St Teresa's Prep weekly Bulletin 25 March 2022

Issue 10

Spring Term

25th March 2022

Key Diary Dates: Tue 29 Mar

No Year 3 Swim Squad

AM

Tue 29 Mar

Whole School, CAFOD walk

AM

Tue 29 Mar

Year 3, Trip to Guildford

AM

Tue 29 Mar

U10&11, Mixed Football V Surrey Hills School (A)

15:30

Wed 30 Mar

No Year 4 Hockey Club

AM

Wed 30 Mar

Years 2 & 3, Easter Brunch, Henderson Hall

08:45—09:30

Wed 30 Mar

U10A-C Netball V Manor House (A)

3:30pm

Thu 31 Mar

No Years 5 & 6 Swim Squad

Thu 31 Mar

No Years 5 & 6 Poetry & Literature Club

Thu 31 Mar

No Year 4 Art & Photography Club

Thu 31 Mar

Years 4 to 6, Prep School Spring Concert

18.30—19.30

Friday 1 Apr

U8&U9 Mixed Football V Surrey Hills School (H)

3:30pm

Fri 1 Apr

Term Ends

Mon 25 Apr

INSET Day

Tue 26 Apr

School Resumes

Years 4 to 6 Spring Concert,Thursday 31st March Mrs Conrad and Mrs Yalden would like to invite parents of girls in Years 4 to 6 to our Spring Concert in the Mairlot Hall on Thursday 31st March 2022 at 6.30pm Refreshments will be served from 6.00pm

Years 2 & 3 Easter Brunch, Wednesday 30th March We are really looking forward to welcoming you to our Years 2 & 3 Easter Brunch on Wednesday 30th March at 8.45am in the Henderson Hall.

This will be an opportunity for the children to share some springtime songs and poems with you whilst you enjoy an Easter brunch.

Summer Uniform Please may the girls in Years 2 to 5 return to school after Easter wearing their summer uniform. Summer uniform is optional for our Year 6 girls. However, they will be required to wear their winter uniform for special occasions such as Prize Giving and the Leavers’ Mass. As a reminder, the summer uniform consists of: pink and white striped dress; white ankle socks; navy crested baseball style sun hat; (Year 2 only); blazer and cardigan.

Prep School Open Book Mornings We will be holding Open Book Mornings for each Year Group over the next few months. This is an opportunity for your daughters to show you their books and their classrooms. Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am and, once the girls are settled, you will be taken to the classroom from 8.30am until 9.00am.

Please see the dates below. You will be sent a form to confirm your attendance nearer the time.

Wednesday 27th April—Year 4 Wednesday 4th May—Year 2 Thursday 5th May—Year 3 We really look forward to welcoming you.

This week you should have received: Whole School Extra curricular information and booking forms for the Summer Term Year 3 Trip to Guildford information letter Whole School CAFOD walk information letter Year 6 Canoe Club letter Please contact the School Office if you need a copy of any of this letter—prepinfo@st-teresas.com

Eco Tip of the Week Tiny pieces of balled foil won't always be recycled because: a) they may fall through recycling machinery; b) if they don't fall through the machinery, staff might not see them; c) if they do see them, they won't be able to pick them up with gloves on.

Try to ball your foil up to about the size of a tennis ball. Wrap them in bigger bits of used foil, if you need to.

Please share with your friends and families.

Golden Book Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week: 2EB

Sophie B for her impeccable behaviour and concentration during rehearsals for our Easter Brunch.

Mariella D for working so hard this half term improving her handwriting and her spelling.

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Anna P for a fantastic first week at St Teresa’s. Anna has settled into Year 3, playing with the girls and listening during all our lessons, with excellent effort in all her work.

Sophia L for fantastic effort this week during our English lesson, using verbs, adverbs and personification to create her own poem.

Natalia T for excellent effort during our English lessons, trying hard with her handwriting and presentation and sharing excellent ideas for personification. Natalia also swam 25m for the first time this week.

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Imogen S for wonderful contributions to whole class discussions and for super intonation in her reading this week.

Poppy E for her wonderful attitude in all the work she does and her friendly attitude towards her friends.

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Scarlett M for her well written animal creation myth.

Matilda R and Emilia Z for their thoughtful inputs when discussing soundproofing in Science this week Florence D for her hard work and perseverance in Maths this week

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Isabella G for living out the Gospel value of love to support a classmate.

Perla L for her fantastic attitude and perseverance.

Stef Von Ey for her positive attitude and super peer editing.

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Maisy M, Ella J and Paris C for their well-thought out Tudor Banner designs in DT this week.

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Liliana O'D and Felicity S for their beautifully designed Tudor Banners and impressive sewing skill when making them.

India Rose C for her kindness and care, she is always quietly looking out for and supporting members of the class.

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Abby B and Eva M for the impressive effort and care they have put into their non-chronological reports on Mexico

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Frankie B for helping others with their homework in a kind and thoughtful manner.

Gabriella B for her impressive progress in Maths Lily E for the wonderful welcome and excellent customer service skills that she showed Madam Chapman when she visited the Lifelab fair.

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Nyang’ara O-C for always participating enthusiastically in class discussions.

Emilia E for listening carefully to her teacher’s advice and for working with determination.

Annie!

Well done to Amy in Year 6 who performed in Annie last night with her drama group, Stagecoach. It looks like a fabulous production!

Year 3 Art Club Over the last few weeks, the girls in Art Club have been decorating their initials using decoupage. They then glazed them, before adding sparkly jewels for effect.

4CR—Class Assembly In their Class Assembly, 4CR took us on a road trip adventure to the USA. After a short flight, they arrived in New York City and began sharing their postcards and recommendations of places to visit. They then spread their wings to share the story of the Raven and The Crow along with their own excellent Myths. It was a fabulous assembly. Well done 4CR.

The Queen’s Green Canopy Following our tree planting for the Queen’s Green Canopy, you can now see St Teresa’s on the on line map.

Click here and search ‘Effingham’ to see the tree planted on our site!

4BB—Inspirational Women A few weeks ago, 4BB sent out the letters they wrote to the women who inspire them. These beautifully written letters went to a range if inspirational women: mothers, The Queen, famous athletes, and some even made it overseas! Today, we received our first reply. Matilda wrote to a deceased artist who she has admired for years and enjoyed reading books about. As we could not send this to Frida Kahlo, we decided to send it somewhere where it would be appreciated by other lovers of Art. We sent it to the National Gallery. I hope that this thoughtful response will be the first of many replies...

Visit to Forest School What a great time we all had when Cranmore Reception and Year 1 came to visit St Teresa's Forest School! The children were dressed for the occasion with wellies and waterproofs which was essential for preparing exotic meals in the mud kitchen. Intrepid explorers used binoculars to spot parakeets and jackdaws and lots of fun was had digging and completing craft activities. The afternoon was finished off with a well-earned tasty treat from Gary.

Music News Musicians of the Week Congratulations to the following girls who have been awarded certificates this week: Sienna in Year 2 for her fantastic enthusiasm and contribution to songs for the Easter Brunch.

Anna in Year 3 for making such an enthusiastic start to music lessons and trying hard to join in with the singing.

Emilia in Year 4 for showing great effort in music lessons this half term.

Isola in Year 5 for making a very good contribution to her group Street Cries composition.

Summer C in Year 6 for making a very enthusiastic contribution to the Young Voices choir.

Music class of the week – Year 5HC

Celebration Assembly Thank you to Ella in Year 13 who is one of our senior music scholars. Ella sang beautifully for us in our celebration assembly this morning. She performed a piece called O For The Wings of A Dove by a German composer called Mendelssohn.

Associated Board Exam Results Congratulations to these girls who have recently taken music exams.

Piano Grade 1

Ariella V H

Merit

Singing for Musical Theatre Grade 1 Frankie B

Merit

Singing Grade 2

Ella J

Merit

Violin Grade 1

Coey L

Distinction

Violin Grade 2

Olivia P

Merit

Flute and Cello Lessons Please speak to Mrs Yalden if your daughter would like to trial flute lessons. Our flute teacher is offering an enticing deal for beginners.

There are spaces for cello lessons too and trial sessions are available if your daughter is interested.

Easter Music Course It’s not too late to sign up for the Easter Music Course! Please email Mrs Yalden if you have a son or daughter who might be interested.

Sport News Pupil news •

Well done to Poppy H (Year 5) for coming 3rd in her freestyle race for Leatherhead Swimming Club at the weekend.

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Alana E (Year 4) is a member of Dorking Snorkelling Club. On Sunday, she managed to snorkel 64 lengths of the training pool in aid of Sport Relief 2022. Together her team totalled 1060 lengths (that’s 26,500 metres or 16 1/2 miles) during their sponsorship hour and raised over £300 for charity. Well done Alana.

Zara O (Year 3) competed in her first gymnastics competition at the weekend and came third in her category! She had to perform two trampette jumps and a floor routine. She has also been selected by her club at Silvermere to be part of their competition display team, which she is loving training for. Well done Zara.

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Well done to Peyton (Year 5) and her GHC U10 team who played so well this week and got through to the regional final. They played against Sevenoaks in the final game. It was very close and resulted in a zero score so it went to penalty flicks.

Guildford just lost out and got silver time.

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Biathlon Congratulations to all the girls who took part in the National Schools Biathlon Championships in Bath at the weekend. They all swam and ran superbly, demonstrating fortitude and independence throughout the day.

Personal bests were achieved and a medal was gained.

Seren in Year 4 improved on her run by 1 second from three weeks ago to place 1st in the U9 category. This means we now have a National Champion among us.

Other highlights from yesterday were: •

U9 team placed 5th in the country.

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U11 team placed 6th/30 in the country.

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5 top 20 places from Seren, Ruby, Isabella, Sophia and Matilda.

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Coralie in Year 4 ran 57 seconds faster than her qualifier.

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Isabella in Year 4 swam 8 seconds faster than three weeks ago.

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Natalia in Year 5 ran 9 seconds faster than three weeks ago.

Upcoming Fixtures Tuesday 29th March—U10&11 mixed football V Surrey Hills School 3:30pm (A) Wednesday 30th March—U10A-C Netball V Manor House 3:30pm (A) Friday 1st April—U8&U9 Mixed Football V Surrey Hills School 3:30pm (H)

Sport News Easter Camp St Teresa’s Sports Department are running an Easter camp during the holidays on Monday 4th April, Tuesday 5th April and Wednesday 6th April for Years 2 to 6. Drop off will be from 9am and pick up is at 4pm. Some examples of the sports we will be running are: tennis, rounders, cricket, swimming, capture the flag and many more!

If you would like to sign your daughter up, please email Miss Rippington (s.rippington@st-teresas.com).

Club information for week commencing 28th March •

There will be NO Year 3 swim squad training on Tuesday morning (29th March).

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There will be NO Year 3 netball club at Tuesday lunchtime (29th March)

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There will be NO Year 4 Hockey on Wednesday morning (30th March)

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There will be no Year 5 or 6 Swim Squad after school on Thursday (31st March).

Cross Country time trials on Tuesday lunchtime!! It’s the last one of the year!!

Swimming Lessons Mrs Farrier will be running one on one/two swimming lessons, lifeguarding and beginners and advanced diving lessons in the weeks commencing 4th and 11th April.

Please email makingwaves@hotmail.co.uk for more information.

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 concluded the story of Moses. We remembered how Moses had led the people through the sea, heading towards the promised land, but things did not go as planned. The people could have made the journey in just a few weeks, but instead, they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years. Why, you may ask, did it take so long? Put simply, it was because of their constant moaning and grumbling.

As soon as they entered the wilderness it began, so God called Moses to the top of Mount Sinai and God gave Moses the Ten Commandments—ten rules to help the people live a happy life. But even as Moses came down from the mount the people were moaning and grumbling. Moses was so angry that he smashed the stone tablets with the Commandments written on them and had to make another set!

The people continued on their journey but were continually getting lost. So God sent a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night to guide them on their way, but still the people moaned and grumbled. Some of them were even heard to say that they wished they were back in Egypt working as slaves!

The journey was long and hard and it wasn't long before they ran out of water, which was essential when travelling through the wilderness. Again, it wasn’t long before the people began their moaning and groaning again. So God commanded Moses to strike a rock and water poured forth. You’d think they would be happy with this, but then the people started moaning that they didn’t have enough to eat. The following morning the ground was covered with Manna, a heavenly food that fed the people for their journey.

All through the story God provided everything that the people needed, not because of their moaning and grumbling, but because God loved them and only wanted the best for them.

Perhaps we can remember this when we are tempted to moan and grumble!

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We hope that you all have had a lovely week, and are enjoying the sun!

Please make sure that all riders turn up with time to spare before their lessons! This will give you time to get your horse ready and out to the arena. We will also ensure that instructors and yard staff help you get ready so that you can make the most of your riding lesson on the horse!

Just a reminder: We are not running riding lessons or clubs on the last week of the term - the week of the 28th March. Our termly lessons will end on Saturday 26th March.

Summer Term Riding Dates Lessons run from: Monday 25th April to Saturday 28th May

Half Term – Monday 30th May to Sunday 5th June Lessons run from: Monday 6th June to Saturday 9th July We have some spaces for next term if you are interested. If your child/ren is 5yrs and older please contact the office by email to find out what we have available.

The office is not manned on Fridays. If you call or email on a Friday we will do our best to get back to you on the following Monday.

NSEA Competition Reports At Coombelands on Sunday 20th March, we had a group of individual riders head out to compete at the Grassroots Show Jumping & RPL Qualifier.

In the 70cm and 80cm RPL, Lilly S and Inde W both rode well and Inde placed 10th in both classes, and Lilly placed 9th in the 80cm. Well done girls!

In the 60cm Grassroots, Pernille A rode well but unfortunately picked up some faults which knocked her out of the placings.

Finally, Jessica R rode in the 40cm and 50cm Grassroots classes and rode clear in both classes, placing 6th in the 40cm and 3rd in the 50cm! Qualifying for the Grassroots Championships!

Well done everyone!

Also, over the weekend was the BSJA Just for Schools Championships! We only had one rider head over to Wales on a trip that took 3 hours!

Jackson B rode in the 70cm and jumped double clears to land 7th as an individual!

Congratulations to Jackson and his sister for doing brilliantly!

Menu—w/c Monday 28st March Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Prep

Beef lasagne & crusty bread

Chicken breast goujons

Roast chicken breast with Yorkshire pudding

Mild beef chilli with rice & taco’s

Fish fingers/ tomato pasta

Main

Beef lasagne with crusty bread

Southern fried chicken fillet burger with shredded iceberg & piri piri mayo

Honey roast gammon with Yorkshire pudding

Mild beef chilli nachos, grated cheese, guacamole, sour cream & salsa

Traditional battered cod fillet or fish fingers with tartare sauce

Eat healthy choice

Chargrilled chicken with sweet chilli glaze & little gem, cherry tomato & cucumber salad

Pork & vegetable biriyani

Beef bourguignonne with wholemeal rice

Lemon & basil chicken breast strips served with marinated olives

Seafood & chilli spiced linguine with roasted green peppers & fresh herbs

Vegetarian

Vegetable & spinach lasagne

Quorn mince & bean tomato bake

Root vegetable & lentil cottage pie

Malaysian style squash & seitan curry

No chicken teriyaki noodles & Oriental vegetables

Sides

Crusty bread Peas & sweetcorn

Jacket wedges Broccoli

Roast potatoes Mixed vegetables

Rice Carrots

Chips Peas Baked beans

Desert

Apple pie & custard

Lemon & blueberry slice

Rocky road

Hot cross bun & butter pudding with custard

Mini egg cheesecake

Additional

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

Salad Bar Summer Fruit Platter

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

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