HESKETH HOUSE NEWSLETTER
Year 5
1st Place Sienna Shum
2nd Place Prakruti Padaki
3rd Place Sophie Andrews
Beginners
1st Place Annie Done-Jackson
2nd Place Layla Jones
3rd Place Selina de Carpentier
Year 6
1st Place Emily Guo
2nd Place Ryanna Hung
3rd Place Gabriella Chan
Strings
1st Place Stephanie Li
2nd Place Amelia Tickle
3rd Place Maya de Carpentier
Hesketh House Music Festival
Tuesday 14 February
Tuesday’s Music Festival saw a wide range of girls and instruments, in another wonderful day of music. Mr Daniel Chandler was the adjudicator for these sessions and really enjoyed all of the performances, giving some very positive and useful feedback. Again, congratulations to all our musicians!
Mixed Class
1st Place Annie Done-Jackson
Vocal
1st Place Beatrix Snape
2nd Place Anika Shetty
3rd Place Tullah Maher
FEBRUARY
17
2023
Ensembles
1st Place Year 5 and Year 6 Choir
MFL Day
Thursday 16 February
A huge ‘thank you’ to Miss Fairclough for all her efforts in pulling this event together and to Mr Death for his skilled accompanying.
Top performers from all categories have been invited to take part in our Celebratory Concert on Wednesday 1 March, 7.00pm. Letters have been given to the girls, a copy can be found here Please note that parking will be available in the Upper Tudor Avenue Staff Car Park that evening.
If ourMusic Festival has inspired your daughter to consider taking up an instrument, then more information about our instrumental teachers can be found here.
Jump Extreme
Wednesday 15 February
Pupils from across the Primary Division enjoyed an evening at Jump Xtreme, raising over £600 for our Malawi Fundraising campaign, as well as having lots of fun – thank you to everyone who came along!
The girls enjoyed a fabulous day yesterday, on a voyage of discovery about the country they have been selected to represent in our own version of Eurovision, taking place later in the year! As well as learning and performing a song, they need to produce a presentation about the country itself and learn some key words and phrases – including hello and goodbye. Final performances will be judged in a special event after the Easter holiday.
EPSCA Chess Competition
Saturday 18 February
Team
Simar Chandhok
Noor Khunda
Stephanie Li
Vaani Malik
Naya Patel
Tulsi Patel
Good luck to the girls playing in this National Competition tomorrow. We will let youknowhow they get on in our next Newsletter.
Kidzone Half Term Holiday Club
The programme of activities and booking information can be found here.
BSSL February Sports Camp
Thank you also for your overwhelming response to donating unwanted dresses, stationery and toiletries so that 110 orphans are able to begin school in Malawi later this year. We are still collecting, so additional contributions welcome!
BSS Leisure are also running activities during the half term holiday, more information is here.
HESKETH HOUSE NEWSLETTER 17 FEBRUARY 2023
Book Fair
Tuesday 28 February – Thursday 2 March
The Book Fair will be in school after half term, from Tuesday 28 February until the end of the day on Thursday 2 March, World Book Day. Girls will have the opportunity to visit the Book Fair with their class to purchase books. We will also open on Wednesday and Thursday 4.00pm – 4.30pm, in case parents want to pop in too. On this occasion, all payments will need to be made in cash please.
World Book Day 2023
Thursday 2 March
We invite you to come to school dressed as any character from fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
In addition to dressing up, we would like you to bring a book from home to school on World Book Day, to share with your friends and classmates. It might be a story book, a non-fiction title, a quiz book or a poetry book. Please remember to take a bookmark template from your classroom, write your name and class on it and pop it inside your book from home so that it won’t get mislaid and can be safely returned to you at the end of the day.
All girls should have received a £1 WBD voucher this week, which can be used to part purchase any book, including those in our Book Fair. The £1 vouchers can also be used in any bookstore to buy specially commissioned books written for World Book Day.
Parents’ Association Meeting
Monday 13 March 5pm Hesketh House
The next meeting will take place on Monday 13 March at 5.00pm. Any interested parents are welcome to join us, and in particular it would be good to get a few Year 6 parents if possible as one of the events to be discussed is the Year 6 Leavers’ Celebration. Please note that children are not able to attend as there is no supervision available for them at this time and it is not appropriate for them to be in the meeting.
Year 6 Bikeability
6G Tuesday 9 May, Wednesday 10 May
6F Thursday 11 May, Friday 12 May
Year 6 girls will have the opportunity to take part in Bolton Council’s Bikeability programme early in the summer term. More information has been sent home, a copy of the letter can be found here and the consent form is here Consent forms must be returned to school by Friday 17 March if you wish your daughter to take part.
Patterdale Hall Trips – Summer Term 2023
The dates of our visits are as follows:
Year 3 Tuesday 2 May – Wednesday 3 May
Year 4 Monday 22 May – Wednesday 24 May
Year 5 Wednesday 24 May – Friday 26 May
Year 6 Monday 15 May – Friday 19 May
All pupils are expected to take part in these trips.
There will be anInformation Evening on Thursday 23 March when we will be giving pupils and parents more details about what to expect. We would particularly recommend that you attend if your child has not been to Patterdale Hall before
Junior Bake Off
HESKETH HOUSE NEWSLETTER 17 FEBRUARY 2023
SPORT REPORT
U11 AJIS Football
Friday 10 February
Team
Gabriella Chan Simar Chandhok
Hattie Drake Emily Guo
Eve Kelsall Ava Lafferty
Tulsi Patel Poppy Rate
Molly Wilkinson Ella Wrigley
Well done to the U11 football team who took part in the AJIS Football Competition last Friday. After the first round of games we were second in the group and went through to the cup competition. Unfortunately, we had some tough matches and failed to progress to the finals, however the girls thoroughly enjoyed the day and gained some valuable experience. Well done!
Year 6 A Team
Shalom Chigara
Petra Critchley
Taliah Dean
Tabitha McNair
Fleur Oxley-Harrison
Alexia Pattle
Jessica Shannon
Beau Strange
Year 6 B Team
Aamina Akram
Ryanna Hung
Reem Ibrahim
Stephanie Li
Ariella Manivannan
Isobel Mitchell
Mariyah Patel
Imogen Quint
The Year 6 teams also ejoyed excellent results in their fixtures, with theA Team winning 24 – 13 and the B Team winning 11 – 3 Taliah and Ariella were voted as ‘Player of the Match’ in their games. Once again, it was good sportsmanship and considerable effort that were highlighted, alongside some excellent netballing skills.
Year 4 Hockey Festival
Monday 13 February
Year 4 and Year 6 Netball v Scarisbrick
Friday 10 February
Year 4
Jennifer Irving
Isla Jairath
Aadya Kumar
Lily McCairn
Amaia Onuoha
Alivia Smith
Hurrem Subhani
The Year 4 girls played very well, trying out lots of new positions over the course of the match. There were some lovely passages of play and lots of positives, with great development of skills. We were delighted to win the game 12-0, with Amaia being voted as ‘Player of the Match’. Well done to all!
Players
Amelia Gittins
Jennifer Irving
Isla Jairath
Aaminah Sidat
A group of Year 4 girls, alongside some boys from Park Road, took partin the BoltonSchools’ Hockey Festival. For most of our young players, this was their first time playing hockey. They enjoyed a quick skills session at the beginning of the event and quickly got the hang of the basics of the game, which they were then able to use during a series of short games. It was lovely to see how much everyone progressed in such a short space of time and they all left inspired to pick up a hockey stick again in the near future.
HESKETH HOUSE NEWSLETTER 17 FEBRUARY 2023
HESKETH HOUSE NEWSLETTER 17 FEBRUARY 2023
As it was a festival, no official count of match scores was kept, however it was good to see that the boys drew all of their games, while the girls drew two and won two. Well done to all involved.
Tuesday 28 February SPRING TERM RESUMES
Tuesday 28 February
Book Fair in School this week
Wednesday 1 March Celebratory Concert 7.00pm Arts Centre
Thursday 2 March World Book Day Swimming v Westholme (A)
Friday 3 March Y5, Y6 Netball v Bury (A)
Monday 6 March Parents’ Evenings this week (online)
Tuesday 7 March Y5 Netball v Manchester High TBC
Wednesday 8 March Dance Festival (Street Dance Club) Bolton Albert Halls 6.00pm
Thursday 9 March 6G Sailing pm
Year 5 Hockey Festival
Thursday 16 February, Stockport
Team
Kyla Chenda-Joseph Sahana Jacobs
Eve Kelsall Alice Lomas
Alexa Pattle Bronwen Soper
Orla Wilson
Well done to the Year 5 hockey team, who took part in their first competitive festival on Thursday. Mrs Faulkner was particualrly impressed with the determination of the girls and the excellent progress made over the course of the day.
Friday 10 March Y6 AJIS Netball
Thursday 16 March Y5 AJIS Netball TBC Bridgewater Hall Concert (Choir, Strings, Woodwind) 7.00pm
Friday 17 March Comic Relief
Tuesday 21 March House Day
Wednesday 22 March Author Visit – Stephanie Sorrell TBC
Thursday 23 March Y6 Trip to Stockport Air Raid Shelter Patterdale Hall Meeting 7.00pm
Friday 24 March Y5 / Y6 House Netball Y3 / Y4 House Dodgeball ESSA Swimming
Saturday 25 March AJIS Quiz
Tuesday 28 March Y5 Viking Day
Wednesday 29 March Y5 Architecture Workshop TERM ENDS 4.00PM
Summer Term 2023
Start of Term – Monday 17 April
Bank Holiday – Monday 1 May
Half Term – Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Saturday
18 February EPSCA Chess Competition
Monday 20 February
HALF TERM
End of Term – Friday 7 July 3.25pm
