Spring Term 24th February 2023
Message from Mrs Conrad
As we begin the season of Lent, we have been thinking about how we can change our lives for the better by praying, fasting and giving to those in need. With this in mind, the Chaplaincy Team have arranged for us to take part in CAFOD’s Lenten Walk for poverty which will happen in a few weeks’ time and they have also arranged with Gary for a donation to be made to CAFOD if, on Fridays, girls and staff choose to give up the dessert of the day and have a piece of fruit instead. It is wonderful to see the girls living out our school values in such practical ways.
In that same Lenten spirit of love, today we marked the one year anniversary of the war in the Ukraine. Veronika, Anna and Khrystyna wore their national dress to assembly and led our prayer and hymn in Ukrainian which was very moving and at lunchtime, over 40 girls joined me in going to the Chapel to light a candle and say a prayer for peace.
Key Diary Dates:
Mon 27th Feb World Book Week All Week
Tue 28th Feb Visiting Author for World Book Week
Wed 1st Mar 6HI, Class Assembly, Henderson Hall 8.30am
Thu 2nd Mar West End in Schools, Dance Workshops All Day
Fri 3rd Mar Wear PJs and bring a favourite bed time story for World Book Day All Day
Fri 3rd Mar Storyteller for Years 3 & 4
Thu 9th Mar Year 5, Parent Information Evening for Osmington Bay, Henderson Hall 16.30pm
Wed 15th Mar Year 5, Open Book Morning (refreshments will be served from 8.15) 8.30 9.00
Thu 16th Mar 3RN, Class Assembly, Henderson Hall 8.30am
Thu 16th Mar Year 6, Parent Information Evening for France Trip 16.30pm
Fri 17th Mar Year 6, Life Lab Perfect Pitch am
Fri 17th Mar Year 6, Life Lab Enterprise Fair pm
Wed 22nd Mar Prep School Spring Concert, Mairlot Hall 18.30 19.30
Prep School Open Book Mornings
Our Open Book Mornings are now underway. This is an opportunity for your daughters to show you their books and their classrooms. Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am and, once the girls are settled, you will be taken to the classroom from 8.30am until 9.00am.
Please see the dates below. You will be sent a form to confirm your attendance nearer the time.
Wednesday 15th March Year 5
6HI—Class Assembly
Parents of girls in 6HI are invited to join us for their class assembly on Wednesday 1st March 2023 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall
Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am
Drama Stars of the Week
Year 3 Esme S for using an impressive range of expression when performing a poem
Year 4 Arabella H for showing fabulous team work skills
Year 5 Lainey H for her fantastic attitude to learning in Drama
Year 6 Ruby G for her enthusiasm when rehearsing for the class assembly
Art Winner
Jemima in Year 3 was awarded ‘highly commended’ for her self portrait in the 2022 National ISA Art Competition. Well done Jemima!
Parent Talk
If you attended David Leech’s parent talk about Children’s Mental Health and would like a copy of the slides, please email Mrs Jones and she will email you a copy of the PDF k.jones@st-teresas.com
Explore Lectures
As you are aware, we are celebrating the value of Intellect this year. When we speak of ‘Intellect’, we strive to explore different spheres and topics beyond the curriculum – and just for the sheer joy of it.
Under this guise, we have organised a fabulous series of lectures on a vast and diverse range of topics to run throughout the rest of the academic year. Our eminent and exciting speakers will aim to stimulate curiosity and encourage us all (parents, friends, family and staff) to explore something new.
The lectures will take place on Monday or Tuesday evenings, starting in January. They will be held in the Sixth Form Lecture Theatre and are open to all, free of charge. Nibbles and drinks will be served from 5:30pm for a 6pm start and a 7pm finish.
Golden Book
Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week:
3RN Eloise B lovely detailed vocabulary after researching different Olympic sports!
Anna R some beautiful and thoughtful things to put in her box, taking a great amount of care, well done.
Sophia C games. Sophia used adventurous vocabulary and wrote with lovely emotion.
3KC Abby VR display. She thought very carefully about what extra activities she could do at home during Lent to help her family.
Sophie B element "learning" which has never been mentioned in previous years. She explained her love of learning too.
Ava-Skye N design. She had also created a poster showing how she had come up with all the ideas including the steps and the reasoning for her ideas with pictures to illustrate her work. Well done Skye.
4BB Zara O reason.
Avery K understanding of different multiplication methods.
4CR Eva C
Ruby S for her fantastic enthusiasm for our new topic and excellent effort on her New York postcard.
5HC Isabella K and Scarlett M for their fantastic contributions to the class discussion about Anne Boleyn's letter to Henry, and also for providing excellent examples of persuasive language.
Veronika K for confidently presenting her excellent Tudor Food recipe to the whole class.
5KH Isla B-H for her thoughtful contributions in RE lessons this week.
Elsie W for keeping a detailed Reading Record and persevering with a challenging book.
5MK Isabelle C and Matilda R for their carefully written balanced arguments about whether Anne B should have been executed for high treason.
Abigail F for super engagement and participation during our lesson on using commas for fronted adverbials and relative clauses.
6JG Ailsa S her impressive effort in making her periscope.
Kaiah C and Saskia D for super extra effort and initiative in creating their school video
6HI Paris C for fabulous focus this week and also being a fantastic learning partner.
Amelia S for her application and creativity in English.
Elin S for always being thoughtful and kind, and thinking how others might feel.
Eco & Gardening Club
Hurrah! The lighter afternoons meant that we were able to plant some seeds in the raised beds. This week the girls planted radish and spinach seeds after they weeded and dug the soil. The recent rain had loosened the soil which made this part much easier.
Ash Wednesday
We were delighted to welcome Steve MUrray, a Christian mime artist from Behold Ministry to St Teresa's to mark the beginning of Lent. Steve led workshops throughout the day, teaching the girls the basics of mime artistry. He then led a very beautiful and moving reflection as part of our Ash Wednesday service.
Music News
Musicians of the Week
Year 3 – Lucy A for learning our new songs so quickly and singing with such enthusiasm.
Year 4 – Calista J D for her excellent focus and wonderful playing from a score. Well done!
Year 5 – Isabella C for always trying her best and for her excellent singing this week.
Year 6 – Elin S for her amazing resilience and fantastic singing. Very proud of you!
Year 6
Year 6 have been practicing hard over half term learning audition pieces for their production of Mary Poppins and performed them this week.
Mrs Harris is very proud of you all – you gave some amazing performances!
Thank you!
Thank you to Alana who played a very spooky piece on the harp for us this morning. Well done Alana!
Rock Choir
Year 5 & 6 had a great time rocking out this Tuesday at our new Choir – even Mrs Irons came to have a sing! All are very welcome on Tuesday lunchtime at 12.45 in the Music Room.
Music Lessons & Instrument Hire
We still have some spaces for lessons and some instruments that can be hired from the school. If you would like to try out any instruments or need any more information, please don’t hesitate to contact Mrs Harris
Easter Music Course 2023!
This year’s course will take place from Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th April. 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@st-teresas.com for further information.
Sport News
Netball
The U9 teams played against Reigate St Mary on the Friday before half term. All our teams played well and demonstrated great teamwork throughout their match. Well done to the C team for winning their game, the score was 14-3! Players of the matches were Zara, Arabella and Eliza. Well done to the U10 teams that played against Felton Fleet on Tuesday afternoon, there was some fantastic netball throughout and the girls showed excellent teamwork. Three teams won and one team lost by one goal! Well done to all the girls who took part, the POM’s were Harriet, Francesca, Sophia C and Flori.
Hockey
St Teresa’s rocked up to the U11 Surrey tournament full of confidence and raring to go. Our first game was against Tormead and, unlike previous tournaments, we came out of the blocks fast and put 3 goals past them. We started to get our press set up in the right positions and with some quick counter attack play we were able to play through the Tormead defence and push the ball hard into the corners of the goal.
Our next game was against St George’s. Unfortunately, we didn’t start as quickly as in our first match and we found ourselves 2 goals down early on in the game. However, we slowly started to get back into the game and we scored a great goal right on the whistle for half time to make it 2-1. The second half was the best half of hockey this team have played all season. St George’s kept launching their attacks but Kaiah, Evie and Olivia were excellent in the press. Peyton and Tabitha were very solid in defence and Ella had a great game in goal and as a result, St George’s couldn’t find their way through us. We stayed in the game right up until the last minute, in which Kaiah had a small chance and hit the post. It was a great performance against a team who went on to win the tournament.
The third game against Rowan was the match that mattered as it determined whether we went into the semi finals or competed for 5th place. Rowan had a couple of very skilful forwards and the match was back and forth the whole way. We found ourselves 2-1 down with a couple of minutes left and eventually we won a short corner, which Peyton powerfully slapped into the goal. This ended up being the final score which meant that our fate lay on the goals scored in the Rowan vs Tormead match and unfortunately Rowan proceeded to the semi finals on goal difference.
The next two games against Hoe Bridge and City of London Freemen’s were brilliant games to watch. The team kept on playing good hockey and passed the ball around the pitch nicely. Liliana and Steffi continued to play well defensively and Nicci was very unselfish in front of goal, setting up a couple of tap ins for Olivia. Both games were wins, finishing 5-0 and 2-0 respectively which meant that we finished 5th in the tournament overall. The team should take great pride in only losing 2-1 to St George’s and in drawing to Rowan, who went on to finish 2nd. Some of the hockey played was excellent and it is great to see the team improving with every tournament they play.
Fixtures (week commencing 27th February)
Monday U10A Hockey v Tormead (A) Broadwater School 4:30pm. U8-U11 Cross Country v GHS (A) 4.10pm
Tuesday U11 Netball v Felton Fleet (H) 2:30pm,
Thursday U8-U11 Gala v Rowan (H) 4:30pm
Friday U8A-D Netball v St Cats (A) 2:30pm, U9A-C Football v Reigate St Mary’s (A) 2:30pm, U10A+B Hockey v Sutton (H) 4:15pm, Biathlon training U8-11 @ Guildford Spectrum 4pm
Saturday U10A+B Netball @ Downsend
This Week
This week we marked the beginning of the Church’s season of Lent with our Ash Wednesday Services. The forty days of Lent remind us of the forty days that Jesus spent in the wilderness preparing for his final journey to Jerusalem where he would face his condemnation and arrest.
During this season we are call the engage in the three great practices of Lent - to pray, to fast, and to give to others.
Prayer is perhaps both the easiest and the hardest. You can pray at any time, in any place, using whatever words are most natural to you. Yet is also requires both discipline and, perhaps most importantly, honesty. God, our loving father, knows us better than we know ourselves, so prayer isn’t intended to change God. Instead, by spending time in the presence of God, sharing our hopes and desires with him, we find our will being shaped by God’s loving plan for us.
Fasting, or ‘giving things up’ is often where people start their Lenten observance. Many of us start with those familiar themes of giving up treats like chocolate, sweets and cake. This isn’t a bad place to start, but don’t stop there. The main idea is that we fast from those things that keep us away from God. So consider fasting from selfishness, self-centredness and pride. Pope Francis gives us some great ideas in the pictures opposite.
Finally, we are called to reach out to others and give generously. Certainly it is a time to consider what it is that you do for charities. Perhaps consider doing more than you would usually go. But again, that is the starting point. Our aim is to recognise that all the gifts, talents and opportunities that we are given and intended to help us serve others.
We wish everyone a happy and holy Lent!
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We had a lovely half term and a very quiet start to the second half of the term.
The staff focused on getting the horses ridden and exercised before we are back to lessons from next Monday!
Over the half term there was NSEA training with Georgie and they had competitions which they did really well in! There were very fun Pony Days arranged which the ponies and riders really enjoyed! They run every holiday so if you want to book one you can go onto the STE website. This week was really quiet as there were no lessons and the team focused on exercising the ponies, though there will be lessons and volunteering again as normal next week. The horse of the week is… Roxy!
~ Libby C
NSEA News
The NSEA riders have had a busy half term.
Some riders were out competing at the NSEA County Challenge dressage at Parwood as well as the Pony Club Spring Championships held at Arena UK.
At Parwood, Lilly S and Teddy were crowned County Challenge Prelim Champions as the only combination to achieve over 70%. Rosie C and Briggs were very close behind in 3rd with over 69%. Rosie also did a great test with Majyk for 7th.
At Arena UK for the Pony Club Spring Championships, Lulu S had a very successful show finishing 3rd in the Novice warm up class with +69% and then winning her arena in the Intermediate Championship with another +69% score. Well worth the long trip up to Grantham!
We then enjoyed a great afternoon of show jumping training here at STE on Thursday and over the weekend we had several riders out competing.
Lilly S was at Felbridge NSEA showjumping, jumping double clear in the 80cm and the 90cm for 9th and 12th in large classes.
Rosie C went to Pyecombe and won the 60cm and finished 3rd in the 70cm.
Congratulations to Saskia T.V who went to her first competition and finished 6th in the 80cm at Parwood.
Well done all and we are looking forward to another successful half term of competitions!
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Menu—w/c Monday 27th February
Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.
Monday Tuesday
Prep Creamy chicken curry & rice
Freshly baked pizza slice
Main Chicken tikka masala with rice & poppadum’s
Eat healthy choice
Pepperoni pizza slice with chef’s salad
Beef meatballs in a fresh tomato sauce & wholewheat fusilli pasta
Vegetarian Vegetable & chick pea curry & rice
Sides Rice / pasta Broccoli
Chargrilled chicken Caesar salad
Wednesday Thursday Friday
Roast turkey / chicken & Yorkshire pudding
Chef’s carvery –Roast Turkey breast with Yorkshire pudding
Thai coconut infused pork wholemeal rice
Soup of the day – I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato soup
Mrs Twit’s wiggly worm spaghetti carbonara with garlic & cheese bread
Chicken chicken bang bang wraps
Cod goujons / cod fishfingers
Breaded cod fillet / cod fish fingers
Cheese & tomato pizza slice
Fresh tomato coated pasta
Baked wedges Carrots
Additional Jacket potato & beans Plain pasta & tomato sauce
Dessert Fruit pie & custard Choc chip & coconut flapjack slice
Roast potatoes
Mixed vegetables
Horrid Henry’s stinky school vegetarian sausages & messy mash
Hogwarts herby new potatoes
Peter Rabbits
carrots
Jacket potato & beans
Victoria sandwich slice
Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher
Mrs Twits wiggly worms’ spaghetti
Charlie & the chocolate factory cake
Poached salmon with nut free pesto pasta & olive salad
No meat meat balls in a tomato sauce
Chips Peas
Jacket potato & beans
Chocolate milkshake
