Prep Bulletin 19 April 24

Summer Uniform

As the weather in so inclement at the moment, girls may wear their summer uniform for the time being. White socks should be worn with the summer uniform and navy socks or tights with the winter 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 (not trainer socks); blazer and cardigan. Please see the information on the FOST page for

SOCS

Parents can see team sheets and results by visiting the SOCS website: St Teresa's Effingham | Sports Home (stteresas.com) to check team sheets and use the password: stteresasteams

Message forYear 6 Parents

Please may you return all of your completed forms in the new entrants’ package to Mrs Annabel Charles by Monday 6th May 2024.

Key Diary Dates:

This week you have received the following communications:

Year 3: Year 4: Year 5: Year 6: Whole School: Uniform Choice Chickenpox

Please contact the School Office if you need copies of any of this information prepinfo@st-teresas.com

Golden Book

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

3RN Kitty N for her excellent work in maths and super understanding in the topic, "Money".

Zoe G for her effort in Topic, giving thoughtful and detailed answers about life in Roman times.

3KC Ava B for recognising the feature of a biography including subheadings, chronological order and the important dates and places for the Roman Emperor Augustus. Well done Ava.

Emilia C for super speedy work in maths this week when working on money especially when buying items from the toy shop and when converting pounds and Eloise K for describing in detail the properties of fire and wind when discussing our new topic Energy in RE. Well done Eloise.

4LH Rosie M, whilst exploring the Pentecost in RE, Rosie made some very interesting observations and links between our scripture and various paintings both abstract and more traditional.

Esther H, her love of reading is wonderful and contributes to your growing vocabulary and unique ideas when writing in English. Keep enjoying and sharing those stories with us.

4AB Sienna D for great states of matter work in Science this week

Charlotte T for a fabulous start to St. Teresa's!

4CR Sophia H for her fantastic attitude and enthusiasm to participate in all lessons. Rosalind D for her fantastic, emotive poem done independently.

5HC Harlow G and Liberty B for their fantastic work and understanding of percentages in Maths.

Mira M and Serena O for their careful and beautiful stitching creating their very impressive Tudor banners.

5KH Khrystyna H for her hard work on improving her spellings over the Easter break

Apollonia C

other optional holiday work.

6MK Flori H for her excellent listening and fact finding skills in English this week.

Tabitha P for her excellent approach and contribution in RE this week as we discussed art work linked to the Resurrection.

Elsie W for using a wide rage of clauses in her written description of Pandora in English this week

6JG Coralie H for showing resilience and working so positively this week.

Clara for excellent engagement in every lesson.

6RW Isabel R for engaging so enthusiastically with our unit of work in English this week and for describing the anatomy of a fictional creature.

Rosie A for writing a thoughtful and detailed reflection about a piece of artwork representing Jesus' resurrection.

Drama Stars

Year 3 Ava B for excellent engagement and knowledge about theatre.

Year 4 Rosalind D for excellent participation and awareness of the impact of the sounds around us and how to make them.

Year 5 Lottie F for working hard to challenge herself when learning new skills.

Year 6 Bee DW for excellent use of facial expression and great concentration.

Year 3

In Maths this week, Year 3 have been recognising coins and notes, finding exact amounts of money to buy items from the class shop and converting money from pence to pounds and pence. They had fun seeing all the different ways they could make the same amounts. Well done girls.

Year 4

For International Women's Day in March, the girls in Year 4 wrote letters to women that have inspired them. Some of the girls have been lucky enough to have replies to their letters, including from people or organisations such as the Enid Blyton Society, JK Rowling, contacts about Gertrude Ederle and our very own Mrs Halliwell. It has been very exciting to share the letters and we look forward to seeing who else might reply

Year 5

Year 5 reflected on the events of Easter Sunday and Holy Week by creating beautiful Easter gardens in the school grounds. Can you spot the open tomb in some of them?

Year 6 Skin Care talks with Mrs Jardella

We were delighted to welcome Mrs Jardella, former parent and skin/beauty expert, into school on Thursday to give our Year 6 girls a talk on how to keep skin healthy and what a sensible skincare regime might look like. Her Top Tips were that a healthy lifestyle and diet have the biggest positive impact on our skin and that if the girls do choose to use products they should keep their skin care regime simple, not get carried away with a product trend and choose products that meet their specific needs. The talk was extremely educational and interesting and the girls were able to reflect on how what they learned about branding in their young enterprise project, LifeLab, is exactly what the beauty industry uses to persuade them to buy their products! Hopefully, our girls now have the knowledge and information to make sensible decisions about if/when they want to use products and what those might be.

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.

4LH—Class Assembly

Parents of girls in 4LH are invited to join us for their class assembly on Wednesday 24th April 2024

at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall.

Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am.

5HC—Class Assembly

Parents of girls in 5HC are invited to join us for their class assembly on Thursday 2nd May 2024

at 8.30am in the Henderson Hall.

Refreshments will be served in the Henderson Hall from 8.15am.

Congratulations Mrs Hitchman!

Huge congratulation to Miss Roberts who got married during the Easter holidays and is now Mrs Hitchman!

As you can see, she looked absolutely beautiful on the day which she says was one of the happiest of her life – she didn’t want it to end!

We wish the new Mr and Mrs Hitchman every blessing as they begin married life together.

StTeresa Prep School and Cranmore Chess Tournament

Some of our Chess Club welcomed Cranmore this week for a friendly meeting of minds. Impressive, strategic play by all the players from near beginners to those very experienced ... some wins and some losses on both sides! A really enjoyable event, very civilised and exemplary chess manners from all. Well done girls!

Pupil Fundraising

Elizabeth in Year 4 is taking part in a sponsored hair cut for the Little Princess Trust. A charity which provides real hair wigs to youngsters undergoing cancer treatment, or with conditions such as Alopecia.

She has to cut a minimum of 30cm this Saturday 20th April and would really appreciate your support to reach her target of £350.

You can donate to her JustGiving page by clicking on the link: Help Georgina Little

Prep School News

Year 6 books

Following on from the success of Book Week last term, Year 6 were inspired by M G Leonard to create their own books. They set about designing title pages, blurbs, setting maps and some girls even wrote the first few chapters. We appear to have quite a few budding authors in our midst!

Music News

Welcome back to the Summer Term

It has been wonderful to see the girls back again after our Easter break – the music department has been alive with the sound of beautiful singing and instruments.

Musicians of the Week

Year 3 Ava B for super focus and team work – great work Ava!

Year 4 Victoria M wonderful focus and beautiful singing

Year 5 Dana M for an excellent start to music and learning the ukulele! Well done Dana

Year 6 Imogen W for consistently working hard and being a wonderful member of the class

Summer Production:

Year 6 have now received their roles for our upcoming production of Joseph. We are all very excited and have already begun rehearsing some of the songs. Year 5 will be providing the chorus. Stay tuned for more updates and save the dates: 27th & 28th June 2024.

Year 4 have been studying theme and variations. We listened to Mozart’s ‘Ah, vous dirais-je Maman’ and have begun composing our own variation on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The girls have produced some wonderful compositions using their knowledge of the musical elements to help them.

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

In Assembly this morning we were delighted by violin recitals from Florence E-N and Layla B. The girls played beautifully and with great expression - Well done!

Sports News

On Sunday 24 March, Ania S and Thea B-H competed in the National Schools' Biathlon Finals at Bath University, which they qualified for at the beginning of the academic year.

In her age group (Year 3), Ania came 4th in the swimming aspect, which is amazing, and then came 34th in the running part. Overall, Ania placed 26th in the country for her age group!

Thea competed in the Year 4 age group and achieved 27th in the swimming aspect and 17th in the running part. Her overall place was 15th place out of 94 other girls! Both Ania and Thea have worked so hard, and they should feel really proud of themselves for making the Finals and competing in such an incredible competition. What an amazing experience for them both and we are very, very proud of them. Well done!

Over Easter Isabella competed in the Brighton Marathon mini miles race. The race was a mile long and was a mixed race of boys and girls with 165 competitors, and was the first girl home. Great work Isabella, well done!

Summer Term Clubs

Monday U11-U10 Athletics Field Club U8-U11 Street Racquet U10-U11 Tennis Club

Tuesday U8-U9 Cricket Club U8-U11 Cricket Bowling Club

Wednesday U10-U11 Swimming U8-U9 Tennis Club

Thursday U8-U9 Athletics Field Club U8-U9 Tennis Club U10-U11 Track Club

Friday U8-U9 Swimming U8-U11 Football Club U10-U11 Cricket club

Fixtures (week commencing 22nd April)

Monday 22nd April: U9 – U11 Tennis V Manor House (H) 4:15pm

Wednesday 24th April: U12 A & B Cricket V Downsend (H & A) 2:30

Friday 27th April: U11A Cricket Tournament at Kempton Cricket Club 9am

Reminder: Please bring in hats, water bottles and suncream for the warmer days.

This Week

We begin by wishing you a very ‘Happy Easter’! We, together with billions across the world, celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Whether by eating and decorating Easter Eggs, that represent the empty tomb and the new birth of the resurrection, through the traditional images of bunnies and chicks, again symbols of new birth, or the beauty of creation as it burst forth at in this spring time, we all celebrate the reality of Jesus defeating death forever as He rose from the dead.

In Chapel, reflecting our Lenten series of reflections, we shall now meet three individuals who met the risen Christ on the day of the resurrection. This week, we met Mary of Magdala (John 20:11-18). Mary visited Jesus’ tomb early on Sunday morning to carry out the funeral rituals that had to be delayed due to Jesus dying on the eve of the festival. She found the tomb empty and wept.

Perceiving a person behind her, she assumed it was the gardener. Why would John include this detail? Surely we are to recognise, with a wry smile, that John is referring to Genesis 2,where Adam and Eve walked with God in the Garden of Eden. Through the resurrection, Jesus restores all that was damaged and broken in our world from Adam’s disobedience. Mary now walks in that restored garden.

She finally recognises Jesus when he calls her by name. We are called to recognise that the God who loves and cares for us knows us, also, by name and calls us to participate in the joy of the resurrection.

And finally, Mary, known as ‘the Apostle to the Apostles’ is sent to share the news of the resurrection with Jesus followers. We too are called to develop and use our gifts and talents as we discover the mission that we are called to so that we, like Mary, can share the good news of the resurrection with our world.

We hope that you all have had a good Easter Holidays, and are refreshed and ready to start the Summer Term! At STE, we have had some changes with our equine team over the holidays.

Mr T hadn’t been feeling well with the workload and so went back home to his owners. Tango moved to his new loan home with our yard manager Katie, who then dropped off her lovely mare Bunny with us.

Bunny is a 14.2hh black Dales mare who competes in showing. She is very friendly, but make sure that you give her some space while she settles in so that she’s not overwhelmed! She will be slowly introduced in to lessons over the next couple of weeks to see how she gets on.

We would also like to ask for everyone’s patience this term.

Some of our ponies have been feeling a bit under the weather, sore, or have undergone some veterinary treatment, and we are doing our best to look after them and get them fit and healthy again. Unfortunately, this means that we have to take them out of some lessons, so please to bear with us for the next few weeks while we are a bit short on what horses we can adding to lessons.

We also had our first Interhouse Show Jumping with the NSEA riders! Well done to all who attended!

We will be running a Interhouse Dressage on the last week of term on our STE horses and ponies. We will be acquiring your interest in this at a later date.

Horse Breeds:Arabian

The Arabian horse, or Arab as they are more commonly called, are from Arabia. They have striking features that can make them easily recognisable, such as their dished face. Arabs are very athletic, and usually have a slim figure and are used for polo and racing in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Libby C

Saturday 15 June 2024 FOR ST TERESA’S FIRST

Regency Ball

FOST Second Hand Uniform Shop

Opening Hours (within term time)

Mondays & Fridays 8:30am-9am

First Saturday of every month 10:30am-11am (By appointment only. See email address below) Location

Please look for a large blue and pink shed behind the ESTA tennis courts. There is a blue awning and a bench outside. You can’t miss us!

Please contact Wendy or Camilla at The Second–hand Uniform Shop if you have an urgent query. Fostuniform@gmail.com Second-hand Uniform Shop SAVE THE DATE:

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Menu—w/c Monday 22nd April 2024

Hot lunches include a selection of family favourites and suitable alternatives for children with allergies and intolerances.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Roasted Red

Soup Of The Day

Tomato & Basil Spring Vegetable & Lentil Minestrone

Prep School Pork Sausages & Mash Pasta Bolognese & Crusty Bread

Main

Eat

Healthy Choice

Vegetarian

Sides

Locally Sourced Pork Sausages & Mashed Potato

Roasted Red Pepper, Tomato & Turkey

Coated

Wholemeal

Pasta With House Salad

Cumberland Style Vegetable Sausages & Mashed Potato

Mashed Potato Broccoli

Dessert Chocolate Brownie

Spaghetti Bolognese With Crusty Bread

Spanish Style

Chicken, Chorizo & Roasted Vegetable

Ragout With Roquette, Cherry Tomato, Radish & Spring Onion Salad

Ratatouille & Mixed Bean Filled Roasted Peppers

Chargrilled Fillet Of Chicken Goujons

Pepper & Tomato Leek & Potato

Additional Salad Bar

Summer Fruit Platter

Crusty Bread Peas & Sweetcorn

Peach & Raspberry

Crumble & Custard

Salad Bar

Summer Fruit Platter

Beef Bourguignonne

St T’s Chargrilled Chicken Station With A Selection Of Sauces Served With Themed Salad Bar (Caesar)

Leek, Potato & Mature Cheddar Bake

Parsley New Potatoes

Mixed Vegetables

Pan Au Choc

Bread & Butter Pudding

Salad Bar

Summer Fruit Platter

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

Chicken & Vegetable Rice Cod Goujons Or Fish Fingers

BBQ Style Pulled

Pork With Pitta Bread & Chef’s Salad

Paella With Crusty Bread

Red Lentil & Vegetable Tikka

Masala With Rice

Chef’s Salad Carrots

Traditional Battered Fish Fillet Or Jumbo Fish Fingers

Chinese Style

Noodles & Oriental Vegetables

Macaroni

Cheese With Green Salad

Chips Peas

Baked Beans

Chocolate

Sponge & Chocolate Sauce

Salad Bar

Summer Fruit Platter

Summer Berry

Cheesecake

Salad Bar

Summer Fruit Platter