking form will close on Tuesday 19 March at 8am.

The dress for the evening is all black: plain black trousers or leggings and black top (with no embellishments) and plain black shoes and socks (school shoes are fine).

We look forward to seeing you at the Performing Arts Evening which promises to be a varied programme and a real showcase for all involved.

Rainbow to Year 6

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Sunday 30 June 12pm to 4pm

SPORTS FIXTURES

SPRING 2 2024

SUNDAY 9 MARCH

* Under 11 National Finals Milano Trio Gymnastics Competition

*Invite only via Evolve

JUNIOR SCHOOL CALENDAR DATES

SPRING TERM 2024

TUESDAY 12 MARCH

Year 2 Playstrings Performances

Rainbow Parents’ Evening 1

WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH

Year 1 Capel Manor Gardens Trip

THURSDAY 14 MARCH

Outgrown Uniform Sale

FRIDAY 15 MARCH

Year 1 Collaboration Pirate Treasure Hunt

MONDAY 18 MARCH

Rainbow Parents’ Evening 2

TUESDAY 19 MARCH

Neurodiversity Parent Group

Coffee Morning

Junior PerformingArts Evening

WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH

Class and Sport Team Photos

FRIDAY 22 MARCH

Family Friday – Rainbow, Years 2, Year 4 & Year 6

Family Friday Parent Workshops

MONDAY 25 TO WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH Off Timetable Week

THURSDAY 28 MARCH TO MONDAY 15 APRIL School Holidays

MONDAY 15 APRIL Staff Training Day (No Pupils In School)

TUESDAY 16 APRIL Summer Term begins

The reminder dates above cover the next four school weeks, if you require further information beyond this time frame, please refer to the school calendar on Firefly.