St Teresa's Prep Weekly bulletin 4 February 2022

Issue 4

Spring Term

8th February 2021 4th February 2022

Message from Mrs Conrad It has been a very exciting week, with all of our Year 6 girls receiving their offers to the Senior School and a record breaking number of scholarships (18!) being awarded across a variety of disciplines. Congratulations to all our girls on their tremendous achievements, especially given that the Senior School is oversubscribed by 4 girls to every one place. We are extremely proud of each one of them! Huge thanks must go to the entire staff team for enabling our girls to make such tremendous academic progress throughout their journey in the Prep School and for helping them to realise their potential in all subject areas.

Finally, I would like to wish all our families celebrating Chinese New Year, “Gong xi fa cai”! May you be blessed with good luck, fortune, happiness and love in this Year of the Tiger.

Key Diary Dates: Saturday 5th February

U11A Netball Tournament @ Hawthorns (A)

TBC

Monday 7th February

Year 2—Medicals

am

Chapel Concert, Chapel (for instrumentalists—by invitation)

16.30

Year 5, French Breakfast with Cranmore Year 5

am

Tuesday 8th February

Years 5 & 6 Parents’ Evening (virtual) 16.15—19.00 No Year 4 String Quartet, Tech Club, Art Club, Quiz & Games Club Wednesday 9th February

Years 5 & 6 Parents’ Evening (virtual) No St T’s Singers

16.15—19.00

U8—U11 Swimming Gala v St Catherine’s (A)

16.00

Thursday 10th February

Year 2 Class Assembly, Henderson Hall

08.30—9.00

Friday 11th February

FOST Valentine’s Dance, Dining Room

17.30—19.30

U9 A-D Netball v RSM (H)

14.30

Half Term Begins

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

2EB

Rosalind D for her wonderful and thoughtful responses during RE where we explored different ways to say thank you.

Sophie B for showing such enthusiasm during Topic lessons and using imaginative vocabulary to describe 'The Pirates Next Door'

3RN

Ruby S for designing and creating a fantastic Greek mask, using her knowledge of Greek Gods. Well done!

Eleanor B for planning a wonderful Greek myth with a descriptive mystical beast using adjectives and powerful verbs.

3KC

Harlow G for amazing understanding of money during our maths topic this week.

Zara O'D for super effort with describing her mythical beast and for coming up with some great powerful verbs and adjectives.

4BB

Tabitha P for brilliant focus and work using a fact file to research the life of a serf.

Rachel H for a great attitude and effort towards editing and enhancing her own work.

4CR

Alice F for her wonderful use of language to create an exciting story.

Clementine H for her consistently positive attitude and fantastic effort to use exciting language in her story.

5MK

Paris C for dealing with all her new travel arrangements this term in such a mature way.

Florence B for sharing her memory of her family holiday to Barbados in our RE lesson, when we were discussing how important memories are kept alive.

Tabitha D for her well researched and carefully organised Tudor Menu.

5HC

Saskia H for her well thought out and beautifully presented Tudor banquet menu for Henry VIII. Liliana O'D for her careful consideration of primary resources to find evidence for and against Anne Boleyn's execution.

Olivia K and Iola M for their fantastic work together in RE analysing Sieger Koder's painting of the Last Supper and making links to Luke's Gospel.

6KH

Eva M and Katarina B for their magical descriptions of characters from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.

Isla M for her thoughtful and emotive evacuee letter.

6JG

Eliza B for her conscientious approach to her propaganda leaflet and impressive detail in her work.

Emily K for working enthusiastically in all aspects of lessons, including overcoming personal challenges.

6LD

Jasmin K for always demonstrating a mature attitude towards her learning.

Isobel S for wonderful progress in her written work and for listening to her teacher’s advice

This week you should have received: Years 4, 5 & 6

Tennis Team Trials letter

Please contact the School Office if you need a copy of any of this letter—prepinfo@st-teresas.com

Half Term Swimming Lessons Half term 1:1 swimming. 30 minutes lessons between 9am-12 Mon to Friday.

Dive clinic Mon and Fri 10.30-11.30am.

Please email making.waves@hotmail.co.uk for more information.

2EB—Class Assembly Parents of girls in 2EB are invited to join us for their class assembly on Thursday 10th February 2022 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am

6JG—Class Assembly Parents of girls in 6JG are invited to join us for their class assembly on Thursday 24th February 2022 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall Refreshments will be served in the Henderson hall from 8.15am

Junior Bake off are looking for young budding bakers aged between 9-12 years old.

Filming would take place from July 2022, but their applications close on Sunday 13th March 2022.

Interested bakers should apply online at - www.applyforjuniorbakeoff.co.uk It would be a great opportunity to show off some St T’s talent!!

Neo The Therapy Dog Neo, St Teresa’s Therapy Dog now has his own Instagram page. Follow him to see what he’s been getting up to! There will also be guest appearances from some of his friends. You can find him at— Neo_and_friends_st_teresas

Driving around the School Site We have had a couple of reports of parents driving fast at drop off and pick up. Please may you help us to keep everyone safe and take care when driving on the school site.

We are looking to marking Children’s Mental Health Week and Safer Internet day next week with lot of activities and educational sessions. You can read all about it in next week’s bulletin.

Online Safety Given the increase of cybercrime in recent times, particularly from criminals targeting educational institutions across the UK, we are asking Parents, as a precaution, to be extra vigilant. Many of the scams currently being reported rely on cyber criminals convincing victims to redirect payments to bank accounts controlled by criminals – usually through a fake email informing the recipient of a change in bank account details.

In response to this elevated risk, we wish to advise parents that the school would never inform of any change in important aspects of school administration, such as a change in account details, by email.

We would encourage everyone to be vigilant in these times and should you receive anything suspicious purporting to be from the school, then please do let us know.

This Week In The Prep School Year 6—English Bella took this recipe home from an English comprehension text and made these amazing war time honey cakes. She discovered that it’s not quite so easy making cakes when you can’t use electrical gadgets!

Quiz and Games Club In Quiz and Games Club, the Years 3 and 4 girls have been getting to grips with some new and challenging games. They have also been enjoying going to head to head with their friends, playing some of their old favourites!

Year 2—Pirate Adventure Avast ye! The girls in Year 2 met 'The Crow' this afternoon and were prepared for a pirate adventure. They learnt to look out for special pirate booty - spices, sugar and most precious of all, coffee beans, as well as what weapons they would need and food they would eat aboard the ship. Later, the girls set out to solve riddles and used a map to find their own treasure in a buried chest.

Year 3—Comic Strips As part of our topic Gods and Mortals, the girls in Year 3 have been writing and illustrating comic strips about some of the stories in Greek Mythology including Perseus and Medusa, Cronos versus Zeus, Icarus and Daedalus and many more. The girls used their imagination to create some fabulous illustrations with speech, thought bubbles and onomatopoeia. There were also some fabulous captions written about every picture.

Year 5—Tudor Day Year 5 had great fun dressed as Tudors on Wednesday 2nd February. Activities included learning about Tudor history, a Tudor quiz, handling Tudor artefacts, learning about the gruesome Tudor punishments, code-breaking, playing Merrels, finding out about Tudor medicines for different ailments, jousting and dancing.

Year 6—Evacuees After their evacuee experience and learning more about evacuation in Topic lessons, Year 6 wrote letters as if they were an evacuee writing to their family left behind in London. They had to write about their experiences in the countryside and with their foster family, deciding whether their experience would be a negative or positive one.

Year 6—Senior School Visit Year 7 have been working on a variety of personal ('Floreat') projects in their Enrichment lessons since the start of the year and Year 6 were delighted to be invited to an exhibition of their hard work. The girls gave presentations on a range of topics including sugar, animal testing, anime, anxiety and Greek culture.

Year 3—Art Club Girls in Year 3 art club have been exploring mark making and various depths of tone using black pens. They then developed their ideas to create a contrasting piece of artwork.

Music News Musicians of the Week Congratulations to the following girls who have been awarded certificates this week: •

Olivia L in Year 2 for outstanding attitude and contribution to the music lessons.

•

Sophie B in Year 3 for very good recorder playing.

•

Scarlett C in Year 4 for working very hard on her music theory.

•

Felicity S in Year 5 for her consistently high standard of contribution to all musical activities.

Emily K in Year 6 for perseverance when playing the White Cliffs of Dover on the chime bars.

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Music class of the week – Year 4CR

Easter Music Course 2022!

This year’s course will take place from Monday 11th to Thursday 14th April. This will be the 10th anniversary of this course at school directed by Mrs Yalden. The course is open to girls and boys from all schools in Years 3- 6 who have passed Grade 1 on their instrument.

Please email Mrs Yalden on c.yalden@st-teresas.com for further information.

Sport News Netball Well done to both U9 netball teams for winning their matches last Friday! Great play by everyone, keep up the hard work girls!

On Tuesday 1st February, the U11A-E netball teams played against Danes Hill. The C and E team won! The players of the matches were Eloise H, Ella JB, Emily K, Ruby A, Phoebe R. Change to U11 netball club on Wednesday 9th February—netball club for Year 6 will only run till 4:30pm. Thank you for your understanding.

Change to U8 netball club on Tuesday 8th February—there will be NO Year 3 netball club at lunch due to the cross country time trails.

Holiday Hockey Camps at Guildford Hockey Club It’s been a great season so far at the club with 850 juniors playing regularly and hockey in 21 local schools. Thank you for being involved with the club – if any players or parents would like to find out more about hockey at Guildford then please send them to www.guildfordhc.com or email hockey@guildfordhc.com The link for hockey camps is https://GHCHOCKEY.as.me/ (all info on the attached flyer)

Pupil News India (Year 5) is doing her own personal Peleton bike rides for the whole of February to raise money for the NSPCC. For every mile she rides, her family are donating to this fantastic children's charity.

On Sunday, Laiya (Year 6) was chosen to represent Surbiton's U12's performance squad to play against Cheam U14's. Not only did Laiya's team win 12-0 but Laiya was also awarded player of the match by the opposition.

Birdwatch Well done to all the girls that took part in the birdwatch with Miss Rippington on Monday lunchtime! The most common birds were Carrion Crow, Magpie, Robin and Blue Tit. We were pleased to have a rare sighting of a Bullfinch and see the bright colours of a Greater Spotted Woodpecker.

Well done to Alana E in Year 5 and her sister who saw 38 different birds in their garden on Saturday morning.

Upcoming Fixtures Wednesday 9th February—U8-U11A&B Swimming Gala V St Catherines (A) 4pm Friday 11th February—U9A-D Netball (H) 2:30pm

This Week This week we continued our series of special Chapel Services where we focused on a ‘Hero of the Old Testament.’ This week we looked at Moses.

Moses’ ancestor, Joseph, had brought his father Jacob and his eleven brothers to live in Egypt, where they and their families had become successful and numerous. Pharaoh became worried and, in a terrifying move, tried to kill all the Hebrew children. Moses’ sister, Miriam, hatched a plan. She placed baby Moses in a basked and floated him down the river where he was discovered by a royal princess. She longed to have a child of her own so she adopted Moses and brought him up as a royal prince.

As a young man, Moses saw how badly treated the Hebrews were. On one occasion he saw an Egyptian master beating one of the Hebrew slaves. Moses was overcome with anger and pushed the master away. The master tripped, hit his head and died on the spot. Moses was terrified that he would be accused of murder so the fled into the wilderness.

There had had an extraordinary experience. He saw a burning bush, but the flames were not eating up the leaves and branches. As he approached he heard the voice of God speak to him. ‘Let my people go!’ God told him. Moses was reluctant, but he did what God commanded.

The Pharaoh was a stubborn man and refused to allow the people to pass. Moses explained that when we don’t follow God’s law of love things always go wrong. Indeed the whole land was afflicted with 10 terrible plagues.

Pharaoh eventually gave in and Moses led the people into freedom. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened and he sent his army to kill Moses and the people. But God protected his people. Even when they reach the great sea, God parted the waters and the people walked through on dry land into freedom.

As we remember the great hero Moses, we remember that we too are called to follow God’s law of love and to know that God walks at our side at all times.

St T's SUMMER BALL SPONSORSHIP REQUEST HURRY….. just a couple of spots left to Sponsor the St T’s Summer Ball. Excellent advertising for your Company or someone you know, at a great price!

Fabulous opportunity to support FOST in raising funds to help build the Sports Pavilion.

Please contact Deborah Whipple ASAP whipple.fost@gmail.com for details.

FORMS TO BE COMPLETED AND PAYMENT MADE ASAP

Follow us @fost_st_teresas_effingham Order your onesies - here

School 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.

Menu—w/c Monday 7th February Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

Visit our website www.st-teresas.com/ equestrian

E-mail equestrian@st-teresas.com Call

01372 750257

Or find us on Facebook “St Teresa’s Equestrian”

Booking System st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk

We hope that you all have had a lovely week!

Please do make sure that all riders pack appropriate coats and waterproofs. The temperature has dropped again and it is really bitter up here in the evenings!

February Half Term Pony Days The February dates were emailed out and we are already almost fully booked!

There are just a couple of spaces left to view on the online booking system.

If you would like to be added to the waitlist in case of a cancellation, then please email the office or there is an update on the system where you will be emailed automatically if a space becomes available.

Pony Update We are making the heart-breaking decision to retire Tango from the riding school and are therefore looking for a loan home for him.

We are searching for an adult only home who can keep him in light work having fun in a schooling and hacking home.

If you or you know of someone who would like to take on our amazing ginger pony, or would like more information, then please email us at equestrian@stteresas.com

NSEA Competition Reports

On Sunday 30th January, Jackson B headed to Wellington Riding for a BSJA Just for Schools competition.

In the 70cm class, he jumped a double clear and placed 9th!

He then continued on to his first affiliated class and came in 1st place!

Well done Jackson!