8th February 2021 5th March 2021
Message from Mrs Conrad Book Week has certainly been a fantastic and upbeat way to end online learning! The girls clearly enjoyed the author talks with younger girls learning how to illustrate monkeys and penguins with Catherine Vase and the older girls being truly inspired by Abi Elphinstone and the grit, determination and creativity she demonstrated. I understand that some of our girls helped her with ideas for the book she is currently writing so maybe we will see these in print in a few months’ time! The dance workshops were also greatly enjoyed by all the girls as they told the story of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ through music and movement. Huge thanks to Miss Hilder, Mrs Clarke and FOST for organising all these exciting activities and to Mrs Irons for her inspired Masked Reader initiative – I wonder if you can identify all the characters! The staff and I cannot wait to welcome the girls back to school on Monday morning – only three more sleeps to go!!
Diary Dates: Monday 8th March
Return to school
Friday 26th March
Term ends
Monday 19th April
Summer Term begins
This week you should have received: Whole School
Extra Curricular Clubs details
Swim Squad
Swimming time details
Whole School
Information from the Royal Marsden Hospital
Summer Uniform Please may the girls in Reception to Year 5 return to school after Easter wearing their summer uniform. Summer Uniform is optional for our Year 6 girls, however, they may be required to wear their winter uniform for special occasions. As a reminder, the summer uniform consists of: pink and white striped dress; white ankle socks; navy crested baseball style sun hat; boater with cerise band (optional for Year 1 and Year 2 only); blazer and cardigan.
School Shoes If your daughter/s have grown out of their school shoes, they are welcome to wear trainers to school until the shoe shops reopen.
Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week: 1BB
Cecily P for her detailed and thoughtful book cover design for the story of Alice in Wonderland.
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Isabella M and Darcy R for using their creativity and imagination when creating 'wonderlands', one of their optional tasks this week to link with Alice in Wonderland.
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Emilia Z for her fabulous effort in making her cardboard city. Lottie C for an imaginative and detailed tea party menu - well done!
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Rachel H for her super effort during online learning especially during maths with data handling and English with her Mad Hatter's Tea Party invitation. Scarlett M for a wonderful 3D urban landscape as part of our topic Urban Pioneers.
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Olivia L for her excellent contributions and enthusiasm in Science this week. Well done Olivia, you made a fantastic instrument and discussed pitch confidently. Paris C for her excellent attitude and involvement with our lessons this week and a fantastically unique presentation on The Iroquois Tribe. Evie L for her fantastic work in English this week, creating a word bank to describe a character from our new book and using inference to describe her impressions of the character by the way he behaved. Well done Evie!
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Kaiah C for consistently striving to develop her understanding and always attempting the challenges that she is given, persevering until she has found a solution. India Rose C for her consistent hard work shown in all of the tasks that she has completed through online learning. Peyton S and Liliana O'D for their fantastic Science work over the last two weeks, using our experiments to clearly show their understanding of vibrations and pitch.
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Rosie H, Alisa K, Eva M and Bella S for their super enthusiasm during Book Week; their excellent and inventive recreations of scenes from a well-known book and their participation during the West End in Schools dance workshop.
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Layla S for her excellent work in PSHE , completing all the task to an excellent standard and producing her own money saving poster. Eliza B for her incredibly thoughtful work in RE this week creating a Lenten journey ideas path and her own Altar of Repose. Phoebe R, Lily E and Amy D for their fantastic recreations of a scene from a book photograph.
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Penelope B for her consistent hard work in Maths lessons this term, which has resulted in very pleasing progress. Kacey C for her increased effort and determination in maths lessons this term.
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Freya C for her high standard of work throughout this term so far. All work is handed in on time and is always so well thought-out and interesting. Ava H for persevering in Maths and her wonderful Bible front cover design.
Great Fun! Spanish Tapas Year 3 have discovered Spanish tapas. This inspired Seren to cook an amazing tortilla and Séarlait to prepare delicious peach slices wrapped in basil leaves and serrano ham for their families. ¡Muy bien, chicas! Nos encantan las tapas. ¡Buen provecho! You can find the recipe for the tortilla here. Señora Chapman
Miss Hilder’s cat, Olive, has been basking in the sunshine amongst the beautiful blooming crocuses in her garden. Spring is finally on it’s way.
India Rose had a wonderful weekend baking Maltese almond cookies!
Great Work! Year 4 Research This week in our topic lessons we learnt more about the Native American tribe, The Iroquois! We researched and presented our findings in a range of different ways using subheadings, illustrations and bullet points. The main character in our story this week is part of The Iroquois Tribe and this research helped with our understanding of where he came from!
Great Work! Year 2—Muck, Mess and Mixtures Year 2 have been investigating bubbles as part of their 'Muck, Mess and Mixtures' topic. We discussed what the 'best bubble' meant and then we tested different soap products to see which created the best bubbles. Lots of frothy fun!
Year 3—Urban Pioneers As part of their topic Urban Pioneers, Year 3 created an urban landscape using some original methods including Lego, recycling items, paint and much more. They spent much of their optional time including two topic lessons on this task and chose which amenities to put in their landscape.
Year 2—Wonderlands Darcy and Isabella created fantastic 'wonderlands' as part of one of their optional activities this week linked to our World Book Day dance workshop and work in English on Alice in Wonderland. The girls used their imagination and creativity to produce some stunning worlds - both complete with little animals!
Good Vibrations in Year 4 In Science we have been learning about how sound travels through soundwaves and is caused by vibrations. Last week, we carried out experiments to 'see' the vibrations and this week we explored pitch by making our own instruments.
Mad Hatter’s Tea Parties This week, some of the girls in Year 3 enjoyed virtual ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Parties’ with their friends at home!
Great Work! World Book Week Despite not being in school, there has been a real 'buzz' online this week as we have celebrated Book Week virtually. On Tuesday we were treated to talks by authors Catherine Vase and Abi Elphinstone, who inspired the girls by talking about their books, how they get ideas for their writing and demonstrating illustrations. On Thursday everyone (including some teachers!) took part in lively dance workshops presented by West End in Schools on the theme of 'Alice in Wonderland'. There have been some amazingly creative activities going on across the year groups, as you will see from the plethora of pictures in this bulletin! Fabulous work girls. And last, but not least, the question on everyone's lips is.......who are the readers behind the masks?? You have until Monday to make your guesses! Next week, when the girls are back in school, they will be able to swap their World Book Day Token for one of the special £1 books - we have a limited amount of each of the books. Also, Years 4-6 will be able to bring in £6 to buy a signed copy of Abi Elphinstone's 'Everdark'. If any parents are interested in purchasing any of Catherine Vase's books, please let us know before 15th March and we can arrange an order of them to be delivered to school. We would also like to offer our particular thanks to FOST for organsing for Catherine Vase to speak to the girls in Years 1 and 3 about her beautifully illustrated and funny books.
World Book Day inspired Scarlet in Year 3 to write a letter to her favourite author—David Walliams.
This is Louisa’s design of the Mad Hatter which was drawn in lessons related to our dance workshop on Alice in Wonderland.
Great Work! Year 6—Poems Year 6 wrote poems inspired by Alice's fall down the rabbit hole.
Year 1– Alice in Wonderland In the spirit of Book Week, and in preparation for our Alice in Wonderland Dance workshop this week, the girls listened to, and learnt, the story of Alice in Wonderland. We thought about what we already knew about the story, which was lots, and we even learnt a little about the author, Lewis Carroll. Did you know that he died in Guildford! We also looked at how Disney took the magic of Lewis Carroll's famous story and brought it to life...twice! The girls designed their own covers for the book. They were exciting, colourful and detailed.
Year 6 took part in a book scavenger hunt around their homes—sharing their findings with their class and Miss Hilder on Teams.
Great Work! Year 5—Book Scenes Year 5 were set the task of recreating a scene from a book during Book Week. Can you guess which books these photos are from?
Music News Musicians of the Week Lucy A and Amelia H for consistently good engagement and contribution to the music lessons during lockdown Amaya H and Searlait W for very good work on instruments. Evie B and Peyton S for consistently good engagement and contributions to music lessons during lockdown. Daniella C for excellent work in music theory.
Instrumental Lessons If your daughter would like to start lessons on an instrument, please email Mrs Yalden and she will arrange this. It is preferred that parents do not contact instrumental teachers directly to arrange lessons. There are spaces available for most instruments and trial sessions can be arranged before committing to taking the lessons if that is helpful.
Sports News This week, Years 3-6 worked up a sweat dancing to disco music and developed their passing skills in football. Year 1 and 2 continued to work on their speed and agility, learning how to pivot when changing direction.
PE Star of the Week Our PE Stars of the week for outstanding effort goes to: Lower Prep: Charlotte J Upper Prep: Kaiah C
Football & Cricket We will be adding football and cricket to the curriculum for the last three weeks, so please keep an eye out for an email stating what PE kit will be needed in each lesson.
Weekly PE Challenge The weekly PE challenge this week was tap me ups using a ball with a partner. The winner from Year 1-3 was: Searlait W in Year 3 with 12 tap me ups The winner from Year 4-6 was: Caitlin W in Year 6 with 46 tap me ups.
Outside School Summer in Year 5 has been working hard on improving her gymnastics during lockdown. She has worked specifically hard on her single stag handstand and headstand. Great work Summer!
India in Year 4 has enjoyed developing her football skills with her brother outside of PE lessons. Well done India!
This Week What are you looking forward to when the pandemic restrictions are removed. All of us are looking forward with joy to our return to school, but what else have you missed? Perhaps, like many, you have spent much time during the past year watching films and boxsets online peering at tiny images on a phone or other digital device. Certainly, many are looking forward to returning to watch a film on the big screen in a cinema. It’s a totally different experience! But for many, part of the enjoyment of going to the cinema includes watching the previews of films that are soon to be released. These previews cleverly give you a taster of what is to come, without giving away the whole of the plot, the climax or the conclusion. All we get are glimpses that only make sense when we have seen the whole film. In our Gospel reading in Chapel this week, we saw a similar preview (Mark 9:2-13) as we heard the account of the Transfiguration. The disciples were familiar with the human Jesus. They had spent time with him, seen him eating and sleeping, and heard him preach. Yet they had also seen glimpses of the divine Jesus, the powerful miracle worker who could heal the sick and silence the storm. And in the Transfiguration they saw Jesus’ full divinity revealed in all its glory as they had a glimpse of the heavenly kingdom, with the resurrected Elijah and Moses confirming Jesus as the fulfilment of all that the Law and the Prophets had anticipated. As we reflect on this account, confirming Jesus as both fully human and fully divine, we also reflect o how we can recognise glimpses of the Kingdom of God in our lives and look forward, in hopeful joy to God’s kingdom being fully revealed.
We’re so excited that in a few days the girls will be back on site at St Teresa’s. Fear not, FOST has still been busy in the background throughout the lockdown. The 2nd hand uniform shop continues trading and we’re working on some exciting plans for the future, so watch this space…
Recent FOST activity FOST were pleased to contribute to the World Book Day this week by arranging a visit by children’s author Catherine Vase. Catherine spoke to girls in years 1-3 about her books and read some of her titles including ‘The Penguin who wanted to fly’ and ‘The Big Hair Affair’. She also introduced them to the world of book illustration and was very impressed with their drawings. Her books are available for purchase on her website at www.catherinevase.co.uk.
Christmas Fair 2020 Our first Virtual Christmas Fair in December was a huge success! Although we couldn’t be together in person, the monies raised were very much in line with previous years. A huge thanks to all those involved and to parents and the wider school community, including Cranmore pupils who got involved. We’ll definitely be learning from the experience and including some of the virtual elements in our future FOST events.
What’s next? We’ve raised a fantastic amount of money towards our 2nd hand uniform cabin but there’s still some work to do to make it a reality…We’d love to hear your ideas so please do get in touch and get involved – we’re always recruiting new members! Fostst2020@gmail.com
Second Hand Uniform Shop
Menu—w/c Monday 8th March Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances. 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
Chocolate cake slice
Banoffee pie
Shortbread biscuit rounds
Roasted potatoes Mixed vegetables
Coconut flapjack slice
Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher
Chips Peas
Fresh fruit salad