St Teresa's Prep School Bulletin

30th November 2020

Message from Mrs Conrad I am sure you will agree with me that the FOST Christmas Fair this week has been absolutely fantastic. The virtual market place had a wonderful array of stalls with a lovely selection of gifts for Christmas; the raffle and auction had incredible prizes (huge thanks to those who donated them) and already over £2000 has been raised; the Advent calendar, Bake Off and Worst Photo competition were great fun and involved everyone across the school; the St Teresa’s choirs got us all in the Christmas spirit, superbly enhanced by the clever wintery IT special effects! I very much enjoyed judging the beautifully decorated stockings and I know Mrs Jones loved choosing a reindeer name from all the creative and humorous entries that were received! The theme for the Fair was ‘Community’ and it certainly lived up to this St Teresa’s value.

Another group who have been absolutely amazing this week are Year 6 (and their teachers!). Year 6 have been diligently joining us from home for assemblies and lessons and staff have been extremely impressed with their commitment to online learning and the quality of work they have produced. Today, our prefect team did a wonderful job leading the Celebration Assembly from their homes and we were very impressed with their smooth operating of the technology in order to make this happen. Well done everyone!

I wish you all a relaxing weekend.

Ringing the Bell for Beatrix Today was Alana’s sister’s last day of chemotherapy and it is traditional to ring the special end of treatment bell at The Royal Marsden Hospital.

This morning we joined with the family during assembly and rang our school bell for Beatrix and Alana to celebrate this milestone.

Key Dates Wed 2nd Dec

Flu Vaccinations

Thurs 10th Dec

Years 1 and 2 Nativity, 9.30 Prep School Christmas lunch Years 3 to 6 Carol Service, 14.15

Friday 11th Dec

Wear a Christmas jumper (optional) No morning or After School clubs. Term ends, 16:15 There is no after school care provision after 16:15 Buses will run as usual.

Christmas Jumpers—Friday 11th December We would like to invite the children to wear a ‘Christmas jumper’ with their school uniforms (if they would like to) on Friday 11th December. This is the last day of term, so it should help us all to get into the festive spirit!

Christmas Post Box We will be running a Christmas post service for the children from 1st December. If they would like to send cards to their friends please may this be within their bubbles only. They should write the name of the recipient clearly on the front of the envelope. The post boxes will be in the girls’ classrooms.

Years 3 to 6 Carol Service Invitation—10th December The Headteacher, staff and pupils have great pleasure in inviting you to our virtual Carol Service on Thursday 10th December at 2.15pm.

We will record the service for any parents who are unable to watch at this time.

Years 1 and 2 Nativity Invitation—10th December The Headteacher, staff and pupils have great pleasure in inviting our Lower Prep parents to this year’s virtual Nativity performance on Thursday 10th December at 9.30am.

We will record the performance for any parents who are unable to watch at this time.

APFS Christmas Cards The girls will be brining these home in their school bags today (Year 6—Tuesday). Mug orders will be dispatched next week and late orders will be delivered to your home address.

Flu Vaccinations—2nd December Flu vaccinations will take place for all children on Wednesday 2nd December at school.

Could parents whose children have already had the flu vaccine this year please email medical@st-teresas.com so that we can cross reference our records.

Message For Year 6 Parents If you wish to accept the place for your daughter to join the Senior School in September 2021 please return your completed Form of Acceptance to Mrs Charles as soon as possible, but no later than Monday 7th December 2020 in order to guarantee the place.

Gentle Reminder Please could we gently remind all families not to meet up or organise parties, sleepovers and playdates, even within your daughter’s bubble. This is because additional family members are not within this bubble and it increases the risk of infection and subsequent bubble closures. Thank you for working in partnership with us to keep the school as safe as possible.

Swimming Lessons Mrs Farrier will be running swimming lessons over the Christmas holidays on 14/15/16th December between 9-12..

All lessons are 1 to 1 or 1 to 2. Please email Mrs Farrier for booking or details—making.waves@hotmail.co.uk

Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week: 1BB

Lucy Atkinson for her brilliantly creative and detailed creation of The Great Fire of London using a range of different materials and textures.

2EB

Olivia Granville for having a positive 'have a go' attitude towards problem solving tasks in Maths.

Arabella Howard for working hard in nativity rehearsals and using a range of facial expressions and body language.

3DI

Perla Lukac and Sienna Less for their fabulous detective work during our Amesbury Archer topic discussions.

Seren Staples for her super attitude to learning this week.

Stef von Ey for her excellent English this week, especially her creativity and use of historical details in her Bronze Age diary entry.

3KC

Sophia Nugent for a fantastic monument presentation using a clear voice and informative Power Point.

Charlotte Jones for showing great perseverance and effort in everything she does.

4RN

Saskia Hall consistently works hard in Maths, putting in a lot of effort when faced with a new concept. She has tried very hard with the different methods for multiplication this week.

Olivia Louw for her excellent ideas about the negative impact tourism is having on the Great Barrier Reef and her presentation when writing to the Australian Prime Minister!

Farah Varasthepour for her perseverance and resilience when checking her work and editing to make improvements. Well done Farah you are listening very carefully.

4CR

Liliana O'Donnell for her excellent persuasive letter about tourists in the Great Barrier Reef.

Clara de Atouguia for her enthusiasm and effort with her work, particularly our Science and Topic.

Sophia Avakian for her effort to improve her work, particularly in English.

5MK

Arabella Clarke for engaging well in all her lessons this week; putting up her hand and sharing her ideas with more enthusiasm and confidence, particularly in topic and RE. Bella Sladen for producing a fabulous poem about 'waiting' in RE as we start our new topic 'Hope'.

Katarina Bettini for writing a very informative biography about Tim Peake in English, using all the features discussed.

5HC

Layla Shier for her dedication, enthusiasm and excellent work while accessing online learning, never missing a live lesson or piece of work, even though she is in a very different time zone!

Grace Hall for her positive and conscientious attitude while successfully using the ladder method to calculate multiplication problems.

Emily Kubale has been nominated by Mrs Pearson for her fantastic postcard from Venus in science.

6KH

Lexi Cox, Betty Singleton and Hayley Pole for adapting to online learning at St. Teresa's so quickly and competently.

6JG

Pascale Weidner and Ariadna Lopez Sostres for working hard to overcome the obstacles of online learning.

This Week in the Prep School Year 4 Blue Abyss Have you ever wanted to dive deep into the ocean? Year 4 learnt about a man that did: Jacques Cousteau. They read the book 'Manfish' about the life of Cousteau and then wrote their own biographies outlining his key achievements. Well done Year 4.

Year 3 Iron Age Year 3 had a fascinating experience learning about the Iron Age with their online workshop this week. They started the day with a gripping story about an Iron Age girl, then made string and even a Stone Age marble toy from wool. They then made a brooch with wire and were able to ask our host, archaeologist, Vanessa many questions about what it was like to live in those times.

Year 1Great Fire of London This week Year 1 have really enjoyed continuing to learn about The Great Fire of London. We have written detailed and informative posters and even created a fact file! We have learnt so much, but what really caught the girl's attention, was looking at pictures of the enormity of the actual fire itself. With this is mind, the girls created their very own Great Fire of London skyline using a range of different materials and textures. They looked fantastic!

Music News Musicians of the Week Lower Prep:

Summer Copeland for learning her solo brilliantly for the Nativity Play.

Upper Prep:

Scarlett Mutch for her hard work with her flute playing in the last week.

Layla Shier for making a very good contribution to music lessons and being very well motivated during her remote learning.

Ava Slack for her excellent work with her flute playing whilst having remote lessons.

Year 6 Music Well done to all the year 6 girls who participated in the lessons yesterday. They worked very hard and produced some very good work describing Christmas carols.

Year 4 Music Club - not running on Monday 30th November Please note there will be no Year 4 Music Club on Monday 30th November.

Sports News •

This week, the girls in Year 3-5 have enjoyed taking part in their swimming galas within lessons.

The girls all took part in an individual stroke race, relay race and fun race. All the girls showed great determination to win and great sportsmanship! Well done to all girls who took part. The results are in….

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The winning team in 3DI were: Olivia, Isabel and Séarlait

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The winning team in 3KC were: Sophia and Amaya

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The winning team in 4RN were: Olivia, Paris, Florence and Isla

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The winning team in 4CR were: Lilianna, Kaiah, India-Rose and Saskia

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The winning team in 5MK were: Phoebe, Rosie, Zara, Beth and Isla

Inspirational sports woman of the week by Tabby Herman This week’s inspirational woman in sport is a swimmer called Jenny Thompson. She won twelve medals which include eight gold medals. She first won the 50-meter freestyle at the Pan American Games in 1987 when she was just 14 years old. Thompson achieved her first world championship in 1991.

Besides her international appearances, she also swam for the Stanford Cardinal Swimming and Diving Team in National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Splash and Dash We are looking forward to the splash and dash event which is happening next week! Please can the girls come into PE kit on the day of their splash and dash and pack their Christmas accessory in their bag. We are looking forward to getting into the Christmas spirit!

Year 3 Splash and Dash—Thursday 3rd December at 2:15pm.

Year 4 Splash and Dash—Tuesday 1st December at 9:55am.

Year 5 Splash and Dash—Monday 30th November at 1:45pm.

Year 6 Splash and Dash—Wednesday 2nd December at 1:15pm.

Santa Run The Santa Run is back! It might look a little different this year as we won’t be able to invite parents or have the whole year group running at the same time, but we have a plan B! The girls will be running in their year group, during their PE lesson, spotting the reindeers and they can wear a Christmas accessory!

Year 1—Wednesday 9th December at 1:15pm Year 2—Wednesday 9th December at 1:45pm Year 3—Monday 7th December at 2:15pm Year 4—Wednesday 9th December at 11:15am Year 5—Tuesday 8th December at 11:15am Year 6—Friday 11th December at 1:15pm

This Week On Sunday we celebrated the feast of Christ the King. We recalled how Jesus turned earthly ideas of what a king was like on their head as, at the Last Supper, he knelt down and set us an example by washing his disciples feet.

Jesus did this throughout his life. Rather than being born in a great palace, he was born in a stable.

Rather than being waited on in a royal nursery, he was laid in a manger. Rather than courting the rich, popular and powerful, he chose his followers from the poor, the vulnerable and those cast out from society. Rather than a throne on a grand dais, his place of glory was on a cross on Calvary hill. And rather than a crown of gold, he wore a crown of thorns.

The Feast of Christ the King asks us to look at our world and our lives and to ask ourselves what is truly of value, what do we prize above all other things, what truly makes us fully human and fully alive.

The example of Jesus reminds us that we are most human, most the person we are called to be, when we follow his example and serve others.

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We hope that you are all staying safe during the second lockdown. We are looking forward to when we can open again for afterwards.

We will not be returning to our usual timetabled lessons until next term.

When the lockdown ends next week we will be organising ourselves to get ready for the adhoc and catch up lessons that are booked in for the week commencing Monday 7th December, and our lessons and activities for during the Christmas holidays.

For those who are not able to ride, we have a list of all their missed lessons during this time which can be used towards bookings made in December and/or will be credited towards the Spring Term riding fees.

Christmas Pony Afternoons For those who have booked in, or are thinking about booking in for the Christmas Holidays, please bring your own hat and boots to ride in as we are not lending out equipment until it is deemed safe to do so.

Reminder on dates!

Adhoc lessons: w/c Monday 7th December Spring Term Riding starts on: Monday 11th January

NSEA Reports Unfortunately all competitions have been cancelled for the duration of the lockdown.

We look forward to seeing the team back out in action in December!

Menu—w/c Monday 30th November Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

The girls will still need to bring a healthy snack/s into school for break time/s.

Monday

Main

Sides

Additional

Desert

Wednesday

Soup of the day

Friday

Soup of the day

Traditional beef lasagne

Roasted chicken Locally sourced pork Chicken burritos Traditional breast with sausages with fresh tomato battered cod / Yorkshire pudding salsa cod fish fingers Chef’s salad

Soup of the day

Thursday

Soup of the day

Chef’s Trolley Chef’s salad/ marinated olives

Vegetarian

Tuesday

Soup of the day

Chef’s salad

Shredded iceberg Chef’s salad salad

Fresh vegetable & Fresh vegetable & Quorn lasagne noodle stir fry

Meat free sausage

Vegetable & bean No chicken burritos with teriyaki with fresh tomato noodles salsa

Crusty bread Roasted vegetables

Mashed potato Broccoli

Cajun slaw Sweetcorn

Jacket potatoes & Jacket potatoes & beans beans

Jacket potatoes & beans

Jacket potatoes & Jacket potatoes & beans beans

Choc chip cookies

White & milk choc chip sponge

Shortbread biscuit

Roasted potatoes Mixed vegetables

Coconut flapjack slice

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

Chips Peas

Fresh fruit salad