St Teresa's Prep Weekly Bulletin 2 July 2021

8th February 2021 2nd July 2021

Message from Mrs Conrad It was a joy to welcome you to Sports Day on Wednesday – the first time we have seen many of you in person for a long time. Both the Lower and Upper Prep events were a wonderful celebration of our girls’ sporting prowess; I was very proud of the grit, determination and sportsmanship they demonstrated.

Our prize givings were a fitting celebration of the girls’ many achievements and our special guest, Dr Susie Imber, was an inspiration to our Year 6 girls as she told us about her job as a planetary scientist and described the challenges she had to face to win the BBC competition, ‘Astronaut – do you have what it takes?’.

And finally, I am delighted to share with you that the Prep School has been shortlisted as the best prep school in the national Independent School Awards 2021! This is a remarkable achievement and I would like to thank the entire school community– staff, governors, parents and pupils – for making St Teresa’s the special and distinctive place that it is.

I wish you all a relaxing and restful summer holiday.

Diary Dates: 1st—3rd September

Staff INSET

Mon 6th September

School Resumes

Tue 7th September

Clubs Resume

Weds 8th September

Year 3 Trip to Surrey Hills Adventure Company

This week you should have received: Year 5

Wind in the Willows Song Recording

Swim Squad

Training email

Whole School

School reports

Whole School

Link to sports day pictures

Year 6

Link to Wind in the Willows pictures (please order by Friday 9th July)

Whole School

Extra Curricular Timetable

Years 3 & 4

Prize Giving Recording

Year 5

Prize Giving Recording

Year 6

Covid Testing Kits email

Mrs Conrad and the Staff at the Prep School would like to thank you all for your kind words and very generous end of term gifts.

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

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Sophia C for always treating her peers and teachers with kindness and respect.

Olivia L for her fantastic word ethic and attitude in all lessons.

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Isabella M for demonstrating exceptional kindness to all, especially at Sports Day this week.

Summer C for having a consistently positive, sunny attitude to school life and always offering to help her peers.

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Isabel R for her determination and perseverance with creating her ice cream sculpture.

Jessika R for her fabulous independence, initiative and positive approach to everything she does.

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Scarlett C and Tabitha P for exceptional reading effort and attainment throughout the year both at home and at school.

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Paris C and Emma v E for concentration and effort during our Maths lessons this week, working very well in their small group to problem solve.

Saskia H for her lovely letter to her new teacher, writing using paragraphs and all the features needed.

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Harriet P for her positivity and enthusiasm for all tasks this week.

Clara de A for her excellent effort working with fractions.

Olivia K for her fantastic enthusiasm and diligence to get her Prize Giving speech correct.

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Alisa, Katarina and Scarlett C and Tabitha P for exceptional reading effort and attainment throughout the year both at home and at school for displaying great teamwork when working together to research and present their project on the development of toys over the last 100 years.

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Evangelina P and Lily E for their beautifully presented and very interesting project on how animation has changed over the last 100 years.

Kay L and Tamara B for their fantastic project on how technology has changed over the last century, even producing a 2021 style film trailer for their presentation!

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Ava S for her detailed and beautifully presented ID project.

Kacey C for her original and well written Kennings and Limerick poems.

Myah K for being so modest about her amazing tennis achievements.

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Sophia Y and Lucy P for their creativity in producing their ID projects.

Good News!

LAMDA Success!!

We have had a wonderful set of LAMDA results this year—all Merits and Distinctions!! Well done girls and thank you to Mrs Stanton for preparing them.

Merit Sienna L, Perla, Seren, Paris, Florence, Evangelina, Eva M, Phoebe, Lucy P, Louisa, Olivia L and Arabella C.

Distinction Olivia P, Jessika R, Amelia L, Charlotte C, Sophia N, Amaya, Liliana O’D, Clara, Isola, Olivia L, Erin, Rosie, Grace H, Summer C, Daniella, Lucia, Caroline, Lottie B, Kacey, Ava S, Briony, Lavinia, Caitlin, Chloe and Layla.

Congratulations!!

Alana donated 35cm of hair to The Little Princess Trust. She had a ‘pop up salon’ in her garden for the occasion. She was very brave to allow the hairdresser to take such a huge amount off, but wanted to do so to help another child. Well done Alana.

Séarlait and Lottie made their First Holy Communion this week and the two of them met and celebrated with a couple of classmates after their ceremonies. Séarlait made hers at St Joseph's Guildford and Lottie at Christ the Redeemer in Cranleigh. Congratulations girls.

Wind in the Willows We were treated to an amazing performance of Wind in the Willows by Year 6 last week. The girls sang and acted beautifully and the costumes set the scene perfectly. Well done girls!

The girls had professional pictures taken by the brilliant Rebecca Price. You can see her work at her website: www.rebeccapricephotography.com

Great Work Year 2—Minibeasts The girls in Year 2 had fun designing and then making new, unique minibeasts! What a colourful group of creatures!

Year 2 Wriggle and Crawl The girls in Year 2 ended their 'Wriggle and Crawl' topic by making some beautiful suncatchers.

Year 5 Debating & Public Speaking Our amazing Year 5 Debating & Public Speaking club performed their speeches in the 6th Form lecture theatre.

They had written their own speeches and spoke with confidence and poise in front of an audience of 6th Formers.

Well done girls.

Sports News The girls have excelled in their athletics, cricket and tennis this term and It was fantastic to watch them all showcase their athletics skills in Sports day.

Star Class of the Week PE star class of the week goes to Year 2 for their continued enthusiasm in PE.

Sports Day Well done to St Dominic on their win at Upper Prep Sports day and St Francis for their win in Lower Prep.

Tabby and Emily in Year 6 have qualified for the Surrey County's in swimming. Tabby is competing in the 50 breaststroke, 100 breast stroke and the 100 IM . Good luck to both of you!

Athletics Year 3-6 took part in an athletics competition at Manor House. The girls won all of the relays and placed in the top 3 in many of the sprinting, jumping and throwing events. They showed grit and teamwork in the relays, as it poured down with rain. A great effort from everyone!

Dorkinians Football Isabella won two trophies from her football club Dorkinians at the weekend. She took part in the Dorkinians Football Festival where she won the Under 8s Supporters Player of the year voted by all the parents of all the U8 players and one for taking part all year. Well done Isabella!

Music News Musicians of the Week Jessica T, Ella J, Alice C, Evangelina P, Caitlin W, Arabella C, Lucia M and Sophia Y for their wonderful individual performances at the prizegiving ceremonies on Thursday.

Year 2 Concert Congratulations to the Year 2 pianists who performed so well to their class on Tuesday this week. Keep up the good work girls!

Instrumental Players Please would parents encourage their daughters to continue practising regularly during the summer holidays. It is very easy to leave the instruments alone and not play them when the routine of school is not in place. All girls learning instruments should try to practise at least twice a week when they are at home in the holidays.

Extra-Curricular Music We are looking forward to, hopefully, being able to offer a variety of cross-year instrumental groups and choirs in September.

FOST would like to wish you all a fantastic summer break.

We would like to thank all of the parents for their continued support to our fundraising activities during this special year - and look forward to more exciting endeavours in the future!

I’m sure you’ll all want to join me in thanking our fantastic 2020-2021 class reps who do so much to foster that sense of community at St Teresa’s.

Finally a very special thank you goes to our Chair, Sue Sweetbaum who sadly leaves us this term after many years at the school and on the committee.

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”

We hope that you have all had a lovely term and school year, even with all the ups and downs of everything that has happened!

We want to thank you all for your patience and cooperation over restrictions and horse changes these past few months. We do plan to be back to our normal non-staggered lessons when we return in September, and we hope that restrictions will have eased even further.

The team will keep you updated as to our goings on over the summer and any changes that will be implemented when school returns.

Have a lovely summer holidays and we look forward to seeing you all back in September for the next academic year!

Equestrian Prize Giving We will be arranging a newsletter to announce the prize winners to all that will be published next week.

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 We will try to publish any reports over the summer on our Facebook page and eventually on to the website.

We want to congratulate everyone on the team for an amazing year, especially when half of it was in lockdown! And we wish you luck for competitions over the summer and we look forward to the Championships in a few months!

ESTA

ESTA is delighted to offer group tennis lessons to St Teresa's and Cranmore pupils at the following times during Autumn term 2021: Years 2&3 - Tuesdays 4:15-5:15pm / Wednesday 4:15-5:15pm Year 4 - Monday 5-6pm / Fridays 4:15-5:15pm Years 5&6 - Wednesdays 5:15-6:15pm / Fridays 5:15-6:15pm Years 7&8 - Tuesdays 5:15-6:15pm Years 9-11 - Mondays 6-7pm

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All sessions will take place at St Teresa's on the ESTA courts.

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The price for the 13 week Autumn term for each group option is £143.

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ESTA also offers private lessons for individual, joint and small group coaching.

Please contact Kirsti to sign your child up at esta@effinghamschools.org

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