8th February 2021 28th May 2021
Message from Mrs Conrad I can hardly believe that we have reached the summer half term and have only four weeks left in school before the end of the academic year! Your daughters, as always, have been a joy to work with and it has been wonderful having them back in school and watching them enjoy their studies, as well as more recently, educational workshops, trips and fixtures. As you are aware, we did have to send a bubble home this week, but we were so proud of the way the girls dealt with the situation in such a calm and mature manner. Thank you to you all for your ongoing understanding and support. We look forward to seeing everyone back in school after half term and very much hope to see you all in person at one of our end of year events. Have a restful half term break.
Diary Dates: Monday 7th June
U9, U10 and U11 Tennis v St Georges (A) 16.00 start
Tuesday 8th June
Class photographs (and individual photographs for Year 6)
Tuesday 8th June
U10A+U11A Cricket v Manor House (A) 16.00 start
Wednesday 9th June
U11A-C Cricket v Hawthorns (A) 2.30pm start
Thursday 10th June
Judaism Worshops, all day
Thursday 10th June
U9 tennis v Hawthorns (H) 16.30 start
Monday 14th June
Values Week, all week
Monday 14th June
U8A-C Cricket v Feltonfleet (A) 14.45 start
Tuesday 15th June
U11A+B Cricket v Feltonfleet (A) 14.45 start
Wednesday 16th June
New Year 3 Parent Information Evening (on Teams), 17.30
Friday 18th June
Prep School Sports Day—Lower Prep, am, Upper Prep, pm—full details to follow
This week you should have received: Whole School
Staffing & classes for September 2021
Whole School
Information about class photographs on 8th June 2021
Year 5
Senior School Transition Evening information letter
Year 6
Wind in the Willows video download expression of interest survey
Year 5
Roles of Responsibility letter and Job Descriptions
Year 5 Lunch After half term, Year 5 will return to having their lunch in the Dining Room. We will stagger the girls’ arrival and departure times to ensure that bubbles do not cross.
School Photographs Fresh School Photography will be in school on Tuesday 8th June, taking class photographs in the Prep School as well as individual photographs of Year 6. They will be returning to school in the Autumn Term to take individual photographs of all the girls in the Prep School. The girls in Years 1 to 5 should wear summer uniform to school (even if they have a PE lesson) and please may you ensure that they have their cardigans and blazers with them. Year 6 should all wear their winter uniform—also with cardigans and blazers.
Years 3 to 6 Swimming—Pyjamas The girls in Years 3 to 6 will be learning life saving skills in their swimming lessons after half term. Please may the girls bring a pair of pyjamas (full length leg—not shorts) into school for every swimming lesson in addition to their usual swimming kit.
HALF TERM SKI CAMP The Ski Simulator is now up and running at Cranmore School
Thursday 3rd of June from 9am—5pm 60min or 90min sessions available during the day Kids and Adults welcome in the same session, learn to ski, improve your skills or have a workout with our BASI Instructor, and experience the same simulator the US Ski team use! Are you brave enough to race Beaver Creek, Sochi or Pyeongchang……? Please book at www.infini.ski Use the discount code HALFTERM for £20 off a booking. Any questions then please do get in touch Mark Brackley: mark@infini.ski
07970 386204
Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week: 1BB
Sophia C for her consistent kindness and will to put other’s needs before her own. Mariella D for her high levels of effort during written English tasks this week.
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Poppy E for working really hard to improve the neatness of her handwriting. Arabella H and Natalia T for demonstrating great teamwork skills during our first minibeast hunt as part of our new topic.
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Olivia P and Seren S for their fabulous attitude and enthusiasm for our Roman Day on Tuesday.
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Scarlett C and Tabitha P for their wonderful cursive handwriting they used when writing up their volcano poems.
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Isola R for writing an excellent opening paragraph to her magical story, using detail and a variety of sentence starters. Well done! Susie Y for consistent hard work during our Maths lessons, listening carefully and applying what she has learnt. Well done!
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Alexandra v E for her super story opening, using complex sentences and considering her use of language to make an impact on the reader. Olivia K for her effort to use more interesting language and different sentence starters in her story opening.
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Arabella C and Eloise S for super participation in all lessons this week, particularly in English and Topic this week, confidently and enthusiastically sharing your understanding and ideas with the class. Eva M for demonstrating signs of becoming a coding expert - persevering to achieve a goal and learning how to debug in order to produce the best possible outcome. Impressive work Eva. Alice B for making a more concerted effort with her handwriting and with the general presentation of her work this week. Keep it up Alice!
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Laiya A for her excellent work in ICT coding a robot to clean up the coral reef. Myla M for her super work in English this half term, especially her poem about a garden insect, and for her valuable contributions to class discussions.
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Phoebe C for her conscientious approach to all her work this half term; making a concerted effort to work on her targets and present all her work neatly. Lexi C for her excellent start to her ID project, producing some beautifully presented pieces of work.
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Lucia C for bravery and resilience. Pascale W for excellent contributions to discussions. Freya C for her wonderful kenning.
Great Work! Year 4 Art Here are some beautiful samples of Year 4’s ‘oil pastel and brusho ink’ experiments.
Year 5 Maths In order to further their understanding of the properties of 3D shape, Year 5 worked together to construct 3D representations from cocktail sticks and Blutac. Once constructed, the girls had to note down the number of faces, edges and vertices. According to the girls, the most challenging shape to build was the octagonal prism with 10 faces (2 octagonal and 8 rectangular), 24 straight edges and 16 vertices.
Year 3—Tremors Worshop For our topic of Tremors, Year 3 travelled back in time to Pompeii AD79 to find out what happened when the mighty Vesuvius erupted....we learnt about what happened to Pompeii and Herculaneum from our guide Octavia who was living there in AD79. We learnt about artefacts which were found in the public sewers… and even touched a piece of stone found 2000 years ago! We made models of fish to trade with and an offering to the God Vulcan out of wire. We looked at different types of homes, and the significant mosaics found there, to identify whether the people living there were rich or poor.
Year 1—RE Year 1 have been thinking about 'Jesus' New Rule' in RE recently and how we must live our lives showing love for one another. We discussed and brainstormed different ways that we can do this. We thought about how in Church, we offer each other the 'sign of peace' and show our care and love. We used this idea of sharing love by creating our own shaking hands poster showing the ways we can love one another. Peace be with you!
Eco and Gardening Club Eco Club and Gardening Club had a very generous donation from Mrs Bishop this week. She donated mini cucumbers plants and chilli plants that we will be growing in the classroom, courgettes and patty pans which we planted in the raised beds. The girls learnt what each of these looks like and how to create a tripod planter in the beds. Finally, we planted the chillies into larger pots and watered our sunflower plants. A huge thank you to Mrs Bishop!!
Year 2—Wriggle and Crawl The girls in Year 2 began their new topic this week, ‘Wriggle and Crawl’. Armed with clipboards, pooters and magnifying glasses, the girls enjoyed identifying different creatures living in the school environment.
Year 4—Sayers Croft Year 4 had a sensational two days at Sayers Croft this week. Amongst other things, they took part in a blindfold trail, bouldering, orienteering, shelter building and clay modelling.
Sports News PE Star Class of the Week PE star class of the week goes to 3DI for their enthusiasm in lessons.
Year 4 Cricket Year 4 had their interhouse cricket tournament this week. It was very close, with St Dominic taking the win with 254 runs: 1st St Dominic: 2nd St Francis: 3rd St Ignatius: 4th St Benedict:
254 247 245 242
Players of the tournament were: Steffi and Ella for their bowling, Ruby and Ali for their batting and Isla for her fielding. Great work girls!
Year 3 Cricket Year 3 also had their interhouse cricket tournament this week. The results were: 1st St Dominic: 2nd St Ignatius: 3rd St Benedict: 4th St Francis:
251 246 236 229
Players of the tournament were: Searlait, Tabitha P, Isabella, Sophia and Abi.
Year 5 Cricket Year 5 played their second cricket match this week against Feltonfleet. The match was tough and identified our need to improve our bowling. We will be introducing a specific bowling lunchtime club for Year 5 after half term. Players of the matches were Sophia and Ariella. Grace and Frankie showed superb teamwork when batting together, communicating well with each other to get the extra runs when the ball was miss fielded. Phoebe H and Grace also managed to bowl a wicket. Great work girls!
Cricket for Girls Lydia Greenway (England cricketer) has set up a new website called “Cricket for Girls”. She is offering a free Zoom cricket session over half term. Please see the website for more details here.
Tennis The Year 4 tennis girls had their first Surrey league fixture this week against Rowan and Wimbledon. The weather was miserable, however the girls showed off their skills and fought until the end. They came away with a win against Rowan, winning 3-1. Well done to Peyton, Liliana, Alex and Poppy.
Swimming Our Swimmers have been excelling in the pool, inside and outside of School. Sophia in Year 5 placed top 10 in all of her races at Leatherhead, placing her 15th in the country for U10 50m butterfly, 21st for backstroke and 25th for freestyle. Tabitha in Year 6 is ranked 6th in Surrey for U11 50m breaststroke and 24th in the country for 100m backstroke. Emily in Year 6 is ranked 10th in the country for U11 100m freestyle, 12th in 50m butterfly, 23rd for 50m freestyle and 12th for backstroke. Keep up the great work girls! A fantastic set of results!
Xanthe in Year 6 had her end of season awards at her grass roots football club in Cranleigh and she was awarded the Players’ Player of the Season. This is voted for by her team mates. Xanthe has the Waverley football tournament next weekend. Well done and good luck in your tournament! Felicity in Year 4 has been enjoying her netball at Fetcham Hawks and received a certificate at her end of season training session. Felicity has really enjoyed her first year with the club especially when they played a match against Ashtead Allstars.
Fixtures for the next week Monday 7th June: th
U9, U10 and U11 Tennis v St Georges. Away. 4pm start.
Tuesday 8 June:
U10A+U11A cricket v Manor House. Away. 4pm start.
Wednesday 9th June:
U11A-C cricket v Hawthorns. Away. 2.30pm start.
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Thursday 10 June:
U9 tennis v Hawthorns. Home. 4.30pm start.
Change of Year group for Monday 14th June. This will now be an U8 match. Monday 14th June:
U8A-C cricket v Feltonfleet. Away. 2.45pm start.
Tuesday 15th June:
U11A+B cricket v Feltonfleet. Away. 2.45pm start.
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Wednesday 16 June:
U10A+B cricket v Cranmore. Away. 4.15pm start.
Friday 18th June:
SPORTS DAY—further details to follow.
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. Full details will be sent out soon.
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
Music News Musicians of the Week Darcy R for working really hard with her chime bar playing. Olivia P and Jessika R for very good chime bar playing. Isla N and Beth B for very good work on Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Music Exams Well done to Caitlin W, Catherine L, Erin C and Phoebe R who have all performed very well for their music exam recordings this week.
Instrumental Lessons Girls who are considering learning an instrument in the next academic year, may have a taster session later this term if they wish. Please contact Mrs Yalden on c.yalden@st-teresas.com if you are interested in organising a session for your daughter. There are currently spaces for all instruments! If your daughter learns an instrument which needs to be brought to school, please ensure that she takes it to the classroom with her when she arrives at school in the morning, rather than instruments being taken to the office.
This Week On Tuesday we had our wonderful May Procession. It was an opportunity, during this month of May that is dedicated to Mary the mother of Jesus, to recognise how important Mary is. We gathered together on Mairlot Lawn for this special service. In particular we thought about the love that there was between Jesus and his mother. We remembered the scene at the Nativity when Mary first cradled Jesus in her loving arms and gazed upon him - her son, but also the saviour of the world. What a love she must have had for Jesus! We are asked to have the same love for Jesus that Mary had. We also remembered the love that Jesus had for his mother. We all know how special our parents are to us and how much we love them. And we can sometimes forget that while we remember that Jesus loves everyone, how full must his heart have been with love for his own mother. We are asked to remember that Jesus shares that same love with each and every one of us. Perhaps, as this month of May comes to an end you can use the Children’s Rosary below to pray with Mary.
And a huge ‘Thank you’ for the beautiful flowers that were all donated to the Princess Alice Hospice.
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There is no rest for the wicked as we head into the Half Term! We have had a jam packed schedule for the start of the term and are busy Monday to Friday next week with Pony Days! You may have heard that we are expecting to lose Ellie who is booked to head home on Friday 4th June. This means that we will be tight for horses during the last four weeks of term. We have been on the look out for ponies in the range of 13hh to 14.2hh so if you know of any that you think may be suitable for us then let us know! The office will also be starting to look at the timetable for the Autumn Term so if you want any changes to days and times then do let us know.
May Half Term Pony Days We are now fully booked on the Pony Mornings and Afternoons. But do still keep an eye out on the system in case of cancellations! Bookings will need to be made directly on the bookings system. Visibility of the spaces will vary depending on horse availability.
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. Summer Holiday Pony Days The dates are now available on the booking system for the Summer Holidays!
Fundraising Message from Year 7 Hi everyone, my name is Inde W and I’m part of SPGN (Shetland Pony Grand National)! Here is a little description of my fundraising activities for Bob Champion Cancer Trust. Bob Champion is a famous horse racer who was diagnosed with testicular cancer just before he won the Grand National in 1981. He established the Bob Champion Cancer Trust in 1983 to raise money for cancer research. This year marks his 40th anniversary of his big win and he has walked 191 miles on 40 different racing yards, I walked with him on my Shetland Buttercup for his last walk and then watched him ride for the first time in 10 years! SPGN is a big thing in the equestrian world. As a member we race at very big venues, and all the money that SPGN raises is donated to Bob Champion Cancer Trust. I would appreciate any help you can offer in support of this amazing charity! My JustGiving page is: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/whipple-equestrian/
Menu—w/c Monday 7th June Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances. Monday
Main
Traditional beef lasagne
Chef’s Trolley Chef’s salad/ marinated olives
Vegetarian
Sides
Additional
Desert
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Locally sourced pork sausages
Roasted chicken breast with Yorkshire pudding
Pepperoni pizza slice
Chef’s salad
Chef’s salad
Shredded iceberg Chef’s salad salad
Traditional battered fish / cod fish fingers
Fresh vegetable & Meat free sausage Fresh vegetable & Margherita pizza Quorn lasagne noodle stir fry slice
No chicken teriyaki with noodles
Crusty bread Roasted vegetables
Chips Peas
Mashed potato Broccoli
Roasted potatoes Baked wedges Mixed vegetables Cajun slaw Sweetcorn
Jacket potatoes & Jacket potatoes & Jacket potatoes & Jacket potatoes & Jacket potatoes & beans beans beans beans beans
Chocolate cake slice
Banoffee pie
Country apple cake
Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher
All butter shortbread biscuits
Fresh berry mousse