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

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.

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

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.