Issue 5
Summer Term
27th May 2022
Message from Mrs Conrad It has been a real joy to end this half term with a special day commemorating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The girls and staff looked very festive donned in their red, white and blue! The day began with a special service in the Sports Hall for the whole school where we listened to the scripture passage that would have been used at the coronation, said prayers for the Queen and the world and listened to a beautiful combined performance from the Prep Chamber Choir and Senior School Schola Cantorum of a beautiful anthem composed to some words that the Queen herself had written. Our street party at lunchtime was a wonderful occasion: FOST decorated the tables beautifully, the Maintenance Team hung our homemade bunting up and down Baker Street and Gary’s team supplied a delicious BBQ complete with ice cream cones for dessert. It was certainly an occasion that everyone will remember for years to come! It seems apt to end with the words of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, “Today we truly rejoice in Her Majesty, our Queen Elizabeth. We thank God for her shining, platinum, witness of service, full of faith and dignity. We offer our prayers to God for her and her family. May God bless you, Your Majesty.”
Production Request Do you have any dark coloured boys’ trousers and/or suits that you that you no long need and could give to the School for our Summer Production of ‘Olivia’ please? If so, please drop them into the School Office. Thank you very much!
Class Photographs Your daughter/s will have come home with an ordering card for the Class Photographs. Please log in with the details on the card and order your picture/s online. We have an early bird discount for orders placed by 29th May.
Peter Pan! Good luck to Tamara and Layla in Year 6, who are performing in the Young Theatre group’s production of Peter Pan at Leatherhead Theatre this weekend. We are sure that they will do brilliantly—go for it girls!
This week you should have received: Whole School
St Teresa’s Sports Relaunch Presentation Evening letter
Year 5
Roles and Responsibilities letter
Year 5
Transition meeting invitation
Year 6
RSE teaching information
Year 6
Leavers’ Mass and Afternoon Tea letter
Whole School
Half termly grade sheets
Year 2
Year 3 Information Evening & Barbecue letter
Please contact Mrs Jones if you need copies of any of this information—k.jones@st-teresas.com
Key Diary Dates: Mon 6th June
School resumes
Tue 7th June
U11A&B Cricket V Notre Dame (A)
3.00pm
Wed 8th June
U10+U11 mixed cricket tournament (A)
8.15am
Wed 8th June
U10A&B Cricket V Manor House (H)
3.15pm
Thu 9th June
U8-U11 Swimming Gala V Boxgrove (H)
pm, time tbc
Fri 10th June
U9A-C Cricket V CLFS (A)
3.00pm
Mon 13th June
LAMDA Examinations
All Day
Tue 14th June
Year 3 (for current Year 2) Parent Information Evening & BBQ
5.30pm
Wed 15th June St Teresa’s Sport Relaunch Evening, Henderson Hall
19.30pm
Thu 16th June
Chapel Concert, Chapel (musicians, by invitation)
16.30pm
Mon 20th June
Year 5, Cranmore Ramble
All Day
Year 6, Leavers’ Mass, Chapel
2.00—3.00pm
Followed by Afternoon Tea
3.00—3.45pm
Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week:
2EB
Mariella D and Esther H for producing informative, colourful posters highlighting some of the similarities and differences between the UK and Australia.
3RN
Ruby S for excellent group work this week to produce an informative poster on all Ruby knew about volcanoes. She included the features, different types of eruptions and some ‘did you know?’ facts. Isabella M-S worked very well in a small group to research volcanoes and create an informative poster, including facts and diagrams. Olivia G for excellent setting description of Pompeii in our English lessons this week. Olivia used fantastic sentence starters and adjectives to describe life before Mount Vesuvius erupted.
3KC
Apollonia C-D for brilliant reading this week and for finding super adjectives and verbs in her reading. Zara O’D for an amazing diary entry about the eruption of Vesuvius. Well done for including fronted adverbials, onomatopoeia, and powerful adjectives.
5MK
Steffi C-B for super use of her creative skills to design an impressive Jubilee flag for our Jubilee celebrations. Tabby D and Natalia O for wonderful work in poetry this week, using figurative language to good effect, including metaphors and personification.
5HC
Emma v E and India R C for their superb written descriptions of a garden, their writing was exciting, vivid, full of figurative language and excellent vocabulary choices. Olivia K and Saskia H for their fantastic progress in English, especially with their written work. Listening to feedback, taking their time to include all elements of the success criteria, and editing their work successfully has seen them both produce some excellent pieces of work recently. Well done!
6KH
Beth B for her commitment to her Head Girl role; always leading by example and writing an excellent proposal for a charity initiative. Zara B for an original and entertaining speech on being the younger sister, which she delivered with clarity and confidence.
6JG
Lily E and Emily K for their impressive speeches in English.
6LD
Lily S for writing an excellent speech on the Wonders of Snakes. Isabella M for writing an excellent speech on Climate Change.
Young Voices Our Years 5 & 6 Young Voices Choir sung with joy and enthusiasm at the O2 this week. It was an amazing experience for the girls to perform with professional musicians at such a prestigious arena as part of a massed choir of 8,000. By the end of the evening, girls, parents and staff were all on their feet singing and dancing!
Year 2—English After learning about possessive apostrophes, the girls used their new knowledge to label their learning partner. Noses, cheeks, jumpers and arms were some of the items labelled!
Poetry & Literature Club The girls in Poetry and Literature Club chose an author they would like to research and produced an interesting and eye-catching profile.
Eco & Gardening Club In Eco and Gardening Club this week, Mrs Menzies from the Senior School invited the girls to plant some wild seed in the school ground. The girls loved preparing the ground using rakes, planting the seeds and raking the seeds afterwards. Fingers crossed for a little rain to help the seeds germinate.
Year 5—Chefs Adopt a School In Session 3 of "Chefs Adopt a School” Year 5 made bread dough and took it home to bake. They chose what shapes, sizes and flavours they wanted for their final product. We were impressed with their results, from plaited loaves, dinner rolls, dough balls with garlic butter to sweet, tasty cinnamon swirls! The girls all agreed that the bread tasted delicious.
Year 3—Volcanoes This week, the girls used the VR headsets to find out more about volcanoes for our topic ‘Tremors’. It was a long awaited lesson and a fantastic way to end the topic. The girls saw lava flowing, went on a virtual helicopter ride and imagined what a sulphurous volcano would smell like in Indonesia! What an adventure.
The girls in 3KC caught up with their volcano poem work after their amazing assembly and I think you'll agree they included some amazing vocabulary with language devices such as powerful adjectives and verbs, similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration plus many more. Afterwards they wrote their poems up inside a volcano to create a volcano calligram. Fabulous work girls!
Sport News Cricket The U9&U10 tennis teams finished their Surrey League matches on Saturday. The U9 matches were very close with rallies of 8-10 shots per point. The U10 team was victorious, winning against Wimbledon, Hawthorn’s and St George’s. Players of the tournament were Peyton, Liliana, Lyla and Olivia P. Well done girls!
STASH This summer, we are running our STASH (St Teresa’s Activities in the Summer Holidays) camp from Monday 11th July to Friday 15th July. Please see the timetable for the week below. Contact Miss Roberts—a.roberts@st-teresas.com for booking or if you have any questions.
Horsley and Send Cricket Club—May Half term camp Horsley and Send cricket club are running a May Half Term camp from Monday 30th May to Friday 3rd June. The girls will have the opportunity to play lots of fun games and improve their skills. If you would like your daughter to attend please email– camps@horsleyandsendcc.co.uk with your child’s name, age group and date you would like them to attend. The PE department love hearing about all your sporting achievements outside of school. Please email any news (with pictures if possible) to Miss Roberts (a.roberts@st-teresas.com).
Upcoming Fixtures Tuesday 7th June—U11A&B Cricket V Notre Dame (A) 3pm Wednesday 8th June– U10+U11 mixed cricket tournament (A) 8:15am Wednesday 8th June—U10A&B Cricket V Manor House (H) 3:15pm Thursday 9th June—U8-U11 Swimming gala V Boxgrove (H) Friday 10th June—U9A-C Cricket V CLFS (A) 3pm
This Week On Thursday, we celebrated the great Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, remembering, forty days after the Resurrection, when Jesus returned to glory to sit at the right hand of His Father. As we celebrated Mass together, joined by the parish community, we reflected on two elements of this event. It was a joy to join together as a whole school community this morning, as part of our Jubilee celebrations, for a Service of Prayer and Thanksgiving to mark the 70th Anniversary of the reign of our monarch, Queen Elizabeth. We reflected on King Solomon’s desire for gift of wisdom, and recalled that the Queen, in her Similarly, we, like the first followers of Jesus, turn, asked for the same. This has resulted in now wait in anticipation for the feast of her reign being one characterised by a life of Pentecost when we, the body of Christ, are service. While it is remarkable that she has inspired and called to continue Christ’s reigned for seventy years, her exemplary life of ministry of love to our world. service is surely a still greater legacy. As we gathered together we joined our voice to that of Cardinal Vincent Nichols as we declared: On the one hand we recalled that Jesus has gone before us to prepare that heavenly place for us. Having humbled himself to come down and participate so fully in our humanity, so now he has returned and opened the way to the eternal kingdom of heaven for us.
“Your Majesty, it is an honour and a pleasure to express the great loyalty and gratitude felt by the Catholic community of England and Wales for the outstanding and unstinting service you give to our nation and to people throughout the world”
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.
SUMMER BALL To book tickets https://buytickets.at/friendsofstteresas1 Dress is Caribbean chic OR black tie Prizes needed for auction (big ticket items e.g. 1 week in a Spanish villa) and gift tree (lower cost items e.g. A massage) - email Cathy (chastoy@me.com) Wine needed for the ‘wine wall’ Tombola - please donate bottles to reception area Program advertising space. £75 for a half page. Reductions available for those offering a prize for auction or gift tree - email Cathy (chastoy@me.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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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. If anyone wishes to start riding with us, then please contact the office now so that we have your details on our waitlist for when we start organising lessons over the summer for the Autumn Term. 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!
Something interesting happened this week, with some of the horses having a chiropractor treatment! A Chiropractor treats the horses back to relieve any pain or discomfort to help them feel better! The ponies of the week this week are… Charlie and Red! ~ Libby C
We are excited for the riders heading to Hickstead on the weekend of the 28th/29th May for the Eventers Challenge Championships! We hope that you’re getting the practice in, and we wish you the best of luck! Send us pictures!
Menu—w/c Monday 6th June Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.
Monday Prep School
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Beef lasagne & crusty bread
Chicken breast goujons
Roast chicken breast with Yorkshire pudding
Mild beef chilli with rice & nacho’s
Fish fingers/ tomato pasta
Main
Beef lasagne with crusty bread
Southern fried chicken fillet burger with shredded iceberg & piri piri mayo
Honey roast gammon with Yorkshire pudding
Mild beef chilli nachos, grated cheese, guacamole, sour cream & salsa
Traditional battered cod fillet or fish fingers with tartare sauce
Eat healthy dish
Chargrilled chilli chicken & roasted vegetable traybake
Pork & vegetable korma with wholemeal rice
Marinated Cajun beef strips with rustic coleslaw & chef’s salad
Lemon & basil chicken breast served with marinated olives
Seafood & chilli spiced linguine with roasted green peppers & fresh herbs
Vegetarian
Vegetable & spinach lasagne
Quorn mince & bean tomato bake
Root vegetable & lentil cottage pie
Malaysian style squash & seitan curry
No chicken teriyaki noodles & Oriental vegetables
Sides
Crusty bread Peas & sweetcorn
Jacket wedges Broccoli
Roast potatoes Mixed vegetables
Rice Carrots
Chips Peas Baked beans
Apple pie & custard
Lemon & blueberry slice
Rocky road
Fruit & berry crumble & custard
Raspberry cheesecake
Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter
Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter
Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter
Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter
Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter
Desert
Additional
Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher