Prep Newsletter Friday

4th December 2015

Dear Parents and Friends,

tf

Your daughter’s end of term report will

be available via your parent portal at

approximately 2pm on Wednesday 16th

December. Please would you try signing

in to your parent portal next week and if

there are any issues please would you

contact the School’s IT department. We

will not be sending paper copies.

ICTHelpdesk@smbushey.com

We are fast approaching

the end of this term and

school is increasingly

busy with a variety of

end of term activities.

This week the Lower

Prep have been

polishing their Nativity in

readiness for next

week’s performance; our

Year 5 and 6 Netball

team had a match on

Monday; the Year 2 and 3 ballerinas took their exam yesterday and this

morning M:Tech demonstrated how we can compose music and layer the

sounds using a computer and a piano keyboard. The end of next week is

even busier - please see below for further details and the calendar on

page 6.

Netball Match Report by Katie, Year 6

On Monday30th

November, the St. Margaret’s netball team had a

netball match. It was against Ashford school. We played 3 matches.

All of the Year 5’s played really well and have improved. However

they did not manage to score any goals. Ashfield didn’t manage to

score any goals so the score was 0-0.

The Year 6s played the 2nd

match putting in a lot of effort.

Unfortunately we only managed to score 2 goals. The score at the

end of the game was 4-2.

Everyone played exceptionally well in the 3rd

match, managing to

score lots of goals. We won 6-1. I have collected some comments

from the girls who played in the match.

Suzie: “I think everyone played really well and did their best and even

though there was a boy in the other team we did not notice he was

there.”

Sienna: “It was really fun to play and I enjoyed my positon as

Centre.”

Arabella: “It was a very fair match and everyone followed the rules”

Collection at the end of the day If your daughter is taking part in an after

school activity please would you collect her promptly from the venue. If

your daughter is in Reception or Year 1 and has Ballet lessons please

would you collect her from the Ballet

Studio. If you are late collecting we

will take her over to join the After

School Club, as it is not fair for her to

be waiting for you during the next

Ballet lesson, or fair on the Ballet

teacher to supervise her and teach.

For all other activities, if you are late

collecting, your daughter will stay

with the activity teacher (or be taken

to the After School Club if you are

very late).

Next week

Lower Prep Nativity - ‘Christmas

Rapped Up’ Thank you to those of you who

have booked your seats.

Parking Please would you park in the

Sports Centre car park and after collecting

your daughter please leave promptly as

Thursday is a very busy day for the car park.

As you can appreciate the safety of all of our

pupils is paramount.

Collection after the Nativity At the end of the Nativity the children will

return to their classroom to change out of their costume. In the meantime

parents are invited to remain in the Senior School Hall to take

refreshments until 15:15 when you may then collect your daughter from

the Lower Prep. For safety reasons, we will only release the children from

the Lower Prep. Ballet for Year 1 will take place as usual. If your daughter

is not going to attend Ballet after the Nativity please would you let the

Ballet teacher know in advance. The After School Club will also run as

usual.

Christingle Service Next Friday all of the Preparatory School will be celebrating Christingle in the Chapel.

This is a very special service, learning

more about the meaning of Christmas.

All the children will leave the service

with a Christingle orange. The orange

symbolises the world, the red ribbon

represents the blood shed as Jesus

gave his life for us, the cocktail sticks

are the four corners of the world with the dried fruit on them being the goodness that God’s word brings to us

all.

Year 2 visit to Kestrel Grove

After the Christingle Service Year 2 will be visiting a local nursing home

to entertain the residents by singing songs and delivering gifts from the

School. This has been a tradition for many, many years and reinforces

to the children that Christmas is a time for giving to others.

Year 3 - 8 Christmas Market In October the Upper Prep had an

enterprise day when they designed and made Christmas decorations and

gifts. Next Friday, during their lunchtime, they will be selling these to all

pupils in Years 3 - 8 at an in-school Christmas Market, an event created

by the children, for the children. They will also have the opportunity to

buy gifts, play specially designed games, enjoy the bouncy slide and

have their hair braided, hands hennaed and their nails painted. Therefore,

if your daughter is in Year 3 - 6 please could she bring in a MAXIMUM of

£5 in a NAMED PURSE and a bag to carry her goodies. All money raised

will go to the House charities:

HOUSE HOUSE CHARITY

Southwark

House Captains:

Arabella and Aryana

Guide Dogs for the Blind

St John’s

House Captains:

Mia and Marina

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Waterhouse

House Captains:

Camille and Ruby

Comic Relief

Windsor

House Captains:

Anjali and Nikita

St Luke’s Hospice, Kenton

Mrs C Aisthorpe

Head of St. Margaret’s Preparatory School

Congratulations Lower Prep Star of the Week

(last week)

Reception: Emily

Year 1: Summer

Year 2: Ariana

Commendation

CONGRATULATIONS to…

Arya, Y3 Aneesa, Y3

Tia, Y3

The last week of term

Monday 14th December -

Christmas lunch in school with

a visit from a very special

person!

Tuesday 15th December - Lower

Prep is going to see ‘Peter Pan’.

Wednesday 16th December -

Mufti Day - Minimum donation

of £2 for the House charities.

Christmas theme.

Please would Lower Prep

children wear trousers/skirt (no

long dresses or skirts please as

these are a trip hazard) and a

Christmas style top.

All pupils - sensible footwear,

coat, hat, gloves. School

finishes at 14:00. No After

School Club.

December

4th 15:45-16:30 Lower Prep Mini Tennis – Upper Prep Hall

16:30-17:30 Upper Prep Mini Tennis – Senior School Hall

7th 16:15-17:15 No Swimming Training Last Netball Club

8th 15:50-16:05 Lower Prep Zumba Club Performance, Upper Prep Hall (last Zumba class)

16:30-16:45 Upper Prep Zumba Club Performance, Upper Prep Hall (last Zumba class)

9th 16:15-17:15 No Swimming Training Last Chess Class Last Rec, Y2 & Y4 Ballet

10th 14:00-15:00 Lower Prep Nativity Play Performance “Christmas Rapped Up”, Senior School Hall Last Y1, Y3, Y5&6 Ballet

11th Year 2 visit to Kestrel Grove

09:00-09:30 Prep School Christingle Service

13:15-14:00 Christmas Market (Enterprise Fair) Years 3-8

15:45-16:30 Lower Prep Mini Tennis – Senior School Hall

16:30-17:30 Upper Prep Mini Tennis – Senior School Hall

14th Prep School Christmas Dinner

16:15-17:15 No Netball or Swimming Training

15th Lower Prep Pantomime Visit

16:05-17:05 Last Science Club

16th Prep School Mufti Day – Christmas theme

14:00 End of term reports available online

14:00 TERM ENDS

January

11th Spring Term commences

Dates

020 8416 4501 prepoffice@smbushey.com

Reception

Reception have been busy creating this wonderful display. The girls have produced some fantastic writing, just look at their wonderful handwriting! They have also created some stunning wintery artwork, well done girls!

Year 1

Year 1 have been practising counting in 2s,

5s and 10s, and because our topic is Toys,

the girls decided they would like to make

their very own snakes and ladders boards

that they could play with - well done girls!

f

Year 2 were

transported

back to 1666

and wrote

diary entries

or comic

strips from

the first day of

the Great Fire

of London.

Year 2

Year 3

With the beginning

of December now

here Year 3 girls

have begun to feel

like Christmas

elves.

The classroom is

decorated,

stockings are being

sewn and Christmas

books have been

started. It feels

exciting!

Lots of work is

being done too.....

Year 4

The heat was

rising during

Year 4’s Science

lessons this

week as they

learnt how to use

a thermometer to

take accurate

readings of hot

water. They all

worked very

carefully and

luckily there were

no spillages!

They have learnt

a little bit about

the history of

thermometers

and how they

have changed

over the years, I

wonder how

many households

still have a

mercury

thermometer in

their bathroom

cupboard?

Year 5

Year 5 have been putting

the finishing touches to the

Victorian rooms they have

been making.

They have designed

wallpaper, created a

Victorian tiled floor and

used their sewing skills to

make a rug for the floor.

Lots of the girls have

brought furniture to

complete the rooms. Here

are a selection but they all

look amazing.

In Year 6 as part of our PSHE studies, we have been discussing

various influences on the choices we make with regard to

lifestyle. Over the past few weeks we have been examining the

role of the media, exploring how companies manipulate facts to

market products and how pictures may not always be how they

seem. A recently made Nutella advert was deemed misleading

due to the way in which facts were presented. A video clip about

airbrushing left the girls were quite stunned by the effects. Here

are some of their thoughts:

Year 6

I think it is offensive to

airbrush people who are

already beautiful. A little

make-up is fine but they also

change the length of their

necks and legs!...Arabella

I feel betrayed and fooled because the

Nutella advert told us there was a

whole jug of milk and 52 hazelnuts,

which is true but that is in a whole jar!

…..Aryana

We are being lied to by big brands

when they publish pictures which have

been airbrushed!...Anjali

I feel like I wouldn’t want to buy their

products after watching their videos. It

is outrageous that they should change

someone like that!...Rebecca

I feel that airbrushing is

disgraceful because they are

showing children, teenagers and

young adults that image of what

a person looks like, and it isn’t

real…..Camille

I was annoyed by the Nutella advertisement

because they didn’t explain all the

information. They tried to say it was healthy

but have not mentioned the unhealthy

ingredients….Mia

With the Nutella advert

I feel angry now that

they say it has less

sugar and is

healthy….Amisha