Prep Newsletter Friday 11 th December 2015 Dear Parents and Friends, We are fast approaching the end of a typically busy term - where has the time gone? As we are so close to the end of term it has been useful to look back at all the good that has happened. In September we welcomed 26 new girls into the Preparatory School and I am so pleased that everyone has settled in so well, it’s as if they have always been at St Margaret’s School! We have had a number of visitors to the School to provide opportunities beyond the classroom - Watford Schools Trust has taken a number of Year 2s. Reverend Farrar also visited to take an Upper Prep assembly. St John Ambulance joined the Upper Prep in September as part of their Save A Life in September campaign and helped us to brush up on our first aid skills. In October the Upper Prep had a visit from The Young Shakespeare who taught the girls the wonderful play about ‘Romeo and Juliet. assemblies in the Lower and Upper Preps and this week taught a lesson about Christmas to the To consolidate the work in the classroom we aim to go on a number of trips throughout the year. This term we have had two, the Upper Prep to see ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the theatre and next week the Lower Prep are going to see the ‘Peter Pan’ pantomime.
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Prep Newsletter Friday
11th December 2015
Dear Parents and Friends,
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We are fast approaching the end of a typically busy term - where has the
time gone? As we are so close to the end of term it has been useful to
look back at all the good that has happened. In September we
welcomed 26 new girls into the Preparatory School and I am so pleased
that everyone has settled in so well, it’s as if they have always been at St
Margaret’s School!
We have had a number of visitors to the School
to provide opportunities beyond the classroom -
Watford Schools Trust has taken a number of
Year 2s. Reverend Farrar also visited to
take an Upper Prep assembly. St John
Ambulance joined the Upper Prep in
September as part of their Save A Life in
September campaign and helped us to
brush up on our first aid skills. In October
the Upper Prep had a visit from The Young
Shakespeare who taught the girls the
wonderful play about ‘Romeo and Juliet.
assemblies in the
Lower and Upper
Preps and this
week taught a
lesson about
Christmas to the
To consolidate the work in the classroom we aim to go on a number of
trips throughout the year. This term we have had two, the Upper Prep to
see ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the theatre and next week the Lower Prep are
going to see the ‘Peter Pan’ pantomime.
Other opportunities to learn more about the world or develop personal
skills have included the Lower Prep Environmental Day, The Travelling
Book Fair, sharing your daughter’s work with her in November and the
Upper Prep Enterprise Day in October. Today the Upper Prep joined
forces with the Year 7 and 8s in the School Christmas Market. This gave
the children the opportunity to sell the goods they had made at their
Enterprise Day in October and buy the goods their friends had made,
whilst also having fun having their nails painted or hair braided. This
was organised for the children, by the children and everyone had a huge
amount of fun!
This week we were totally awed and
impressed by the magnificent Lower
Prep Nativity which all of the children
performed to the Upper Prep on
Wednesday, then to their parents on
Thursday. The story was brilliant with
the children acting it beautifully and
singing so angelically and as always
the costumes were just right. It was a
pleasure to see all of our youngest children embrace the story
wholeheartedly and their performance certainly brought a tear of pride
and appreciation to their mummies and daddies. A massive thank you,
especially to Miss Pares who wrote and directed the play, and to all of
the Lower Prep staff.
We have also participated in various assemblies
throughout the term and visited the Chapel twice,
once to celebrate Harvest in October, then today for
Christingle. Your daughter will have come home
today with her Christingle orange and should be able
to tell you what each part represents.
We have also had opportunities to play and prove
our success in Netball matches against other
schools and some of the girls swam in a gala
recently. Over the last couple of weeks our ballerinas
and musicians have taken exams and we are eagerly
awaiting the results. As well as all of the above we
have had an e-safety week and an anti-bullying week.
We enjoy joining forces with the Senior
School as this reinforces that we are
one school. This term we have all had
lunch in the Senior School Dining
Room, Upper Prep were delighted
when they saw the Senior School play
and we have had a number of Senior
School girls volunteering to help our
pupils or work in the After School
Club.
Charity is always important to
us as the act of helping others
can create an improved sense
of well-being and informs us of
the social injustices of the
world, creating in us the desire
to want to help. In September
we spent a day in our jeans
raising money for Jeans for
Genes day, then in October, we
donated to our four House
charities by dressing up as our hero or heroine. On St Margaret’s Day in
November we added our 1p and 2p coins to the whole school coin trail
(the proceeds of which were for Children In Need) and next week, on the
last day of term we will be dressing up for Christmas and again raising
money for our House charities.
The children have worked
tremendously hard this term and their
academic learning is central at St
Margaret’s. Throughout the term your
daughter has been developing and
refining her skills, understanding and
knowledge. In October we held Parent’s Evenings for you to learn how
she had settled into the new year and the progress she was making. Next
Wednesday afternoon her end of term report is available to you via your
parent portal. Next term we will hold a second Parent's Evening for all
Prep parents with Upper Prep parents being able to meet with the
subject specialists as well as your daughter’s Form Teacher.
