6MK - Class Assembly
Parents of girls in 6MK are invited to join us for their class assembly on Wednesday 15th May 2024 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall.
Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am.
3KC - Class Assembly
Parents of girls in 3KC are invited to join us for their class assembly on Thursday 23rd May 2024 at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall.
Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am.
Parent Prep School Information Meeting
Mr Farmer will be hosting a Prep School information meeting in the Henderson Hall with Dr McShane and Mr Tindall on Tuesday 14th May at 18.30 to answer any questions you may have regarding future plans for the school.
To confirm your attendance, please complete the online form: Prep School Parents' Meeting
Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 18.00
Class Photographs - 16th May
Fresh School Photography will be in school on 16th May, taking class photographs. Please ensure that the children are in school uniform (winter for Year 6) and have their cardigans and blazers with them on the day.
Key Diary Dates:
Mon 13th - 15th May Year 4 Wild Child Trip All day
Mon 13th May Year 3 French and Art collaboration with Cranmore and Manor House 09:00 - 10:45
Tue 14th May Prep School Parents Information evening (Henderson Hall) 18:30
Wed 15th May 6MK Class Assembly, Henderson Hall 08:30 - 09:00
Thu 16th May Prep School Class Photos (Outside) 09:00 Education in Personal Relationships Parents information evening 17:00 - 18:00
Mon 20th - 24th May Year 6 Trip to France All Day
Thu 23rd May 3KC Class Assembly, Henderson Hall 08:30 - 09:00
Fri 24th May Half term Begins
Mon 28th - 31st May Tech Camp 09:00 –16:00
Mon 3rd Jun School resumes
Mon 3rd Jun Year 5 Interhouse Swimming Gala 08:45 - 09:45 Year 6 Interhouse Swimming Gala 09:55 - 10:55
Tue 4th Jun Year 3 Interhouse Swimming Gala 08:45 - 09:45 Year 4 Interhouse Swimming Gala 09:55 - 10:55
Wed 5th Jun New Parents Welcome BBQ 17:00
Thu 6th Jun Senior School Transition evening for Yr. 5 Parents 18:30 – 19:30
Fri 7th Jun FOST Coffee Morning 09:00 Year 6 Onatti French Production at Cranmore
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Tue 18th Jun Year 6 Leavers’ Mass followed by Afternoon Tea on Mairlot Lawn
Fri 21st Jun
5 Primary Maths Masterclass
- 15:30 Thu 27th Jun Prep School Production, Mairlot Hall Times TBC Fri 28th Jun Prep School Production, Mairlot Hall Times TBC
1st Jul
2nd
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Mon 8th - Fri 12th Jul STASH Summer Sports Camp 09:00 - 16:00
All Day
Judaism
All Day
All Day
13:15 - 15:45 Mon 10th Jun LAMDA Exam
Tue 11th Jun
workshop
Wed
Jun Year 3 Fishbourne Trip
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13:45
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Moving up/ Induction Day PM Tue
Jul Sports Day 13:15 - 15:45 Thu 4th Jul Prep School Prize Giving 19:00 - 20:00 Fri
Jul Term ends 16:15
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week you have received the following communications:
3: Year 4:
5: Daily updates from the Year 5 PGL trip
6: Year 7 induction day
School: Tech Camp STASH Please contact the School Office if you need copies of any
Golden Book
Well done to all of the girls in our Golden Books this week:
3RN Leila A for her contributions within Topic lessons, demonstrating detailed knowledge about The Romans and helping grow other's understanding. Olivia H for her enthusiasm and effort throughout the week. She always works to the best of her ability, and is a keen contributor to discussions.
3KC Arabella N for being very keen to answer questions about bar charts, tables and pictograms this week during the class input and for showing great care when drawing her own. Well done, Arabella.
Mikayla O for her amazing Roman myth last week including speech marks and for starting writing a letter home whilst pretending to be a Roman soldier using lots of powerful language. Well done, Mikayla.
4LH Esther H this week we began our new RE topic interesting observations and thoughts. Great thinking!
Daisy B for your work in Maths recognising, counting, rounding and estimating money. You have demonstrated great confidence with this important life skill.
4AB Matilda W for her collaborative work creating an effective Stop Motion movie.
Victoria M for her collaborative work creating an effective Stop Motion movie.
Esme S for demonstrating a good understanding of the positive and negative effects of tourism on mountains.
4CR Thea BH for her passion to do her best and share her understanding. Carys D for her super effort to observe and make conclusions in Science.
Sophia D for her super
6MK Sophia C and Syna S for their informative and attractively presented comparison booklets on Tocuaro, a village in Mexico, with their home towns.
Jessica L for careful work in Maths over the last two weeks (line graphs, dual bar graphs and pie charts) and for her fabulous progress in Maths this year.
6JG Willa S for her impressive use of vocabulary in her RE report into Jesus' resurrection.
Bee DW for her fantastic attitude to learning this week.
Jessica T for her attention to detail and editing skills in RE.
6RW Lainey H for her excellent report to Pontius Pilate in RE on the findings of the investigations into the disappearance of Jesus' body.
Viola K for her super and entertaining poem in English focusing on using similes in her writing to help build excitement.
Art Stars
Year 3 Isobel E-N for her carefully arranged Roman mosaic tile.
Year 4 Esther H for her super-creative idea for a stained-glass window, which combines so many different elements in order to represent the idea of "Faith".
Due to the Bank Holiday and Year 5 trip, there are only two year groups awarded Art Stars this week.
Drama Stars
Year 3 Arabella N for her positive attitude and good use of masks
Year 4 Isla M for working enthusiastically on her radio play group task.
Year 6 Amie B for listening carefully in rehearsals and joining in singing without prompting.
Prep School News
Equestrian News
Electra came 2nd in the 80cms and 3rd in her first 90cms on Monty at Wellington Riding Centre last weekend.
Smartphone Free Childhood,
One of our Prep parents would like us to share news about a new movement called Smartphone Free Childhood, spearheaded by two concerned mothers in the UK. This movement aims to spark a national conversation about the appropriate age for children to have smartphones.
Smartphone Free Childhood is a grassroots initiative striving to shift the current norm regarding when parents provide smartphones to their kids. Shockingly, 24% of 5-7 year olds in Britain now own smartphones, and by age 12, that number jumps to 97%. The impact of smartphones on children's mental health is now undeniable. Research indicates that the younger a child receives a smartphone, the more detrimental the effects on their well-being. They are urging parents, schools, government, and tech companies to collaborate and redefine the age criteria for smartphone ownership. Our stance is firm: smartphones with unrestricted internet access and social media are unsuitable for children under 16. A basic 'brick phone' suffices for their needs.
Smartphone Free Childhood
Prep School News
Year 3 Art
In their Art lesson this week, Year 3 created their own mosaic tile. They based their ideas on the Romans as inspiration, and took time to firstly select colours, arrange their tesserae in a pattern, glue them down and finally, to grout them. They really do look amazing and even Mr Tindall asked to join in with the lesson!
Prep School News
Year 5 residential trip to Osmington Bay
Year 5 have had an action-packed week down in glorious Osmington Bay. The sun has shone and there have been lots of smiley faces as they've challenged themselves with activities such as dragon boating, giant swing, Survivor, zip wire and many more. They have behaved impeccably, shown independence and resilience, and we are so proud of them!
Osmington Bay Continued:
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Prep School News
Year 6 English work
Over the first few weeks of the Summer Term, 6JG have been working on a Literacy project centred around the fantastical world of Pandora. The girls explored a whole range of writing techniques including fronted subordinate clauses, expanded adjectival noun phrasing and higher level punctuation use. Alongside creating fantastical creatures, describing them and discussing their fictional habitats, diets and threats, the Year 6 girls used Copilot AI to instruct the AI to create images of the world of Pandora and more specifically the creatures they had created. Here are a few of their designs, enjoy!
Music News
Musicians of the Week
Year 3
Year 4
Year 6
Olivia H for a fantastic first try at improvisation – great work.
Esther H for her excellent focus and wonderful resilience in our Toot lessons.
Willa Sedgwick for working so hard in our ‘Joseph’ rehearsals and bringing the songs to life.
Summer Production: Joseph 27th & 28th June 2024
T-Fest - 24th June 2024
After the success of our inaugural T-Fest last year, members of the St Teresa’s Singers, Chamber Choir, String Ensemble and Wind Band are invited to perform at our T-Fest concert on Monday 24th June 6.30 - 8.30pm. This will be an outdoor concert on Mairlot Lawn, and we very much hope that parents, family and friends will attend.
Guests are invited to bring a picnic and enjoy the musical entertainment. The music will be provided by girls from the Senior and Prep Schools as well as pupils from Cranmore.
Further information will be sent to children involved, but please make a note in your diary and keep this date free!
Thank you to Assembly Band who accompanied our hymns yesterday for our Ascension Day Mass. Mrs Harris and Mrs Conrad are so proud of the girls. They play every week on Monday and Friday and at special events.
In last week’s Celebration Assembly we had a wonderful performance from a group of Year 5 ukulele players. They have been working very hard on their strumming patterns and played along to ‘I’m Yours’. Well done, girls!
Music Groups
Orchestra
3.45 - 4.45, Monday
Assembly Band Monday and Friday
St Teresa’s Singers 4.15 - 5.00, Tuesday
Wind Band 10.55 - 11.15, Wednesday
String Ensemble 12.45 - 1.15, Wednesday
Chamber Choir 4.15 - 5.00, Wednesday
Rock Choir 12.45 - 1.15, Friday
Sports News
U8 Cricket
On Friday 3rd May, the U8s had their first cricket match of the year. It was a rainy morning but it soon turned dry enough for the girls to continue their matches. It was great to have all the girls playing in a match, we saw some fantastic improvements in their bowling in all 3 teams, some great batting with the girls communicating with each other to score runs. We look forward to the next match in a couple of weeks time! Keep coming to bowling club on a Tuesday lunchtime and practising at home!
U11 Cricket
On Tuesday, we had all the cricket teams out playing matches. The U11E team had an internal match at home on the astro. It was great to see some of them improve on their bowling throughout the game. Well done to Lily S for her match play. The U11B,C&D teams travelled to Freemans, the C team had a very close game and won by 5 runs and the player of the match was Abi F. Unfortunately, the B & D team couldn’t get the win this week but the player of the match was Olivia P.
The U11A team had their first hardball friendly match against St Georges. It was great to see the girls in action. They were all very nervous to begin with but once the game started, and they go into it, the nerves settled and they all worked really hard. Rachel hit a 6 and a couple of 4s, Lilianna hit a couple of 4s and the girls showed some great communication and encouragement throughout the play. Excited to see these girls play another match again!
Warm weather
As the weather is getting warmer (Hooray!) please make sure you send your daughter in with a water bottle, school hat, skort and suncream when necessary.
Swimming
Good luck to Stef, Olivia, Matilda and Lottie this weekend who are taking part in the ESSA Qualifier rounds at the Spectrum!
STASH – Summer Holiday Camp
STASH will be going ahead this year and will start on Monday 8th July and finish on Friday 12th July. It will be open to all children in Years 3-6. Keep an eye out for the sign up forms over the next few weeks.
Fixtures (week commencing 13th May)
Monday 13th May U11A Tennis V Parkside School (A) 3:45pm
Tuesday 14th May U11A Football, Surrey Regional Qualifer (A) 9:30am
Tuesday 14th May U10A&B Cricket V Manor House (H) 2:30pm
Tuesday 14th May U10C&D Cricket V Freemans (A) 2:30pm
Tuesday 14th May U11A Tennis V Cranmore (A) 1:45pm
Friday 17th May U8A-C Cricket V Feltonfleet (A) 2:00pm
Friday 17th May U8B&C Cricket V Freemans (A) 2:30pm
Friday 17th May U9A Tennis V Manoe House (H) 2:30pm
Saturday 18th May U11A Starburst Cricket Comp @ GHS
SOCS
Parents can see team sheets and results by visiting the SOCS website: St Teresa's Effingham | Sports Home (st-teresas.com) to check team sheets and use the password: stteresasteams
This Week
On Thursday, the 40th day since Easter, we celebrated the Solemnity of the Ascension. It was wonderful to be able to welcome Fr Charles, the new Parish Priest at Effingham and Fetcham, along with his parishioners, to celebrate Mass with us.
The number 40 is always significant in scripture. It always introduces a time when God is going to interact in a new way to our world. Noah spent 40 days waiting for the flood to subside before he could step out onto the newly cleansed world. Abraham waited 40 days before the Ten Commandments were revealed. And Jesus himself prepared for 40 days in the wilderness before His ministry and the events of his passion, death and resurrection. So the Ascension, falling as it does on the 40th day indicates that something new is going to happen. But what?
The Ascension marks the tipping point in Jesus ministry. As the Incarnate Son of God, Jesus was certainly fully God, but He was also fully human. The Word of God who was there at the very beginning of creation humbled himself to become human, to take on flesh. And as such, His humanity, like all humanity, was limited in time and space. Put simply, Jesus could only do what He could do in the year or so of his earthly ministry, in the area where He lived, at the time He lived. As he declared, triumphantly from the cross on Good Friday, this earthly work was accomplished. But it wasn’t the end of that ministry. Firstly, He was to return to where he had come from, the right hand of His heavenly Father. And secondly, He passed His mission into the hands of his followers, for this mission was no longer restricted to first century Palestine. It was now to spread across the world.
The Ascension marks that point. From His place at the Father’s side, He could continue to bring the Good News of God’s love to the whole world. By inspiring first His disciples, and then countless fellow followers down through the centuries His mission continued. Our presence here, two thousand years later is proof of that mission.
Of course, the disciples did not yet have the power to fulfil that mission but that is a story for next week!
We hope that you all have had a good week!
Now that the weather has become warmer, please make sure that you still come to ride in appropriate clothes, such as leggings or jodhpurs, and a top that covers the shoulders. And do check the forecast as it may still rain occasionally and we only have a few waterproof coats to borrow.
We are looking for a new horse to join our team!
If you know of a 15hh to 16.2hh, 8yrs or older horse that you think would be suitable and enjoy life at STE then do let us know!
More information can be found on our Facebook page, or by contacting the office.
Booking System: st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk For more information, please visit our website www.st-teresas.com/equestrian
You can also call direct on 01372 750257 or email : equestrian@st-teresas.com Find us on Facebook: St Teresa's Equestrian | Leatherhead | Facebook
Spaces are filling up fast! We only have a few spaces left for Pony Days and lessons over the May Half Term. Book now to avoid disappointment!
Saturday 15 June 2024
Buy tickets – St Teresa's Summer Ball – St Teresa's (tickettailor.com)
By attending our Summer Ball, you're not only in for an incredible evening but also supporting St Teresa's in its mission. Over the years, funds raised from this event have contributed to numerous valuable projects, including the Nelson Pavilion, Senior School lockers, netball kits, drama curtains, and much more!
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 by appointment only: Fostuniform@gmail.com. Second-hand Uniform Shop
Uniform needed:
Short sleeved shirts & pink polos from 30” upwards. All sizes of skorts
FOST A.G.M. Friday 17th May 2024
Time: 08:30
Where:The Boardroom
Everyone welcome
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Tech Camp
We'll be hosting a variety of tech filled activities on the 28th – 31st May, at 9am to 4pm each day for children aged 5 to 11 years old.
Their mission is simple: to inspire, engage, and empower the next generation of innovators. They aim to spark curiosity and foster creativity using cutting-edge technology. Here's a glimpse of what awaits:
• LEGO ENGINEERING – Create and build frames with axles and crankshafts that allow you to explore and learn about different functions like spinning or turning back and forth.
• VIRTUAL REALTIY - With the magic of VR, you can explore breath-taking virtual worlds, design your own adventures, and unleash your imagination like never before.
• 3D CREATIONS - Unlock your inner Tech Artist and create mesmerising three-dimensional creations, letting your imagination soar!
• LASER TAG - Step into the action-packed world of laser tag! Engage in thrilling battles and team up with friends in the ultimate test of skill and strategy.
• CIRCUITRY AND ELECTRONICS– Learn about electronics with circuit cubes and test your building skills with endless projects possibilities!
For more information check out our flyer above or visit our website: St Teresa’s School May Camp – Next Thing Education info@nextthing.education, 01442 873150
Here’s what our parents thought about our Easter Tech Camp – “Lovely staff. Very friendly and helpful. Son had an amazing time at tech camp. Would highly recommend.”
STASH—Summer Sports Camp
Monday 8th - Friday 12th July , £45.00 per day or £200 per week. If you would like your daughter to attend STASH this summer (Monday 8th - Friday 12th July), please could we ask you to complete this form.
Below is information of the activities. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Hitchman: a.hitchman@st-teresas.com
Menu—w/c Monday 13h May 2024
Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.
Soup Of the Day
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Tomato & Basil
Prep School
Main
Eat Healthy Dish
Chicken & Tomato Pasta
Chicken & Tomato Pasta Bake Drizzled with Fresh Herb Oil
Creamy
Coconut Beef & Fresh Vegetable Curry
Thai Green
Vegetarian
Sides
Dessert
Additional
Vegetable & Quorn Curry
Rice Garlic & Basil Bread
Peas & Sweetcorn
Raspberry & Vanilla Milkshake
Salad Bar
Summer Fruit Platter
Roasted
Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato
Pork Sausage Hot Dog
Locally Sourced Pork Sausage Hot Dog with Chef’s Salad
Cajun Style Chicken, Chorizo & Roasted Pepper Bake
Vegetable
Sausage Hot Dog
Baked Wedges Broccoli
Vanilla Sponge
Topped with Icing
Salad Bar
Summer Fruit Platter
Leek & Potato
Country Vegetable & Lentil
Roast Gammon with Yorkshire Pudding
Honey Roast Gammon with Yorkshire Pudding
Sticky Chinese Style Chicken Drumsticks with Crunchy Vegetables
Oriental Style Tofu & Chinese Style Vegetables
Roast Potatoes Mixed Vegetables
Summer Berry Mousse
Salad Bar
Summer Fruit Platter
Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher
Roasted Red
Pepper & Tomato
Chicken Pie Fish Fingers
Chicken & Sweetcorn Pie
Turkey & Bacon Caesar Salad
Roasted
Vegetable & Bean Chilli
Topped Sweet Potato
New Potatoes
Carrots
Sticky Toffee
Pudding with Butterscotch Sauce
Salad Bar
Summer Fruit Platter
Traditional Battered Fish Fillet or Fish Fingers with Tartare Sauce
Fresh Vegetable Burritos with House Salad
Vegetarian Style
Spaghetti Bolognese
Chips Peas
Baked Beans
Banana & Choc Chip Cake
Salad Bar
Summer Fruit Platter
