For the week ending: Friday 5th April, 2019

Dear Parents

Unfortunately, Mrs Morrison has succumbed to illness, so we wish her a speedy recovery before Easter. This last week of term has whizzed by with both the Harry Potter Day and Self– Defence Workshops for Forms V and VI adding to the girls’ understanding of sporting tactics and giving them greater confidence to go out into the world. Full hockey and swimming colours were awarded to Senior girls in Assembly this morning and their achievements in climbing, bushcraft and archery on the Isle of Wight were acknowledged with certificates. All of these awards build self-esteem and a greater hunger for new challenges. Perhaps it’s time for a rest during the Easter holidays, girls!!

Mrs Wilson Deputy Headteacher

Pupil Achievements

ABRSM Piano Lakshmi Sharma, FV — Grade 2 Piano — Pass

KeyNotes Music Amy Melikian, FI — awarded a certificate for completing Level 1 Booklet

Stage Coach

Elyanna Oyediran, FIV— presented with a Five Year Award for attending Stage Coach for an uninterrupted period of 5 years.

Swimming Sydney Hughes, FV - Kellogg’s ASA Rainbow Award Scheme — 200 metres

Grace Smith, FV - Kellogg’s ASA Rainbow Award Scheme — 25 metres Ella Thiru, FV - Kellogg’s ASA Rainbow Award Scheme—100 metres

Anya Vyas, FIV— Kellogg’s ASA Rainbow Award Scheme—800 metres Martha Roach, FII - STA Angelfish Series, Level 1

Harry Potter Day

Tuesday was Harry Potter Day at Seaton House. During Assembly, the Sorting Hat put us into our houses — Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. During the day, we

played Quidditch and scored points for our houses, we made wizard hats, we played wizard bingo, we made owl pom poms, dragon plates and painted potion bottles. Thank you Mrs

Mannooch for organising this fantastic day! Overall results are as follows:

1st: Ravenclaw, 2nd Gryffindor, 3rd Hufflepuff, 4th Slytherin.

Special awards for game play in matches:

Beaters: Lucy Jin, Amelia Sims, Tabytha Kinslow

Chasers: Matylda Wright, Miriam Ajaz,

Keepers: Nicole Kravtsov, Maja Dhanani, Kaiya Patel

Seeker: Ella Thiru

Harry Potter Day …..continued

Self Defence Day On Wednesday, FV and FVI learned all about self defence, how to use public transport safely, how to safely use our mobile phone outside, how to go online safely and what to do if we are made to feel uncomfortable while out without an adult. Many thanks to PC An-gie Gayle, PC Kerry Grover and PCSO Laura Jagoe to talking us through these safety measures and to Keron, Sophie and Tony from Fighting Fit who taught us some useful moves. Now we know how to ward off an attacker and we are fully equipped to deal with any situation — thank you Mrs Mannooch for organising such a useful and informative day.

‘I enjoyed self defence because I learned things I did not know before and I could have been stuck in a ter-rible situation, not knowing what to do. ’ Matilda FVI. ‘I’m now more confident to walk to school on

my own because I know what to do in any situation to protect myself. ‘ Sequoia, FVI

‘I liked self defence because it helps people to be more confident when they are alone.’ Zerlin FVI

‘It was amazing fun and I learned how to ‘SMOOSH’ people and protect myself. I feel confident in the streets now and I think I qualify for a ninja warrior!’ Ramya, FVI

‘I really enjoyed learning different techniques in martial arts. ’ Kami, FVI

Sporting News - Spring Term Colours

Congratulations to the following girls who received their Colours for the Spring Term:-

Hockey Sequoia Banham, Maja Dhanani, Lucie

Hammond, Zoe Hardin, Shriya Littlebury, Ramya

Sachchithanantham, Maya Tesic O’Dwyer, Dila Seshadri,

Swimming Isabella Bradford, Kaiya Patel,

Amelia Sims, Gracie Spear, Ella Thiru, Gracie Brough

Updates and Reminders

Drawing Competition. JH and SH Girls, please remember to design your safer parking poster over the Easter Break and hand it in to Miss Tovey in the School Office before the deadline Friday 26th April.

School Uniform. Please note that after the Easter break girls can wear either their summer uniform or, if it is cold, their winter uniform. All girls must be in their summer uniform by Monday 3rd June.

If anyone is interested in buying a 1/8, 1/4 or 1/2 size violin, please contact the school office for more details.

Many congratulations to our Early Years Centre whose combined coffee mornings raised a staggering £212.00 for

Stand Up To Cancer. Thank you to everyone who came to our coffee mornings and bought a slice of cake to help raise

money for this very worthwhile cause.

Early Years Coffee Mornings

Congratulations to all the girls who participated in this term’s Little Musketeers‘ Fencing Tournament.

Sporting News - Fencing

The Hossenbux Family Trip to Marrakech

On Sunday 7th April, I will be travelling to Marrakech as part of the ‘Original Volunteers’ Company. The project involves organising and helping out in an orphanage as well as helping with a project involving street children. I will also have the opportunity to visit a baby orphanage where there are not enough staff to be able to provide essential physical contact that babies require in the first few months of life.

I wanted to take this opportunity to say a huge Thank You to all those who bought a copy of the Seaton House Recipe book. All the profit made from the sale of the books has gone towards buying the items in the photos, plus lots more, including nappies, sports equipment, board games, face paints and play dough. Thank you also to those parents who have donated baby clothes and donated money to buy things for the children in the orphanage. I am sure it will be a memorable experience and will look forward to telling the girls all about it on my return after the Easter holidays.

Mrs Hossenbux

……………….Mrs Bolton, Office Manager, who is leaving Seaton House after fourteen years’ dedicated service. Goodbye Mrs Bolton, we will miss you. Come back to visit us any time.

Mrs Bolton

On Thursday 11th April, wedding bells will be ringing for Mrs Blaney and Mr Hill.

Congratulations to you both. Everyone at Seaton House sends you their very

best wishes.

Girls, remember that after Easter, Mrs Blaney will be known as Mrs Hill.

Quote of the Week by Amelie, Form III

Amelie: ‘Uh oh! My brain is going squash, squash, squash. I’ve taken on too many facts!’

POSH NEWS

As another term draws to a close, we would like to thank everyone who has helped at any of our events over the past three months. From serving refreshments at assemblies and the Spring Concert to buying and wrapping gifts for the Mother’s Day sale and Easter Raffle we couldn’t do it without you all.

Our recent Mother’s Day Gift Sales raised approximately £200. As expected, both sales were very busy and having sold out after the first sale, we had to replenish our supplies. The girls really enjoy choosing their own gifts for their Mums – we hope all you Mums were delighted with your gifts.

As well as the additional 10 ipads which POSH purchased at the start of the year, this term POSH has funded the Easter Egg Hunt for Early Years and Self Defence/Stranger Danger workshop for forms FV & FVI. We have also purchased some outdoor mats so that the children can enjoy picnics on the field in the summer term.

We are thrilled that our POSH meetings have been well and enthusiastically attended recently particularly by parents of children in the lower years and that we have been able to recruit some new members to the committee in posts that will soon become vacant. You are the future of POSH so it is great to have you on board while there is time for us to hand over properly. Our next meeting is on the morning of Friday 26th April – we start at 9am and Mrs Morrison joins us after assembly. All are welcome..

The summer term is particularly busy with a Disco, Quiz Night and of course our annual Summer Fete to arrange. If you would like to be more involved in the organising of these events please get in touch with your form rep.

Finally Form VI have been selling tickets to F1 – F6 for the POSH Easter Raffle all this week. A huge thank you to Olivia Sims and Lisa Bradford who organise these raffles – the girls love them and it is a wonderful high to finish the term on. We hope all the winners enjoy their prizes.

Diary Dates Fri 26th April POSH meeting and coffee with the head from 9am

Fri 17th May Disco 6-8pm

Sat 22nd June Summer Fete

Nearly New Uniform Store

Our summer uniform supplies are running quite low particularly the new style summer dresses in all sizes and small sized blazers and cardigans. If you find your daughter has had a growth spurt please consider donating the outgrown uniform to the Nearly New Store. For enquiries please contact POSH by email at committee_POSH@outlook.com

Diary Dates:

Wednesday 24th April: No Clubs

Thursday 25h April : Maypole Dancing FI—VI in Hall; No Clubs

Friday 26th April: Learn to Ride 3. 45pm—4.45pm.

Summer Term Deliveries are as follows:-

Wednesday 8th May

Wednesday 12th June Wednesday 3rd July

Please place orders by midnight on the previous Sunday

Alleycatz have asked for any returns to be sent within 28 days of delivery

Happy Easter Everyone!