St Teresa's Prep school weekly bulletin 14 May 2021

8th February 2021 14th May 2021

Message from Mrs Conrad Despite the lashing wind and rain last Saturday (!), Mrs Irons and I were delighted to welcome 14 families to St Teresa's Prep School for external tours of the school. Many of these prospective parents had received recommendations about the school from current parents so a big 'thank you' to those of you who have given such positive testimonials. The overriding feedback from the local community seems to be that St Teresa's is welcoming, inclusive and offers an excellent all round academic education hand in hand with superb pastoral care. This is exactly what we stand for and will continue to deliver - thank you for trusting us with your daughters' education and wellbeing. It is a true privilege to work with them and watch them blossom and grow.

Diary Dates: Monday 17th May

No Year 4 Music Club

Monday 17th May

Year 5 Cricket Festival @ Malden Wanderers. Leave at 8.30am

Tuesday 18th May

Year 6 A-C Cricket v Danes Hill (A) 2.45pm to 4.45pm

Wed 19th May

LAMDA examinations, all day

Thurs 20th May

LAMDA examinations, all day

Fri 21st May

Stride Perfect Pitch and Fair

This week you should have received: Whole School

End of Term Events Letter

Whole School

Transport Survey

Years 5 & 6

Half Term Tennis Camp Letter

Mask Wearing You may be aware, as part of the government’s move to Step 3 of their roadmap, from Monday 17th May, new advice applies to the use of face coverings by staff and pupils in school. Face coverings are no longer recommended for older pupils and staff in classrooms, however they are still required for the prep girls who travel to and from school on the school buses.

Message for Year 6 Parents—Important Please may you return all of your completed forms in the new entrants’ package to Mrs Annabel Charles as soon as possible.

Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week: 1BB

Sophie B and Jessica A for their brilliant inputs and enthusiasm in our Maths lessons, beginning to learn about weight.

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Summer C for her wonderful attitude towards learning, always keen to learn new things and share her knowledge with the class.

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Arabella H for writing a fantastic description in English containing lots of adjectives of texture.

Isabel R and Séarlait W for their fantastic effort and use of language while writing their volcano poetry this week.

Isabella K for enthusiasm when studying latitude and longitude in Geography and finding significant places on a map as part of our topic Tremors.

Abigail F for settling so well into life at St Teresa's, asking questions wen unsure and always having a smile on her face.

Emma v E, Felicity S and Tabitha S worked together to produce fantastic rhyming couplet spell as the three witches from Macbeth. They listened to each other and shared their ideas to create their poem.

Peyton S for her fantastic effort on her alternative ending to Romeo and Juliet, especially using Shakespearean language.

Amelia S for her development in her use of language shown especially in our work on Romeo and Juliet.

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Zara B for fabulous use of figurative language (including personification, alliteration and metaphors) to describe a secret garden.

Rosie H for trying really hard to develop her use of descriptive writing, both in school and at home - paying particular attention to varying her sentence starters.

Ella J-B for super participation in our topic lessons this week on worldwide farming, sharing her knowledge and ideas with the class.

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Alisa K for great scientific research about newts and their life cycle.

Kay L for her thoughtful and valuable contributions to class discussions especially in Topic this week.

Frankie B for her excellent garden description in English which included figurative language and a variety of sentence starters.

Phoebe R for her conscientious attitude in all lessons, for her high standard of presentation in all her work and for always striving to do her best.

Cáitlin W for her descriptive and emotive short story based on imaginary events during the Mexican festival of 'The Day of the Dead'.

Penelope B for her lively setting description that employed the senses effectively and used complex sentences appropriately.

Sofia C for her willingness to learn new things as well as being kind and helpful at all times. Also, Grace W for her courage and positivity.

Good News!

Olive the cat has been overseeing Miss Hilder marking Year 6's stories!

Cooking at Home Alice in Year 5 has really enjoyed the sessions with Gary. She liked making the salad so much that she decided to make it for her family at the weekend!

The rest of Year 5 made bread at school and took it home to bake—just like Chef Gary! Here are some of their amazing and delicious creations!

Great Work!

Maths Investigations To celebrate the NSPCC’s Number Day, Mrs Irons’ Maths group had great fun investigating number patterns. We chose four numbers and put them on each vertex of a square. After marking the mid point, we found the difference between the two numbers and recorded it. We then made a new square with the midpoints and repeated our calculations.

It didn't matter what numbers we chose, our squares always ended up in zero!

We tested odd and even numbers and multiples too!

Year 3—Fossilisation Year 3 undertook an experiment to show the process of fossilisation. They buried sweets to represent dinosaur remains between layers of different types bread. This represented the sedimentary rock. The girls enjoyed squashing all of it down and ensuring that lots of weight was put upon it to resemble the forces that are made by many layers over millions of years. A week later, the bread layers were carefully peeled back to revel the imprint.

Year 2—Research The girls in Year 2 have been using the iPads to research information about Australia in preparation for creating booklets.

Year 6—Hola Mexico As part of their topic 'Hola Mexico!', Year 6 have been drawing accurate maps of Mexico to show both human and physical features. They used atlases and online maps to locate the main cities, places of interest, mountainous regions, rivers, volcanoes and the surrounding seas.

Year 3 – RE The girls identified important events in Mary’s life and worked out which religious pictures and quotes go with each event. They worked together beautifully as a team and there were some fantastic discussions!

Gardening Club The girls thoroughly enjoyed starting to design their miniature gardens. After careful consideration, they drew their diagrams and labelled their pictures. As well as grass seed, they are hoping to include gravel, soil, slate, twigs, sticks and anything else they find.

Year 1—Measuring The Year 1 girls have started to look at measuring this week, and have started with weight. They learnt some new vocabulary and thought about the significance that size might have on an object's weight.

Year 4—Quiz Competition Recently, Peyton, Alex, Tabitha and Felicity took part in the Greenfield English Quiz competing against a number of local schools over Zoom. Each round was different, testing knowledge of idioms, solving anagrams, book covers and even Cockney rhyming slang (in which they scored an impressive 10 out of 10!). The final round involved a creative writing task which needed to be written as a group. All of the girls contributed well and we were very proud of their independence and maturity. Well done Year 4!

Art Club In Art Club, the girls have been experimenting with water colours to capture the delicate daisies which are growing in abundance around the school grounds.

Music News Musicians of the Week Sophia D for her consistently good responses and participation in lessons.

Paris C, Isola R, Evie B, Susie Y and Tabby D for their excellent Harry Potter rap.

Music Exams Girls who recorded music exams last week and those who have still to record their exams before half term, will receive their results after half term.

Year 4 Music Club—Cancelled Please note that there will be no music club for Year 4 on Monday 17th May. The club will resume on Monday 24th May.

Instrumental Lessons Parents are reminded that girls taking instrumental lessons need to bring their music to school on the day of their lesson each week.

Sports News Star Class of the Week PE star class of the week goes to 5HC. Well done girls!!

Year 3 Cricket Year 3 had their first cricket fixture last Friday against Downsend School. The girls played superbly, showing off their newly learnt overarm bowling technique. Their efforts paid off and both teams won! The final scores were: 309-284 for the A team and 265-253 for the B team. Players of the matches were: Alice for her superb batting and Isabella for her bowling and for getting a wicket.

Surrey League Smash It Tournament Year 6 had their Surrey league Smash It tournament on Tuesday against Downsend School and Danes Hill. The girls thoroughly enjoyed themselves and improved over the two games. We showed off our fielding and bowling skills, getting three wickets over the two matches. Tabby bowled a wicket, Arabella threw the ball at the wicket and Lottie caught a ball. Xanthe showed off her batting skills, hitting three 6s and two 4s, encouraging the girls to hit the ball hard.

Players of the tournaments were: Xanthe for batting and Arabella for fielding.

Woking Tennis Club Well done to Evangelina in Year 5 who has been selected for the U10 team at Woking Tennis Club, a Surrey Junior Performance Academy. Evangelina will be playing in the Surrey league for her club. Good luck!

Orienteering Caitlin in Year 6 has enjoyed orienteering outside of School and has her first competition this weekend. We wish her the best of luck!

Level X Swimming Competition Good luck to Tabby, Emily and Pippa who are competing in the Level X swimming competition this weekend!

Congratulations to Tabby in Year 6 who has been moved to the county squad at Leatherhead Swimming club. Keep up the great work!

Sporting Achievements We love hearing about your sporting and physical achievements outside of school. Please do send the details and pictures to Miss Rippington and we’ll put them in the bulletin.

Upcoming Fixtures Monday 17th May: Year 5 Cricket Festival @ Malden Wanderers. 8.45am-1.15pm Tuesday 18th May: Year 6A-C Cricket v Danes Hill (A) 2.45pm—4.45pm

This Week On Thursday we celebrated the Feast of the Ascension of Jesus. On this day we remember the occasion when Jesus, having spent 40 days since his resurrection, appearing and continuing to teach his followers, now returns to his heavenly Father.

The account that we read in Chapel (Acts 1:1-11) is rich with Biblical imagery, explaining in human terms this supernatural event. For Jesus’ followers, they knew that we reached God by ascending to him. Practically, this often meant building temples and places of worship on mountains, hills and high places - the place where God was to be found. And to describe the presence of God, they used the image of clouds, like the clouds of incense that burn day and night in those places of worship as a sure sign of God’s presence.

Those early followers of Jesus were in no doubt that Jesus has returned to his heavenly existence from which he had come.

While on earth, living his fully human existence, Jesus allowed himself to be constrained by time and space.

His ministry was necessarily limited, as we are told, to Samaria and Judaea. By returning to his heavenly place, his ministry, through the work of the Spirit, and the cooperation of his followers, could begin to spread the Good News of the message of God’s love throughout the whole world. Indeed, those timid, unworthy followers would soon be transformed into courageous witnesses to that Good News with the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost (but more of that next week).

For now, we recognise his call to us, as to those first followers, to recognise his presence with us always, and his challenge for us to be witnesses to that presence.

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Booking System https://st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk/

We can’t believe that we’re almost to the Half Term already! It feels like school just started!!

As some of you may know, the lovely pony Ellie will be returning home to be semi-retired to a caring family with two little girls who will love her as much as we do. She will be going at the end of the half term so make sure to wish her luck and farewell, and to ensure that she has fun with us until then!

We will miss her dearly!

As we’re already thinking ahead to the Autumn Term, if you’d like to give notice to stop termly lessons we do require 6 weeks’ notice in which time we will endeavour to fill the space.

May Half Term Pony Days We are now fully booked on the Pony Mornings and Afternoons. But do still keep an eye out on the system in case of cancellations!

Bookings will need to be made directly on the bookings system.

Visibility of the spaces will vary depending on horse availability.

Please bring your own hat and boots to ride in as we are not lending out equipment until it is deemed safe to do so.

NSEA Reports The next NSEA outing is on the 29th May to Hickstead for an Eventers Challenge Championship!

Good luck to everyone who is going, and don’t forget to take pictures for us!!

Menu—w/c Monday 17th May 2021 Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

Monday

Main

Chicken Fajita’s

Chef’s Trolley Chef’s salad

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Locally sourced pork sausage in a soft roll

Pasta Bolognese

Chicken & vegetable pie

Traditional battered cod & cod fish fingers

Chef’s salad

Chef’s salad

Chef’s salad

Chef’s salad

Vegetarian

Fresh vegetable fajita’s

Lincolnshire style Macaroni cheese vegetable sausage in a soft roll

Lentil & vegetable No meat bacon bake carbonara

Sides

Vegetable rice Broccoli

Jacket wedges Carrots

Crusty bread Sweetcorn & peas

New potatoes Chips Mixed vegetables Peas

Additional

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Banana & toffee slice

Rocky road

Fresh fruit salad

Desert

Marble cake slice Chocolate brownie

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