From the Headmistress
Dear Parents
A very important letter from Mr Stringer this week about Sports Day. We will have a wonderful day if this weather lasts as long as we all follow "Mr Stringer's instructions below"!
Don't forget our sun policy! Slip on a League T shirt of the right colour provided by the school on the day, slap on a hat to wear when not competing, slop on lots of sun cream and bring spare cream with you and slurp lots of water and bring plentiful supplies!
Next week I have invited The Parents' Association to head up this newsletter, but in the meantime, a big thank you to them for their fabulous uniform sale that raised £250 for the swimming pool cover and promises to be a great idea for the future.
Mrs J M Burrett Sports Day
Dear Parents
As I am sure you are aware it is our Sports Day this Saturday. Pupils are expected to arrive in their sports kit (League t-shirt, black shorts, rugby or white socks, trainers or spikes) at the Senior School athletics track (behind the Lord Riche Hall) by 10.15 am, where they will register in their League.
All pupils from Year 3 to Year 8 are involved and expected to be there. The day will finish by 4.30 pm following presentations. Please can you provide your child/children
with a packed lunch as only full boarders will have lunch provided.
All pupils are the responsibility of their parents unless they are
competing and please may I ask all parents to remain outside of the track at all times. Like last year we will be supporting MacMillian Cancer Support and are asking pupils to bring in £1 in support - this is totally voluntary and the money should go to the Head of League.
I hope you all enjoy the day and I look forward to a day of healthy competition and mutual support - may the best League win!
Mr Stringer
World Class Tests
This week 17 of our Very Able Pupils (VAPS) in Years 5, 6, 7 and 8 have completed their World Class Test in problem solving. These tests are designed to stretch and challenge the most able pupils internationally.
Congratulations to Lara Peck and Hannah Barratt who were awarded a Distinction and to Samuel Barratt and Leo Jewell who gained a Merit.
This year we have a record number of pupils entering and we look forward to receiving their results later this term. We will be entering pupils for the next round of assessments in the autumn term.
Mrs Bury Sports News & Results
Riding - the team of Isobel Scott-Bowden, Jemima Upton, Hamish Upton and Ollie Stonham won the 2ft 3'' class at the Holmwood House Horse Show. Ollie was placed 4th as an individual and Jemima 5th out of 28 riders. Well done to you all !
Rounders v Haileybury
U13A Won 18 - 16, U13B Lost 14.5 - 18, U12A Won 16 - 13, U12B Won 16.5 - 13, U13/14D Won 5 - 2.5.
U9 Rounders Tournament
On a lovely sunny afternoon 8 teams competed with huge enthusiasm and no little skill in our U9 Rounders Tournament. A surprisingly high number of rounders was scored, some huge hits were made, dramatic catches taken, some speedy running witnessed and some promising fielding shown.
After more than 2 hours of rounders the following results emerged :
1st - Elm Green, 2nd - Fairstead, =3rd - FPS A & St Cedds, 5th - Dame Bradbury's, 6th FPS B, 7th - Widford Lodge and 8th - FKS. Well done to all participants and many thanks to the coaches and umpires.
Mrs Burrett
FPS U9 A Team
Tennis News
Congratulations to everyone who played in the Tennis Tournament for Preparatory Schools & Clubs last weekend. Although the weather was chilly and windy the pupils played with great enthusiasm. Many thanks to everyone who supported the day. Here are the results :
U11 Boys
1st - James Caddies & Tommy Smalley (Brentwood) & 2nd - Thomas Lucus-Roast & Finlay Denny (Brentwood). James Benbrook & Ollie Walker from the Preparatory School came 4th.
U11 Girls
1st - Zara Smalley & Katie McGarrigle (David Lloyd Tennis Centre), 2nd Lara Peck & Laura Winter.
Netball Success
Congratulations to Oliver Schwier who is a member of the Braintree Town Netball Team on being awarded the Umpires Award for her skill on court for the second year running.
Olivia will also participate in the All England Netball Association's Satellite Academy Trials on 17th July 2010. Good luck Olivia! Triathlon Success!
Cameron Cowie and Max Bailes competed in the New Hall Triathlon on Sunday. Both did extremely well. Cameron came 4th in Tri 1 and Max 2nd in Tri 2. Well done to you both!
Athletics News!
Hot off the press - Max Bailes has just smashed the U12 School javelin record with a throw of 25m 05cm. The intermediate javelin event on Sports Day will be very exciting! News from Courtauld House
Year 8 have begun their Citizenship Week by watching Slumdog Millionaire as an inspiration for their League projects which this year are: Cromwell - Genocide; Gaselee - Poverty; Grignon - Aids; Lord Riche - The Holocaust and Smythies - Amnesty International. To boost understanding Mr James Savage from Amnesty International is coming to talk to all of Year 8 about the very valuable work that they do this Friday.
The Leagues then began to plan their presentations. In addition they have been touring the Senior School library to help them next year as well as beginning Mr Finch's exciting inter-league sports challenge.
Even more exciting have been the first rehearsals for the Leavers' Show! All of Year 8 also spent Tuesday afternoon over at Felsted School participating in team building exercises run by Major Eke which seemed to involve a lot of running around and wearing of camouflage cream! All in all it has been a busy week and there is plenty more to come next week.
Mr Stringer
Leadership Afternoon - by Stefan Warmer
On Friday 18th June Year 7 participated in the Leadership Challenge Afternoon. This was designed to build on teamwork and help to develop some of the leadership in the year group. We were divided into leagues and asked to do a number of challenges. This included an obstacle course, bridge building and other initiative tests. We also had to look after and care for an egg character for the afternoon. Only 2 leagues broke their egg. Overall Lord Riche won the competition although we all learned a lot about ourselves and each other. Learning Support
The Year 8 transfer meeting for Learning Support Pupils and Parents on the 29 June at 6.00pm has been cancelled. Alternatively the Support for Learning Department in Felsted Senior School are available for individual appointments and will be contacting you directly.
Mrs Burgess The Felsted Ball
We are pleased to announce that there has been a huge response to the joint School Ball on 25 September and numbers are now in excess of 350! We are all looking forward to this highly prestigious event. If you haven’t booked tickets and still wish to, contact Karen Lilley before the end of term (7 July), kal@felstedprep.org as there are only a few places left! |
Headmistress' Commendations
Well done to Monty Jenkins, Araminta Latham, Elliott Smith, Ethan Weatherstone and Francesca Bennett who all received a Headmistress' Commendation for their Greek myths. Also to Alex Dalman for his Evacuation essay in History.
Congratulations to George Watkinson and Tom Cherry who got into Haileybury and Harrow respectively and made their mark very pleasingly indeed.
The following Year 8 pupils were also rewarded this week for their performances in the Felsted Transfer Examinations:
Overall Performance : Oliver Williams, Sam Mitchell, Edmund Lucas, Jasmine Moore, Angus Taylor, Roshan Soomro and Sebi Anderson.
Individual subjects were also celebrated as follows :
Maths & Biology - Dominic Latham, Chemistry - Callum Remmington, English - Edward Reid, History - Oliver Kiersnowski, Geography - Pranjal Roy and Spanish - Joshua Abbas.
Maths Challenge - well done to Thomas Brown, Jamie Smart and Tom Lane-Feldman who were successful in the recent Maths Challenge.
Speech Day - Rounders
All the mothers of Year 8 girls, regardless of which team their daughter represents, are invited to play rounders following Prize-Giving on Speech Day. If you would like to play then please inform Mrs Lee direct by email (cal@felstedprep.org). Stewart House News
Stewart House pupils are spending this week in Africa! The children have learned about the continent, a number of African countries and African animals thanks to some fascinating talks from visiting speakers. One of our Gap students, Brett France, came to talk about his native South Africa and had the children spellbound. Mrs Stringer gave an interesting talk about aspects of life in Africa, and OF Cecilia West shared her experiences of working on a game reserve with the children, which included playing football with an elephant!
We have been privileged to welcome a group from Portsmouth University who came on Wednesday afternoon to sing, play and dance to the children, who took the opportunity to join in enthusiastically! The children were also introduced to the ‘talking drum’, and were able to try it out after learning some simple songs and dances. We are extremely grateful to Mr Olwabusola and Dr Adeegbe for arranging these visits, which were inspiring and exciting for all concerned.
Later this week we shall be working on African textiles with a visiting specialist, and learning some Swahili. Rosamund West (another West daughter and OF!) will share her experience of living and teaching in Tanzania. In class the children have been studying the map of Africa, learning about animals and painting masks.
We are supporting the charity ‘Send a Cow’ this week and will raise money through a cake stall on Friday. This will be managed by the Year Two Young Leaders, and we would be very grateful for your support in contributing cakes or biscuits, which should be brought to school on Friday morning. The sale will be held at 3.30pm on Friday. We are also planning to make some ‘African footballs’ from plastic bags, as is the practice in poorer parts of the continent, and to hold a Stewart House version of the World Cup. Please would you send your child to school with £1.00 on Friday as a ‘fee’ for taking part.
We welcomed our new pupils to school on Wednesday with our Induction Morning. The morning passed very peacefully, with initial tears quickly overcome, and the children enjoyed their first taste of school life. We look forward to becoming better acquainted with them and their families and building strong relationships with them in the coming years.
We look forward to seeing parents at the Stewart House swimming gala next Monday, at 1.30pm in the outdoor pool beside the Roed Sports Hall. Please remember to apply sun protection to your child in the morning, and ensure that your child has his/her sunhat in school. Children should have the regulation black swimming kit and their gold swimming hats.
Mrs Jane West
League Captains Outing
On the 21 June 2010 the League Captains and Boarding Captains all went out on an outing to go bowling and then have dinner. We arrived at Freeport to first begin our bowling. The bowling was incredibly enjoyable and a good laugh with our friends and teachers. We went to Prezzo for our dinner. There we talked to the teachers and fellow captains whilst having dinner. Each of the leaving League and Boarding Captains made a short speech, and so did Mrs Burrett to thank the captains, and George Botwright to thank the teachers. It was overall a very good evening and I would like to thank Mrs Burrett, Mr Searle, Mr Fincher and Mr Stringer for taking us.
Oliver Williams
Cubs get fit !
This week the Cubs gained their Athlete Badge with a series of athletic tasks including sprint running, shuttle runs, jumping & throwing. Many thanks to Mr Finch who gave up his time to organise this for the Cubs.
Mrs Lilley Farm Visit for Beavers
We are finishing the year with a "whole load of fun". Boydells Dairy Farm was a great afternoon out. The Beavers had a super time stroking, feeding, holding, and milking. Wow! What fun we had!
Mrs Green Three Counties Youth Ballet
We have been approached to publicise a new dance academy for this area. Click here for more information on the Three Counties Youth Ballet. |
