Prep for the Week Issue 1818

Prep for The Week Issue Number 1818 5 February 2016 1

Issue Number 1818 – 5 February 2016

Prep for the Week

In this week’s issue… Headmaster's Blog and Commendations Design and Technology Projects Kingfishers, Lower and Upper School News Girls' and Boys' Sports Bakery Club Calendar and Notices

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This week The Prep hosted a Maths Challenge

for pupils in Year 4, with over 30 schools

taking part. Pupils worked in pairs to solve a

variety of Maths challenges. Five of our Year

4 mathematicians competed, with one of our

pairs winning first place! This is a great credit to

our school and shows another way in which we

are stretching our able mathematicians.


Dear Parents

In my last assembly, I was privileged to award a Headmaster’s Commendation to Izzy Sneyd for “a small but significant act of kindness”. In the assembly prior to that, I had watched as she had realised another child did not have a hymn book, and quickly offered hers and shared it. This was on the same day that we had listened to “Heroes” by David Bowie, because we can all be heroes! How? Simply by remembering that it is the small, everyday acts of kindness and concern which impact most significantly on the well being of others. Yes, the music of Bowie and Wake up to Wogan did act as the soundtrack to the lives of many and the contribution of these two talented artists should be celebrated and remembered. But today, and every day, it is the behaviours of the ordinary man, woman, boy and girl which are more likely to send you to sleep happy and contented. How pleasing is it when a pedestrian thanks a driver at a zebra crossing? What is better than a transaction completed in a shop in a mutually respectful and cheerful manner? What about the look between two like minded adults when one opens the door for the other and is thanked in a genuine manner? How reassuring must it

Headmaster's Blog

These fantastic creations are from the Year 8 Design Technology MP3 Amp project. Pupils produced this amp and boom box, then gave it a bespoke exterior decoration.

Check out these funky colours

Tee off to some tunes! Busy bees will love this creation

be to know that your child is surrounded by others who, on the whole, are fully aware of the consequences of their actions on the happiness and fulfillment of others? The Prep is not perfect because we all, I especially, have our faults. But the ambition will always be there to create an atmosphere of care, conern and mutual respect. My brief words to those who attended last week’s extremely successful swimming gala could not express the admiration for the attitudes of your children as recognised by the inspection team. Of all the positive feedback that we received, this was, without doubt in my mind, the most pleasing and re-assuring.

Mr Jon Whybrow


Pavneet Harrar for a fantastic presentation that she gave to the

Year 3 pupils about Sikh naming ceremonies

Archie Wills, Ciaran Portch and Ed Critchleyfor clearing up one of the classrooms after the

Year 4 Viking Day, without being asked to do so

Thomas Peterken for working incredibly hard to find interesting

Viking facts and present this so well at the Year 4 Viking Day

Charles Mills, Beatriz Berrow and Jacob Sneyd for writing very clever Kennings this week in the

Year 4 poetry topic

Charles Hellens for outstanding independent work in English

Izzy England and Izzy Reid for carrying and organising Year 3 and Year 4

pupils' sports bags and water bottles etc. as they’d come back to Chapel from Cross Country - both

have been great role models for the younger girls and boys in school

Hermione Lloyd-Horton, Rebecca Cook and Magdalina Afanaseva

for proactively organising their usual Chapel duties in Mr Woodbridge's absence, including

entries and exits, acting sensibly and responsibly to get their jobs done as Chapel Monitors

Denis Solovyev for excellent additional History research into King

John and Napoleon Bonaparte

Poppy Treasure for excellent additional History research into prevention of the Black Death and the Potato

Famine

Caitlin Brister for outstanding revision of Year 7 and 8 History

Topics

Molly Krauer and Rory Maddinson for rigorous additional Townsend-Warner History

Prize preparation

Headmaster's CommendationsAlice Bradley, Isobelle Mace, Helaina Lenden

and Lily Brownfor proactively helping and redirecting the Head Inspector, who had found herself in the wrong

classroom for an observation

Laura Bingham for her superb written Geography prep on how

coastlines change

Thea Peterken for outstanding independent Geography research

on the recent Climate Summit in Paris

Alex McCombie for consistently working to a very high standard

and completing a fantastic prep about The Butterfly Lion

Freddie Youngfor completing a fantastic prep about The Butterfly

Lion

Matthew Albutt, Minnette Tombleson, Ross Broughton-Johnson, Sasha Kemp, Sammy

Baines, Annie Carter, Georgia Turner, Maria Cowing, Evie Cook and Ollie Callon Hine

for designing excellent cell models in Biology

Sydney Fairs, Autumn Conner, Ethan Feinsen, Noah Campbell Black, Eva Colbourne, Emily Morton, Jude Richardson and Molly Ropner for an informative and well-researched paper

about France

George Gardner, Felix Tacey, Jude Bridge, Caitlin Brister, Emerson Kauffmann and Christian

Hindmarchfor commitment and perserverance to improving

their Maths

Phoebe Channing, Georgina Hamer, Olivia Piggott, Honor Hardie, Matthew Albutt, Nathan

Chancellor, Josie Grounds, Sofia Capelastegui and Isabelle Mills

for being so polite and helpful towards visitors to the Year 4 Maths Challenge

Ben Urbanovskyfor outstanding creativity and commitment to

creating an image in Lino printing


Kingfishers

Digging up bones in our excavation site!

Measuring and inspecting the fossils...

How to measure a dinosaur footprint

The children in the Cottage have been loving the topic this term: Dinosaurs.

Some of the many activities have included digging up bones in our outdoor excavation site, as well as inspecting, drawing and measuring them. The boys and girls used their feet to measure a giant dinosaur footprint they found on the floor - which Dinosaur do you think it might have come from?

Playing in the dinosaur swamp has also been very popular, and the children have all made their own dinosaur hats to wear around school.

The children in Year 1 performed their very own Jungle themed assembly! They thought of their own words and showed off their dancing and acting skills to great delight. We had pretty, dancing flamingos, quick step tigers, break dancing frogs, cheeky monkeys, colourful parrots and stomping elephants. The tour guides led us through the Jungle safely, with lots of laughs along the way! Well done Year 1.


Lower School On Wednesday morning, Year 3 visited Cheltenham Town Hall to watch the Music for Youth Prom. This showcase of local talent from in and around Gloucestershire attracted many schools from around the area. Year 3 enjoyed their front row seats in a packed Town Hall!

The performance began with the Greater Gwent Percussion ensemble, performing a variety of rhythms using step ladders. Their performance seemed to go down a treat! This was followed by vocal acts including The Arias, performing an Ed Sheeran number, and Wydean Gospel Choir. Their performances were received with whoops and cheers. Next to perform were the Flash Mob Ninjas on their trombones. They performed a range of jazz pieces including a popular favourite, Feelin’ Good. Finally, the percussion ensemble rounded the performance off with another piece they had composed and arranged themselves.

The children particularly enjoyed being able to take part in the concert. They were taught the bubble gum warm-up as well as a tricky rhythm which everyone performed as part of a round. Overall, it was a wonderful experience for both pupils and staff. We even recognised an ex-Cheltenham College pupil on the organising team for the event. Here's what some of our Year 3s thought:

‘I liked the Gwent percussion because they used ladders instead of instruments.’ - Andrew

'I really liked the bubble gum warm up because it was funny.’ - Thomas

Viking Day

Last week, the children in Year 4 recreated their own Viking village based upon all they have learnt so far this term. All of the time spent researching facts about the Vicious Vikings came in very handy!

Using craft materials, pupils built 3D houses with wattle and daub features (a building technique the Vikings used to use) and they thatched the roofs with hay. To protect the village from attack, the children made fences out of lollypop sticks.

In the afternoon, the children even made their own Viking people for the village! The figures wore tunics and belts made by the pupils, just as the Vikings would have worn.


Pro Corda Chamber Music Festival

Our string trio, Thea Peterken, Anya James and Violet Bailey, excelled this week when they performed in Coventry as part of the Pro Corda Chamber Music Festival. They performed two pieces in the preliminary rounds: Ostrich Waltz and Tempo di Minuetto.

The adjudicator provided the trio with a few handy tips about how to perfect the piece. Overall, she was very complimentary and looked forward to hearing our trio again. This was excellent preparation for their upcoming performance in London next week, as part of the Cheltenham College 175th Showcase Concert at Cadogan Hall. Well done girls!

Upper School

Letters from Year 7 & 8Being a guide for the Kingfishers Experience, Pre-Prep Open Morning

"Throughout the tour I enjoyed the calm and friendly attitude from both the visitors and my fellow tour guides. It was a pleasant morning; I was able to revisit past experiences in Kingfishers and tell our visitors how fun Kingfishers really is!

The parents I hosted had previously been to Cheltenham College Prep - I loved this! They informed me about the old school and I could tell them how it had changed."

The Headmaster's Assembly

"There are many types of strengths: physical, emotional, and the strength to do what is right. Sometimes it is hard to do what is right as there are multiple temptations. The strength to do what is right, in a way, is harder to keep up than push ups!

At the end of the day, it may be more important to acquire the strength of discipline rather than of core muscles. Discipline, when not kept, can have serious consequences."

All will be welcome to The Prep’s first LAMDA review in Lake House at 17:00

on Thursday 11 February.

This will be a selection of short, entertaining performances by twelve Middle and Upper School pupils who are taking their drama exams at the

end of term. There will be actors, lights, costumes and half an hour of fun!


Pupils at Bakery Club have been very busy since the start of Spring term. We have made pizza pin wheels, a delicious savoury dish with ham and cheese. This required making a dough, rolling it out, sprinkling on the ingredients, rolling it up into a long sausage and then slicing and baking it. The results were impressive!

Over the last two weeks we have been baking sweet treats: chocolate slice and rainbow cookies. Both turned out very well, with pupils asking for the recipes to try out again at home! The biscuit recipe required the yolk of an egg to be separated from the white – quite a tricky challenge to achieve. They all managed it very well and we only lost a couple of eggs.

The pupils are learning and applying many skills including measuring, maths skills, co-operation, following instructions, teamwork, patience, listening, measuring, tidying up and, of course, baking skills! The pupils are all a pleasure to work with and are a lovely group who are very supportive of each other.

Bakery Club

House Baking - February Half TermShow us how grate you are in the kitchen with an eggsellent creation. Will your dough rise to the challenge?


Girls' Sports

Girls' Netball ResultsTEAM OPPOSITION DATE SCORE RESULTU13 A (1st VII) Prior Park Tournament Wed 3 Feb 2nd PlaceU13 B St Hugh’s Wed 3 Feb 14 – 5 WONU13 C St Hugh’s Wed 3 Feb 6 – 6 DREWU12 A St Hugh’s Tournament Wed 3 Feb 5th PlaceU12 B St Hugh’s Tournament Wed 3 Feb 6th PlaceU11 A St Hugh’s Wed 3 Feb 5 – 8 LOSTU11 B St Hugh’s Wed 3 Feb 9 – 7 WONU10 A Richard Pate Wed 3 Feb 9 – 2 WONU10 B Richard Pate Wed 3 Feb 0 – 6 LOSTU9 A Richard Pate Wed 3 Feb 14 – 2 WONU9 B Richard Pate Wed 3 Feb 0 – 0 DREWU8 A Dean Close Wed 3 Feb 5 – 2 WONU8 B Dean Close Wed 3 Feb 0 – 5 LOST

Prior Park 1st VII TournamentThe Prep enjoyed a confident and assured performance by the Under 13 A team. The girls started the tournament with a convincing win over Westonbirt. The ball flowed well in the middle and the shooters moved really well in to the D. They were put under more pressure against Prior Park, but upped their game and defended brilliantly. The toughest match in the group was definitely against Pinewood, and the centre pass was converted into a goal each time. However, some brilliant interceptions by The Prep's defence meant that we were able to move the ball quickly up to our attackers and some confident shooting meant we pulled one ahead. Pinewood were a strong team, quickly pulling one back; the final score was 5-5. Through to the semi-finals, the girls played Cheam School. It was a superb match with the girls giving 110% in both attack and defence! A real team effort secured a win and The Prep went through to the final! The girls started strong and were 1- 0 up in the first two minutes. Tiredness eventually slowed them down and they just couldn't keep up with the very strong opposing team. The girls gave so much effort and did us proud. They should be extremely pleased with their efforts and the huge progress they have made.

Team of the Week – U9 AThe girls displayed not only excellent elements of netball during this game, but also brilliant levels of sportsmanship and teamwork. They went into an early lead during the first quarter with the girls in the centre third demonstrating strong and accurate passing. During the second and third quarters, with continual rotation of our shooters, they managed to score more and more goals. The accuracy of The Prep's shooters was excellent, as was our strong defence at the back, which meant that each time Richard Pate's did manage to reach their goal third the ball was turned over. By the fourth quarter, the girls continued to fight for each ball and pass to each other having created space first. A fantastic win girls, thoroughly deserved by each member of the team.

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Boys' Sports

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Team of the Week - U 10 A

Having hosted a festival where we perhaps did not do ourselves justice last week, the boys were keen to make amends against Clifton. The opening exchanges saw us enjoy much of the possession but we were caught in possession too often and when we did pass, we failed to use the full width of the pitch to open up space. That said, our defence was solid and our goalkeeper was largely untroubled for the duration of the half. During the interval, we agreed that we needed to show greater urgency in all facets of the game. It was good to see that this advice was acted upon and we denied our visitors both time and space in the second half. When we were in possession, we started to play a faster game and enjoyed particular success moving the ball down the right flank and it was from here that the first goal came.

Frustratingly, Clifton immediately drew level when we failed to clear the ball from the restart. The team stuck to their “pass and move” philosophy and gaps in their opposition defence began to appear. Forcing a series of short corners, we eventually scored a second, well-worked goal to make the game safe. Ultimately, the boys played with tenacity and intelligence and I hope that we will employ these qualities from the outset in our future matches.

Boys' Hockey ResultsTEAM OPPONENT RESULT SCORE1st VII Dean Close Lost 0-92nd VII Dean Close Lost 0-93rd VII Dean Close Lost 0-94th VII Dean Close Won 3-05th VII Dean Close Lost 0-96th VII Dean Close Won 1-0U11 A Clifton College Lost 2-4U11 B Clifton College Lost 1-4U11 C Clifton College Lost 1-5U10 A Clifton College Won 2-1U10 B Clifton College Drew 1-1U10 C Clifton College Won 2-0U9 A Clifton College Lost 1-2U9 B Clifton College Won 10-0U9 C Clifton College Won 2-1


Cross Country and SwimmingGirls' Cross Country Relays at Warwick School

On Friday, some of our budding U9, U10 and U11 girls' Cross Country runners had the chance to participate in an unusual event: a Cross Country Team Relay. We travelled to Warwick Preparatory School who had invited us, along with a number of other schools against whom we rarely compete: Spratton Prep, Harbury, Croft Prep, Manor Prep and Crackley Prep. It was a bitter, windy day - perfect for Cross Country!

After much tactical discussion over who should run in what order, all three teams gave it their all and really pushed themselves hard for their team mates. The U11’s came 6th, the U9’s came 4th and the U10’s ran superbly to come 2nd against some very impressive running from Manor Prep.

It was an enjoyable day and staff were mightily impressed with the girls' grit and determination in their races - well done!

House Cross Country RelaysEach House had selected one boy and one girl from each year group to take part in the cross country relays this week. The race required one lap of the course per person before handing on to the next runner. For the first year ever, we added a tactical element and instead of running in year order, in Middle and Upper School the Houses decided their running order. This made for a very unpredictable and exciting finish! The final results were made of the individual boys' and girls' races' combined totals.

1st – PERSIA (18 pts)ATHENS, ROME, SPARTA, TROY (all tied on 13 pts)6th – CORINTH (8 pts)

House Swimming GalaLast Saturday's House Swimming Gala was a huge success. Thank you so much to all of the parents who supported the event and added to the atmosphere (and the noise) on the day. The children really felt a part of their House and the excitement of that final full house relay race is something that the organising staff will remember for a long time.

1st – ATHENS (330 pts) 2nd – PERSIA (321 pts) 3rd – ROME (317 pts)

4th – CORINTH (296 pts) 5th – SPARTA (265 pts) 6th – TROY (232 pts)


On Tuesday 26 January, Mr Baird took an assembly about Rempstone Adventure Camp. Rempstone is a camp that Mr and Mrs Baird both attended when they were at prep school and continue to volunteer at every summer.

The camp is an Adventure Holiday for boys and girls in Years 6 to 11. It takes place during August, lasting for 10 days. As well as a fun-filled programme of activities, games and visits, the camp encourages Christian values.

All the information you need about the camp should be either in the leaflets handed out on Tuesday, or found on the website (www.rempstoneadventurecamp.org.uk), but please do email ([email protected]) if you have any further questions.


CalendarSunday, 7 February 201610:30 Boarders' Trip to Premiership Rugby London Irish v Worcester (Full and Regular Flexi-Boarders Only)

Monday, 8 February 2016, Week 6, 8 - 14 February16:30 Parents' Evening for parents of children in Lower School

Tuesday, 9 February 201610:30 Pancake Races14:00 Departure for Severnside Cross Country (Wycliffe): Years 6-8. Start 15:00. Pick up 17:4516:30 Parents' Evening for parents of children in Lower School19:30 Cheltenham College 175th Showcase Concert (Cadogan Hall, London)

Wednesday, 10 February 201600:00 Lower School English Enrichment Day12:45 Departure for Football v St Hugh’s (A): U11A IX, U11B IX, U11C IX. Start 14:30. Pick up 17:3012:45 Departure for Hockey v Clifton (A): 1st VII, 2nd VII. Start 14:30. Pick up 17:0013:45 Departure for Netball v Berkhampstead (A): U9A, U9B, U8A, U8B. Start 14:30. Pick up 16:1514:30 Departure for Netball v RGS Worcester (A): 1st VII, 2nd VII, 3rd VII, 4th VII, 5th VII, 6th VII. Start 16:00. Pick up 18:0014:30 Netball v Berkhampstead (H): U10A, U10B, U11A, U11B. Pick up 16:1514:30 Football v St Hugh’s (H): U10A VI, U10B VI, U10C VI. Pick up 16:1514:30 Hockey v Clifton (H): 3rd VII, 4th VII, 5th VII and 6th VII. Pick up 16:1515:30 Hockey v Clifton (H): U9A VII, U9B VII, U9C VII. Pick up 17:00 Cancelled

Thursday, 11 February 201607:30 Departure for IAPS Hockey at Repton (A): 1st VII. Start 09:30. Pick up dependent on progress - Changed to Friday 12 Feb09:15 Reception Assembly (Assembly Hall)14:00 Selected musicians perform at Gloucester Road Primary School16:45 Swimming Gala v St Edward's (H): Years 3-6. Pick up 18:1517:00 LAMDA informal review (Lake House)

Friday, 12 February 2016 Half Term begins: Boarders can depart, timings by prior arrangement House Baking launch07:30 Departure for IAPS Hockey at Repton (A): 1st VII. Start 09:30. Pick up dependent on progress13:30 Cheltenham Prep Local Schools Mixed U11 Netball Festival (H): Pick up 16:1514:15 Chapel (parents welcome)15:30 Half Term begins for children in Kingfishers: no after school care, activities or tea16:00 Half Term begins for children in Lower School: no after school care, activities or tea16:15 Half Term begins for children in Middle and Upper School: no after school care, activities or tea

All changes and additions to the School Calendar appear in pink.


Parents' Netball Training

with CC Foxes

now taking place at Cheltenham College

Sports Hall, every Friday during term time at 09.50

Uniform Shop

Current term time opening hours are:

Wednesdays 13.30 to 16.00Fridays 13.00 to 15.00

Jasper Penny 5

Ted Mann 7

Zhangir Aldongar 8

Ed Critchley 9

Ollie White 10

Zak O'Sullivan 11

Christian Hindmarch 12

Happy Birthday to the following pupils this week!

NOTICES

These terrifying Dinosaurs roamed the school this week, roaring at anyone who

passed them!Staff and pupils were relieved to hear that it was just the Kingfishers, wearing dinosaur

hats they had made - phew.

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