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Dear Parents and Girls, I was asked this week to contribute to an article on raising girls’ selfesteem. I have always believed that an essential part of building selfesteem is to encourage students to look outwards and away from the introspection that can often play too large a part in adolescence. This is why our Guild and other fund-raising activities are so important to us at BHHS. The Sixth Formers ran a wonderfully successful Fashion Show last night and we are all looking forward to dancing for Sports Relief next Friday. In the summer we’ll celebrate our 140th Birthday with a Race for Life. Involvement in these kinds of activities, raising money for, and awareness of, other less fortunate people makes us all feel good.

But benefits to our self-esteem don’t just come from giving generously. Recently the concept of gratitude has been the focus of research studies in psychology and neuroscience. The results are surprising: although expressing gratitude often means thanking someone else, the real benefit of feeling and expressing gratitude is gained by the person expressing gratitude. Even when expressed to no one in particular, expression of gratitude has some real and measurable benefits.

Among the benefits described by academic studies of the subject are increased happiness, better connections with others, and general improvement of one’s relationships.

Feeling grateful activates areas of the brain associated with the neuron- transmitter dopamine. An increase in dopamine makes us feel good and want to be more positive with others in order to keep that good feeling going. Thus we are happier, feel less depressed, and are kinder when we consistently practise the habit of feeling grateful.

I shall take this opportunity, then, to say to all our outward-looking girls (and their extremely generous parents) how grateful we are for everything you do to support our school’s charity and fund-raising activities throughout the year.

Have a good weekend.

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Jennifer Smith

Monday 14th National Science & Engineering week: Science Week launch assembly; Ethanol Rocket Challenge (Sports Hall), 1pm; 9G Guild Week; Hullabaloo Choir, 6:30-9:45pm; Tuesday 15th Informal concert, 1pm; Science Week: Richard Robinson; Family STEM Challenge, 6-7:30pm; Wednesday 16th Y8 HPV1; Science Week: Inter-house Engineering Challenge, 12:30-1:30pm (Labs 1 & 2); Y11 GCSE Drama moderation (tbc); Y11 GCSE Drama performance, 7pm; Thursday 17th Science Week InterHouse Quiz (in assembly); Mobile Planetarium (Hall) for Y10 P2 & 3; Y11-13 v Staff Dodgeball, 1pm; P4-5 Concert Rehearsal (tbc); Concert For Jacob, 7pm; Friday 18th Sports Relief Day & 12hr Dancea-thon (P1-Y7, P2-Y8, P3-Y9, P4-Y5-Y13, P5-Y10); Saturday 19th Y11 catch-up English controlled assessment, 9am-12 noon; Springboard Festival (Concerto); Sunday 20th House Play rehearsals 2015-16 Issue 20: 1

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friday 18th march dance-a-thon

The girls are all starting their preparations to ‘Jiggle Generously’ and the limited edition T-shirts are flying off the PE department shelves. If you would like to order one for your daughter then please make sure we receive your payment on Parentpay by 9am on Monday 14th otherwise we can’t guarantee it can be printed in time for Friday. This week the girls have all been making their time pledges and anticipating which hours they will be dancing next Friday. Please make sure you check with your daughter how much she’s putting down to do as we’ve got some seriously ambitious dancers out there! Girls in Years 7-10 will dance at least twice during the school day and can then choose how many additional hours they do either inside or outside of lesson time. Girls in Years 5,6, 11,12 & 13 will dance from 1:45pm until 2:45pm as part of the whole school dance. These year groups can also come either before or after school to dance and to raise more money. I’m delighted to say we’ve got some fabulous professional dancers from the world of Charleston, Hip Hop, Contemporary and Flamenco!

Please sponsor them as generously as you can, we’re aiming for £12,000 this year!

Miss James

crosscountry

The last Cross Country events of the winter for the Senior teams were held this week.

On Monday girls from Years 7-9 competed in the House Cross Country races at Hove Rec which was in conjunction with the KS2 races. It was sunny but very blustery and the Senior race was well contested. The winner was Grace White (Grey), closely followed by Kay Sheridan (Stanley) and in third place was Lauren Hull (Stanley).

Team placings were as follows - 1st Stanley (10 pts), 2nd Grey (17 pts), 3rd Gurney (26 pts) and 4th Lyttelton (40 pts). As well as running the girls played an active role overseeing the warm up session for the junior competitors and awarding their finishing discs.

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On Wednesday a team of Year 7 and 8 runners competed in the Lancing College races. The weather was unpleasant with driving rain and mud.

Josie Fast finished as the first girl, Kate Anderson was second and Charlotte Hausdoerfer, third. We were also the first girls team home and the first four finishers received team medals. Anya Loy was the fourth placed runner. Daisy Lampard- Sawyer, Grace Conley and Bea Dalley completed our Mrs Thomas team. Well done to all the runners who have competed this season.

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rockchallenge

‘Bedtime stories are when children’s imaginations are filled with characters from weird and wonderful places. Dreams take you to a world of suspended reality, full of nonsense and gobbledygook, where anything is possible. Our piece was inspired by Roald Dahl’s classic bedtime tales from; Matilda, The Twits, BFG, The Witches and George’s Marvelous medicine.’

Last Friday 70 girls performed their socks off in this year’s Rock Challenge piece ‘Nonsense & Gobbledegook’ at the Hawth Theatre in Crawley. The girls’ brilliance won us Awards of Excellence for - Lighting, Concept, Costuming character, Choreography, Drama, Performance skill, Stage Use, Sound Track, Visual Enhancement, Set Design & Function and Entertainment. We came second overall and also received a 10 year recognition award.

We’ve uploaded their performance onto the Dance page of Firefly for you to watch and enjoy. All our dancers have been asked not to throw anything away yet as there may be a chance that we get through to the finals in Portsmouth this summer! We do, however, need their walking sticks back as these were borrowed from parents and staff.

A huge well done to all the girls who worked really hard to create a piece in just three weeks. Thank you for all your energy, humour and commitment.

Miss James & Miss Reich-Riley Recommendations from the RE &Philosophy Department Mrs Dowglass

religious

11th March | Zoroastrian | FRAVARDIGAN FESTIVAL Festival of the Fravashis

popularly known as Muktad (All Souls). 13th March | Christian | PASSION SUNDAY Fifth Sunday in Lent, when Christians begin to concentrate their thoughts on the Passion or suffering of Jesus. 17th March | National | ST PATRICK’S DAY This is a day celebrated in honour of the patron saint of Ireland, who lived in Britain in the 4th century CE.

tv radio

Sunday 13th | BBC1, 10am | The Big Questions Ethical & religious issues in current affairs.

Tuesday 15th | BBC4, 7:30pm | Pagans and Pilgrims: Britain’s Holiest Places Uncovering stories behind

many famous UK holy sites and investigates what attracts people to them now their religious use is over. Friday 18th | Channel 4, 7:30pm | Unreported World - Muslim, Trans and Banned The Malaysian government has declared transgender people to be enemies of Islam and they are being forced to live in what human rights groups claim is one of the worst places in the world to be transgender.

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Visiting author Simon Packham and City Books helped us to celebrate World Book Day this year. Simon also judged our fantastic house short story competition. Congratulations to all who entered! Please visit the English department’s World Book Day page on Firefly where you can read the winning entries. All our talented writers out there should also visit the competitions page and, in particular, look for the GDST Laurie Magnus Poetry Prize details.

senior category

first prize: Eleanor Palmer, Lyttelton second prize: Miriam Ritterband, Grey third prize: Rani Martin, Gurney

junior category

first prize: Jessica Hunt, Stanley second prize: Theodora Dowglass, Gurney third prize: Mia Barrow, Grey

musicnews...

Tickets for our fund raising Concert for Jacob are rapidly disappearing so if you are wishing to attend then please can you purchase your tickets as soon as possible via Parentpay.

Please do not rely on tickets being available on the door.

A message to parents of all girls in Years 7 & 8 was sent out at the start of the week with a return slip. I would be grateful if these could be returned to me as soon as possible as I have to organise seating arrangements for the girls. If you did not receive this message then girls can pick up a copy at Reception.

We are hoping to raise a considerable amount for the Robert Eaton Memorial Fund, our sponsored charity for this year, so your support will be gratefully received.

Many congratulations to all of our girls who have performed so impressively over the past two weekends at the Springboard Festival, there have been many stunning performances. Best wishes to those of you who will be taking part over the next two weeks. If you gained a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in any class I would be grateful if you could pass on your certificates and cups to me so that they can be presented in Celebration Assembly at the end of term.

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BRIGHTON & HOVE HIGH SCHOOL GDST presents...

A Concert for Jacob

a celebration in words and music

Thursday 17th March, 2016 at 7pm tickets ÂŁ8 & ÂŁ5 for students/conc available from parentpay all funds raised will go to the robert eaton memorial fund

3Dchallenge success...

Yesterday we took three teams up to the GDST inaugural 3D Challenge. The girls had been set the task of designing a product for WaterAid. This fabulous charity aims to improve water cleanliness, access to water and hygiene to support getting more women and girls into education. Our teams developed three very different solutions to this difficult problem.

The conference started with an inspirational talk from Sammy Payne from the company Open Bionics about how their company is developing bionic hands for amputees. They use cutting edge technology to make hands with a range of movements, including a delicate pincer grip that allows the wearer to hold a pen and write. The technology is much cheaper to produce making the bionic prosthetics available at a much more accessible price. This opens up this technology to children as well as adults. The Star Wars inspired light sabre hand and Frozen themed hand looked amazing and the company ethos of making this technology open for all really appealed to our girls.

Girls also heard from WaterAid, who were impressed by the innovation shown by the 27 teams participating in the 3D conference. Their campaign ‘Everyone, everywhere by 2030’ is highly motivational and the girls enjoyed using their engineering skills for a worthwhile cause.

See more at http://www.wateraid.org/uk/news/news/everyone-everywhere-by-2030 All three teams have shown drive, determination, creativity and perseverance to get their projects complete by the deadline and all three teams received praise from other schools regarding the quality of their product and the presentation of their ideas.

Prizes were awared in the Junior and Senior categories for Global Impact, Technical Design and Best Overall Product. We are delighted to announce that Hydrosolution were awarded both the Global Impact Award and the Best Overall Product in the Senior category, a fantastic achievement! The girls were awarded individual prizes and the school will receive a 3D printer, which the girls are excited to start using.

Hydrosolution Water Walks The Right Way Up Lisa She-Yin Phoebe Knight Daisy Lampard-Sawyer Eleanor Palmer Sasha Morton Smyth Harriet Dugdale-King Qinglu Chen

Jessica Hunt Jenny Joseph Qingwen Wang Quotes form the girls...

Jenny... “The work that Open Bionics do is very inspirational and brings hope to amputees and I would be interested in working for a company like this, especially because it’s engineering and for a worthy cause.”

Lisa... “It was great to see all the creative minds gathered in one room and the amazing products that had been invented.”

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mfl festival

Last Friday a group of 24 students competed in the second ever Modern Foreign Languages Festival which took place at Putney High. There was a real buzz as twelve of the GDST schools came together to celebrate learning languages. Our two Year 7 teams took part in the French and Spanish Spelling Bees; there was some brilliant team work and some speedy French spelling by Grace Rogers. The Year 8 team competed in a cultural quiz based on their general knowledge of France, Spain and Germany and they scored their highest marks in the Food round. Our Year 9 team performed some brilliantly creative plays in French, German and Spanish, with the German group achieving first prize! And finally, our Year 10 team of talented students recited some beautiful poems; Talia Maysey’s performance of Goethe’s “Gefunden” was the winning performance in the German category and Molly Taite Jupp was highly commended for her recital of “Si” by Jeanie Moreau. Team BHHS did us proud and we look forward to next year!

Mrs Cormack

Our Modern Foreign Languages department has recently acquired a piece of bespoke artwork on their walls in the shape of a commissioned mural. Designed by our BHHS photography teacher, Amy Dury, the mural celebrates key topics within modern languages and takes inspiration from the London Underground tube maps.

volunteer on sunday 17th april 2016

Once again BHHS will be hosting the water station at mile 13 near the Brighton Hilton Metropole for the Brighton Marathon. If you would like to be a part of this team of 40 volunteers then please sign up using this link https://vmodcui.active.com/volunteer/jobs?eventGroupId=335003&jobGroupId=12004 If you have any questions please email - l.manning@bhhs.gdst.net why volunteer... Be part of a team, have fun, learn new skills, be a part of something amazing in 2016, add it to your CV, make good use of your spare time!

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The grandparents event is always one of my highlights during the year and this year was no exception. The girls really excelled themselves and, as always, a huge thank you goes to Miriam Roberts and Alison CardownieClare for all their hard work with the choirs. Our visitors really enjoyed the amazing concert which was followed by a great tea and tour of the school.

It was really special to see the delight girls took in showing their visitors around the school and the amazing feedback that they gave to the girls (and staff!). Our girls certainly don’t take the opportunities they have here at the Junior School for granted and this is often evidenced by the many events and activities reported in our newsletter.

Can I take this opportunity to thank parents who are able to support our Open Day this Saturday by lending us your daughters. We promise to look after them! By all means do come and see the school for yourself or feel free pass on the details to anybody you know who may be interested.

Best wishes, Sian Cattaneo

calendar

Saturday 12th Junior School Open Day, 9.30-12 noon

(9:30-10:30am 3+-6+ entry, 10am-12 noon 7+-10+ entry) Wednesday 16th U-9A&B Hockey v Farlington (Home), U-8A&B Hockey v Windlesham

House (Away), U-11A,B,C and U-10A,B,C Netball v Windlesham House (Away) Friday 18th Junior School Open Morning, 9.30-11am; PA Coffee Morning

Last Swimming Squad & Curriculum Swim (Year 2); Junior Clubs finish th Saturday 19 Springboard Performing Arts Festival

year 4 maths challenge @ christ’s hospital

The girls did themselves proud last Thursday when they went to their first ever Inter-School Maths Challenge. 33 schools were competing but the girls kept their composure and nervous giggles gave way to steely concentration! The questions covered a whole host of topics and developed logical thinking.

After dealing with such weighty concepts, what was needed was a light tea with some doughnuts which the girls undoubtedly deserved and devoured with great aplomb! Major congratulations to Elsie, Claudette, Phoebe, Ella, Rosie and Fleur.

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year 3 cake sale Year 3 have done a brilliant job spending their cake sale money. With Mrs Rose they came up with lots of ideas and after voting decided on the following items - A4 folders for wet play writing and/or drawings, Doodle books, cushions for their library corner, African animal toys/ puppets and decorative boxes for lost and found items. As you can see we have managed to buy all the items and some stickers to personalise their folders too. Well done Year 3!

science visits... reception

visited the Science Observatory Centre this week to learn more about planets and the solar system. Whilst there, they got the chance to learn about the different telescopes used to study stars and planets, had a go at building a durable bridge that could support all their weight, and all sorts of other exciting science themed activities; from forces to light and dark and even the weather! It was a brilliant day that surely fuelled their interest in learning about our solar system and the planets that share it with us!

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also had a fabulous day at the Science Centre. They saw an enormous telescope and learnt about the observatory, built bridges and explored forces in the discovery park and indoor exhibits. Fun was definitely had by all!

If you have any unwanted tiles – whether they are whole, broken or just going spare – please bring them into school as we would like to use them for an upcoming project!

Thank you.

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sport

KS2 & KS3 inter-house cross country

The event was a huge success again this year with some fantastic performances from our girls in their races. Every point counted and there were only 11 points separating the houses finishing in first and second place in the Junior House Cup Competition.

In the fun run events Elsie (running for Gurney) finished first in the Year 3 & 4 fun run, followed

by Amy (Lyttelton) and then Alice (Grey). In the Year 5 & 6 fun run Zahara (Stanley) finished first followed by Georgie (Stanley) and Mae (Grey). In the Cross Country event for Year 3 & 4 Rosie (Grey) finished first, followed by Molly (Lyttelton) and Bertie (Lyttelton) in third. In the Year 5 & 6 Cross Country event India finished first for Stanley followed by Liberty (Grey) and Ellie (Grey). The overall placings were Gurney 4th, Stanley 3rd, Lyttelton 2nd and the winners of this year’s Iinter House Cross Country Junior Cup were Grey.

In the Senior Competition the girls ran brilliantly with the cup being won by Stanley. Thank you to all the parents for your support and to our senior girls for their help in the finish area.

There is no star report however due to the outstanding week for BHHS Junior Sport we have included all the following details -

gdst gymnastics rally, monday 29th february

The Junior School took a squad of six gymnasts to the GDST Gymnastics Competition at Bromley High School. The girls had all been working so hard on execution of their skills and linking movements for their 1 minute floor routines.

It was so clear that our ability and performance skills as a school is improving every year we attend this competition. After floor we competed on vault. The girls performed two vaults to the judges- the best score counts towards the overall team score.

Highlights from our squad: Stella scored 13.2 on floor and 14.6 on vault, coming 13th overall on vault; Amelia scored 14.3 on vault; Amy scored 14.2 on vault; Hannah scored 13.5 on floor; Lois scored 14.8 coming 6th overall on vault Jaia scored 15.00 on vault. This score was 0.1 behind the gymnast who came first!

However, 3 people scored 15.00 which meant overall she placed 3rd! Well done.

Overall we placed 6th out of 13 schools in the U-11 category, scoring higher than schools such as Putney and Croydon High Schools. All the girls worked really hard and put in a lot of time and effort in preparation for this competition – which is evident in their scores!

Well done gymnasts, you should be very proud of yourselves, as are we.

U-11 netball tournament, thursday 3rd march

The U-11’s IAPS Netball Tournament at Roedean. First match up was against Eaton House Prep we finished a tidy game 5-1 up. Rachel holding centre court with Marianna and Hannah. Next up was Marlborough House, a tighter match and they were well drilled. Final score 5-3 to BHHS. Match 3 was against Granville. Ruby and India worked hard in defence but they just couldn’t match the speed of the oncoming drives. We lost the game 7-1 but they were good! Cottesmore gave us a good fourth match and once again we moved players around, bringing Ellie out to GA and then putting Jaia in centre court to help out Rachel. Final score 5-2 to BHHS. Match 5 was against St.Hillary’s, 2015-16 Issue 20: 10

who were a tall team and it soon became apparent that their long reaches were going to cause us problems. They worked the ball around us with astonishing speed, we did really well to score against them. They went onto score despite Mary, India and Marianna’s best efforts of holding them out and the final score was 7-1 against us. After a quick sandwich and a motivational team talk we moved onto the next match against Rydes Hill Prep where we managed to score 3 goals in quick succession. Final score 3-0. Final round match v Great Walstead – we set ourselves up and worked hard in creating space and held our positions well, we scored 5 great goals with some superb team work from everyone on court. Final score 5-0. This meant that we were through to the next round and would meet other top positioned teams and it would be tough. Our draw was against Cranleigh Prep, we worked so hard to create space around the court and held them to 2-2 at half time and then we went a goal down. They broke our centre and pulled away with another goal. We ran out of time and lost 4-2. What a great day though, made it through to the top 16 teams in the SE region and played some fantastic netball. Thanks for Mrs Bunday for the chocolates and well done to the entire squad who really worked well throughout the day.

bhhs annual netball tournament, saturday 5th march U-9 Team: We had a great morning of netballing fun, helped along by sunny skies.

Our results were: BHHS A’s v Bedes, Win 1-0; v Brighton College, Lost 0-2; v BHHS B’s, Win 2-1; v Burgess Hill, Lost 3-2; v Deepdene, Win 7-0; v Farlington, Win 3-0; v St. Christopher’s, Lost 0-2; v Sion, Win 4-0 Overall placed 4th - Really confident play across the tournament. The girls learnt a lot in terms of the rules and the umpiring of the game. They showed resilience in games that they found more challenging and listened to advice. The most important thing though is they had fun!

U-8 Team: Farlington, win 4-3; St Christopher’s, Lost 6-0; Brighton College, Lost 11-0; BHHS A, Lost 2-1; Sion, Lost 2-1; Burgess Hill, Draw 1-1; Deepdean, Win 3-1; Bedes, Lost 1-0 The Year 3 team took part in our home Year 4 tournament on Saturday as our second team to give them some experience of tournament play ahead of next year. They rose to the challenge superbly and played some mature netball against year 4 A teams. We finished 6th out of 9 teams which was an amazing feat playing some netball which defied their age in every position on the court. Coaches player of the tournament was Bobbi for always getting free at centre passes and on court and adapting to changing position when asked. But all of the girls were little stars on the day which was so enjoyable and a huge thanks to Mrs Kortens for her help with the team.

oxford high school triangular, wednesday 10th march

Oxford High School Triangular Oxford, Portsmouth and Brighton & Hove High School Four Netball squads travelled to Oxford to take part in a triangular tournament against Portsmouth High and Oxford High.

Due to the poor weather we transferred the tournament inside so the girls had less time in matches but it didn’t stop them making an impact. The girls performed brilliantly, in mixed teams named, “B”, “H”, “H2” and “S” and all four teams took victory!

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Results below: B v Portsmouth U-11A ,Draw 5-5 | B v Oxford U-11A, Won 8-5 H v Portsmouth U-11B, Won 4-0 | H v Oxford U-11B ,Win 3-1 H(2) v Portsmouth U-10As, Win 5-0 | H(2) v Oxford U-10Bs, Win 2-0 S v Portsmouth U-10Bs, Win 4-0 | S v Oxford U-10B, Win 5-0

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A showery afternoon saw fantastic running on a mixed terrain course, through streams, across fields and culminating with a tough uphill run. In the U-11 boys and girls race, BHHS girls from Years 3, 4 & 5 took part with Rosie finishing 10th overall and 1st in the U-11 girls’ event. Finishing in 3rd place in the girls event (14th overall) was Zahara. Alber ran well finishing 25th overall and 6th in the girls’ event, Molly in 27th overall and 7th in the girls event and Charlie 29th overall and 9th in the girls’ race. BHHS finished third overall at this mixed team event. Well done to all who competed.

For full match reports check out our Firefly page:

https://bhhsjuniors.fireflycloud.net/match-reports

bigfairtrade breakfast

On Friday we celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight by hosting a Big Fairtrade Breakfast. A selection of Fairtrade fruit, chocolate spread, jam, sugar and honey was provided to fill pancakes and spread on toast. The drinks were also Fairtrade. The event was very well supported and helped to raise awareness of the work of farmers in many countries around the world.

Smaller producers and farmers often have to compete with larger companies for business and Fairtrade supports them, ensuring they get a fair price for their produce. The dining room was decorated with ‘plates’ of Fairtrade food that the girls had created in their house groups. A huge selection of delicious looking Fairtrade breakfast foods were represented and we are very much more aware that, as Martin Luther King said, ‘Before you finish eating breakfast this morning you’ve depended on more than half the world”. £76 was collected from your generous donations and this will go direct to Fairtrade so they can carry on their good work. Thank you very much for your support.

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world book day Last Thursday we had a wonderful afternoon

celebrating reading. The girls chose from a variety of activities including story telling by staff. Thank you to all those who entered the story box and book competition, winners will be announced soon!

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BHHS Parents’ Association QUIZ NIGHT – Friday 29th April 2016 You can either organise your own team of eight or the teams will be put together from applications received (in year groups where possible). Please return forms in an envelope marked Quiz Night to JS or SS reception. Cheques to be made payable to BHHS Parents’ Association or bank transfer Account number 81313738 Sort code 40-14-04.

Please use your surname & daughter’s year as a ref.

Payment & forms must be in by Friday 22nd April No tickets will be issued (you will be signed in on the door).

Any questions please contact Charlotte. lottewd@aol.com

Please reserve............. tickets at £12.50 each.

Cheque attached……Bank Transfer……(please tick payment method)

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Daughter’s name & year ............................................................

Names of others attending

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