St Teresa's Prep School 6 June 2022

Issue 6

Summer Term

10th June 2022

Message from Mrs Conrad Welcome back to the final half term of the academic year, so packed with events I know it will fly by!

I hope you all had a wonderful half term break and enjoyed celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. It was lovely to see so many of you at the FOST Jubilee Picnic on the last day of term. There was a fantastic turn out with everyone enjoying the old fashioned British games, country dancing and competitions; not to mention the delicious ice creams, Pimms and picnics (perhaps including a few marmalade sandwiches!).

Huge thanks to FOST for organising this event and for bringing the school community together in such a fun-filled way!

Key Diary Dates: Mon 13th June

LAMDA Examinations

All Day

Tue 14th June

U11A&B Cricket V CLFS (H)

2.30pm

West Surrey Athletics (A)

7:50am Leave

Year 3 (for current Year 2) Information Evening & BBQ

5.30pm

Wed 15th June Interhouse Swimming Galas Year 5 Year 6

8.45am—9.45am 9.55am—10.55am

U10A&B Cricket V (H) Tormead

3.30pm

U11 Tennis V St Thomas Clapham (H)

4.30pm

St Teresa’s Sport Relaunch Evening, Henderson Hall

19.30pm

Thu 16th June

Chapel Concert, Chapel (musicians, by invitation)

16.30pm

Fri 17th June

Interhouse Swimming Galas Years 2 & 3 Year 4

8.45am—9.45am 10.00—11.00am

U8&U9 Athletics V St Catherine’s (A)

time tbc

Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week: 2EB

Magdalena M for her fantastic attitude to learning. Magdalena went home and shared her Topic learning and then came into school the next morning with further information to share with the class.

Skyla N for showing a big improvement in her spelling.

3RN

Sofia G for her resilience and hard work learning all about Adverbs this week in our English lessons.

Well done Sofia.

Sophia L for her enthusiasm and attitude to all her learning since returning to school after half term.

Well done Sophia, you have worked very hard this week.

Matilda G for her excellent attitude and performance in LAMDA this week.

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Jena W for fabulous effort during maths when learning about right, acute and obtuse angles and for always being polite in class.

Imogen S for showing much more confidence when answering in class and for thinking of some super adverbs to describe the characters in ‘Madame Pamplemousse and her Incredible Edibles’.

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Rachel H, Scarlett M, Scarlett C and Abigail F all for being phenomenal buddies to the new member of our class, ensuring that she is included, happy, and doing everything they can through verbal and body language to help her understanding.

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Perla L for her careful, focused attitude and super effort, particularly in English.

Lilia-Anna H for her effort on her work and kindness shown to others.

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Poppy H and Lily J for the very personal prayers of reconciliation that they wrote in RE this week, saying sorry to God and asking for forgiveness.

Amelia S and Elin S for their carefully drawn maps in Topic, using OS map symbols and contour lines, and for showing perseverance when using 6 figure grid-references.

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Iola M and Susie Y for their beautifully and accurately designed maps complete with Ordnance Survey symbols and four-number grid references.

Saskia D for her brilliant vocabulary work in English, using a thesaurus to really extend and enhance her written work through more ambitious word choices.

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Ariella V H for her consistent enthusiasm for all subjects, and, in particular, her original poem this week.

Bella S for her very well written speech on Animal Rights.

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Kay L for showing initiative in learning a new language.

Evangelina P for her thoughtful and sensible approach to PSHE lessons this week.

Kateryna H for smiling her way through her first week.

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Hattie H for writing an excellent poem, using repetition and similes.

Allegra M for following instructions carefully and for producing excellent work.

Message from our Head Girl about a charitable project Dear Parents I spoke to the Prep School this week about a project that I am organising.

I recently came across the Children’s Book Project charity www.childrensbookproject.co.uk. This is a national charity that believes every child should have access to good quality, exciting and relevant books, and I agree! Every child should feel part of a wider reading community, able to draw inspiration and pleasure from words and pictures.

The charity looks to address book poverty and to change the statistics around book ownership – for example, across the UK, 1 in 4 disadvantaged children owns fewer than 10 books, whilst 1 in 8 children has none at all. This has an impact on these children’s academic outcomes but also on their wellbeing and emotional development.

The Children’s Book Project looks to address this problem by gifting donated books to targeted communities.

Children in those communities are invited to choose a book to take home and keep. The charity is hoping to gift more than 70,000 books this year.

To help this charity, I am organising a Book Drive. What I have asked the girls to do is to look at home for any books that they have grown out of or don’t want anymore, then ask their parents if its okay for them to take them into school to give away.

We can accept any children’s books, particularly looking at age range between 4 and 11, but they must be in good condition – they should not be torn, badly worn or yellowed.

The Book Drive will be running from Monday 13th June for 2 weeks. I will put a box Reception for parents or girls to put donated books into.

I have asked for volunteers from Year 6 to help me sort the books once the Drive has finished – if anyone in Year 6 would like to help but hasn’t yet told me, it isn’t too late; I’d appreciate as much help as possible!

I really hope that we can make this a successful project, and collect lots of books for children less fortunate than us.

Beth B (Head Girl 21/22)

This week you should have received: Year 5

Baby photo request

Year 5

French trip letter

Year 5

Year 7 Senior School Introduction & Tour details

Whole School

Cranmore Canter Information

Whole School

FOST Summer Ball request

Whole School

Effingham Schools Trust Insurances Information

Whole School

Inter House Swimming Gala information

Please contact Mrs Jones if you need copies of any of this information—k.jones@st-teresas.com

Eco Tip As we near the end of the school year, if your daughter has outgrown her shoes and they are still in good condition, did you know that www.salsshoes.com will find them a new home?

This is particularly environmentally friendly as shoes are relatively difficult to recycle because of all the different components they are made up of.

Eco and Gardening Club In Eco and Gardening Club this week, the girls were lucky to create hanging baskets with Alan our school Gardener. He showed us how to place the plants in the baskets so that they create an amazing display with trailing geraniums, fuchsias and lobelias over the summer. Try and spot them around the school?

Sayers Croft Year 4 had a wonderful time at Sayers Croft, embracing all of the different challenges and activities with enthusiasm. There were shrieks of excitement when pond dipping revealed fish, newts and a water scorpion (not as frightening as it sounds!). Many conquered their fears on the boulders and the girls had to work together and hone team working skills to solve puzzles and when on the challenge course. All of the girls were enthusiastic, supportive of one another and a credit to the school.

Poetry & Literature Club The girls in Poetry and Literature Club chose an author they would like to research and produced an interesting and eye-catching profile.

Public Speaking Competition Zara and Laiya did a brilliant job at representing St. Teresa's on Tuesday evening at the Woking and District Catenians Public Speaking Competition. Speaking about footballers wages and being the younger sister, both girls spoke confidently and with wonderful expression in front of an audience of pupils, parents and teachers. Well done ladies - we are very proud of you.

Year 4—Misty Mountain Sierra On return to school, the girls have climbed into their final topic for Year 4, Misty Mountain Sierra. We have spent time in Geography this week plotting the continents and their associated mountain ranges. Most fun, however, has been creating miniature scales of mountain ranges. The girls calculated, to a cm scale, specific global mountains, and created a Miniature Global Mountain Range. They look fantastic!

Year 2—Wriggle and Crawl The girls in Year 2 enjoyed learning the 3+3 rule for insects (3 body parts and 3 pairs of legs) before setting off on a minibeast hunt as part of their new topic, 'Wriggle and Crawl'.

Sport News Cricket On Tuesday, the U11A&B cricket teams played in a match against Notre Dame and both teams won. Miss Roberts and Miss White were very impressed with all the girls, they showed great bowling skills and worked well in their batting pairs. The players of the matches were Jasmin and Nyang’ara.

On Wednesday, the U10A&B cricket teams played in a match against Manor House and both teams won! The A team played excellently, with many of the girls hitting 4’s. The B team played well as a team and showcased some good fielding skills.

Interhouse Swimming Galas Interhouse swimming galas will take place next week. Parents are welcome—if you can, please come and support the girls. Refreshments will be served during the event.

Wednesday 15th June Friday 17th June

Year 5—8:45 to 9:45am Year 2&3—8:45 to 9:45am

Year 6—9.55 to 10.55am.

Year 4—10 to 11am.

STASH This summer we are running our STASH camp from Monday 11th July to Friday 15th July. Please see the timetable for the week.

Please hand your completed forms into the School Office.

Swimming On Thursday, the U8-U11 swim teams swam against Boxgrove School.

The girls all swam brilliantly, but unfortunately we lost by 3 points!! The swimmers of the gala were Harlow G, Isabella K, Saskia H and Sophia C. Well done to everyone who swam.

Upcoming Fixtures Tuesday 14th June Tuesday 14th June Wednesday 15th June Wednesday 15th June Friday 16th June

U11A&B Cricket V CLFS (H) 2:30pm West Surrey Athletics (A) 7:50am Leave U10A&B Cricket V (H) Tormead 3:30pm U11 Tennis V St Thomas Clapham (H) 4:30pm U8&U9 Athletics V St Catherine’s (A)

The following clubs will not be running next week: U11 Cricket Club on Tuesday 14th June U11 Swim Squad on Wednesday 15th June AM U9 Swim Squad on Friday 17th June AM Years 3 & 4 Cricket Club on Friday 17th June Year 3 Morning Athletics Club will be on Thursday and not Wednesday this week

Hockey Success!

Laiya in Year 6 has been nominated by Surbiton Hockey club to join the London Junior programme.

Over the summer, Laiya will participate in various training sessions at a designated development centre as part of the England Hockey player pathway system.

This will be Laiya’s first major step in working towards her dream of representing GB at the Olympics!

Junior Jockey!

Sofie has started competing at The Shetland Grand Nationals and during half term she competed at The Suffolk show. She has now qualified to go to Cornwall show.

Her goal is to get to Olympia Horse Show at Christmas. Go for it Sofie!

Music News Musicians of the Week Year 2 – Lucy A Year 3 – Zara O Year 4 – Veronika K Year 5 – Ella J Year 6 – Ruby A Class of the Week – Year 2EB

Celebration Assembly Well done to Erin in Year 6 who sang the song “Butterfly” beautifully in our assembly today.

Orchestra There will be no orchestra after school on Monday 20th June

Individual Music Lessons There are spaces available for instrumental lessons in September. Please email Mrs Yalden if your daughter would like to take up a new instrument next year—c.yalden@st-teresas.com

Years 5 and 6—’Olivia’ The girls are busy preparing for the end of year production “Olivia”. Parents are asked to encourage their daughters to learn the song words at home.

This Week This week, we celebrated the great feast of Pentecost, remembering that day when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Church.

We reflected on how the Lord transformed the lives of his followers, first by removing their fear and giving them his peace, then by filling them with authentic joy and finally sending them out on a mission to share the good news of God’s love with the world.

We reflected on what that transformation might have looked like. The images on this page were taken by a photographer who wanted to illustrate the point. The images on the left were taken first and then the second images were taken.

I wonder if you can guess what the photographer said to the young people?

You might imagine that he said, “Smile” but this is not the case. In fact he said, “You are beautiful! (see Ephesians 2:10).

When we recognise how truly loved we are, when we recognise our innate beauty, we too will be filled with that Pentecost joy!

SUMMER BALL To book tickets https://buytickets.at/friendsofstteresas1 Dress is Caribbean chic OR black tie Prizes needed for auction (big ticket items e.g. 1 week in a Spanish villa) and gift tree (lower cost items e.g. A massage) - email Cathy (chastoy@me.com) Wine needed for the ‘wine wall’ Tombola - please donate bottles to reception area Program advertising space. £75 for a half page. Reductions available for those offering a prize for auction or gift tree - email Cathy (chastoy@me.com)

Calling all new class and FOST representatives We look forward to being notified of your new Class Reps for the upcoming 2022/2023 school year.

If you are interested in joining our active FOST Committee, which making significant contributions to our St Teresa's School and community, please contact secretary.fost@icloud.com.

Uniform Shop Submission forms are under FOST 2nd hand uniform on the St Ts website. REMINDER: CASH or CHEQUE only please for the foreseeable future. Open on Mondays & Fridays 8.30am-9am and the first Saturday of every month 10am-10.30am during term time.

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E-mail equestrian@st-teresas.com Call

Visit our website www.st-teresas.com/ equestrian

01372 750257

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Booking System st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk

We hope that you all have had a good week and are looking forward to the half term!

A reminder that if you wish to cancel a lesson, we do require 48hrs notice or more in order to offer credit. Any later and we are unable to fill the slot with a rider for a catch up lesson or off the waitlist.

Don’t forget to vote for your favourite pony for the Best STE Pony Award for Prize Giving! There’s a box and slips in the STE office for you to vote.

Summer Holidays Pony Morning and Afternoon dates have been emailed out and are available to book on the system!

Head to st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk to see what’s available and book!

Hope you all had a good half term! In the holiday there were a lot of pony days and the horses LOVED them and hopefully the riders as well! The horses have been working hard with their training and so have the staff too! The horses have been enjoying the break off and making the most of it!

The pony of the week this week is… Mouse! ~ Libby C

NSEA Results Over the weekend of the 28th and 29th May was the NSEA Eventer’s Challenge Championship at Hickstead. We had two teams entered in the 70cm and 80cm classes compete!

In the 70cm class, Izzy L, Lilly S, Lottie B all rode clear rounds and they all placed in the top 50 out of over 100 competitors, with Lilly placing 6th!

The riders in the 80cm class, Joe N, Chloe B, Antonia S, continued the clear rounds and the team placed 22nd out of 46 teams!

Menu—w/c Monday 13th June Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Prep School

Pork sausages & mash

Pasta Bolognese & crusty bread

Roast chicken breast with Yorkshire pudding

Creamy turkey pie & diced potatoes

Fish fingers/ tomato pasta

Main

Locally sourced pork sausages & mashed potato

Spaghetti Bolognese with crusty bread

Roast chicken breast with Yorkshire pudding

Turkey & sweetcorn pie with new potatoes

Traditional battered cod fillet or jumbo fish fingers

Eat healthy dish

Turkey & vegetable tikka masala with vegetable rice

Spanish style chicken & chorizo with wholemeal rice

Beef & broccoli in black bean sauce with noodles

Pulled pork tacos with fresh pineapple salsa & mixed salad

King prawns with Chinese vegetables & noodles

Vegetarian

Cumberland style vegetable sausages & mashed potato

Pasta arrabiata

Leek, potato & mature cheddar bake

Red lentil & vegetable tikka masala with rice

Macaroni cheese with green salad

Mashed potato Broccoli

Crusty bread Peas & sweetcorn

Roast vegetables Mixed vegetables

New potatoes Carrots

Chips Peas Baked beans

Chocolate brownie

Apple crumble & custard

Carrot cake with frosting

Chocolate sponge & chocolate sauce

Strawberry smoothie bar

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Sides

Desert

Additional

Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher