Friday 24 May 2013 IS S U E 24 2
What’s New? Weekly Newsletter from New Hall Preparatory School
In this issue, Story Competition P.2 Jazz Evening P.2 Kwik Cricket P.3
Forthcoming Events
SAT 25 MAY—SUN 2 JUN Half Term SUN 2 JUN All boarders return MON 3 JUN All pupils return TUE 4 JUN 12.30—3.30pm U11A/U11B Girls & U11 Boys Chelmsford Sports Partnership Kwik Cricket Finals THU 6 JUN 2.00—4.00pm U8/U9 Boys & Girls Athletics v Elm Green, Widford Lodge, St Cedd's & FKS School (H) FRI 7 JUN 2.00—4.00pm U10/U11 Girls & Boys Athletics v Elm Green, Widford Lodge, St Cedds & FKS School (H) SAT 8 JUN 12.00—2.00pm Teddy Bears' Picnic for prospective families interested in Pre-Reception entry
Mathematics Challenge Last week, New Hall Preparatory School took part in the Littlegarth Preparatory School Mathematics Challenge. New Hall successfully outperformed the hosts, which was very commendable. Last year, New Hall came 5th out of seven high performing preparatory schools. This year, the pupils secured an outstanding 4th place. There were eight rounds of open ended tasks, each lasting 20 minutes each, involving 2-D shapes, 3-D shapes, number families, brain challenges, memory and communication games, loop cards and puzzles. The work was set at level 6, 7 and 8, covering the type of skills usually expected at Key Stage 3 (Year 7 -9) - this gives you an idea of the level of challenge that they faced! The team; Callum Westwood (6M), Samantha Whetstone (6M), Samuel Jones (6M) and Rebecca Jeffrey (6M); were great ambassadors for the school and worked exceptionally well as a team. Mr Shah was very impressed with the Learning Habits and Scholarly Habits that they all displayed.
PRE-RECEPTION POLICE VISIT The Chelmsford community support police visited the pupils in Pre-Reception this week as part of their topic 'people who help us'. They caused much excitement as they arrived in a police car and parked outside Pre-Reception. The children were given the opportunity to sit inside and were even allowed to turn on the blue flashing lights! Afterwards, they learnt about what the police do, how to stay safe and were also shown some of the police uniform. Many thanks to the police for their time in making it such an enjoyable and informative event for everyone.