Dear Parents and Guardians
Finally, in light of the government announcement
In my email to you yesterday, I explained that we
not to proceed with the Ski trip to Les Menuires.
would continue to keep school events in the coming week under review. Our main aim is to ensure that pupils complete all their academic tasks this week and that they return home to you, happy and healthy, for a rest over the Easter break.
to schools yesterday, we have regrettably decided We appreciate this is a great shame for the pupils involved but our decision has been taken after wide consultation and is very much in line with other schools. Please be assured that in due course we will refund whatever costs we can but
In the best interests of our pupils, we have
can only confirm the sums involved after
decided to cancel all sports fixtures, external visits
discussion with operators and insurers.
and events where members of the public or
Lessons for Year 7 and 8 will continue as normal
pupils from other schools would be coming into our community with immediate effect. In their place, we will be running plenty of internal sporting competitions and please be assured that
tomorrow morning, but all children will need to be picked up at 0950. The Boarding House will continue as normal.
we will all be busy and occupied for this last week
Once again, I have been hugely impressed by
of term. This will be extremely disappointing news
both the positivity of staff and pupils at this time
for a great many children who had a plethora of
of uncertainty, and also the evident support we
exciting activities to come over the next week,
have had from you as parents.
including a number of National finals. I can assure
I shall continue to keep you updated with any
you that we all share that disappointment but
new information by email.
must make decisions on the best medical advice available. We still have no cause to believe we have any cases of Coronavirus in our community. If your
Yours sincerely T O’Sullivan Head
child has a new continuous cough or a temperature of 37.8 or above, we will be asking that they self-isolate at home as the most recent PHE guidance explains.
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Issue Number 1949 – 13 March 2020
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Prep for the Week
Issue Number 1949 – 13 March 2020
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Included in this week’s issue… • Kingfishers Update • Lower School News • Maths Visit • Sports News • Birthdays • Scooby Awards
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Kingfishers Update
Huff and Puff "I will huff and puff and blow your house down!" This week the children have been building strong houses and using their own breath to mix colours.
Nursery Assembly The Nursery children went on a walk around the school. They had to listen hard and follow directional language. They also used their cuddly friends from Forest School to demonstrate lots of different positions including behind, underneath, in front, next to and on top of.
Missing and presumed eaten... The Reception children have been busy chasing the missing Gingerbread Men this week. Each day they have been left a clue in an attempt to find them before it is too late. It seems these two rascals have evaded capture for now!
Super Science Day! Kingfishers have been engaged and enlightened in the wondrous world of Science this week! We have had a blast making and launching Alka-Seltzer rockets, dunking biscuits and predicting which would keep its form and observing dry ice reacting with hot water amongst other exciting experiments! We have definitely unleashed our inner Einstein!
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Easter Camp Fun! Come and join in the Easter fun in the Pre-Prep Nursery: Weekdays from Monday 23 - Friday 27 March 10am - 4pm each day
Open Nurse to children i ry and n Recept ion
Campers will have the chance to explore Forest School, go on an easter egg hunt and much more! To book your place email Mrs Davis via: r.davis@cheltenhamcollege.org
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Lower School News Lower School is as busy and exciting as ever and last week saw the children enjoy a wide range of activities to enrich their education. The highlight of the week for most was probably World Book Day, with some wonderful costumes and poses on the catwalk. It was a pleasure for Year 3 to join Year 1 to share their stories also. The children have also been hard at work learning poems and presenting talks, which concluded with our Presentation Morning. The staff were blown away by the quality of the presentations and it was a thoroughly enjoyable and worthwhile morning. Despite relief being the main feeling once finished, the Year 3 and 4 children know how important the skill of speaking to an audience is and they have all grown in confidence and learnt new skills. Fixtures took place as normal on Wednesday afternoon; some cold and wet Hockey, and some Netball. However, the Year 3 girls enjoyed an afternoon indoors with bubble painting and cooking delicious jam and coconut tarts. The Year 4 pupils are closing in on completing their pencil boxes in DT lessons. There were also trips to Dundry Nursery and Compton Verney. On top of that, this week Lower School pupils took part in their Young Apprentice Day, but we will tell you more about that next week!
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English Department - 20 in 2020
This week’s Caught You Reading winner is Daniel R. Keep up the reading everyone! Congratulations to Sam D who has been named this week’s reader of the week. Great work Sam!
Thank you to everyone who helped to make World Book Day such a massive success.
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Maths Visit This week the Year 8 scholars had the opportunity to develop their maths by taking part in a workshop lead by Dr Enright, the Head of Maths at College. The pupils discussed the divisibility and factors of numbers, how to conjecture and then prove their ideas. They certainly had to use their thinking skills!
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Sport News Team of the Week - U11A Netball
Girls’ Netball Results
The U11A girls’ Netball team put on a fine performance vs Dean Close Prep. They dominated throughout and played with great energy and spirit!
Staff
Vs Leavers Netball
On Wednesday 11 March our Year 8 leavers faced The Prep staff in a Netball match. The game was well matched and played in great spirit. The staff even managed to secure a win! Well done to all involved.
U13A vs Dean Close Lost 9 - 25 U13B vs Dean Close Lost 12 - 22 U13D vs Dean Close Lost 2 - 27 U12A vs Dean Close Won 26 - 8 U12B vs Dean Close Lost 7 - 8 U12C vs Dean Close Won 13 - 8 U11A vs Dean Close Won 22 - 12 U11B vs Dean Close Won 11 - 0 U11C vs Dean Close Won 12 - 0 U10A vs Dean Close Lost 6 - 13 U10B vs Dean Close Lost 3 - 12
Riding Success Congratulations to Sofia G who has had success in her first Premier League dressage show at Myerscough College. She finished fourth in the FEI Pony Team Test, a fantastic achievement aged just 11, competing against riders and ponies up to the age of 16. We wish her good luck at her next Premier League competition in April.
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Sport News Cross-Country Success Cross-country continues to thrive at The Prep. Thursday nights regularly see 30 children from Year 5 to Year 8 taking part in the club and prepared to test themselves in all weathers and conditions. The final league race of the season was unfortunately cancelled. However, from the previous three races we had some wonderful performances which resulted in the boys’ team finishing second and the girls’ team third overall from all the schools in Cheltenham – a wonderful effort from all the runners. Three of our runners did enough, throughout the season, to qualify for the County Championship race after finishing in the top 10 individuals in Cheltenham: Lawrence (3rd), Lily (6th) and Max (8th). The race took place at Wotton-Under-Edge on Saturday and there was more success which means the season is not over just yet for some! In horrendous conditions (some might say perfect for cross-country!) they all ran superbly in their races. Each race had 80 runners (the top 10 from each Gloucestershire district) and they knew that to qualify for the Nationals and represent Gloucestershire they had to come in the top 12. Max just missed out, coming 15th in a very competitive race although his time would have placed him 10th in the Year 6 race!! Lawrence was outstanding and came 4th missing out on 1st by just 3 seconds. Lily ran a really solid race and comfortably qualified, finishing 10th. Therefore, two more, Lawrence and Lily, have joined Maddie in qualifying for the Nationals this year which take place in Loughborough on Saturday 21 March – a tremendous achievement and the best of luck to them. Well done to all runners who have taken part in cross-country this year. Let’s try and build on this success next year.
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Birthdays and Scooby Awards Happy birthday to all of our pupils who have had their birthday in the last week:
• Charlie B (7) • Alexandra H (4) • Isabella B (6) • Charles M (12)
Scooby Awards
Congratulations to the following pupils who have reached the 25 plus mark and have earned a Scooby Award.
• William B • Bertram C
• Archie H • Sebastian M-T
• Valentine M • Tiger S
Congratulations to the following pupils who have reached the 50 plus mark and have earned a Scooby Award.
• Imam B-A • Beatrice C • Jack E
• Matilda G • Herbie H • Zac M
• Beatrix M • Preston S • Matthew S
• Reuben S • Oliver W
Well done to Samuel D and Max F who have earned their third Scooby Award by reaching 75 pluses. Congratulations to the following pupils who have reached the 100 plus mark and have earned another Scooby Award.
• Keisha B-B • William B
• Penelope C • Star J
• Hector T • Jerome Y
• Jiren Z
Finally, a huge well done to Nick N who has now earned 125 pluses, a fantastic achievement! Prep for The Week Issue Number 1949 13 March 2020
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