Prep for the Week Issue 1855

Prep for the Week Issue Number 1855 – 17 March 2017

In this week’s issue…

Headmaster's Blog and Commendations Easter Bake Sale for Sue Ryder Kingfishers, Lower, Middle and Upper School News R360 Rugby Camps Girls' and Boys' Sports Calendar Notices

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Headmaster's Blog Dear Parents Through regular discussion with tutors and parents, and the Headmaster's Commendations system, I frequently observe pupils who have achieved particularly highly or are working exceptionally hard.

Whilst these excellent achievements are to be celebrated, I have equal admiration for the many pupils who demonstrate great teamwork. This week’s House Netball and Football competitions allowed pupils a great chance to practise this quality - after all, simply turning up and remembering one’s House top is a contribution to the House effort. There was a wonderful atmosphere as all our boys and girls congratulated, commiserated, encouraged and cheered for their peers. Tomorrow’s House Swimming Gala will offer another opportunity for our boys and girls to be valued contributors to their Houses. As great champions for their teammates, I know that these pupils will be as successful in life as they are in school.

Headmaster's Commendations Paras Aggarwal for writing and redrafting stories at home

During the last year's ISI Inspection at The Prep, inspectors remarked positively on the excellent relationships between pupils and between staff and pupils, and it is a pleasure to see these relationships endure. With the Drama department preparing the final stages of their production, Bugsy Malone, it is obvious that collaboration between staff and pupils is at the very core of these excellent creative events. I hope you will attend one of next week’s performances, and see for yourself the fruits of their excellent communication, trust, confidence and teamwork.

This positive relationship with staff is also evident in Year 8 this week, as individuals draw on the advice and guidance of their subject teachers to prepare revision timetables for the Easter holidays. As always, I cannot stress enough the importance of balancing work with play. Those who return to school in April both well rested and well prepared will be able to meet the challenges of the Summer Term with confidence and a positive outlook.

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Easter Bake Sale Thursday 23rd March from 8.00am

outside the Davies Block Please bring all your cakes to the Homfray Room on the afternoon of Wednesday 22nd March Please remember to label your cake tin with your name

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Year 2 have had a busy and exciting couple of weeks. Last week, they took part in a nail-biting hockey competition against Dean Close. Many goals were scored and everyone took part! We were very impressed with the children’s enthusiasm, ball skills and team work. This was Year 2’s first experience of an away match, and they were excellent opponents, shaking hands with the rivals at the end of each game, and enjoying a pastry and juice with them afterwards.

Kingfishers

This week, Year 2 had their first in-house swimming gala. The children were split into three teams: Whales, Sharks and Dolphins.

Spirits remained high, and the children cheered their team mates on in each race. They showed excellent swimming technique, as they raced in all strokes.

The Sharks scored the highest points, but everyone had a treat afterwards.

Thank you to all parents who came to both events and supported the children!

Have you seen this gingerbread man?

Boys and girls in Kingfishers are on the hunt for a gingerbread man who has run away. Where is he? Have you seen him? He has sent postcards from all of the places he has been: Lower School, the Nursery, the Dining Hall and Mr Whybrow's office. Reception class have made 'missing' posters in an attempt to find him.

The hunt continues...

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Lower School Become Vicious Vikings for a day!

The Year 4 pupils took part in a members, but I am pleased that fantastic Viking Day during Week 9. you didn't burn the monastery."

The day reinforced and extended their knowledge of this period of time 4P – "I am banishing you to the and the Vikings in Britain. It was a great opportunity to complete lots of fishing village as I am not happy.

Design & Technology work and much In fact, I am positively furious!" more.

4T turned out to be the eventual The day started with an inter-class winners, collecting 500 silver coins, Viking Quest, with each class working 20 religious artefacts and 8 slaves, through an interactive game to which resulted in an impressive score invade Britain and return with as of 1,019. much loot, religious artefacts and slaves as possible. The pupils worked For the rest of the morning, the together to choose their crew, boat, classes worked together to make route and their actions when arriving three Viking villages, consisting in Britain. It was great fun and the of huts, town halls, rivers, Viking chief of each class had the following longboats and Viking warriors. We to say:

would love you to visit each of the classrooms to see the end result.

The fun continued in the afternoon, as each class completed three further activities. They learnt about how to build of a Viking boat, how to replicate Viking brooches and made some very impressive Viking shields.

Again, we would love for you to visit each of the classrooms to see these wonderful creations.

The day was a huge success and the pupils thoroughly enjoyed taking part in so many exciting activities.

A big thank you goes to the Year 4 staff members for their hard work and efforts to create such a fun and memorable day.

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the monastery at Lindisfarne as the warriors can no longer return for another raid."

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Geography and the Future

Personal Achievement

This week the Geography department welcomed two undergraduate students from the University of Gloucestershire to talk to the Year 8 Scholarship students about 'Geography and the Future', as part of the Royal Geographical Society's Ambassador Scheme. The students told us about why Geography is relevant in everyday life and what they were studying as part of their degrees, followed by a carousel of short Geography-related activities for our pupils to work their way through using a variety of resources.

Congratulations to Charles Mills for his achievements at the County Cup Hockey Tournament. Charles was part of an A team that won the County Cup last Sunday, which means they go through to the Regionals on Sunday 2 April. The boys were missing a key player but they worked incredibly well as a team and Charles scored a huge total of nine goals.

Topics that were discussed included jobs you can do with a Geography degree, Brexit, China's emergence as a global power, Cheltenham Race Week, NATO, flooding in Tewkesbury, global warming and Theresa May's background as a geographer... unsurprisingly the Scholars had plenty of questions for the Ambassadors at the end!

The session was incredibly stimulating and informative, and we look forward to another visit from the Royal Geographical Society soon.

Year 8 Show and Tell As part of our regular 'Show and Tell' sessions, this week, Finlay Hurst brought in his prized football, signed by Cristiano Ronaldo and demonstrated some of his own skills.

These short presentations are encouraging Year 8 to share their interests with their peers whilst building confidence speaking in front of people.

Well done Finlay!

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Girls' Sports

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Girls' Netball Results TEAM OPPOSITION DATE SCORE U11 A Richard Pate Wed 15 March 9 – 11 U11 B Richard Pate Wed 15 March 3–2 U10 A Richard Pate Wed 15 March 11 – 7 U10 B Richard Pate Wed 15 March 3–5 House Netball Results Upper School Competition 1st – Athens 2nd – Sparta 3rd – Rome 4th – Persia 5th – Corinth 6th – Troy

Lower School Competition 1st – Persia 2nd – Troy 3rd – Sparta 4th – Corinth 5th = Rome and Athens

Staff v 1st VII Netball As has become a well-loved tradition over recent years, a pupil team takes on a staff team at the end of each term. On Wednesday evening, the 1st VII Netball team played against the girls’ games staff in a thrilling game of netball. The intensity was extremely high from the starting whistle and remained at that level for the full 40 minutes.

It was end to end, with the scores tied at 11-11 after two quarters.

More subs on the staff team proved beneficial as the game went on and everyone started to tire and eventually the staff crept in to the lead and finished the game 22 – 17 winners. There were some very impressive performances from both pupils and staff, and some very red and sweaty people by the end. Well done to all!

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Boys' Sports For n update ews, fixtures a s, follo w us o nd n Twitt @chelt er! prep_b oys

and a few challenges that would not have looked out of place on the rugby pitch, but all the boys gave 100% to the cause. The final results saw a win for Rome, second Athens, third Troy, fourth Corinth, fifth Persia and sixth Sparta. All these points count in the upcoming end of term countAfter a wet and cold winter, it was up and even the sixth place could great to charge out to the sunshine earn the points to put a house over the line. on Wednesday afternoon. Spring could be felt as the boys dispensed The U10AB sides did not have with skins and tracksuit tops and any hockey fixtures so took the when Mr Wells’ sunglasses made opportunity to start to prep for the their first appearance of the year Summer Term with an afternoon we knew the cricket season was of cricket nets in the Barn. Mr not far away. The afternoon Jenkins and Mr McCracken had the saw a great variety of sporting boys working off the rustiness and endeavours: internal and external rebuilding the muscle memory sessions across a wide range before finishing with some indoor of sports, but best of all, lots of cricket games. children having fun.

A Lovely Sunny Afternoon

In Lower School, the boys headed out onto the fields for the annual House Football fixture. There were some outstanding goals scored, along with a few toe-pokes

The U11A team headed off to the Prior Park Hockey Festival.

Although they didn’t win they played well and the win at the recent Rugby School event

Boys' Hockey Results Team Opposition 1st XI Dean Close 2nd XI Dean Close 3rd XI Dean Close 4th XI Dean Close 5th XI Dean Close U11A Dean Close U11B Dean Close U11C Dean Close U10A Dean Close U10B Blue Dean Close U10B White Dean Close U10C Dean Close U9A Dean Close U9B Dean Close U9C Dean Close

Result Lost Drew Won Won Drew Lost Lost Friendly Lost Draw Won Friendly Lost Win Win

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showed how strongly this group of boys have performed over the year. They have been pushed all the way by the U11B team who had a resounding… win over Prior Park Colts B team. The U11C team had a battling… draw against the Prior Park Colts C team and the U10C team beat their Colts D team 3-1. A superb set of results to round off the season.

The Upper School were pitched into a House Hockey event that saw no quarter asked or given – some literally gave blood for their House! There were moments of superb play, but most interesting was the way that boys in supposed ‘lower teams’ were more than able to play with and against 1st VII players. It shows the depth of talent and work rate in these two year groups and was a joy to watch. Troy came away with the win, second Rome, third Athens, fourth Sparta, fifth Corinth and sixth Persia.

Score 0-1 0-0 4-1 3-1 1-1 0-7 0-8 N/A 1-3 1-1 4-0 N/A 0-2 1-0 5-0

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All changes and additions to the School Calendar appear in pink.

Calendar

Sunday 19 March 2017

Ski Trip 11:00 Boarders' Mystery Tour (Full and Regular Flexi-Boarders Only) Monday 20 March 2017 Week 11, 20 - 26 March

Ski Trip 07:00 Departure for IAPS Hockey Final at Millfield (A): 1st VII. Start 14:00. Pick up 17:00 Tuesday 21 March 2017

Ski Trip 08:30 ‘Bugsy Malone’ Dress Rehearsal (Assembly Hall) 11:30 Departure for Sibford Rugby 7s (A) U13A VII. Start 12:30. Pick up 17:00 19:00 'Bugsy Malone' 1st Performance (Assembly Hall) Wednesday 22 March 2017

Ski Trip 07:00 9 Us pupils to attend STEM club Grand final at Fleet Air Arm Museum accompanied by FEW

and LAB - return 18:30 10:00 'Bugsy Malone' Performance to local schools (Assembly Hall) 14:00 Middle School Pre-season Tennis and Rounders Training. Pick up 16:15 14:00 Upper School Pre-season Tennis and Rounders Training. Pick up 16:15 14:00 Middle School House Football. Pick up 16:15 14:00 Upper School Cricket Nets. Pick up 16:15 14:15 Cheltenham Prep Hockey Festival (H): U8A VII, U8B VII, U8C VII. Pick up 16:45 19:00 ‘Bugsy Malone’ 2nd Performance (Assembly Hall) Thursday 23 March 2017 00:00 ABRSM Music Examinations (Lake House) - Cancelled 18:30 Departure for Rosslyn Park Rugby 7s (A): U13A VII. 19:00 ‘Bugsy Malone’ 3rd Performance (Assembly Hall) Friday 24 March 2017

Return from Rosslyn Park Rugby 7s.

ABRSM Music Examinations (Lake House) 08:30 Nursery to Year 8 Friends of The Prep Easter Hunt 15:00 Passiontide Service in Chapel Years 1-8 (Parents welcome) 15:15 Eat, Drink, Chat with Holroyd Howe (Assembly Hall) 15:30 Term ends for children in Nursery: no after school care, activities or tea 16:15 Term ends for children in Years 1-8: no after school care, activities or tea

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NOTICES Happy Birthday to the

following pupils this week!

Bertie Bennett

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Harry Dawson

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Thomas Peterken Claudia Lazaro

Georgina Hamer Harry Hamer

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Uniform Shop We would like to politely ask parents not to bring any more secondhand grey trousers for sale for the time being, as we have large amounts of stock. At the same time, parents are very welcome to visit us and purchase secondhand uniform items. We are open on Wednesdays 13:30 - 16.00 and Fridays 13.00-15.00.

Thank you.

Monday 10th - Thursday 13th April 2017 ACTIVITY CAMPS

AT CHELTENHAM COLLEGE SPORTS CENTRE

Easter Camp Over 20 exciting games and sports, including arts, crafts and swimming for boys and girls aged 4½ - 14 years

www.cheltenhamactivitycamps.co.uk

01242 705 551

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