Senior Bulletin 1 November 2021

Autumn Term

1 November 2021 Issue 1 : 4th September 2020

This Week’s Headlines Monday 8th November..….…………….……..U12 Hockey Tournament v Tormead School, 14.00-18.00 Monday 8th November…………………………...…….U13 Netball v Howard of Effingham School, 16.30 Monday 8th November..….………………………..………….String Quartet Concert, 17.00 in the Chapel Tuesday 9th November………………………………………………………….……….Pastoral Check-ins Tuesday 9th November…………………………………..U14 Netball v Sir William Perkin’s School, 16.30 Wednesday 10th November………………………………………………………….LAMDA Examinations Wednesday 10th November…………………..………………..U12 Netball v Manor House School, 16.30 Wednesday 10th November…………………..……………..Benedict House Students’ Movie 16.30-18:15

This Week’s Headlines

Thursday 11th November……………………………………....…...Schola Cantorum Rehearsals 8-8.45am Thursday 11th November…………………………… ………..U15 Netball v Manor House School. 16.30 Thursday 11th November..….………………………..……………..…Year 7 Parents’ Evening, 17.30-2100 Friday 12th November………………………………………….…………………….LAMDA Examinations Friday 12th November…….…………......……..U13 Hockey Tournament v Tormead School, 14.00-18.00 Friday 12th November…….……………………………......…...U15 Netball v Manor House School, 16.30 Saturday 13th November………………………………………………..…...Cross Country Regional Finals Sunday 14th November………………………………………………………..Production Rehearsal, all day

THERAPY DOG AT ST TERESA’S We are pleased to introduce you to Neo our therapy dog.

Neo will be based in Mrs Cawley’s office and with the counsellors.

BOARDING NEWS We were delighted to welcome the girls back after half term and they had lots to tell us and each other about what they had been up to.

We marked Day of the Dead with some beautiful scratch art on Tuesday and some of the girls put on a dance show.

This weekend, we’re off to fireworks, London Westfield for shopping and will be also enjoying a cream tea.

WENDY AND PETER PAN PRODUCTION We are delighted to invite you to our Autumn Production, ‘Wendy and Peter Pan’ adapted by Ella Hickson from the book by J.M. Barrie. The performances are on Thursday 18 November and Friday 19 November from 19:00-21:00 in Mairlot Hall.

To book your complimentary tickets for the two available dates, please click the links below. The password is Teresas21 Thursday 18 November https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/204436082827 Friday 19 November https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/205012988367 Tickets are limited to a maximum of four per family per show and are on sale until 24 hours before the show opens.

Audience members are encouraged to dress up as pirates or characters from this classic novel.

We look forward to welcoming you to Neverland for our enchanting performance.

Kind regards,

St Teresa's Performing Arts Department

CISC Christmas Cards—Art Competition We are excited to announce that we are taking part in the CISC Christmas card design competition and we are opening this up to all St Teresa’s girls.

The theme this year is: ‘O Holy Night’ We are looking forward to having a bumper year of entries, so please submit your entries by Wednesday 10th November. Your drawings can either be portrait or landscape.

Please hand your entries in for the attention of Mrs N Menzies.

SIXTH FORM NEWS On Tuesday Dr Poffley presented a talk on Life at Oxford and Cambridge - the College System for the year 12 students setting their aspirations high for university. The girls were all very interested and learnt a lot about what life could be like from Dr Poffley, an Oxford Alumni himself. Our Oxford Programme is available for all students, Miss Pitchford emailed information for the programme to all students last half term and so if you would like to join in, please check your email to see the sessions that are on offer for your Key Stage and come along.

On Wednesday, the senior hockey team participated in the Kings College School tournament in Wimbledon. We faced four different schools and began the first match with great determination as we dominated the game, unluckily leading to a draw. After playing two more matches, we made it through to the playoffs and faced Trinity School.

Within the first two minutes our team were ahead with Connie scoring the first goal of the match. With high spirits we battled against the tough opposition, concluding in a very close score. It was great to see younger members of the school stepping up to play against older, tougher oppositions. All in all, it was a great day of hockey and we all played fantastically as a team.

Pippa M and Emma W On Thursday Year 12 had their Personal Tutor launch, this is a pastoral programme within which students have the opportunity to choose any member of staff from the school community and ask them to become their Personal Tutor. They will be available to help them through any queries or issues that they come across, they are also an extra mode of support for UCAS process. It is a really valuable programme and I know that the Year 12 students will both enjoy and benefit from partaking in it.

As we have started a new half term the Sixth Form Enrichment and Ethics Carousel rotated, and we began our new sessions. Sixth Form Enrichment groups that are on offer include yoga, volunteering, mindfulness, learn a new skill and debating. Each member of the Sixth Form spends half a term in each of the different groups as a way to enhance their wider knowledge and understanding beyond the curriculum.

Sixth Form ethics groups also run for half a term each and aim to examine what we mean when we talk about personal morality and ethical behaviour in all of our lives? It’s very much an open ended discussion amongst everybody, and views often differ considerably. There are extremely lively debates and strongly held opinions. The other purpose is to examine the ideas of absolute and relative philosophy that exist within moral decision-making. A brief look at the major and influential philosophers in history. The overall aim is to make it as relevant as possible to our everyday existence. For example, this week we have considered the global moral response and imperative when referring to environmental ethics, and the part that we play within that, in consideration of the COP 26 conference.

I hope that everyone had an enjoyable first week back.

Imogen Lawford, Deputy Head Girl Student Magazine Competitions : Art The magazine committee would like you to submit any artwork centred around the theme of autumn, whether it be from art class, your own pieces or photos you are proud of, to be featured in the student magazine.

Creative Writing We would love you to submit a short story centred around the theme of autumn. This must not exceed 500 words, but you may be as creative as you like!

Reviews We aim to include a section of reviews on books, films and music in order to provide inspiration to other students.

Please write a short paragraph in the Microsoft form that has been emailed to you, detailing what you enjoyed about your choice as well as some background information.

To submit work to the committee please scan your work or take a clear photo and then email to: student.magazine@st-teresas.com

Lara Andrews, Deputy Head Girl and The Student Magazine Editorial Team

Wednesday 10 November 2021 4.25-4.55pm in the Staff Dining Room 4 conversation tables: French, German, Spanish and EAL Let us know if you want to run an additional table (Japanese, Afrikaans, Italian…etc.)

Refreshments and biscuits Students and staff with basic knowledge are welcome to join any table to practise speaking skills.

HOPE TO SEE LOTS OF YOU THERE! Ms Corbat

BENEDICT HOUSE To all Benedict House students: We will be screening 'Back to the Future' (in preparation for Inter House Arts) next Wednesday (10th Nov) in the Sixth Form Lecture Theatre. Please do come and join - especially if you have never seen it. It's a great film; I hope you can make it. Parents: pick up time from school is 6.15pm.

YEAR 7 SCIENCE TRIP A reminder to parents to please complete the consent form for the Year 7 Science Trip to Bell Beach Reservoir, if you have not already done so. 7JH and 7PC will attend the trip on Monday 15 November, and 7SA and 7SB will attend the trip on Monday 22 November. Consent forms should be returned to Mr Mark Stephens, m.stephens@st-teresas.com.

DYNAMIC ADVENTURES TRIPS 2022 Great news - the Year 7 & 8 Slovenia Trip is going ahead. We have met the target number of pupils and beyond. We will be in touch with more details shortly.

Years 9, 10 & 11 Montenegro Trip - requires 8 more girls to sign up to ensure the trip can run.

Therefore, the deadline date has been extended to Friday 12th November.

Please return all paperwork for the attention of Miss Kay.

Miss Kay: s.kay@st-teresas.com

Enrichment Society and the World Scholars Club continue each Thursday at 4:30pm in the Sixth Form Lecture Theatre. Many thanks to Deacon Simon for delivering this week’s session entitled ‘Six surprising ways to help you live longer!’

The schedule for this half term is printed here. As always, girls from all years are welcome to attend. A reminder that Academic Scholars from Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 are requested to attend a minimum of 3 Enrichment sessions each term.

If any parents, guardians, or other family members, are interested in delivering a talk at Enrichment Society during the year, please email Mr O’Farrell on j.ofarrell@st-teresas.com. All areas of interest and expertise are welcome!

ACADEMIC SCHOLARS’ DINNER Our first Academic Scholars’ dinner of the year took place in the Sixth Form Reading Room on Thursday evening – the first in-person scholars’ dinner since January 2020! Naturally, Dr McShane’s jug of conversation also made a welcome return, as did the traditional reciting of University College Oxford’s grace, which has the longest grace of any Oxford college. Scholars from Years 7 and 8 were invited to a delicious two-course meal, followed by an after-dinner speech delivered by guest speaker Professor James Lee. Professor Lee is Professor of Law and Vice-Dean (Education) at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. His inspiring words reminded the girls of the value of scholarship, as articulated and celebrated by St Teresa.

Our next scholars’ dinner for those in Years 11, 12 and 13, will take place in the spring term.

MUSIC NEWS On Monday 8 November we have a String Quartet Concert featuring the compositions of our A Level music students: Lara A & Ella M We are delighted to welcome back the string quartet to St Teresa’s School for this concert.

The visiting players are all professional performers at the top of the musical world.

Our pupils, Lara and Ella, have created free compositions and have collaborated with the quartet on a previous occasion to develop their work.

The concert presents a wonderful opportunity for everyone to hear the results of this most successful collaboration.

Dear Parents and Players

After 7 years with us at ESTA, Jack Lane is moving on to continue his coaching career at The All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon) from January 2022.

We have no doubt you’ll be as sad to see Jack go as are we, so we would like to arrange a time when we can all get together to give him a fitting farewell at the ESTA Clubhouse before the end of term. Further details to follow!

We are pleased to announce we have an amazing new coach taking over Jack’s lessons in the new year.

ESTA

SCHOOL BUSES The late buses have become increasingly popular so please could we ask that, even if your child is taking the free transport to Effingham Junction, you book this in advance as we cannot guarantee there may be a space for your child if you do not book the slot. Please book your daughter’s slot by emailing transport@effinghamschools.org.

Thank you.

PASTORAL NOTICES You may have heard or even seen the latest Netflix craze ‘Squid Game’. This series is certified 15, which I feel is highly inappropriate for anyone under this age due to the sexually explicit scenes, nudity, extreme violence, self-harm, suicide and bad language.

If your daughter wants to watch Squid Game, I strongly advise you watch it first. Please also be aware that some scenes have been uploaded to platforms such as TikTok. If your daughter has watched Squid Game and seems upset or shocked by something they have seen or, if you are concerned about anything they’ve viewed, I have attached some advice from our Wellbeing Hub about talking to her about what she is viewing online which you may find helpful.

It may also be useful to check your parental settings on your daughter's Netflix devices.

These links may be useful: Parental Guide to Squid Game: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10919420/parentalguide National Online Safety Guide to Squid Game https://nationalonlinesafety.com/wakeupwednesday/squid-game-trending-across-platforms-what-parentsneed-to-know https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/GqafCwV6oIGVQNxFV0RYJ?domain=digiisocial.com Netflix Parent Zone https://parentzone.org.uk/article/netflix-everything-you-need-know-about-streaming-service I do hope you find this helpful. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Some useful resources : #AskTheAwkward aims to help parents and carers have regular conversations with their children about online relationships and more.

The resource includes three short films created in a social experiment style, with real parents and their children to capture their reactions to a range of questions.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/ask-theawkward/

https://club.teentips.co.uk/the-wellbeing-hubwebinars/

Paula Cawley, Deputy Headmistress, (Pastoral)

This Week In The Wellbeing Hub—Body Image Body Image with Dr Aric Sigman, Wednesday 10th November, 6:30pm Join us to learn at our next webinar on BODY IMAGE AND THE PRESSURE OF PHYSICAL APPEARANCE with our expert speaker Dr Aric Sigman. A recording will be made available for 1 week after the live event.

Dr Aric Sigman is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood and is an author of five books on PSHE-related topics including Getting Physical which won The Times Educational Supplement’s Information Book Award. He regularly advises Department of Health NHS, European Parliament and The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Early intervention is key. Take time to understand the signs and symptoms of low self-esteem and negative body image now so you are better equipped to help your child should problems arise. Feel free to share this information with friends and family so they too are better equipped to support the children and young people in their lives.

What is body image?

Body image is not how you look. Body image is how you think and feel about your body, your appearance, or your looks. It is our mental picture of ourselves, and we all have one. Some people have a positive body image, and others have a negative body image, and the latter can have a negative impact on many areas of our lives.

Is body dissatisfaction just a “girl thing”?

Absolutely not, but the difference is that where girls generally focus on weight loss, boys are more likely to be concerned about muscle mass and bulking up. A 2008 Ofsted study of 150,000 children found that by the age of 10, a third of girls and 22% of boys cited their bodies as being their main source of worry.

This worry is leading boys to over exercise, use protein shakes and take anabolic steroids to build muscle mass. Body dissatisfaction is driving these behaviours, but using steroids during adolescence can affect the brain’s limbic system – the part which controls mood – so whilst they might build bigger muscles which might help with the feelings attached to the body dissatisfaction, steroids can lead to drastic mood swings (Roid Rage), depression and paranoia. Steroid use can also cause skin problems like acne, premature hair loss, breast enlargement, shrinking of the testicles and erectile dysfunction – none of which are likely to make someone feel good.... The full blog, which covers body dimorphic disorder (BDD), the causes of body dissatisfaction and what we can do to change a negative body image, is available in The Wellbeing Hub .

CHRISTMAS FAIR NEWS—SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER Congratulations to Ophelia A, 8JU for creating the winning design for the front cover of our Christmas Fair programme.

A £10 voucher will be winging its way to you!

All girls throughout the school will be invited to wear their Christmas jumpers on the last day of the term. To help with this, and try to minimise the effect on the environment, FOST will now be collecting via collection boxes in both Prep and Senior reception, all unwanted or outgrown jumpers. Any Christmas jumpers collected will be for sale (from 12 November) for a small donation in the School Uniform shop.

UNIFORM SHOP Come and visit our newly jooshed revamped hut on Mondays & Fridays 8.30am-9am and the first Saturday of every month 10am-10.30am during term time. .

Register and watch Classlist (https://app.classlist.com/) to stay up to date with FOST communications regarding events and other details.

Follow us on FOST insta account: @fost_st_teresas_effingham

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

E-mail: equestrian@st-teresas.com Call: 01372 750257

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

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

We hope that you have all had a lovely half term break, and are looking forward to being back at school!

A reminder to our riders to bring jumpers and coats as the weather gets colder and wetter as we head towards winter.

Also, as the weather starts to turn, if we are unable to offer ridden training due to the weather or unforeseen circumstances, stable management or equitation theory training will be provided instead.

However, riders will be expected to arrive dressed to ride in all weathers with suitable outdoor clothing befitting the weather conditions.

Autumn Term 2021 Riding Dates Half Term – Monday 18th October to Sunday 31st October Lessons run from: Monday 1st November to Saturday 18th December

Christmas Pony Days We will be running Pony Mornings and Afternoons on the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd December, and the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th January.

Pony Mornings run from 9.30am to 12.30pm, and Afternoons run from 1pm to 4pm.

All bookings need to be made directly on the bookings system, except for those who pay by childcare vouchers. If you do pay by vouchers, please contact the office to make your booking.

Please note that we have restricted the sessions by ability level so not all the sessions will show as available on the system to book.

Dates are mostly full. Please contact the office if you wish to be added to the waitlist.

NSEA Competition Reports Over the first weekend of the half term, a team of three riders went out to compete at the NSEA Championships at Keysoe in the show jumping!

On Friday 22nd, was the warm up class at 80cm. Chloe B, Lulu S, Sofie S had their warm up rounds with Chole and Lulu finishing on four faults.

On Sat 23rd was the Championship class at 70cm. Chloe and Lulu finished on four faults each, and Sofie rode a clear round. Unfortunately they were not in the top 6 placings but they all rode brilliantly!

Well done girls!

This Week We are delighted this year to be supporting the Children in Distress Christmas Shoebox Appeal.

Children in Distress was born from a children’s hospice in the north of England that extended its charitable reach by supporting orphanages and terminally ill children in Romania and other Eastern European countries. (More details on the charity are available here).

As in previous years we are asked to decorate a shoebox - base and lid separately, and to fill the box with gifts and treats, either for a baby, a child (state the approximate age) or, for the first time this year, an elderly person.

Our aim is to bring joy to those babies, children and elderly people who, without our help, would not be able to celebrate Christmas.

We have a very tight turn around this year so that we can be sure that the boxes are delivered by Christmas. Please therefore send your boxes in to school by Monday, 15th November (and earlier if you can).

We will then ensure that they are delivered to the distribution centre.

Full details are available here of how to pack your box are available here.

Please do encourage your daughter to get actively involved in preparing and packing your shoebox. Thank you for your support!

Menu Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Main

Chicken Fajitas with Guacamole, Sour Cream & Salsa

Posh hot dogs – Locally sourced Cumberland Sausages in a Crusty Baguette

Chef’s Carvery – Herb Roasted Turkey with Yorkshire Pudding

Pepperoni Pizza Slice with Chef’s Salad

Breaded Cod Fillet / Cod Fishfingers

Vegetarian

Fresh Vegetable Fajitas

Quorn Vegetable Sausage in a Soft Roll

Tomato Pasta

Cheese & Tomato Pizza Slice

No-Meat Meat Balls in a Tomato Sauce

Eat Healthy Choice

Autumn Vegetable & Beef Ragout

Chargrilled Chicken Caesar Salad

Thai Coconut infused Pork with Green Vegetables & Wholemeal Rice

Cajun Chicken Breast Strips with Light Piri Piri Slaw & Chef’s Salad

Poached Salmon with Nut Free Pesto Pasta & Olive Salad

Sides

Vegetable Rice & Broccoli

Parmentier Potatoes & Carrots

Roast Potatoes, Sweetcorn & Peas

Mixed Vegetables

Jacket Wedges & Peas

Additional

Jacket Potato & Beans

Jacket Potato & Beans

Jacket Potato & Beans

Jacket Potato & Beans

Jacket Potato & Beans

Dessert

Chocolate Chip slice & Chocolate Sauce

Banana Cake with Custard

Victoria Sandwich Slice

Pain au Chocolat Bread & Butter Pudding with Custard

Strawberry Milkshake

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