8th February 2021 25th June 2021
Message from Mrs Conrad I’m sure, like me, you have really missed going to the theatre over the last 18 months and so I was particularly looking forward to attending the Year 6 production of ‘Wind in the Willows’. I was not disappointed! The girls were absolutely wonderful – superb acting and dancing, fantastic singing and great team work shown by all. I was immensely proud of all of them and it was a fitting end to their time at the Prep School. Huge thanks must be extended to all the staff who helped with costumes, scenery and general logistics and special thanks and congratulations must go to Mrs Yalden, our Director of Music, and Mrs Gibson, The Director, whose incredible hard work and commitment made this the outstanding performance it turned out to be. We were also very proud of our Year 1 and 2 girls and celebrated all their many and varied achievements at our annual Prize Giving Celebration this week. Congratulations to you all on a very successful year!
Diary Dates: Tuesday 29th June
Mass for the Feast of St Peter and St Paul and Year 6 Leavers’ Mass (event cancelled)
Wednesday 30th June
Lower Prep Sports Day, 09.45 to 11.15 (new date—parents welcome) Upper Prep Sports Day, 13.15 to 15.30 (new date—parents welcome)
Thursday 1st July
Year 5 Prize Giving, Mairlot Hall, am (no audience—recording for parents)
Thursday 1st July
Years 3 & 4 Prize Giving, Mairlot Hall, am (no audience—recording for parents)
Thursday 1st July
Year 6 Prize Giving in the Mairlot Hall, 19.00 (Year 6 parents and guests in the audience only—2 seats per family)
Friday 2nd July
Term ends, no After School Care—Buses will run as usual
Before and After School Clubs—w/c 28th June There will be no before or after school clubs running in the last week of term, apart from: Equestrian, Tennis, Study and After School Care.
This week you should have received: Year 6
Classes for 2021/22 information
Lower Prep
Link to Lower Prep Prize Giving video
Years 2 to 6
ESTA Summer Camp information
Year 6
Induction afternoon information for Year 7
Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week:
1BB
Amelia H for really hard work this week in Maths, working to find change from both 10 and 20p coins.
2EB
Isabella M-S for her thoughtful observations when discussing what we have learnt about the main character in our book in English this week. Ruby S for taking care with her presentation when publishing her non-chronological report and for taking care with her clay work.
3DI
Lottie C for fabulous, detailed recipe work for her incredible edible. Stef v E for super teamwork to create her group smoothie at our workshop.
3KC
Matilda R for brilliant imaginative expanded noun phrases when she was writing her Incredible Edible recipe from Madame Pamplemousse. Abi F for super effort in maths this week focusing on the topic time with huge enthusiasm and success.
4RN
Allie B for excellent use of language and sentence structure when writing a newspaper report about a Yeti sighting! Susie Y and Isla B for concentration and resilience in Maths this week when converting decimals and fractions. Elin S for writing an engaging newspaper report about a Yeti sighting, using appropriate vocabulary and all the features needed.
4CR
Amelia S for her effort on her yeti newspaper and being a fabulous learning partner. Saskia D for her fantastic sense of humour and effort to choose interesting descriptions. Poppy H for her effort on her newspaper report. Natalia O for her effort to improve her work, shown in the development of her writing.
5MK
Alice C and Beth B, Zara B and Sophia C for super work on their topic project this week. Imaginative creativity and inventiveness has been put to good use in deciding how they are going to present the information that they have researched to the rest of the class.
5HC
Myla M for her thoughtful contributions to our English Lessons this week when discussing a variety of poems about older people. Grace H and Esme T for their outstanding collaborative work on their project on fashion over the last 100 years, even completing a fashion shoot over together over the weekend!
6KH
Georgie S for her kind and caring nature. Stella P for always being organised and helpful, particularly during the production. Catherine L for her excellent questions in our PSHE lessons.
6JG
Anna H for being an excellent ‘runner’ in the production. Olivia L for performing her character with so much more confidence.
Good News! Alana grew her hair over more than a year to donate to The Little Princess Trust. The Little Princess Trust gifted a real hair wig to her little sister, Beatrix, when she was going through treatment and Alana saw the joy it brought her firsthand. The big cut will be on Monday and she is so excited to give her princess locks to another person in need. With her family’s Ring The Bell for Beatrix Go Fund Me event in November to celebrate her sister finishing chemotherapy treatment, she helped to raise over £10,000 for Momentum Children’s Cancer charity. St Teresa’s took part in this event so we and the charity are so grateful to you all. Thank you!
Great Work! Banana Splits—Year 3 The Year 3 teachers made banana splits following the instructions that the girls had made in English using adverbs, adjectives, imperative verbs and numbered instructions. It was a lot of fun making sure Mrs Irons cut her banana in half lengthways and ensuring Mrs Cooper served the ice-cream in big enough scoops. They were delicious too! Lyla made this one from home and it looks like she added many tasty ingredients!
Smoothie Making—Year 3 Year 3 had a fantastic time with Gary and Emily from the kitchen creating smoothies using seasonal fruits, soya milk and yoghurt. They planned their recipe out beforehand, including their measurements and methods. The results were delicious!
Eco and Gardening Club During Eco and Gardening Club, the girls visited the Pond and Biodiversity Area and had a huge amount of fun finding minibeasts with nets in the pond and looking for creatures in the bug hotel. The girls found and identified a leech, dragonfly larvae, pond snails, damsel nymphs and butterflies. They took the safety element of being by a pond very seriously and I was very impressed by their prior knowledge of pond life.
Year 5 Debate and Public Speaking Club Erin, Frankie, and Grace have written this super poem about the environment for their Debate and Public Speaking club with Tilly.
Year 4 Mountains In Year 4 this week, we have been researching mountains as part of our topic and using atlases to look at the different heights. We learnt how mountains are drawn in atlases, using contour lines to show how tall they are. We created our own mountains and made them using card and foam to show the contours and different heights.
Helping Hands Club As a bit of fun in our final session this year, Helping Hands Club looked to nature and the wildlife around us to create these clever pieces of artwork. We look forward to returning to the club in the Autumn Term.
Sports News Year 5 and 6 athletics club girls took part in the Rapid Relays event on Tuesday. It was a great success and we will definitely be running it next year too! Thank you to Mrs Rowcliffe for organising it.
Well done to Chloe S in Year 6 for winning the U13 team trophy at a Quadkids athletics event at her club. She also managed to do a PB in her 600m in a time of 1 minute and 51 seconds, beating all the U13 girls and all of the boys, bar 1. Keep up the great effort Chloe!
STASH St Teresa’s Activity Summer Holiday Camp (STASH) will be going ahead in the first week of the Summer holidays from the 5th-9th July. This will be open to all girls in the Prep School and involves sporting activities, as well as arts and crafts. Please contact Miss Rippington to sign up—s.rippington@st-teresas.com
Summer Swimming Crash Courses Mrs Farrier will be running swimming crash courses in the weeks commencing 26th July, 9th August & 23rd August. Please email Mrs Farrier for more details and booking—making.waves@hotmail.co.uk
Mouthguards for Years 3 to 6
School Mouthguard £44
In preparation for the Hockey season and to ensure your daughter is fully equipped for the start of the academic Year 2021 we would like to offer mouthguard fitting on Wednesday 30th June 2021. As a school we support GuardianPro Mouthguards and their custom-made mouthguards; they offer a reasonable price and a high level of protection in school colours. There are additional options available in a variety of colours, as well as braces mouthguards for a bespoke fitting. Please click here to purchase your mouthguard and book your fitting.
Music News Musicians of the Week Seren S for very good work practising her violin. Caroline DL, Caitlin W, Lottie DT, Sofia C, Lucia C, Tabby H, Stella P, Arabella C and Chloe N for their confident solo singing in the production of Wind In The Willows. Eliza B for very good work learning the songs for Wind In The Willows and contributing to the singing.
Associated Board Music Exams Well done to Isola R, Ella J, Susie Y and Lucia M who have performed beautifully for their exam recordings this week.
Year 3 String Quartet On Monday, the girls from the Year 3 String Quartet visited the Chapel to watch a professional quartet perform. They were enthralled by the performance and asked some very sensible questions. The girls were asked to write their thoughts on their visit. “I thought it was very happy, lively and jolly.” “I thought it was amazing and very elegant and it sounded very jolly and I just loved it!!!” “I think they were all in time and perfectly tuned.” “Beautiful, harmonic music!” Thank you to Mr Caister, Director of Music in the Senior School, for facilitating this visit.
Year 1 and Year 2 Concert On Friday morning, the girls and staff in Lower Prep were treated to a short concert performed by the girls who learn musical instruments. Congratulations to all the girls who performed so well for us.
Music Clubs in the last week of term Please note that the following clubs will NOT run in the last week of term: Monday Year 4 Music Club Tuesday Year 6 Theory Club Friday Year 5 Theory Club Friday Year 6 Ukulele Club
URGENT—We Need Your Old Uniform! Could we ask you to donate any unwanted/pre loved uniform if you have some laying around! With many new starters joining in the Autumn term, we have had unprecedented demand and will need all your donations. Many thanks for your support!
Deborah Whipple will be taking submissions every day next week between 4pm and 4.15pm at the Equestrian Centre.
E-mail equestrian@st-teresas.com Call
01372 750257
Booking System st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk
Visit our website www.st-teresas.com/ equestrian Or find us on Facebook “St Teresa’s Equestrian”
Arnie and Sky will be leaving us at the end of the term to start their new chapters. We are on the lookout for horses to join STE and have a couple in the line up already. However this does mean that horse availability will be even tighter for the second half of the term and the holiday period until we can replace the amazing Ellie, Arnie and Sky. We also have three tickets going for a trip to the International Horse Show on Thursday 16th December 2021. Please contact the office to find out pricings if you are interested.
Equestrian Prize Giving We will be organising a small Equestrian Prize Giving on Saturday 3rd July for prize winners and parents only. The Prize Winners have already been decided and will be informed privately. We will be arranging a newsletter to announce the winners to all that will be published by the end of the term.
Summer Holiday Pony Days We do still have some spaces available for the Pony Mornings and Afternoons in the summer holidays. These can be viewed on the booking system and selecting the calendar view which will give a monthly overview as an easier way to view availability. Bookings need to be made directly on the bookings system, except for those who pay by childcare vouchers. If you do pay by vouchers, please contact the office to make your booking.
NSEA Competition Reports The NSEA results that were published in last weeks bulletin for the Felbridge competition unfortunately had some errors in it. Over the summer we will update the website where you may read the correct results under the Competition Reports Page.
Menu—w/c Monday 28th June 2021 Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances. Monday
Main
Crispy sweet chilli beef
Chef’s Trolley Chef’s salad/ marinated olives
Vegetarian
Sides
Additional
Desert
Sweet chilli vegetables
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Locally sourced pork sausages
Traditional beef lasagne
Whole school BBQ
Chef’s salad
Chef’s salad/ marinated olives
Chef’s salad
Meat free sausage Fresh vegetable & Quorn lasagne
No chicken teriyaki with noodles
Rice Mashed potato Mixed vegetables Broccoli
Crusty bread Roasted vegetables
Friday
Traditional battered fish / cod fish fingers
Curly fries Peas
Jacket potatoes & Jacket potatoes & Jacket potatoes beans beans & beans
Jacket potatoes & beans
Chocolate cake slice
Fresh berry mousse
Banoffee pie
Coconut flapjack Ice lolly’s slice
Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher
ESTA
Team Challenge Event ESTA is excited to be running the Team Challenge event during group tennis lessons all next week! Team Challenge is a fun competition designed for junior tennis players. Players compete in small teams for points over a short series of matches, with winners being awarded medals. Win, lose or draw, all players receive a sticker and certificate provided by the LTA. This is a great way to incorporate some extra competitive match play in sessions. We hope everyone has fun taking part!
LTA Match Play Event ESTA Head Coach Jack Lane is running an LTA match play event on Saturday 31st July for U8, U9 & U10 players. This event is a great way for children to gain more match play experience in a familiar and fun environment! Please follow the link below to sign up. https://competitions.lta.org.uk/tournament/E96E0ED1-39A0-4222-8EB1-21152AECB5FD
Local Clubs & Classes