St Teresa Prep Weekly Bulletin 11 November 2022

Message from Mrs Conrad

This month we have been remembering all those we love who have died. Today at 11am, we gathered as a school and remembered all those who have died and given their lives in times of war and conflict. Eternal rest give unto them O Lord. May they rest in peace.

Key Diary Dates:

Tue 15th Nov Entrance Examination morning for Prep School candidates AM

Tue 15th Nov Music Scholarship Assessments PM

Wed 16th Nov Wear Odd Socks (or crazy tights) All Day

Thu 17th Nov Drama Scholarship Assessments AM

Thu 17th Nov Art Scholarship Assessments PM

Fri 18th Nov Sport Scholarship Assessments All day

Fri 18th Nov Mufti day wear own clothes to school and bring a bottle or chocolate donation All day

Fri 18th Nov FOST Christmas Fair 16.00 19.00

Mon 21st Nov Maths Week All week

Mon 21st Nov Dress up as a rock star for the day!

Wed 23rd Nov Year 6, Trip to the National Maritime Museum (please get to school for 7.45am) All day

Wed 23rd Nov 4CR, Class Assembly, Henderson Hall 8.30 9.00

Thu 24th Nov Whole School, Subject Revolution Maths Workshops All day

Wed 7th Dec Prep School Christmas Service, Mairlot Hall 18:30 19:30

Thu 8th Dec Whole School Advent Evensong, Chapel (parents & girls are welcome to attend) 17:30

Wed 14th Dec Christmas Music Celebration Choirs and Music Ensembles, Chapel 17.30 18.30

Thu 15th Dec Santa Dash (further details to follow) AM

This week you should have received:

Whole School Information about the FOST Fair

Whole School Information about Anti Bullying Week

Please contact the School Office if you need copies of any of this information prepinfo@st teresas.com

Clubs W/C 14th November

The following clubs will not be running this week:

• Wednesday Year 6 Swim Squad or Swim Improvers

• Thursday Years 5 & 6 Debating Club

• Thursday Years 3 & 4 St Teresa’s Singers

• Friday Years 5 & 6 Netball Training

4CR—Class Assembly

Parents of girls in 4CR are invited to join us for their class assembly on Wednesday 23rd November 2022 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall

Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am

Message forYear 6 Parents

If you wish to accept the place for your daughter to join the Senior School in September 2023, please return your completed Form of Acceptance to Mrs Charles as soon as possible but no later than Monday 28th November 2022 in order to guarantee the place.

Anti-Bullying Week

This year, our Anti Bullying week will be taking place between Monday 14th November and Friday 18th November, the theme this year is Reach Out.

To raise awareness, we will be having a whole school assembly on Anti Bullying and the topic will be covered during PSHE lessons throughout the school.

Odd Socks & Crazy Tights—Wednesday 16th November

To mark Anti Bullying week, we are also inviting all girls to wear odd socks or crazy tights to school on Wednesday 16th November to show how unique and special we all are.

If your daughter would like to take part by wearing odd socks or crazy tights, we are asking for a £1 donation to further support the Anti Bullying alliance charity. Your donation can be made using this Just Giving page which can be found here.

Drama Stars of the Week

Maggie M for her excellent effort in creating and sustaining her character. Zara O'D for impressive facial expressions and gesture. Stef v E for her positive approach to her scripted role.

Sofia O and Maisy M for working together so well despite missing half their group.

Years 5 & 6—Photograph Competition

Rotary Young Photographer is a well established and successful annual competition promoted by Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland (RGBI).|

It is a three stage competition designed to support and encourage the development of photographic skills starting with a local heat in February, with the best entries going forward to a District competition and on to a National Final at the end of March. Entries are submitted in age groups for fairness. The initial task is submit one photograph based upon the theme, “The Beauty of Architecture” with a sentence to explain the relationship to the theme.

This competition aims to encourage young people to experiment and express their ideas and interpretation of the subject through the medium of digital photography. Judges will consider technical merit, content and composition, and imagination and style. Competitors will receive a certificate of participation with appropriate awards for the winners at all stages of the competition.

Entries for the local heat, closing date Saturday 4th February 2023, are invited on behalf of the Mole Valley Rotary Clubs and should be submitted to Miss Shear s.shear@st teresas.com no later than Wednesday 1st February ‘23.

Key Dates—2022/3

As outlined in the Parent Handbook, and reiterated at the Parent Welcome Reception, there are three key dates in the school calendar that are compulsory for all the girls to attend. This is to help them understand the importance of team work and collaborative responsibility as these are events where they are all involved and need to support each other.

These dates are as follows:

Christmas Service

Wednesday 7th December, 18.30 to 19.30

Spring Concert Thursday 23rd March, 18.30 to 19.30

Prep School Prize Giving Thursday 6th July, 19.00 to 20.00

We would be grateful if you could keep these dates free so that all girls can be present at these important community events.

Golden Book

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

3RN Elizabeth L connectives and a fantastic job at editing her work, looking up spellings in a dictionary. Liberty C Farm. Liberty used paragraphs, time connectives and some lovely description.

Rosie M the method, presenting her work carefully and crossing into the 100 column successfully!

3KC Sophia D paragraphs, prepositions, time adverbials and for editing and correcting their work work. Abby V R reading since September.

4BB Isabella M Zara O

4CR Arabella H Calista d'C Emily W

5MK Isabella C Lyla S landings. Sophia C

5HC Amelia L for the fantastic progress she has made in swimming becoming more confident every week. Mrs Rowcliffe is very proud!

Isabella K for her excellent description of her experience in the planetarium on our trip to Winchester super vocabulary choices and variation of sentence starters. Bella G for her helpfulness in class and for her excellent effort in all lessons.

5KH Tabitha P for 100% effort in her work in maths lessons. Stef v E for showing impressive resilience, as well as commitment to her work.

6JG Iola M and Isola R for their resilience and fabulous effort in English this week.

6GH Sophia A excellent topic work on Scott’s Antarctic expedition. Poppy H well done, great comprehension work this week.

5HC Class Assembly

5HC performed their class assembly to the school on the theme of Remembrance. The girls explained why we mark the 11th of November every year and the significance of the poppy flower. Reminding us all, that even in the darkest of times peace and kindness can prevail, they presented a play about the Christmas Truce of 1914 before ending with a beautiful Remembrance song and time to reflect listening to the Last Post.

Year 5—Museum of Egyptology

To conclude their topic on Pharaohs last half term, Year 5 transformed Henderson Hall into a Museum of Egyptology. Each girl researched an aspect of Ancient Egypt and produced a 3D model as an artefact to display and present. It was a wonderful celebration of all that they had learnt.

Year 4—Digestion

Year 4 have begun their digestion topic and, just like the first stop in the digestive system, we have started with teeth! The girls have been learning all about the different teeth and their specific functions. Our highlight so far has been creating our very own sets of teeth, using marshmallows. A little ironic as they're not good for our teeth, but they sure are looking pearly white!

Year 3—Trip to Buster Farm

On Tuesday, during a wet and windy day, Year 3 visited Butser Farm as part of our Tribal Tales topic. The girls were interested and curious about what they saw and loved all the activities that they took part in. These included artefact handling, creating a Stone Age fence, bronze jewellery making, an archaeological dig, looking round an Iron Age dwelling, a Stone Age house and, as an extra during a rainstorm, a Roman house. There was a great deal to see and do and our guide Sally taught us so much and answered many of our questions.

Year

This Week in the Music Department

We have been working on learning and revising Christmas songs and carols for the upcoming Christmas Fair. The girls have really enjoyed singing these songs and Mrs Harris has been really impressed with their enthusiasm and focus. Keep it up girls!

NationalYouth Harp Orchestra

Alana has been selected to perform as a young guest harpist in training at a Christmas charity concert with the National Youth Harp Orchestra of Great Britain. She is looking forward to playing alongside experienced members of the orchestra for the very first time. More information on the National Youth Harp Orchestra of Great Britain can be found here: www.nyho.org.uk

No St T’s Singers Thursday 17th November

Instrument Lessons

Netball

Well done to all the girls in Year 4 who played in the tournament on Saturday. It started very wet but it soon cleared up! All the girls played really well. We won 2 matches, lost 2 and drew 2. Fantastic effort girls!

Hockey

On Saturday, the U10A team took part in a hockey tournament at Danes Hill. It was the girls first hockey tournament this year and they performed outstandingly. They won two matches, drew three and lost one, placing fourth in the tournament. The girls passed well on the pitch and showed good depth when attacking. Player of the tournament was Rachel. Well done girls!

On Monday, the U10A+B teams played Notre Dame. The girls played exceptionally well, winning 3 0 and 1 0. Superb effort girls!

The U10A, C, D and E teams travelled to CLFS. The girls persevered in the pouring rain and gusty winds, enjoying their cookie at the end. The A’s drew 3-3, the C’s won 1-0, D’s lost 2-0 and the E’s drew 1-1. The matches were very competitive. Players of the matches were Willa and Izzy R. The U9 A C hockey teams travelled to Notre Dame for a fun and friendly hockey fixture. All of the girls were very excited to practise their skills learnt in club over the last few weeks. The matches were very competitive, with the A’s winning 3 2, B’s with a loss of 2 0 and the C’s winning 4 2. Players of the matches were Sophia L, Jena and Evie C. Keep up the great work girls!

Swimming

This Week

In just a few days time, representatives from across the world will join together for the beginning of the football World Cup. This competition should see a joyful gathering of teams from across the world, united in a shared passion, competing fairly and with dignity, for a prize that recognises the qualities of collaboration, grace and skill. It has been sad to see the competition become embroiled in accusations of greed, opportunism and prejudice. So let us turn our thoughts instead to a different game of football. I speak, of course, of the match played out on Christmas Eve 1914 in the trenches of western front. The First World War had raged for five months, and already countless hundreds of thousands had been slaughtered on both sides of the conflict. On Christmas Eve, the guns fell silent and, when the allied troops heard their German counterparts singing Christmas carols, brave representatives from both sides ventured out of the trenches and met in no man’s land to exchange gifts and trinkets, to sing carols together and, yes, to play that now infamous game of football. While generals sat far away plotting and planning, the soldiers in the trenches set aside their weapons, if only for a few hours, and in that most unlikely of locations, shared a moment of comradery, friendship and peace. Although this event took place over a century ago, perhaps we can draw out three important messages from this historic moment.

Firstly, the truce was unofficial. There was no order for the guns to fall silent. Instead, it was recognised that on that night, when we remember the birth of the Christ-child who brought peace into the world, it would be a sacrilege to fire weapons and take another’s life. Our hearts, like the hearts of those soldiers in the trenches, are configured for peace. We long, as they did, for peace.

Secondly, the prompt for peace was prayer. As the strains of ‘Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht Silent Night, Holy Night’ drifted across the barren wastes, that muddied hell was transformed into the greatest of Cathedrals, as the soldiers reached out to the Almighty with the most earnest of prayers, that they, and the whole world may ‘Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh! Sleep in heavenly peace.’

And finally, for just the briefest of moments, on that most blessed of nights, the exchange of bullets and shells was replaced with the gifts of chocolate bars, fruitcake and photographs of loved ones at home. And for that briefest of moments, love blotted out hatred, as those who were once enemies became friends, and the peace, announced by the angels at Jesus birth, was present, here on earth.

As we recall with gratitude today all those who have given their lives in the great tragedy of war, we pray that the voices of all people on earth would rise with the angels to declare, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of goodwill!’

The FOST judges had a tough time deciding on a winner this year and with over 15 entries from Prep and Senior School we decided to award a prize for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place and increase the winnings!

The girls won a voucher and their designs will appear in the brochure.

A HUGE thank you to everyone for entering this year, we were so impressed with the entries and the variety of media used. Please look through the brochure at the fair as every design entered will appear in the artwork pages.

Congratulations to our winners and thanks for entering! See you at the fair on Friday 18th November. With warm Christmas wishes,

FRONT COVER TEAM

1st Place Lucie B 10SK

2nd Place Grace H 7RA

3rd Place Ruby G 6GH

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We hope that you have all well.

As the weather is so variable at the moment, please make sure that you come with a jumper (no hoodies!) s chilly out. As we are on top of a hill, we get a bit of a cold wind when riding

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.

d like to remind our riders that we still run lessons s safety. As an alternative for those who don’t want to ride, then we do offer stable management lessons in the warm barn.

Over the weekend, there was a NSEA competition, and it was VERY wet! Two teams competed in show jumping and did really well riding in all of that rain! The School’s Groundsman, Al, has been redoing the centre square at the stables and it’s going to look so nice with all the new flowers!

The horse of the week is… Red!

~ Libby C

On Sunday 6th November, we had a group of 8 very dedicated riders (and parents!) brave the elements to compete for STE

The arena was steadily disappearing underwater and the team at Felbridge did an unbelievable job of keeping the show running and the arena safe to jump in. The conditions were not favourable but every single rider and pony put their best foot forwards and jumped mature and sensible rounds appropriate for the conditions.

The St Teresa's Blue team of Chloe B, Amber B, Inde W and Lilly S finished on a Team score of 12 penalties for 9th with Lilly jumping a beautiful clear round.

The St Teresa's Pink team of Lulu S, Izzy L, Antonia S and Lottie B jumped some super rounds to finish in 11th. Well done everyone and let's hope the next one is a little less damp!

Menu—w/c Monday 14th November 2022

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

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Prep School Beef lasagne & crusty bread

Main Beef lasagne with crusty bread

Chicken breast goujons

Southern fried chicken fillet burger with shredded Iceberg & piri piri mayo

Roast chicken breast with Yorkshire pudding

Honey roast gammon with Yorkshire pudding

Mild beef chilli with rice & nacho’s

Mild beef chilli nachos, grated cheese, guacamole, sour cream & salsa

Fish fingers/ tomato pasta

Traditional battered cod fillet or fish fingers with tartare sauce

Eat healthy dish Chargrilled chilli chicken & roasted vegetable traybake

Pork & vegetable korma with wholemeal rice

Vegetarian Vegetable & spinach lasagne Quorn mince & bean tomato bake

Marinated Cajun beef strips with rustic coleslaw & chef’s salad

Lemon & basil chicken breast served with marinated olives

Seafood & chilli spiced linguine with roasted green peppers & fresh herbs

Root vegetable & lentil cottage pie

Malaysian style squash & seitan curry

No chicken teriyaki noodles & Oriental vegetables Sides Crusty bread Peas & sweetcorn Jacket wedges Broccoli Roast potatoes Mixed vegetables Rice Carrots Chips Peas Baked beans