Dear Parents,
We have been blessed with some lovely weather this week and we were grateful for the balmy evening on Tuesday when we welcomed our Year 5 parents to enjoy drinks and canapés outside, following a very informative 11+ talk. Richard Tillett, Principal of Queen’s College, London, came to talk about the new format for the London Consortium 11+ entrance exam. We were also delighted to have four of our current Year 6 parents attend and talk about the 11+ experience from their perspective.
Prior to this, we were treated to a small collection of musical performances from girls in Years 1 to 6 at one of our, now regular, music teas. It was heartwarming to see the confidence and talents of the girls who performed.
It has been a good week for swimming – I attended the IAPS nationals on Saturday to see our girls in action and this Thursday they became the winners of the London League in the grand final held at JAGS. Arianna, our long standing swimming coach commented:
It was a tremendous gala with swimming and racing of the highest standard. There was a titanic battle in the middle of the pool between the boys from Cumnor House and the Bute House girls and eventually our girls upheld the honour of the North, emerging victorious.
The other coaches commented that the Bute girls’ performance was outstanding.
Well done to all who participated and also our thanks to the teaching team who give so much time to supporting the girls before and after school.
On Wednesday, Reception girls took part in a wonderful Early Years Festival on Brook Green in partnership with St Mary’s and Addison. They made maps using natural materials, played games with the parachute and marvelled at the animals brought in from a farm – chicks, goats and Shetland ponies!
I do hope that you enjoy the summer weather this weekend and I look forward to seeing you on Monday.
Warm regards,
Sian
Reception had a wonderful time at Odds Farm this week! We met a farmer, fed chickens, pigs and goats, rode on a tractor and stroked some bunnies! We also spent time at the brilliant playground there!
Further photos are in the Parent Area.
Year 3 certainly were happy campers after their Bushcraft night stay in Blenheim Woods!
Marilena Gianniou 3K – I enjoyed Bushcraft because we got to make a fire by ourselves.
Alexa Namirembe 3G – I liked roasting marshmallows and relaxing in our tent. I really enjoyed cooking our lunch on the fire.
Daliah Bassou 3H – I really enjoyed Bushcraft because it helped me understand more about nature and I loved exploring different things.
Further photos are in the Parent Area.
Well done to the girls who participated in the U7/8 Championships on Sunday 12th June.
A fantastic team performance achieving Joint 4th and 9th positions.
Well done to all the girls that went to Regional Athletics.
Special mention to Callista and Violeta who won their event and have qualified to represent London at the Nationals in Nuneaton.
As part of our Partnerships programme, Reception attended an Early Years Festival in Brook Green on Wednesday, joined by two other local schools. The girls took part in map-making, gardening, storytelling and park games, as well as meeting some farm animals! We are fairly certain that the ice cream was the best part of this fun day!
Further photos are in the Parent Area.
On Thursday, we welcomed another Year 3 class from St Stephen’s, for an Art workshop. The children enjoyed experimenting with mark-making and collage in order to make their self-portraits. A special thank you to Mrs Russell for all the preparation beforehand, and for keeping a check on how the work was progressing during the morning. Our two Creative Arts ambassadors, Victoire and Violeta, also lent a hand offering assistance when needed. We look forward to seeing the same class next week, so that they can finish their 2D work and develop their portraits using terracotta clay.
London League Grand FinalCongratulations to all the girls who took part in the Grand Final of the London League on Wednesday 15th June at JAGS Sports Club. The results are as follows:
Bute House – 515 points
Cumnor House – 487 points
JAGS – 428 points
Latymer – 385 points
KCS – 385 points
Wetherby – 311 points
A fantastic win, which means that we finish as champions of the London League out of the 24 teams that entered; an excellent performance by all! Really well done girls!
IAPS Swimming CompetitionOn Saturday 11th June, 14 of our Year 5 & 6 girls headed to the London Aquatics Centre in Stratford to compete in the finals of the IAPS Swimming Competition. It was a fantastic day out and there were many individual as well as team successes.
The relay teams finished 5th, 6th, 6th and 7th. Whilst in the individual races, Emma Zhang (25m Butterfly), Vittoria (50m Butterfly) and Isabel (50m Backstroke) qualified for the finals in their events. Congratulations to all the girls who swam so brilliantly!
Year 3 – ¿Quieres jugar conmigo?
The girls in Year 3 have been learning how to sing and play a clapping game about the five senses in Spanish. Get them to teach you how to say what we do with each sense using Spanish. They have also taken their Spanish chatterboxes home this week, which they have used to play in pairs and practise making sentences on the spot.
Videos and further photos can be found in the Parent Area.
In Year 4, the girls have been experimenting with extending sentences in Spanish. In groups, they have combined different subjects, verbs and adverbial clauses in order to build up correct statements on the topic of Sports. To make it harder once they finished, they had to check their sentences against pictures. Was the person in the picture Mateo or Valentina? Was she/she wearing una camiseta roja? If they did not match, they had to make the appropriate changes. It was fun seeing everyone working together and achieve their linguistic goals.
Further photos are in the Parent Area.
