St Teresa's Weekly Bulletin 10 December 2021

Autumn Term

6 December 2021 Issue 1 : 4th September 2020

This Week’s Headlines Saturday 11 December……………………………………..……..Schola singing at Hatchlands Park 16:00 Monday 13 December……………………………………..…Advent Evensong in the Chapel, 17.30-18.30 Monday 13 December………..…………………..…...Sixth Form Ice Skating Trip, Somerset House, 16.15 Tuesday 14 December…………………………………………………………….……Carol Service, 19.00 Wednesday 15 December………...…………Year 11 English in Sixth Form Lecture Theatre, 11.15-12.15

Wednesday 15 December…….…………………………………………...………………..Interhouse Arts Thursday 16 December…………………………………….International Horse of the Year, Excel Centre Friday 17 December……………………..……………….…………......Mufti Day & Christmas Jumper Day

This Week’s Headlines

Friday 17 December……………………………………………………..…...……..Interhouse Arts Festival Friday 17 December………………………………………………………...Senior School Christmas Lunch Friday 17 December………………………………………………..…………………………….Term ends

We look forward to welcoming you to our Carol Service on Tuesday 14 December either in person or via Teams.

Please book your tickets, in advance, using this link.

BOARDING NEWS The Boarders had a Magical time in Kingston at the Christmas Market on Saturday. Music was playing, festive treats were sold. The girls took many photos of the Christmas lights along the river. The girls that stayed back at school helped put up the decorations in the house. It looks great doesn't it! Our weekend ended with some girls packing and leaving to fly home. We said goodbye to Charlotte and Cacilia. Lola will be leaving next week too. We have enjoyed having you with us in the Boarding house girls and will miss you. We have all made wonderful memories and friendships for life!

Next weekend we will do more packing and a quick trip to Guildford. More girls will be leaving next week to fly home. It's been a very busy house. But we wouldn't have it any other way!

Mrs Wragg, Senior Boarding Housemistress

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PARENTS’ EVENINGS Dear Parents/Guardians, We would like to invite you to your daughter’s forthcoming virtual parents’ evenings via the Parents’ Evening module on the following dates : Year 8 Year 9 Year 11 Year 12 Year 13

Wednesday 2 March 2022 Thursday 13 January 2022 Thursday 10 February 2022 Thursday 17 March 2022 Thursday 17 March 2022

ST TERESA’S DANCE CLUB St Teresa’s Dance Squad Calling all Years 7, 8 and 9 students who LOVE dance! We meet on Wednesday lunchtimes – if you enjoy learning dances in lots of different styles and to a variety of songs, come along – this is for you!

St Teresa’s Senior Dancers This lunchtime club is for Years 9, 10 and 11 students who would like to learn dance pieces to a fun mix of genres – musical theatre, street and contemporary. A great way to meet others and shake off some stress midday!

St Teresa’s Dance Company Our dance company meets weekly to train and create choreography in preparation for performance pieces. If you have a strong passion for dance and a strong technique, speak to Miss Richards about coming along to the company class.

Miss Reynolds Dance Teacher

SIXTH FORM NEWS After another busy term in office we have produced an edition of our prefects’ proudest moments from this last term. This will be our last one before the prefect changeover in February so please have a read at what your leadership team have been up to. Hope you all have a great last week in school and enjoy the Christmas break.

Imogen Lawford, Deputy Head Girl

Easter Music Course 2022!

Next 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 Year 3Year 6, from all schools, who have passed Grade 1 on their instrument. Please email Mrs Yalden on c.yalden@st-teresas.com for further information.

Webinars are available on the Hub for one week after their date. This week’s was Sibling Rivalry on Wednesday 8th December. For up-to-date information on all webinars, please log on to the hub and they will send reminder emails.

Alicia is a BACP accredited therapist, parent coach, speaker, author of Why Every Teenager Needs a Parrot and, most importantly, a mother. She works with over 170 schools, delivering webinars, talks and workshops to parents, staff and pupils, and is the creator of The Wellbeing Hub. Working upstream is the most effective way of preventing mental ill-health which is why she works to help parents, staff and pupils deepen their understanding of childhood and adolescence.

Learn how to support your family and create an environment in which your child thrives. We will take a deep dive into the dynamics and relationships of family life, systemic theory and inter-generational parenting, which will help you to prevent potential problems down the line.

TUCKSHOP NEWS The tuckshop runs every Friday and is run by the Chaplaincy Prefects. It provides a selection of tasty treats.

The girls vote for the charity they would like to support.

So far this year we have donated £500 to charity from the profits raised.

The charities supported were CAFOD (x2), Cancer Research UK, Children in Distress and Mary’s Meals.

The current charities we are collecting for are Cherrytrees, Marie Curie Cancer Care and The Little Princess Trust.

Eco Tips of the week: At this time of year you might be using more candles than normal and if so did you know you can recycle the candle wax ?

You can post your scrap wax to : The Recycled Candle Company 16 Gandy Street Exeter Devon EX4 3LS

Your donations can be any type of old candles; any colour, scent and size.

BUSINESS NEWS Year 12 Business girls were so excited to have Mr Owen, entrepreneur extraordinaire! Come and visit them this week in order to talk about his fascinating business life-story of how he had set up in business through an idea that came about from listening to his mother who mentioned that he would be really good in marketing and advertising. Mr Owen worked his way up through the ranks, and eventually created a dynamic partnership with his former boss, to become one of the leading marketing/advertising specialists in the country. His presentation theme brilliantly used the analogy of “whether you are a wild animal or a zoo animal” in terms of whether you can conform to corporate culture or thrive much more effectively in going it alone “in the wild”. The Year 12 Business girls learnt a great deal about the need to not worry about failure, learning to pitch effectively using a well-researched business plan and being yourself in life. An entrepreneur in the making, one of my students considered “It was the best presentation she had ever seen in her life”. We certainly look forward to Mr Owen returning at some point in the future to give us the next exciting instalment on where he is presently building a new advertising agency.

Many thanks Mr Owen an absolutely fascinating insight!

Mrs Angel, Head of Business and Economics

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Thank you for the amazing support for our 2021 virtual Christmas Fair. A special word of thanks and acknowledgement to all in our school community who worked incredibly hard to make this virtual Fair such a success! FOST would also like to thank all girls who entered the Christmas Bake Off competition for their fantastic entries. We think that all of your bakes looked fabulous and would therefore like to give you all a prize for your hard work. Our sponsor, Afternoon Crumbs, had a very tough time choosing the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places for each category. You will receive an extra prize in addition to the one from FOST. The results table below shows a collage of all the fabulous bakes. Congratulations!

Approximately £480 was raised for the Cobham based Oasis Childcare Charity from the recent mufti day

Thank you!!

Activity

Winner

Prize

Name the sloth

Harriet P, 5HC

Ziggy the Sloth

Where is Candy Cane the elf

Thea B-H, Year 2

Sticker Machine

Guess how many Sweeties in the Jar

Kay L, 6JG

Jar of Sweeties

Design a Gingerbread Man

Apollonia CD, 3KC

Craft Bag

Christmas Word Search

Matilda G, 3RN

Word Search & Pencil

Christmas Anagrams

Felicity S, 5HC

Fun Pencil & Rubber

Guess the Baby?

Séarlait W, 4CR

Original ‘Guess Who’ Game

Colour-in & Spot the Difference

No entries

Christmas Puzzle

CHRISTMAS JUMPER COLLECTION Christmas jumpers can be worn by all on Friday 17th December. Reminder FOST is still collecting (via collection boxes in both Prep and Senior reception) all unwanted or outgrown jumpers. Any Christmas jumpers collected will be for sale for £5 cash only please in the Prep School.

UNIFORM SHOP Open Mondays & Fridays 8.30am-9am & the first Saturday of every month 10am-10.30am during term time.

E-mail: equestrian@st-teresas.com

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

Call: 01372 750257 Booking System https://st-teresas-equestrian.ecpro.co.uk/

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

We’d like to thank everyone who rides with us for their patience recently for any changes to lessons and instructors that we’ve had to make this term. We are doing our best to accommodate everyone’s preferences, but we do have more instructor changes this term so ask that you bear with us a bit longer.

Please do let us know as soon as you can if you will be unable to attend a riding lesson. It means that we don’t have the ponies tacked up and waiting around, and we can offer other jobs to the instructors to make the most of their time.

If 48 hours or more notice is given for a cancellation, then the lesson will be credited and a catch-up lesson can be offered if we have the availability. It also then gives us the chance to offer the slot to another rider to have a make-up lesson.

We still have three tickets going for a trip to the International Horse Show on Thursday 16th December 2021.

ALL ARE WELCOME! Please contact the office to find out pricings if you are interested.

Spring Term 2022 Riding Dates Lessons run from: Monday 10th January to Saturday 12th February Half term week – Monday 14th February to Sunday 20th February

Lessons run from: Monday 21st February to Saturday 26th March

NSEA Competition Reports On Saturday 4th December, a team of three girls headed to Felbridge to compete in the Grass Roots Show Jumping Championships!

Everyone rode brilliantly! All three competed in the 60cm and the 70cm classes as a team.

In the 60cm, the team - Lilly S, Lottie B and Sofie S - came 1st with three clear rounds! Lilly also placed 5th as an individual!

In the 70cm, the team came 3rd with two clear rounds and one unfortunate four faults. Lottie then placed 5th as an individual and Lilly placed 8th!

Well done to everyone who participated!

This Week This week, as we marked the Second Week of Advent we concentrated on the Biblical account of the Visitation, that occasion when Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth with the news that she is pregnant (Luke 1:39-56).

This short passage is packed with significance. In the first instance we have the words of two of the most famous Christian prayers found on the lips of Elizabeth (’Hail Mary, full of grace’) and Mary (The Magnificat—’’My soul glorifies the Lord’).

There are two exchanges in this account. On the one hand we have the two pregnant women providing support and comfort for each other. But even more significant is the meeting between Elizabeth’s child, John, and Mary’s child, Jesus. We are told that John leaps for joy at meeting the Saviour Jesus. Images, like the one opposite, show the two babies greeting each other from their mothers’ wombs.

For the people of Israel, the Ark of the Covenant, the golden box that sat at the centre of the community, at first in the Tabernacle in the wilderness and then in the Temple in Jerusalem, was a symbolic reminder that God is always with his people. Famously, King David, in an act of humility, danced before the Ark of the Covenant as it was processed into the Temple.

In our Gospel reading today we are to hear echoes of this Old Testament account as we recognise John dancing for joy at the very presence of God in the person of Jesus— the Word made flesh, God incarnate, Emmanuel, God with us. Mary is the new tabernacle, the new bearer of God’s presence to the world. And we in our turn are reminded that we too ask in our own way to bear that presence to the world and to sing out with joy with Mary:

My soul, glorifies the Lord!

Menu Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Main

Locally sourced Pork Sausages & Mashed Potato

Spaghetti Bolognese with Crusty Bread

Creamy Chicken Pie & Diced Potatoes

Oriental Beef Strips & Noodles with Prawn Crackers

Christmas lunch, locally sourced Roast Turkey with all the trimmings

Vegetarian

Quorn Sausages & Mashed Potato

Pasta Arrabiata

Macaroni Cheese with Green Salad

No Chicken & Vegetable Noodles

Baby Spinach, Feta & Vegetable Filo Wrap

Eat Healthy Choice

Healthy Turkey Tikka Masala with Vegetable Rice

Salmon & Nut Free Pesto Traybake with Baby Roast Potatoes

Pulled Pork Tacos with Fresh Pineapple Salsa

Roasted King Prawns & Chorizo with Peppers, Cherry Tomatoes & Red Onions

Sides

Mashed Potato & Broccoli

Crusty Bread, Peas & Sweetcorn

Diced Potatoes & Mixed Vegetables

Rice & Peas

Roast Potatoes, Honey Roast Carrots & Parsnips

Jacket Potatoes

Jacket Potato & Beans

Jacket Potato & Beans

Jacket Potato & Beans

Jacket Potato & Beans

Jacket Potato & Beans

Dessert

Fresh Strawberry Mousse

Apple Crumble & Custard

Rice Pudding & a selection of sauces

Fruit Pie & Custard

Chocolate Orange Brownies

Additional

Salad Bar

Salad Bar

Salad Bar

Salad Bar

Salad Bar

Summer Fruit Platter

Summer Fruit Platter

Summer Fruit Platter

Summer Fruit Platter

Summer Fruit Platter

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