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Junior Ski Club

Please come and join the Surbiton High School Junior Ski Club. The programme will deliver the best opportunities for your child to become a very proficient skier. Whether they want to improve their technique ready for a family holiday, or want to develop into a ski racer, this club provides a platform to cover it all. Due to the nature of the sport and to ensure quality of coaching and maximisation of progress, there are limited places and the club runs throughout the whole year. This means that we are not always able to take on newcomers mid-way through the year. We do run learn to ski courses for those who haven’t skied before in preparation for joining the club the following year.

Additional Information:

We expect pupils to be able to confidently snowplough, stop and do link turns as well as being able to use the button lift unaided.

Club Junior Ski Club Where Sandown When Competitive Squad, Friday 6.00pm-7.00pm Intermediate/Advanced Group, Friday 5.00pm-6.00pm Intermediate Group, Friday 4.00pm-5.00pm Who Years 2-6 Staff Miss Archbold Places Limited Term All Year Cost There is an annual membership fee

Football Club

This session provides the opportunity for girls in Years 3 and 4 to be introduced, in a friendly, supportive environment, to the sport of football. The focus of the club is ensuring that the pupils who participate enjoy the game, irrespective of their ability, and are given the chance to develop their coordination and basic skills at their own pace through the playing of a wide range of fun, football-related games. This club is the perfect way to help with increasing the girls’ confidence that football can be a sport for them to participate in, both inside and outside the school environment.

Club Football Where Hinchley Wood When Wednesday 4.00pm-5.00pm Who Years 5-6 Autumn Years 3-4 Spring Staff PE Team Places 60

Tennis CLUB

The club is a great way for players to develop core skills around movement and coordination; vital for the girls’ athletic development. Alongside this, the girls will be taught all the basic tennis shots, progressing to rallying and playing mini matches against coaches and other players.

Club Tennis Where Hinchley Wood When 3.45pm-5.20pm Who Years 3-4 Monday Years 5-6 Tuesday Term Summer Staff PE Team Places 60

Due to current circumstances, residentials trips are subject to change. Below are the residentials that the girls have been on in previous years. Residential Trips

We believe that residential trips away form a vital part of the girls’ personal and social development. Girls have the opportunity to build on their independence and self-confidence, strengthen friendships and take on challenges that they may have once thought beyond them.

In Year 3, the girls go away for a one-night trip to Hindleap Warren (approximately £135). In Year 4, they go further afield for a twonight trip to Hooke Court in Dorset (approximately £225). Year 5 girls also go to Dorset, but for three nights in the coastal town of Swanage (approximately £335). In the Summer Term, they visit the UK Sailing Academy (UKSA) in Cowes, Isle of Wight. The girls will take part in a variety of watersports, including dinghy sailing, keelboating, stand up paddleboarding, windsurfing and kayaking (approximately £510). All the girls come back from each trip with treasured memories that can last a lifetime!

House System

The House system is an important part of school life. Each of the girls belong to one of three Houses – Arundel, Balmoral or Caernarvon. There are a number of competitions across the year in which the girls compete against each other while representing their House. These are hotly contested and vary each term, but recent battles have included a selection of sporting competitions, as well as our joint Prep annual singing competition. Every year usually culminates in our Sports Day and 2021 was no exception with each bubbled year group competing together to raise points for their House.

Each House is led by a teacher and two House Captains. The Year 6 girls are given the opportunity to put themselves forward as the most eligible candidates to lead their House to victory. Voting takes place each September and the elected captains are responsible for leading their House for the rest of the year. Throughout each term, all the girls in the School are keen to receive House points that go towards the weekly totals. At Surbiton High Girls’ Preparatory School, we actively encourage and support girls to participate in a range of fundraising activities. Numerous fundraising events are held and celebrated throughout the year, reinforcing the school’s motto, ‘May Love Always Lead Us,’ and supporting the ethos to serve and respect others.

At the start of the academic year, all girls are given the opportunity to nominate a charity for the School to support over the course of a term. They are required to give a short presentation to the Charity Committee, detailing the reasons why the charity is important to them and why we should support them. They also outline their ideas for fundraising events. Six to eight of these charities are shortlisted and are then presented to the whole School, who then have the unenviable task of voting for the two pupilchosen charities that will be supported over the coming year. In addition, a few years ago, our Year 6 leadership team were instrumental in developing a relationship with a local homeless charity called SPEAR, whom we support year on year, bringing the total number of charities supported each year to three.

We invite a representative from the charities to present an assembly to the School in order to broaden the girls’ knowledge of the importance of the charity.

The girls have displayed kindness, understanding and generosity through our charity events this year. The Charity Committee have been very creative and came up with Dress up as a Teacher Day, Surbiton’s Greatest Dancer, The Christmas Shoeboxes for SPEAR and our very own Charity Cookbook. We continue, as a community, to build awareness of why we support our charities and how we can contribute to the wider community. Charities

The Pupil Leadership Team

Every September, a Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and Secretary are elected from Year 6. These three girls are joined by a representative from each class (from Year 1 upwards) who are elected by their class at the start of the year. The Pupil Leadership Team (PLT) meet regularly with the Deputy Head to discuss their forms, any concerns they may have, and their suggestions to improve school life. In Key Stage 2, the representatives use their iPads, and in Key Stage 1, a suggestion book, for members to record their ideas for improving the School, which are discussed each week. Then, each term, the Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary ensure any concerns raised are being addressed and that any projects are being successfully led.

Charity Committee

At the heart of our school’s ethos is the importance of teaching our girls the importance of doing good deeds for others, using love and citizenship as our guiding forces. Therefore, we have a separate Charity Committee to ensure that our charitable work is focused and genuinely worthwhile. Not only does the Committee play an instrumental role in shortlisting the chosen charities for the forthcoming year, but they then meet regularly to organise the various charity events that the School puts on. Charity Committee members are vital to the successful fundraising that we, as a School, have done and continue to achieve for our local and wider community.

Club Pupil Leadership Team When Thursday 8.00am-8.20am Where Science Room Staff Mr D Williams

Form Captains

Every form also nominates girls to be chosen as Form Captains. Their role is to support and assist their teachers and peers within the classroom. They are also given control of a small budget, which they are encouraged to spend on improving their Form Room. Girls are encouraged to ‘apply’ for these positions and to consider what qualities they have that are suitable for the role.

Art Enrichment

This club is by invitation only in order to help pupils who are intending to put themselves forward for the Senior School Art Scholarship. Club Art Enrichment Who Year 5 Summer Term Year 6 Autumn Term Where Senior School Art Room When Thursday 4.00pm-5.00pm Staff Senior School Art Staff Places By Invitation

French Board Games

Club French Board Games When Wednesday lunchtime Where Science Room Who Year 6 Places 16 Staff Mrs Pegnall

Music Enrichment

Commitment is expected throughout the term and will help prepare pupils for the Senior School Music Scholarship auditions.

Club Music Enrichment

Where Music Room

When Monday 7.45am-8.15am

Who Year 6 by Invitation

Staff Mr Wray and Mrs Baldwin

Places 10

Term Autumn

Motor Skills

Club Motor Skills When Thursday 3.15pm-4.15pm Where Year 1 Classroom Staff Mrs Penny and Mrs Farr

English Enrichment Homework Club

Club English Enrichment Where Room 105 Main Senior School Building When Thursday 4.05pm-5.05pm Who Year 6 Autumn Term Year 5 Spring and Summer Terms Staff Miss Fraser and Miss Goligher Places Unlimited

Funky Fingers

Girls are invited to develop their fine motor skills.

Club Funky Fingers Where Key Stage 1 Intervention Room When Wednesday lunchtime Who Years 1-2 Staff Ms Williams Places 8, by Invitation Term All Year Club Homework Club Where Key Stage 2 Intervention Room When Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday lunchtime Who Years 3-6 Staff Mrs Orlovac and Mrs George Term All Year

Homework Club is a drop-in club that will run every lunchtime in a classroom. No need to book your daughter in; girls are encouraged to attend to get ahead on their homework.

PE Enrichment

Club PE Enrichment Where Runcie Hall When Monday lunchtime Who Year 6 by Invitation Staff Miss Blackwood

During the holiday periods, the gymnastics coaching staff run a Gym Club. The sessions are divided into two age groups: Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, which will cater for all ages and abilities. We will work on the basics of movement and balance in Key Stag 1 and then move on to more advanced jumps, rolls and sequences in Key Stage 2. We will also introduce some pair and group work for both age groups, as well as some fun gymnastic-based games as part of the warm-up and cool-down.

For more information, please contact Mr Adam Buckingham via email at adam.buckingham@surbitonhigh.com.

How do I enrol my daughter in a club?

You will have received this Co-curricular Booklet, via MIS, outlining further information about the clubs that we are offering for 2021-2022. All bookings for clubs are made on our online booking portal, SOCS (login details are sent to you as part of your Friday Communications). Following this sign-up, you will be able to log in to see which clubs your daughter has been allocated for the Autumn Term 2021. For the Spring and Summer Terms, registration details will be sent to you soon after the half term in October and February, respectively. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs Penny and Mrs Farr via email at prepclubs@ surbitonhigh.com.

Breakfast and After School Club

The clubs take place in the Dining Hall and classrooms of the Surbiton Assembly Rooms and are supervised by qualified staff with a ratio of one staff member to eight pupils.

The clubs take place each day during term time and provide a safe, happy environment for your child. The Breakfast Club is available to all pupils from 7.30am until the start of your child’s school day. A nutritious breakfast is available until 8.15am. This includes a choice of porridge, cereal, toast, yoghurt and fruit juice. Pupils are escorted to their School for the start of their school day. The After School Club is available from the end of your child’s school day until 6.00pm. A healthy snack is offered, including freshly made sandwiches, fruit and vegetables and a hot option of beans on toast. There is a homework and study area and, at the end of the afternoon, staff-supervised films and educational games. Both clubs offer a variety of activities, such as art and craft, construction kits, role play, board games and sport. If you are interested in using the clubs, please contact our Breakfast and After School Club Team via email at afterschoolclub@surbitonhigh.com.

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