Choose Respect: the theme for this year’s Anti-bullying Week campaign was introduced in my assembly on Monday where we also considered the words of Proverbs 26: 20 – the power of a fire lies in its fuelling. The best way to prevent quarrelling, arguing or disagreements – don’t throw wood on the fire. Stop being the whisperer.
Later that Monday morning, was our joint Remembrance Day Service with the Senior School. A poignant reminder of those who sacrificed all for our freedom mixed with the gratefulness we feel for life, beautifully presented with the trumpets playing from the rear of Mairlot, the poem read aloud and the two minutes of silence remember, to reflect.
On Tuesday our Year 6 girls sat their Entrance Examinations for the Senior School, always a proud day for our staff to see them walking with heads held high into the exam hall. The girls represented themselves amazingly on the day and did you all proud, getting many comments from Senior Staff about their maturity, excellent behaviour and aplomb. Well done, girls. And can I take this opportunity to thank our Prep School teachers and TAs for ALL the work they have done with the girls over the years to prepare them for this moment.
Thank you to those Year 4 and Year 5 parents who attended our Location Briefing on Wednesday evening, your enthusiasm for the proposed relocation to John Bosco was welcome and we look forward to the opportunities it will afford the Prep School over the next academic year.
Our week culminated with Odd Socks Day celebrating everyone is different and what an array of socks were on display from staff and pupils – from socks that hold hands, to brightly striped stockings, the range was dazzling. What a way to finish a week of celebrating respecting each other. Next week: Maths week!
“Follow the three R’s: Respect for self. Respect for others. Responsibility for all your actions.” Dalai Lama XIV
Before I let you read the rest of the Bulletin this week, we bid a fond farewell (for the time-being) to Mrs Hitchman who leaves on her maternity today. We wish her a beautiful delivery and joy-filled first months with her new arrival. We look forward to hearing the news of is it a boy or a girl in the weeks to come.
Have a peaceful weekend,
Gareth Tindall
Key Diary Dates Continued on the next page:
Mon 18th Nov Maths Week All Week
Wed 20th Nov FOST Parents Christmas Wreath Making 8.45am, 3pm & 5.30pm
Thurs 21st Nov Subject Revolution Workshops for Maths week AM
Tues 26th Nov Year 4, Viking Workshop All day
Wed 27th Nov 5 AB Class Assembly, Henderson Hall 8.30 - 8.55am
Fri 29th Nov FOST Christmas Fair 4.30pm
Tues 3rd Dec Chess Club with Cranmore 4.15 - 5.30pm
Key Diary Dates Continued:
Thurs 5th Dec Prep School Carol Service 6.30 - 7.30pm
Mon 9th Dec Prep School Christmas Concert, Choirs and Music Ensembles, Chapel 5.30 - 6.30pm
Tues 10th Dec Christmas Theatre Trip: Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist 12.00-5.15pm
Wed 11th Dec Year 5 Museum of Egyptology 8.30am
Thurs 12th Dec Santa Run 8.30am
Fri 13th
Pastoral Pause
How has your New Ways November | Action for Happiness been this week?
I enjoyed my new cycle route home following the governor’s meeting at Cranmore on Tuesday – I was delighted and slightly surprised to see my first festive lights of the season on an Effingham property AND I am looking forward to spoiling myself on Sunday with ‘Try a new way to practice self-care and be kind to yourself’.
Keep looking for New Ways to live your life to the full (John 10:10) during the remainder of this month!
God Bless You all, Gareth Tindall
Prep Director of Pastoral
Golden Book
Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week:
4 KC Millie G for writing a fantastic recount in RE of Sean Devereaux's life including what influenced his choices and the questions she would have liked to ask him.
Liel G for sharing her knowledge of the English language when responding to questions in class and for including great adjectives in her monster description.
Sara W for her wonderful descriptions in her English work using alliteration, adjectives, fronted adverbials and prepositions as well as her commitment to her daily reading.
4 LH Eloise K for her ideas and then application of our 'show not tell' lesson in English this week.
Maddie J for her enthusiasm with her reading. It is wonderful to see her enjoying a range of new texts both at home and in class. Also, for using a new non-fiction text to extend her knowledge of the body - we really enjoyed seeing your life-sized skeleton drawing.
5 AB Amelia H for her enthusiasm and creative ideas during our soldier making activity, whilst observing Remembrance day.
Sophia H for her wonderfully optimistic approach to all activities and for being such a positive part of the school community.
5 KH Carys D and Charlotte T for their thoughtful and original ideas for a charity, as part of our work in RE on how we can live out the Ten Commandments and love our neighbour.
6 SG The entirety of Year 6 in recognition of their exceptional hard work, focus, and commitment during
6 MK their exams. The girls have shown remarkable dedication and perseverance, putting in their best effort every day. Their determination and positive attitude throughout this exam period has been truly inspiring. Well done, Year 6!
Art Stars
Year 4 Eloise K for a brilliant start to carefully mixing colours when painting her critical study of a fish.
Year 5 In Year 5, everyone, for the wonderful army of soldiers to commemorate Remembrance Day!
Year 6 Eva J for such brilliant smoothing of the plaster on her polar bear.
Drama Stars
Year 4 Lulu for excellent engagement in our lesson creating a Viking community.
Year 5 Ava Skye N for showing musicality in her change of positions in her performance of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen.
Year 6 Amelie A for her enthusiasm and focus whilst creating the Titanic.
5 AB - Class Assembly
Parents of girls in 5 AB are invited to join us for their class assembly
On Wednesday 27th November 2024
At 8.30am in the Henderson Hall
Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am
Extra Curricular Activities - SpringTerm 2025
The online booking form will open at 7.00pm this evening , Friday 15th November. Please complete the online form to sign your daughter up for the clubs by Friday 29th November.
Christmas Jumpers - Friday 13th December
We would like to invite the girls to wear a ‘Christmas jumper’ with their school uniforms (if they would like to) on Friday 13th December. This is the last day of term, so it should help us all to get into the festive spirit for our Christmas lunch.
End of Day Collection from the Prep School
Now that it is so dark at the end of the day, in order to keep the girls safe, we will only release them to you when you reach the turning circle outside the Prep School. Please could you ensure that you have a name sign on the dashboard as additional staff may help with dismissal. Thank you for your understanding.
Message forYear 6 Parents
If you wish to accept the place for your daughter to join the Senior School in September 2025, please return your completed reply slip to Mrs Charles as soon as possible but no later than Friday 6th December 2024 in order to guarantee the place.
Whole School Spring Term Extra Curricular Activities & Timetable
Prep Sport Letter & Extra-Curricular Sport Timetable
Santa Dash
Prep School Carol Service
Year 6 -
Year 5 -
Year 4 -
Please contact the School Office if you need copies of any of this information prepinfo@st-teresas.com
Prep School Carol Service Invitation
Thursday 5th December 2024
The Head of Prep, staff and pupils have great pleasure in inviting the Prep School parents to our Prep School Carol Service on Thursday 5th December at 6.30pm in the Mairlot Hall
Festive refreshments will be served following the performance.
Class Assembly Dates 2024 - 25
27/11/24 - 5 AB
30/01/24 - 4 KC
26/02/25 - 5 KH
20/03/25 - 6 SG
07/05/25 - 4 LH
14/05/25 - 6 MK
At 8.30am in the Henderson Hall
Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am
Open Book Dates 2024 - 25
Year 4 - 22/01/25
Year 5 - 29/01/25
Year 6 - 05/02/25
Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am 08.30 - 08.55am in the Year Group Classrooms
Key Dates 2024 - 25
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, Thursday 5th December, 18.30 to 19.30
Spring Concert, Thursday 13th March, 18.30 to 19.30
Prep School Prize Giving, Thursday 3rd 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.
Year 5 and 6 Art Club have enjoyed making autumn wreaths. They took rubbings of leaves, drew mushrooms and painted a range of autumnal colours to create an array of autumnal elements. They looked fabulous!
VI Form Anti-Bullying Assembly
On Tuesday our Sixth Form Prefects led our topic assembly using the Anti-Bullying Alliances theme of ‘Choose Respect’. They discussed what bullying is, what respect means and who in the school the girls know they can talk to if they have any worries. The girls were reminded to use their hand to name people they can talk to counting the names off per finger. Then our Senior School girls informed the Prep pupils that they would be back on Friday lunch break to play games with the girls! They were so excited. In the absence of our Year 6 pupils who were sitting their Entrance Exams, a huge thanks goes to our Year 4KC chaplaincy prefect, Monica, for stepping in and lighting the assembly candle and leading us in prayer. The VI Form prefect team also distributed the prizes from the previous Eco assembly to our worthy winners: Penny, Maddy and Sophia.
Year 5
As part of their learning on Remembrance Day, Year 5 designed and created their own soldiers. They studied various uniforms and decided what they wanted their soldier to look like. Some girls decided on using camouflage and some chose the King's guards, as inspiration. They finished their characters with hair and an expressive face.
LETTER FROM CRANLEIGH FOOD BANK
We have received a letter from Cranleigh food bank thanking our school community for their generous donations from the harvest festival!
Dear Staff, Parents and Children,
On behalf of the volunteers who run the Cranleigh Food Bank, I would like to thank you so much for sending your harvest festival produce to Cranleigh Food Bank. There was a wonderful quantity, quite a lot of which was re-distributed to those in need of food last Friday.
For the past 4 months we have been using our cash reserves to buy in food as the donations we receive locally through the Sainsbury’s and Co-op boxes have nowhere near kept up with the requests received.
Now that we have yours and other harvest donations we will have a good amount in store to see us through the next few months.
Unfortunately, although we are receiving fewer requests than during and just after the pandemic, we are still receiving many more requests than prior to it.
In the year September 23 to August 24 we gave out over 1,000 parcels of food, of varying sizes depending on how many people are in the family. Each parcel feeds a family for 4-5 days. That is a lot of food!
So please pass on our heartfelt thanks to all your students, parents and staff who donated and then delivered the food to us.
Yours sincerely,
Stella Halloran For Cranleigh Food Bank
Sports News
Hockey
The U11's played in the annual UKSA tournament in Burgess Hill on Friday last week. The standard was really high and the team learned a lot in each match. Our basics and our pace of play continuously improved and we started to score more goals as we progressed into the plate competition. The team won their quarter final against Skipper's Hill in a thrilling 1-0 victory on shuffles. Poppy E was excellent in goal, forcing errors from their strikers and Eva C scored a great goal. Unfortunately, we lost the semi final against Hazelwood, however, the girls were in high spirits after their performance, and they all improved throughout the day. Well played all!
The U10 girls had an epic day packed full of hockey at the UKSA schools hockey tournament! The A team started the day very strong winning all but one of their pool games, leaving the team in 2nd place overall in their pool at the end of the morning. Going into the semi final the girls were equal parts eager and nervous! In the semi final, Brambletye were relentless in attack and putting our defenders and goalkeeper under pressure. However, the team remained composed throughout the game and worked hard to win the ball. Unfortunately, the U10A's finished the semi final with a 3-0 loss. We were exceptionally proud of the U10A team they listened well to feedback from their coaches and made massive progress throughout all the games they played! Well done to the U10A team!!
SOCS
As a reminder, SOCS can be accessed through the St Teresa’s Senior Sports page St Teresa's Effingham | Sports Home
Here you will be able to access fixtures for the day, alongside the Sports Calendar which can provide you with all the sports fixtures weeks and months in advance. If a team sheet has been published for a particular fixture, the blue ‘person’ symbol will be available to click on. Simply click on the blue symbol next to the fixture to access the team sheet and use the password stteresasteams
Pupil News
If your daughter has completed any sporting achievements outside of school, we would love to hear about them. Please email the Prep PE staff with a short description and photo to PrepPE@st-teresas.com
Fixtures week commencing 18th November 2024
Saturday 16th November Hockey Tournament @ Downsend (A) 9am start
Tuesday 19th November U10A-D Netball vs Halstead St Andrews (A) 2.30pm start
Thursday 21st November U9-U11 Swimming Gala v Notre Dame (A) 3.15pm start
Music News
Musicians of the Week
Year 4 Ivy for superb bravery in singing a beautiful solo.
Year 5
Ava-Skye N for amazing sight reading and ensemble playing in orchestra!
Year 6 Elizabeth E for a fantastic start to playing in our orchestra – well done, Elizabeth!
Year 5 are making fantastic progress with their ukulele playing! This week, they took on the challenge of reading from lead sheets, working in pairs to create their own strumming patterns. To add an extra layer of complexity, they even practiced singing along a skill they approached with enthusiasm and determination. Mrs. Harris is thrilled to see such resilience and teamwork shining through in every session. Well done, Year 5!
Christmas Celebration Invitation
Monday 9th December 2024
All are welcome to attend our informal Christmas Celebration, where the choirs and music ensembles will be performing a variety of festive pieces. on
Monday 9th December at 5.30pm in the School Chapel Festive refreshments will be served afterwards.
Music Clubs
Monday
12.45: St Teresa’s Singers (Year 4 & 5 Choir)
3.45 - 4.30: Training Orchestra
Tuesday
12.45: Ukulele Club (Year 6)
3.45- 4.45: Young Voices Choir
Wednesday
10.55: Training Wind Band
3.45-4.30: Chamber Choir
Thursday
12.45: String Ensemble
12.45: Recorder Club (Year 4)
This Week
Bible Reading
On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine the best of meats and the finest of wines. On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces.
Isaiah 25:6-9
Reflection
This week we focus on Remembrance.We remember and give thanks all those who have sacrificed their lives defending the freedoms we enjoy.We recognise the cost that many have paid for our own freedom. In this month let us pray for our loved ones who have loved and lost.
Prayer
Let us pray for all those who have died, especially those from the families of our own school community Lord, judge them kindly, welcome them into your presence, and give them peace.
“May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.”
St Teresa of Lisieux
We hope that you have had a good week!
Minnie, the new pony, is settling in well. She is being ridden by the staff and we are seeing how that goes before introducing her to the lessons.
Please make sure to bring enough coats, layers and a pair of gloves when riding as it is getting cold when the sun goes down!
Dates for the Christmas Holidays and February Half Term are available to book! We are running Pony Mornings, Pony Afternoons, Private Lessons and Lead Hacks! Have a look on the EcPro booking system to see what is available.
NSEA News
The NSEA team went out competing on Sunday 10th November in the County and Hickstead Elite Championship Qualifiers at Felbridge.
The 80cm Show Jumping team (Electra B, Lottie B, Rosie C and Lilly S) came fifth overall and were Surrey County Champions, qualifying them for the Inter County Championships at Hickstead in May!
The 1m Show Jumping team (Amber B, Chloe B, Jess R and Antonia S) came second overall and were Surrey County Champions, qualifying them for the Inter County championships at Hickstead, as well as the Hickstead Elite 1m Championship in May!
Amber B also won this class individually and was therefore the individual Surrey County Champion and gaining her individual qualification for the Inter County Championships.
What fantastic results!!
Booking System: st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk
For more information, please visit our website www.st-teresas.com/equestrian
You can also call direct on 01372 750257 or email : equestrian@st-teresas.com
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Menu—w/c Monday 18th November 2024
Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.
Week 1 Monday
Soup Soup of the day
Soup of the day
Soup of the day
Soup of the day
Soup of the day
Main
Pasta Bar
Vegetarian
Sides
Additional
Mild Beef Chilli Con Carne served in a taco & dips
Pasta with Tomato & Basil or Cheesy Pesto Sauce
Mixed Bean & Quorn Chilli
Spicy rice Steamed Sweetcorn
Jacket Potato & Baked Beans
Freshly Baked Bread
Salad bar
Piri Piri Chicken with Pitta Bread, Baby Gem and Homemade Sauces
Pasta with Tomato & Basil or Bacon
Carbonara Sauce
Cheesy
Vegetable Enchilada
Potato Wedges
Macho Peas
Rainbow Slaw
Jacket Potato & Baked Beans
Freshly Baked
Bread
Salad bar
White
Locally Sourced Oven Baked Pork
Sausages with Onion Gravy
Pasta with Tomato & Basil or Roasted
Pepper, Chicken & Chorizo Sauce
Vegan Sausages with Onion Gravy
Mashed Potatoes Panache of Mixed Vegetables
Jacket Potato & Baked Beans
Freshly Baked Bread
Salad bar
Turkey & Bacon Pie
Freshly Battered
Fish or Breaded
Fish Fillet with Ketchup and Tartare Sauce
Pasta with Tomato & Basil or Bolognaise Sauce
Pasta with Tomato & Basil
Macaroni
Feta & Spinach Filo Pie
Cheese with a Crispy Onion Topping
Steamed new Potatoes Broccoli
Jacket Potato & Baked Beans
Freshly Baked
Bread
Salad bar
Skinny Chips
Garden Peas
Jacket Potato & Baked Beans
Freshly Baked
Bread
Salad bar
Dessert
Citrus Drizzle Cake
Chocolate & Cherry Shortbread
Apple Filo Pie with Custard
Chocolate Brownie
Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher
