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What’s New? Weekly Newsletter from New Hall Senior School
In this issue, Design Trip P.2 Cross Country P.3 Ice Skating P.3
Forthcoming Events
FRI 15—TUE 19 FEB Years 9-11 Madrid Trip SAT 16—FRI 23 FEB Years 8-9 Ski Trip to Switzerland MON 18 FEB Own a Pony Day at Runningwell Equestrian Centre MON 18 FEB 10.00am—3.30pm Year 12 A Level Art Workshop SUN 24 FEB Boarders return
Lent Begins During Lent we are asked to: pray, give generously to others and to fast. At New Hall we will be having ‘soup lunches’ from time to time and the money we save will be given to charity. The Chaplaincy team will be organising events to raise money for the Religious Community’s work in Africa and also CAFOD. This started on Tuesday when a team, led by the Chaplaincy Prefects, sold pancakes to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.
As we start the period of Lent, Father Nick reminded us that the notion of ‘giving something up for Lent’ isn’t done so we can find favour from God, but that we should use this time to find ways of seeking Him further. NEW HALL IN TOP 50 New Hall School has been announced as being one of the top 50 co-ed boarding schools in the UK, in the independent boarding schools league tables, based on A Level results for 2012. We are immensely proud of our students’ results, which enable New Hall to be part of this elite group of schools.
ASH WEDNESDAY The Senior School marked Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent with a lunchtime Mass attended by students, parents, staff and friends of New Hall. During the Mass, Father Nick distributed Ashes to those attending. Ashes are traditionally obtained from the burning of Palm Crosses from the previous year’s Easter celebrations and gives Ash Wednesday its name. They remind us of our own mortality and call us to repentance.
BBC RADIO QUIZ All this week, New Hall Senior School has been taking part in the BBC Essex School Quiz. Each day a different teacher and student competed against each other, live on the radio, answering questions from their chosen specialist subjects. After a fierce battle all week, the staff are currently in the lead with 7-6. The final round will take place this afternoon, at around 3.25pm, between Mr Sidwell and Connie Day (Year 8). You can listen by tuning to 103.5 or 95.3fm or online at bbc.co.uk/essex.
MON 25 FEB Day students return U14A/B Girls Netball v Bishop’s Stortford College
MUSIC EXAMINATIONS Congratulations to Elizabeth Read (Year 7) who passed her Grade 5 Theory examination at the end of last year.
7.00—8.00pm Sri Lanka Cricket Tour Parent Information Meeting 1