St Teresa's Prep Weekly Bulletin 14 January 2022

Issue 1

Spring Term

8th February 2021 14th January 2022

Message from Mrs Conrad I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas break that brought both rest and joy! This week in school, we have been bringing our Christmas festivities to an end by celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany. Many people around the world mark this occasion with a lovely custom known as “Chalking the Door” which the girls learnt about in my weekly assembly. This custom involves Christians writing on their doors with chalk the date of the new year as well as the initials of the 3 Kings (Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar). Years ago, it was noted that these 3 initials (CMB) are also the initials of the Latin blessing “Christus mansionem benedicat” (May Christ bless this house) and so in writing the chalk blessing on the door, people are asking God to bless their home and family throughout the coming year. In this new year of 2022, may God bless each one of us – in our comings and goings, our conversations, our work and play, our joys and sorrows. Happy new year to you all!

Key Diary Dates: Saturday 15th January

U11A+B netball tournament at Danes Hill

9am

U10A+B hockey tournament @ Kind Edwards Monday 17th January

U11 Cross Country Relays @ GHS (A)

Tuesday 18th January

Years 2 & 3, Visit to Cranmore—Pied Piper Theatre Co.

14:00—15:00

Wednesday 19th January

U10A-C Netball V St Georges (A)

16:00

Thursday 20th January

Year 4, Viking Workshop

All Day

U8-U11A&B Swimming Gala v Notre Dame (A)

16:15

Friday 21st January

Year 6, Commences Young Mind at Work

Saturday 22nd January

U10&U11 Hockey Tournament @ Surrey Sports Park (A)

9:30

Tuesday 25th January

Young Shakespeare Company Workshop

AM

Wednesday 26th January

Year 3 Party with Cranmore Year 3, Henderson Hall

Afternoon

Thursday 27th January

5HC Class Assembly, Henderson Hall

8:30

Thursday 27th January

Years 2 to 4, FOST Cinema Night, Henderson Hall

PM

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

2EB

Lucy A for giving some fantastic contributions and using interesting vocabulary when thinking about characters in English this week.

Cecily P has returned to school with lots of confidence and a great attitude to learning, contributing lots in class discussions.

3RN

Olivia G for a fantastic start to our new term, thinking of interesting questions to research in our new topic Gods and Mortals.

Natalia T for a great start to our new term, engaging in conversations with her friends and showing enthusiasm for our new topic, with interesting questions to answer!

3KC

Jena W and Imogen S for their amazing focus whilst creating the Zeus fact file. You found a lot of interesting facts!

4BB

Jessica T for her fabulous attitude and effort to solve problems in Maths this week.

Pascale E for her positivity when tackling Maths challenges.

4CR

Clara O for her fantastic effort, particularly in English Isla B-H for her fabulous ideas in English this week.

5MK

Elin S for her creative and thoughtful work in RE, designing a poster for a new charity as we start our new topic, ‘Mission’.

Bella H and Amelia S for excellent, cryptic riddle writing in English, complete with figurative language.

5HC

Kaiah C for a fantastic start to the new school term and for her insightful and thoughtful opinions about our new book "Treason".

Emma v E and Alana E for their excellent and thoughtful work in RE, reflecting on their mission to create a charity, explaining their reasons for their choice and designing an informative poster about it.

6KH

Arabella C for demonstrating a determined and positive attitude in Maths.

Lilia N for her enthusiasm during the Lego Challenges.

6JG

Elvie A for settling in so quickly and for taking part so enthusiastically in the Lego challenges.

Erin C for working so positively from afar.

6LD

Eloise H for her positive attitude towards her school work.

Allegra M for a great start to the term.

This week you should have received: Year 5

Osmington Bay trip letter.

Years 2 & 3

Pied Piper Theatre Company information letter.

Year 4

Tudor Workshop information letter (please complete the form).

Years 5 & 6

Young Shakespeare Company letter (please complete the form).

Year 6

Information about ‘A Child’s War’ topic.

Year 4

Viking Day reminder

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

5HC—Class Assembly Parents of girls in 5HC are invited to join us for their class assembly on Thursday 27th January 2022 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall

This Week In The Prep School Year 6—Lego Challenge Year 6 had an enjoyable afternoon taking on Lego challenges. They had to program their robots to complete tasks and then design a famous landmark out of Lego. They all worked brilliantly with some impressive results.

Year 5 Riddles In English, Year 5 have been investigating riddles this week. The girls helped to compose a class riddle before going on to create their own.

Can you guess what they have written about?

5MK I shine up high but come too close and you shall die I am far away but close Without my sibling I would rule the sky I bring life but also pain and death I can't bring happiness if the mist is blocking me If you look at me, you shall not see You can have fun, but be warned, I can be dangerous Too hot for mankind My cheeky children never leave my side My present to you is life I am deadly if you get too close, but from afar I am a beautiful star.

What am I?

5HC I am a boastful big beast, I have a big red pimple on my face, I have a popular sibling who is smaller than me,

I am red and she is green, Far away from prying eyes through the glass you can still witness my terrible temper rage, I have 79 children, 26 of which are waiting for their names, I move dancing and prancing around my boss, who rules the sky.

Who am I?

Year 4 - ‘Invasion’ Year 4 have dived straight into their Invasion topic with enthusiasm. Working in groups, they have ordered the many dramatic events of the Viking Invasion on a timeline, discussing the impact on Anglo-Saxon Britain.

Year 5—Space To complete their topic on ‘Space’ the Year 5 girls planned, designed and created lunar models, space rockets and moon buggies.

Sport News On Thursday 6th January, Surrey Storm came to run a netball camp for the Year 5&6 girls. The girls worked on driving forward for the ball and learnt some new tactics. All the girls worked really hard during the camp. We look forward to having more sessions run by Surrey Storm in the future.

Biathlon Six girls took part in the Aldershot Regional Biathlon event. They all excelled themselves and improved on either their swim or run time from the previous qualifier. Congratulations to Sophia C for being placed 4th in the U11 category and who is now ranked 6th in the country, Isabella K is ranked 8th in the country and Seren S is ranked 9th in the country.

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On Tuesday 11th January, the U11A-E netball teams played against Downsend School. The A and B team travelled to Downsend to play their matches and the C to E teams played at home. The weather wasn't very nice, it was cold and rainy but the girls were all in high spirits and tried their best untill the last whistle! The U11A,B and C team lost and the player of the matches were Frankie B, Grace H and Ella JB. The U11D&E team won 5-0 and the player of the matches were Phoebe H, Gabriella B and Katerina B.

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On Wednesday 12th January, the U10A team travelled to St Bede’s School for a 7 a side netball tournament, all the girls played amazingly well and won all their matches, which resulted in them winning the whole tournament! What a great achievement . We look forward to more successes in the future.

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Good luck to the U11A&B netball team who are playing in a tournament on Saturday 15th January at Danes Hill.

Hockey Good luck to the U10A&B hockey teams playing in a tournament on Saturday.

PE star class of the week for teamwork goes to 2EB.

Please note that next Friday 21st January there is NO U9 football match. There will now be U9 netball training after school.

Upcoming Fixtures Wednesday 19th January—U10A-C Netball V St George’s (A) 4pm Thursday 20th January—U8-U11A&B Gala V Notre Dame (A) 4:15pm Saturday 22nd January—U10A&U11A Hockey Tournament @ Surrey Sports Park

Music News Musicians of the Week Congratulations to the following girls who have been awarded certificates this week: Sophia C in Year 2 for very good progress with her violin playing during the Christmas holidays.

Matilda G in Year 3 for working very hard on her recorder playing.

Searlait W in Year 4 for very good work in music theory and in class this week.

Poppy H in Year 5 for her excellent playing of We Three Kings on the chime bars.

Katarina B in Year 6 for very good contribution to the music lesson Music class of the week – Year 3RN

Instrumental Lessons There are currently spaces available for most instruments. Please speak to Mrs Yalden if your daughter is interested in taking up a musical instrument.

Easter Music Course 2022!

Next year’s course will take place from Monday 11th to Thursday 14th April. This will be the 10th anniversary of this course at school directed by Mrs Yalden. The course is open to girls and boys from all schools in Years 3- 6 who have passed Grade 1 on their instrument.

Please email Mrs Yalden on c.yalden@stteresas.com for further information.

This Week This week, we celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany, remembering the visit of the Magi who travelled a great distance to visit Jesus, the new-born King of the Jews.

We remembered that it is this visit that established the tradition of exchanging gifts over the season of Christmas.

Indeed, in many cultures, gifts are given, not on Christmas Day itself, but on the Feast of the Epiphany.

During our time in Chapel we reflected on the three unusual gifts that the Magi presented to Jesus.

Gold is a rare precious metal, often used for jewellery because of its beautiful colour. It is particularly associated with royalty. The Magi gave this gift because they wanted to show that Jesus is KING. Frankincense is a rare perfume that forms when the sap of the Frankincense tree dries. Again, it is a particularly precious material. When it is burnt it releases a beautiful sweet perfume as well as releasing smoke that creates a great dramatic scene. Frankincense was burnt in the Temple in Jerusalem, day and night, as a sign that God was present. The Magi gave this gift because they wanted to show that Jesus is GOD. Myrrh is a strange gift for a baby. Again, this precious perfume is made from the sap of the Myrrh tree and can be turned into a bitter, but still beautiful, perfume. In the ancient world it was often used to anoint bodies before they were buried. The Magi gave this gift because they wanted to show that Jesus is the SAVIOUR. Finally, we blessed our school and our classrooms with the traditional ‘Chalking the Doors’ as we prayed ‘Christus Mansionem Benedicat—Christ bless our homes’ and our school!

20 + C + M + B + 22

Wishing you all the best for the year ahead!

Movie Night Rescheduled Year 2-4 Movie Night Thursday 27th January 4-6pm.

Tickets booked and paid last year are still valid for new date. Should your daughter be unable to make it, FOST will refund you.

Link for booking, approval and payment will be emailed via Prep School in due course.

“Thank FOST Its Friday” Coffee Morning watch this space for the next date.

FOST Committee Meeting Should you have any queries, fund raising suggestions or feedback for FOST, please discuss these with your Class Reps ahead of the Class Reps/FOST Spring Term meeting on Friday 28th January at 8:30am.

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Welcome back!

We’ve had a very variable winter with mild weather one minute and freezing cold the next! But all the ponies are rested and raring to start the new term and new year.

Please do make sure that all riders pack appropriate coats and waterproofs. The temperature has dropped again and it is really bitter up here in the evenings!

Pony Update We are making the heart-breaking decision to retire Tango from the riding school and are therefore looking for a loan home for him.

We are searching for an adult only home who can keep him in light work having fun in a schooling and hacking home.

If you or you know of someone who would like to take on our amazing ginger pony, or would like more information, then please email us at equestrian@stteresas.com

Spring Term 2022 Riding Dates Lessons run from: Monday 10th January to Saturday 12th February Half term week – Monday 14th February to Sunday 20th February Lessons run from: Monday 21st February to Saturday 26th March

NSEA Competition Reports We’re looking forward to the next few months of NSEA and BSJA Just for Schools Competitions!

Menu—w/c Monday 17th January Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.