St Teresa's Prep Weekly Bulletin 13 June 2022

Issue 7

Summer Term

17th June 2022

Message from Mrs Conrad This week has been a wonderful celebration of sport. Bookended by two major swimming galas (IAPS and the ESSAs) demonstrating the incredible accomplishments of our girls at a national level, all our girls displayed an incredible level of swimming in the inter-house galas. Congratulations to all those who took part and huge thanks to the PE and swimming staff for all their hard work in preparing the girls and running such enjoyable events.

It was great to see so many of you at the Sports Re-Launch meeting on Wednesday evening. Dr McShane and I are extremely excited about the developments in PE going forwards from September and extend our grateful thanks to Chris Harrison and Paul Hodgson for working with us, with you, and the PE departments across both schools, gathering feedback and putting together such a dynamic strategic plan for the future. Watch out world - the St Teresa’s girls are a force to be reckoned with!

Today, your daughter will be bringing home a small gift from the school to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We hope it will be a lovely memento for them to remember that this historic occasion took place whilst they were pupils at St Teresa’s.

Key Diary Dates: Mon 20th June

Values Week

All week

Year 5, Cranmore Ramble

All Day

Year 6, Leavers’ Mass, Chapel (Year 6 parents are welcome)

2.00—3.00pm

Followed by Afternoon Tea (Year 6 parents are welcome)

3.00—3.45pm

U11A,B&C Cricket V Rowan (A)

2:45pm

U10A&B Cricket V Notre Dame (A)

4:15pm

Wed 22nd June Good Shepherd Service, Worth Abbey (by invitation)

All Day

Tues 21st June

U11A&B Cricket V Manor House (H)

3:15pm

Year 5 Information Evening for Year 7, Lecture Theatre

6.30pm

U8-U11 Swimming gala V Rowan (H)

4:30pm

Whole School Values Evensong, Chapel (all are welcome)

5.30pm

Fri 24th June

U8A&B Cricket V Rowen @ Oaken Lane (A)

2:45pm

Sat 25th June

Saturday 25th June—U9-U11 Downsend Athletics

Thu 23rd June

FOST Summer Ball

7.00pm

Year 5 & 6, Summer Production—’Olivia!’

Mrs Conrad would like to invite our Year 5 and 6 parents to our Summer Production of ‘Olivia!’ on Friday 1st June 2022 at 7.00pm in the Mairlot Hall Seating details to follow shortly

Year 2 Celebration Assembly Parents of girls in Year 2 are invited to join us for a special Celebration Assembly on Tuesday 28th June 2022 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall Refreshments will be served from 8.15am

Prep School Prize Giving Parents of children Year 2 to 6 are invited to join us for our Prize Giving on Thursday 7th July 2022 at 7.00pm in the Mairlot Hall followed by a drinks reception in the school grounds.

Dress code: smart

This week you should have received: Year 6

Make up for ‘Olivia!’ letter

Year 5

Costumes for ‘Olivia!’ letter

Year 2

Recorder letter

Year 5

Ramble information

Please contact Mrs Jones if you need copies of any of this information—k.jones@st-teresas.com

Eco Tip Car fumes contain a number of harmful gasses including carbon dioxide, which is bad for the environment and contributes towards climate change, as well as a range of other harmful gases which are linked to asthma and other lung conditions. Please help us to keep the air as clean as possible at St Teresa’s by switching off your engine when you are waiting to collect your daughter from school.

First Holy Communion Both Saskia and Pascale celebrated their First Holy Communion last weekend surrounded by their friends and families. We congratulate them on this special occasion.

Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week: 2EB

Liberty C and Olivia L for working really hard in Maths this week. The girls worked really well together using measuring scales to find the mass of different objects in the classroom.

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Sophie B for fantastic effort this week in our topic lessons. Sophie has confidently used an atlas to find countries with unusual foods and participated with enthusiasm in our global game at the end of the day.

Eleanor B fantastic use of adverbs in our character description this week. A detailed and descriptive narrative, well done.

Evie R for a wonderful descriptive piece of writing using adventurous adverbs in English this week, well done.

Kyrystyna H for fantastic effort this week in all our lessons and activities, well done.

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Apollonia C-D for using some fantastic adverbs in her written work on Madame Pamplemousse and the Incredible Edibles.

Eva M for her brilliant maths this week on properties of shape particularly when talking about vertices, edges and faces.

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Lyla S for her excellent effort and enthusiasm learning about angles in Maths this week.

Lainey H for her brilliant Computing skills and ability to share knowledge and help others who are finding it challenging.

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Isabella G and Sienna L for their work in Art showing wonderful improvement and using an investigative approach to create interesting Art. Isabel R for her fantastic use of language and techniques in her mountain poetry.

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Olivia L and Paris C For their use of empathy and descriptive language in describing the feelings of a character in English.

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Kaiah C for her fantastic poetry performance in English this week.

Harriet P and Tabitha St-G for their thoughtful contributions and questions during PSHE this week.

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Sophia C and Lilia N for their hard work in 'Olivia!' rehearsals

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Phoebe R for working so hard to learn her lines and rehearsing so confidently.

Sofie S for showing such enthusiasm for her English writing this week.

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Olivia C for demonstrating a positive attitude towards her work.

Nyang’ara O-C for working with determination and perseverance and for listening carefully to instructions.

Year 4—Potions As part of the topic, "Potions," Year 4 have explored mark making, adopting an experimental approach to find new ways of capturing form. They used ink, watercolours, feathers, pens and brushes to create images of bottles of perfume. They are full of energy and vibrant colours and would make wonderful illustrations for advertisements!

Book Collection Thank you all very much for your generous book donations this week.

If you’ve not yet had a chance, please bring any no longer needed children’s books to the Prep School Reception.

Year 3—Art Club Inspired by the hot weather and the need for ice lollies, the girls in Year 3 Art Club created their own tasty selection of icy refreshments.

Year 2—English Last week, the girls in Year 2 were thinking about Jesus' commandment of peace. In pairs, the girls worked hard to write beautiful acrostic poems entitled 'Peace'.

by Lucy and Sophia C

by Olivia and Sophia D

Sport News Pupil news Alana did her second open water snorkelling dive as a member of the British Sub-Aqua Club this season. She trained in the pool throughout winter and achieved her first Snorkel Diver Award. This means during her assessment sessions she demonstrated all the skills needed to dive safely as part of a training group in sheltered British waters.

Some of her open water dives this season include a freshwater lake dive at Wraysbury in May (cold and rainy but fun!) and another in the sea at Pagham beach (on a beautiful sunny day). She is now working towards becoming a more Advanced Snorkeller.

Athletics Eight girls travelled to the spectrum to compete in the West Surrey Athletics Competition this week. All the girls achieved PBS in the track and field events. Our top results were: Zara who qualified for the final of the U12 200m and Isabella who qualified for the final of the U11 200m.

Swimming Sophia travelled to the London aquatics centre to compete in the IAPS National Championship on Saturday. There was fierce competition with the top 20 girls in the country competing in the U11 50m freestyle. Sophia swan with determination and excellent technique and achieved a personal best. Well done Sophia—what an achievement!

Cricket Well done to the U9 cricket team on winning their match against CLFS on Friday! The players of the match were Jessika and Emilia.

On Tuesday 14th June, the U11A&B teams played in a cricket match against CLFS, well done to the A team who won. The players of the matches were: Hermione, Jasmin and Nyana’ara On Wednesday 15th June, the U10A&B teams played in a cricket match against Tormead, well done to the A team who won. The player of the match for the A team was Peyton.

Upcoming Fixtures Tuesday 21st June—U10A&B Cricket V Notre Dame (A) 4:15pm Tuesday 21st June—U11A,B&C Cricket V Rowen (A) 2:45pm Wednesday 22nd June—U11A&B Cricket V Manor House (H) 3:15pm Thursday 23rd June—U8-U11 Swimming gala V Rowen (H) 4:30pm Friday 24th June—U8A&B Cricket V Rowen @ Oaken Lane (A) 2:45pm Saturday 25th June—U9-U11 Downsend Athletics

Music News Musicians of the Week Year 2 – Mariella D Year 3 – Kyrystyna H Year 4 – Stef VE Year 5 – Kaiah C Year 6 – Grace H Class of the Week – Year 4CR

Celebration Assembly This week, Mrs Yalden played us a piece on the piano. It was composed by the Austrian composer called Schubert. The notes in the right hand went very quickly and Mrs Yalden explained to us the importance of practising our scales as composers use them all the time in their pieces!

Orchestra and St Teresa’s Singers •

There will be no orchestra after school on Monday 20th June.

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There will be no more St Teresa’s Singers rehearsals this term.

South West Surrey Youth Orchestra I started playing the trumpet in South West Winds (SWW) when I was nine years old and I was recently invited to audition for a trumpet seat in the South West Surrey Youth Orchestra. After my audition, I was thrilled to hear that I got a place! Currently we are in rehearsals for our summer concert which will take place at Dorking Halls. For this, I am learning several pieces including Intermezzo by Bizet, Radetzky-March, Sir Duke and The Stars Wars Epic. I love playing in a large orchestra, meeting new friends outside of school and performing in great venues.—Poppy, Year 6

Chapel Concert Congratulations to all the girls who performed so beautifully in our last Chapel Concert of the year. We had singers, violinists, pianists and a choir. Girls in the Year 4 string quartet and the St Teresa’s Singers treated us to two of their favourite songs. There were also performances on some more unusual instruments, the oboe and the viola.

Individual Music Lessons There are spaces available for instrumental lessons in September. Please email Mrs Yalden if your daughter would like to take up a new instrument next year—c.yalden@st-teresas.com

This Week Last week we recalled the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost when the disciples first received their Mission to ‘go out’ and share the good news of God’s love with the world. There are those who argue that our faith is an internal, private and personal matter Sadly, this is a mistake. If we keep our faith locked up behind the closed doors of the Upper Rooms of our heart, we will confine and restrict God’s plans for our lives. Instead we are called to throw open the doors and go out to share in the adventures God has in mind for us. And we do this particularly well when we engage in acts of charity where we give of our gifts, talents and abilities for others.

We have a great opportunity to do precisely that as part of our charitable project for Values Week next week where we will be supporting New Dawn African Girl, a charity, set up by Ms Hobkinson,, the Senior School Head of Geography, to transform the lives of girls in Kenya. The charity aims is to rescue girls from oppression and give them education and hope for the future. Many of the girls in the town of Isiolo, where the charity is based, face terrible challenges - FGM, forced marriage, being orphaned

by HIV/Aids or famine and drought, the dangers of living on the street and grinding poverty. Despite this, the charity have already transformed the lives of many girls.

They have also successfully purchased land, built premises and dug a bore hole. Now they need a pump, solar panels and a water storage tank. And that is where we can help.

Next week the whole school community will be asked to make a donation of £1 per litre and to carry the water along Baker Street ( a mere fraction of what the girls in Isiolo are required to do every day). We then hope to raise the £1000 needed to purchase this new equipment. Full details will be sent out in a letter, including how you can donate via our JustGiving site. Thank you for giving generously and for supporting this wonderful charity!

SUMMER BALL To book tickets https://buytickets.at/friendsofstteresas1 Dress is Caribbean chic OR black tie

Calling all new class and FOST representatives We look forward to being notified of your new Class Reps for the upcoming 2022/2023 school year.

If you are interested in joining our active FOST Committee, which making significant contributions to our St Teresa's School and community, please contact secretary.fost@icloud.com.

Uniform Shop Submission forms are under FOST 2nd hand uniform on the St Ts website. REMINDER: CASH or CHEQUE only please for the foreseeable future. Open on Mondays & Fridays 8.30am-9am and the first Saturday of every month 10am-10.30am during term time.

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E-mail equestrian@st-teresas.com Call

Visit our website www.st-teresas.com/ equestrian

01372 750257

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

Booking System st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk

We hope that you all have had a good week and are looking forward to the half term!

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.

Don’t forget to vote for your favourite pony for the Best STE Pony Award for Prize Giving! There’s a box and slips in the STE office for you to vote.

Summer Holidays Pony Morning and Afternoon dates have been emailed out and are available to book on the system!

Head to st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk to see what’s available and book!

This week we have some very exciting news! We had the NSEA competition on Sunday 12th June. The team representing the school came 4th in the 60cm class! Now they have qualified for the championships! Apart from that all the ponies have been enjoying the sun and lazing around.

The pony of the week this week is… Oliver! ~ Libby C

NSEA Results On Sunday 12th June, five riders headed to Felbridge to compete in the show jumping as teams and individuals.

In the 70cm and 80cm classes, Lottie B (70cm) and Lilly S (80cm) both rode brilliantly with two double clears!

In the grassroot classes, Jess R, Pernille A and Molly M rode as a team in the 50cm and 60cm. Unfortunately the missed out on the placings in the 50cm, but came 4th as a team in the 60cm!

Well done to you all!!

Menu—w/c Monday 20th June Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Creamy chicken curry & rice

Freshly baked pizza slice

Roast turkey / chicken & Yorkshire pudding

Sausage rolls / chicken wraps

Cod goujons / cod fishfingers

Main

Chicken tikka masala with rice & poppadum’s

Pepperoni pizza slice with chef’s salad

Chef’s carvery – Roast Turkey breast with Yorkshire pudding

Puff pastry filled with locally sourced pork sausage meat

Breaded cod fillet / cod fishfingers

Eat healthy dish

Beef meatballs in a fresh tomato sauce & wholewheat fusilli pasta

Chargrilled chicken Caesar salad

Thai coconut infused pork with green vegetables & wholemeal rice

Poached salmon with nut free pesto pasta & olive salad

Vegetarian

Vegetable & chick pea curry & rice

Cheese & tomato pizza slice

Fresh tomato coated pasta

Chicken fajitas with peppers & red onions served with grated cheese & sour cream & chives & chef’s salad Roasted butternut squash & pea risotto

Rice / pasta Broccoli

Baked wedges Carrots

Roast potatoes Mixed vegetables

Roasted new potatoes Sweetcorn

Chips Peas

Desert

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Jacket potato & beans

Additional

Fruit pie & custard

Strawberry cheesecake

Victoria sandwich slice

Rice pudding with a selection of sauces

Strawberry milkshake

Prep School

Sides

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

Friday

No meat meat balls in a tomato sauce