8. Mary's School News Sheet. JULY 1916—17. The most kind welcome given to our first number last Summer has shown that the " News Sheet " supplies a real need, and we felt that in spite of all the economies'demanded of us in 1917 we must again issue one this year, when, owing to the restrictions on travelling, we are missing so much our opportunities of seeing the past members of the School. The " News Sheet" will show our friends that our activities this year have been many, and our expansion— necessitating the opening of S. Prisca's—a great delight to us all. In many ways we can feel that this has been a year of growth and new life to the School. But we have had one great loss in the departure of Miss Gutteridge, who after her many years of splendid work here left us at Easter to take a post in a Boys' School. What this means to us, all who have been with her here will know, and whether we think of her piano teaching, or of her singing classes, which have made our singing one of the chief features of the School, or of her work for the Guild, or of the countless other things which she has always found time to do for us, we know that we shall indeed be the poorer for her loss unless we make a most valiant effort to keep up the high standard she has set us. We wish her God-speed in the new work to which she has gone and hope that she may often find it possible to visit us.
The National Mission of Repentance and Hope. We took our share in the Mission held in Calne by the Eev. Austin Thompson, Vicar of S. Peter's, Baton Square, and on Nov. 15th, Miss Matthews took a party of elder girls and Confirmation Candidates to a great meeting held at Devizes at which the Rev. W. Temple and Prebendary Swayne spoke. It was a great disappointment to us that the Dean of Bristol was prevented, through illness, from coming to hold a special service in our School Chapel.