Prep Newsletter Friday

13th November 2015

Dear Parents and Friends,

We had a wonderful start to our week with a visit

by Rev. Farrar. He spoke to us about motivation

and set us all on the right track for another

fantastically busy week here in Prep.

On Monday evening our Netball team played St.

Helen’s, please see Katie’s excellent report.

On Wednesday our Year 5 & 6 girls joined the

Senior School for a very special and thoughtful

Remembrance Day assembly.

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feature in our newsletter next

Friday along with lots of photos

of all today’s events.

Next Monday we look forward

to our Lunchtime Concert, if

you are taking part please

remember to bring along your

music, CD accompaniment (if

required) and most importantly

your instrument!

Yesterday Upper Prep visited Wylott’s Theatre to watch “Romeo and

Juliet”. The girls and teachers all returned with exciting reports of the

visit which we will feature in full detail next Friday.

Today is a very special day, St Margaret’s Day, and particularly exciting

as we will be announcing our new House names, again, this will

Congratulations

Lower Prep Star of the Week

(last week)

Reception: Tara

Year 1: Isabella

Year 2: Isabella

Netball match by Katie, Sports Captain

On Monday our netball teams had matches against St. Helen’s. There

were two teams, the A and the B team. The A team drew 1-1 and the B

team lost 2-0 but played a lot better than the last game. We look forward

to playing more matches against other teams.

I have collected some opinions from some of the girls who played in the

netball match.

Suzie: “I think that was the best game we had played and we all knew

where to go and stayed together as a team.”

Roxanna: “We had lots of fun and it was quite exciting.”

Sienna: “We did lots of running, it was a fun match to play. We did a lot

better than last time.”

E-safety poster Year 5 &

6 winner: Marina, Year 6

E-safety poster Year 3 &

4 Winner: Iman, Year 4

Memory Sticks in the

Jar: Hannah , Year 6

(with a guess of 53

exactly!)

Mrs C Aisthorpe

Head of St. Margaret’s Preparatory School

November

16th 13:00-13:30 Upper Prep Informal Lunchtime Concert

23rd 16:15-17:15 No Monday Swimming Training

16:15-17:30 Years 3-6 Swimming Gala

December

10th 14:00-15:00 Lower Prep Nativity Play Performance, Senior School Hall

11th Year 2 visit to Kestrel Grove

09:00-09:30 Prep School Christingle Service

14TH Prep School Christmas Dinner

15th Lower Prep Pantomime Visit

16th Prep School Mufti Day

14:00 End of term reports available online

14:00 TERM ENDS

January

11th Spring Term commences

Dates

020 8416 4501

(08:00-13:30)

prepoffice@smbushey.com

Reception

This week we have made

some lovely firework

splatter paint artwork, a

group bonfire collage and

some 3D fireworks.

Year 1 have been

solving missing

number sums and

word problems

relating to

subtraction this

week. Some of

our budding

mathematicians

have even been

writing their own

subtraction word

problems. Well

done Year 1!

Year 1

Year 2

Numbers, numbers, numbers!

More than, less than, before, after, in between, halfway. . .

Year 2 have been thinking all about numbers this week!

Year 3

We made masks to be worn at the Capulet Ball. It was very

exciting to design them. We stuck interesting things on

them to make them really beautiful.

If our masks had been worn by Romeo, Lord and Lady

Capulet and Tybalt would certainly not have been able to

recognise him.

We put the masks on and Mrs Franklin was not able to

recognise us at all!

Year 4

Year 4 are studying Pop Art. We have started our

paintings and have a few more touches to add until we

have finished. Here are a couple that are almost complete:

Scarlet

Riana

Year 5

As part of our history project about the Victorians

Year 5 have been designing wallpaper based on the

designs by William Morris. The wallpaper will be

used to create a miniature room using a shoe box.

Here’s one of the designs so far.

Did you know that the Victorians originally used

arsenic in the making of wallpaper to create the vivid

colours? Unfortunately this lead to many illnesses

and deaths. Initially the manufacturers were reluctant

to admit that it was the wallpaper that was causing

people to become unwell.

Last Thursday, as part of their Chinese

studies, Mrs Wu organised for Year 6 to

participate in a Kung Fu workshop in

the senior school. Mr Kleber F.L. de

Souza is a national and international

champion of various martial arts

including Wushu, Chinese boxing and

Kung Fu. Although he himself is

Brazilian, he speaks fluent Mandarin

and embeds Chinese language in his

teaching.

Year 6

The girls were given a

demonstration of a variety

of traditional moves used

in “Kung Fu shan” as well

as being introduced to

several types of weapons

of Kung fu. They were then

invited to participate in the

moves themselves and

learned a number of set

pieces. Mr De Souza and

his assistants were very

impressed with the girls’

enthusiasm and their

ability to remember the

moves. The session

finished with a set piece

involving traditional

Chinese fans which was a

delight to watch.