Prep Bulletin 3 March

Years 3 to 6 Spring Concert,Wednesday 22nd March

Mrs Conrad and Mrs Harris would like to invite Prep School Parents to our Spring Concert in the Mairlot Hall on

Key Diary Dates:

31st Mar Term Ends

This week you should have received:

Year 5 Open Book Morning information

Whole School Real Easter Egg information and booking form

Whole School Lifelab Fair information

Year 6 Visiting Lifelab Fair information

Years 4 to 6 First Holy Communion email

Please contact the School Office if you need a copy of any of these letters prepinfo@st-teresas.com

Prep School Open Book Mornings

Our Open Book Mornings are now underway. This is an opportunity for your daughters to show you their books and their classrooms. Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am and, once the girls are settled, you will be taken to the classroom from 8.30am until 9.00am.

Our final Open Book Morning will be on Wednesday 15th March for Year 5.

3RN—Class Assembly

Parents of girls in 3RN are invited to join us for their class assembly on Thursday 16th March 2023 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall

Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am

Summer Uniform

Please may the girls in Years 3 to 5 return to school after Easter wearing their summer uniform. Summer uniform is optional for our Year 6 girls. However, they will be required to wear their winter uniform for special occasions such as Prize Giving and the Leavers’ Mass. As a reminder, the summer uniform consists of: pink and white striped dress; white ankle socks; blazer and cardigan.

Year 6—France Trip Information Evening

We are holding an information evening for the Year 6 trip to France on Thursday 16th March at 4.30pm in the Henderson Hall. All Year 6 parents are welcome. Please park in the Senior School car park and walk to the meeting.

World Book Day Vouchers

You can download your £1.00 book voucher by clicking the link here and clicking on the ’secondary (UK)’ button. These can be used to purchase one of the special £1.00 World Book Day books or to get £1.00 off any book or audiobook worth £2.99 or more in participating booksellers.

Drama Stars of the Week

Year 3 Ayla M for her enthusiasm and developing confidence in lessons

Year 4 Eliza P for her consistent level of commitment and thoughtful contributions to lessons.

Year 5 Sophia C for performing her soliloquy with such confidence and for learning all of her words!

Year 6 Peyton S for demonstrating her enthusiasm for Drama through submitting her character performance on Wednesday.

Explore Lectures

As you are aware, we are celebrating the value of Intellect this year. When we speak of ‘Intellect’, we strive to explore different spheres and topics beyond the curriculum – and just for the sheer joy of it.

Under this guise, we have organised a fabulous series of lectures on a vast and diverse range of topics to run throughout the rest of the academic year. Our eminent and exciting speakers will aim to stimulate curiosity and encourage us all (parents, friends, family and staff) to explore something new.

The lectures will take place on Monday or Tuesday evenings, starting in January. They will be held in the Sixth Form Lecture Theatre and are open to all, free of charge. Nibbles and drinks will be served from 5:30pm for a 6pm start and a 7pm finish.

Golden Book

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

3RN Layla B

Seacole, on International Women's Day. Layla worked exceptionally hard and shared some wonderful reasons for admiring Mary Seacole including her caring nature and perseverance.

Primrose L

the ways she inspires Primrose to be strong and wanting everyone to be treated the same. Well done!

Ivy M

Ivy produced a wonderful, detailed Graffiti name, using all the technique she had learnt.

3KC Thea S and a wonderful illustration.

Jemima H comparing and ordering fractions. Well done Jemima.

4BB Eva M writing.

Amelia A

4CR Sofia G

Arabella H

Sophie B

5HC Clemmie H

to celebrate International Women's Day.

Jessica T and Coralie H for their excellent book blurbs and exciting openings written to entice people to read their book.

5KH Amaya H for her thoughtful and perceptive contributions to our class discussions.

Tabitha P for her improvement in comprehension tasks.

5MK Sophia C and Isabelle D for their fabulous Tudor costume designs, both creatively inspired and carefully annotated to explain the different features of this era.

Lainey H and Rachel H for their thoughtful ideas about how small acts of giving can bring them closer to God during Lent.

6JG Susie Y for her creative design that showed how the church works in unity

Clara d A for completing her tasks on Wednesday in such an impressive manner.

6HI Lettie W for being a great team member in the Life Lab sessions. She has given her best, listened to others and created wonderful artwork.

Lily J for her continued focus and hard-working approach to all work. As a result, her improvement in times tables has been wonderful to see as well as ensuring homework is always completed to her best.

Sport News

Football

Well done to the U10A+B football teams for a superbly played game of football against Manor House. The girls demonstrated beautiful teamwork and passing around the pitch. Final scores were 13-0 to the A team and 11-0 to the B team! Players of the matches were Isabella and Stef. Great work girls!

Cross Country

The Prep cross country team were out in force on Tuesday, competing in the annual St Catherine’s cross country event. With over 300 girls attending, the girls raced superbly. We had a winner in the U10 category and two top 10 finishes! Well done to Isabella K for a feisty race, demonstrating grit all the way round. Great effort girls!

On Monday afternoon the Year 6s took part in their inter house cross country competition yesterday, the girls excelled themselves, showing fantastic pacing and resilience in the cold weather. The winning house was St Ignatius, well done!

Pupil News

Congratulations to Kaiah and Peyton in Year 6 who had a great hockey tournament on Saturday representing Guildford Hockey Club. They played three matches, winning 1 and drawing 2. They were then up against Surbiton in the finals, where they drew 0-0 and lost to penalty shuffles 2-1. The girls placed 2nd in the tournament and are looking forward to Surrey’s next week. Great work girls!

Fixtures (week commencing 13th March)

Tuesday U11A-D Netball v Danes Hill (H) 2:30pm, U10A-F Football v Manor House (H) 2.30pm

Wednesday U11Cross Country Relays @ GHS (A) 3pm , Rugby Switch Festival U10+U11 @ The Stoop Twickenham 9am. U8-U11 Cross Country League (H) 12.15pm

Friday U8A-D Hockey v Rowan (A) 2:45pm

Saturday U11 ESSA’s @ The Spectrum 6:00pm

PE Stars of the Week

Year 3: Amelia H

Year 4: Jena W

Year 5: Isabella K

Year 6: Coey L

This Week

The second of our Lenten themes is Fast. Most of us are familiar with the idea of ‘giving something up for Lent.’ Giving up chocolate, sweets and other treats is a good start. But Lent isn’t meant to be some type of ecclesiastical health campaign. Instead, we are asked to look carefully at our lives, to reflect on the bad habits that we have fallen into and then, most importantly, to stop or ‘fast’ from doing those things. Once again, Pope Francis gives us a great example of what this looks like in practice. He has listed (below) some suggestions. Why not spend some time examining you conscience and consider which of those bad habits in the list, or habits that are similar, you have fallen into, and then, in this second week of Advent, commit to fasting from that habit for the remainder of Lent. Giving up sweets and chocolate will help our self-discipline, but fasting from these bad habits will help us become good! And that’s what Lent is really all about!!

Booking System

st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk

Or find us on Facebook “St Teresa’s Equestrian”

We hope that you are all well, but please remember to pack enough layers for riding.

The weather has been so different in just a week! First snow and then rain! The staff and the ponies have been wrapping up warm and hugging the heaters. Hopefully the forecast will be better next week.

We will start to plan the timetable for next term, so if you no longer with to ride then please email us to let us know.

Easter Holiday Activities

We still have availability for Easter!

Have a look on our online site to book your spaces now!

A few of the horses had physio and chiropractor treatments this week. This is a good way to make sure that the horses are comfortable and happy, they also love it!

The saddler also came out to see Mouse and Barney so that they will be happy in their lessons.

Beware! The electric fence is back on in the fields. Make sure you don’t touch it!

The horse of the week is Sidan!

~ Libby C

Good luck for your next competition!

Menu—w/c Monday 13th March

Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

Monday Tuesday

Prep School Pork sausages & mash

Pasta Bolognese & crusty bread

Wednesday Thursday Friday

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 choice Turkey & vegetable tikka masala with vegetable rice

Vegetarian Cumberland style vegetable sausages & mashed potato

Sides Mashed potato Broccoli

Spanish style chicken & chorizo with wholemeal rice

Beef & broccoli in black bean sauce with noodles

Pasta arrabiata Leek, potato & mature cheddar bake

Crusty bread Peas & sweetcorn

Roast vegetables Mixed vegetables

Pulled pork tacos with fresh pineapple salsa & mixed salad

Red lentil & vegetable tikka masala with rice

New potatoes Carrots

King prawns with Chinese vegetables & noodles

Macaroni cheese with green salad

Chips Peas Baked beans

Desert Chocolate brownie

Apple crumble & custard Carrot cake with frosting

Chocolate sponge & chocolate sauce

Strawberry smoothie bar

Additional Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

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

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter